Punk Britannia at the BBC

# I saw you out the other night

# I saw somebody hold you tight

# Roxette

# I wondered who it could be

# It was so dark I couldn't see But I know wasn't me

# When I tell you it ain't right I know you've got to agree

# I followed you into a show

# The band was playing rock 'n' roll

# Roxette

# I didn't need to seek you out

# The music played so loud I could hear you through the crowd

# You was telling everyone About a new guy you'd found

# You know what you said, baby You shouldn't have done it, y'know

# I'm going to get a little mad with you

# Roxette, I gotta go away

# And leave you for a couple of days

# But Roxette

# I don't want no more of your tricks

# I'm gonna get some concrete mix

# And fill your back door up with bricks

# And you'd better be there waiting when I get my business fixed... #

You better be there waiting, baby, when I get back.

Gimme, dig.

Yeah.

HARMONICA PLAYS

APPLAUSE

# I'm gonna break out of this city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure is the type of life to find

# Tired of doing day jobs

# With no thanks for what I do

# I'm sure I must be someone

# Now I'm gonna find out who

# Why don't you ask them what they expect from you?

# Why don't you tell them what you are gonna do?

# You'll get so lonely

# Maybe it's better that way

# It ain't you only

# You got something to say

# Do anything you wanna do

# Do anything you wanna do

# Don't need no politician tell me things I shouldn't be

# Neither no optician tell me what I oughta see

# No-one tells you nothing even when you know they know

# But they tell you what you should do

# They don't like to see you grow

# Why don't you ask them what they expect from you?

# Why don't you tell them what you are gonna do?

# You'll get so lonely

# Maybe it's better that way

# It ain't you only

# You got something to say

# Do anything you wanna do

# Do anything you wanna do

# Gonna break out of this city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure is the type of life to find

# Tired of doing day jobs

# With no thanks for what I do

# I'm sure I must be someone

# Now I'm gonna find out who

# Why don't you ask them what they expect from you?

# Why don't you tell them what you are gonna do...? #

APPLAUSE

# There's no point in asking

# You'll get no reply

# Oh, just remember I don't decide

# I got no reason It's all too much

# You'll always find us

# Out to lunch

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Don't ask us to attend

# Cos we're not all there

# Oh, don't pretend cos I don't care

# I don't believe illusions Too much is for real

# Stop your cheap comment

# Cos we know what we feel

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Oh we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# But now And we don't care

# There's no point in asking You'll get no reply

# I just remembered I don't decide

# I got no reason It's all too much

# You'll always find me

# Out to lunch

# We're out at lunch

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# Vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# We're vacant

# Oh, we're so pretty Oh, so pretty

# But now And we don't care

# We're pretty Pretty vacant

# We're pretty Pretty vacant

# We're pretty Pretty vacant

# We're pretty Pretty vacant

# And we don't care. #

APPLAUSE

# Trying to forget your generation

# Using all the way I see

# The end must justify the means

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Might take a bit of violence

# But only violence ain't our stance

# Might make our friends enemies

# But we gotta take that chance

# There ain't no time for substitutes

# There ain't no time for idle threats

# Actions are rather hard to place

# Cos what you give is what you get

# Your generation

# It's your generation

# Well it's your generation

# It's your generation

# Trying to forget your generation

# Using all the way I see

# The end must justify the means

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Your generation don't mean a thing to me

# Might take a bit of violence

# But only violence ain't our stance

# Might make our friends enemies

# But we gotta take that chance

# There ain't no time for substitutes

# There ain't no time for idle threats

# Actions are rather hard to place

# Cos what you give is what you get

# Your generation

# It's your generation

# Well it's your generation

# It's your generation

# The end

# Justify the means

# The end

# Justify the means

# Time for generation. #

APPLAUSE

# I'm lying in the hospital I'm pinned against the bed

# A stethoscope upon my heart A hand against my head

# They're peeling off the bandages I'm wincing in the light

# The nurse is looking anxious And she's quivering with fright

# I'm looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# The doctors are avoiding me My vision is confused

# I listen to my earphones And I catch the evening news

# A murderer's been killed And he donates his sight to science

# I'm locked into a private ward I realize that I must be

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# I smash the light in anger Push my bed against the door

# I close my lids across the eyes And wish to see no more

# The eye receives the messages And sends them to the brain

# No guarantee the stimuli Must be perceived the same

# When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes

# Gary don't need his eyes to see

# Gary and his eyes have parted company-y-y. #

APPLAUSE

# Whatever happened to all of the heroes?

# All the Shakespearoes?

# They watched their Rome burn

# Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky?

