2+2=5




Are you such a dreamer?
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two & two always
makes up five


I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April’s showers
And two & two always
makes up five


It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream & you
can shout
It is too late now
Because


You have not been
paying attention


I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
Ezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the burgers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not
“All hail to the thief”
“But I am not!”
“Don’t question my authority
or put me in the dock”
Cozimnot!
Go & tell the king that
The sky is falling in
When it’s not
Maybe not.


(ahh diddums.)










Sit down. Stand up.




Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up


Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)
Anytime (sit down)
Anytime (stand up)


Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up


We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)
We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)
Anytime
Anytime


Stand up, sit down


The rain drops (repeated)










Sail to the Moon




I sucked the moon
I spoke too soon
And how much did it cost?
I was dropped from moonbeams
And sailed on shooting stars


Maybe you’ll
Be president
But know right from wrong
Or in the flood
You’ll build an Ark
And sail us to the moon
Sail us to the moon
Sail to the moon






Backdrifts




We’re rotten fruit
We’re damaged goods
What the hell, we’ve got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We’re backdrifters


This far but no further
I’m hanging off a branch
I’m teetering on the brink
Oh honey sweet
So full of sleep
I’m backsliding


You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do


All evidence has been buried
All tapes have been erased
But your footsteps give you away
So you’re backtracking


Ah ah ah
You fell into our arms
You fell into our arms
We tried but there was nothing we could do
Nothing we could do
You fell into our, ah
You fell into a


We’re rotten fruit
We’re damaged goods
What the hell, we’ve got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We’re backdrifters






Go to Sleep




Something for the rag and bone man
“Over my dead body”
Something big is gonna happen
“Over my dead body”


Someone’s son or someone’s daughter
“Over my dead body”
This is how I end up getting sucked in
“Over my dead body”


I’m gonna go to sleep
Let this wash all over me


We don’t wanna wake monster taking over
“Tiptoe round tie him down”
We don’t want the loonies taking over
“Tiptoe round tie them down”


May pretty horses
Come to you
As you sleep
I’m gonna go to sleep
Let this wash
All over me






Where I End and You Begin




There’s a gap in between
There’s a gap where we meet
Where I end and you begin


And I’m sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end and you begin


I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
And I can’t and I can’t come down


I can watch but not take part
Where I end and where you start
Where you, you left me alone
You left me alone.


X’ will mark the place
Like parting the waves
Like a house falling in the sea.


I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive


There’ll be no more lies
There’ll be no more lies
There’ll be no more lies
There’ll be no more lies





We Suck Young Blood




Are you hungry?
Are you sick?
Are you begging for a break?


Are you sweet?
Are you fresh?
Are you strung up by the wrists?


We want the young blood


Are you fracturing?
Are you torn at the seams?
Would you do anything?
Flea-bitten? moth-eaten?


We suck young blood
We suck young blood


Won’t let the creeping ivy
Won’t let the nervous bury me
Our veins are thin
Our rivers poisoned


We want the sweet meats
We want the young blood










The Gloaming




Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour


Murderers you’re murderers
We are not the same as you


Genie let out the bottle
Funny haha funny how


When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing


When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing


They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside


To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells


To the shadows blue and red
To the shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells


Should be ringing


This is the gloaming






There There




In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape.
Broken branches trip me as I speak.
Just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.
Just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.


There’s always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck.
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)
Steer away from these rocks
We’d be a walking disaster.
(Don’t reach out, don’t reach out)


Just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.
(There’s someone on your shoulder)
Just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there.
(There’s someone on your shoulder)


There there


Why so green and lonely?
Heaven sent you to me.


We are accidents
Waiting waiting to happen.


We are accidents
Waiting waiting to happen.






I Will




I will
Lay me down
In a bunker
Underground


I won’t let this happen to my children
Meet the real world coming out of your shell
With white elephants
Sitting ducks
I will
Rise up


Little babies’ eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies’ eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies’ eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies’ eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes









A Punchup at a Wedding






No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
I don’t know why you bother
Nothing’s ever good enough for you
I was there and it wasn’t like that
You came here just to start a fight


You had to piss on our parade
You had to shred our big day
You had to ruin it for all concerned
In a drunken punchup at a wedding.


Hypocrite opportunist
Don’t infect me with your poison
A bully in a china shop
When I turn round stay frozen to the spot.


You had to piss on our parade
Uou had to shred our big day
You had to ruin it for all concerned
In a drunken punchup at a wedding.


The pointless snide remarks
Of hammer-headed sharks
The pot will call the kettle black


It’s a drunken punchup at a wedding.


No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no






Myxomatosis




The mongrel cat came home
Holding half a head
Proceeded to show it off
To all his new found friends
He said “I’ve been where i liked
I slept with who I liked
She ate me up for breakfast
And screwed me in a vice


But now I don’t know why
I feel so tongue-tied”


I sat in the cupboard
And wrote it down in neat
They were cheering and waving
Cheering and waving, cheering and waving
Twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis
But it got edited fucked up
Strangled, beaten up
Used as a photo in Time magazine
Buried in a burning black hole in Devon


“I don’t know why
I feel so tongue-tied
Don’t know why
I feel so skinned alive.”


My thoughts are misguided and a little naive
I twitch and I salivate like with myxomatosis
You should put me in a home or you should put me down
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis


“Now no one likes a smart arse but we all like stars”
That wasn’t my intention, I did it for a reason
It must have got mixed up
Strangled, beaten up
I got myxomatosis
I got myxomatosis


“I don’t know why
I feel so tongue-tied”






Scatterbrain




I’m walking out in a force ten gale.
Birds thrown around, bullets for hail.
The roof is pulling off by its fingernails.
Your voice is rapping on my window sill


Yesterday’s headlines blown by the wind.
Yesterday’s people end up scatterbrain.
Then any fool can easy pick a hole. (I only wish I could fall in)
A moving target in a firing range.


Somewhere I’m not
Scatterbrain.
Somewhere I’m not
Scatterbrain.
Lightning fuse
Powercut.
Scatterbrain






A Wolf at the Door




Drag him out the window
Dragging out your dead
Singing I miss you
Snakes and ladders
Flip the lid
Out pops the cracker
Smacks you in the head
Knifes you in the neck
Kicks you in the teeth
Steel toe caps
Takes all your credit cards
Step up get the gunge
Get the eggs
Get the flan in the face
The flan in the face
The flan in the face
Dance you fucker dance you fucker
Don’t you dare
Don’t you dare
Don’t you flan in the face
Take it with the love its given
Take it with a pinch of salt
Take it to the taxman
Let me back let me back
I promise to be good
Don’t look in the mirror
At the face you don’t recognize
Help me call the doctor
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside
Put me inside


I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he’s gonna mess me up
Steal all my children
If I don’t pay the ransom
But I’ll never see him again
If I squeal to the cops


Walking like a giant crane and
With my x ray eyes I strip you naked
In a tight little world and are you on the list?
Stepford wives who are we to complain?
Investments and dealers investments and dealers
Cold wives and mistresses.
Cold wives and sunday papers.
City boys in 1st class
Don’t know we’re born
Just know someone else is gonna come and clean it up
Born and raised for the job
Oh I wish you’d get up
Go over get up go over and turn this tape off.


I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that hes gonna mess me up
Steal all my children
If I don’t pay the ransom
But I’ll never see him again
If I squeal to the cops