90's

Picking up the story from where I left off It’s 1990 now so school can fuck off I got no GCSEs, nothing higher than a ‘D’

I couldn’t tell me mum because she’d batter me Me and Tate sat on the bowling green, life was a shitter We had five quid between us and bought six cans of bitter I took me ten Benson home and I smoked through the sorrow If I could just avoid me Mum, maybe I’d tell her tomorrow I stumbled through the door I said "Mum it’s like this"

She said “That man’s been on the phone and you’ve made the list You’re in that boy band son, come and give us a kiss.

Phoned up Martin and Rich and carried on getting pissed Boys I don’t believe it, I’m goin’ to be famous Pick you up in a Porsche and buy you lots of trainers I met the other guys, one seemed like a cock I think it’s going to be like New Kids On The Block

I can’t be bothered ’cause I’m lazy

I hate those that hate me

I can’t forgive and it’s crazy, baby

Now I’m a video star

Baa baa baa, ba baa baa

Do you know who you are, baby

(I only wanted to get down

I’m making trouble in this town

For the five of us)

I adopted four brothers, some I liked more than others One was like a brother from another mother But the lead singer made it hard to like him And I still loved him, despite him The first three months, you know I nearly quit I played snooker with my Dad, he said “Don’t be a dick Unload the bullets, you’re mind is a gun You’re gonna shoot yourself when they’re number one?

I can’t be bothered ’cause I’m lazy

I hate those that hate me

I can’t forgive and it’s crazy, baby

Now I’m a video star

Baa baa baa, ba baa baa

Do you know who you are, baby

(I only wanted to get down

I’m making trouble in this town

For the five of us)

Now it’s dinner with Versace lunch with Princess Diana And I’m gonna get battered if I go out in my manor ‘Cause as much as we were loved we were also hated The boys got jealous ‘cause the girls got plated And now we’re famous and that, and we’re dancing and that And I’m thinking I can sing why am I stood at the back

So fuck the band give me Sambuka and gak
Now were all a bag of nerves and not a band of brothers,

I can’t be bothered ’cause I’m lazy

I hate those that hate me

I can’t forgive and it’s crazy, baby

Now I’m a video star

Baa baa baa, ba baa baa

Do you know who you are, baby

(I only wanted to get down

I’m making trouble in this town

For the five of us)

And now it’s breaking my heart because the dream’s turned to shit It ain’t broke but I’ll break it in a little bit And I’m always in trouble but I’ve stopped saying sorry Everybody’s worried “What the fuck’s wrong with Robbie He not answering his phone, he’s not talking to me I saw him on the telly at Glastonbury?

And now I’m running away from everything that I’ve been And I’m pissed and I’m fucked, and I’m only nineteen I can’t conform no more, I can’t perform no more

But the boys know I’m fucked and so they show me the door And if the truth be told I wasn’t fit enough to stay So I put my head down and walked away That was the 90's, 90 to 95

I can’t be bothered ’cause I’m lazy

I hate those that hate me

I can’t forgive and it’s crazy, baby

Now I’m a video star

Baa baa baa, ba baa baa

Do you know who you are, baby

(I only wanted to get down

I’m making trouble in this town

For the five of us)

The Actor

Principal actors to the stage please,
Act One is about to begin in 8 seconds.

First you can't act, now you can't stop,
(What's my motivation?)
I used to like you... a lot,
(I was the class nerd)
Exactly who I'm s'posed to be,
(I'm totally Strasberg)
You play a doctor on TV,
(What you're doing is SO brave)

Deep down you're dirty but you try,
(I'm a good person)
The truth would break you so you lie,
(I want my work to matter)
It's in the choices that you make,
(I want to inspire)
No talent, just fate.

(Chorus)
I don't know where you begin,
I end, we start
Again,
They need, you love,
We all watch
The Actor Acting.

