Shake Like Judy Says
Shake like Judy says
To a potent melody
Shake off and forget
On her anniversary
So things don't return to hurt you anymore
Shake like Judy dies
Till you don't shake anymore.
Do as Judy does
And you won't go short of fun
Things won't look so bad,
When you're friends with everyone
Does it hurt as if you heart is clean in two?
Well do as Judy does
And you'll feel as good as new.
Everything, everything
Will appear to gang up on you
It's hard to keep your balance when the past is on parole.
Anything, anything
Can take your mind of those useless troubles
So organise a bunch mindless tonics for your soul.
When all that lies ahead is another dismal day
Speak out, speak out loud
Until your lungs give way.
Show them all the way
To your wedding day
Run like Judy does
From a distant memory
Find out it's yourself
That's the perfect company
So do like Judy does
When sorrow's cutting deep
You either do these things
Or you cry yourself to sleep
Cry yourself to sleep
Shake a little
Shake like Judy does
Like she does so well
Then I cry myself to sleep
Put my head in my hands and I weep
To that distant memory
She's out on her balcony
Staring out to sea
And she never thinks about me
That's when I shake like Judy does
And then I cry myself to sleep
Love Your Shoes
I love your shoes
And I know you say you want to sit this one out
But don't refuse
I'm dressed to the nines and I really want to twist and shout
I know it's going to rain on or party but
We musn't let that get us down
I love your tongue
And I love the wicked things that it says
I'm all undone and ready to hear the error of my ways
I know it's bound to rain on our party but
We musn't let that get us down
We're going to have the best time
The time of our worthless lives
I love your mind
It makes me want to stay right here in bed
I'm way behind you darling
And I never want to get ahead
I know there's a thunderstorm coming but
We musn't let that get us down
We're going to have the best time
The time of our worthless lives
I love your shoes
And I love the stupid things that you say
So I don't lose out
Not even when you run away
I know it's going to rain on or party but
We musn't let that get us down
We're going to have the best time
The time of our worthless lives
You won't shake me off
There's nothing you can do
Because I love you
And I love your shoes
Brilliant Mind
I'm at the stage
Where everything I thought meant something
Seems so unappealing
I'm ready for the real thing
But nobody's selling
Except you and yours
Saying open up your eyes and ears
And let me in
You must be out of your brilliant mind
You're at the stage
You want your empty words heard
And everybody's ready
They want to know your secret
But you are not telling
You're just gesturing saying open up your arms and hearts
And let me in
You must be out of your brilliant mind
I'm at the stage
Where I want my words heard
When no one wants to listen
Because everybody's yelling
About you and yours
And how I'd have the answer if I'd only open up, up, up
And let you in
They must be out of their brilliant minds
I said shame
Shame on you
Shame
Shame on you
Shame
Shame on you
You must be out of your brilliant mind
And they must be out of their brilliant minds
Everyone out of their brilliant minds
I'm must be out of my brilliant mind
My brilliant mind
She Gets Out The Scrapbook
You're working for a family
I'm working for myself
The thought never changes
The thought never changes
My hands are reaching out to you
All across this town
I swear that I'll find you
I swear that I'll find you
Even though you hide away
I know
You won't forget
Cause I've got a piece of your heart
You left here
And I don't want it
There's things to be done
And things to be said
That should have been said long ago
I could stay out here forever
But the time will come I know
When you can't think about the future
For the past times you recall
The thought never changes
The thought never changes
Even when you're making love to him
My shadow's on your wall
You swore I'd be with you
You swore I'd be with you
Till the end
And it all came true
But it's not how we expected it to be, is it?
