Extreme Honey-very Best Of The Warner Brothers Years

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The twitching impulses to speak your mind
I'll lend you my microscope and maybe you will find it
Is it in that ugly place that's just behind your face
Where you keep my picture still despite the fact
That you had me replaced

Chorus:
Say "goodbye"
Baby can't you act your age?
You know why
I'm going to give it to you straight
Although i'll never be
Unhappy as you want me to be
Still it's all the rage

I'll probably play along
Left to my own devices
Spare me the drone of your advice
The sins of garter and gin
Confession may delay
You know the measuring pole
The merry boots of clay
I've heard it all before
You'll say it anyway

Chorus

Alone with your tweezers and your handkerchief
You murder time and truth, love, laughter and belief
So don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think
And don't try to read my mind because it's full of disappearing ink

Chorus

Although i'll never be
Unhappy as you want me to be
Still it's all the rage

She wears a wedding ring her sister lent
To throw them off the scent
Just let them guess, it's what they expect
Who in the world has bitten her neck?
She's discovered wearing last night's dress
The carnal and cunning, she couldn't express
Who do you think she's trying to impress?

Chorus:
I think you'd better hold your tongue
Although you've never been that strong
I'm sorry to say that i knew all along
You're no match for that sulky girl

She left her european town
Before she let the family down
She couldn't stand the massacre game
So she dyed her hair and adopted another name
With the evidence of passing out stamped on her hand
She glows in the dark
He thinks she's from another planet

Chorus

Sulky girl
I'm sure you look a picture when you cry
Threatening the silent treatment doesn't qualify
It's like money in the bank
Your expression is blank
But while the chance appears
You'll be nearer to tears
Sulky girl [2x]

He said "hello, my pretty flower"
Just trying out his tycoon power
Avoiding the mirror, her pitying stare
She said "you're mistaken, your money's no good in here"
Just some stupid little know-it-all
Who thought she looked easy; he's not that astute
He'll pay for the distance
Between cruelty and beauty

Chorus

So i won't tell you again
What do you gain
By blackening her name
She's smarter than you
Oh isn't it a shame
You're gonna lose that sulky girl

Sulky girl
I saw you practising your blackmail faces
Suddenly you're talking like a duchess
But you're still a waitress
I saw through your pretence
But in my defence
There are a few events
I think will spare the censor
Sulky girl [4x]

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in the meadow with her hands tied behind her back
I won't refuse if you know how to use it
Just stop playing that ugly drug music

Chorus:
Thirteen steps lead down
Thirteen steps lead down
There's commoners and kings
And everyone's a prisoner of
Paper and glue
And a decent pair of scissors
So tonight i'm drinking to your health
Because i just can't stand myself

Thirteen steps lead down [4x]

She stands and fails
On fashion fingernails
Her lovers have her walking 'round
On instruments of torture
And one of them is poisonous
The other is a thief they say
So what one could give to her
The other cannot take away

When nobody knows she puts on secret clothes
And lies in her splendour for a picture opportunity
Cover up that bruise, put on patent leather shoes
Just stop playing that bad mood music

Chorus

Thirteen steps lead down [4x]

She says, nobody wants to believe
You're the same as
Everyone
What makes makes me
Unique
My dark life

There was a kink in the
World
Sent that statue
Tumbling
An invitation east
So we can watch it all
Crumbling
She came on like a light
And so softly she spoke
You don't know
You don't know about
My dark life

And you think you're a
Guest
You're a tourist at best
Peering into the
Corners of
My dark life

Now that you, you tear
Your dreams
From consumptive
Ballerinas
She'll stand on tiptoe
For you
In a grey and tattered
Tutu

She stay's where
She is
Cause of voyeurs like
These
With an accusative look
That says
My dark life

Rubber men await you
There
In each beguiling alley
To shake you and to
Pierce you and remind you of
My dark life

Enter the pious elite
In their preening finery
And bang the tambourine
They're dining on rice
Paper scenery

See how the villain
Attracts
Envious glances from
Everyone
She's waitressing by day
It doesn't bring in
Much money now

And as strong concealed
Arms
Set off bells and alarms
In the strangest
Locations of
My dark life

But the fantasies
Slipped
As he tipped her in
Cigarettes
She tries to smile very
Graciously
When she wants to kill
Him

Now the victory is sweet
You get down upon your
Knees
It's the perfect
Position
For kissing west on
Leather

So they came from ugly,
Texas
And from nameless,
Tennesee
From peculiar, missouri
And from places closer
To me

All the cream of
Heartless england
Cheer the carnival is
Over
And members of army
Bandsmen
Played america the
Beautiful

Outside my window
Not long before sleep arrives
They come with their sirens
And they sweep away all the boys
Busy draining the joy from their lives
They never said their prayers out loud

And while i'm dreaming
There's a passing motor car
That broadcasts a popular song
And a girl appears to be saying
"do you think that i'm going to go far?"

