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Suede (1993):
01. So Young
02. Animal Nitrate
03. She's Not Dead
04. Moving
05. Pantomime Horse
06. The Drowners
07. Sleeping Pills
08. Breakdown
09. Metal Mickey
10. Animal Lover
11. The Next Life




So Young
Anderson/Butler


Because we're young, because we're gone
We'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah?, oh yeah

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh

Because we're young, because we're gone
we'll scare the skies with tiger eyes, oh yeah? oh yeah

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
Let's chase the dragon...

... from our home high in the city where the skyline
stained the snow, I fell for a servant who kept me on the boil

We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon from our home!



Animal Nitrate
Anderson/Butler


Like his dad you know that he's had
Animal nitrate in mind
Oh in your council home he jumped on your bones
Now you're taking it time after time

Oh it turns you on, on, now he has gone
Oh what turns you on now your animal's gone?

Well he said he'd show you his bed
And the delights of the chemical smile
So in your broken home he broke all your bones
Now you're taking it time after time

Oh it turns you on, on, now he has gone
Oh what turns you on now your animal's gone?

What does it take to turn you on, on
Now he has gone?
Now you're over 21?
Now your animal's gone?
...animal, he was animal, an animal



She's Not Dead
Anderson/Butler


She'll come to her end locked in a car somewhere with exhaust in her hair
What's she called? I dunno, she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said "She's not dead, she's gone away, gone away" he said
He said "She's not dead, just go away go away" he said

In the car he couldn't afford they found his made up name on her ankle chain
So don't call, don't call her at home, she's fucking with a slip of a man while the engine ran

And he said "She's not dead, she's gone away gone away" he said
He said "She's not dead, she's gone away, gone away" he said "Just gone away, gone away," he said
She's gone away to someone else's bed



Moving
Anderson/Butler


Shame on me well I had the beast you see
And if he can take it I can take him home with me
Shame on her she's a lovely little number
And when we go lassoing you get lassoed, all of you
If you can take it, I can take it

And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy, we are a girl
So moving, so moving...

Shame on the girl, she's got a big black dog in her
And while tough kids sing about tough kids she just skins the world
We'll never never play the harp, and we'll stick like sick on the stars
And if you can take it I can take these stones from my heart
If you can take it, I can take it

And we're moving, so moving, so we are a boy we are a girl
So moving, so moving...

If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all
If you can take it, I can take it, all of me
If you can take it, I can take it all!



Pantomime Horse
Anderson/Butler


I was born as a pantomime horse
Ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor
I was cut from the wreckage one day
This is what I get for being that way

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

I was conned by a circus hand
Tragic as the son of a superman
"I would die for the stars" she said
This is what I get for my beautiful head

Well did you ever, did you ever go round with them?
Well did you ever, did you ever go round the bend?

... ever tried it that way, have you ever tried it that way?



The Drowners
Anderson/Butler


Won't someone give me a gun?
Oh, well it's for my brother
Well he writes the line wrote down my spine
It says "Oh do you believe in love there?"

So slow down, so slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, Sir we drown, stop taking me over

Won't someone give me more fun?
(and the skin flies all around us)
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh, real drowners

Slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, Sir we drown, stop taking me over!



Sleeping Pills
Anderson/Butler


Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill
Angel, give me your sleeping pills, you don't need them
Give me the time they kill

You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Gone gone to Valium, can you get me some?
You're a water sign, and I'm an air sign
Too Siamese to catch the leaves from those trees

Angel, don't take those sleeping pills, you don't need them
Though it's just time they kill

You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
Pumped up with Valium, could you get me some?
You're a water sign, I'm an air sign
With sweet F.A. to do today, with sweet F.A. to do today...

... Angel, don't take those sleeping pills



Breakdown
Anderson/Butler


Back where the dogs bark, where still life bleeds the concrete white, try not to go too far inside your mind
Back where the cars decide, where the lame star limps an endless mile, have I gone too far inside my mind?

Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice now my mind has gone?
Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice?

Back where the car was parked, where the canine in the A-line stole your time,
you can only go so far for womankind,

Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice now that he has come?
Oh, if you were the one, would I even notice?

Does your love only come, does your love only come, does he only come in a Volvo?



Metal Mickey
Anderson/Butler


Well she's show showing it off then
The glitter in her lovely eyes
Show show showing it off then
And all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart, she sells meat
Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see

We shake shake shake to the trumpet
And through the slippery city we ride
Skyline swine on the circuit
Where all the people shake their money in time

She sells heart, she sells meat
Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see



Animal Lover
Anderson/Butler


I see you're moving, see you're moving, moving in with her
You'll pierce your right ear, pierce your heart here, this skinny boy is one of the girls
'Cos around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?
I see you're moving, see you're moving like wildlife from the waist
But when your name's scratched in on a shiny ring your waist is my resting place
And around my neck and around her neck hangs everything you are
I know you've been inside but what were you in for?

Animal lover, animal lover, animal lover?



The Next Life
Anderson/Butler


See you in your next life when we'll fly away for good
Stars in our own car we can drive away from here

Far away, so far away, down to Worthing and work there
Far away, we'll go far away and flog ice creams 'til the company's on its knees...

... see you in your next life when we'll fly away for good







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