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On the night that i was leaving,
The moon rose in the sky.
As i came, to fetch my suitcase,
And then you began to cry.
I've never seen you look so ugly as the way you did that night.
That night was eighteen months ago.
Now i'm two hours from the station.
Yeah i'm coming home again.
I'm gonna show this town who's master soon as i get off this train.
You're gonna love me more than ever,
And the sun will shine again.
And i will kiss your face,
And i will make you smile again.
And then the whole damn town will come on out to welcome me.
Oh they will open all the doors and give it all to me.
Oh no but still your voice is ringing in my ears.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
And i can't, i can't believe it's happening.
I know that, oh there must be some mistake.
You found yourself another lover,
And you're glad we made the break.
Oh you don't even, you don't even want to see me.
You just wanna wave and say "goodbye.
Go away now, and leave us alone,
No this house is not your own."
And now the whole damn town has come on out to laugh at me.
Oh yeah.
Oh they can stare for evermore; you do not care for me.
Oh no.
Oh they can stare now for a hundred thousand years.
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?
Don't you want me anymore?

As the sun shines down on the land,
So her heart is crying for love.
And there is no-one there,
No-one to hear her voice.
And she will sleep alone again tonight.
Now the moon is high in the sky.
In her room she calls out his name.
But he is somewhere else,
Somewhere she cannot see.
Oh, and the night is dark between them now,
"my god, my god, why did he go away?"
Now the sun shines on a new town.
With a smile he gets off the train.
He lights a cigarette,
Leans back to see the sky.
Oh and he thinks how much better off he is,
Without her hanging round.
Let's do it.
And the day is passing by him,
And he has nowhere to stay.
At a lonely bar-room table,
His mind goes back to yesterday,
To the girl who's dead and buried,
But her face lives in his eyes.
He must forget that face forever.
Make the future start tonight.
But the meal he eats is dead flesh.
There is cancer in his cigarettes.
And the drinks won't do a thing for him,
But revive some stupid memories.
Then a hairstyle that reminds him,
Makes him run into the night,
Where the moon hangs high above him now,
The same moon that she's praying on tonight.
But the wind catches her words.
And the moon swallows them whole.
Now the moon is high in the sky.
In her room she calls out his name.
The night is cold and dark, and she is all alone.
The bed is empty now.
Her body screams for love.
She wants to be with him.
Oh but he's so far away.
Oh and the night is dark between them now
"my god, my god, why did he go away?"

Oh I know I don't own you / but I don't even know if I should phone you / Someone sending
me letters / saying you've been going with other fellers / And they / bored you / But I /
don't wanna cry / or talk for hours / to a machine / on the end / of a telephone line / Oh
it just kills me / when all you've got to do is call / Oh do it any time / 'cause there's
never no-one home / never no-one home / Leave your message on the ansaphone / I'm not
trying to be clever / but at least we're not still living together / All those calls in
the evening / if I answered they'd hang up without speaking / And they / bored you / But I
/ don't want to cry / or talk for hours / to a machine / on the end / of a telephone line
/ Oh it just kills me / when all you've got to do is call / Oh do it any time / 'cause
there's never no-one home / never no-one home / Leave your message on the ansaphone /
[Beep!] / 'Hello, its me. I just wanted to call and say it doesn't matter what you
get up to. I just want you to stay in touch. That's all.' / Are you really not at
home? / Or are you there but not alone? / Screening calls / you don't want to receive /
meaning calls / calls that come from me / Oh I / need to see you / It's not enough for me
just to hear you / You said you'd be here by ten thirty / but you want to stay out and be
dirty / Oh it just kills me / when all you've got to do is call / Oh do it any time /
'cause there's never no-one home / never no-one home / Leave your message on the
ansaphone.

Intake, manor park, the wicker, norton, frechville, hackenthorpe, shalesmoor,
Wombwell, catcliffe, brincliffe, attercliffe, ecclesall, woodhouse, wybourn,
Pitsmoor, badger, wincobank, crookes, walkley, broomhill

The city is a woman
Bigger than any other
Oh, sophisticated lady
Yeah, i wanna be your lover
Not your brother, not your mother, yeah

The sun rose from behind the gasometers at six-thirty a.m.,
Crept through the gap in your curtains,
Caressed your bare feet poking from beneath the floral sheets.
I watched him flaking bits of varnish from your nails,
Trying to work his way up under the sheets.
Jesus!
Even the sun's on heat today
The whole city getting stiff in the building heat.

I just want to make contact with you
Oh that's all i wanna do
I just want to make contact with you
Oh that's all
I wanna do

Now i'm trying hard to meet her
But the fares went up at seven
She is somewhere in the city
Somewhere watching television
Watching people being stupid
Doing things she can't believe in
Love won't last `til next installment
Ten o' clock on tuesday evening
The world is going on outside
The night is gaping open wide
The wardrobe and the chest of drawers
Are telling her to go outdoors
He should have been here by this time
He said that he'd be here by nine
That guy is such a prick sometimes
I don't know why you bother, really.

Oh babe
Oh i'm sorry
But i
I just had to make love to every crack in the pavement
And the shop doorways
And the puddles of rain that reflected your face in my eyes.

The day didn't go too well.
Too many chocolates and cigarettes.
I kept thinking of you and almost walking into lamp-posts.
Why's it so hot?
The air coming up to the boil
Rubbing up against walls and lamp-posts trying to get rid of it.
Old women clack their tongues in the shade of crumbling concrete bus shelters.
Dogs doing it in central reservations
And causing multiple pile-ups in the centre of town.
I didn't want to go in the first place,
But i've been sentenced to three years in the housing benefit waiting room.
I must have lost your number in the all-night garage,
And now i'm wandering up and down your street,
Calling you name,
In the rain,
Whilst my shoes turn to sodden cardboard.
Where are you? [candida:] (i'm here)
[jarvis:] where are you? (i'm here)
Where are you? (i'm here)
Where are you? (i'm here)
Where are you? (i'm here)
Where are you? (i'm here)
Where are you?

