What's The Difference

What's the difference between you and me
You got no mercy
You got no sympathy
Your soul is cracked and mine is free
Thats the difference between you and me

I wish that you would just open your mind
Even if it takes up all your precious time
Redirect, earn some respect,
Please open your mind

What's the difference between you and me
Your faults and your flaws
You fail to see
Escape your new find
Your conscience is lying
Thats the difference between you and me

I wish that you would just open your mind
Even if it takes up all your precious time
Redirect your self-respect to someone else but you
Please open your mind

(Long Solo)

What's the difference between you and me
You got no mercy

You got no sympathy
Your soul is cracked and mine is free
Thats the difference between you and me

I wish that you would just open your mind
Realise your soul is not that hard to find
Redirect your self-respect to someone else but you
Please open your mind
Please open your mind
Please open your mind

Diamonds And Pearls

Well the clouds in the sky
And your winter clothes
Are sadly a condition of life
In this land, where the sun
Is as shy as long forgotten manners of old

I can't wait for a time
When the Summer sun is back up in the sky,
We can stay out at night
And forget about the failing light

I wanna walk in the park and smell the freshly cut grass
(Please keep off the grass)
As the summer breeze blows up your skirt, what more can I ask
(I can see your arse)

[Chorus]
At last I shed my winter clothes
At last I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun
(At last summer's begun, I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun)
At last I met a girl,
Her head full of curls and diamonds and pearls.
(Took to a girl)

While you work on your tan
Travelling from Thailand to Milan
We're in Morris the van, from Bridlington to Camber Sands


You go Pick Your Own Fruit and eat till you end up ill
(We've all had our fill)
We share a tinny or two on top of the hill
(Found my thrill at last)

[Chorus]
At last I shed my winter clothes
At last I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun
(At last summer's begun, I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun)
At last I met a girl,
Her head full of curls and diamonds and pearls.
(Took to a girl)

Well the sand in your shoes and your sunburnt toes
May trigger off the summertime blues
Don't be daft, shrug 'em off
'Cause we ain't got a moment to lose

We better hit the arcades
Spend an hour spending our loose change
Give the ghost train a ride
And kiss my future bride
(Not Frankenstein's)

We get a lift down the beach with the boys all crammed in the back
(Boys crammed in the back)
Barely enough room for the ball and a twenty-four pack
(What more could I ask)

[Chorus]
At last I shed my winter clothes
At last I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun
(At last summer's begun, I'm over the moon, I'm under the sun)
At last I met a girl (Took to a girl)
Her head full of curls and diamonds and pearls
Diamonds and pearls.
Diamonds and pearls.
Diamonds and pearls

Nothing For The Kids

I'm gonna pack up my troubles in my old kit-bag, I'm gonna run a mile from here
'Cos the ASBO generation make this a terror nation full of loathing and fear
All the bleary-eyed boys getting high on the low street
While the girls lift clothes down the high street and they say,
"Yeah I know, I know it's wrong but I can't be bothered to pay,
I got the money but I need it for my dealer today."
And her friends are all the same and they know it's not right
But they were promised more from this life

And they will steal and they will fight
Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
And they will haunt the streets at night
Because there's nothing for the kids to do today

Shaun has an ASBO, he's only fourteen, he's tired and he's bored with the local police
"They're pricks," he says, "I didn't get a second chance,
They didn't ask why I did it"
The pigs ...
The paedophiles playing his neck of the woods,
He's got no safety numbers, his ASBO won't allow him to be hanging around in gangs
What is he to do? He's been kicked out of school
What a way to fix a fool, we are failing our youth
Parents and governors can you handle the truth?

And they will steal and they will fight
Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
And they will haunt the streets at night

Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
There's nothing for the kids to do

Who's to blame? The mainstream media?
Our rulers and idols get greedier and seedier
They're an embarrassment, they should be shamed
For misguiding our youth, they're the ones to blame
They sit back and watch the evil grow from the youth club ruins where the kids used to go
Take parts of Salford in Manchester, dying on its feet
While the players at United get a hundred grand a week
The kids love them anyway, it don't make sense
When you have a go at me for the sake of fifty pence
Especially when some of you so called "poor kids" have got the money for a digital camcorder
And the time to film a girl whilst you spit-roast her
You hang about the park but you don't play football
You trouble me for money 'cos you've got to make a drug call (?)
You've got time, you've got money but you wrap it in a joint 'cos you don't see the point in using your time for making your dreams come true
You're all too busy trying to lose our respect for you
Why're you proud to be rude?
You're just trying to be cool in front of your mates
That's all that really matters when you're living in hate

And they will steal and they will fight
Because there's nothing for the kids to do today
And they will haunt the streets at night
Because there's nothing for the kids to do today

Why do you wanna grow up, why do you wanna grow so fast and throw your youth away?
Don't throw your youth away and don't let me hear you say
That there's nothing for the kids to do today
There's plenty for the kids to do today
There's so much for the kids to do

Fuck Ups    

Look, here comes another man with another sorry story to tell
And you can bet he'll tell me all about the time he fell from Heaven to Hell
Well, I don't wanna listen but he tells me all the same
This altruistic culture ...
Leave me alone, you're not a dog, I'm not a bone
But you're gonna bury me with your total misery

