Andy's Interpretation, mainly taken from the inlay card, but added to when some bits were missed out
and adjusted when they are blatantly wrong!
ALL WE HEARD WAS A DULL THUD
I said they're red
And you said they're grey
And then you said
I was wrong
You stopped in your tracks
As I grabbed the axe and
Caught you behind the ear
Bet that hurt
Don't call me a liar
I know what I said
I'll set this place on fire
Just make sure you're dead
I stopped the bleeding
Then we made tea
And we laughed over what we'd done
I'll wash the cups
No please don't get up
It's the least thing
That I can do
Where's that match?
Don't call me a liar
I know what I said
I'll set this place on fire
Just make sure you're dead
(repeat chorus)
QUESTION TIME FOR THE PROLES
Question time
For the proles
In Lancashire
How many holes
Ancient times are taking over
Sentimental when you're sober
Fills your mouth each time you speak
You choke
Dead end street
Plastic man
Strange sex action
If you can
I met a girl who knew Ray Davies
Talked about the stars on Sunday
Minister for ready steady go
Harold Wilson says that things are getting better
Harold Wilson says that things are getting better
Harold Wilson says that things are getting better for you
Maurice Saatchi says that things are getting better
Maurice Saatchi says that things are getting better
Maurice Saatchi says that things are getting better for you
Question time
For the proles
The lunatics are running free
And no-one knows
Something big from out of town it
Moves across the muddy ground it
Fills the trenches and the holes we made
Steven Spielberg says that things are getting better
Steven Spielberg says that things are getting better
Steven Spielberg says that things are getting better (for you)
Mia Farrow says that things are getting better
Mia Farrow says that things are getting better
Mia Farrow says that things are getting better (for you)
JUVEBILE SCENE DETECTIVE
Hey kids! Looking for something new?
My friends, just wanna talk to you!
Rough kids! Just wanna have some fun
Tell me, how is it done?
How is it done?
This is the scene
Juvenile scene
Detective
Channel 5
This is the scene
Juvenlie Scene
Progressive
Going live
Let's be friends!
Flesh wound! Got it on Friday night!
It's cool! Look at the other guy!
No sweat! He'll get me back some time!
Who's that? This is my friend!
My best friend!
This is the scene
Juvenile scene
Detective
Channel 5
This is the scene
Juvenile Scene
Progressive
Going live
This is the scene
Juvenile scene
Detective
Channel 5
This is the scene
Juvenile Scene
Progressive
Going live
Let's be friends!
This is the scene
Juvenile scene
Detective
Channel 5
This is the scene
Juvenile Scene
Progressive
Going live
This is the scene
Juvenile scene
Detective
Channel 5
This is the scene
Juvenile Scene
It's not true!
Useless!
You will be old like me
You will be old like me
We will be old like me
You will be old like me (*7)
IT'S GREAT
See all the kid's dancing
Laughing, the sun shinging
Bring back those old times again
Whatever happened to
Those things that frightened you
Sun chased them out of your head
Huge smiles all 'round
Now it's in this frozen grin
Take your anger somewhere else
We're high but don't look down
We're young but we've been 'round
My face is starting to hurt
Please let me stop grinning
I'd rather die laughing
No bouncers in the house of mirth
High hopes and promises
Now it's in this frozen grin
Take your anger somewhere else
Somewhere else
I promise, I'm happy, I'm happy, I said it
I said it, I'm happy all right?
I'm grinning, I'm grinning, I'm laughing, I'm happy
I'm ecstatic, I'm in fucking delight
(repeat * 2)
THEY'RE BREEDING THE GREY THINGS AGAIN
Right now, starting to shake
Inside, sleepy and slow
Cracked egg, sounds from within
Reveals flannel and skin
Hold on!
Hold on!
They're breeding
The grey things
They're grey
They're breeding
They've got focusing eyes
Transport, moving in pods
Long lines, meeting in towns
Handshakes, deals being done
Hold on!
Hold on!
They're breeding
The grey things
They're grey
They're breeding
They're breeding (You work the land)
The grey things (All grey and bland)
They're grey (They step on you)
They're breeding (You step on them)
You work the land all grey and bland
They step on you, you step on them
FAST SONGS
Dumb fast songs
Ah! That song
Go sweet song
Guessing, guessing, guessing
It grooves
Your ground
Defined by sound
Love fast songs
Fast love songs
Ah! That song
Guessing, guessing, guessing
It's smooth
In space
Defines
Your place
You/me songs
Fast dumb songs
Lose long songs
Guessing, guessing, guessing
Love fast songs
Guessing, guessing, guessing
What has it done to you?
Yes you, you fool
Music it got so smooth
Go lost, it's cruel
Funk, it was all we knew
Once, Blues was new
Fast songs, they're coming back
It's true, it's true
(the last bit is not in the inlay, and I can't work it out!)
WESTERN CULTURE COLLECTOR
She takes
Foreign travel
Foreign people
If she wants
She sees
Happy children
Happy colours
She collects
She takes (Is Australia cold and dark?)
Foreign travel (Do the dogs of Europe bark?)
Foreign people (Is it safe on Chinese streets?)
If she wants (Is it there?)
She sees (Does Uganda have good songs?)
Happy children (Is there danger in Hong Kong?)
Happy colours (What's America's better half?)
She collects (Is it where?)
