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2 + 2 = 5

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I stay home forever
Where two and two always makes a five

I'll lay down the tracks
sandbag and hide
January has April showers
And two and two always makes a five

It's the devil's way out
And there's no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It's too late now

Because
you're not there
payin' attention
payin' attention
payin' attention
payin' attention
yeah im not feeling it, i needed attention
payin' attention
payin' attention
payin' attention
yeah i need it, i needed attention
i needed attention
i needed attention
i needed attention
yeah i love it, the attention
payin' attention
payin' attention
payin' attention

i try to sing along
but the music's all wrong
cos i'm not
cos i'm not
i'll swallow up flies ?
back and hide
but i'm not
oh hail to the thief
oh hail to the thief
but i'm not
but i'm not
but i'm not
but i'm not
don't question my authority or put me in the box
cos i'm not
cos i'm not
oh go up to the king, and the sky is falling in
but its not
but its not
maybe not
maybe not

SIT DOWN, STAND UP

Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Sit down) Walk into the jaws of hell
(Stand up) Walk into the jaws of hell
(Sit down) Any time
(Stand up) Any time
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
(Sit down) We can wipe you out any time
(Stand up) We can wipe you out
Any time
Any time
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
the rain drops (repeat)

SAIL TO THE MOON

I sail to the moon
I spoke too soon
And how much did it cost?
I was dropped from
The moonbeam
And sailed on shootin' stars

And maybe you'll
Be presidents
But know right from wrong
Or in the flood
You will build an ark

And sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail to

BACKDRIFTS

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifting
This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on a breaker
Honey sweets so fall asleep
I'm backsliding

You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
All evidence has been buried
Our tapes are bittering
But your footsteps give you a way
So you're backtracking

Uh uh uh, you fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
You fell into our
You fell into a

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

GO TO SLEEP

Something for the rag and bone man
Over my dead body
Something big is gonna happen
Over my dead body
Someone saw someone's daughter
Over my dead body
This is how I end up sucked in
Over my dead body
I'm gonna go to sleep
And let this wash all over me

We don't really want a monster takin' over
Tip toein', tyin' down
We don't want the loonies taking over
Tip toein', tyin' down our arms
I'm gonna go to sleep
Come to you as you sleep
I'm gonna go to sleep
And let this wash over me

WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN

There's a gap in between
there's a gap where we meet
where i end and you begin
I'm sorry for us
the dinosaurs roam the earth
the sky turns green
where i end and you begin

i am up in the clouds
i am up in the clouds
and i can't and i can't come down
i can watch and can't take part
where i end and where you start
where you, you left me alone
you left me alone.

X' will mark the place
like the parting of the waves
like a house falling in the sea.
in the sea

i will eat you alive (4x)
there will be no more lies (4x)
i will eat you alive (4x)
there will be no more lies (4x)
i will eat you alive (4x)
there will be no more lies (4x)
i will eat you alive (3x)

WE SUCK YOUNG BLOOD

are you hungry?
are you sick?
are you begging for a break?
are you sweet?
are you fresh?
are you strung up by the wrists?
we want the young blood (La x8)
are you fracturing?
are you torn at the seams?
did you do anything?
fleabitten? motheaten?
we suck young blood (La x8)
we suck young blood (La x8)

woah woah

won't let the creeping ivy?
won't let the nervous bury me
our veins are thin
our rivers poisoned
we want the sweet meats (La x8)
we want the young blood (La x8)

THE GLOAMING

Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how
Funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathin'
With your breathin'
When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathin'
With your breathin'
With your breathin'
They will suck you down to the other side (4x)
To the shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
They should be ringin' (12x)
This is the gloaming

THERE THERE

in pitch dark i go walking in your landscape.
broken branches trip me as i speak.
just coz you feel it doesnt mean its there.
just coz you feel it doesnt mean its there.