And when I'm out on Saturday with Charlie and Bill
... if I will or I won't, if I do or I don't
Nothing is for definite and nothing is for sure
I am getting desperate as I am getting poor

Look, here comes another drunk with a face longer than bin Laden's
And he has drunk so much alochol he can no longer get a hard-on
Not that he'd ever get a chance to use it
Women are intelligent and he is stupid
Lost and lonely he will remain, no amount of alcohol will wash his misery away

And when I'm out on Saturday with Charlie and Bill
... if I will or I won't, if I do or I don't
Nothing is for definite and nothing is for sure
I am getting desperate as I am getting poor

All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
With their stories and their tears, and their cigarettes and beers
All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
I think they're killing me with their grim reality


Well, a thirty-three year-old grandma comes up to me and says,
"My family's gonna take over this council estate
If we keep on giving birth at this rate
I could've been a great-great-great-grandma by the age of seventy-five
And I will be clad in Burberry, I don't care if I'm dead or alive,
I don't care if I'm dead or alive."

All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
With their stories and their tears, and their cigarettes and beers
All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
I think they're killing me with their grim reality
All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
A lot is going wrong, you'd better sing along
All the fucked up fuck ups ******* me up
(You fucked up fuck ups!)

Hallelujah I Love Her So

Let me tell you about a girl I know,
She's my baby and I love her so,
In the morning when the sun comes up,
She brings me coffee in my favourite cup,

That's how I know,
Yes I know,
Hallelujah I just love her so,

And if I call her on the telephone,
I say baby 'I was all alone',
By the time I count 1 to 4
She'll be *knock knock knock*,
On my door,
Well,

In the evening when the sun goes down,
And there ain't nobody else around,
She kisses me and then she Holds me tight,
I say 'Baby, everything's alright',

That's how I know,
Yes I know,
Hallelujah I just love her so,

And if I call her on the telephone,
I say 'Baby, bring yourself alone',

By the time I count 1 to 4
She'll be *knock knock knock*,
On my door,
Well,

In the evening when the sun goes down,
And there ain't nobody else around,
She kisses me and then she Holds me tight,
I say 'Skip me baby, everything's swinging'

That's how I know,
Yes I know,
Hallelujah I just love her so,
Well,
Hallelujah I just love her so,
Well,
Hallelujah I just love her so

How Will I Get Home?

I was standing on the dancefloor and the pretty thing caught my eye
She was looking at me, smiling and me, and now she's dancing with me
So I must be pretty if I'm standing here with people like you
I must be pretty like you

So we departed the dancefloor and we fought our way to the bar
I had just enough for her wine
So I bought her drink, she necked it down, she lit a cigarette and blew the smoke in my eye
And I started to cry, and she laughed in my face

Please tell me, where are my friends when I need them now?
Where are my friends when I'm alone?
So alone

I got ... 'cos they play my favourite song
There's such a buzz about this place
Wait a minute, all my friends have gone

Where are my friends when I need them now?
Where are my friends when I'm alone in the night time, in the night time
Alone in the night time?
Please tell me, how will I get home?

And how will I find love tonight in a loveless city
It must be getting near closing time
But don't turn on the lights
This night's as young as we are, we're not ready to go

And now you're standing on the street side
And your sweat will turn to ice
All your money's gone, 'cos you went and spent it all you stupid beautiful girl

Where are my friends when I'm alone in the night time, in the night time
Alone in the night time
Please tell me how will I get home?
I'm so alone in the night, in the night time
Alone in the night time
Please tell me how will I get home?
How will I get home tonight?
Haven't got no money
And how will I find love in a loveless city?

I Should Say Something (Little Loose Change)    

It was only this morning that I realised,
my conscience was sleeping while I've been alive.
The things in the past that I let pass me bye
and now I regret that I never did stop to ask why.

The man with the bag and the walking stick limps up and down my road
The kids in the cafe they point and laugh where is their moral code.

I should say something but I say nothing I haven't got the nerve.
He's in the twilight years of his life this ain't what he deserves.

The high street fright on a Friday night, a coward hits his lady,
cries out "bitch" you must be mad why do you disobey me.
We should do something but we do nothing, the public eye turns blind
domestic violence, is met with silence, in our pathetic times

And would she have said yes, when wearing her white dress, if violence was included in his vows.
I'm sure that she hates it, but she tolerates it, she's married to him now.

The starving girl cries on TV, dying in a third world nightmare
slouching back we sympathise from the comfort of our armchairs

we should give something but we give nothing only a little is changed
It's quite appalling when tears are falling more often than the rain

And if you see a mother swear at her poor innocent child
Do you ever stop and say to her why are you so wild.

That kid will grow up to be a fuck-up just like his dear young mum.
His little heart is falling apart under your spiteful tongue

Does this kid deserve this, born into a right mess, the sad thing is he's not the only one.
I'm sure that he hate it, but he tolerates it, the boy can't choose his mum

So if you're walking around with your head in the cloud with the lost souls at your feet.
Bear in mind that all mankind may need some sympathy - don't you agree?