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Mulder and Scully

I'd rather be liberated. I find myself captivated
I'd rather stay bold and lonely. I dream I'm your one and only
Stop doing what you...
Keep doing it too...
I'd rather be jumping ship. I find myself jumping straight in
Forever be dozy and dim. I wake myself thinking of him
Stop doing what you...
Keep doing it too...
Things are getting strange. I'm starting to worry
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully
Things are getting strange, now I can't sleep alone
My bed is made for two and there's nothing I can do
So tell me something I don't know.
If my head is full of you, is there nothing I can do?
Must we all march in two by two by two?
And as for some happy ending. I'd rather stay single and thin
Stop doing what you...
Keep doing it too...
Things are getting strange I'm starting to worry
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully
Things are getting strange now I can't sleep alone...here

Game On

You know the time to act is now
Before the sands of time run out
I know that I could never
Fall from grace I'm far to clever
I will achieve my destiny
My stars ascend a certainty
I know that I could never
Fall from grace I'm far too clever
Boy sees, boy takes, boy hooked
And the subjects closed
Worst case scenario becomes real
I don't show
No clever clevers can dissuade
From tougher substance I was made
I know that I could never
Fall from grace I'm far too clever
Boy sees, boy takes, boy hooked
And the subjects closed
Worst case scenario becomes real
I don't show
You know the time to act is now

I Am The Mob

I put horse's heads in people's beds
Cause I am the mob
When duty calls, gonna bust some balls
Cause I am the mob
Don't try and tell me it's not one for the money,
two for the money, three for the money
Am I your Easter bunny?
Come on
I try my level best, my best to please
But I'm gonna put a bullet between your knees
Baby come on, oh just tell them
Stop blowing the Don, put his keks back on
Cause I am the mob
Stop mucking around with a brand new sound
Cause I am the mob
Don't try and tell me it's not one for the money,
two for the money, three for the money
Am I your Easter bunny?
Come on
I try my level best, my best to please
But I'm gonna put a bullet between your knees
Baby come on, oh just tell them
That Luca Brasi ah, he sleeps with the fishes
Missus
I am the mob

Road Rage

If all you've got to do today is find your peace of mind
Come round
You can take a piece of mine
If all you've got to do today is hesitate
Come here, you can leave it late with me
You could be taking it easy on yourself
You should be making it easy on yourself
Cos you know, its all over the front page
You give me road rage
Racing through the best days
And it's you boy driving me crazy
Thinking you may be losing your mind
If all you've got to prove today is your innocence.
Calm down, you're as guilty as can be
If all you've got to lose alludes to yesterday.
Yesterday's through.
Now do anything you please
You could be taking it easy on yourself
You should be making it easy on yourself
Cos you know, its all over the front page
You give me road rage
Racing through the best days
And it's you boy driving me crazy
Thinking you may be losing your mind
Space age, road rage, fast lane, minimum wage
Home late, upgrade, short-changed, golden age
Front page, lose face, handmade, space ache
Backstage, outraged, disgraced, maximum weight

Johnny Come Lately

I'm sorry you couldn't make it
You could have seen him, so weathered and dated
He was a Johnny come lately
And I know that you would hate him
If you'd seen his botanical leanings
First prize exhibit and all down to good spirit
He was a Johnny come lately
And I know that you would hate me
If I envied the things that he spoke of
How I envied the things that he thought of
He was a Johnny come lately
And I know that you would hate me
If I told you that I made some time and stayed behind
To find out hoe to make a garden grow
Where the sun no longer shines
If I asked too many questions and stayed behind
To find out how to make a garden grow
But he never ever gave away the secret of this godforsaken soil
He didn't need us, just tempted and teased us
You could have been here, wishing you were here
This was a Johnny come lately
And I know that you would hate me
He was a Johnny come lately
And I know that you would hate me
If I told you that I made some time and stayed behind
To find out hoe to make a garden grow
Where the sun no longer shines
He assured me that the seeds you sold were sound
But I must have cast them all on stony ground
And now the sun won't shine
I must have asked too many questions
And stayed behind to find out how to make a garden grow
But he never ever gave away the secret of this godforsaken soil

