Released: April 94
Joyriders, Lipgloss, Acrylic Afternoons, Have You Seen Her Lately?, Babies, She's a Lady, Happy Endings, Do You Remember the First Time?, Pink Glove, Someone Like the Moon, David's Last Summer
Joyriders
We like driving on a Saturday night / past the Leisure Centre / left at the lights / Oh 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 / yeah we might eve n meet some one day / Oh 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 / that i t's a tragedy / but don't you want to come and see? / Hey! / Mister / we just want your car / `cos we're taking a girl / to the reservoir / Oh all the papers say / that it's a tragedy / Mister / we just want your car / `cos we're taking a girl / to the re servoir / Oh all the papers say / that 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 / that it's a tragedy.
Lipgloss
No wonder you're looking thin / when all that you live on / is lipgloss and cigarettes / And scraps at the end of the day when / he's given the rest / to someone with long black hair / All those nights in, making such a mess of the bed / Oh you never ever want to go home / And he wants you so you may as well hang around for a while / call your Dad on the phone / He changed his mind last Monday / so you've got to leave by Sunday / yeah / You've lost your lipgloss Honey / Oh yeah / Now nothing you do / can turn him on / there's something wrong / You had it once / but now it's gone / And you feel such a fool / for laughing at bad jokes / and putting up with all of his friends / and kissing in public / What are they going to say / when they run into you again ? / That your stomach looks bigger / and your hair is a mess / and your eyes are just holes in your face / And it rains every day and when it doesn't / the sun makes you feel worse anyway / He changed his mind last Monday / so you've got to leave by Sunda y / yeah / You've lost your lipgloss Honey / Oh yeah / Now nothing you do / can turn him on / there's something wrong / You had it once / but now it's gone / Though you knew there was no way / it was going to last for ever / it still shook you / when he t old you in a letter / that he didn't / want to see you / You nearly lost your mind / Oh yeah / You've lost your lipgloss Honey / Oh yeah / Now nothing you do / can turn him on / there's something wrong / You had it once / but now it's gone / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / ah/ah/ah/ah... / ooh/ooh/ooh/ooh... / Oh yeah
Acrylic Afternoons
I fell asleep on the sofa and had a dream about a small child in dungarees who caught his hands in the doors of the Paris Metro. Then my face cracked open and you were there, dressed in green, saying something obscene. But's that's why I came here in the first place. Oh yeah, that and the tea. / Can I stay here / lying under the table together with you now? / Can I hold you? / Forever in acrylic afternoons / I want to hold you tight / whilst children play outside / and they wait for their mothers / to fin ish with lovers / and call them inside for their tea / Cushions and TV and the table set for tea. One for you, one for me. Come and lie down on the settee in that green jumper, you can have anything you want and the clock is saying it's half past four but you know, you know I wanna, I wanna stay a little more. / Can I stay here / lying under the table together with you now? / Can I hold you? / Forever in acrylic afternoons / I want to hold you tight / whilst children play outside / and they wait for their mothers / to finish with lovers / and call them inside for their tea / Oh / On a pink quilted eiderdown, I want to pull your knickers down. Net curtains blow slightly in the breeze. Lemonade light filtering through the trees. It's so soft and so warm. Ju st another cup of tea please (one lump, yeah, thankyou... thankyou... thankyou... thankyou...) / Can I stay here / lying under the table together with you now? / Can I hold you? / Forever in acrylic afternoons / I want to hold you tight / whilst children play outside / and they wait for their mothers / to finish with lovers / and call them inside for their tea / Oh Wayne, Julie, Diane, Heather, Rachel / come home.
Have You Seen Her Lately?
First you let him in your bed / Now he's moved inside your head / And he directs / all the dreams / you are dreaming / I saw a friend of yours today / She called me over just to say / "I don't know if you've seen her lately / but God she's looking rough." / Oh now don't go round to see him / tonight / He's already made such a mess of your life / Find something else to do / with your time / and do it quickly / while you've still got the chance / Do you think he'll fall apart? / Do you think you'll break hi s heart? / If you leave him on his own / You are dreaming / `cos he can fasten all his clothes / tie his laces / blow his nose / It's time to teach him how to walk / yeah, teach your baby how to walk away now / No don't go round to see him / tonight / He' s already made such a mess of your life / Find something else to do / with your time / and do it quickly / while you've still got the chance / You're not his mother / and you're not sister / and brother / He's not even your lover / He's just a piece of lu ggage / you should throw away / No don't go round to see him / tonight / He's already made such a mess of your life / Find something else to do / with your time / and do it quickly / while you've still got the chance / No don't go round to see him / tonig ht / He's already made such a mess of your life / Find something else to do / with your time / and do it quickly / oh while you've still got the chance.
