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 it wasn't me

# When I tell you it ain't right

# I know you've got to agree

# Hey!

# 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

# But I could hear you through the crowd

# You was telling everyone

# About a new guy you'd found. #

You know what she's saying there, baby.

She's not going to dig that gig, you know.

She going to get a little mad with ya. Yeah!

# 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 better be there waiting

# When I get my business fixed. #

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

Hit it!

APPLAUSE

# I'm gonna break out of the city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure

# It's 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're gonna do?

# You 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

# I don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be

# Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see

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

# They tell you what you should be

# 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're gonna do?

# You 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

# I'm gonna break out of the city

# Leave the people here behind

# Searching for adventure

# It's 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're gonna do? #

APPLAUSE

# There's no point in asking

# You'll get no reply

# Oh just remember a-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

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

# I don't believe illusions cos too much is real

# So 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

# We're so pretty

# Oh, so pretty

# Now

# And we don't care

# There's no point in asking

# You'll get no reply

# Oh, just remember, don't decide

# I got no reason, it's all too much

# You'll always find me

# Out to lunch

# Out to 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

# Ah

# But now, 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 ways I see

# The ends 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 - ha!

# Action's rather hard to please

# Cos what you give is what you get

# So, that's your generation

# Well, that's your generation

# Well, that's your generation

# Well, that's your generation

# Trying to forget your generation

# We're using all the ways 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

# Action's rather hard to please

# Cos what you give is what you get

# So your generation

# Well, it's your generation

# Well, it's your generation

# It's your generation

# The end justifies the means

# It's our generation til the end

# Justify the means

# It's time for our generation. #

# 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's 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 looked into a private ward I realise 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

# 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 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. #

# 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 of the heroes? #

# And I wanna move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only wanna knock us

# Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers

# You 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

# This place is gonna knock you out sooner or later

# So don't complain about your useless employment

# Jack it in

# For ever tonight

# Or shut your mouth

# And pretend you enjoy it

# Think of all the money you've got

# And I wanna liquefy everybody gone dry

# Or plug into the aerials that poke up in the sky

# Or 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

# For ever tonight

# Or shut your mouth and pretend you enjoy it

# Think of all the money you've got

# Yeah, yeah

# Yes, I wanna move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only wanna 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 wanna move the town to the clash city rockers

# You need a little jump of electrical shockers

# You better leave town if you only wanna 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. #

APPLAUSE

# You spurn my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt

# And I'm hurt

# And if I start a commotion

# I run the risk of losing you

# And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# I can't see much of a future

# Unless we find out what's to blame

# What a shame

# And we won't be together much longer

# Unless we realise that we are the same

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# You disturb my natural emotions

# You make me feel I'm dirt

# And I'm hurt

# And if I start a commotion

# I'll only end up losing you

# And that's worse

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# Ever fallen in love In love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with?

# Fallen in love with

# Ever fallen in love with someone

# You shouldn't've fallen in love with? #

APPLAUSE

# 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

# I 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'll have to rewrite all the books again

# As a matter of course

# I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

# I 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. #

# There was a lot of rocking 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

# The pulse of the corner boys just sprang into action

# And young Billy watched it 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 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

# And you can make it if you want to 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 a bright suit, Billy Head for the right side of town

# It's only eight 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 trying to tell you what to do

# In this town Billy says everybody says you gotta follow rules

# You walk up to the traffic lights

# You switch from your left to your right

# You push in that button and that button comes alight

# And it's 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

# Don't you want that misery?

# Swing high, swing free

# Well, 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, na na

# Na, na, na na 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 at the Italian cafe

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

# Then he mumbles in his coffee yet he suddenly roars

# It's a rat trap, Judy and we've been caught. #

APPLAUSE

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# Automatic lover

# 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

# Moving 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 kind of 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't you 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 street 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. #

APPLAUSE

# Where the streets are paved with blood

# Cataclysmic overtones

# Fear and hate linger in the air

# A strictly no-go deadly zone

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

# Cos 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 policemen

# I'm stranded on the vortex floor

# My head's kicked in til 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 throughout 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-ten boot

# You're better to act OK

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

# If this is freedom I don't understand

# Cos 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 Marten'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

# Uh-oh

# I wrenched the nylon curtains back

# As far as they would go

# And peered through perspex window panes

# At the acrylic road

# And watched the world turn day-glo You know

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

# Uh-oh

# 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 turned day-glo You know

# Uh-oh

# The world turn day-glo, you know

# You know the world turned day-glo You know

# Uh-oh

# The X-rays were penetrating

# Through the latex breeze

# Synthetic fibre see-through leaves

# Fell from the rayon trees

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

# You know the world turned day-glo you know

# The day the world turned day-glo You know

# You know the world turned day-glo You know

# Uh-oh. #

Oh, hello. How are ya?