I'm still trying hard to meet you
But it doesn't look like happening
Cos the city's out to get me
But i won't sleep with her this evening
Though her buildings are impressive
And her cul-de-sacs amazing
She's had too many lovers
And i know you're out there waiting
And now she's getting into bed
He's had his chance now it's too late
The carpet's screaming for her soul
The darkness wants to eat her whole
Tonight must be the night it ends
Tomorrow she will call her friends
And go out on her own somewhere
Who needs this shit anyway?
Oh listen,
I wandered the streets the whole night,
Trying to pick up your scent
Writing messages on walls
And the puddles of rain reflected your face in my eyes.

We finally made it...
On a hill-top at four a.m.
The whole city is your jewellery-box
A million twinkling yellow street lights.
Reach out and take what you want
You can have it all.
Jesus it took a long time.
I didn't think we were gonna make it.
So bad during the day,
But now snug and warm under an eiderdown sky.
Oh the things we saw:
Everyone on park hill came in unison at four-thirteen a.m.
And the whole block fell down.
The tobacconist caught fire,
And everyone in the street died of lung cancer.
We heard groans coming from the t-reg chevette;
You bet, you bet, yeah you bet.
And tomorrow...?

Oh i was trying hard to meet her
But the fares went up at seven
She was somewhere in the city
Somewhere watching television
Watching people being stupid
Doing things she can't believe in
Love won't last `til next installment
Ten o'clock on tuesday evening
The world was going on outside
The night was gaping open wide
The wardrobe and the chest of drawers
Were telling her to go outdoors
He should have been there by that time
He said that he'd be there by nine
That guy is such a prick sometimes
Oh yeah,
I want to tell you that
There's nothing to worry about because we can,
We can get it together, oh yeah.
We got it together tonight, didn't we?
I'd say we did, yeah
We've got a hope.

I know i'm getting on
And you're so very young
But would you like to stay
Until next saturday
Or sunday?
I'll give you your own room
It's next door to my room
And some time in the night
Well, maybe i just might

Oh take your clothes off won't you please?
You don't have to talk to me
Just leave the light on so i can see
You've got everything i need
Oh yeah

You know i can't forget
That special night we met
At the local p.t.a.
When your mother came to say
That you'd been taking days off school
I turned and looked at you, i said
"yes, i understand
I'm gonna take this girl in hand."

Oh take your clothes off, one two three
No you don't have to talk to me
Just leave the light on so i can see
You've got everything you need
Oh yeah
Cos i never had a woman before
I was too scared to touch the girls in the poly
And i don't know what it's like to be young
Cos all my life i've been knocking on forty
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

- "so if i, put my hand, on your bosom..."
- "yeah?"
- "...would that....give you an orgasm? no that's not right
But, but if we, if we kissed with tongues..."
- haha
- "...won't that, wouldn't that make, wouldn't that make you come?"

Oh take your clothes off won't you please?
No you don't have to talk to me
Just leave the light on so i can see
You've got everything i need
Oh oh oh
Just one touch was all it took
No you can't learn it from a book
Let's go upstairs and have a
Look
Oh you've got everything i need
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah

I used to hate the sun because it shone on everything i'd done.
Made me feel that all that i had done was overfill the ashtray of my life.
All my achievements in days of yore range from pathetic
To piss-poor, but all that's gonna change.
Because here comes sunrise. yeah, here's your sunrise.
I used to hide from the sun, tried to live my whole life underground.
Why'd you have to rise & ruin all my fun?
Just turned over, closed the curtains on the day.
But here comes sunrise.
Yeah, here's your sunrise when you've been awake
All night long & you feel like crashing out at dawn.
But you've been awake all night, so why should you crash out at dawn?

This is our "music from a bachelors den" -
The sound of loneliness turned up to ten.
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed
And it sounds just like this.
This is the sound of someone losing the plot -
Making out that they're okay when they're not.
You're gonna like it,
But not a lot
And the chorus goes like this:

Oh baby,
Here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
A monkey's built a house on your back.
You can't get anyone to come in the sack
And here comes another panic attack
Oh here we go again.

So now you know the words to our song,
Pretty soon you'll all be singing along.
When you're sad, when you're lonely
And it all turns out wrong.
When you've got the fear.
And hen you're no longer searching
For beauty or love -
Just some kind of life
With the edges taken off.
When you can't even define what it is that you're frightened of
This song will be here.

Oh baby,
Here comes the fear gain.
The end is near again.
If you ever get that chimp off your back.
If you ever find the thing that you lack
But you know you're only having a laugh
And here we go again.
Until the end.

You are hardcore, you make me hard.
You name the drama and i'll play the part.
It seems i saw you in some teenage wet dream.
I like your get-up if you know what i mean.
I want it bad.
I want it now.
Oh can't you see i'm ready now.
I've seen all the pictures, i've studied them forever.
I wanna make a movie so let's star in it together.
Don't make a move 'til i say "action."
Oh here comes the hardcore life.
Put your money where your mouth is tonight.
Leave your make-up on and i'll leave on the light.
Come over here babe and talk in the mic.
Oh yeah i hear you now.
It's gonna be one hell of a night.
You can't be a spectator. oh no.
You got to take these dreams and make them whole
Oh this is hardcore -
There is no way back for you.
Oh this is hardcore -
This is me on top of you
And i can't believe it took me this long.
That it took me this long.
This is the eye of the storm.
It's what men in stained raincoats pay for
But in here it is pure. yeah.
This is the end of the line.
I've seen the storyline played out so many times before.
Oh that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
And then it's over.
Oh, what a hell of a show
But what i want to know:
What exactly do you do for an encore?
Cos this is hardcore.