# He got an ice pick

# That made his ears burn

# Whatever happened to the heroes?

# Whatever happened to the heroes?

# Whatever happened to dear old Lenin?

# The great Elmyra, and Sancho Panza?

# Whatever happened to the heroes?

# Whatever happened to the heroes?

# No more heroes any more

# No more heroes any more

# Whatever happened to all the heroes...? #

# An' I want to move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only want to knock us

# Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers

# See the rate they come down the escalator

# Now listen to the tube train accelerator

# Then you realise that you got to have a purpose

# Or this place is gonna knock you out sooner or later

# So don't complain about your useless employment

# Jack it in forever tonight

# Or shut your mouth and pretend you enjoy it

# Think of all the money you've got

# An' I want to liquefy everybody gone dry

# Plug into the aerials that poke up in the sky

# Burn down the suburbs with half-closed eyes

# You won't succeed unless you try

# So don't complain about your useless employment

# Jack it in forever tonight

# Or shut your mouth and pretend you enjoy it

# Think of all the money you've got

# Yeah, yeah

# Wanna move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only want to knock us

# Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers

# You owe me a move say the bells of St. Groove

# Come on and show me say the bells of Old Bowie

# When I am fitter say the bells of Gary Glitter

# No one but you and I say the bells of Prince Far-I

# No one but you and I say the bells of Prince Far-I

# An' I want to move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only want to knock us

# Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers

# Rock rock clash city rockers

# Rock rock clash city rockers

# Rock rock clash city rockers

# Rock rock clash city rockers... #

# Feeling like I'm almost sixteen again

# Layin' round doing nothing like all my friends

# Play it cool don't get angry count up to ten

# Just like I was sixteen again

# No one gets the lowdown right from the start

# Everybody gets the showdown right from the heart

# But that's all that's on the menu and life's a la carte

# I don't know

# Things in life are not played for keeps

# If it makes you happy it'll make you weep

# And if you want some more practical advice

# If you can't think once then don't think twice

# Cos things won't seem so nice

# You'll wish you were sixteen again

# Oh no

# Feeling rather strange when you're sixteen again

# Things don't seem the same the past is so plain

# This future is our future this time's not a game

# The time you're sixteen again

# Always on your own when there's nobody else

# Asking myself would I be someone else

# But after all life's only death's recompense

# I don't know

# Things in life are not played for keeps

# If it makes you happy it'll make you weep

# And if you want some more practical advice

# If you can't think once then don't think twice

# Cos things won't seem so nice

# You'll wish you were sixteen again

# Oh no

# Things in life are not played for keeps

# If it makes you happy it'll make you weep

# And if you want some more practical advice

# If you can't think once then don't think twice

# Cos things won't seem so nice

# You'll wish you were sixteen again

# Oh no

# Feeling rather strange when you're sixteen again

# Things don't seem the same the past is so plain

# This future is our future this time's not a game

# The time you're sixteen again

# Always on your own when there's nobody else

# Asking myself would I be someone else

# But after all life's only death's recompense

# I don't know

# Look at me here I am for your eyes

# Mirrored proof of what you recognise

# I know I never will feel quite like you

# And I know you won't treat me right till I do

# But at least we'll know it's true

# That I'm sixteen again

# Oh no

# Sixteen again

# Sixteen again. #

# This and that, they must be the same

# What is legal is just what's real

# What I'm given to understand

# Is exactly what I steal

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# Wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot by both sides

# On the run to the outside of everything

# Shot by both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding

# New offences always in my nerves

# They're taking my time by force

# They have to rewrite all the books again

# As a matter of course

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# Wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I was shocked to find what was allowed