A memory round every corner
A ghost coming back for a visit
But I'm no ghost
And I want this chance
Just a ghost of a chance
Or the chance of a ghost
I will take the stand
I will raise my hand
I will talk
I will talk
I've held it in too long
So tell me it means nothing to me you
Tell me I don't have to think about you
Tell me the next will wash out the last
Tell me, but don't think I'll tell you it's true
Nothing of this is important now
Nothing that has any reason to last
Still I will work for the future
Just to take control of the past
She's been working late
She comes home
Gets on the phone
Calls up a few close friends
Get a bottle of wine or something
And as the evening draws on
We sit and reminisce
She gets out the scrapbook
And they say
Did we really live like this
Did we really really live like this
Entertain me
Come you big bad world
And entertain me
Entertain me cause I'm bored with myself when the lights go out
There's nothing to talk about
And every silence lets in the same doubt
Cause I won't forget a single night we spent
And I won't forget a single word of love we said
Remember that when you speak to me
And I'm working late in the open air
And the moon shines on your face
Entertain me
Come on you big bad world and entertain me
I Miss You
The misery that I endured
It seems so foolish these days
But darling, you can rest assured
That I'm a changed man these days
Stupid jokes we used to share
Hang around me in the air
And that scent you used to wear
I can still detect it there
I miss you, I do
Though I never planned it
The more that I think of it, it's true
It's true
I miss you
I do
I can't understand it
No matter how hard I try
I still miss you
Those I've known since you
Liked me in their own way
But when I tried to touch like we used to
They'd just turn and run away
All of my senses ache
I've taken to drinking
I wonder
Did we make a mistake
Darling, I've been thinking
I miss you, I do
Though I never planned it
The more that I think of it, it's true
It's true I miss you
I do
I can't understand it
No matter how bad things were
I still miss you
Make Believe I'm Him
I'd be a fool if I hadn't seen
There was someone else on your mind
I know he meant a lot to you
But that's hard for me to take
After all this time
And that far away look appears in your eyes
I know that you're thinking of the past
And darling I can tell
When we make love
That you make believe
You make believe I'm him
Sometimes I get so jealous
So hurt and angry
I could cry
But then I realise that someone who played such a part in your life
Would linger on inside
And you get so excited when you're thinking of him
It seems wrong to stop you feeling so good
So if you want to
When we make love
You can make believe
You can make believe I'm him
But if I didn't love you so much
I'd refuse to take second place
Though I feel a strange kind of pleasure
When I see that look upon your face
You know one day darling
You might think of me
In the way you consider that man
But in the meantime
When we make love
You're going to make believe
You're going to make believe I'm him
I live on a ringroad
And my walls all shake
I didn't sleep all night
And I didn't sleep all day
I shouted at the traffic
I chased the shadows home
Took a turn off the high street
And into the unknown
Now there's a shipload of something in a transit van
There's a brick through the window of an innocent man
From the young lions snarling around the market square
But I've no inclination to care
Cos all the fuss you're making
Don't get results
Come on you cats
Let me feel your pulse
I said hey boy, you boy
Shine my shoes boy
Hey boy, you boy
Sniff that glue boy
You carry your mirror to the local venue
And you wait for the show to start
But you're the performance
That I came to see
I got my seat in the corner
Don't mind me
I watch the pretty girls dancing, dancing
Makes me feel so good
I get the information
About the neighbourhood
I may look a bit dumb but I'm nobody's fool
I am not losing my touch
My touch, I am not losing my touch
I need you so much
You can stay the night
Stay the year
It happens or it doesn't happen
And you get up and make your own breakfast
I haven't seen you lately
But you're warmer to my touch
And I see my smile in your eyes
Come home with me
Stay the weekend
Stay forever, I don't care
You breathe in, you breathe out
And you get up and make yourself breakfast
I smile when I choose
I've got nothing to lose
I'm keeping one step ahead of the bills
Cos all the fuss you're making
Don't get results
Come on you cats
Let me feel your pulse
The Sound Of The Bell
I'll buy you diamonds
I'll keep you in this hotel
You're so precious
I want you all to myself
If we're on camera
Then you've hammed this up before
And we both think that we're running the show
Waiting to hear you shout 'No'
I'm acting above my station
Trying to perfect this state of degredation
But the dogs come up
I succeed too well
And I start to drool at the sound of the bell
Tear up the mattress
So sweet when you cry just a bit
Beaten on a stairway
Loving every moment of it
Down in the foyer
There's a documentary crew
And they say
"All that we want are the facts
So show us your legs and relax
Give us some highlife
And some human interest"
Fast people in a fast food place
And he slides through the crowd like a venemous snake
He says:
Try some of this
And now do some of that
He's got his eye on your handbag
And the key to your flat
It feels so good not to think for yourself
You can put the blame on somebody else
But your eyes still see
And you know that smell
And you start to come at the sound of the bell
You've got the five proud walkers
You've got the cast-iron staircase
You've got the dance in the cages
Escape Into My Arms
Well I know how it gets
When you're certain you're all alone
Full of regrets
Wondering where you went wrong
There is sure to come a time
It's more than you can take
That shiny shield you hide behind
Is bound to crack and break
It's a narrow minded town
There's no benefit, just the doubt
And every shutter's down
When you need to talk it out
When you hit the bottom
When you're in a jam
The world is full of good friends
Who couldn't give a damn
When you've no-one left to turn to
You can escape into my arms
When you've nowhere left to run to
Run and escape into my arms
I will hold on to you, tightly
It's not comfort you want
And you're happy to stay this way
If things go wrong
I still stand by these things I say
You're looking out for love affairs
With the loss built in
One day pain and pleasure stops
And panic will set in
When you've no-one left to turn to
You can escape into my arms
When you've nowhere left to run to
Run and escape into my arms
I will hold on to you, tightly
I will hold on this time, tightly
Answer The Door
What crazy logic has come down
To steer me to this spot
I'm calm and waiting patiently
But don't know if I approve or not
It would have been much better
If we'd come this way together
And maybe we have somehow
Answer the door
I'm knocking, let me in
Will we understand what we night have been
Damn it, I am still in love
But it doesn't quite ring true
You were wild and good
You were perfection
What did I ever see in you?
