The Black Album

Wait for the Blackout

Don't you ask me to come out
When the sun does shine
Let us stay here with curtains drawn
In darkness you'll be mine

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

Well, welcome to my basement flat
No windows to see through
With darkness closing in my friend
We'll both know what to do

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

Come lay with me upon the earth
That keeps us both alive
No living thing has lasted here
Yet we shall both survive

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

In darkness there is no sin
Light only brings the fear
Nothing to corrupt the eyes
There is no vision here

At first you may find it strange
But do not go away, the darkness
Holds the power that you won't
Find in the day

There is no vision here
There is no vision here

Lively Arts

I'm gonna stay in bed all day
I'm not gonna hear a word you say
It's gonna be a life of style for me
Electric blankets, pillows, fire, and T.V.

Take a look outside
Those lively arts are on the slide
And culture's just a bore
When you're angry, young & poor

And if I got my way
Those idle rich would pay
When the discussion starts
On the lively arts
I'm gonna be a lazy slob
Sod the folks and sod the job
And tell the foreman that I'm ill
And in a week I'll be here
Still, yes I will

Take a look outside
Those lively arts are on the slide
And culture's just a bore
When you're angry, young & poor

And if I got my way
Those idle rich would pay
When the discussion starts
On the lively arts

Silly Kids Games

I Just want my fortune now
I don't care when or where or how
I don't want the dustbin
Or the cuddly toy
I'm going for the jackpot
Boy oh boy oh boy

See me on the box
See me winning
Lots oh loot oh yeah
Silly kids games
Grabbing cash off that old coot
Oh yeah

Now I've got the replies to all
The questions there's just one thing
That I should mention
When I win all the loot
Don't you have no fear
I'm gonna take my hols in
Kampuchea yeah

And it's been a pleasure
Thanks a million
I hope you like the show
La la la la la la la

Drinking About My Baby

I was yours and you were mine
We were together all the time
We had sun and happy days
Living together in our lazy ways

Drinking about my baby
I'm drinking about her all the time
Drinkin 'bout my baby
Drinking about her all the time

I'm so happy to see you
You're so clever to come
I don't want to leave you
You're my special someone

Drinking 'bout my baby
I'm drinking about her all the time
Drinking 'bout my baby
Drinking about her all the time

I can see just where I am
Sitting in a lonely bar
One-arm bandits, friends of yours
Keep asking where you are

Drinking and thinking, Wo-oh
Drinking and thinking, Wo-oh
Drinking and thinking, Wo-oh

Twisted Nerve

I hear cries and whispers
In the night
But I know that I was
In the night
Hear the footsteps echo behind me as
I walk
People listening when I talk

No room for error
No room for mistakes
No time for friends
It's for your own sake
It's for your own sake
Go to the window
What do I see, killers
face looking at me
Go to the window and
What do I see...No room for feelings
Careless talk costs lives
Cold as the cold war front
The red star life
I see faces when when there's
No one there
Memories that
I don't need to share

Go to the window
What do I see
Go to the window
The killer is me
It's me, it's me

Twist and turns
Twisted nerve
Twist and turns
Twisted nerve

Hit or Miss

Met on the dance floor at the Palais de Dance
Feeling kind of lonely thought I'd take A chance
I never thought it would turn out like this
Another case of hit or miss
I gave you everything that
Money could buy
Things for your wardrobe
Things to get you high
I never wanted you to bring it back
I didn't see you stab me in the back

Another hit or miss
Another hit or miss
Another chance of hit or miss
Another hit or miss
Another hit or miss
And I was looking for a kiss

When you were fallen I put up with a lot
I took your cheating I took all you got
The sun was setting for what he had got
You took my money took the whole damn lot

Why does it always end like this
Why does it always end like this

Don't feel so beaten, don't feel so down
About the rumour's that you put around
I think I'll call this girl
Who lives nearby
Take her down have another try

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I'm normal outside
He's evil inside
I'm Dr. Jekyll and He's Mr. Hyde
I try to be true
He tries to be cruel
I'll hold you gently but
he'll smother you

My clothes will impress you
And my claws will undress you

I'm normal outside
He's evil inside
I'm Dr. Jerkily and He's Mr. Hide
I want what's right
He walks in the night
Searching for sin in his
Decadent life

My charms will beguile you and
My arms will defile you

Me, I'm on the side of the Angels
But the devil's my best friend
Sin is a way of life
Saints are for suckers
Welcome to the underworld
I start where nightmares end

Two for the price of one
Two for the price of, one?