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

# I wanna say it now For now is today

# Life has been given to grab and enjoy

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

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll 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

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# I don't want to be rejected

# I don't want to be denied

# Then it's not my misfortune

# That I've opened up your eyes

# Freedom is given

# Speak how you feel

# I have no freedom

# How do you feel?

# They can lie to my face

# But not to my heart

# If we stand together

# This will just be the start

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided

# If the kids are united

# Then we'll never be divided. #

# Harmful elements in the air

# Symbols clashing everywhere

# Reaps 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

# Oh, oh

# Hong Kong garden

# Oh, oh

# Hong Kong garden

# Oh, oh

# Tourists swarm to see your face

# Confucius has a puzzling grace

# Disoriented, 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 la

# Oh, oh

# Hong Kong garden. #

# Are teenage dreams 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 wanna hold her Wanna hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# I'm gonna call her on the telephone

# Have her over cos I'm all alone

# I need excitement and I need it bad

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

# I wanna hold her Wanna hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right

# Are teenage dreams 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 wanna hold her Wanna hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# I'm gonna call her on the telephone

# Have her over cos I'm all alone

# I need excitement and I need it bad

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

# I wanna hold her Wanna hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right

# I wanna hold her Wanna hold her tight

# Get teenage kicks right through the night

# All right. #

APPLAUSE

# Babylon is burning

# You'll burn the street

# You'll burn your houses

# With anxiety

# With anxiety

# Babylon is burning Babylon is burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon is burning Babylon is burning

# Babylon is burning

# You're burning the street

# You're burning the ghetto

# With anxiety

# With anxiety

# Babylon is burning Babylon is burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon was burning Babylon was burning

# Babylon was burning, baby Can't you see?

# Babylon is burning with anxiety!

# You'll burn as you work

# You'll burn as you play

# Smother him, he's smouldering

# With ignorance and hate

# And with anxiety

# Babylon was burning Babylon was burning

# With anxiety

# Babylon was burning Babylon was burning

# Babylon was burning, baby Can't you see?

# Babylon was burning with anxiety!

# Babylon was burning Babylon was burning

# Babylon is burning

# Babylon was burning Babylon was burning

# Babylon was burning. #

APPLAUSE

Hello, we're The Dammed, we're a punk band,

and this is called Can't Be Happy Today.

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy today

# A lot of you know there's nothing to smile

# There's no feeling fine without being fined

# There's a price on your head

# No point being sad when justice is read

# I just can't be happy today

(SHOUTS)

# I just can't be happy today

# Illegal to dance Forbidden to cry

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

DROWNED OUT BY MUSIC

# There's no point being sad when justice is read

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy today. #

They're closing the schools.

They're burning the books - some classes in ruins.

The priests hang on hooks. Radio's on ice.

The TV's been banned.

The devil's in power. The devil commands!

# Illegal to dance forbidden to cry

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

# The wise don't know they had free time

# Know what it is that I'm saying?

# I just can't be happy today

# I just can't be happy today

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

# I just can't be happy today

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

AUDIENCE WHISTLING 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 bodies, 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, hit...

Wow!

BLOWS WHISTLE

# 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, ist ech 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! HE SCREAMS

Hit me!

# Hit me, hit me, hit me! #

Hit me!

Hit me!

Hit me!

Hit me!

# Hit me, hit me, hit me! #

# Seeing your eye

# Words can never say the way Told me in your eye

# Never no more hope away Final in a fade

# Seeing in your eye

# Never really know

# There is no hope away

# Seeing in your eye

# Watch her slowly die

# I see it in her eye

# Choking on her bed

# Flowers rotting dead

# I see it in her eye

# I see it in your eye

# See it in your eye

# Never realised... #

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 died

# 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...

# I had to phone my 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

# But she expressed herself in many different ways

# Until she lost control again

# And walked up on 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... #

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