He's in a room
He sees the floor
He sees the wall
He sees the roof
He sees the door
It's nine thirty-eight
So he goes up to the door
And he finds himself in another room
Identical to the one before
The clock still reads nine thirty-eight
So he goes out of that room
But he finds himself in a parallel room
A mirror image of the one before
He hits the floor
He hits the wall
He hits the door
He hits the door
The clock reads nine thirty-eight
He throws it at the roof
He breaks a hole
He climbs out
He sees the moon
He sees the stars
He sees the sky
The stars are small lightbulbs
Set in a black cardboard dome
He climbs out
He sees the stars, he sees the sky
The stars are small lightbulbs
Set in a black cardboard dome
He hits the floor
He hits the wall
He hits the roof
He hits the dome
He hits the dome
Condemned
This house
This house is
This house is
Is this house
This house
Is this house
Fill in housing form
Buy one clock
Time again
Sort housing papers
Still nine thirty-eight
Two thousand years from now
It will still be ticking
He hits the floor
Wall, roof, door
The clock reads nine thirty-eight
He hits the dome
Door, wall
Space, floor
Time
He sees the moon
He sees the stars
For some romantic reason
Space, dome, door, wall, clockface
Space, time, place, floor, wall, door, roof
This is one small step for mankind
One giant leap for man
Ten
Nine
Eight
Seven
Six
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
Zero
We have lift-off
He takes the clock, he breaks the dome, he sees the moon,
He sees the stars, he sees the sky, he sees the earth
For some romantic reason
He takes the clock, he breaks the dome, he sees the moon,
He sees the stars, he sees the sky, he sees the earth
Space, time, place, condensed
Space, time, place, condemned
This is house is
This house is
This house is
Condemned
This house is
This house is
This house is
Condemned.

You'd better watch what you're wearing,
If you want him to come round and see you tonight.
He doesn't care what it looks like,
Just as long as it's pink and it's tight.

Oooh, so what should you do?
Should you stop being you?
Just to be how he wants you?
Oooh, say you'll visit your mum,
Then tell me that you'll come,
And meet me in the afternoon.
He's got your heart,
He's got control.
You might as well know.
I know you're never going to be with me,
But if you try sometimes then maybe,
You could get it right first time.
I realise that you'll never leave him,
But every now and then in the evening.
You could get it right first time.
I know you think i've got to be joking,
But if you touch him again then i'm going.
You got it right first time.
Get it right first time.

Now you've done it once now he wants you,
To wear your pink glove all the time.

Oooh, so what should you do?
Should you stop being you?
Just to be how he wants you?
Oooh, say you'll visit your mum,
Then tell me that you'll come,
And meet me in the afternoon.
He's got your heart,
He's got control.
You might as well know.
I know you're never going to be with me
But if you try sometimes then maybe,
You could get it right first time.
I realise that you'll never leave him,
But every now and then in the evening.
You could get it right first time.
I know you think i've got to be joking,
But if you touch him again then i'm going.
You got it right first time.
Get it right first time.

Oh you'll always be together,
Cos he gets you up in leather.
So you know what to wear at the end of the day,
And i'd laugh if i saw,
But i'm out of the way.
Yeah it's too long ago,
Shouldn't care anymore but i wanted to know;
Is it as good as before?
Yeah it's hard to believe that you'd go for that stuff,
All those baby-doll nighties with synthetic fluff.
Yeah it looks pretty good and it fits you ok,
Wear your pink glove babe,
He put it on the wrong way.

I know you're never going to be with me
But if you try sometimes then maybe,
You could get it right first time.
I realise that you'll never leave him,
But every now and then in the evening.
You could get it right first time.
I know you think i've got to be joking,
But if you touch him again then i'm going.
You got it right first time.
Get it right first time.

We didn't have no where to live, / we didn't have nowhere to go / 'til someone said /
'I know this place off Burditt Road.' / It was on the fifteenth floor, / it had
a board across the door. / It took an hour / to pry it off and get inside. / It smelt as
if someone had died; / the living-room was full of flies, / the kitchen sink was blocked,
/ the bathroom sink not there at all. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's / Mile End.
/ And now we're living in the sky! / I'd never thought I'd live so / high, / just like
Heaven / (if it didn't look like Hell.) / The lift is always full of piss, / the fifth
floor landing smells of fish / (not just on Friday, / every single other day.) / Below the
kids come out tonight, / they kick a ball and have a fight / and maybe shoot somebody if
they lose at pool. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's / Mile End. / [mumbled
mutterings... you love it...] / Oo-ooh / Nobody wants to be your friend / 'cause you're
not from round here, / ooh / as if that was / something to be proud about. / The pearly
king of the Isle of Dogs / feels up children in the bogs. / Down by the playing fields, /
someone sets a car on fire I guess you have to go right down / before you understand just
how, / how low, / how low a human being can go. / Ooh, / it's a mess alright, / yes it's /
Mile End. / (don't do that! Leave it out!) / Bababa... / Lalala...

Here in the night love takes control.
Making me high
Making me whole.
I don't know.
Oh no no no.
No i don't know.
No no no.
No i don't know.

When i close my eyes i can see you lowering yourself to my level.
I don't know where you got those clothes,
You can take them off if it makes you feel better.

Don't stop it now.
Now is so right.
Now as the day slips away
And we slide into night.
I don't know.
Oh no no no.
No i don't know know.
No no no.
No i don't know.

I open my eyes and you're there,
Even better in the flesh it would seem.
I'm so ready and willing and able it's untrue,
To act out this love scene
And make my dreams come true.
And how many others have touched themselves
Whilst looking at pictures of you?
How many others could handle it if all their dreams came true?
I don't expect you to answer straight away,
Maybe you're just having an off day
But i need to believe in you.
Yes i do.
Yes i do.

Oh i want you here in my heart.
Here in my head.
Live all your dreams for tonight
Here in your bed.
I don't know.
Oh no no no.
No i don't know.
No no no.
No i don't know.

So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights
Cos i'm not going home tonight.
This love scene has begun.
There's nothing left for us to do but get it on.
Lets make this the greatest love scene from a play no-one's thought up yet.
I know you're feeling the same as me but what you gonna do about it?
Now here's an exclusive:
I've wanted you for years.
I only needed the balls to admit it.
When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force
There's nothing you can do about it.
No.
I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky.
Breathe in, breathe out,
I love the way you move.
Don't let anyone tell you any different tonight.
You are beauty,
You are class,
You showed it all
But you still kept a little piece back just for me.
A little piece back just for me.
Just for me.
Oh i don't know how you do it
But i love the way you do it,
When you're doing it to me.
And if this is a dream then i'm going to sleep for the rest of my life.
For the rest of my life.
For the rest of my life.
For the rest of my life.