Good from far but far from good,
(All I have is my instinct)
You love to act, I wish you would,
(It's not acting, it's re-acting)
Act like you're not from out of space,
(When I'm on stage I feel alive)
You know ambition isn't grace,
(For me it's the craft)

Made of Sex, Maida Vale,
(Would I do better in New York)
You are the Alpha Male,
(I'm just too pretty for that role)
You are the good, you are the great,
(The words have power)
Now let me fill you with my hate.

(Chorus)

Monroe,
(Monroe)
Barrymore,
(Barrymore)
Mansfield,
(Mansfield)
D-d-d-d-Dame d-Dame d-Dame Judi Dench,
(Judi Dench)
Madonna Ritchie,
(Ritchie)
Ritchie, Ritchie, Ritchie.
Streep,
Close,
Hepburn,
Burt Reynolds.
Niven,
Danson,
Bundy,
Bardot.
Joaquin,
Joaquin,
Joaquin,
Joaquin,
Joaquin,
(Joaquin)
Joaquin,
(Joaquin)
Joaquin,
(Joaquin)
Swank.

(Chorus)

In the future,
Everybody will be anonymous for fifteen minutes,
You are, we all are a test card,
The stars of CCTV,
We are the nature of the beast.

Burslem Normals

Can you hear me?

In your face
There's nowt left
They have defaced
The marks you left
Upon the wall

The writing not on there at all
Can you stand what you stood for
Are you more normal then before?

Goodbye to the normals
Goodbye to the normals

In your place
There's just chaps
The kids aren't alright
They know
They're born today

Reaching out to feel the sun
At the time it seemed like fun
I was there when you got done
Lived two weeks by the surf
We used to know what we were worth
Before the normals fell to earth

Goodbye to the normals
Goodbye to the normals

Whatever happened
To the mean mortals crew
The fine young casuals blew a fuse
And all the Burslem lads
Now that they're all dads
They meant so much to me
It makes me sad

In your wake
There's nowt left

Good Doctor

Can we do it again

Take that, take that

You alright star
No star
You alright star
You alright star
No star
I don 't feel proper

I went to the dr to get a prescription
I told him little fact and lots of fiction
About a bad back that I ain't got
He tried to sell me faith healing
But I think not
I want Xanax, Vicadin and Oxycotton
Funky fill the form out
So I can drop em'
I've got all these demons
And I can't stop em'
To tell you the truth Doc
I might have a problem
Robert Williams take one adoral with water in the morning
As if I'm goin' to take one tablet I'm Keith Moon
Dick head

He said this one's to take you up
Wow how
He said this one's to take you down
When I take um I don't feel sound
And I look rather… Round

You alright star
No star
You alright star
No star
You alright star
No star
I don 't feel proper

You know what Doc its alright and all
I just heart me leg its not terminal
But a pain killer could help for whats wrong with my knee
And I'm a little bit down from too much tea
Got me own collection can't get an erection
If I take em' too long they'll fuck me complextion
That's right If I take em for like more than a few days I get that haunted look

Give me loads of pills
Give me loads of pills
Give me loads of pills
Give me loads of pills

He said this one's to take you up
Wow how
He said this one's to take you down
Wow how
When I take um I don't feel sound
And I look rather… Round
You alright star
No star
You alright star
No star
You alright star
Five star
I don't feel proper

Now if you go to the barber shop long enough then you're goina' get a hair cut
And if go to the doctors regular, then you gots to be a fuck up
Well I've got 5 or 6 if I'm at a loss
Do I have a history of drug abuse, well I never tick that box
And I now that some of you are going to be really really cross
The drug's stop working so prescription pills are boss
The glory days are gone and we've all stopped havin' it
No raves no more just bedside cabinet
Sleepers are great but don't start dabbing it
The world carries on spinning we're mad in it
Take that, take that

He said this one's to take you up
Wow how
He said this one's to take you down
Wow how
When I take um I don't feel sound
And I look rather… Round
You alright star
No star
You alright star
No star
You alright star
Five star
I don't feel proper
You alright star
No star
Are you five star
No star
You alright star
Five star
I don't feel proper

Know what doc, it's not like I've been doin' any research or anything
But if you can give me any of the following pills
I'd be very very greatful cos I feel poorly
So that's
Codeine
Morphine
Opium
Methadone
Menocrabedene
Hydroanoxycodeine
Anolodene
Buprenopheine
ButroPhenol
Adorel
Dorel
Work with me antidepressants
But not Saint Johns Wort
Cos I can get that at
Boots!

