The Ordinary Boys Album

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This is a song for all of my close friends
Anonymous neighbours with stories to tell
I didn't realise I had so many close friends nameless and shameless with history to sell

What's the fuss? You've gotta be in it to win it
I want pride but I know I'll never get it
Fame, I wanna live for 15 minutes
I want love but my heart's not in it

If only it was lonely at the top, I've got too much, but its never enough
If only it was lonely at the top
If only it was lonely at the top

Oh oh oh oh, Hey hey, If only it was Lonely at the Top

This is a song for all the complainers
All the campaigners who will not give up
They're selling their souls just to wear their sunglasses
They say "stop the press, I want to get off"

What's the fuss? I've gotta be in it to win it
I want pride but i know I'll never get it
Shame, I wanna live for 15 minutes
I want love but my heart's not in it

If only it was lonely at the top
I've got too much, but it's never enough,
If only it was lonely at the top,
If only it was lonely...

What's the fuss? You've gotta be in it to win it
I want pride but I know I'll never get it
Fame, I wanna live for 15 minutes
I want love but my heart's not in it

Oh oh oh oh, Hey hey

If only it was lonely at the top, I've got too much but its never enough
If only it was lonely at the top
If only it was lonely at the top

It found us
It drowned us
It's not us it's the world around us

Get ready
For this tip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off

It's not dirty it's clean
It's not you who told me
Let's let the world around us
Take the blame for everything

Work is a four letter word
And I'm trying
It's sad it's true that sex sells
And I'm buying

Big rip off, big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off
Big rip off, big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off

And you get nothing for free
Darling you can have me
Let's let the world around us
Take the blame for everything

And I will trying anything twice
Why bother?
And if it's especially nice
Maybe another

Big rip off, big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off
Big rip off, big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off

It's not dirty it's clean
It's not you who told me
Let's let the world around us
Take the blame for everything

Big rip off, the big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off
Big rip off, the big rip off
Get ready it's the great big rip-off * 4

I can hear the city sing its lustful lullaby
And see the drugs spill down the drains into the night
Well I made this bed of nails that I'm sleeping in today
I can't just close my eyes and ignore it all away

Dance with me tonight it's late and I don't want to fight so out of mind so out of sight so what so dance with me tonight

Dance with me tonight, dance with me tonight

I can tell you you go out til the lights go on
And when the lights go out well we may well carry on
Will you ever find this needle in a cul-de-sac?
It's only club chez moi and I'm giving something back

Dance with me tonight it's late and I don't want to fight so out of mind so out of sight so what so dance with me tonight

Dance with me tonight, dance with me tonight

I can hear the city sing in perfect harmony
Late night taxi bright lights try enticing me
Well I set this rat trap but I'm falling in today
I can just close my eyes but it will not go away

Dance with me tonight it's late and I don't want to fight so out of mind so out of sight so what so dance with me tonight

Dance with me tonight, dance with me tonight

I'm not gonna to patronise ya
But trying to write down why I like ya
It doesn't make it any better
To just steal kind words off Phil Spector

And I know all these tired cliches
But I don't know which cliche to say
Because cliches don't have any impact
So I guess I will be matter-of-fact

Cos...It's so good to know ya
I just don't know how to show ya

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you

I'm so sorry that I'm losing
When other boys would leave you swooning
When I finally get my words together
I choke and they are gone forever

But words are words and they mean nothing
Surely I love you counts for something!
So let's be hasty, and let's be reckless
Just being with you leaves me breathless

Cos...It's so good to know ya
I just don't know how to show ya

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you

It's so good to know ya
I just don't know how to show ya

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you

I love you, you know that
Don't you?
I love you....

I wake up late every morning
Managers calling, I’m still yawning
Get up wake up hair and makeups
Waiting for you don’t be stalling
This performance is important
I don’t think I can put my all in

Hold on I was drunk last night
Now its all kicking in and I don’t feel right
Gave my number to a breh who wasn’t my type
Now my phones on silent, I'm being polite

Private callers get no love from me
Just let me be…

Oh my Gosh, my days are getting longer
And theres no turning back im working the 9 to 5
To keep my contract did I say 9? I meant 1:30
I ain't no early birdy I'm working a 9 to 5
La, la, la, la....

So you gotta do some idents for channel U
Channel who? Sorry who im haltered for a snooze
Oh! Channel U da ones that made me huge
Like Katie Prices boobs.
Whoops! I'm being rude
Wheres my red bull and my sandwich? I need food!
I cant handle this,
Im getting pissed like pampers throwing a tantrum
“Action”
Nah, I'd actually rather catch my Z’s and count sheep in my sleep
(Lets not wake her up, she actually looks quite sweet)

Oh my Gosh, my days are getting longer
And theres no turning back im working the 9 to 5
To keep my contract did I say 9? I meant 1:30
I ain't no early birdy I'm working a 9 to 5
La, la, la, la....