The feel of my arm around your waist, the pale blue nightdress that you wore.
Your hair in braids, your sailor top: the things i don't see anymore.
You lost your suitcase in my hotel room, a subway token from your ma.
The sun reflecting off the water on your face & the way you drove your car.
All these things i can't forget tho' i don't see you anymore.

Drove to the airport thru' a traffic jam; a deer lay dying in the road.
Maybe i should have seen it as some kind of sign, except i don't believe in them no more.
No, no - but i believe these things i can't forget, tho' i don't see you anymore.
Yes, i believe these things i can't forget, 'cos i see them - tho' i don't see you anymore.

I know I'm getting on / and you're so very young / but would you like to stay / until next
Saturday / or Sunday? / I'll give you your own room / it's next door to my room / and some
time in the night / well, maybe I just might / Oh take your clothes off won't you please?
/ You don't have to talk to me / just leave the light on so I can see / You've got
everything I need / Oh yeah / You know I can't forget / that special night we met / at the
local P.T.A. / when your mother came to say / that you'd been taking days off school / I
turned and looked at you, I said / 'Yes, I understand / I'm gonna take this girl in
hand.' / Oh take your clothes off, one two three / No you don't have to talk to me /
just leave the light on so I can see / You've got everything you need / Oh yeah / 'Cause
I've never had a woman before / I was too scared to touch the girls in the Poly / And I
don't know what it's like to be young / 'Cause all my life I've been knocking on forty /
Oh yeah / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / [Jarvis:] So if I / put my hand / on your bosom...
/ [Candida:] Yeah? / [Jarvis:] ...would that / give you an orgasm? / No that's not right /
But, but if we / if we kissed with tongues / [Candida:] [giggles] / [Jarvis:] won't that /
wouldn't that make / wouldn't that make you come? / Oh take your clothes off won't you
please? / No you don't have to talk to me / just leave the light on so I can see / You've
got everything I need / Oh oh oh / Just one touch was all it took / No you can't learn it
from a book / Let's go upstairs and have a / look / Oh you've got everything I need / Oh
yeah / Oh yeah, oh yeah / Oh yeah, oh yeah / Oh yeah / Hit me.

You say you've got to go home
Cos he's sitting on his own again this evening.
I know you're gonna let him bore your pants off again.
Oh god, it's half past eight,
You'll be late.
You say you've never been sure,
Though it makes good sense for you to be together.
Still you bought a toy that can reach the places he never goes.
Oh, now it's getting late.
He's so straight.

Do you remember the first time?
I can't remember a worse time.
But you know that we've changed so much since then,
Oh yeah,
We've grown.
Now i don't care what you're doing,
No i don't care if you screw him.
Just as long as you save a piece for me,
Oh yeah

You say you've got to go home.
Well at least there's someone there that you can talk to.
And you never have to face up to the night on your own.
Jesus, it must be great to be straight.

Do you remember the first time?
I can't remember a worse time.
But you know that we've changed so much since then,
Oh yeah,
We've grown.
Now i don't care what you're doing,
No i don't care if you screw him.
Just as long as you save a piece for me,
Oh yeah

Written by barry adamson and jarvis cocker. performed by barry adamson
With jarvis cocker on vocals.

(save me from my own hand)
Oooohhh, set the controls for the heart of the pelvis
Haven't you heard my name rhymes with elvis
And one thing i know is this
That your mouth is telling me to give you
A big kiss
(now my guard's down)

(save me from my own hand)
Ahhhh, can't you see what's an offer
Yeah babe it's going cheap today
I enter a room and all the girls say
C'mon jarv, can i be the first?
Oh you make us so hot we feel we're gonna burst
(now my guard's down)
Oh yeah...

So please, so please
Don't leave me alone in this double bed
It smells of damp towels and asthma inhalers
Say you're gonna call back later
Save me from these glossy photographs
Save me from my mother's laugh
Save me
(now my guard's down)
That's right girls
That's right girls
Save me from my own hand
Do you know how much
I want you?
Don't stop

As the signs outside proclaimed,
Nature sometimes makes mistakes.
Was it the mother or the father to blame,
Inside the damp grass and tilted tent?
As the signs outside proclaimed,
Nature sometimes makes mistakes.
Was it the mother or the father to blame,
Inside the damp grass and tilted tent?

Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
Will be spinning,
I said your head
Is your feet.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
At the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
The man has come between us,
His cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!)

I sought shelter from the storm in a small inn by the coast.
In the children's room three identical sisters sat,
Except for the one who was hideously deformed;
Her grotesque features seemed to parody her sisters' beauty,
Ridiculing and mocking everything i held dear.

Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
Will be spinning,
I said your head
Is your feet.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
At the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
The man has come between us,
His cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!)

The fish-eyed foetus floated blankly in the yellowed waters, still as wax.
The man came between us,
My sister and i,
Ridiculing and parodying everything we held dear,
Making a mockery of our former emotions.
Dragging it all down to his level.

Won't you come with me to the fairground?
Your head
Will be spinning.
And the man at the side of me starts a lewd laugh
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
At the cat with two heads and the dog with eight legs.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
The man has come between us,
His cheeks rattle like a fence,
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
He's come between us, and he starts a lewd laugh.
(ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!)
And then we went for rides.
[jarvis:] roll up, roll up, nice rides...
Come on, spin those cars boys and make the girls scream!
The louder you scream the faster we go!
Come on, roll up, go on, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
For the ride of a lifetime.
There's plenty of seats, come on, don't be shy!
Roll up, come on, come on!
[shreiking and wailing laughter]
And then we went for rides.

