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b-sides from the EVERYTHING MUST GO singles
mr carbohydrate
They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
It's the only thing I can digest
Xenophobia or general disinterest
I must catch up with all this stuff
They call me a boring fuck head
Say I might as well work in a bank
I tell them I wish I was
They tell me that I'm sick in the head
They say that I'm sick in my head
They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
They call me Mr. Inadequate
They call me Mr. Paranoia
They call me Mr. Hypochondria
Have you heard of Matthew Maynard?
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play than pick up my guitar
Than play with my guitar
People tell me that I should get out more
But the TV is my best friend
Cynisism is the only thing that keeps me sane
The only thing that keeps me sane
They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
They call me Mr. Inadequate
They call me Mr. Paranoia
They call me Mr. Hypochondria
Sometimes I just stay in bed and think about the day
When I can retire, forgetting everything
I'll forget everything
Forget everything
Forever but not today
When I cannot, cannot say
No more yesterdays
No more yesterdays
dead passive
She's so passive but she's looking good
He's so passive but he's looking good
They are together but really they're apart
They are together but do not belong, but do not belong
Yes ladies and gentlemen
Let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Kate and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi
The ballad of Michael and Helena
The ballad is forever changing
She's so passive but happy in her way
He's so passive but happy in his way
They do nothing just sit and they pretend
They sit around and pray for it to end, pray for it to end
Yes ladies and gentlemen
Let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Kate and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi
The ballad of Hugh and Elizabeth
The ballad is forever changing
I'm so passive
A hopeless fucking mess
We're so passive
Do our bit for charity
From Bosnia to London
We do it all for free
We do it all for free
dead trees and traffic islands
Paralysis through analysis
Yellow moral unclean decay
Silence begins to hurt me now
The sunshine it fades away
Syllables have now disappeared
How could this happen to me
How could this happen to me
But now... I feel so weak
Dead trees and traffic islands never meet
Is this... is this my defeat
This purgatory for beginners
Dead trees and traffic islands
Tolerance slips away
Body shrugs and says hello once more
Paint the walls within my mind
Clandestine brain finished period
Lips turn grey inside turns out
I show little defence
I show little defence
But now... I feel so weak
Dead trees and traffic islands never meet
Is this... is this my defeat
This purgatory for beginners
Dead trees and traffic islands
bright eyes
Is it a kind of dream
Floating down on the river
Following the river of death down stream
Oh is it a dream?
There's a fog on the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody knows where you can go
Or what does it mean
oh, oh is it a dream
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly turn so pale?
Bright eyes
Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching over the hill
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream
There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody knows where you can go
And where do you start
Oh oh, into the dark
Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail
How can the eyes that burned so brightly
Suddenly grow so pale
Bright eyes
black garden
Glory glory, hallelujah
Our truth comes marching on
Swing, swing
There's a little part of me
There's a little part of you
Remember the feeling
Of a frozen embryo
There's a bigger part of me
There's a bigger part of you
Remember the place where
You don't want to go
Welcome into your own black garden
It's full of life but it's still too frightening
Can't open my eyes this whiteness blinds
All this whiteness blinds
Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none
Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none
Waiting to be bread in the black garden
Waiting to be muted and then chosen
White trash you're a swinger
Ugly to the end
Ugly to the end
Swing, swing
hanging on
Hold me down
I don't ever want to see the day
When my time will come
Is it ever gonna end
I'm not here
Wish the last of the year
Where do we go now
Another blackout
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
I'm not real
But I'd like to have a chance to feel
Before we reach the time
Decide what now is right
I'm not here
Wish the last of the year
Where do we go now
Another blackout
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing
no one knows what its like to be me
To all the people who've hurt me
To all the life that has left me
To all the longing that lost me
To all the future that scares me
To all the words that have drained me
To all the questions that bored me
To all the people that believed me
To all the money that blinded me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
To all the skies that have reached for me
To all the oceans that drowned me
To all the rain that has soothed me
To all the sun that depressed me
To all the people who lived in fear
To all the life that is held so dear
To all the empty souls who still despair
I know it's the same for everyone
No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
Doctor and dentist, housewife and thief
No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
No-one knows what it's like to be me
Doctor and dentist, housewife and thief
No-one knows what it's like to be me
raindrops keep falling on my head (live acoustic version)
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red
Crying's not for me
Oh, 'cause I ain't gonna stop the rain by complainin'
Cause I just done me some talkin' to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he got things done
Sleepin' on the job
Oh raindrops keep fallin' on my head
Keep a-fallin'
But there's one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me won't defeat me
It won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me,
to greet, greet, greet, greet me
Raindrops keep fallin' on my head
Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothin' seems to fit
Oh, 'cause I ain't gonna stop the rain
Can't remember the words to save my fucking life
Because I'm free, nothin's botherin' me
Because I'm free, nothin's botherin' me
Because I'm free, nothin's botherin' me
Because I'm free, nothin's botherin' me
Ah fuck it
horses under starlight
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sepia
A flamed adolescence
Steeped in the history of you
Stopped in the summer with you
Experience is lost on me
I am melancholia eternally
But I still smile so stupidly
For the first time ever
I don't understand my television
And just like the moment
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film
But bleeding inside I manage to keep it all in
I keep it all in
I've spoken so much rubbish
Done it in no time at all
Feelings are so fatal in the fall
No you never kissed me
Never felt anything for me
Sepia thoughts deem that I remember
They don't read in diaries
That I could never breathe, never breathe
And just like the moment
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film
But bleeding inside I manage to keep it all in
I keep it all in
And just like the moment
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film
But bleeding inside I manage to keep it all in
I keep it all in
first republic
You are so alone
In Kensington Palace
We should be content
In these damp terraces
Thank you for this view
From our council estates
I hope you have really
Guillotined your own head
I crown myself, myself a king
And declare a first republic
We wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins
You once gave us war
Racism and slavery
Cut out all our tongues
And fucked our industry
Now you've revealed something
You're human after all this
But let's clap our hands
And fuck our dear princess
I crown myself, myself a king
And declare a first republic
We wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins
I crown myself, myself a king
And declare a first republic
We wanna play yes we wanna play
In the burnt out palace ruins
velocity girl
Here she comes again,
With vodka in her veins,
Been playing with the spike,
She couldn't get it right,
Splendour in silver dress
The last thing she possesed
The world was hers and then
It fell apart again
I don't need anyone to help me
Don't want anyone at all
Because my so called friends have left me
And now I don't care at all
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
take the skinheads bowling
Every day, I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks by exactly one
Everybody's comin' home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes
(Got big lanes, got big lanes)
Some people say that bowling alleys all look the same
(Look the same, look the same)
There's not a line here that goes here that rhymes with anything
(Anything, anything)
I had a dream last night, but I forget what it was
(What it was, what it was)
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
I had a dream last night about you, my friend
I had a dream - I wanted to sleep next to plastic
I had a dream - I wanted to lick your knees
I had a dream - it was about nothing
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
can't take my eyes off you
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
Pardon the way that I stare
There's nothing else to compare
The sight of you leaves me weak
There are no words left to speak
Darling you feel like I feel
And I don't have to know if it's real
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
You feel like heaven to touch
I wanna hold you so much
At last love has arrived
And I thank God I'm alive
You're just too good to be true
I can't take my eyes off you
I love you baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you baby
To warm a lonely night
I love you baby
Trust in me when I say
Oh pretty baby
Don't bring me down, I pray
Oh pretty baby
Now that I've found this day
So let me love you baby
Let me love you
