Nothing At All I'd give you everything you wanted I'd give you all that you require Just say the word and I'll get on it I'm here to realise your desires So I don't know why You don't try Cos I get no assistance at all from you Will you even reach your hand out when I fall? Do you understand me? Do you understand me? Nothing gets nothing at all Nothing gets nothing at all I’m falling, I’m falling Nothing gets nothing at all There was a king who had three daughters I think perhaps you’ve seen the play He asked them all how much they loved him The youngest didn’t want to say And you’re just like her Cordelia You can save us all from a world of hurt Or you could watch me bang my head against your wall Am I speaking English? Am I speaking English? Nothing gets nothing at all Nothing gets nothing at all I’m falling, I’m falling Nothing gets nothing at all Oh you’re such a cruel mistress A silent psychopath Can we get back down to business? Can’t you do the math? It’s just too bad You can’t add Will you wait forever to call my bluff Til I’m slumped and barely breathing in the stall? Please give me something Anything Nothing gets nothing at all Nothing gets nothing at all I’m falling Nothing gets nothing at all Monkey And His Cat Monkey keeps his cat up in a cage upon the stage And the crowned heads of Europe cheer the wonder of the age Cos the cat's just like a bird and good old monkey grinds the tune And the cat will dance fandangos just above the footlight moon And then he’ll make a very birdlike sound And monkey makes him flop upon the ground As though he’s flying Some people he’s dying Man got his monkey, monkey got his cat Cat got his flea, flea’s got me And everybody’s free to work on their act Monkey and his cat The cat hisses at monkey as he milks all the applause Above the clank of change that ricochets across the floor And monkey says “I love you” and returns him to the cage And bows to all the ladies as they exit from the stage The cat is dressed up as a Puss In Boots And monkey wears a sparkling new suit Just like a human All the girls are swooning Man got his monkey, monkey got his cat Cat got his flea, flea’s got me And everybody’s free to work on their act Monkey and his cat Monkey and his cat retrieve the key and go within The humble home sweet home where they quietly live in sin A man will bring their supper as they sit before the fire Once he was the grinder, now he has to work for hire He didn’t keep his finger on the pulse The audience demanded something else A new distraction Some cat and monkey action Man got his monkey, monkey got his cat Cat got his flea, flea’s got me And everybody’s free to work on their act Monkey and his cat Negative Love Negative love Sceptical eyes beneath a frown Negative love You’re always putting other people down Then they’re gone And, as they fade away, well, who’s to say that you were wrong? Negative love The radio’s playing my request Negative love You lie before me, unimpressed Why say ‘yes’ When you know all the ways to say ‘no’ best Please don’t make an exception for me Please don’t make an exception There’s no hope for me and you Cos I’m a little negative too Cynical you I see the look that’s in your eyes Cynical you And it’s saying ‘I don’t sympathise’ No surprise Only the naïve believe in love and other lies Please don’t make an exception for me Please don’t make an exception There’s no hope for me and you Cos I’m a little negative too I’m a little negative too We’re the wrong side of one I should change my name to John Undone Or maybe we’re on to something Could we end up positive after all? Please don’t lower you standards for me, Please don’t lower your standards There’s no hope for me and you Cos I’m a little negative too There’s nothing for me and you Cos I’m a little negative, I’m a little cynical I’m a little negative, I’m a little critical I’m a little negative too Sleeper, Awake! Rise up from your deep sleep, baby Wake up from your slumber I’ve got your anaesthetic ready I have got your number I’ll do everything to help you Make a smooth transition The coffee’s in the grinder The key’s in the ignition Sleeper, Arise! Wipe the sleep from your eyes Get outta your bed, quit playing dead Sleeper, Awake! How much time does it take? Lie there still and I’ll kiss you Oh, how I’ve missed you Sleeper, Awake! You’ve slept for a thousand years But not like Sleeping Beauty Maybe you’re the princess Who refused to do her duty No poisoned spinning wheel No blood upon the Singer You just buried your alarm And turned off the phone ringer Sleeper, Arise! Wipe the sleep from your eyes Get outta your bed, quit playing dead Sleeper, Awake! How much time does it take? Lie there still and I’ll kiss you Oh, how I’ve missed you Sleeper, Awake! Ah, but I’m scared One touch of your cold cold lips, perhaps I’ll join you there