Lyrics - Performance and Cocktails: Stereophonics @ WelshBands
roll up and shine
why don?t you take a look in my mouth
why don?t you take a look at yourself
so why don?t you take a look around
so why don?t we take a look inside
roll out the shock parade
free falling from a stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine
i hang the devil from a circus wire
face up seats four in love spittin fire
so why don?t you take a look around
so why don?t we take a look inside
it?s time to live it?s time to love
it?s time to do what?s afraid of
it?s time to breathe time to relieve
it?s time to shine
so why don?t you take a look around
so why don?t we take a look inside
roll out the shock parade
free falling from a stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine
bring on your shock parade
freaks falling from the stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine
the bartender and the thief
when you think about it he's watching every word you say hey dazed
and when he's sussed you out he calls her up and out she comes and
hustles us
long digging gone fishing love drinking
the bartender and the thief are lovers steal what they need like
sisters and brothers met in a church a night to remember robbing the
graves of bodies dismembered
he watched the lesbian talk she kissed and groped but mostly talked
in lust crushed he couldn't make the call his eyes were gripped on
licking tongues enough's enough failed for once
long digging gone fishing love drinking
the bartender and the thief are lovers
steal what they need like sisters and brothers met in a church a
night to remember robbing the graves of bodies dismembered saved what
they stole to meet at the altar place where they first set eyes on
each other flew to the sun to start life all over set up a bar and
robbed all the locals
hurry up and wait
we wait to wake to get a ride in the rain buy a ticket they can check
we can claim so we don't spend what's our own for a seat a place to
stop a green light a red cross they run around naked doing old things
like the ones before
wait for a break so you can take a little something that'll make your
next break come a little quicker than the ones before wait for an
answer spy a sweet dancer as she walks from the door of the hall wish
you waited for your wedding vows
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
we wait to get warm the car starts from cold stall to make a first
move magazines make the rules to make us lose wait for your dream man
the house you could both plan the car in the sales ad the wet dream
with a man you wished that you had
a watched pot never boils sugar second to dissolve see your appetite
lost foods relevance is lost in mind
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
so join the queue me and you wait in line it takes our time to be
satisfied
pick a part that's new
i've never been here before didn't know where to go never met you
before i've never been to your home that smells not unknown foot
steps made of stone walking feels familiar
you can do all the things that you like to do all around underground
pick a part that's new you can do all the things that you like to do
all around upside down pick a part that's new
people drinking on their own push buttons on the phone was i here
once before is that my voice on the phone that last drink on my own
did i ever leave at all confusions familiar
so what's new to you
just looking
there's things i want there's things i think i want there's things i
have there's things i wanna have do i want the dreams the ones were
forced to see
do i want the perfect wife but perfect ain't quite right shopping
every day take it back the next break they say the more you fly the
more you risk your life
i'm just looking i'm not buying i'm just looking keeps me smiling
a house i seen another coulda' been you drenched my head and said
what i said you said that life is what you make of it yet most of us
just fake
i'm just looking i'm not buying
i'm just looking keeps me smiling
half the lies you tell ain't true
you could lick or chew tongue in style tonight champagne drag queen
suit pinstripe outta line it's time to try how blisters on your feet
blisters up your spine if i could choose from two i'd mime to be a
smile
but when you rely on a lie that?s true and no one believes in the
things you do 'cause half of the lies you tell ain't true i'm gonna
find out i'm gonna find a piece of you
you could pick and lose diesel dreams for crime i should win and
choose colours undersize a naked fake that's a face that fits for two
sex brings out the spies hanging from your feet hollywood star style
but when you rely on a lie that?s true and no one believes in the
things you do 'cause half of the lies you tell ain't true i'm gonna
find out i'm gonna find a piece of you
i wouldn't believe your radio
travelling through a tunnel under sea you never know if it cracks in
half you're never ever gonna see me
but you can have it all if you like you can have it all if you like
and you can pay for it the rest of your life... life
i wouldn't believe your wireless radio if i had myself a flying
giraffe you'd have one in a box with a window
but you can have it all if you like you can have it all if you like
and you can pay for it the rest of your life... life
life in the summers on it's back you have to agree that that's the
crack so take what you want i'm not comin' back
t-shirt suntan
he was walking round to you one said french afternoon so he called in
to a shop for two he bought himself an ice drink a totally tropical
nice drink then he saw what he thought was you in a room he thought
about goin' over but you were always much older and your sex dressed
breasts impressed too he'd really like to get it together before the
twelfth of never so he's coming over
it's when all the phases come around the clothes you wear the sex and
love it's enough for the time outta touch out of luck
he always liked them older so that his top lip touched on her
shoulder lionized undisguised kill for you like to show you his
t-shirt suntan love to show you his minute head stand then a gun spun
open
from you to me to me to you
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
it's another week to get through the day picking up ripped cigarette
boxes hoping that one remains
yellow lucky day suck deep and bathe for the next ten minutes spent
coughing all the pleasures craved
write down all the things that you'd like to say write down all the
things that you'd like to change write down all the places you'd like
to stay write down anything that you want
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
is nothin' gonna change the way?
