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Message For Jojo
01. Message For Jojo
02. Can't Do That (The Hoover)
03. Clean
(all three transcribed by me, so it's very likely that there are some mistakes... especially when there are robotic voices involved...)




Message For Jojo
words and music: Bernard Butler and Edwyn Collins


This is a message for Jojo
I must tell you I'm letting you go
Your airplane is leaving tomorrow
Now pack your things and go

[Here's] leaving you all my best wishes
I hope all your dreams come true
But we're both growing up so fast now
It's time to slow down and try something new

I found something I wasn't meant to find
You found something I had left behind
I left behind my heart
I left behind my soul
I left behind my innocence
The innocence we sold
The innocence we sold

I called in the liquid [data's]
And told them to take your clothes
The fact that we have children
Only makes me feel old

But maybe it's timne to slow down now
I carry [desires] all my life
Time after time, line after line
Confusion, dellusion, the [rapid decline]

I found something I wasn't meant to find
You found something I had left behind
I left behind my heart
I left behind my soul
I left behind my innocence
The innocence we sold
The innocence we sold

I left behind my heart
I left behind my soul
I left behind my innocence
The innocence we sold
The innocence we sold

repeat until fade

(This is a message for Jojo)
(I must tell you I'm letting you go)



Can't Do That (The Hoover)
words and music: Bernard Butler and Edwyn Collins


robot:
so you're lonely
so you're lonely
so you're lonely
lonely

Bernard:
Falling apart in your thirties
Plunging in draw for the pills
No you can't do that
Anymore

Falling alseep with your eyes wide open
Hitting the floor when you're bored
And you can't stand up
Or [spin any more]

robot:
Can't do that no
(so you're lonely)

Bernard:
Cutting the pack with your razor
I am the boy next door
Well you can't do that
Not any more

Scaling the walls like a hoover
Wiring me up til dawn
Well you can't do that
No sleep any more

robot:
can't do that
(so you're lonely)
(help me)
(it's plain to see)

Bernard:
Well you inflame the mood of the neighbourhood
It's plain to see
You're so lonely
You're so lonely

Cos the beast is out of its cage at last
Call the National Guard
You're so lonely
You're so lonely

robot:
so you're lonely




Clean
words and music: Bernard Butler and Edwyn Collins


It's time I made up my mind
I've got the clean up my life
All of the times we once shared
Have told me nothing

But it's over now
It's over now
I'm clean
I'm clean
I'm clean

I spent my best days in fear
Lost every friend I got me
I'd lose my mind if I stayed
Sooner or later

It's over now
It's over now
I'm clean
I'm clean
I'm clean

It's over now
It's over now
I'm clean
I'm clean
I'm clean

clean









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