Is this house?
Is this house?
Is this house?
Etc etc etc

Ah ah ah ah ah... / Tonight's the night / Open your door and I'll come inside / Don't be
afraid, it willbe alright / I will change your whole life tonight / and you're so
beautiful / too beautiful for this dead-end world / I'm taking you to a better place / oh,
far away from this stupid race, oh / Come with me / for ever / and ever / please come with
me / for ever / No, don't let me down / oh, don't make me cry / Lie in my arms / and be
mine tonight / Do it / Oh, did I tell you / that there was no need to be afraid? / Oh,
you've got such a beautiful body / Oh, you'll make such a beautiful body / I smoke these
yellow-lit cul-de-sacs at night / You hear my foot-step on your bedroom stair / and I will
take the first one in every house in town / I'll take your sisters and I'll lay them down
/ I'll lay them down / Tonight! / Mother (mother) / Father (father) / Brother (brother) /
Take them all a- / Ba ba ba ba... / Make you mine / I want your body / Mother (mother) /
Father (father) / Brother (brother) / The wind (the wind) / Streets (streets) / Those
girls (girls) / I walked into town (town) (town).

Laid here with the advertising sliding past my eyes
Like cartoons from other peoples lives,
I start to wonder what it takes to be a man.
Well i learned to drink
And i learned to smoke
And i learned to tell a drity joke.
If that's all there is then there's no point for me.

So please can i ask just why we're alive?
Cos all that you do seems such a waste of time
And if you hang around too long you'll be a man.
Tell me 'bout it.
Your car can get up to a hundred and ten -
You've nowhere to go but you'll go there again
And nothing ever makes no difference to a man.

So you stumble into town and hold your stomach in.
Show them what you've got tho' they've seen everything.
Yeah you're a beauty but they've seen your type before.
You've got no need but still you want,
So go and book that restaurant.
The wine will flow and then you'll just fly away.

So please can i ask just why we're alive?
Cos all that you do seems such a waste of time
And if you hang around too long you'll be a man.
Tell me 'bout it.
Your car can get up to a hundred and ten -
You've nowhere to go but you'll go there again
And nothing ever makes no difference to a man.
Nothing ever makes no difference to a man.
That's what i am.

She likes to watch the moon,
As it travels through the sky,
Cos she's heard that it's romantic,
Though she really can't see why.

Someone should have helped her through the day.
Someone like the moon.

So she drinks a cup of coffee,
And telephones a friend,
And she asks if she can make it,
So this night will never end.

Someone should have helped her through the day.
Someone like the moon.

But the light comes,
And the day bleeds through the sky,
And the sun,
The sun makes it hard to get through,
And the radio only plays love songs so she cries,
Though she knows it's such a bad thing to do.
In the evening it gets better,
And she thinks how it's not right,
That someone so stupid,
Can so easily screw up your life.

Someone should have helped her through the day.
Someone like the moon.

But the light came,
And the day bled through the sky,
And the sun, the sun made it hard to get through,
And the radio only played love songs so she cried,
Though she knew it's such a bad thing to do.
Can't you see?
Can't you see?
Someone should have helped her through the day.
Someone like the moon.

When all should be done and gone,
He comes round again to see,
He can't keep himself away.
He touches her hand and it starts again.
His work is an ugly mess.
He prods and it cries in pain.
He kicks and it starts to scream.
He hurries away when she cannot see.
When all should be done and gone,
He comes round again to see,
He can't keep himself away.
He touches her hand and it
Starts again.
Moving so slowly,
Droplets of kindness
That poison and choke
When this thing should have died long ago.
The entrails are soft and warm,
This time it must be the end.
One touch and it lives again.
He keeps it alive to be part of its pain
And that's mercy.
And that's compassion.
And that's being good friends in a crisis.
What's one corpse between friends?
Oh
Oh-oh-oh...
Leave it, boy.
Just leave it alone.
Stop scratching, or it'll never heal.
Just let it lie in peace.
Get out of the way,
Get out of the way,
The brakes cannot last for long.
He knows he must let it go,
He knows but he keeps a hold.
He touches her hand and it
Starts again.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Moving so slowly,
He drops it so gently,
Urging its life
To a peak to torment it again!

I never thought that you would come
Your sister said your nerve had gone
You're trying to make it straight right now
But i don't think that you know how
Your sister knows
She wears your clothes
She laughs
At all those things you chose

Your sister knows
Takes off your clothes
We use your bed for goodness knows

I left something where i knew you'd find it
Lift your pillow and you'll see

And he's coming round today
Hey hey
Check out if you're still alive
Talking dirt won't change your life
Listen hard and you can hear her saying not to be so afraid
Loosen up and lay right down
Watch her as she's going down
It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way

I can't remember where we met
I can't remember what we said
I can't forget the things we did
When everything just seemed to fit

Your sister knows
She wears your clothes
She laughs at all those things you chose
Your sister knows
Takes off your clothes
We use your bed for goodness knows

She's says it's better with two
If you'd just stop being so stuck up

And he's coming round today
Hey hey
Check out if you're still alive
Talking dirt won't change your life
Listen hard and you can hear her saying not to be so afraid
Loosen up and lay right down
Watch her as she's going down
It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way

Try it; you might like it
But you might smudge your lipstick

And he's coming round today
Hey hey
Check out if you're still alive
Talking dirt won't change your life
Listen hard and you can hear her saying not to be so afraid
Loosen up and lay right down
Watch her as she's going down
It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way
Loosen up and lay right down
Watch her as she's going down
It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way
It's easy when you stop pretending that you'll never ever see her
Yeah you've seen her going
Down (and down and down and down and down)

We're talking again / Smiling and laughing / Ignoring the past / Well I hope you're happy
/ I know there was something / Please don't / let it / die away / I know what you're
thinking / I know / what you / want to say / I won't give it names / For names have no
uses / Just shots in the dark / or easy excuses / I know there was something / Please
don't / let it / die away / I know what you're thinking / I know / what you / want to say
/ Lala lala... / I know there was something / Please don't / let it / die away / I know
what you're thinking / I know / what you / want to say.