# I didn't lose myself in the crowd

# Shot by both sides

# On the run to the outside of everything

# Shot by both sides

# They must have come to a secret understanding... #

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I wanna shine in her eyes

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I wanna get the first prize

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I wanna feel like her king

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I tell her everything

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I wanna look good

# I I I I wanna be her hero

# I I I I gonna be there too

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever

# I don't need to tell her

# I'm a super fella

# I don't need to tell her

# Cos I mean more than ever... #

# There was a lot of rockin' Going on that night

# Cruising time For the young bright lights

# Just down past the gasworks By the meat factory door

# The five lamp boys Were coming on strong

# The Saturday night city beat Had already started

# And the pulse of the corner boys Just sprang into action

# And young Billy watched it all Under the yellow street light

# And said tonight of all nights

# There's gonna be a fight

# Billy don't like it Living here in this town

# He says the traps have been sprung Long before he was born

# He says hope bites the dust Behind all the closed doors

# And blood and tears pour Down the drains and the sewers

# There's screaming and crying In the high rise blocks

# It's a rat trap, Billy But you're already caught

# But you can make it if you wanna Or you need it bad enough

# You're young and good looking And you're acting kind of tough

# Anyway it's Saturday night Time to see what's going down

# Put on the bright suit, Billy, Head for the right side of town

# It's only 8 o'clock But you're already bored

# You don't know what it is But there's got to be more

# You'd better find a way out Hey, kick down that door

# It's a rat trap

# And you've been caught

# In this town, Billy says

# Everybody's tryin' to tell you What to do

# In this town, Billy says

# Everybody says You gotta follow rules

# You walk up to the traffic lights

# Switch from your left to right

# You push in that button And that button comes alight

# It says walk, don't walk Walk, don't walk

# Talk, don't talk Talk, don't talk

# Walk, don't walk Walk, don't walk

# Talk, don't talk Talk, don't talk

# Hey Billy, take a walk, Take a walk, take a walk

# Billy, take a walk, Take a walk, take a walk

# Billy, take a walk Take a walk, take a walk

# Hey, Billy

# Take a walk with me

# Do you want that misery?

# Sweethearts run free

# Little Judy's trying To watch Top of the Pops

# But mum and dad are fighting Don't they ever stop?

# She takes off her coat And walks down to the street

# It's cold on that road But it's got that home beat

# Deep down in her pocket She finds 50p

# Hey, is that any way For a young girl to be?

# I'm gonna get out of school Work in some factory

# Work all the hours God gave me

# Get myself a little easy money Now, now, now, now, now

# Her mind's made up She walks down the road

# Her hands in her pockets Coat buttoned against the cold

# She finally finds Billy Down at the Italian cafe

# When he's drunk it's hard to understand what Billy says

# But then he mumbles in his coffee And he suddenly roars

# It's a rat trap, Judy

# And we've been caught. #

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Ooh, automatic lover

# Here she comes She's crazy

# But she knows the scene

# She carries an automatic pistol

# She ain't got no magazine

# Run for cover Run for cover

# She's the kinda thing I was warned of by my mother

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Well here I am

# Outta my brain

# Everything's coming

# Back round again

# Well there you are

# Movin' real, real fast

# It's a long, long night

# I don't think you're gonna last

# Run for cover, run for cover

# She's the kinda thing I was warned of by my mother

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Automatic in her hand She wants to wear the pants

