Goodbye Cruel World

You lie so unfolded
In a love field
With your contempt for any modesty
In a love field

In a love field
In a love field
You yield with your lips still sealed
In a love field
Lost in a sea of imaginary women
Everything you'd want
From the dawn to the dimming

Breath comes sharp and heart beats faster
In a love field
Cold ground for a pillow
Under a blanket of stars
In a love field

In a love field
In a love field
Headlights that startled
This embrace of hours
In a love field

In a crooked house
Where things can be arranged
You think you're different from the rest
But you don't see how you've changed

Under an archway
On a road of white linen
In a love field
Feel the anxious rhythm of a functional stranger
In a love field

In a love field
In a love field
She's so tense but it's never mentioned
In a love field

You like coffee and you like tea
Much more than you like me
And everybody says watch out yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues
You like your coffee just a little too sweet
Without your sugar life is incomplete
And everybody says watch out yeah
For the sour milk-cow blues

I think about you everyday
Something about you is not the same
Something about the things you say
Sounds like a different woman with a different name
Sour milk-cow blues

You wear a different size and style of shoe
I think that someone must be poisoning you
To replace you with a living double
Get out of my life right now and save them all of the trouble
They changed your complexion and your personality
Somebody's putting ideas in your head
They took the girl of my dreams and left you here instead
Sour milk-cow blues

You take your place in this parade of pleas
You dial a number and they offer relief
All alone with just your own device
They give you something and it isn't advice
To break the hearts of a million listeners
Start out as lovers and you end up as prisoners
Somebody's suffering from the things that you do
Somebody's suffering but you're glad it isn't you
Put your fingertips up to the screen
Repeat after me, wake at the count of three
Now i don't know which is worse
What they're doing to you or what you're doing to me
Sour milk-cow blues

The children sit upon the stairs
High above a valley of tears
Don't let them see you crying that way oh no

Oh no joe porterhouse
Is not gone forever
He'll be back another day
Don't let them see you crying that way

Chorus
Please don't wake him let him sleep
It's a moment she can keep
Like an old bus ticket or a photograph
Resting on the mantlepiece
While for the wicked there is no peace
She says it's not his time to go
Why we were nearly lovers years ago
Now what is left for me
Among the broken branches of the family tree

Heart like an anchor
Arms like cable
He stood all alone on an iron turntable
Don't let them see you crying that way oh no

The sun beats down
It's cracking the flags
Boys who should know better
Are stamping out fags
Don't let them see you laughing that way

Chorus

Oh no joe porterhouse
Is not gone forever
He'll be back another day
Don't let them see you crying that way

They took old danny boy for a ride
From the arms of his bride to be
Threw him into the murky waters
By the dog biscuit factory
Quick dry the tears and stifle cheers
As he sinks just like a stone
Footprints set in sentimental cement
Now burden down his bones
Lest we forget
Here lies the great unknown

My my my delilah
Who's the butcher that you harbour
Take the rich man to the cleaners
And the strong man to the barber
From her face down to her torso
Sort of gruesome only more so
Hooks and eyes, fingers and thumbs
Ladies and gentlemen here she comes
The great unknown

Where shall we sing
At a wedding or a wake
Whose name shall we cherish
And for whose sake

Now this year's cannon fodder
Tell the future general's jokes
They were keeping the home fires burning
As we slipped out for a smoke
Though the vip's sang "wooden heart"
The band played "hearts of oak"

(chorus)

And here comes the day i shall perish all alone
Say here lies the great unknown

Somewhere in the distance i can hear "who shot sam?"
This is my conviction, that i am an innocent man
Though you say i'm unkind
I'm being as nice as i can

Boys everywhere, fumbling with the catches
I struck lucky with motel matches
Falling for you without a second look
Falling out of your open pocketbook
Giving you away like motel matches

I wake with the siren in an emergency
Though your mind is full of love
In your eyes there is a vacancy
And you know what i'll do
When the light outside changes from red to blue

Chorus

You've been taught that this won't do
They put me in the picture but the film turned blue
A glimpse of you, turning the town red.
A head full of brand new words and a mouth full of shocks
You're a big boy now, with a face to stop clocks.

Turning the town red. (x2)

You made your bed, and now you better dream in it.
The word that you once whispered, now you're screamin' it.
Days drip down like bad wallpaper.
Pictures plastered on the ivy creeper between your old toy soldiers
And your mother's sleepers.

Turning the town red. (x2)

You made your bed, you better face the consequence.
A black pool opened at my feet into a dream sequence.

Turning the town red. aah. (x4)

You know i heard her call my name
Least, i think that's what she said.
Surely i'm the correlation that's gonna cause her shame
So, what's she doing in my bed?

Turning the town red. aah.
(repeat.)

Picture a hotel room
Clothes scattered across the floor
Covers pulled back from the pillow
A sign hung on the door
Two lovers locked up tight
Through the endless days and nights
Hiding something they can't show
Something no-one must know

Chorus
There's a room without a number
While the sign outside says there's
No vacancy as you take your key
They smile at you so understandingly

She cried out in the night
Woke the porter from his sleep
He grinned slyly to himself
As he went to fetch his keys
Look what love has brought them to
This terrible nightmare
His or hers he could not tell
As they were sleeping there

Chorus

And i wish he could be
The man he was before he was me

A girl arrived at first light
And enquired if they'd been seen
And why the numbers ran from twelve
Missing out thirteen
And they said oh my darling
Put it down to superstition
Try to avoid a scandal
And don't arouse suspicion
They re-arranged the furniture
They even papered over the door

There's a room without a number
While the sign outside says there's
No vacancy as you take your key
They smile just so so you know

Chorus

At last i've awakened to see what you've done.
All i can do is pack up and run.
Now i know the rules. find yourself another fool.
You said that you loved me. i was yours to command.
Your kind of loving, my heart couldn't stand.
You played me for a fool. find yourself another fool.
And now, now that we're through, you say you wished you'd be true.
Oh, but deep down in my heart, i know our love could never grow.
And now, now that we're through, you say you wished you'd be true.
Oh, but deep down in my heart, i know our love will never grow.
At last i've awakened to see what you've done.
All i can do is pack up and run.
Now i know the rules. find yourself another fool.
Now i know the rules. find yourself another fool.

Out of the aeroplane stepped chamberlain with a condemned man's stare
But we all cheered wildly, a photograph was taken,
As he waved a piece of paper in the air
Now the disco machine lives in munich and we are all friends
And i slip on my italian dancing shoes as the evening descends

And the bells take their toll once again in victory chime
And we can thank god that we've finally got
Peace in our time

There's a man going round taking names no
Matter who you claim to be
As innocent as babies, a mad dog with rabies,
You're still a part of some conspiracy
Meanwhile there's a light over the ocean
Burning brighter than the sun
And a man sits alone in a bar and says "oh god,
What have we done?"

Chorus

They're lighting a bonfire upon every hilltop in the land
Just another tiny island invaded when he's got
The whole world in his hands
And the heavyweight champion fights in the
International propaganda star wars
There's already one spaceman in the white
House what do you want another one for?

Chorus