Boomtown Rats Album

I'm not disconnected
I'm not unaware
I'm in one place at one time
I'm neither here nor there
I'm hooked to the mainstream,
Tuned into the world
Plugged into my surroundings,
I'm not out on a limb.
I'm thinking in a straight line,
I'm thinking that these thoughts are
mine,
My heart is beating oh so fast
I feel the hours crashing
Because my mind keeps time like
clockwork,
And I think in sync like clockwork.

She's done away with emotion,
She sees things clearly now.
She says she sees it all from her room
And it looks so small from her room
It's all right, it's all right,
I'm on your side...for a while,
She thinks time is a concept by which
we measure our pain
(She'll say it again)
She wants to say it again, but she
don't have time,
And now her heart beats time like
clockwork
And she thinks in sync like clockwork

Count the hours, count the months
and minutes,
You're born in tears and die in pain
and that's your limit
You're lookin' for a reason but there's
none
There, why don't you admit it
We'll make the most of what we've
got, that's the tickit
My, my, my.

I stayed in that room a long, long time
And watched the seasons gliding
past
And hey...what's the matter?,
We've got time, lots of time
It's alright, it's alright,
I'm on your side for a while,
We'll wind up
We'll slow down
We'll speed up or slow down and
we'll maybe overwind...
but now or minds, etc.

On blind dates
You meet in corners,
You take a jump into the unknown
They're classified, they're top secret,
An antidote to being on your own.

You're standing waiting,
You're hesitating,
You're thinking maybe...well
I don't know
Your nerve is breaking,
You've started praying
But still you're staying...
And you don't know for what

But I still say
Been alone's so wrong
Been alone's so wrong
I've been alone too long.

A blind date's
A blinkered meeting
A rendezvous with some person
unknown,
A secret tryst, a shady dealing,
A gamblers chance when love's dice
are thrown.

But you've checked the classifieds in
all the papers,
And you filled in all your forms and
tried computadata
See ya later
What a waste of a
Blind date...

I never loved Eva Braun (oh no?)
No, a thousand people say I did (oh
yeah?)
Yeah, she was just some girl who was
on the make (Yes, we see)
Boy she wanted to be so big.
And in the end it got to be a drag,
She's doing her exercises every day
No matter what people say,
I never loved Eva Braun.

I never heard all the screams (oh no?)
I never saw the blood and dirt and
gore (oh yeah?)
That wasn't part of the dream, (yes,
we see)
Of maps and generals and uniforms.
I'd always like the big parade,
I always wanted to be adored,
In '33 I knew I had it made,
I never loved....

Eva Braun wasn't history,
She wasn't even part of my destiny
She never really fitted in the scheme
of things
She was a triumph of my will,
Oh yeah!

I saw the blondies and the blue eyes,
(oh yeah?)
I saw the millions mouthing me, (oh
yeah?)
But underneath I was really gentle,
(oh yeah?)
D'ja ever see me touch a scrap of
meat?
O yeah I conquered all those
countries
They were weak an' I was strong
A little too ambitious maybe,
But I never loved Eva Braun.
Gee!

La-la-la-la
She's so 20th century
She's so 1970's
She knows the right things to say
She's got the right clothes to wear
Cos she's a modern girl, oh yeah
A modern girl yeah, ga-ga-ga-ga-ga.
A modern girl, oh yeah.

And Suzie is a jewel,
She flashes when she smiles.
She's cunning and she's clever
She's got the lowdown in her files.
Magenta is the best
You know whe really makes me laugh
She's always tryin' her impressions
She wants to be a photograph, I
gotta say now

She's so 20th century
She's so etc....

Jean confided to me
She's Mona Lisa's biggest fan
She drew a mustache on her face
She's always seen her as a man
And Charlie ain't no Nazi
She likes to wear her leather boots
Cos it's exciting for the veterans
And it's a tonic for the troops.

She's so 20th century, oh yeah.

As soon as I wake up every day,
I look at the papers to see what they
say,
I know most what I read will be a lot
of lies,
But then you learn really fast to read
between the lines,
'Cos I know (he knows)
What I read ain't true
I know (he knows)
And I'm telling you
I know (he knows)
If they say it's red, it's blue
Don't believe what you read,
Do you believe what you read?
No, I don't believe what I read.

Never put it down in writing the old
man said
I didn't know then but now I know
what he meant
And if you're wondering why your
letters never get a reply,
It's just when you tell me that you love
me I need to see...your eyes.
'Cos I know
What I read ain't true
I know
And I'm telling you
I know
If they say it's one, it's two
Don't believe what you read,
Do you believe what you read?
No, I don't believe what I read.

And if you pick up a book and you're
starting to read it,
I'll tell you what you'd better do,
You can read it till the end and even
if you believe it,
That doesn't mean to say it's true...

Don't believe what you read.

Night fell fast, like it did in the past
when the phone rang
Twice and a voice said "I think I'm
alone"
I gave my advice and the voice said
"Nice, but suicide
leaves such a bad
aftertaste on the soul."

