The Boomtown Rats Sight and Sound in Concert

So if you're... You'd better dance,

Catch the light, catch your breath

I'm having my picture taken

# We scan the crowds and we pan the rounds of all those crazy scenes

# Immortalise a slice of time

# I'm having my picture taken

# Another instant in an Instamatic

# Another reflex set on automatic

# You really should have been there

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Another instant in an Instamatic

# Another reflex set on automatic

# Another moment of the life dramatic

# You really should have been there

I'm having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken

# Ooh-ooh, having my picture taken. #

and then we're about ready to go.

# What have you got to lose

# Guilty till proven guilty

and then you check the jury

# Guilty till proven guilty

# It just looks the other way

# I have nothing left to say

The sky burns bright 24-hour night

# And you don't pay death duties when you're on death duties

looking for the peace and quiet

# It's taken years off your life

# You're guilty till proven guilty

# Shame-shame, shimmy shame

# Shame-shame, shimmy shame. #

# Hitchin' up her short skirt

We're here to welcome a band who haven't been around for very long.

Well, for a couple of years, anyway.

They've got a single released yesterday - that's entitled Tonight.

But here are the band that go like clockwork. The Boomtown Rats!

# I'm in one place at one time

# I'm neither here nor there

# I get hooked to the mainstream

# Plugged into my surroundings

# I'm thinking in a straight line

that these thoughts are mine

# My heart is beating oh so fast

# And I think in sync like clockwork

# She's done away with emotion

# She sees things clearly now

# She thinks she sees it all

I'm on your side for a while

# She thinks that time is a concept

# She wants to say it again

Count the months and minutes

You die in pain, that's your limit

# And, hey, what's the matter?

# We've got time, lots of time

# I'm on your side for a while

# My mind beats time like clockwork

It's a bitch of a night. We're sorry you had to wait outside for so long.

I don't think many people know, but Eddie Cochran died in Chippenham.

And I think, after tonight, he probably won't be the only one.

Um...we've always been a dance band.

which'll bore you to death,

# I think I'll do my head tonight

# Look at it, this way and that

# Yes, you pile it up, spray it up

# Nothing much to do tonight

# It's just so, they're so...

# And we all think the same

One, two, one, two, three...

# JFK, he didn't last so long

# Trouble is, nothing ever gets done

# So, listen, whatcha gonna do

talk about it all the night

the strangest place I've ever seen

# We work at motion, work at time

# Trouble is, we lose control

I'm sure most of you have got Radio One on permanently all day.

# I don't intend to copy any friend

# You understand being used

# You won't mind being abused

# The mountains fall tonight

# But you will, I say you will

of the papers here and you will

# You check and you reel me in fine

with all those friends you got

# You've been slumming in the slime

# You understand being used

# You won't mind being abused

# Tonight - and no-one calls

# Tonight the mountains fall

# Why are you talking in code?

# Wave me a flag or flash me an eye

# But you're taking your time

why you blind me with science

# Well, it's all in your hands

# Well, I like you, I think

why you blind me with science

# But you're taking your time

# Cos when you talk in code,

# Cos when you talk in code,

why you blind me with science

It's an important part of the show,

I don't want to fuck anything up.

# You come over to my place and you're screaming blue murder

# Needing some place to hide

# Oh, and I wish you'd keep quiet,

# In these paper-thin walls

# And when the place goes ablaze with a thousand dropped names

# I got a friend over there

# And he knows the situation

# They saw me there in the square when I was shooting my mouth off

# Now could that be construed

# When the pressure drop is heavy I don't wanna hear you speak

# And it's too hot to breathe

looking at you, whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Watch, someone's looking at you,

looking at you, whoa-oh-oh-oh

# Don't flatter yourselves,

# It could fall on deaf ears,

# There's a spy in the sky, there's a noise on the wire

# There's a tap on the line for every paranoid's desire

# Watch, someone's looking at you

# They're always looking at you

# Someone that's looking at you

# Someone is looking at you

# Someone that's looking at you

# Someone is looking at you

# Someone is looking at you

# Someone is looking at you... #

# Nights in white satin... #

# Everything he loved had moved away

# I felt despair come crawling

that you were touched by fate

# It's never easy but throw it away?

# Maybe you were born chasing this

# Flirt with death but never kiss her

# I keep dreaming, I set the scene

# So what's a fiver? Why so mean?

# It's not over, that's too cheap

# I know you feel the squeeze

# The view from on your knees

that you were touched by fate

# A newer story in another town

# I know you feel the squeeze

# Keep going, keep going. #

We're going to go home now.

it's called In The Long Grass.

When we bring that out, we'll do

And we'll see you guys back here or maybe in Swansea next week, OK?

# There was a lot of rocking

for all the young bright lights

# The Saturday night city beat

# When the pulse of the corner boys

# Young Billy watched it under

# He said tonight of all nights

# But Billy doesn't like it

# He says the traps, they were sprung

# Hope bites the dust behind

# There's screaming and there's crying in the high-rise block

# But you can make it if you want it

# You better find a way out, yeah,

everybody's trying to tell you

when that button come alight

# Billy take a walk, take a walk,

# Hey, Billy, take a walk with me

trying to watch Top Of The Pops

# Mum and Dad are fighting,

she walks out to the street

but it's got that home beat

# I'm gonna get out of school,

# Work all the hours God gave me and get myself a little easy money

coat buttoned against the cold

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

# But then he mumbles in his coffee

# Rat trap, you've been caught

# It's a rat trap, you've been caught

# In a rat trap, you've been caught

# It's a rat trap, you've been caught

# In a rat trap, you've been caught

# It's a rat trap, you've been caught

# In a rat trap, you've been caught

thank you very much. See you soon.

We want more! We want more!

More, more, more, more, more!

# Here we go, here we go! #

you want to hear particularly?

I don't know if we remember it, cos it's been... We'll have a go at it.

Right, bollock up the sound.

Make it loud so if there's any fuck-ups they don't notice.

# The world owes me a living

# I've waited on this dole queue

# That's a quarter of an hour

# I don't owe nobody nothing

# I just do what I wanna do

# Count your loss when I'm gone

# If I want something, I get it

# No matter what I have to do

# Don't give me love thy neighbour

# You better stop, think, look, baby

# I want to take your money,

# Don't give me love thy neighbour

# Don't give me peace and love

# When I get old, older than today

# I'll never need anybody's help

# Why don't you take my money

# Lookin' after number one... #

# I-hi-hi don't wanna be like you

# I-hi-hi don't wanna live like you

# I-hi-hi don't wanna talk like you