Keep On

Hotel motel Holiday Inn
Hotel motel Holiday Inn
Hotel motel

Vein popping
Heart clogging
Name dropping
Life stopping
Got no strings
But I think with my dingalingaling
Can't sing can't speak ting tong's tong ting
I'm popping
And I'm locking
Pulse stopping
Hypnotic
Got no strings
But I think with my dingalingaling
Wing chang with the ching ching ting tong's tong ting

(I love my Mum and I love my Dad
They never had any love I've had
So much love it's driving me mad)

Blood clotter
Slender tone
Say très bon
Dingadingdongadongadong
Sound of the town
Gets a little louder
He saw and I saw in my soul mine
If you're in the club and you hear this sound
Come on everybody boogie down boogie down

Running in the fast lane
Speeding in the dark
Trying to maintain
The feeling in your heart

No leaving
Shallow breathing
Girl weeping
Teef teathing
Got no strings but I think with my dingaling
Wu tang with the bling bling
Sing a song sing sing
Naughty things
We're geezing
Day creeping
Got not strings but I think with my dingaling
Wu tang with the bling bling
I spin with a tin tin gin grin

(I love my Mum and I love my Dad
They never have any love I've had
So much love it's driving me mad)

Blood clotter
Slender tone
Say très bon
Like a dingadingdongadongadong
Sound of the town
Gets a little louder
He saw and I saw in my soul mine
If you're in this club and you hear this sound
Come on everybody boogie down boogie down

Running in the fast lane
Speeding in the dark
Trying to maintain
No feeling in your heart
Running in the fast lane
Speeding in the dark
Trying to maintain
The feeling in your heart

Hotel motel Holiday Inn
Hotel motel Holiday Inn
Hotel motel

Croups crouping
Roots rooting
Ludes looting
Loops hooping
Got no strings but I think with my dingalingaling
Two two for the two ting tong ting two stonking
Two's two
Looks luking
Fruits fruiting
Sleuths sleuthing
Got no strings I think with my dingalingaling
Root root for the rooting
Toot toot for the tooting

(I love my Mum and I love my Dad
They never have any love I've had
So much love it's driving me mad)

Blood clotter
Slender tone
Say très bon
Like a dingadingdongadongadong
Sound of the town
Gets a little louder
He saw and I saw my saw mine
If you're in this club and you hear this sound
Come on everybody boogie down boogie down

Running in the fast lane
Speeding in the dark
Trying to maintain
No feeling in your heart
Running in the fast lane
Speeding in the dark
Trying to maintain
No feeling in your heart

King Of The Bongo

Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the Congo
Deep down in the jungle
I started bangin' my first bongo

Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong

I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown

So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie
I'm the "king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong"
Hear me when I come
King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong

They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm the king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong

Hear me when I come
King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong
Hear me when I come, baby, king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong...

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour
Je ne t'aime plus tout le jour
Je ne t'aime plus mon amour
Je ne t'aime plus tout le jour

Je ne t'aime plus mon amour
Je ne t'aime plus tout le jour
Je ne t'aime plus mon amour
Je ne t'aime plus tout le jour

Kiss Me

In my young life I have recieved
Carolers as if it were Christmas Eve
Im disappointed and I dont know why
She gave me laughter, hope, and a sock in the eye

In my young life I know something
Now, I've never tried to create a wow
Wows are few, frustration more common
I can feel in my soul thats I game the come-on

(chorus)
Kiss me with your mouth
Your love is better than wine
Kiss me with your mouth
Your love is better than wine
But wine is all I have
Will your love ever be mine?