Chorus:
Oh ain't you glad that we live on an
island,
You can choose your own way of
being killed,
You can jump off a cliff and get
drowned in the sea,
Or be dashed 'gainst the rocks and
get split,
And it could happen to you (no it
won't happen to me)
It could happen to you...
....And if it do then you're a true blue
sui-

Side by side they waled into the tide,
till it rose to their nose and then
They kissed with their eyes
"goodbye."
They were seen to smile just before
they dived, dead lovers don't have
much
Except a certain desperate sense of
style...
But ain't you glad etc.

There were a lot of crazy problems
that they couldn't resolve
A lot of tricky questions which they
just couldn't solve
The main problem was of course he
couldn't say "no"
On your marks, get ready, steady
here we go.

In a fifth floor lift a man slit his wrist,
his head ticked over and then it
Suddenly slipped away
And the girl in the mac at the back of
the shack,
lay her head on the track
And said "I think it's better this way."
Oh she was glad that she lived on an
island etc.

Hand me down a strong panacea,
One that's guaranteed to make me
feel like Hercules,
There's flies everywhere, buzzing in
the air,
Filling my body with filth and
disease....and I think,

He thinks he should develop a
complex,
He thinks that he really owes it to
himself,
His friends'll all say he's looking sick
and unhealthy
An' then he can wallow in sweet self-
neglect

Oh oh yeah...he's gonna

Lock himself up in his room
Shutter the windows and bolt all the
doors,
Wrap himself round in his Wall Street
cocoon
He's painting the ceiling, the walls
and the floor,

He's gonna lock himself up in his
room
And when he emerges have a new
change of style,
He keeps saying things like it's me
and Howard Hughes
You'd wana watch out for that
dangerous smile.

Oh, oh yeah....

Can't stop
And face the facts
I'm high strung and I can't relax.
Tune me down cause I'm feeling
sharp.
My blood's too weak and it strains my
heart.
And hearts of gold can turn to grey.
And wills of iron can melt away.
Hey, this looks like the place,
We can stop, pick up some fame.

Can't stop
Oh doctor please.
I bruise so easy and I cut so clean,
Cure me quickly bring me to my
knees.
Knock me out, come on i wanna
sleep.

Doctor please, cure me quick.
Doctor please, I feel so quick.
Doctor please, what's that pain
Doctor please, here it comes again.

Can't stop.
I can't slow down.
My nose is bleeding, hanging upside
down.
My head is reeling, I don't hear a
sound.
My mouth's dry, it turns me inside out.

She keeps her lover on ice,
She keeps a fire in the grate,
He's got a movement in his cellar,
He's a danger to the state.
Watch out for the normal people
There's more of us than there's of
you.
Well you're a really lucky bugger,
That you haven't been discovered
Ain't that true.

She has a genuine fridge, (ooh ooh
ooh)
He has a night on the town (ooh ooh
ooh)
Their receptions too good (ooh ooh
ooh)
They've got 2 up and 2 down
Watch out etc.

Normal can and normal will, (uncle
jack)
When normal Jack meets normal Jill
(auntie jill)
A normal wedding on a normal pill
(take their pills)
They bought a normal house on your
Average, scenic, normal hill,
They live there still...

He's got a family connection,
She's got an uncle in steel,
He gets depressed in the evening
She thinks she knows how he feels.

[No lyrics]

Here they go, lying again
beating everybody at their favourite
game
but in the end nobody wins no

Here they go let's pretend the rules
have changed but the
names the same
and in the end nobody wins no

Do you think they don't know what
they're doing
Do you think they don't know who
they're fooling

When I was a boy and I was told that
heaven was hot and hell was cold
if I told lies I'd freeze my soul but it
didn't seem to matter

Do you think they don't know what
they're doing
Do you think they don't know who
they're fooling

There they go lying again
They want it just as much as us
and in the end nobody wins no

There they go lying again
they pulled the wool and we all fell in
and in the end nobody wins no

There they go lying again (you're
telling lies)
There they go lying again (you're
telling lies)

I gotta listen to you
I gotta hear about the things
I should or shouldn't do
all about the deals I blew
how do you do

I shook a thousand hands
I met a man with master plans
and sweaty hands

Do you wanna be a rich man
How do you do

But then it's alright
the band was good and it was
Saturday night
It was alright
and that's what matters
that really matters, sometimes that
matters
the crowd went wild in that famous
line

But then it's alright
the band was goodand it was
Saturday night
It was alright
that really matters, sometimes that
matters

And then they sat me in a chair
take this pen and put your name right
there
this ensures that we take care of you

I gotta listen to you
I gotta hear about the things
I should or shouldn't do
all about the deals I blew
how do you do

I know about you
who are you
what do you do
how do you do

I was bleeding before I saw the blood
I was screaming but I soon woke up
on that night on that night with you
I realized it was gonna be me or you

Ooh and it made me feel strange
so strange, strange

So I knelt down and said my prayers
that night
the fog was closing in on what
remained of the light
on that night on that night with you
I heard the wild dogs howling in the
distant moon

Ooh and it made me feel strange
so strange, strange
oh yeah..

You told me you had arranged
for something special and strange
but suddenly I saw your eyes
and realized that you were quite
insane

And when the dawn came I listened
hard for your breath
you once told me the bottom line in
life is death
on that night on that night with you
I realized it was gonna be me or you

And it made me feel strange
so strange, strange