Reading Writing & Arithmetic lyrics

where's the harm in voicing a doubt
you'll find me in the lavatory
and where's the harm in talking out loud when I'm on my own
what's so wrong with reading my stars
when I'll be in the lavatory
and what is so wrong with counting the cars when I'm all alone

you're not the only one that I know
and I'm too proud to talk to you anyway
you're not the only one that I know

you know, and I've been wondering
you know, all the way home
whether the world will see
I'm a better man than [others/ever I was] by far
and you know, I've had it so good
[even I'm/even how/hey but I'm] [lonesome/loathsome]
it's not quite my style
[awaken/her walk-in] vanity
wasted my time inside
oh, you see me in a cardigan
in a dress, dress, dress that I've been sitting on

when the world, it shows me up
my clothes, they show me up
I never knew this before
the finest hour that I've ever known
was finding a pound on the Underground
when my words came stumbling out
then I went tumbling out
I've never been hit before
the finest hour that I've ever known
was finding a pound on the Underground

and I keep hoping you are the same as me

ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight
and I'd like to take some matches [there/then] and set it alight
I can't, 'cause I've seen those kind of places before
ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight
and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right
I shan't, 'cause I've seen those kind of people before
I won the war in the sitting room
I won the war but it cost me

ooh, let me take a candle to a cellar tonight
and I'd like to take some matches there and set it alight
I can, cos I've seen those kind of places before
ooh, I'd like to have a party in a cellar tonight
and I'd love to have a party but it wouldn't be right
I shan't, cos I've seen those kind of people before
I won the war in the sitting room
I won the war but it cost me

don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I'll join the army, the Salvation Army
but it didn't help
don't ask me why, but don't ask me why
I joined the army, but it drove me barmy
and it didn't help
hideous towns made me throw up
don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I went into service with the Civil Service
but it didn't help
don't ask me why, [yet] don't ask me why

don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I'll join the army, the Salvation Army but it didn't help
don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I joined the army, but it drove me barmy and it didn't help
hideous towns make me throw up

don't ask me why, don't ask me why
I went into service with the Civil Service but it didn't help
don't ask me why, don't ask me why

people I know, places I go, make me feel tongue-tied
I can see how people look down, they're on the inside
here's where the story ends
people I see, weary of me showing my good side
I can see how people look down
I'm on the outside
here's where the story ends
ooh here's where the story ends

it's that little souvenir of a terrible year
which makes my eyes feel sore

when people say it's sad
you know it can't be bad
& on any other day I'd be soul destroyed
but now I can't afford to
listen to a word they say
& of all the times we had
o the ultimate late night
didn't taste right
true words that I should know
blood on my hands
when you looked around I couldn't be found
a crime's a crime
I'll have to pay
now I find that I'm thigh deep

live your life, have your say
read your stars, day by day
if I could have anything in the world for free
I wouldn't share it with anyone else but me
oh, live your life, go your way
and I said oh no
live your life, stake your claim
wash your clothes, change your name
ooh, and I said oh, no, no
if I could have anything in the world for free

give me a story and give me a bed
give me possessions
oh love luck and money they go to my head
like wildfire
it's good to have something to live for you'll find
live for tomorrow
live for a job and a perfect behind
high time
a-ah
England my country the home of the free
such miserable weather
but England's as happy as England can be
why cry
and did you know desire's a terrible thing

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think its strange you never knew

summer sky and a throat bone dry
and all the fields are all gold

dusty lane with a song in my brain
and it stoned me to my soul

i climb higher move towards the fire
blaze sun

silver trees and a whispering breeze
are my sight and my sound

the thought of heaven couldn't drag me from the path
when i'm wandering here alone

i climb higher move towards the fire
so blaze sun

It's 4 in the morning July in '69
Me and my sister
We crept down like shadows
They're bringing the moon right down
To our sitting room
Static and silence
And a monochrome vision

They're dancing around
Slow puppets silver ground
And the world is watching with joy
We hear a voice from above
And it's history
And we stayed awake
All night