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Senator Fabulus
Senator Fabulus/His wife Volumnia
He's got his mobile but he can't get through to her
He's in the forum, she's at home
They're riding elephants through the streets of Rome
Going up like Roman candles
All of the Imperial scandals
Visting vandals
Igniting the Roman candles
Senator Fabulus, so obese
That's entertainment, watching the beasts
The options are endless, the stakes are higher
The buildings are falling, now the Forum's on fire
repeat chorus
Senator Fabulus poisoned his son
Murdered his brother with his daddy's gun
Hannibal's jumbos coming to town
Society crumbles now the forum's come down!
Going up like Roman candles
All of the Imperial scandals
The pumps don't work 'cos
The vandals took the handles
Roman candles
Roman candles
Roman candles
Yeah yeah yeah
Senator Fabulus ends his life
High in his tower calling his wife
Visiting vandals sacking Rome
The sound of chickens coming home
Going up like Roman canldes
Imperial Scandals
The pumps dont work 'cos
The vandals took the handles
Roman candles, looking like the Roman candles
It's a Roman candle, Roman candle
Going up going down like a Roman candle
There's a fire in the town and it's burning down
Going up going down it's a hell of a town
Going down going down like a Roman candle
Like a Roman candle
This is American Airlines flight 747 and all flights lead to Rome
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Melanie Mae
I rode into town in my silver suit
You were looking down but you were looking cute
There's a way, gettaway, that you wink your eye
Melanie Mae, I'm high
You were standing on the corner in your old blue jeans
Pumping all your money in the record machine
There's a way, gettaway, that you pout your lip
Melanie Mae, I'm hip
Look at me straight in the eyes
Do you remember?
Look at me straight in the
Yeah yeah yeah
Melanie Mae
Been a long time since I rock and rolled
Been a long time since I did the stroll
There's a way, gettaway, you put your cat clothes on
Melanie Mae, I'm gone
It's been a long, strange journey now I'm back again
Looking at a woman from I don't know when
There's a way, gettaway, that you strike a shape
Melanie, I go ape
Look at me straight in the eyes
Oh! What big eyes you've got!
Look at me straight in the
Yeah yeah yeah
Melanie Mae
"You look new in town"
"I've seen your face before"
"Can I show you around?"
"I think you know the score"
"Yeah yeah yeah"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha"
Melanie - look in my eyes
Sight for sore eyes you are
Look at me straight in the
Yeah yeah yeah
Melanie Mae
repeat chorus 1 / chorus 2 / fade over coda
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4 O'Clock Planes
Hey ho what's the time?
Look at watch and it's 3-0-9
Wide awake lying in my bed
Something's happening in my head
And I'm waiting for the four o'clock planes
Everything and nothing going on in my brain
Got a feeling inside - I can't explain
And I'm waiting for the four o'clock planes
There's a song in my head keeps going round
I know that the planes are coming down
Pleading and a-pleading just fly plane fly
All God's chillun done born to die
And I'm waiting for the four o'clock planes
Everything and nothing going on in my brain
My heart beats faster than a jungle drum
And I'm waiting for the planes to come
Oh let 'em come down!
It's dark but it's getting light
Why is it happening again tonight?
My bones are aching and my jaw is set
It isn't time for me to wake up yet
repeat first chorus
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Kabuki Glam
Big boots reach sky
So tall so high
Can't walk don't try
It's okay and I'll tell you why
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
Is it a woman - is it a man?
It is for real or is it a scam?
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
White face, black heart
His grin is gonna tear you apart
Can't finish, don't start
It's okay but is it art?
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
Is it the Beatles? Is it the damned?
Je suis comme je suis - I am what I am
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
All lean, no fat
That dude's a real gone cat
Lies in a chimney with a stovepipe hat
It's okay and that's that
Soul eyes, cracked mask
Don't know? Don't ask
Too much, too fast
It's okay but it just can't last
repeat chorus one
Too much, too soon
This man, wants moon
Half god, half loon
It's okay and you can see them swoon ('cos hey!)
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
His mother's immortal, his father's a ram
He says he's a kitten, the cat from Siam
Here he comes - Kabuki Glam
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University
Her mother was a doctor
Her father was a lawyer
Her bother made his fortune
Middle Eastern petro-dollar
Persephone
Persephone
Met her at university
Spent hours in her company
Listening to her philosophy
I gave her books of poetry
Persephone
Persephone
And I can't help but wonder
What time is your first lecture in the morning?
She held her low-tar cigarettes
Up to her lips like Juliet's
And then we'd laugh as we'd pretend
How we admired musique concrete
Persephone
Persephone
Persephone
Persephone
A heavy dark brocade maroon
Enveloped me within that room
But then she looked into my eyes
Oh God! She made me come alive
Persephone
Persephone
Persephone
Persephone
Persephone Felicity Victoria Hermione Volumnia Australia
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Mark Me Absent
No one here has school tomorrow
No one has to go to work
If I'm kinda cool tomorrow
Think it's just a quirk and
Mark me absent - put a ring against my name
Mark me absent - I ain't coming back again
If they're looking for consensus
Dress me in a Burton's suit
Tell them that I'm at the dentist
Call me Nik Refuse and
Mark me absent - at my desk an empty chair
Mark me absent - there ain't nobody there
Does it matter what time you go home tonight?
