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B sides:
Asda Town
Dolly
He's Dead
High Rising
Killing of a Flash Boy
My Dark Star
My Insatiable One
Modern Boys
Painted People
The Big Time
The Living Dead
This World Needs A Father
To The Birds
Stay Together
Where The Pigs Don't Fly
Whipsnade


Rarities:
Art
Be My God
Wonderful Sometimes




Art
Anderson/Butler


She said that is one thing about art
He said that is I all I think about art

Glamour creates glamour types, stares at the sea stars art
Oh no
She said this is what I think is art
Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down the disco, does this lot really love you?

Oh-oh father, oh-oh coming down
Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down the disco, does this lot really love you?
Oh-oh father, oh-oh coming down, coming down

She said that is what I think about man
He says no thought a life can have you art
He's taken to his head he said
He's steadied by his heavy metal heart
Oh no

He said now that is what I think is art
Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down the disco, does this lot really love you?
Oh-oh father, oh-oh we're coming down
Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down the disco, does this lot really love you?
Oh-oh father, oh-oh we're coming down, down

Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down the disco, does this lot really love you?
Oh-oh father, oh-oh we're coming down

Oh-oh father, oh-oh mother
Coming down to disco, 'cause they never loved you
Oh-oh father we're coming down, down, we're coming down, down



Asda Town
Anderson/Butler


Sunday, Monday we lie around
But it's not easy
Someday, one day
We'll get sky and move away
And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow
Obscene machines that glide away
And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow
And like the birds we'll fly
From your Asda Town
Never coming down
'Cos they're take, taking it away
Sunday, Monday we lie in bed
But it's not easy
Someday, one day we'll cash
the "cheques" and drive away
And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow
Obscene machines that glide away
And like the birds we'll fly tomorrow
And like the birds we'll fly
From your Asda Town
Never coming down
'Cos they're take, taking it away



Be My God
Anderson/Butler


This this is the age of the high heeled protege
Lift lift off your flesh for nature's honest game
Twisting round the roundabout around everybody
Hey I'll be your dog - be my god
Come on come on come on come on come on
Come on come on come on come on come on
Have me oh ho grab me
These these are the days of skin tight village ways
Seize seize and regain a pact of skin both ways
Everywhere in every way with everybody
Hey I'll be your dog - be my god
Come on come on come on come on come on
Come on come on come on come on come on
Hae me oh ho gag me
Twist me round the roundabout
Higher high strip me out
Take my body crawl inside
Kiss these battered bones that's mine
Hit me with your waterstone take me high above all this
Vandalise my part time job listen to me
This this is the time to wash your dirty mind
Kiss high heeled lines kiss this blood and slime
Again and again you want everything you want everybody
Hey I'll be your dog - be my god
Come on come on come on come on come on
Come on come on come on come on come on
Have me oh ho grab me



Dolly
Anderson/Butler


See my dolly she's over there, see her grooving on down
Dressed in thought she is real yeah, her real hair is what counts
Taught my baby the alphabet, ABC don't let you down
Dressed in thought we are set in jet, the jet set messed us around

I'm so so down
Are you never coming round?
So so down
Are you never coming round?

See my dolly on three wheels yeah, see her grooving on down
Dressed in thought she is real yeah, her real hair is what counts
Bought my baby an ambulance, driving her mad around town
She'll take the hand of a lucky man, in dogshit land

We're so so down
Are you never coming round?
So so down
Are you never coming round?

So so down
Are you never coming round?
Never coming round...



He's Dead
Anderson/Butler


I wake up every day, but I don't want it that way
Take my thoughts to the roundabout
'Cos me and them, we like to get out

Oh, what you do in your head
You do in your head
Oh, if he is dead

He said he had a horrible house
I looked in and learned to shut my mouth
He said I had the look of a son
With all the love and poison of London

Oh, what you do in your head
You do in your head
Oh, if he is dead
Oh, I'll watch you do in your head
You'll do in your head
Oh, if he is dead



High Rising
Anderson/Butler


You'll hide among the covers and wave as the aeroplanes go by,
There's nothing to say when you sleep all day, but "bye-bye".

Your mind will find another, and that's where the days have gone,
And all you can hear is a stereo somewhere playing a pig-of-a-song

And you'll know her, know her, when she comes.
When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come.