# There's something wrong here, honey Won'tcha give me half a chance?

# I said automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# I talk about

# This or that glory

# But you, honey

# You're a different story

# When you get mad

# And start countin' up to ten

# I'm outta that door

# And on the streets again

# Run for cover Run for cover

# She's the kinda thing I was warned of by my mother

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover. #

# I know a girl who's soft and sweet

# She's so fine, she can't be beat

# She's got everything that I desire

# Sets the strongest heart on fire

# I want candy

# I want candy

# Go to see her With her hair hung down

# Ain't no finer girl in town

# Girl, you're just What the doctor ordered

# She's so sweet, she make my mouth water

# I want candy

# I want candy

# Candy on the beach, there's nothing better

# But I like candy In a real tight sweater

# Some day soon I'll make her mine

# I'll have candy all the time

# I love candy

# I love candy. #

# Where the streets are Paved with blood

# With cataclysmic overtones

# Fear and hate linger in the air

# A strictly no-go deadly zone

# I don't know what I'm doing here

# Because it's not my scene at all

# There's an 'A' bomb In Wardour Street

# They've called in the Army They've called in the police too

# I'm stranded on the Vortex floor

# My head's been kicked in And blood starts to pour

# Through the haze I can see my girl

# 15 geezers Got her pinned to the door

# I try to reach her But fall back to the floor

# 'A' bomb in Wardour Street

# It's blown up the West End

# Now it's spreading Through the City

# 'A' bomb in Wardour Street

# It's blown up the City

# Now it's spreading Through the country

# Law and order Takes a turn for the worse

# In the shape of a size 10 boot

# Rape and murder Throughout the land

# And they tell you That you're still a free man

# If this is freedom I don't understand

# Because it seems like madness to me

# 'A' bomb in Wardour Street

# Hate bomb, hate bomb, Hate bomb, hate bomb

# A Philistine nation

# Of degradation

# And hate and war

# There must be more

# It's Doctor Martin's

# A,P,O,C,A,L,Y,P,S,E

# Apocalypse! #

# I clambered over mounds And mounds of polystyrene foam

# And fell into a swimming pool Filled with Fairy Snow

# And watched the world turn day-glo, you know, you know

# The world turned day-glo, you know

# I wrenched the nylon curtains back As far as they would go

# Then peered through Perspex window panes

# At the acrylic road

# And watched the world turn day-glo, You know, you know

# And watched the world turn day-glo, You know

# I drove my polypropylene car On wheels of sponge

# Then pulled into a Wimpy bar To have a rubber bun

# And watched the world turn day-glo You know, you know

# The world turn day-glo You know

# The world turn day-glo you know, you know

# The world turned day-glo, you know

# The X-rays were penetrating Through the latex breeze

# Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves Fell from the rayon trees

# That made the world turn day-glo You know, you know

# The world turned day-glo You know, you know

# The world turned day-glo You know, you know

# The world turned day-glo You know. #

Oh, 'ello! 'Ow are ya?

# For once in my life I've got something to say

# I wanna say it now For now is today

# Love has been given To grab and enjoy

# So let's all grab And let's all enjoy

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# Just take a look around you