But I don’t care This is a risk, this is a risk This is a kiss, this is a kiss Sleeper, Arise! Wipe the sleep from your eyes Get outta your bed, quit playing dead Sleeper, Awake! How much time does it take? Lie there still and I’ll kiss you I can’t resist you Sleeper, Awake! Pull Sometimes I look into your eyes I’m trying to see the light that shines back at me Sometimes there’s nothing there Sometimes it’s hard to care Sometimes I’m scared that I don’t know What pulls you up? What pulls you down? What pulls you back to me, my love? What makes you sing? What pulls your strings from up above What pulls you up? I wish it was just you and me Like in our glory when we needed no-one Maybe another hand Messed with our master plan Perhaps we'll never understand What pulls us up? What pulls us down? What pulls us back again, my love? What makes us sing? What pulls our strings from up above What pulls us up? Are we just happy puppets, baby? Can we make up our own minds? Are we just happy puppets? Maybe. Probably. And now you’re just a mystery And we will never know whodunit, will we? First time is just for fun Next time, repeat step one And then you’re done before you know What pulls you up? What pulls you down? What pulls you back again, my love? What makes you sing? What pulls your strings from up above What pulls us up? Are we just happy puppets? Maybe. Sussex Ghost Story After I had killed my wife And by the jury been acquitted I resolved to change my life And try to lead a life less wicked I roamed around From town to town In search of some employment But it was here I settled down I saw her standing in the sun I was bewitched by all her features And before the day was done I was in love with the schoolteacher And since she had No next of kin I offered my assistance To my surprise She took me in We spent the summer of that year In a love of such perfection But when winter first appeared I felt the cold of her rejection It was then She turned to me With a look I didn’t recognise "It is our anniversary" "It is our anniversary And you can not run away from me" I saw a light Upon a knife And in a moment that I recognised I begged for my life It Stays Bury it in the garden At midnight by the moon Cover up the traces Lick and dress your wounds Burn it up or drown it, you can try What has never lived, can never die And it doesn’t go away It stays, it stays, it stays, it stays I saw you standing in the kitchen Drinking champagne from a mug Should I have waited ‘til you noticed me? Was I ash upon the rug? Sometimes you can not remove a stain And if you do, its absence still remains And it doesn’t go away It stays, it stays, it stays, it stays It fights another day It doesn’t go away It stays, it stays, it stays, it stays It’s as simple as that I can’t add to it We had our chance And we blew it Worse than that Well, we knew it, we knew it Every day’s the morning after - Maybe last night broke the curse But it was only in remission It’ll come back even worse In your dreams, it’s falling far behind But just like daylight coming through the blinds It doesn’t go away It stays, it stays, it stays, it stays It fights another day It doesn’t go away It stays, it stays, it stays, it stays It fights another day Do not go away Stay, stay, stay, stay Do not go away Stay Hard Inside your machine, I hear a whirring Cogs and flywheels getting into gear Once this was time to tell your secrets Softly so that only I could hear Strange to be this close and never touching Moves me far away from where we are I wish I knew what you were dreaming And I wonder if you’re showing off the scar It’s true I know it's hard on me It’s even harder on you It's hard It’s hard to be strangers I send my best regards We’ve both changed And that’s hard We slept through one another’s nightmares Till we forgot what beds were for Now we’re awake and slightly shaken We’ve seen what’s behind the bedroom door It's no fun I know it's hard on me It's hard on everyone It's hard It’s hard It’s hard to be strangers I send my best regards We’ve both changed And that’s hard And when you said that it was love or nothing I didn’t know the outcome was in doubt It’s true If it’s hard on me It’s even harder on you It’s hard It’s hard It’s hard that we changed I send my best regards We’re strangers now And that’s hard It’s hard It’s hard Sluts We’re sluts, you and me Succumb to pleasure easily Despite all our sincere attempts We rise at two, go out unkempt Retire at six for a little more Hey, there’s no-one’s keeping score Except the dog, who’s kinda bored We’re sluts, the two of us Why walk, when we can get the bus Why get the bus, when we can cab it Living large is our best habit Don’t cook now, it’s much too late Look at all the dirty plates Let’s go where we don’t have to wait No ifs, no ands, no buts, cos we’re sluts We’re sluts, and