Babies
Well it happened / years ago / when you lived on / Stanhope Road / We listened to your sister / when she came home from school / `cos she was two years older / and she had boys in her room / We listened outside and heard her / Alright / Well that was alri ght / for a while / but soon I wanted more / I wanted to see as well as hear and so I / I hid inside her wardrobe / And she came home round four / and she was with some kid called David / from the garage up the road / I listened outside, I heard her / Alr ight / Oh I want to take you home / I want to give you children / You might be my girlfriend / Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah / When I saw you / the next day / I really / couldn't tell you / `cos you might go and / tell your mother / And so you went with N eve / oh yeah and Neve was coming on / and I thought I heard you laughing / when his Mum and Dad were gone / I listened outside, I heard you / Alright / Oh I want to take you home / I want to give you children / Yeah you might be my girlfriend / Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah / Well I guess / it couldn't last too long / I came home one day / and all her things were gone / I fell asleep inside / I never heard her come / Oh and she opened up the wardrobe / and I had to / get it on / Yeah oh listen / we were on the bed / when you came home / I heard you stop / outside the door / I know you won't / believe it's true / I only went with her `cos she looks like you, my God / Oh I want to take you home / I want to give you children / Yeah you might be my girlfrien d / Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah / Oh woh / Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah...
She's A Lady
Ma ma ma ma... / Are you trying to put me on? / I turned around and it was gone / Did I leave it in your car? / On a table in a bar? / Or in your bed between the sheets? / The places where we used to meet / Wherever love has gone I need to know / `Cos she 's a woman / Oh yeah baby she's a woman / Na na nana nana na na / she's a lady / I just love the way she moves / the way she moves / Watch her / Yeah / When you left I didn't know how I was going to forget you / I was hanging by a thread and then I met he r / Selling pictures of herself to German business men / Well, that's all she wants to do / Come on, come on / I don't want to try too hard / I don't want to wait too long / I don't want to live alone / with all this crap that pulls me down / Oh, tell me now / how would it feel / if I could touch you once again / Where have you gone / where have you gone? / The moon has gone down / on the sun / oh yeah / I know that you're coming home / You couldn't leave me on my own / Everybody can't you see / she's com ing back to me / Whilst you were gone / I got along / I didn't die / I carried on / You got to hold me tight / so I could make it through the night / Stayed in bed all day / to feel O.K. / I felt O.K. / Oh I felt / sick and tired / yes I did / She lived a t her father's place / played his records though they jumped / Wore her body back to front / I tried hard to make it work / kissed her where she said it hurt / but I was always underneath / She's a woman / Oh yeah baby she's a woman / Na na nana nana na n a / she's a lady / I just love the way she moves / the way she moves / I don't know why / you pretend / that it causes you pain / when you know very well / you're gonna do it again / you're gonna do it again / and again / and again / and again and again a nd again / but can you keep it going all night long? / Shake it / shake it / shake it / I know it's going to happen / It might not be today / It might not be tomorrow or even the day after that but sometime soon / you're gonna see / you're gonna / you're gonna / you're gonna come back to me / Whilst you were gone / I got along / I didn't die / I carried on / I went drinking every night / just so I could feel alright / Stayed in bed all day to feel O.K. / I felt O.K. / Where have you gone / where have you gone? / The moon has gone down / on the sun / Oh yeah I know that you're coming home / You wouldn't leave me on my own / Everybody can't you see / she's coming back to me / Where have you gone / where have you gone? / I didn't die / I carried on / I went drinking every night / just so I could feel alright / Stayed in bed all day to feel O.K. / I felt O.K. / whilst you were gone.
Happy Endings
Oh well imagine it's a film and you're the star / and pretty soon we're coming to the part / where you realise that you should give your heart / oh give your heart to me / Now the orchestra begins to make a sound / that goes round and round and round and round and round / and round and round and round and round again / and we kiss to violins / Well some sad people might believe in that I guess / but we know better, don't we? We know all about the mess / The aftermath of our affair is lying all around and I can't clear it away / No / And do you think / that it's so easy to find? / Somebody / who is just your kind? / Oh well it might take you a little time but I'm going to have to try / Oh yeah I'm gonna try / And I know no/one / can ever know which way to head / don't you remember that you once said / that you liked happy endings? / Happy endings / And no/one / can ever know if it's going to work / but if you try / if you try maybe you might get your happy ending / the ending that you think that you deserv e / And no/one / can ever know which way to head / but don't you remember that you once said / that you liked happy endings?