Goldfish and Paracetamol

A dead loss, no songs
No fun, just glum
Lying next to someone
Don't mention the war
So don't question where we stand
Or where we fall
North, South, East where's best?
If I head left
It turns out directionless
And needle point aside
I always find
Embroidery leaves me blind
'cos I'm too weary to rest
Since I noticed
Coming second best is close to ideal
What fools boredom breeds
So much to do
So many goldfish to feed
And Paracetamol
I take them all
They line my stomach wall
With customary thirst
I search a water glass
But gin hits first
Oh don't believe the hype
Expectancy will always spoil a party
It's tourniquet by crochet
My waters break
Don't drive for pity's sake
'cos I'm too weary to rest
Since I noticed
Coming second best
Is close to ideal

International Velvet

Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y gan
dwfn yw'r gwendid
bychan yw y fflam
Creulon yw'r cynhaeaf
ond per yw'r don
'Da' alaw'r alarchunig
yn fy mron
Every day when I wake up
I thank the lord I'm welsh
Darganfyddais gwir baradwys Rhyl
Gweledd o fedd gynhhyrfodd Cymraes swil
Every day when I wake up
I thank the lord I'm welsh

Why I Can't Stand One Night Stands

You're adamant
So loose limbered I give in
Although your bed is warm
The worn springs creak of regret
And lust is the thief who crept away
While we were sleeping
Now you're doing my head in
The lines, the blinds are drawn
We are intimate strangers
I'm reborn; it's a false dawn
Where we've been, I forget
And Saturday's fuss is just small town lust
It's me I'm cheating
Now you're doing my head in

Part Of The Furniture

I'll be your Baba Papa
I'll be your Baba Papa
If you'll be a Baba Papa to me
I'd be your table and chair
Philippe stark or Bill Amberg
If you'll be a Baba Papa to me
And I'd be your angel
Ride you until you're warmer
Be your cradle
Swing you until you fall
I'd be your son and your heir
Destitute but debonair
Though ill advised and ill in debt
I'd never be drained or misled
I saw your dreams and infatuated
With this freedom
You say the words and I could be them
And I'd be your angel
Ride you until you're warmer
Be your cradle
Swing you until you're tired out

Don't Need The Sunshine

Well it's a most peculiar feeling
Like sunburn in the evening
With dark clouds on their way
And you think it's most unlikely
Life could ever shine as brightly
Once the sun has gone down and the pressure's on
And the rain is here again
But you don't need the sunshine
Don't need the good times
Don't need anyone's giving
And I don't mind your lies so keep on talking
Do you find the change in season?
Affects you without reason
You've greetings but nothing more to say
And you swear you'd feel much better
If only summer'd last forever
But the sky is clear and you're nowhere near
And the rain is here again
But you don't need the sunshine
Don't need the good times
Lean on me maybe you could see it through
If you would only believe a single word is true
But you don't need the sunshine
Don't need the good times
Don't need anything anyone's giving
And I don't your lies so keep on talking
I throw away my sunshines
My so-called lifelines
Do you know what I mean?
When I decided that the answer
Could not be bought across the river
My sista dista had left for good
Now the rain has gone away
But you don't need the sunshine
Don't need the good times
Don't need anything anyone's giving
And I don't mind your lies so keep on talking

Strange Glue

It was strange glue that held us together
While we both came apart at the seams
She said your place or mine
While we've still got the time
So I played along with her schemes
But I don't have the right to be with you tonight
So please leave me alone with no saviour
I will sleep safe and sound with nobody around me
When faced with my demons
I clothe them and feed them
And I smile, yes I smile
As they're taking me over
And if I cannot sleep
For the secrets I keep
It's the price I'm willing to meet
Oh the end of the night
Never comes too quickly for me

My Selfish Gene

You, me and destiny
Guess that it was never meant to be
All you did was give me allergy
I'm not looking for your sympathy
My selfish gene
It fills my spleen with bile
And all the while
I thought you gave a damn
You, me and destiny
I am courted by uncertainty
Lost my will to live life unselfishly
Altruism stinks of fallacy
My selfish gene
It fills my spleen with bile
And all the while
I thought you gave a damn