# What do you see?

# Kids with feelings

# Like you and me

# Understand him

# He'll understand you

# For you are him

# And he is you

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# I don't wanna be rejected

# I don't want be denied

# And it's not my misfortune That I've opened up your eyes

# Freedom is given

# You speak how you feel

# I have no freedom

# How do you feel?

# You can lie to my face

# But not to my heart

# If we stand together

# It could just be the start

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided

# If the kids are united

# They will never be divided... #

# Destination Venus

# Will the world believe they've seen us

# When we close the miles between us

# In between us

# There is nothing for it

# We've just got to leave this orbit

# And we really can't ignore it

# Can't ignore it

# Destination Venus

# My heart was never slow

# Destination Venus

# Where you are, I'll always go

# I hear your voice on the radio

# Only unbelievers

# And the world will soon believe us

# When we close the miles between us

# In between us

# There is nothing for it

# We've just got to leave this orbit

# Where we really can't ignore it

# Can't ignore it

# Destination Venus

# My heart was never slow

# Destination Venus

# Where you are, I'll always go

# I hear your voice on the radio

# Destination Venus

# Will the world Believe they've seen us?

# If they close the miles between us

# In between us

# There is nothing for it

# We've just got to leave this orbit

# And no way can we ignore it

# Can't ignore it

# Destination Venus

# My heart was never slow

# Destination Venus

# Where you are, I'll always go

# I hear your voice on the radio

# Destination Venus

# My heart was never slow

# Destination Venus

# Where you are, I'll always go

# I hear your voice on the radio

# I hear your voice on the radio

# I hear your voice on the radio

# Hear your voice on the radio

# Hear your voice on the radio... #

# I cried to my daddy on the telephone

# How long now

# Till the clouds unroll and you come home, the line went

# But the shadows still remain since your descent

# Your descent

# I cried to my daddy on the telephone

# How long now

# Till the clouds unroll and you come home, the line went

# But the shadows still remain since your descent, your descent

# The saints are coming

# The saints are coming

# I say no matter how I try I realise there's no reply

# The saints are coming

# The saints are coming

# I say no matter how I try I realise there's no reply

# A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief

# How long now

# Till a weather change condemns belief, the storm says

# This paternal guide once had his day, once had his day

# The saints are coming

# The saints are coming

# I say no matter how I try I realise there's no reply

# The saints are coming

# The saints are coming

# I say no matter how I try I realise there's no reply

# I say no matter how I try I realise there's no reply

# I say no matter how I try

# I realise there's no reply. #

APPLAUSE

# Harmful elements in the air

# Cymbals clashing everywhere

# Reap the fields of rice and reeds

# While the population feeds

# Junk floats on polluted water

# An old custom to sell your daughter

# Would you like number 23?

# Leave your yens on the counter, please

# Ho

# Oh-oh-oh

# Hong Kong Garden

# Ho oh-oh-oh

# Hong Kong Garden

# Oh-oh-oh

# Tourists swarm to see your face

# Confucius has a puzzling grace

# Disorientated, you enter in

# Unleashing scent of wild jasmine

# Slanted eyes meet a new sunrise

# A race of bodies small in size

# Chicken Chow Mein and Chop Suey

# Hong Kong Garden takeaway

# La-la-la la-la-la-la-lo

# Ho-oh oh-oh-oh

# Hong Kong Garden... #

APPLAUSE

Here he comes now!

# The fast fingers, the expert eyes

# And the same old how-d'you-do

# Disgust is just his dumb disguise

# He wants a word with you

# His problems are the end

# A mouth needs exercise

# The last thing I need is another friend

# I don't want to be nice

# I don't want to be nice

# I think it's clever to swear

# Better seek some sound advice

# I would look elsewhere

# Your face is an obvious case

# I wouldn't put it about

# This is neither the time or the space

# To sort your problems out

# What you see is what you get

# You only live twice

# A friend in need is a friend in debt

# I don't want to be nice

# No, we never met before

# I'm very happy to say

# Far-from-perfect strangers

# I'd like to keep it that way

# I'm not your psychoanalyst

# I'd rather talk to mice

# You're so easy to resist

# I don't want to be nice

# I don't want to be nice

# I think it's clever to swear

# I would seek some sound advice

# I would look elsewhere

# Your face is an obvious case

# I wouldn't put it about

# This is neither the time or the place

# To sort your problems out

# What you see is what you get

# You only live twice

# A friend in need is a friend in debt

# I don't want to be nice. #

APPLAUSE

# A teenage dream's so hard to beat

# Every time she walks down the street

# Another girl in the neighbourhood

# Wish she was mine, she looks so good

# I want to hold her, want to hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# I'm going to call her on the telephone

# Have her over cos I'm all alone

# I need excitement, oh, I need it bad

# And it's the best I've ever had

# I want to hold her, want to hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right!

# A teenage dream's so hard to beat

# Every time she walks down the street

# Another girl in the neighbourhood

# Wish she was mine, she looks so good

# I want to hold her, want to hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# I'm going to call her on the telephone

# Have her over cos I'm all alone

# I need excitement, oh, I need it bad

# And it's the best I've ever had

# I want to hold her, want to hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right!

# I want to hold her, want to hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right! #

APPLAUSE

# Babylon's burning

# You'll burn in the street

# You'll burn your houses

# With anxiety

# With anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# Babylon's burning

# You'll burn in the street

# You'll burn in the ghetto

# With anxiety

# With anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# Babylon's burning, baby, can't you see?

# Babylon is burning with anxiety

# You'll burn at your work

# You'll burn at your play

# This monster is smouldering with ignorance and hate

# And with anxiety

# Babylon's burning, Babylon's burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# Babylon's burning, baby, can't you see?

# Babylon is burning with anxiety

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# Babylon is burning

# Babylon's burning Babylon's burning

# Babylon's burning. #

APPLAUSE

We're The Damned! We're a punk band

and this is called Can't Be Happy Today.

# I just can't be happy today

# Yeah

# I just can't be happy today

# Well, a few of us know there's nothing to smile

# There's no feeling fine without being fined

# There's a price on your head

# There's no funny side when justice is rare

# I just can't be happy today

# Whoa, yeah

# I just can't be happy today

# Illegal to dance Forbidden to cry

# You do what you're told You never ask why

# There's a price on your head

# There's no funny side and justice is rare

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy today. #

They're closing the schools! They're burning the books!

Their powers are in ruins, the priests hang on hooks!

The radio's on ice, the TV's been banned! The Damned is in power!

The Devil commands!