Woke up in the morning / raised my head still yawning / Well I was in for a surprise /
Stumbled to the mirror / realised in horror / the face that stared back wasn't mine / And
it seemed to be so strange / this sudden facial change / What do you say? / What do you
say? / I'd say it's quite strange / the way I've changed since yesterday / Went down to
the kitchen / hoping they would listen / but no-one else could see, you see / I could live
sans danger / but all night I saw a stranger / A stranger that I knew as me / And now it
takes up all my time / this face that is not mine / What do you say? / What do you say? /
I'd say it's quite strange / the way I've changed since yesterday / Oh the way I've
changed since yesterday / And so I rest my case / I don't want another's face / What do
you say? / What do you say? / I'd say it's quite strange / the way I've changed since
yesterday / Oh the way I've changed since yesterday / Oh the way I've changed since
yesterday / Oh the way I've changed since.

Tonight's the night
Open your door and i'll come inside
Don't be afraid, it will be alright
I will change your whole life tonight
And you're so beautiful
Too beautiful for this dead-end world
I'm taking you to a better place
Oh, far away from this stupid race, oh

Come with me
For ever
And ever
Please come with me
For ever
No, don't let me down
Oh, don't make me cry
Lie in my arms
And be mine tonight
Do it

Oh, did i tell you
There was no need to be afraid?
Oh, you've got such a beautiful body
Oh, you'll make such a beautiful body
I smoke these yellow-lit cul-de-sacs at night
You hear my foot-step on your bedroom stair
And i will take the first one in every house in town
I'll take your sisters and i'll lay them down
I'll lay them down
Tonight

Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
Take them all

Make you mine
I want your body

Mother (mother)
Father (father)
Brother (brother)
The wind (the wind)
Streets (streets)
Those girls (girls)
I walked into town (town) (town).

You look just like sylvia:
Well you look like her to me -
The way she wore her hair then.
Oh, he way she used to be.
I've not seen her for a long time
Though i've heard she's still around.
Her father's living with some girl
Who's a year younger than her.
She's living in the country now yeah.
Oh, she's trying to get better.
Her beauty was her only crime.
Yeah, i remember sylvia.

So keep believing
And do what you do,
I can't help you but i know things are gonna get better.
And please stop asking what it's got to do with you.
Oh, keep believing cos you know that you deserve better.

Who's this man you're talking to?
Can't you see what he wants to do?
He thinks if he stands near enough then he will look as good as you.
Oh, he don't care about your problems.
He just wants to show his friends.
I guess i'm just the same as him -
I just didn't know it then.
I never understood you really
And i know it's too late now.
You didn't ask to be that way.
Oh, i'm sorry sylvia.

So keep believing
And do what you do,
I can't help you but i know things are gonna get better.
And please stop asking what it's got to do with you.
Oh, keep believing cos you know that you deserve better.
Yeah you know that you deserve better.
Oh sylvia.

You know sometimes...when we're lying together...
And i know you're asleep...i can hear the soft sound of your breathing...
So i get up...and i go to the window...outside...i can see all the houses...
Curtains shut tight against the night...asleep beneath the roof-tiles...
And as i stand here...i wonder...i wonder how many more times...
I'm gonna come here...i wonder how many more times...i'm gonna lie here...
And most of all...most of all i wonder...i wonder what it means...
I just wanna know what it means...so i woke her...
And we went walking through the sleeping town...
Down deserted streets...frozen gardens grey in the moonlight...
Fences...down to the canal...
Creeping slowly past the cooling towers...
Deserted factories...looking for an adventure...
I wandered the streets calling your name...jumping walls...
Hoping to see a light in the window...let me in...
Let me come in...let me in tonight...
Oh i see you shivering in the garden...
Silver goose-flesh in the moonlight ...she's balancing...
There are so many others...with unbroken eyes...
No cellulite afternoons... and she is balancing...
Balancing on the edge of ugliness tonight...
She is balancing...

Good god!
My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold,
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.

Jump...touch my hair...i wanna...i don't care...cos tonight...we could,
Maybe we...maybe we can touch the sky...do you think that we can...
Do you think that we can...touch the sky...please...i know...
I know it's not forever...but tonight i don't care...
Your skin so pale in the moonlight...
And the way your lips swell up when you're asleep...
Nothing else matters...do you know how much i want you?...
Can you feel how much i want you?...
Oh
Pitsmoor woman
Oh let
Oh let me in tonight

My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face,
It shone right though the clothes she wore,
It shone right through the dress she wore.
Good god

Oh, y'know...listen...listen...please...oh...i just wanna...
I just wanna... ...he falls to sleep again...no cheese tonight...she knows

My legendary girlfriend,
She is crying tonight,
Oh no she doesn't feel right,
She's got no-one to hold.
Her love is a sham,
He is dancing somewhere.
Oh no he doen't care,
Oh well, he'll never know.
And all the stars came out tonight,
And the moon came on it's face.
It shone right through the dress she wore,
It shone right through the clothes she wore.
And the stars and the moon,
And the stars all came down today.
Oh please love me tonight
Good god now!

I took an air-rifle, shot a magpie to the ground & it died without a sound.
Your skin so pale against the fallen autumn leaves &
No-one saw us but the trees.
Yeah, the trees, those useless trees produce the air that i am breathing.
Yeah, the trees, those useless trees; they never said that you were leaving.
I carved your name with a heart just up above - now swollen,
Distorted, unrecognisable; like our love.
The smell of leaf mould & the sweetness of decay
Are the incense at the funeral procession here, today.
In the trees, those useless trees, etc.
You try to shape the world to what you want the world to be.
Carving your name a thousand times won't bring you back to me.
Oh no, no i might as well go & tell it to the trees.
Go & tell it to the trees, yeah.

The trouble with your brother,
He's always sleeping with your mother.
And i know that your sister missed her time again this month.
Am i talking too fast or are you just playing dumb?
If you want i can write it down.
It should matter to you,
Cos aren't you the one,
With your razzmatazz and the nights on the town?

Oh you knew it, and you blew it didn't you babe?
I was lying when i asked you to stay.
Now no-one's gonna care,
If you don't call them when you said.
And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed.
And all those stupid little things,
They ain't working,
No they ain't working any more.