Sick of This and That

I say
You're messing me around
You say
I'm getting out of hand

I'm sick of the country
Sick of the town
Sick of the future
It's getting me down

I say
The future's gonna last
And you say
There's nothing in the past

I'm sick of the government
Sick of the police
Sick of the boredom
I want release

I can call a strange event
I gave you nothing with my compliments
A discontent that efferents
An emptiness or nothingness
That's heaven sent

I'm sick of the country
Sick of the town
Sick of the future
It's getting me down

I say, and you say
I say, and you say
I say it's getting me down

History of the World Part 1

I just hit the ground boy, have I arrived
Tell the dinosaurs they just won't survive
So I fell and you just laughed you think
That I can't stand
To see me trip this way
You think I'm second hand

I have seen it all she's the only one
She belongs to me I'm the lonely one
Counting sheep and swatting flies you think
There's no more left
Talk is cheap how many lies sustain a
Single breath

Adam Chance and Zorro
Take them with a pinch of salt
Sad about tomorrow sorry
But it's not my fault
While they were shooting at the moon
Somebody croaked and no one heard but
What's a sin of two in the
History of the World.

Somebody said to me why'd you play so loud?
What do you want from me you corrupt The crowd
Miles of print you'd think we thought of nothing else
There's more important things than ink and decibels

Leave it to tomorrow
Corporal Clot and Stalingrad,they’re the ones to follow
they're the ones that make me glad

No one alive and no one left
Nobody cares or ain't you heard
Looks like I'll take my dying Breath
In the history of the world

13th Floor Vendetta

The organ play till midnight on
Maldine Square tonight
The dancer's dance with a fever
And delight
His brow is tense
But his hands never shake
Revenge has come sweetly
And death is his mate

The organ plats till midnight
Note perfect like clockwork
Perfect precise and a slave
To the Master's demands

Two souls locked together
For all eternity
Soon to be one
Our work is nearly over
But who is the victim?
And who is the innocent?

The organ plays till midnight
Note perfect like clockwork
Perfect precise and a slave
To the Master's demands

Therapy

Therapy plug me in straight again
Who needs this voltage food?
Who needs therapy?
Who needs this filthy room at night
Who says give up without a night
Who gets their answers out of books
Dirty men with their dirty looks

Therapy for clones with their Barclaycards
Pension books and mortgage minds
Pay for this therapy

That do you need in your
Room at night?
Therapy?
That's right!
What do you get when you
Kill the light?
Therapy?
That's right!
What do you want when it all
Goes wrong?
Therapy?
That's right!
Who needs therapy all night
Long?
I doI dream of pavement
Pavements cold and gray
Cheerful and laughter
On a lovely day
I dream of pavements
They won't go away
I dream of pavements

Curtain Call

Can you taste the grit
Between your teeth
The heat of the lights
The crack of the whip
The snapping sound of someone's nerves
If you pay, you get what you deserve

We're coming up from the deep
The lizard sheds its skin
Night obliterates the day
And all the fun begins
Shadow boxing with yourself
Just seems to get you nowhere
You don't want to cheat when
Playing solitaire

Three faces come alive
Try and focus and be one
Never let it be said that
The jester comes undone
A wreckless gambling pace
With time enough to borrow
Time enough to measure
All of our tomorrows

Curtain call and lights grow dim
Tragedy, love all lie within
Each player takes his chance to play
And lives to fight another day

What boundaries to cross
What chances for the taking
Stepping in the angels wake
Not to be forsaken

No more will I roam
Our childish dreams are
soon outgrow
But here we stand
In our theatreland
Curtain Call
About to fall