There's always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)
Stay away from each rocks
We'd be a walking disaster
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
Don't reach out, don't reach out)
just coz you feel it doesn't mean its there.
(theres someone on your shoulder)
just coz you feel it doesn't mean its there.
(theres someone on your shoulder)
There there!

why so green and lonely?
and lonely
and lonely

heaven sent you to me
to me
to me

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen.

we are accidents
waiting waiting to happen

I WILL

I will
lay me down
in a bunker
under the ground
I won't let this happen to my children
meet the real world comin' out of your shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks
I will
rise up
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes

A PUNCH-UP AT A WEDDING

No (x42)
i don't know why you bother.
nothing's ever good enough for you.
(By the way) I was there
It wasn't like that
You've came here just to start a fight
you had to piss on our parade
you had to shred our big day
you had to ruin it for all concerned
In a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah

hypocrit opportunist
don't infect me with your poison
a bully in a china shop
When I turn around you stay frozen to the spot
You had the pointless snide remarks
Of hammerheaded sharks
The pot will call the kettle back
It's a drunken punch-up at a wedding, yeah
Oh
No
No

MYXOMATOSIS

the mongrel cat came home
holdin' half a head
Proceeded to show it off
to all his new found friends
he said "i been where i liked"
"i slept with who i like"
she ate me up for breakfast
she screwd me in a vice
but now i don't know why i
feel so tongue-tied

i sat in the cupboard
and wrote it down neat
they were cheerin' and wavin'
cheerin' and wavin'
twitchin' and salivatin' like with myxomatosis
but it got edited fucked up
strangled beathen up
used in a photo in Time magazine
buried in a burning black hole in Devon
and i don't know why i
feel so tongue-tied
don't know why i feel
so skinned alive.

My thoughts are misguided and a little naive
I twitch and i salivate like with myxomatosis
you should put me in a home or you should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis
yeah no one likes a smart ass but we all like stars
but that wasn't my intention, I did it for a reason
it must have got mixed up
strangled beaten up
i got myxomatosis
i got myxomatosis
i don't know why i
feel so tongue-tied

SCATTERBRAIN

I'm walkin' out
in a force ten gale.
birds thrown around
bullets for hail.
the roof is pullin' off by its fingernails.
your voice is rapping on my window sill

yesterday's headlines blown by the wind.
yesterday's people end up scatterbrain.
any fool can easy pick a hole. (I only wish I could fall in)
a moving target in a firin' range.

somewhere I'm not
scatterbrain.
somewhere I'm not
scatterbrain.
lightning fuse
powercut.
scatterbrain.

A WOLF AT THE DOOR

drag him out your window
draggin' out the dead
singin' i miss you
snakes and ladders
lift the lid
out pops the cracker
smacks you in the head
knifes you in the neck
kicks you in the teeth
steel toe caps
takes all your credit cards
get up get the gunge
get the eggs
get the flan in the face
the flan in the face
the flan in the face
dance you fucker
dance you fucker
don't you dare
don't you dare
don't you flan in the face
take it with the love is given
take it with a pinch of salt
take it to the taxman
let me back
let me back
i promise to be good
don't look in the mirror
at the face you don't recognize
help me call the doctor
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside
put me inside

i keep the wolf from the door
but he calls me up
calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
steal all my children
if i don't pay the ransom
but i'll never see him again
if i squeal to the cops

no no no no no no no.

Walkin' like giant cranes
ah with my x-ray eyes I strip you naked
in a tight little world why ya on the list?
stepford wives who are we to complain?
investments and dealers investments and dealers
cold wives and mistresses
cold wives and sunday papers.
city boys in first class
don't know we're born little
someone else is gonna come and clean it up
born and raised for the job
someone always does always pick it up
get over get up get over
turn the tape off.

i keep the wolf from the door
but he calls me up
calls me on the phone
tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
steal all my children
if i don't pay the ransom
but i'll never see him again
if i squeal to the cops
so I'm just gonna'