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1 - BEETLEBUM (5:05)

 

Beetlebum, what you done

She's a gun, now what you done, Beetlebum

Get nothing done, you Beetlebum

Just get numb, now what you done, Beetlebum

 

And when she lets me slip away

She turns me on and all my violence gone

Nothing is wrong, I just slip away and I am gone

Nothing is wrong, she turns me on

I just slip away and I am gone

 

Beetlebum, because you're young

She's a gun, now what you done, Beetlebum

She'll suck your thumb, she'll make you come

Cos she's your gun, now what you done, Beetlebum

 

And when she lets me slip away

She turns me on and all my violence gone

Nothing is wrong, I just slip away and I am gone

There's nothing wrong, she turns me on

I just slip away and I am

 

He's on, he's on, he's on it,

He's on, he's on, he's on it. (to end)

 

2 - SONG 2 (2:01)

 

I got my head checked

By a jumbo jet

It wasn't easy

But nothing is, no

 

When I feel heavy metal

And I'm pins and I'm needles

Well I lie and I'm easy

All of the time but I'm never sure when I need you

Pleased to meet you

 

I got my head done

When I was young

It's not my problem

It's not my problem

 

When I feel heavy metal

And I'm pins and I'm needles

Well I lie and I'm easy

All of the time but I'm never sure when I need you

Pleased to meet you

 

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Oh, yeah

 

3 - COUNTRY SAD BALLAD MAN (4:50)

 

Yeah, I found nowhere

It got to know me

Let me sleep all day

Spend the money

I haven't felt my legs

Since the summer

And I don't call my friends

Forgot their numbers

 

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I had my chances

Or did they have me

Now stay up nights

Watch TV

I'm country sad

I'm a ballad man

 

I'm on a comeback roll

Yeah, I'm a blizzard

And in my motor home

Sweat on my pillow all night

 

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I've had my chances

And they had me

Now stay up nights

Watch TV

I'm country sad

I'm a ballad man

 

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I've had my chances

And they had me

Now stay up nights

Watch TV

I'm country sad

 

I'm a ballad man

I feel no ????

Cos I'm a ballad man

Well it's all gone wrong

Cos I'm a ballad man

Well it's all gone wrong

Cos I'm a ballad man

Yeah, I sure???

Cos I'm a ballad man

 

4 - M.O.R. [Middle of the Road] (3:24)

 

It's automatic (It's automatic)

I need to unload (Need to unload)

Under the pressure (Under the pressure)

Gone middle of the road (Middle of the road)

Fall into fashion (Fall into fashion)

Fall out again (Fall out again)

We stick together (We stick together)

Cos it never ends (It never ends)

 

Here comes a low (I'm a boy and you're a girl)

Here comes a high (The only ones in the world)

Here comes everything (You and me we'll work it out)

Here it comes

You, me, we'll work it out

 

Here comes tomorrow (Here comes tomorrow)

One, two, three episodes (Three episodes)

We stick together (We stick together)

Gone middle of the road (Middle of the road)

Cos that's entertainment (That's entertainment)

It's the sound of the wheel (Sound of the wheel)

It rolls on forever (Roll, roll forever)

Yeah you know how it feels (Know how it feels)

 

Here comes a low (I'm a boy and you're a girl)

Here comes a high (The only ones in the world)

Here comes everything (Like monkeys out in space)

Here it comes (We are members of the human race)

 

Here comes a low (I'm a boy and you're a girl)

Here comes a high (The only ones in the world)

Here comes everything (You and me we'll work it out)

Here it comes

You, me, we'll work it out

 

It's automatic (It's automatic)

I need to unload (Need to unload)

Under the pressure (Under the pressure)

Gone middle of the road (Middle of the road)

 

Here comes a low (I'm a boy and you're a girl)

Here comes a high (The only ones in the world)

Here comes everything (Like monkeys in outer space)

Here it comes (We are members of the human race)

 

Here comes a low (I'm a boy and you're a girl)

Here comes a high (The only ones in the world)

Here comes everything (You and me we'll work it out)

Here it comes

You, me, we'll work it out

 

5 - ON YOUR OWN (4:26)

 

Holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges

The sound of magic music in his ears

Videoed by a bus load of tourists

Shiny shellsuits on, and drinking lemonade.