# Illegal to dance Forbidden to cry

# You do what you're told You never ask why

# There's a price on your head, three times!

# The word that I said, the secrets are dead

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy Just can't be happy

# Just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy

# Just can't be happy... #

GUITAR ECHOES

GUITARIST STRUMS A FEW CHORDS

Can you ease off a little bit?

Otherwise I shall come down there and straighten you all out, like!

CHEERING

So this is called New Song Number Nugget.

It's called Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick,

hit me with your rhythm stick, hit me with your rhythm stick...

# In the deserts of Sudan

# And the gardens of Japan

# From Milan to Yucatan

# Every woman's

# Every man, wow!

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# Hit me, hit me

# Je t'adore, Ich liebe dich

# Hit me, hit me, hit me

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# Hit me slowly, hit me quick

# Hit me, hit me

# Hit me!

# In the wilds of Borneo

# And the vineyards of Bordeaux

# Eskimo

# Arapaho

# Move their body to and fro

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# Hit me, hit me

# Das ist gut, c'est fantastique

# Hit me, hit me, hit me

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# It's nice to be a lunatic

# Hit me, hit me

# Hit me! Hit me!

# Hit me!

SAXOPHONE HOLDS HIGH NOTE

WHISTLE BLOWS

# In the dock of Tiger Bay

# On the road to Mandalay

# From Bombay to Santa Fe

# Over the hills and far away

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# Hit me, hit me

# C'est si bon, hmm, ist es nicht?

# Hit me, hit me, hit me

# Hit me with your rhythm stick

# Two fat persons, click click click

# Hit me, hit me, hit me!

# Hit me! Hit me! HIT ME!

# Hit me!

# HIT ME!

# HIT ME! OW!

# Hit me!

# Hit me!

# Hit me! Hit me! HIT ME!

# HIT ME!

# Hit me!

# Hit me

# Hit me!

# Hit me!

# Hit me, hit me, hit me! #

# Seeing in your eyes

# Words can never say the way you told me in your eyes

# Never no more hope, away

# Final in a fade

# Seeing in your eyes

# Never really know

# Till it's gone out, away

# Seeing in your eyes

# Watch her slowly die

# I see it in her eyes

# Choking in her bed

# Flowers are rotting dead

# I see it in her eyes

# See it in your eyes

# See it in your eyes

# Never realise... #

APPLAUSE

# Same old boring Sunday morning Old man's out washing the car

# Mum's in the kitchen cooking Sunday dinner

# Her best meal Moaning while it lasts

# And Johnny is upstairs in his bedroom sitting in the dark

# Annoying the neighbours with his punk rock electric guitar

-# This is the sound

-This is the sound of the suburbs

# This is the sound of the suburbs

# Every lousy Monday morning

# Heathrow jets go crashing over our home

# Ten o'clock Broadmoor siren

# Driving me mad won't leave me alone

# Johnny stands there at his window

# Looking at the night

I said, "Hey, what you listening to? "There's nothing there!"

# That's right

# This is the sound of the suburbs

# This is the sound of the suburbs... #

GUITAR SOLO

# Youth club group used to want to be free

# Now they want anarchy

# Play too fast Play out of tune

# Practise in the singer's bedroom

# Drums quite good The bass is too loud

# And I can't hear the words

# This is the sound

# This is the sound of the suburbs

# This is the sound of the suburbs... #

APPLAUSE

# Confusion in her eyes that says it all

# She's lost control

# And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by

# She's lost control

# And she gave away the secrets of her past and said

# "I've lost control again"

# And of a voice that told her when and where to act, she said

# "I've lost control again"

# And she turned around and took me by the hand and said

# "I've lost control again"

# How I'll never know just why or understand, she said

# "I've lost control again"

# And she screamed out kicking on her side and said

# "I've lost control again"

# And seized up on the floor, I thought she'd die, she said

# "I've lost control again"

# She's lost control again She's lost control

# She's lost control again She's lost control

# Well, I had to phone her friend to state my case, and say

# She's lost control again

# And she showed up all the errors and mistakes, and said

# "I've lost control again"

# She expressed herself in many different ways

# Until she lost control again

# And walked upon the edge of no escape, and laughed

# "I've lost control again"

# She's lost control again

# She's lost control

# She's lost control again She's lost control. #

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# We only want what's best for him

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# Nigel just needs that helping hand