I'm not sure what day just started,
Since my working week departed,
Ever since I single-charted,
This pursuit's been everlasting.
I clocked in about a year ago,
And I haven't clocked out from the studio,
Videos of TV shows, and staring at the window on the road.
Although sometimes we don't get paid for these rampages on these stages,
I know that I won't get jaded, I won't go back to the minimum wage

Oh my Gosh, my days are getting longer
And theres no turning back im working the 9 to 5
To keep my contract did I say 9? I meant 1:30
I ain't no early birdy I'm working a 9 to 5
La, la, la, la....
La, la, la, la....

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It's such a complicated situation,it always end up in a fight,what i wouldnt give for some isolation but im gonna stay with me tonight

i catch my gase across the bedroom, we only need some time alone, lost in a haze of self indulgence oh whats indulgence on your own?

it's and unrequited self love affair and it not fair, i need to be there for myself but im not there.

i am a danger to myself, let alone anyone else , i am a danger to myself, oh oh oh.

ive such a needless need for vindication, i have to show myself you see, if only for stealing all the covers and for taking advantage of me

i like to tell myself i love you,even if form behind grinding teeth, sometimes im sure i half believe it, am i gettin the better of me

it an unrequited self love affair and its not fair i need to be there for my self but im not there

i am a danger to myself let alone anyone else i am a danger to my self oh oh oh

its an unrequited self love affair

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I cross my fingers on a Monday morning
I keep on smiling and I keep on singing
So sure that I don't deserve it
My throat aches and my ears are ringing

Believing in coincidence
In running risks not common sense
In the wrong place at the right time
I'll take the blame cos it's all mine

We've got the best job ever
It will be over sooner or never
At the risk of sounding clever
I want the best job ever forever

We've got the best job ever. oh oh *2

I try to stop myself from being boring
And try to remind myself who is laughing
I try to act like it's not so exciting
Desperate that my 15 seconds is passing

Though what it's luck we rely on
A force so weak it seems so strong
In the right place at the wrong time
I'll take the chance the choice is mine

We've got the best job ever
It will be over sooner or never
At the risk of sounding clever
I want the best job ever forever

We've got the best job ever oh oh *2

Believing in coincidence
In running risks not common sense
In the wrong place at the right time
I'll take the blame cos it's all mine

We've got the best job ever
It will be over sooner or never
At the risk of sounding clever
I want the best job ever forever

We've got the best job ever oh oh *2

We've got the best job ever REPEAT

It was obvious, but I just couldn't see it
How to stay on the playlist, stay edgeless and pretty
How to avoid the red marks, that are so carelessly damning
To shake off the truth and retain the glamour

Have you heard all the stars that are relentlessly living?
You care that the world can be so unforgiving
It's so desperately easy to fall out of orbit
Now I'm all but out and it's so certainly for it

There's only one more step I know
Maybe it could be avoided but I don't think so
I guess I'm ready...here we go

I've been walking on the faultlines
I've been taking the dark route home
I've been dancing on the landmines
There's nowhere else to go

In the end will be my beginning
To get on the A-list I'll just quitt when I'm winning
To forgive not forget, to repent not regret
And to close my eyes would be my bravest move yet

And I wake up and it's my finest hour
Then the party ends and the sweetness turns sour
It's so desperately easy for me to employ it
The only catch is I'm not here to enjoy it

There's only one more step I know
Maybe it could be avoided but I don't think so
I guess I'm ready...here we go

I've been walking on the faultlines
I've been taking the dark route home
I've been dancing on the landmines
There is nowhere else to go

Whoo-whey, whoo-whey, whoo whoo

There's only one more step I know
I guess I'm ready...here we go

I've been walking on the faultlines
I've been taking the dark route home
I've been dancing on the landmines
There is nowhere else to go

I've been getting drunk and playing with matches
Listening to the radio in the bath
I've been crossing main roads with my eyes closed
With my name in lights or my name in stone

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I've had nights I will never forget
I've had nights I will always regret
but I can take it on the chin,
and say "Boys Will Be Boys"

There's been girls that have stolen our hearts,
but the others said they couldn't be prised apart
whoever let's us in they say "Boys Will Be Boys"

Well it's under my skin so I can never win,
so thanks a lot
we cheat and we lie and we fight
we don't cry while we try

I felt driven and I felt obliged,
I've had feelings like a thorn in my side,
I hope you never let this down now, "Boys Will Be Boys"

But if I saw her I could hardly restrain
every worked girl to labour with me,
chin up, chin up,
"Boys Will Be Boys"

[Rap]
And mi say,
you better move out the way
we comfortin' the people them rockin' and swayin'
when serious, I never ever play,
Boys will be Boys and there's nuttin' you can say
Spread the word I cross the land
cross wit me people understand
wish I had a magic wand
so make people unite nicely as one,
this goes out to all mi gals and e'one,
Boys will be Boys we'll surviv till the end,
whooaaaa....

Well it's under my skin so I can never win,
oh thanks a lot
we cheat and we lie and we fight
we don't cry while we try