She called you from across the city, you hired a car to crawl,
But with the high rise still in your eyes you wonder who's out there at all.

And you'll know her, know her, when she comes.
When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come.
When you turn the light out, she'll come.

Stop making me older, start making me new.



Killing of a Flash Boy
Anderson/Butler


All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter
And go shaking on the scene like killing machines
And they know that when she's stacked up top
She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show
Shaking obscene like killing machines here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh

Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know
That you'll suffer your sex by the caravenettes oh no
And that shitter with the pout won't be putting it about no more
Or shaking obscene like a killing machine here we go

It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh...

...oh and Athena loves your body
So think of the sea my darling
Think of the sea as you murder me, murder me, murder me,
murder me, murder me...

It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh
This is the killing of a flash boy oh.



My Dark Star
Anderson/Butler


In a hired car she will come to England from the sea,
And as the tide flows the London snows will come
And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history
So in a hired world she will buy a gun

And she will come from India with a love in her eyes
That say, oh how my dark star will rise

In rented gear 2000 years we waited for a man
But with a tattoed tit she'd die for us all tonight

And she will come from India with a gun at her side
Or she will come from Argentina
With her cemetery eyes that say
Oh, how my dark star will rise

...and she will rise



My Insatiable One
Anderson/Butler


In the high life, I've got this feeling now
I've got this horrible feeling
On the escalator they took it out on him,
As the ridiculous world went by

Oh, he is gone
He's my insatiable one...

On the high wire, dressed in a leotard
There wobbles one hell of a retard
On the escalator we shit paracetamol,
As the ridiculous world goes by

Oh, he is gone
He's my insatiable one
And he was my inflatable one...



Modern Boys
Anderson/Butler


Come unto me my winter son
We could lie on the rails
And when the morning comes
We'll be miles away
Miles away

Slipping away while the city sleeps
Running away from this cruel disease
Miles away, miles away

Modern boys, modern boys
Hand in hand, sick of the fear
Chasing away all the hungry years
We're the modern boys

Come onto me my sickly thing
We could lie on the rails
But to really win we'll just drive away, drive away

Yes, the world calls my international
So let the decades die, let the parties fall
And we'll be miles away, miles away
Because we'll be living like
Modern boys, modern boys

Hand in hand, sick of the fear
Chasing away all the hungry years

Into the night, under the stars
Jumping the lights in the silent cars
He's on your left, I'm on your right
It's so easy in the concrete night



Painted People
Anderson/Butler


Painted people get you going
and I'll smother that pig in a holy scene
It ain't too hard to see
The paint, my love
gets you going like you wanne be
got for the next world scene
It ain't too hard to sing

The pills' taken everything
The pills you're taking
The pills' taken everything
It's in your skin
It's in my skin

Painted people get you going
and I'll smother that pig in a holy scene
It ain't too hard to see
Yeah well I can striptease with you like a
silly old cow in a toucing dream
It ain't too hard to see

The pills' taken everything
The pills you're taking
The pills' taken everything
It's in your skin
It's in my skin



The Big Time
Anderson/Butler


I watch the slow hand kill the day
I see my starring role tick away
I watch the skyline for him to come
And when he comes along, we'll be gone...

...And we'll go into the city, into the light
We'll be there in the headlines, there overnight
'Cos this is the big time, this is the way
Now he's in the big time, he'll show you the way

This is the big time, this is the way
Now he's in the big time...
And you're in the way



The Living Dead
Anderson/Butler


Where's all the money gone?
I'm talking to you
All up the hole in your arm
Is the needle a much better screw?
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go

Where is this life of fun that you promised me?
Nothing here works but your works and I mean it
I have to leave
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go

If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall

I know where the money's gone
I know what you do
'Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and
The needle's a much better screw
But oh, what will you do alone?
'Cos I have to go



This World Needs A Father
Anderson/Butler


Hold on, he's coming...
Through the wheels of the star machine
Hold on, he's coming...
Through the tears of your shit stained dream

In an anthem for the world
Let him waltz you down the river
Let him feel like boy or girl
With his sci-fi lullaby
Let the light of the bomb shine from him tomorrow
Yes this world needs a father for the sorrow
So let's have one, for the lovers
And one more, for the friends
'Cos drink, to you, is all I can do
As life slips down, down the drain