Do You Remember The First Time?
You say you've got to go home / `cos he's sitting on his own again this evening / And I know you're going to let him bore your pants off again / Oh now, it's half past eight / you'll be late / You say you've never been sure / though it makes good sense fo r you to stay together / Still you bought a toy that can reach the places he never goes / and 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 o h 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 now / ooh/oh / You say you've got to go home / Well at least there's someone there who 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 / oh just as long as you save a piece for me / oh yeah / ooh/oh / Yeah you wanna go home / Yeah you wanna go home / Yeah you wanna go home / Yeah you wanna go home / 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 / ooh/oh / Do you remember the firs t time? / I can't remember a worse time / but you know that we've changed so much since then oh yeah we've grown / Oh 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 / ooh/oh / You wanna go home.
Pink Glove
You'd better watch what you're wearing / if you wany him to come round and see you tonight / uh/huh/huh/huh... / He doesn't care what it looks like / just as long as it's pink and it's tight / It's what he likes / uh/huh/huh/huh... / 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 / Oooh / He's got your heart / You've got his soul / Oh God you might as well know / I k now you're never going to be with me / but if you try sometimes then maybe / you got 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 / Uh/huh/huh/huh... / Oooh / So what should you do? / Should you stop being you / just to be how he wants you? / Oooh / Go and visit your Mum / then tell me that you'll come / and meet me in the afternoon / Oooh / He's got your heart / You've got his soul / Oh God you might as well know / I know you're never going to be with me / but if you try sometimes then maybe / you got 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 / You got it right first time / Oh oh / 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 go for that stuff / all those baby/doll nighties / synthetic stuff / Yeah it looks pretty good / and fits you O .K. / Wear your pink glove, babe / you put it on the wrong way / Jesus / I know you're never going to be with me / but if you try sometimes then maybe / you got it right first time / I realise that you'll never leave him / but every now and then in the ev ening / 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 / Oh I know that you'll never leave him / oh you should see him / you got it right first time / You got it right first time.
Someone Like The Moon
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 / an d teelphones / 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 crie d / though she knew / it's such a bad thing to do / Oh can't you see? / Can't you see? / Someone / should have told her / you had gone / someone / like the moon Can't you see? / Can't you see? / Someone / should have told her / you had gone / someone / li ke the moon.
David's Last Summer
We made our way slowly down the path that led to the stream, swaying slightly, drunk on the sun, I suppose. It was a real summer's day. The air humming with heat whilst the trees beckoned us into their cool green shade. And when we reached the stream I pu t a bottle of cider into the water to chill, both of us knowing that we'd drink it long before it had the chance. / This is where you want to be / there's nothing else but you and her / and how you spend your time / Walking to parties whilst it's still li ght outside. Peter was upset at first but now he's in the garden talking to somebody Polish. Why don't we set up a tent and spend the night out there? And we can pretend that we're somewhere foreign but we'll still be able to use the fridge if we get hung ry, or too hot. / This is where you want to be / there's nothing else but you and her / and how you use your time / We went driving / Oooh / Oooh oooh oooh... / This is where you want to be / there's nothing else but you and her / and how you use your tim e / Your time / Your time / bala / ba la bala... / The room smells faintly of sun tan lotion in the evening sunlight and when you take off your clothes you're still wearing a small pale skin bikini. The sound of children playing in the park comes from far away and time slows down to the speed of the specks of dust floating in the light from the window. / Summer leaves fall from Summer trees / Summer grazes fade on Summer knees / Summer nights are slowly getting long / Summer's going so hurry soon it'll be gone / So we went out to the park at midnight one last time. Past the abandoned glasshouse stuffed full of dying palms. Past the bandstand down to the boating lake. And we swam in the moonlight for what seemed like hours until we couldn't swim anymore. An d as we came out of the water we sensed a certain movement in the air and we both shivered slightly and ran to collect our clothes. And as we walked home we could hear the leaves curling and turning brown on the trees and the birds deciding where to go fo r Winter. And the whole sound, the whole sound of Summer packing it's bags and preparing to leave town. Oh but I want you to stay. Oh please stay for a while, oh I want you to stay, oh I want you to stay.