cracked rock top wall left the ash to fall left alone to wait i've
never looked at things i've liked only things i hate
you're not the first today not the softest face was there any that
you liked was there any that you didn't fake?
write down all the things that you'd like to say write down all the
things that you'd like to change write down all the places you'd like
to stay write down anything that you want
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
is nothin' gonna change the way?
because everything that's you and the things that you like to do and
all of the things that are come back again come back again
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
a minute longer
they're calling out come on lets go but i'm miles away to a year
before laughs from the glass drank to the past on the old green seat
like velvet to the hand
think i'd like to stay a minute longer
would you like to stay a minute longer?
last one for some sick from the rum i played golf on the carpet with
someone crash back to date few things i hate but i'd rather us live
in the present day
she takes her clothes off
she's got another fantasy she lives in flat number twenty three
picked first prize for carnival queen and now she takes her clothes off
collects the covers off her magazines she longs to be another teenage
dream the problem is she's turning forty-three she still takes her
clothes off
she got the nick name porta bubble joan they found her dead as nails
at home and she said i'm gonna be another marilyn bleach my hair and
get real thin and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me
she loved to have her little fantasies she longed to be the wife of
jimmy dean but jimmys head sits in jimmys knees she loves to take her
clothes off
police are looking round at twenty-three they found her hanging from
her swollen feet they saw her dance last in woolworth street she
loved to take her clothes off
she got the nick name porta bubble joan they found her dead as nails
at home and she said i'm gonna be another marilyn bleach my hair and
get real thin and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me
everybody wants to be the carnival queen everybody wants to be the
carnival king or queen we all read the books she takes her clothes off
plastic california
plastic california looks like blackpool outta date
some love some hate
it's all your competition it's not my occupation true but it's what
you do
some love some hate
i like pink architecture flip back my red strip deck chair prove we
got nothing to prove
gin stroke amnesia problem overhearing talk of hollywood we wish we
could we should
some love some hate
it's a beautiful place for nature and all the beautiful people make
it true but you look good as you
some love and some hate
makes me feel great i feel new d'ya feel new ha, ha well i'm pleased
to meet you
i stopped to fill my car up
i stopped to fill my car up the car felt good that day i didn't know
where i was going but it felt good for a change
a five and a pocket full of silver i paid the lady no change and then
it started to piss down i started driving again
and then i looked up and looked in the mirror behind me
a man round forty in the backseat he must have stepped in when i was
empty so why's he sat there just waiting likely to smash my face in
he had a bag full of money he said just drive me away i didn't know
where i was going but it felt good to be strange
and still i looked up and looked in the mirror behind me
curiosity is over stepped down from the car he pulled a gun from his
jacket said i was going to die
it gives me so much satisfaction to watch you beg and cry well i just
made up this story to get your attention makes me smile
i never looked up and looked in the mirror behind me