 

Now, I've got a funny feeling which I bought mail order

From a man in a tee-pee, California.

He said he once was the great game show performer

Then he blew all his money away,

Blew it all away.

 

So take me home, don't leave me alone

I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad

No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla

I dream to riot, oh you should try it

R. E. Perot, get gold card soul

My joy of life is on a roll

And we'll all be the same in the end

Cos then you're on your own

Then you're on your own

 

Well, we all go happy day glow in the discos

The sound of magic music in our brains

Someone stumbles to the bathroom with the horrors

Says Lord, give me faith, for I've jumped into space

I'm in outer space.

 

So take me home, don't leave me alone

I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad

No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla

I dream to riot, oh you should try it

R. E. Perot, get gold card soul

My joy of life is on a roll

And we'll all be the same in the end

Cos then you're on your own

Then you're on your own

 

So take me home, don't leave me alone

I'm not that good, but I'm not that bad

No psycho killer, hooligan guerilla

I dream to riot, oh you should try it

R. E. Perot, get gold card soul

My joy of life is on a roll

And we'll all be the same in the end

Cos then you're on your own

 

Then you're on your own (to end)

 

6 - THEME FROM RETRO (3:37)

 

[instrumental] Vocal samples were recorded from Damon's club in Iceland

 

7 - YOU'RE SO GREAT (3:35)

 

Sad, drunk, and poorly

Sleeping really late

Sad, drunk, and poorly

Not feeling so great

Wandering lost in a town full of frowns

Sad, drunk, and poorly

Dogs digging up the ground

 

And I feel the light

In the night and in the day

And I feel the light

When the sky's just mud and grey

And I feel the light

When you tell me it's OK

Cos you're so great, and I love you

 

DT and coffee

Helps to start the day

DT and coffee

Shaking all the way

City's alive and, surprise, so am I

Tea, tea and coffee

Get no sleep today

 

And I feel the light

In the night and in the day

And I feel the light

When the sky's just mud and grey

And I feel the light

When you tell me it's OK

Cos you're so great, and I love you

 

8 - DEATH OF A PARTY (4:32)

 

The death of the party

Came as no surprise

Why did we bother?

Should have stayed away

 

Another night

And I thought "Well, well"

Go to another party and hang myself

Gently on the shelf

 

The death of the teenager

Standing on his own

Why did he bother?

Should have slept alone

 

Another night

And I thought "Well, well"

Go to another party and hang myself

Gently on the shelf

 

Another night

And I thought "Well, well"

Go to another party and hang myself

Gently on the shelf

 

9 - CHINESE BOMBS (1:22)

 

He makes an inner arm block

Then kicks from behind

The lights, they go off

But he can fight blind

Cos he got the touch

And he won't live long

He comes from Hong Kong

Where justice is done

 

Chinese bombs, millions jump

Chairman's junk, USA

Won't somebody, won't somebody

Sink the place

 

Got a call to go to Soho

The dragon said go

Let everyone know

That you got the touch

You come from Hong Kong

Where justice is done

Where people are strong

But you won't live long

 

Chinese bombs, millions jump

Chairman's junk, USA

Bruce Lee come, save the day

Bruce Lee come the Chinese way

 

10 - I'M JUST A KILLER FOR YOUR LOVE (4:11)

 

I heard a man who had no lungs

He took me in and made me lunch

Told me how I'd lost a friend

He smiled at me - that was the end

 

And I said,

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love

 

Cut my hair off in the road

I tear my coat off, drop my load

Wipe my hands on the grass

Cos now I know nothing will last

 