First chorus:
Just look at me
I'm having the time of my life
Or something quite like it
When i'm walking out and about
In london's brilliant parade

She's one of those girls that you just can't place
You feel guilty desiring such an innocent face
But of course they knew that when they cast her
Along with the red routemaster
And the film takes place in an mgb
And a perfect re-creation of "the speakeasy"
Everybody looks happy and twisted
Though she probably never existed
For old times' sake
Don't let me awake

I wouldn't want you to walk across hungerford bridge
Especially at twilight
Looking through the bolts and the girders
Into the water below
You'll never find your answer there

They sounded the "all-clear" in the occidental bazaar
They used to call oxford street
Now the bankrupt souls in the city
Are finally tasting defeat

Second chorus:
Don't look at me
I'm having the time of my life
Or something quite like it
When i'm walking out and about
In london's brilliant parade
When i'm walking out and about
In london's brilliant parade

From the gates of st. mary's, there were horses in olympia
And a trolley bus in fulham broadway
The lions and the tigers in regents park
Couldn't pay their way
And now they're not the only ones

At the hammersmith palais
In kensington and camden town
There's a part that i used to play;
The lovely diorama is really part of the drama, i'd say

First chorus [2x]

I saw a girl who'd found her consolation
She said "one day my prince of peace will come"
Above her head a portrait of her father
The wilted favour that he gave her still fastened to the frame
"they've got his bones and everything he owns
I've got his name"

Well you can laugh at this sentimental story
But in time you'll have to make amends
The sudden chill where lovers doubt their immortality
As the clouds cover the sky the evening ends
Describing a picture of eyes finally closing
As you sometimes glimpse terrible faces in the fire
We'll i'm the lucky goon
Who composed this tune
From birds arranged on the high wire

Who on earth is tapping at the window?
Does that face still linger at the pane?
I saw you shiver though the room was like a furnace
A shadow of regret across a young mother's face
So toll the bell or rock the cradle
Please don't let me fear anything i cannot explain
I can't believe, i'll never believe in anything again

I'm walking down times square in the electric daylight
The sailors on shore leave stand out in their perfect white.
I'm up here with my spying glass at the window of the world
For better or for worse - it's a perverse universe, my love.

Now i know, i should have never walked over the bridge i burned
Now i know, somehow i don't feel so alone.

[the sermon]

You mutter underneath your breath - it echoes round the world
Everybody comes from nowhere.
There is hope, it loops up in the air

Now i know, i should have never walked over the bridge i burned
Now i know, somehow i don't feel so alone.

You said i used to be handsome if you screwed up your eyes
Professors and vampires drank up all the tears i cried.
Now there's a bird at my window, he feeds upon the pain
And sometimes he sings to me - a mocking bird in the twilight of infamy.

Now i know, i should have never walked over the bridge i burned
Now i know, somehow i don't feel so alone.
Now i know, i should have never walked over the bridge i burned
Now i know, they've burned one sinner and the others are set to follow

Now i know.
Now i know.
Now i know.

The sun struggles up another beautiful day
And i felt glad in my own suspicious way
Despite the contradiction and confusion
Felt tragic without reason
There's malice and there's magic in every season

Chorus
From the foaming breakers of the poisonous surf
The other side of summer
To the burning forests in the hills of astroturf
The other side of summer

The automatic gates close up between the shanties and the palace
The blowtorch amusements, the voodoo chalice
The pale pathetic promises that everybody swallows
A teenage girl is crying 'cos she don't look like a million dollars
So help her if you can
'cos she don't seem to have the attention span

Chorus

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?
A poor little schoolboy who said "we don't need no lessons"?
The rabid rebel dogs ransack the shampoo shop
The pop princess is downtown shooting up
And if that goddess if fit for burning
The sun will struggle up the world will still keep turning

Madman standing by the side of the road saying
"look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes, look at my eyes"
Now you can't afford to fake all the drugs your parents used to take
Because of their mistakes you'd better be wide awake

Chorus

The mightiest rose
The absence of perfume
The casual killers
The military curfew
The cardboard city
An unwanted birthday
The other side of summer

The dancing was desperate, the music was worse
They bury your dreams and dig up the worthless
Goodnight
God bless
And kiss "goodbye" to the earth
The other side of summer

One day you're going to have to face
A deep dark truthful mirror
And it's going to tell you things that i still love you too much to say
The sky was just a purple bruise, the ground was iron
And you fell all around the town until you looked the same

Chorus:

The same eyes, the same lips, the same lie from
Your tongue trips
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts ring to the boots of roustabouts
But you're never in any doubt, there's something happening somewhere

You chase down the road 'til your fingers bleed
On a fiberglass tumbleweed

You can blow around the town, but it all shuts down the same

Chorus

So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks
They set him up, set him up on the stool
He falls down, falls down like a drunk
And you drink 'til you drool
And it's his story you'll flatter
You'll stretch him out like a saint
But the canvas that he splattered will be the
Picture that you never paint

Chorus

A stripping puppet on a liquid stick gets into it pretty thick
A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears, but how do you know he really needs it?

'cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand,
Jesus wept he felt abandoned
You're spellbound baby there's no doubting that
Did you ever see a stare like a persian cat?

Chorus