You started getting fatter,
Three weeks after i left you.
And now you're going with some kid who looks like some bad comedian.
Are you gonna go out?
Or are you sitting at home eating boxes of milk tray?
Watch tv on your own, aren't you the one,
With your razzmatazz and your nights on the town?

And your father wants to help you doesn't he babe?
But your mother wants to put you away.
Now no-one's gonna care,
If you don't call them when you said.
And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed.
And all those stupid little things,
They ain't working,
No they ain't working any more.

Oh well i saw you at the doctor's,
Waiting for a test.
You tried to look like some kind of heiress,
But your face is such a mess.
And now you're going to a party,
And you're leaving on your own.
Well, i'm sorry, but didn't you say,
That things go better with a little bit of razzamatazz?

And now no-one's gonna care,
If you don't call them when you said.
And he's not coming round tonight to try and talk you into bed.
Now it's half past ten in the evening,
And you wish that you were dead,
Cos all those stupid little things,
They ain't working,
No they ain't working any more.

We like driving on a saturday night,
Past the leisure centre, left at the lights.
We don't look for trouble,
But if it comes we don't run.
Looking out for trouble,
Is what we call fun.

Hey you, you in the jesus sandals,
Wouldn't you like to come
Over and watch some vandals smashing up someone's home?

We can't help it, we're so thick we can't think,
Can't think of anything but shit, sleep and drink.
Oh, and we like women;
"up the women" we say,
And if we get lucky,
We might even meet some one day.

Hey you, you in the jesus sandals,
Wouldn't you like to come
Over and watch some vandals smashing up someone's home?

Mister, we just want your car,
Cos we're taking a girl to the reservoir.
Oh, all the papers say,
It's a tragedy, but don't you want to come and see?

Mister, we just want your car,
Cos we're taking a girl to the reservoir.
Oh, all the papers say,
It's a tragedy, but don't you want to come and see?

Mister, we just want your car,
Cos we're taking a girl to the reservoir.
Oh, all the papers say,
It's a tragedy, but don't you want to come and see?

Mister, we just want your car,
Cos we're taking a girl to the reservoir.
Oh, all the papers say,
It's a tragedy, but don't you want to come and see?

Don't bother saying you're sorry / Why don't you come in / Smoke all my cigarettes again /
Every time I get no further / How long has it been? / Come on in now, wipe your feet on my
dreams / You take up my time / Like some cheap magazine / When I could have been learning
something / Oh well, you know what I mean, oh / I've done this before / And I will do it
again / Come on and kill me baby / While you smile like a friend / Oh and I'll come
running / Just to do it again / You are the last drink I never should have drunk / You are
the body hidden in the trunk / You are the habit I can't seem to kick / You are my secrets
on the front page every week / You are the car I never should have bought / You are the
dream I never should have caught / You are the cut that makes me hide my face / You are
the party that makes me feel my age / Like a car crash I can see but I just can't avoid /
Like a plane I've been told I never should board / Like a film that's so bad but I've got
to stay till the end / Let me tell you now: it's lucky for you that we're friends.

I never thought that you would come / your sister said your nerve had gone / You're trying
to make it straight right now / but I don't think that you know how / Your sister knows /
she wears your clothes / she laughs / at all those things you chose / Your sister knows /
takes off your clothes / we use your bed for goodness knows / Ow / I left something where
I knew you'd find it / Lift your pillow and you'll see / and he's coming round today / Hey
hey / Check out if you're still alive / talking dirt won't change your life / Listen hard
and you can hear her saying not to be so afraid / Loosen up and lay right down / watch her
as she's going down / It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way
/ na na na now now / Your sister knows / she wears your clothes / she laughs at all those
things you chose / Your sister knows / takes off your clothes / We use your bed for
goodness knows / I can't remember where we met / I can't remember what we said / I can't
forget the things we did / when everything just seemed to fit / Your sister knows / takes
off your clothes / we use your bed for goodness knows / She's says it's better with two /
if you'd just stop being so stuck up / and he's coming round today / Hey hey / Check out
if you're still alive / talking dirt won't change your life / Listen hard and you can hear
her saying not to be so afraid / Loosen up and lay right down / watch her as she's going
down / It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way / Try it; you
might like it / But you might / smudge your lipstick / and he's coming round today / Check
out if you're still alive / talking dirt won't change your life / Listen hard and you can
hear her saying not to be so afraid / Loosen up and lay right down / watch her as she's
going down / It's easy when you stop pretending that you just got lost on the way / Loosen
up and lay right down / watch her as she's going down / It's easy when you stop pretending
that you just got lost on the way / It's easy when you stop pretending that you'll never
ever see her, yeah you've seen her going down (and down and down and down and down)

I thought that you were joking,
When you said
"i want to see you
To discuss your contribution
To the future of our nation's heart and soul -
Six o'clock my place, white hall"
Well i arrived just after seven.
But you said
"it doesn't matter.
I understand your situation,
And your image,
And i'm flattered.
Oh and i'd just like to tell you,
That i love all of your albums.
Could you sign this for my daugther?
She's in hospital, her name is miriam.
Now i'll get down to the gist -
Do you want a line of this?

Are you a *sniff sniff*
Socialist?

Now i'm doing fine.
(yeah!)
Buzing all the time.
Oh just one hit,
And i feel great.
And i support the welfare state.
Oh you must be a socialist
Cos you're always off and on the piss
In your private members' bar.
Oh yes you are.
You're a superstar.
Well you sing about comon people.
And the mis-shapes and the misfits.
So can you bring them to my party?
And get them all to sniff this?
Oh and all i'm really saying,
Is come on and rock the vote for me.
All i'm really saying,
Is come on, roll up that note for me.
Your choice in all of this is -
Do you want hits or do you want misses?

Are you a *sniff sniff* socialist? yeah.
Socialist yeah.
Socialist yeah.
Oh yeah.

