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Common People

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge. She studied sculpture at St. Martin's college, that's where I, caught her eye. She told me that her Dad was loaded. I said, "In that case I'll have rum and coca-cola." She said "Fine," and then in th
irty second’s time she said, "I want to live like common people, I want to do whatever common people do. I want to sleep with common people, I want to sleep with common people like you." Well what else could I do? I said "I'll see what I can do." I took h
er to a supermarket. I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there. I said "Pretend you've got no money." But she just laughed and said, "Oh, you're so funny." I said "Yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here. Are you su
re you want to live like common people. You want to see whatever common people see. You want to sleep with common people, you want to sleep with common people like me?" But she didn't understand, she just smiled and held my hand. Rent a flat above a shop.
Cut your hair and get a job. Smoke some fags and play some pool. Pretend you never went to school. But still you'll never get it right `cos when you're laid in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your Dad he could stop it all, ye
ah. You'll never live like common people. You'll never do what common people do. You'll never fail like common people. You'll never watch your life slide out of view and then dance, and drink, and screw because there's nothing else to do. Sing along with
the common people, sing along and it might just get you through. Laugh along with the common people, laugh along even though they're laughing at you, and the stupid things that you do, because you think that poor is cool. Like a dog lying in a corner, the
y will bite and never warn you. Look out, they'll tear your insides out, `cos everybody hates a tourist, especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh, yeah, and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath. You will never understand how it feel
s to live your life with no meaning or control and with nowhere else to go. You are amazed that they exist and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why. Rent a flat above a shop. Cut your hair and get a job. Smoke some fags and play some pool. P
retend you never went to school. But still you'll never get it right `cos when you're laid in bed at night, watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your Dad he could stop it all, yeah. You'll never live like common people. You'll never do what comm
on people do. You'll never fail like common people. You'll never watch your life slide out of view and then dance, and drink, and screw because there's nothing else to do. I want to live like common people. I want to live like common people. I want to liv
e like common people. I want to live like common people.
Countdown

Oh I was seventeen / when I heard the countdown start, it started slowly / and I thought it was my heart but then I realised / that this time it was for real there was no place to hide / I had / to go out and feel, but there was time to kill / and so I
, I walked my way around town I tried to love the world / oh but the world just got me down and so I looked for you / in every street of every town I wanted to see your face / I wanna / I wanna see you now / I wanna see you now / Oh and so it went / Oh so
it went for several years I couldn't stand it / No / oh it must be getting near now that / you just don't know / oh no you, you just don't understand how many people have seen you / in the arms of, of of some other man / I've got to meet you / and find y
ou / and take you by the hand / oh my God / my God / you've got to understand / that I was seventeen / I didn't / I didn't know a thing at all / I've got no reason / I've got no reason at all / Oh no / The time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon
/ Yeah you came too soon then / Oh and it could / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never leave this room no) / Oh I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out ton
ight / for me to leave this town / so I'm gonna leave this town / Goodbye / O.K. / Yeah you can leave me / oh you, you can go some other place / you can't forget it / Yeah / you know, you know that's O.K. / `cos, `cos I own this town / Yeah, yeah I brough
t it to its knees / Can you hear it crying? / Can you? / Can you hear it begging to me "Please?" / I know it's coming / so soon now / oh, oh it's on it's way / Oh no / oh no / oh I can hear them say / they say I can't survive / They say I, I'll never leav
e the ground / They say it's all a lie / and now / and now it's coming down / Oh baby now / Time / of my life / oh I think you came too soon / Yeah you came too soon now / Oh and it could / oh it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never lea
ve this room now) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / Oh and the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go / gonna be there / I'm gonna go / Bub/bye / It's O.K
. / You don't have to care / Really / Oh, oh really, I swear / No, no you owe me nothing / You owe nothing to me / And if I messed it up baby / Then, that's all up to me / And if you go / then, then I won't follow, no, no / `cos so many times I've been, I
've been thinking maybe, oh maybe I should / No, I, I'm gonna stay / I, I'm gonna make my way / Oh, I'm gonna get on through babe / I'm gonna make it all some day / Oh, time / of my life / no I think you came too soon / You came too soon then / Oh and it
could / it could be tonight / if I ever leave this room / (I never, I never leave this room, no) / Oh oh oh / I wasted all my time on all those stupid things that only get me down / Get down, oh / And the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this
town / So I'll leave this town / the sky / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / yeah I'm gonna leave this town / Time / is crying out tonight / for me to leave this town / So I'm gonna go yeah / I'm gonna go / Yeah / Bub/bye / I'm gonna le
ave this town / You're not gonna have me around / Oh / The sky and stars and God will never ever laugh / Me and stars and moon are falling down.