Guess that we could settle back 'til dawn, well all right!
repeat intro
Mark me absent - there's a sign upon my door
Mark me absent - I ain't coming back no more
repeat verse two
Mark me absent - got a letter from my mum
Mark me absent - on the day they drop the bomb
Mark me absent/Mark me absent/Mark me absent/Mark me absent
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Startlivinagain (for Joey)
Spring is here and it's almost like life's worth living again
The air is clear and the world looks like it's giving again
Birdies sing, springy spring
Everything, it just makes me wanna sing
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
Oh yeah
Feel the rain and it's like the winter's washing away
Here comes Jane and she's got some things need pushing away
The sky is blue. Hi Jane, how are you?
The clouds are white and I'm staying out all night
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
Oh yeah
All that anger eats you up
That darkness makes you sad
Too long in the winter you go mad
These days you gotta finish the day with a smile on your face
No way will it worry me if I put a line out of place
Birdies sing, springy spring
Everything, it just makes me wanna sing
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
Oh yeah
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
We gotta start living again
Oh yeah
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Bullet Train
Henri Rousseau never saw a jungle
He never went to Mexico
I never kissed your lips
I never swung your hips
Now I'm riding on the bullet train
Seven thousand miles away
Another planet and another day
On the coaster and around again
Bullet train
Bullet train
Bullet train
Driver wearing silk white gloves
Cherry blossom on the trees
All my colours turn to thoughts
Wish I was between your knees
Bullet train
Bullet train
Bullet train
Shinkansen
Takes me back again
Coming from the ice and snow
The island of Hokkaido
Bullet train
Bullet train
Bullet train
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Pictures at an Inhibition
Introducing introvert
So screaming shy, so much it hurt
In the mirror, on the wall
Ten thousand eyes to see it all
I would love to grown and be the girl you are
See the girl you are, see the world you see
Wish and wish again, like wishing on a star
But wishing's so bizarre, when I couldn't hope to be
Grand illusion, grander scale
Nothing ventured, nothing failed
Sort of sneaky paranoid
Sought to sneak into the void
repeat chorus
I told them all but I didn't tell them
I wanted everyone to hear
I couldn't bear the thought of being
So far and yet so near
Watchers watching, as I go
Leave no footprint, in the snow
Eyed and eyeless, in the street
We're the twain shall never meet
repeat chorus twice
Introducing introvert
So screaming shy, so much it hurt
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Negative Existentialist
I want to lie in the bath 'til the water gets cold
I want to deam in the grass 'til the summer's grown old
I want to talk in the town 'til I'm lost and alone
I want to hide in my bed and not answer the phone
I want to sit on the sand and watch seagulls go by
I want to stare at the moon 'til it scorches my eyes
I want to feel all the stars that are shining with love
I want to know that my dreams are all covered in love
Negative existentialist
Le moustache bourgeois-ique
I want to think of a girl who was never quite real
I want to live in a past with a constant appeal
I want to fly in the sky where it touches the sea
I want to trust in a self that could never be me
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Crosstown Cycle Boy
Starchild looking round the town for some man
Starchild gonna track him down if she can
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy is it you?
Starchild gonna find a place don't you know
Starchild gonna slap his face don't you know
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy is it you?
They met at a party
It's a lesbian scene
Eighteen floors above London
What more can it mean?
Starchild gonna find that man in the end
Starchild gonna turn him into a friend
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy is it you?
repeat chorus
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy
Cross-town cycle boy is it you?
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Tecknologie
The white heat of the future
Is of a bygone age
You can choose life if it suits you
Life turns another page
My son will live to be a hundred
Replace his body with machines
There'll be no need for reproduction
We'll replicate tecknologie
We walk through hips of plastic
See through computer eyes
Heart powered by electric
Nip and tuck between your thighs
My son will live to be a thousand
Replace his body with machines
There'll be no need for reproduction
We'll replicate tecknologie
The visceral is virtual
Intelligence is artificial
The promises made are plastic
My life is so drastic
My life is oh so drastic
The white heat of the future
Is of a bygone age
Just like the Karma Sutra
We're f****d on every page
My son will live to be a million
Replace his body with machines
There'll be no need for reproduction
We'll replicate tecknologie
Hey, is there flesh beneath that dress?
Well, I'm impressed...
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What Price Success?
What. Price. Success?
Ronnie’s ducking and diving
Dougie’s slipping and skiving
Like an infant school Kray twins
I met them down by the pig bins
Got their looks from their mother
Understood one another
Stood apart in the school yard Flint chiselled and well hard
What price success?
(What’s your reward?) (For working so hard)
Just like Castor and Pollux
Dressed up like the cat’s whiskers
Set their caps at the future
Knowing just what would suit ya!
What. Price. Success?
Ronnie went with the Tories
Doug’s a different story
Selling second hand jam-jars
To blokes he met in saloon bars
Ronnie’s sharp as a needle
Closes deals like a weasel
So disgustingly wealthy
Sits next to tossers at Chelsea
What. Price. Success?
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Charlie Chimp
Ground control to Charlie Chimp
Your paws are wet, your pulse is limp
Round and round the world you fly
Like a tea tray in the sky
Space monkey watch that space
From the Cameroon jungle to the Lunar Base,
Space monkey watch that space
They put electrodes in your brain
And watched you as you felt the pain
And all the monkeys in the zoo
Have posters on their walls of you
Space monkey watch that space
You’re a post precursor of the human race,
Space monkey watch that space
Space monkey watch that space
From the Congo forest to the lunar base,
Space monkey watch that space
Reporters in their interviews
Are fabricating quotes from you
I saw you in a magazine
They say your wife’s a beauty queen
Space monkey watch that space
As the flash bulb finish flickers in your face
Space monkey watch that space
And you look like a star but you’re in the wrong place
Space monkey watch that space
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