What I really mean is
The good and bad between us
Could be the best we'll ever know
Answer the door
I'm pounding to get n
Will you ever understand what we might have been
Or were we wasting our time?
You can't describe this mood at all
This exhilarating pain
You want to stay around, stay forever
And you never want to see me again
You meet all kinds of strangers
Make some great big fancy changes
And kiss too much goodbye
Answer the door
I'm anxious to get in
And get clear inside my head
What we never would have been
What we never could have been
Pierre's Fight
Pierre gets short shrift from his so-called love
She's been out all hours
And it's her secret
And she revels in it
Pierre gets relaxed with a whisky glass
He's in two confused minds
Do I put up with it?
Or put an end to it?
She wears shabby dresses that he likes her in
Flaunts herself for him
Then goes out on the town
Leaves him to brood
Fix himself food
There's a fight on the radio
He's looked forward to
He'll scramble an egg
Pace the floor and decide
If it's worth staying round
If it's worth staying round
(Round One)
The rhythm of the blows hits home
Pounds on his gut
Don't don't don't
He throws back his head
Finishes his drink
Uses his fists on himself
Come home baby
Come home
I want you here
He beats, he beats
Come home baby
Come home
I want you here
Here in this room
In that dress
Baby you hurt me
Don't count me out
I'm not down yet
I'm coming out swinging
Come home baby
Come home
You haven't won, I'm not down yet
I'm coming out swinging
This time, I'm coming
I'm coming out
Send you out of the ring
I'm coming out swinging
You haven't won
I'm not down yet
Just wait and see
Come home baby
And this time things will be different
To Gus
Maybe in your time
Things are worse than they are now
Or seem so
You gaze into the past
It takes on a rosy glow
Or seems to
With ale at two-and-six a barrel
We could all forget our troubles
Or seem to
Sing the folks some songs
That have popped into your head
They're laughing
Put the donkey in the washhouse
Grab a crust of bread
And you're laughing
Swells may pass you by
A Piccadilly window in the eye
But you're laughing
Cause life up from the bottom
Has got you to the top
Or something
A life that is a symbol
Of never giving up
Or something
Tell us of the fame you found
With "Wait Until The Work Comes Round"
Or something
Wandering by your place I wonder did you ever starve?
You always had a bob or two from making people laugh
The bright blue plaque
Proudly boasts your name
The bright blue posters
Say that nothing's changed
Gus, you wouldn't recognise your town
But you sure as hell would recognise the times
They're laughing
Or something
It seems so
Turnupspeed
When my foot goes down
I'll kill this prince of youth
When I take this corner
Your idol's bound to die
With a wheel through his chest
On a road that climbs
And you never said goodbye
When my foot goes down
I'll enter history
When I take this corner
A hero will be born
With a tear in his eye
And a secret inside
And a smile that's so forlorn
When my foot goes down
I'll immortalise this boy
When I take this corner
I'll give you all you need
Frozen at his peak
Perfect, doomed and sweet
But you won't remember
Turnupseed
Turnupspeed
Me And You And The Name
Hey there my old friend, how ya doing, how ya been?
Buy us a drink and I'll get you in a magazine
Don't smile like that now, would I lie to you?
Everyone dreams about being famous, I can make your dreams come true
I'm only in with the 'in crowd' but I just popped out
I'm one of those highlife bastards I'm always reading about
I know the clubs that never shut and the parties that never end
Can't step inside the Circle line without meeting an old friend
And I know the name
And I know the name
I'm gonna hold on to what I've got
I said the name champagne when he got his first number one
I've been running some little errands for him when the day was done
Anyone worth reading used to get their tips from me
I showed up in a couple of videos in 1983
Come on get us in another and I'll tell you all
They shovel dirt on anyone you like, large or small
The name, the name with no brain, he didn't deserve his success
Shot his mouth off once too often, and I sold his story to the press
And I know the name
And I know the name
I'm gonna hold on to what I've got
I can see by the cut of the cloth that you're doing alright
I know you play rock and roll in a pub every Monday night
And it's nice to talk to someone with their feet on the ground
Get us in another I could stay here till they shut it down
Oh it wouldn't great if shitheads were now going stale
Yeah, they sits behind their desks and they worry that they're gonna fail
And you know it could hit me the same way when I'm 23
And my phone was cut off in April and I've not been out for weeks
And I know the name
Yeah I knew the name
I'm gonna hold on to what I've got
Shake Like Judy Says