Hold on, he's coming
With the screen kissed spine of the past
Hold on, it's all right, he's coming
With the style of the wormwood star

Sing an anthem for the world
Sing a farewell for the river
If you feel like boy or girl
Sing a sci-fi lullaby
Let the light of the bomb shine from him tomorrow
Yes this world needs a father for the sorrow
So let's have one more, for the lovers
And one more, for the friends
For drink to you is all I can do
As life goes round, round the pill



To The Birds
Anderson/Butler


Don't take your life, 'cos your bicycle won't fly
You could be going to heaven tonight
Don't spoil the show for the love of some albino
You won't be going to heaven alone

I see her by the window waiting every night
So I wouldn't give a shit if my bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it

I see her by the window pour the poison for you
I'll go there through the window in my sixteen-hole boots
And I'll sing to the birds here at my side
And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life

Don't take your life 'cos your bicycle won't fly
You could be going to heaven tonight
And I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits
I think I'm going to heaven on it

I see her by the window, and I see there's a day
We'll walk out through the traffic
And pour the poison away
So I'll sing to the birds here at my side
And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life

I will lie down for her



Stay Together
Anderson/Butler


Come to my house tonight
We can be together in the nuclear sky
And we will dance in the poison rain
And we can stay a while in Heaven today

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
Let's die together?
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms tonight
Just you and me together under electric light
And she will dance in the poisoned den
Just you and me forever by the motorway there

Let's stay together
Let's stay, these days are ours
And we can stay together
Two hearts under the skyscrapers

There's a time bomb in the high rise
There's a blue suburban dream
Will I see you up in Paradise
Or have you come to catch me?

Come to my arms I'm lost
Just you and me together in the year of the horse
Single file in the nuclear night
And we could feel a little closer
As we tumble through the sky

Let's stay together, let's stay these days are ours
Let's stay together
Two hearts under a skyscraper
Let's stay together, let's stay in this broken down love
Let's stay together, two hearts under the skyscrapers



Where The Pigs Don't Fly
Anderson/Butler


Out in the sticks, out in the stickiness
They're chasing round in stolen ice cream vans
They're sparking up with someone, oh
They're covering their jumpers in roses, oh

Where the pigs don't fly, oh...

Out over there, out in the sticky wire fire,
Your royal stickiness, your highness
I've heard there's someone saying "I do"
And banging out an old piano tune

Where the pigs don't fly, I do
Where the pigs don't fly, I do

I do



Whipsnade
Anderson/Butler


We are only young,
But we style our future with a cattle gun
And we aren't idle rich,
So we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch

Cause when the firelight shocks like a cop shop pyre
We'll sack the politics for premonition and fire
And we'll move like nureyev that night

Coast to coast, side to side
Shines the lies of fine enlightened minds
Coast to coast

We are only young
But we style our future in the shadow of guns
And we are not idle rich
So we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch

Cause when the stylised kick of the filmstar whip
Cracks down on the millions,
Cracks the kids on their hips
Then we'll move like nuryev that night

'Cos coast to coast, side to side
Shines the lies of fine enlightened minds
Coast to coast, side to side

Feel the steel that shines outside the blinds
Coast to coast, side to side
Blades engraved with babies' names
While pylons hide the suicide
Coast to coast, side to side
Shines the light of fine enlightened minds

Coast to coast, side to side
Feel the steel that shines outside the blinds
Coast to coast, side to side
Blades engraved with babies' names
While pylons hide the suicides



Wonderful Sometimes
Anderson/Butler


I've the sun for the spoken word
And your obscene but never heard
You couldn't do your hair
You couldn't do your job
You couldn't liven us up with a cattle prod

But here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more

Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful... sometimes

Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful

Lifetime in the rain is ours
60 years in people's car
I've heard of happy ever after
It was just a joke, but you could die laughing

Here you come like I knew you would
Do I just love you 'cause you look quite good
And here you come, are you the happy boy
Or are you just another, are just another one more

Because we step the step behind
Because we kiss and time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful... sometimes

Because we kiss in time
Because we love our kind
Because we're wonderful

Kiss in time
Love our kind
We're wonderful

We kiss in time
We love our kind
We're wonderful







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