Performance and tails lyrics

why don't you take a look in my mouth
why don't you take a look at yourself
so why don't you take a look around
so why don't we take a look inside
roll out the shock parade
free falling from a stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine
I hang the devil from a circus wire
face up seats four in love spittin fire
so why don't you take a look around

when you think about it he's watching
every word you say hey dazed and when
he's sussed you out he calls her up and out
she comes and hustles us
the bartender and the thief are lovers
steal what they need like sisters and
brothers
met in a church a night to remember
robbing the graves of bodies
dismembered
he watched the lesbian talk she kissed and

we wait to wake to get a ride in the rain
buy a ticket they can check we can claim
so we don't spend what's our own for a
seat a place to stop a green light a red
cross they run around naked doing old
things like the ones before
wait for a break so you can take a little
something that'll make your next break
come along a little quicker than the one
before wait for an answer spy a sweet

I've never been here before,
Didn't know where to go,
Never met you before,
I've never been to your home,
That smells not unknown,
Foot steps made of stone,
Walking feels familiar

You can do all the things that you like to do,
All around, underground, pick a part that's new,
You can do all the things that you like to do,
All around, upside down, pick a part that's new.

there's things i want
there's things i think i want
there's things i've had
there's things i wanna have
do i want the dreams
the ones we're forced to see
do i want the perfect wife
the word perfect ain't quite right
shopping every day
take it back the next break
they say the more you fly the more you
risk your life
i'm just looking i'm not buying
i'm just looking keeps me smiling

you could lick or chew tongue in style
tonight champagne drag queen suit pinstripe
outta line it's time to try how blisters
on your feet blisters up your spine
if i could choose from two
i'd mime to be a smile
but when you rely on a lie that's true
and no one believes in the things you do
'cause half of the lies you tell ain't
true i'm gonna find out i'm gonna find a
piece of you

travelling through
a tunnel under sea
you never know if it cracks in half
you're never ever gonaa see me
but you can have it all if you like
you can have it all if you like and
you can pay for it the rest of your
life...life
i wouldn't believe your wireless radio
if i had myself a flying giraffe
you'd have one in a box with a window
but you can have it all if you like

he was walking 'round to you one said
french afternoon so he called in to a shop
for two he brought himself an ice drink a
totally tropical nice drink then he saw
what he thought was you in a room he
tought about goin' over but you were
always much older abd your sex dressed
breasts impressed too he'd really like to
get it together before the twelve of never

it's another way to get through the day
picking up ripped cigarette boxes
hoping that one remains
yellow lucky day suck deep and bathe
for the next ten minutes spent coughing
all the pleasures craved
write down all the things that
you'd like to say
write down all the things that
you'd like to change
write down all the places you'd
like to stay
write down anything that you want

they're calling out
come on lets go
but i'm miles away
to a year before
laughs from a glass
drank to the past
on the old green seat
like velvet to the hand
think i'd like to stay a minute longer
would you like to stay a minute longer
last one for some
sick from the rum
i play golf on the carpet with someone
crash back to date
few things i hate
but i'd rather us live

she's got another fantasy
she lives in flat number twenty three
picked first prize for carnival queen
and now she takes her clothes off
collects the covers off her magazines
she longs to be another teenage dream
the problem is she's turning forty three
she still takes her clothes off
she got the nick name porta bubble joan
they found her dead dead as nails at home

plastic california
looks like blackpool
outta date
some love some hate
it's all your competition
it's not my occupation true
but it's what you do
some love some hate
i like pink architecture
flip back my red strip deck chair
prove we got nothing to prove
gin stroke amnesia problems
overhearing talk of hollywood
we wish we could ya should
some love some hate

i stopped to fill my car up
the car felt good that day
i didn't know where i was going
but it felt good for a change
a five and a pocket full of silver
i paid the lady no change
and then it started to piss down
i started driving again
and then i looked up
and looked in the mirror behind me
a man round forty in the back seat
must have stepped in when i was empty