Very Best of (+ Bonus Dvd) (Pal/Rc-Tbc) lyrics

Sittin' in the front row

Mary of the fourth form

Turnin' all the boys on

She's turnin' all their heads around

Hitchin' up her short skirt
Stretchin' out her long legs

Pullin' up her stockings

She's combing out her long hair

Starin' at the teacher

Openin' her lips wide

Shiftin' in her seat. Yeah,

She slowly moves her hips aside

But in the middle of the night

Somewhere a screen door slammed

Somewhere, someplace, somebody's killing a man

Down the road I'm told five people died

And I wonder are you making love to anyone tonight.

Cos she and I, we're still sitting here

Our eyes are dry but we're bored to tears

She said lets talk about the future, lets forget about the past

Did I forget to tell you time never lasts,

CHORUS:

"Traffic's wild tonight"

Diamond smiles her cocktail smile.

Tonight she's in heavy disquise.

She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time.

"Weather's mild tonight"

She wonders do they notice her eyes,

She wonders will her glamour survive,

And can they see she's going down a third time.

Everybody tries,

It's Dale Carnegie gone wild,

There was an awful lot of rocking going on that night,

Cruising time for the young bright lights,

Just down past the gasworks, by the meat factory door,

The five lamp boyswere coming on strong.

The Saturday night city beat had already started
The pulse of the corner boys sprang into action

And young Billy watched it all under the yellow street light

Chorus:

Banana Republic

Septic Isle

Screaming in the suffering sea

It sounds like crying
Everywhere I go

Everywhere I see

The black and blue uniforms

Police and priests

And I wonder do you wonder

While you're sleeping with your whore

That sharing beds with history

Is like a-licking running sores

Forty shades of green yeah

Sixty shades of red

The offices are emptying their pale-faced wards into the street,

Flickering their strip-light eyes, shivering they readjust their lives

From the air-conditioned heat.

The humdrum and mundane

Is nearly driving them insane.
But you get hooked so quick to anything

Even your chains,

You're crouching in your corner 'til they open up your cage.

Chorus:

And when the night comes

Dave'd called me up yesterday

Everything he loved had moved away

I felt despair come crawling through that phone

I know the feeling but don't get me wrong
Dave I've always thought that you were touched by fate

It's never easy but why throw it away?

Maybe you were both chasing this

Flirt with death but never kiss her,

Dave

Oh, I keep dreaming, I'll set the scene,

Drag me down in colors pink and gold

(Like a ship that's going under..

Bring me home in rain and thunder)

Bless the night before the day grows old

(Like a ship that's going under...
Bring me home in rain and thunder)

Drag me down in colors pink and gold

(Like a ship that's going under...

I'll be home in rain and thunder)

Bless the night before the day grows old

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,

I'll tear down the sky

Don't stop now

No never in a million years

I'd spit in their eye

Don't stop now

But I won't be a volunteer

And now

I'm always dreaming of dreams

That lie in state

Waiting for me to wake

And make

A life for them

I know I'll never let

Those self-defeating fears

Spoil those golden years

These days that pass us by

So slow

And now

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?)

Sooner or later when the dawn was breaking

The joint was jumping and the walls were shaking

Joey sneaked in the backdoor way

Pretending he was with the band, he never used to pay

He was no great draw at pulling the chicks
He used to lie against the wall like he was holding up the bricks

And all the things that guy used to do to get his kicks

Life pours down into the neon heart (It's late at night)

Cement City is all a-spark (Yeah that's right)

The whores are loose and the dames are abroad (My pants are tight)

There's a price on their hearts you can't fail to afford.

Drink to the bitch and we'll dance for a while

If you can't do the module than you'll have to try the slide

It was all cool enough if you had the zazz

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

On a night like this I deserve to get kissed at least once or twice

You come over to my place screaming blue murder, needing someplace to hide.

Well, I wish you'd keep quiet,

Imaginations run riot,

In these paper-thin walls.
And when the place comes ablaze with a thousand dropped names

I don't know who to call.

But I got a friend over there in the government block