# And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy

# He must be happy He must be happy in his work

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# He has this future in a British Steel

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# Nigel's whole future is as good as sealed

# Yeah

# And if young Nigel says he's happy

# He must be happy He must be happy

# He must be happy in his work

# Nigel is not outspoken But he likes to speak

# And he loves to be spoken to

# In his work

# Nigel is happy in his work

# In his work

# Nigel is happy in his work

# It's his world

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# We only want what's best for him

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# Nigel just needs this helping hand

# And if young Nigel says he's happy

# He must be happy

# He must be happy

# He must be happy in his work... #

GUITAR SOLO

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# We only want what's best for him

# We're only making plans for Nigel

# Nigel just needs this helping hand. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Come on!

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# I'd like to thank my mum and dad

# They gave me the bestest time I'd ever had

# And my mates they believed me when I was at school

# I had the last laugh I sussed you all!

# The greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# Why'd I pay to get on the bus?

# Who drives around with the company's trust?

# We all know that we're the best

# So drop the press and all the rest!

# The greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off. #

Let's go now!

# Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner

# That I love London so. #

Oi! you has-been. How you going, me old china?

Well in order mate, innit?

We're firm-handed, pal.

Let me go now.

GUITAR SOLO

# The greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off

# It was the greatest cockney rip off. #

APPLAUSE

# Back when I was younger They were talking at me

# Never listened to a word I said

# Back when I was younger They were talking at me

# Never listened to a word I said

# Always yap yap yapping And complaining at me

# Made me think I'd be better off dead

# I don't want to talk about it

# I don't want to hear no lip

# Take your share Don't shout about it

# That's your lot Remember you're a kid

# They would always teach me that to swear was a sin

# Always speak your mind But not aloud

# Think of something that you want to do with your life

# Nothing that you like That's not allowed

# I've no time to talk about it

# All your stupid hopes and dreams

# Get your feet back on the ground, son

# It's exams that count Not football teams

# And I'm running at the edge of their world

# They're criticising something they just can't understand

# Living on the edge of their town

# And I won't be shot down

# Taught me to defend myself And to be a man

# How to kick someone and run away

# Gave me everything That any young man could need

# But don't understand Why I won't stay

# Here's your room And here's your records

# Here's your home And here you'll stay

# Here's somewhere I don't believe in

# Wish someone would take it all away

# And I'm running at the edge of the world

# They're criticising something they just can't understand

# Living on the edge of their town

# And I won't be shot down. #

GUITAR SOLO

APPLAUSE

# Playing your game

# Your mother substitute

# She is she that you never screwed

# Playing your game

# Her life revolves around

# Round and round you

# A total investment Can't afford to lose

# You're the prize for her sacrifice

# A kiss in the morning A kiss late at night

# She's closing her eyes To those possible lies

# Keeping the doubts Locked tight up inside

# Playing your game

# She's taking care of your head

# When you're sick She puts you to bed

# She props you up And she nurses you through

# She's here to look after you

# Closing her eyes To those possible lies

# Keeping the doubts Locked tight up inside

# She's closing her eyes to those possible lies

# Keeping the doubts Locked tight up inside

# She's closing her eyes

# Closing her eyes

# Closing her eyes. #

GUITAR SOLO

# Playing your game

# With the rules that you've set

# We're on either side

# Am I such a threat?

# Playing your game

# Playing your game

# Playing your game. #

GUITAR SOLO

# Playing your game

# She's taking care of your needs

# She is your security

# I may remark on your insensitivity

# But you know she wouldn't listen to me

# She wouldn't listen to me She wouldn't listen

# Closing her eyes to those possible lies

# Keeping the doubts Locked tight up inside

# She's closing her eyes to those possible lies

# Keeping the doubts Locked tight up inside

# She's closing her eyes

# Closing her eyes

# Closing her eyes. #

GUITAR SOLO

# Oh! Oh, oh, oh, oh!

# Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!

# In my arms we shall begin

# With none of the rocks There's no charge

# In my arms we shall begin

# With none of the rocks There's no charge

# To hell with poverty

# We'll get drunk on cheap wine. #

GUITAR SOLO

# To hell with poverty

# The cheque will arrive

# We'll turn to boast again

# To hell with poverty

# The cheque will arrive

# We'll turn to boast again. #

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