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‘Golden Syrup’ Lyrics
1 Miracle Candle
I’m living in a haunted house! (yeah I hear the dripping tap). Them spooks is trying to run me out (yeah while the music’s still playing). They hit me with a gag order (yeah but I’m not finished speaking). They’ll remember everything I’ve done, (I never looked behind my back). Remember everything I’ve done (I never look behind my back)
Say “Welcome to the bedroom now, boy!” (Ich haben eine wunder kerze). “Your life is going to take a turn boy” (Für sie im auge stoβen). I get my miracle candle out now, (Ja, my emergency weapon). And I poke you in the eye! (I never covered up my tracks). I poke you in the eye! (I never covered up my tracks)
2 Golden Syrup
Your room is dark, it’s a lonely place. Your body’s warm but I’m away trying to trace how to Lugosi-ate the days, rarely seen until it’s late these days. Did I go this far into the coal shed before? Give me golden syrup, has the sweet gone sour?
Open up the tin, something’s coming out. No sweetly turning in, Samson’s on the ground!
Calm me down, ‘cause I don’t need to calibrate our love so constantly. That train before is still running now, impervious to those nagging doubts. But taken up, while I’m talking loud, to the sweetest church? I don’t see how.
I’ve opened up the tin and nothing’s coming out. Wipe away your grin, our hero’s on the ground!
Open up the tin, something’s coming out. Someone’s on the ground, someone’s on the ground
3 Seen Me Blue
I’ve got to try much harder not to break the little chance I have, the chance I have with you, baby. And I don’t mean to say I couldn’t have had nothing if I had- if I hadn’t been there right then. I want to take it to the end
You never seen me so happy baby. You never see me try to get, to get away
I don’t think I really explained- you never seen me so happy, babe. You never seen me, seen me blue
I want to break the mould but I’m starting to feel much older, older than I need to be, you’ve got to see. I’ll paint it on the wall babe!
4 Snog Marry Avenge
Oh you’ve had a lot of spit in your eyes, but I can see this time you really tried. You really tried, makes me cry
Oh we’ve been over and over so many times. Oh, but I like that you could stare me out tonight. I’ve got nothing in my bank and I hope I never have nothing.
Oh I want to venture a word to the weary ones. You’ve got to watch out for too many harsh words, watch out for too many harsh words, train your eyes, beware the unsympathetic ones.
5 Broken Up Now
Everyone’s broken up now, everyone! What’s going to happen to us? I never thought. I lost you on the outside. I lost you out there. I never thought
Heroes on the ground. Who’s going to pick them up now?
And everyone’s broken up now, everyone. Who’s going to pick them up now?
6 Gouge
It’s true you know, the things you decline to say. It must be true, I see it gouge out my friends’ eyes. I know that it’s not something you mean to do but there again, I know you’re aware of it too.
Neglectfulness of your only true duty: To love her; to love him. Go without it (think about it) for about a year, then wait for it to come right back to you again, and then some.
7 Contact Sports
Chance, you know it played its part, I must have been a sport at that time. The view from Mersault’s sunny day swept the miles away between us two.
Oh, it became a contact sport and the fevers wrought will never stay. Look out- your brother’s sitting on the sofa, he’s safe. His sister’s sofa, safe- it isn’t you!
You make a lot, make it on your own, you make a lot, make it on your own.
8 Strawberry Dog
Love, I’m chained to the centre of the piece. Love, I’m chained to the seat.
Love, I needed you when you came to stay. I was feeling numb that very day. Love, I’m chained to the centre of the piece. Love, I’m chained to the seat. I haven’t dropped the bottle in a very long time and I’ve got a lot of love for the deep.
I could fish and bathe and dress in light, but I’m bound to serve this Vathekian night.
(All that you ignore and miss out on will be counted eventually, oh, at the end of it all)
9 I Don’t Remember
We’ve got to get that loving feeling, that righteous feeling. Or else look at us, we look so selfish, both of us
It’s not what I wanted, I can’t go a day without thinking about it. Oh, I’m haunted, and yet I’m still not speaking. Say nothing.
This is not an embrace, as the sweat turns on my skin. If we can’t communicate I can’t follow you back in.
We could have it all the time, we could have it all the time, we could have it all the time, but instead, we’re breaking each other’s hearts.
And then, for a long time, everything’s alright. And you know I feel it’s really, really you
10 Still In School
Don’t you be so touchy all the time. Don’t you know you’ve got a body and a mind?
Yes, I want to hurt you, but I’m a fool. I Still want to hurt you, I’m still in school.
Yes, I still want to hurt you, I’m a fool. Hurt you…
‘You Look Cold’ Lyrics
1 Not Leaving Town
Hang around, we’re not leaving town.
Don’t be down, we want you around.
Hang around, we’re not leaving town.
2 Coat to Wear
Baby, you are rubbed down like a piece of chalk.
Your hair is a mess, your eyes dart around like you’re waiting for a bus
To where? To where?
Baby, wipe away the snow from your face
Baby, walk away slow from the cliff face.
Baby, you look cold, please let me give you a coat to wear
To wear, to wear.