Well we were born within an hour of each other / Our mothers said we could be sister and brother / Your name is Deborah / De/bor/ah / It never suited you / And they said that when we grew up / we'd get married and never split up / Oh we never did it /
Although I often thought of it / Oh Deborah / do you recall? / Your house was very small / with wood/chip on the wall / When I came round to call / you didn't notice me at all / and I said: / "Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange when
we're all fully grown? / Be there two o'clock by the fountain down the road." / I never knew that you'd get married / I would be living down here on my own / on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago / You were the first girl at school to get breasts / a
nd Martyn said that you were the best / Oh / the boys all loved you / but I was a mess / I had to watch them try and get you undressed / We were friends and that's as far as it went / I used to walk you home sometimes but it meant / Oh / it meant nothing
to you / `cause you were so / popular / Deborah / do you recall? / Your house was very small / with wood/chip on the wall / When I came round to call / you didn't notice me at all / and I said: / "Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange w
hen we're all fully grown? / Be there two o'clock by the fountain down the road." / I never knew that you'd get married / I would be living down here on my own / on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago / Do it / Oh yeah / Oh yeah / And now it's all ove
r / You've paid your money and you've taken your choice / and I know we'll never meet again / But Deborah / I just wanted you to know I remember every single thing / Oh Deborah / do you recall? / Your house was very small / with wood/chip on the wall / Wh
en I came round to call / you didn't notice me at all / and I said: / "Let's all meet up in the year 2000 / Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown? / Be there two o'clock by the fountain down the road." / I never knew that you'd get married / I wo
uld be living down here on my own / on that damp and lonely Thursday years ago / Oh / what are you doing Sunday / baby? / Would you like to come and meet me / maybe? / You can even bring your baby / Ooh/ooh/ooh/ooh/ooh / What are you doing Sunday / baby?
/ Would you like to come and meet me / maybe? / You can even bring your baby / Ooh ooh/ooh/ooh/ooh / Ooh ooh/ooh/ooh/ooh ooh.
Mis/shapes / mistakes / misfits. Raised on a diet of broken biscuits / oh we don't look the same as you / we don't do the things you do / but we live around here too. Oh really. Mis/shapes / mistakes / misfits / we'd like to go to town but we can't ris
k it / oh 'coz they just want to keep us out. You could end up with a smash in the mouth / just for standing out. Oh really / brothers and sisters can't you see the future is owned by you and me. There won't be fighting in the street / they think they got
us beat / but revenge is going to be so sweet. We're making a move / we're making it now / we're coming out of the side/lines. Just put your hands up / it's a raid yeah. We want your homes / we want your lives / we want the things you won't allow us. We
won't use guns / we won't use bombs / we'll use the one thing we've got more of / that's our mind. Check your lucky numbers / that much money could drag you under / oh. What's the point of being rich if you can't think of what to do with it? 'Coz you're s
o bleeding thick. Oh we weren't supposed to be / we learnt to much at school and now we can help but see they future you've got mapped out is nothing much to shout about. We're making a move / we're making it now / we're coming out of the side/lines. Just
put your hands up / it's a raid yeah. We want your homes / we want your lives / we want the things you won't allow us. We won't use guns / we won't use bombs / we'll use the one thing we've got more of / that's our mind. And that's our minds / yeah.
Oh / is this the way they say the future's meant to feel / or just twenty thousand people standing in a field? / And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is / but that's O.K. `cos we're all sorted out for E's & wizz / And tell me when the sp
aceship lands `cos all this has just got to mean something / Ow / In the middle of the night / it feels all right but then tomorrow morning / oooh / oooh / then you come down / Oh / Oh yeah the pirate radio told us what was going down / Got the tickets fr
om some messed up bloke in Camden Town / Oh and no/one seems to know exactly where it is / but that's O.K. `cos we're all sorted out for E's & wizz / At four o'clock the normal world seems very / very / very far away / All right / In the middle of the nig
ht / it feels all right but then tomorrow morning / oooh / oooh / then you come down / Oh / Just keep on moving / Everybody asks your name / they say we're all the same / and now it's "Nice one!" / "Geezer!" / but that's as far as the conversation went /
I lost my friends / I danced alone / it's six o'clock / I wanna go home / but it's "No way!" / "Not today." / makes you wonder what it meant / Oh no / And this hollow feeling grows / and grows / and grows and grows / and you want to call your mother / and
say "Mother / I can never come home again / 'cos I seem to have left an important part of my brain / somewhere / somewhere / in a field / in Hampshire." / All right / In the middle of the night / it feels all right but then tomorrow morning / oooh / oooh
/ then you come down / Oooh / oooh / then you come down / Oooh / What if you never come down?
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 ... de
serted 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 girl
friend / 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 tonig
ht ... 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 s
hone 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!