I'm staying at home
Not going where she goes
I'm staying at home
Not going where she goes
She takes
Bits of music
Bits of people
Takes them home
She is
Not a tourist
Not pollution
Not a stain
She takes (Treated like an honoured guest)
Bits of music (The big and friendly world out there)
Bits of people (Offers up its polished best)
Takes them home (To her stare)
She is (She doesn't know the rights and wrongs)
Not a tourist (A thousand nations crouch and wait)
Not pollution (The day when all her money's gone)
Not a stain (She's done)
I'm staying at home
Not going where she goes
(repeat * 7)
ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego
HAPPY MONSTERS
Sleep and drink dreaming
Light and sun slow
Love I think seeming
Hot and pink to go
These happy monsters waiting there for you
There for you
Put them back in the box,
Don't you know that they're dangerous?
Put them back in the box,
Don't you know that they're dangerous?
Big success, hard cash
Travelling light
Skim the top of mountains
Don't look down fright
These happy monsters waiting there for you
There for you
Put them back in the box,
Don't you know that they're dangerous?
Put them back in the box,
Don't you know that they're dangerous?
You've got to live it by the rules of the television
You've got to live it by the rules of accountancy
You've got to live it by the rules of the new consensus
You've got to live it by the rules of the enemy
You've got to live it by the rules of the wise advisors
You've got to live it by the rules of the next in line
You've got to live it by the rules of the opposition
Then you've got to live it by the rules of these friends of mine
You've got to live it by the rules of the television
You've got to live it by the rules of accountancy
You've got to live it by the rules of the wise advisors
You've got to live it by the rules of the enemy
By the rules of the happy monsters (You've got to live it, You've got to live
it)
(repeat * 4)
By the rules
BELLY LAUGH
Drew a beard on a whale yesterday
Just a beard on a whale on a page
And I laughed, and I laughed, and I laughed
Belly laugh, belly laugh, belly laugh
Your daddy knows
The truth
But he just can't say it
Do you hear the laugh?
Do you?
Do you hear the laugh?
Saw a man on a screen yesterday
Blown to bits on a street yesterday
And I laughed, and I laughed, and I laughed
Belly laugh, belly laugh, belly laugh
Your daddy knows
The truth
But he can't stop laughing
Do you hear the laugh?
Do you?
Do you hear the laugh?
(again, the next bit is not listed, and I don't have a clue what he's singing!)
THIS IS EFFICIENT LIVING
We begin
Choose ourselves
Looking good
In our car
The world waves
Ourselves so immense
A girl and a boy
Bigger than everyone
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
Everyone
You're the one
Suits my plan
Work hard
It will come
Your day says
The sound fills the air
The music of us
Is bigger than stereo
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
Everyone
But the days get long and I can't see through
And the days drag on and I hate you
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
This is efficient living
Everyone
DOWN THE EDIFICE
Here I go
Just step off
Fall three floors
What is that?
They see me?
Just a blur
Three more floors
Faster now
Speed increasing
I am leaving
I'll get the hell out of here!
Do you see, do you see?
I'll get the hell out of here!
Do you see?
Do you see?
I'll get the hell out!
Never saw
That before
Three more floors
Nice decor
Job well done
Must be proud
Rushing sound
Very loud
Here's the awning
Ground comes rushing
I'll get the hell out of here!
I'll get the hell out of here!
I'll get the hell out of here!
Do you not see?
I'll get the hell out of here!
Do you not see?
Do you not see?
I'll get the hell out of here!
(I'm not quite sure on the "Do you not see?" lines, could be something else!)
HAPPY ENDING
Happy ending's over,
Loser got the cash,
Bus passed by it's raining,
Missed me with the splash
Got my first promotion,
Increased salary,
They said I'm going places,
If I wait and see
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
Listened to your music,
It's not to say its shit,
I just started laughing,
Could not relate to it
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
Beat the local bullies,
Killed them with my brio,
Another lovely day,
No-one here but me-o,
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
I feel so good (keeps me up)
It makes me nervous
BURST
It isn't for the beauty of your soul
Or of the things you made that you are known
It isn't for your brilliant work that you
Are recognised
It isn't for your life that you're revered
It isn't for your politics you're feated
You sort of quietly appeared
Lionsied!
It's your picture
It's your picture
It's your picture
It's your picture
I never saw you wokring on a car
I never saw your propping up the bar
You never did
A new thing
Last or first
On us you burst
LOST ON ABBEY ROAD
And then it all went wrong
Zebra crossing
Car came speeding
I found myself
Hit on Abbey Road
Why why why
And then it all went wrong
I heard songs
Sergeant Pepper
Am I dreaming
Paul and Linda
Come back to Japan
And then it all went wrong
SPOTLIGHT INTO SPACE
(beep beep beep!)
ME
You play the pinball
By yourself, and you
You hum a love song
To yourself
You go ooooooooooooooooh
You grow the small things
In your head, you see
Just like the small things
You know
Gravity won't save you
Look around
You're suffocating
Look surprised
Look around
You're suffocating
Look surprised
You hit the high score
In your world, you see
Outside the pavement goes by
In a blur
You go oooooooooooooooooooh
I asked your sister
What to do - she said
Get off the carpet
Do yourself a favour
Look around
You're suffocating
Look surprised
Look around
You're suffocating
Look surprised
You sing a love song
To yourself
Nobody listening
No-one else
Me (repeated many many many times!)
Nobody listening
No-one else
(theres some other lyrics in the background which I can't make out too!)