Faces fall before my feet
Like blood onto a clean white sheet
When I grow old I wont forget
To innocence my only dept

Wow I feel so fresh today
Barefoot in the snow, to make love in the hay
The stars are bright in the abise
Now I feel his arms explode inside your kiss

(chorus)

(kiss me)
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
(cos - cos - cos- cosmic forces)
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom
boom boom boom

(chorus)

Louise

When he saw her getting of the bus
It seemed to wipe away the years
Her face was older, just a little rough
But her eyes were still so clear
He drank his coffee and he hurried out
Across before she walked away
Then he approached her like a little child
Too scared for what he had to say

"Hello, Louise,
Remember me?
Now should we part
Or stay awhile?
As if we were still lovers"

She took a moment just to recognise the man she'd known so well before
And as he started to apologise
Lose any bitterness she bore
She gently put her finger on his lips
To let him know she understood
And with her suitcase standing on the floor
Embraced him like a lover would

He told louise
"You look so good
It's just you see
You make me feel
As if we were still lovers"

It's not always true that time heals all wounds
There are wounds that you don't wanna heal
The memories of something really good
Something truly real, that you never found again

And though they talked for just a little time
Before she said she had to go
He saw the meeting as a tiny sign
That told him all he had to know

And so Louise
Waved from the bus
And as she left
She gave that smile
As if they were still lovers

Lovelight

What am i supposed to do
to keep from goin under?
now you're making holes in my heart
and yes it's starting to show
i've been holding back
is it any wonder?
since you walked right into my life
and interrupted the flow

And i wanna know
baby when you're with me
who do you think you're fooling?
making me feel so sure
turnin your lovelight down again
why don't you let me be?
you don't know what you're doing
making me feel so sure
turning your lovelight down again

(Did it again, did it again)

Baby i've got to know
are we gonna make it?
laying down beside me tonight
do whatever you feel
baby you're in control
where you gonna take it?
don't you think that i do you right?
you know darn well that i will

And i wanna know
baby when you're with me
who do you think you're fooling?
making me feel so sure
turnin your lovelight down again
why don't you let me be?
you don't know what you're doing
making me feel so sure
turning your lovelight down again

(Do it again, do it again)


Baby you turn your lovelight down
and i don't know
just how long i can stick around
girl i need more
and it ain't just physical
but i don't know what i can do
if i'll found
it ain't love this time around

Keep turning down your lovelight
Did it again

Never Touch That Switch

Size of which is paradoxic the only way you're gonna stop this
In the vessel there's a switch in the middle
You really shouldn't fiddle cause its toxic
Listen up 'cos it's a red light
And the pressure's blowing up tight
There's a skism in the time mechanism
There's a skism in the time mekanism
Never touch that switch
Even if you want to
You don't know what it can do.
Never touch that switch, even if you want to.
You don't know what it can do.

See the futures in the distance
I know I'm facing some resistance
Getting back within the blink of a bubble
Time machine never gives us any trouble.
There's a riot down in Shelton
Only minutes after Brixton but this city never made it on the telly
Or the rumble of the nations underbelly

Never touch that switch, even if you want to.
You don't know what it can do.
Never touch that switch, even if you want to.
You don't know what it can do.

You know you're heading for a meltdown, and you're living in a tin town
Thinking that you're gonna be somebody, living in the land of milk and honey
Listen up 'cos it's a red light, and the futures blowing up tight
There's a skism in the time mechanism, there's a skism in the time mekanism

Never touch that switch, even if you want to. You don't know what it can do.
Never touch that switch, even if you want to. You don't know what it can do.
Never touch that switch, even if you want to. You don't know what it can do.
Never touch that switch, even if you want to. You don't know what it can do