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Strip
01:53
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Come under the light
I can look in your eye
Something mysterious
Lives deep inside
Shake out your hair
I want to see less
Slide out of your shoes
Take off your dress
Unpeel your skin
From each sweet curve
Divide your heart and
Unpick each nerve
Roll out your bones
And let them drop
Keep on stripping down
Please don’t stop
Unseal your cranium
Let me see you think
Your cerebellum
Tickled pink
Strip to the magic I
Strip to your soul
Show me what you got to show
You are the goal
Must have closed my eyes
Where did you go
Where the centre ought to be
Only an o
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Alien
04:05
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So I got this new idea - took root inside my ear
And settled down - made itself at home
It coloured all I saw - black and white and red and more
It gripped my mouth - hardened out my bones
Living inside me - growing inside me
Blood bud button in my brain forcing out a flower of pain
Living inside me - growing inside me
Ready to tear, ready to burst - something human, something cursed
It’s all beyond control - comes from deep inside my soul
This need to join - identify the hive
Sometimes it’s fun - sometimes it blackens the sun
With scattered blood - yeah, it’s ready to kill to live
Pick a side - you gotta pick a side
Wear your colours with a sense of pride
Choose a tribe - You gotta decide - It’s a rising tide - You gotta pick a side
And the glamour that binds to a football team
Is the same glue sticking to a fascist dream
The banners and flags by the execution pen
Breed passion and rapture in religious men
The woman who’s blind, the woman with sight
They both stop thinking cos they both know they’re right
The thing that moves already scars me
Looking through the bottom of a dark glass darkly
Pick a side - you gotta pick a side
Wear your colours with a sense of pride
Choose a tribe - you gotta decide
Float your faith on a rising tide - the time has come
And it’s growing inside - living inside
Float your faith on a rising tide
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Mouth and Trousers
04:05
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Every day at dinner she’s banging that drum
Not gonna do what her daddy done
She’s gonna live fast, take life on the run
Every day living in the sun
And every day at dinner he just gets mean
Doesn’t want to hear he’s a - has-been
Life seems simple when you’re seventeen, he says,
Mind your manners, keep it fucking clean
All mouth, all mouth and trousers
Take ‘em down a peg or two
All mouth, all mouth and trousers
You need a good talking to
All mouth, all mouth and trousers
Keep on talking til your face turns blue
All mouth, all mouth and trousers
Why should anybody listen to you?
Thirty years later she’s banging that drum
He mustn’t go and do what she went and done
He needs to work harder, he needs to knuckle down
He needs to start swimming or he’s gonna bloody drown
And every day at dinner he just gets mad
Doesn’t want to hear, he’s just a lad
She don’t understand, he says, she’s so bloody sad
Mind your bleeding business, you’re as bad as your dad
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Dark Horse
04:05
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Outside I’m the same
I say the same things people say
I play their simple games like naming faces, facing names
I turn the other way when fires start I’m not to blame
I throw the match away my fingers itching from the flame
I believe a dark horse is inside of me
The sense I make, the sense I make is make believe
A different kind of fantasy is burning me inside
Takes me for a ride
Image is the key
A way to hide a history
It sets my darkness free and keeps the past a mystery
Look and you will find symmetry in every line
Patterns in your mind forming gods and ghosts and signs
I believe a dark horse is inside of me
The sense I make, the sense I make is make believe
A different kind of fantasy is burning me inside
Takes me for a ride
And tells me to go
Get on with the show
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