Oh you can be just what you want to be.
Oh just as long as you don't try to compete with me.
We've waited such a long time
For a chance to help our own kind.
So now
Please come on and tow the party line.
Oh you owe it to yourself,
Don't think of anybody else.
And we promise we won't tell.
No we won't tell.
We won't tell.
No we won't.
No we won't.
No we won't.
Oh no we won't tell.

Oh children of the future ... conceived in the toilets at Meadowhall ... to be raised on
the cheap cold slabs of garage floors ... rolling empty cans down the stairway ... (don't
you love that sound?) ... whilst the thoughts of a bad social worker ran through his head
... trying to remember what he learnt at training college ... Lester said he wasn't
allowed in here ... so why don't you get lost? ... and if you grow up ... then when you
grow up, maybe ... maybe you can live ... live on Kelvin ... yeah you can live in Kelvin
... on the promenade with the concrete walkways ... where pidgeons go to die ... (a woman
on the fourteenth floor noticed that the ceiling was bulging as if under a great weight.
When the council investigated they discovered that the man in the flat above had
transported a large quantity of soil into his living-room, in which several plants he had
stolen from a local park were growing. When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a
garden. When questioned, the man said all he wanted was a garden.) ... Oh God, I think the
future's been fried ... deep fried in Kelvin ... and now it's rotting behind the remains
of a stolen motorbike ... I haven't touched it, honest ... but there isn't anything else
to do ... we don't need your sad attempts at social conscience based on taxi-rides home at
night when exhibition opens ... we just want your car radio ... and those Reflux speakers
... now ... suffer the little children to come to me ... and I will tend their adventure
playground splinters with cigarette burns and feed them fizzy orange and chips ... and
then they grow up straight and tall ... and then they grow up to live ... on Kelvin ...
yeah ... we can have ghettos too ... only we use air-rifles instead of machine-guns ...
stitch that ... and we drunk driving lights ... in the end ... the question you have to
ask yourself is ... are you talking to me ... or are you chewing a brick?

You said you wanted some space
Well is this enough for you?
This is what you've waited for
No dust collecting in the corners
No cups of tea that got cold before you drank them
Tonight
Travelling at the speed of thought
We're going to escape into the stars
It doesn't matter if the lifts are out of order
Or the car won't start
We're rising up
Above the city
Over forests
Over fields
Rivers and lakes
Into the clouds
And up above us
The whole universe is shining a welcome
Did you ever really think this day would happen
After days trying to sell washing-machines on your own?
It looked like we never left the ground
But we're weightless
Floating free
We can go wherever we want
Solar systems
Constellations
Galaxies
I'll race you to the nearest planet
How many times have you wished upon a star?
Now you can touch it
You can touch the stars
Go on
Don't be afraid
"i only wanted some space"
Well is this enough for you?
Is it?
Well the stars are bright
But they don't give out any heat
The planets
Are lumps of rock
Floating in a vacuum
Yeah, space is cold
When you're on your own
I think it's time to go home
Pulling my strings
Like a kite that flew too high
And now it's time to come down
Look out below
Wait `til i get back
You can see something
You can see space
But now i know
It's o.k.
Space is o.k.
But i'd rather
I'd rather get my
I'd rather get my kicks down below
Oh yeah
Come on

At first / I could say / I could say or do / just whatever I liked / You would / you would
not / You would not answer / that's alright / Oh / I can't believe in the morning of your
silence / You will never cut / you will never cut the threads of your reliance / You can /
you can deny / you can deny that I was anything to you / But I know / I know in my mind /
I can see the scars / the scars I've left on you / I can't believe in the morning of your
silence / You will never cut / you will never cut the threads of your reliance / When we
are passed in the street / You can try and cover it up with whatever you like / Lipstick,
mascara, that kind of thing / You won't fool me / you won't fool anyone / They'll take one
look at you / and they'll know the kind of person they're dealing with / You can laugh
about it / you can pretend that you weren't involved / But you know what went on in that
room that night / You know what was said / ans you know you'll never forget / I hate the
sight of the face I have destroyed through our alliance / I won't forget how loved I once
was and how much I loved your eyes / So the bedroom becomes a funeral parlour once again /
See the corpse of former feeling laid out stiff and white for all to see / So / this is
the end / But we'll still be good friends, won't we? / We'll still be good friends, won't
we? / We'll still be good friends, won't we? / Goodbye.

All day / I'm doing fine / 'cos there are things / to pass the time / Smoke a cig / and
drink some tea / watch a programme / on TV / I just don't care where you are now / 'cos
I'm sorted out, and how / I've got it all set up you see / But when I close my eyes it
happens to me / You're a nightmare / and you've made it all wrong / You're a nightmare to
me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / oh and I just can't see / why you should keep on
happening to me / oh yeah / aah / Well it stopped some time in May / whilst you were still
away / Was I in bed or on a bus / doing something pathetically ridiculous? / I never
noticed it at first / But when you came back it got worse / It's the idea of you, you see
/ when I close my eyes it happens to me / Oh you're a nightmare / and you've got it all
wrong / You're a nightmare to me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / and I just can't see /
why you should keep on / happening to me / You're a nightmare / and you've got it all
wrong / You're a nightmare to me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / and I just can't see /
why you should keep on / happening / happening to me / Oh oh oh / And there were hotel
bedroom birthdays / sleep in factory hallway / I remember always Yeah there were hotel
bedroom birthdays / and sleep in factory hallway / I remember always / Why do you keep on
/ hanging round / Can't you see it gets me down? / Because when I look at you I see /
somebody I just don't want to be / Oh woh you're a nightmare / and you got it all wrong /
You're a nightmare to me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / and you just can't see / why you
should keep on / happening to me / You're a nightmare / and you've got it all wrong / Yeah
you're a nightmare to me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / and I just can't see / oh why why
you should keep on / happening to me / You're a mightmare / and you've got it all wrong /
Oh you're a nightmare to me / Oh hoh / You're a nightmare / oh and I just can't see / why
you're / why you're / you're always hanging around / you're always hanging round / You're
always hanging around / You're always hanging round / You're always hanging round / You're
always hanging round / you're always hanging round / You're always hanging round.