And I said,

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love

I'm just a killer for your love (to end)

 

11 - LOOK INSIDE AMERICA (3:50)

 

Good morning, lethargy

Drink Pepsi - it's good for energy

The bath's on, smoke in the bedroom

Sore throat, and on my neck a nasty bruise

And where it came from

Well I don't know

But we played last night - it was a good show

 

Got to play a second rate chat show

A nationwide deal, so we gotta go

Jeff from the Company says it'll be alright

Got an ad on KROQ

And there's an in-store tonight

Well I build things up

Then I let them go

Got to get time share on the radio

 

Look inside America

She's alright, she's alright

Sitting out in the distance

But I'm not trying to make her mine

Looking for America

With its kookie nights

And suicides

TV says its alright

Cos everybody's hung up

On something or other

 

Stepping off in twenty

So the driver says

I should sleep tonight

But I think I'll watch videos instead

Annie Hall leaves New York in the end

Press rewind and Woody gets her back again

And the whole world could have passed through me

But I don't know that it means much to me

 

Look inside America

She's alright, she's alright

Sitting out in the distance

But I'm not trying to make her mine

I'm looking for America

With its kookie nights

And suicides

TV says its alright

Cos everybody's strung out

On something or other

 

And the whole world could have passed through me

But I don't know that it means much to me

 

12 - STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR (4:02)

 

All I want to be

Is washed out by the sea

No Death Star over me

Won't give me any peace

All I want is light relief

Put the crazies on the street

Give them guns and feed them meat

They'll shoot the Death Star down

Dig a hole and put it down

A thousand miles underground

 

They say it's no game

There's strange news from another star

I'm lost, I'm lost

There's strange news from another star

 

Give me all your stuff

Until I can't get up

Watch the whole world freeze

Counting tin cans in our sleep

Submarines are diving deep

And don't believe in me

And don't believe in me

All I've ever done is tame

Will you love me all the same

Will you love me though it's always the same

 

They say it's no game

There's strange news from another star

I'm lost, I'm lost

There's strange news from another star

From another star

From another star

From another star

 

13 - MOVIN' ON (3:44)

 

At the music heist

I met the gourmet man

With aluminium lungs

Sucks out all he can

He sees the whole world go flip

In a stunt bug style

Cos he's a parasite

With a cellulite pile

Well he can smile

 

Cos this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

Hey, this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

 

Sticky eyes and sticky bones

You get no time on your own

You get a dose and a ghost

You get it coast to coast

Now you dye your hair black

Get Satan tattooed on your back

You pierce yourself with a Coke can

And rub yourself with fake tan

Now you're in the band

 

Cos this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

Hey, this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

No matter how low

There's always further to go

When you're movin' on, you're movin' on

No matter how low

There's always somewhere to go

Movin on, we're movin' on

Won't be long before we're gone

 

Hey, this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

Yeah, this is the music

Movin' on, we're movin' on

No matter how low

Theres always further to go

Movin' on, you're movin' on

No matter how low

There's always further to go

 

14 - ESSEX DOGS (6:16)

 

I remember thinking murder in the car

Watching dogs somersault through sprinklers on tiny lawns

I remember the graffiti

We are your children coming in with spray cans of paint

I remember the sunsets and the plains of cement

And the way the night just seemed to turn the colour of orangeade

 

In this town, cellular phones are hot with teens

In this town, we all go to terminal pubs

It helps us sweat out those angry bits of life

From this town, the English army grind their teeth into glass

You know you'll get a kicking tonight

The smell of puke and piss

The smell of puke and piss on your stilettos

 

Here comes that panic attack

My heart stops... and then it starts

Give me a drink

I'll drink your round

I take you round the pole

It's cold up here (I see the universe waiting by a minibus)

You'll catch the flu

Or you'll catch the city

Either way, you'll catch the flu

Or you'll catch the city

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