3 Wintertime’s Doll
You’re Wintertime’s doll, your highs and then your lows,
I was sliding from your toes
You thought the tapestry you’d woven gone
Here lie those who mourn for far too long,
Your nose has run into this song
Before I rode home, I slipped a ball of yarn onto your tongue
Vodka burns on, Vodka burns on
4 Finds You
He’s alone, he’s a little boy x4
But when he finds you-
I don’t know x4
I’m really not being drawn into this painting
It’s all quiet, it’s alright, I’m leaving
But when i find you-
He’s alone, he’s a little boy x4
But when he finds you-
5 Multipass
I know you can’t feel me, you can’t feel my hand under your boot
You’re not going to steal me, I won’t let you seal my servitude
You can’t even see me, I can’t love you from this position
You’re not going to steal me, I won’t let you seal my servitude
6 Wonder
Wonder, wonder x2
Have I won, red button under my thumb?
Have I won? There’s always something wrong.
Excitement, will you ever return? x2
In your purest form, tagging me along
Daggers drawn, lying on the stone
Trust in love x4
7 He Has to Sleep Sometime
I got stopped at the second turn after the station
I was making my way back home
I got stopped at the second turn
He pulled me over, said “You never seem to learn my son”
Get out of the car, sir
He took me away to meet some friends of mine
Every time I spoke, I stammered so I couldn’t deny my crime
They took me to the cells, I could smell the grime
The boys just winked at me and said “He has to fall asleep sometime”
I must admit it was fun
I had a really good time
I must admit it was fun
8 The Devils of Loudun
9 Until I Get Paid
Until I get paid, until I get paid I will sit down here with you
And when I get paid, and when I get paid, I don’t know, but I’m sure we can find better things to do
I don’t want to see you doing what you do because you don’t want to find out if it’s possible for you
Sad, isn’t it? No?
10 Blue Eyes
You’re not a million miles away, you’re not afraid of the sea
Blue eyes, blue eyes, come to me
You’re just clambering on top for a while,
Blue eyes, blue eyes, when you smile
You’re just clambering on top for a while.
Oh I trust you much more now that you’ve been travelling around
Blue eyes, blue eyes, blue eyes, who’d have thought of such a sweet disguise?
Blue eyes, blue eyes, they split the skies!
Oh blue eyes….
11 I am Eustace
I sat, coked up, on the stairs, perfecting this penetrating stare
I sat and stared at this girl, I was about to make a fool of myself
But then the mirror fell
I am Eustace, I am Pinocchio and all of heaven knows.
But I’ve seen a side of me I never thought I’d see,
I cannot let it go.
12 Look, I Wore a Tie!
Don’t worry what to write, I’m going to be your underline.
I’m going to be your ticket to ride
Don’t root around inside, I’m going to be your alibi without having to lie.
Look, I wore a tie! I’m going to be your Clark Kent, your shy guy.
‘Cos, Ceara, I haven’t cried in what is, for me, a long time.
13 Boy named Suzie Q (hidden track)
You go away for the weekend with your parents and your little sister
But all the others have gone to Peter’s ‘cos his parents are away in Mauritius
You do your hair back like Gene Vincent, spend all Friday trying to take your jeans in
But it looks shit, ‘cos they’re from Dunnes, does anyone appreciate it, you’re the only one.
In the car, your sister stands on your foot so you hit her in the head and you tell her she’s too fat
And all weekend long you go looking for a girlfriend while Dad and Mum are swimming in the shallow end
You buy a snorkel, you buy a badge, you buy a porn mag, hide it from your Dad
Go back to school, playing soccer in the rain, an accidental football in the stomach again.
You’re a boy named Suzie Q
Lyrics from School Tour/Patrick Kelleher split cassette
1 This Sporting Life
It’s a ball, spider on the wall, you’re mining for hope and you’ve got fuck all, she’s a
Minor chord, a sermon on the scoreboard, smokestack curves she’s a curse from the lord, but
“Hold your tongue, eh up lad, ain’t she the one that’s got you raving bloody mad”
Don’t wonder what you did as if you listen to the media, you wrote it all down as she was moving to the beat of you
Dusty grate and soda bread eyes, plays to her strength and she knows about guys so you
Take off her clothes, ‘show her what she is’, what kind of game plan put you up to this, so you
Roll over and let her through, wait for her to read you but she hasn’t got a clue, you get
Farther, and farther, and farther and farther
And you can’t convert it anymore
2 This Room
“I want to cry I want to cry, I don’t feel worse than anyone else in this room.
I want to love, why can’t I love? I don’t feel worse than anyone else in this room.
Put me down, Put me down, I don’t feel worse than anyone else in this room.
Bring out your dead, leave me alone, I don’t feel worse than anyone else in this room.
I want to sleep and when I dream I want to read the book and shed skin and go up like a scream
I want to wake and when I wake I’ll have no hate and then the leaves believe that I am a rake
And now it’s gone, it’s gone and this is where there’s no fun
So be a friend, eternal wind, and let me in
I’ll tell all my loved ones it’s ok, After all, my loved one, it’s ok
3 I’m Alive
I don’t look up to you, I don’t look down to you
I don’t look anywhere, I’m trying to keep it rare, I don’t look anywhere
I’m loving all the time, I just can’t get it right, I’m loving all the time
Now I’m standing ever so, I’m alive though you wouldn’t know, I’m standing ever so
I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive
You can blush until you burn, I’ll wait until you’ve learned, you can blush until you burn
But I’m looking after you right inside my head, I’m looking after you
Don’t know how you would survive going for a ride
And I will be back soon
Be swinging from the moon, as I usually do
And there will be times when you can see
I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive
4 Tiny Tim Brought Back a Jetpack