we’re proud of it, doing what’s appropriate One day we will live like kings in one big house but separate wings Sluts We’re sluts, it’s what we do Promiscuity for two We’re not here, wait for the tone Oh yes, we rarely check the phone Please call back another day Hold me down just where I lay I don’t want to float away No ifs, no ands, no buts, cos we’re sluts We’re sluts, and we’re proud of it, curled up like invertebrates And one day we will live like queens, always just beyond our means Sluts We’re sluts, our claim to fame Please remind me of your name This is where we both belong Wonder where my cell phone’s gone Let’s be realistic, sweet Soon we’ll have to make ends meet Make our home between the sheets No ifs, no ands, no buts, we’re sluts We’re sluts, and we’re proud of it, doing what’s appropriate And one day we will live like kings, in one big house with separate wings We’re sluts and we don’t care, you look good in my underwear I love you, you so and so: we just met three days ago – Sluts Protest! Protest! Protest! Back in the radical sixties It was hippies and tambourines It was mud and nudity It was gigs in fields of green It was a changing society And that was cool, but these are different times Miracles happen by the hour Science can make a flower And the people got the power So cheer up and don’t be dour My angry friend! All you wanna do is Protest! Protest! Protest! Could you be more introspective? Protest Protest! Protest! It’s only you that’s suspect That negative attitude will get you nowhere… I know it must have been easy When everyone was ready to shout There was much to complain about Just get the guitar out It was “Nixon And Agnew Out!” Or whatever, but attitudes have changed And we’re happy in the herd Now the enemy’s blur Prick us and we purr It’s time to choose your words A bit more wisely All you wanna do is Protest! Protest! Protest! Could you be more introspective? Protest Protest! Protest! It’s only you that’s suspect That negative attitude will get you nowhere Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere Just look at the world around you We have what we are fighting for I mean lotteries and more And the rest is best ignored Cos there’s much more fun in store After these messages, You’re free to sing your song But watch the things you say No negativity today For the times they have a-changed And then they’ve a-changed back again And we barely noticed All you wanna do is Protest! Protest! Protest! Could you be more introspective? Protest Protest! Protest! It’s only you that’s suspect That negative attitude will get you nowhere Nowhere, nowhere, nowhere, nowhere She Never Talks She had never been the silent type Didn’t wanna be a trophy wife She had an asp like Cleopatra And everybody started to point at her It was her first time at the opera house She bought a ticket for Die Fledermaus The Gods peered out from private boxes She must have caught someone’s eye No-one knows what happened next But they found her naked at a Texaco She never talks She never talks about it She never talks at all anymore She was put into a private ward The kind that mere mortals can’t afford She didn’t understand the changes But she felt the need to speak her mind She foretold the fall of rock’n’roll She predicted all the exit polls She was ridiculed for each suggestion No-one realised they’d all come true Now she knew where speaking led She bit her tongue until it bled She never talks She never talks about it She never talks at all anymore She never talks at all anymore People begged her for a final word Promised solemnly that she’d be heard But life seemed cruel and pointless She just wanted to be left alone She was doomed to speak one final time Before she gave up for a life in mime They laughed loudest when she predicted A happy ending for herself Now she lives with her dogs and me In perfect silent harmony She never talks She never talks about it She never talks at all anymore She never talks She never talks about it She never talks at all anymore When You Smile All you have to do is smile And the words just melt away And there is nowhere worth going And I have nothing to say When you smile Please take off your rings, your watch We’ll forget time as it’s flying I can see myself so deep in your eyes Can you see yourself in mine? We’ll forget just where we are If we’re anywhere at all You’re not the only one who’s lonely I’m not the only one who calls When you smile When you smile at me When you smile When you smile at me When the shadows pass above Put the sun on, let it shine And the world revolves around you and me It’s centre is just where we lie Feels like time will crawl forever This little room is everywhere We were made to be together And if not, it doesn’t matter When you smile When you smile at me When you smile When you smile at me