1. |
Invitation Elsewhere
02:03
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I missed your birthday and I'm sorry.
What's worse is it's the same scene every year.
You hit the jackpot, sent me crazy.
Best is how it's different now you're here.
You always say that and I love it.
It still makes me laugh when you take that stance.
I guessed it wrong, then maybe next time?
It still seems that I'll get another chance.
It may be that life leads nowhere,
But I'm happy to nowhere just with you.
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2. |
Words Apart
01:32
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No clever words now come to mind.
No witty jokes, no great punchline.
No clever words, just cheap cliche.
No clever words, just words dreams that fade away.
No clever words, I should let it be.
What's left unsaid is lost on me.
No clever words, the illusion's clear.
No clever words, just meanings we don't hear.
The thought that forms is left unspoken.
Knowing words can't be unsaid.
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3. |
Reason to Smile
02:48
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Most people jeered and called me stupid.
Some just laughed and though it cool.
All that I know is that I meant it.
Just got caught out acting the fool.
So I laugh at me, at you.
So I smile at me, at you.
So if you've got a dream then chase it,
Don't let your life go cold and stale.
I could never see reasons to fake it,
The worst you'll ever do is fail.
So I laugh at me, at you.
So I smile at me, at you.
Well I laugh and smile, I laugh and smile.
At you, and me, and you, but mostly at me.
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4. |
Streeming
02:13
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The whole hand's been dealt
And all your cards are marked.
You'd like to read between the lines
But the words would be a start.
Don't be left behind.
Do you know where you belong?
What's this common sense
Known to everyone but you?
At one with place and time
But indifferent to your time too.
You'll be left behind.
Do you know where you belong?
Do you?
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5. |
Group Think
02:29
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Shall we write a pop song?
Yeah whatever.
Shall we make it punk?
Yeah whatever.
Shall we use a trombone?
Yeah whatever.
Or shall we just get drunk?
Yeearrgh!
C'mon let's think the same
Let's act the same.
Let's all look the same.
It's group think, group think group think!
Shall we play a gig now?
Yeah whatever.
Shall we play in Hull?
Yeah whatever.
Shall we play in London?
Yeah whatever.
Or somewhere really fucking dull?
Yeearrgh!
C'mon let's think the same
Let's act the same.
Let's all look the same.
It's group think, group think group think!
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6. |
The Pushover
02:00
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Step right up and walk all over me,
Just wipe your feet on the way down.
Take advantage, grab a piece of me,
Just let me know when you are done.
Thought you were my friend.
Shake my hand, I am the pushover.
More stupid than you could believe.
Condescend and criticise, right there before my eyes.
I've not been blind, just plain naive.
Thought you were my friend.
I never thought I would end up here.
Now there's only one word I know: regret.
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7. |
Whispering
03:10
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As sure as the day ends, so it'll start again.
Just as winter, turns back into Spring.
So does history, seem to repeat itself.
History seems to repeat itself.
I'm whispering my helplessness to you.
I found your old photo, all curled up round the edge.
Things turned out so different.
I'd be broke if I'd placed bets.
Does it leave you feeling left back on the shelf?
Do you feel left back on the shelf?
I'm whispering my helplessness to you.
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8. |
Shut Up & Kiss Me
02:17
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What's the matter with you now?
Does it seem that all your plans are fucked up once again?
You want me to show you how to put right
All of the things that you seem to think are going wrong?
I'm so sorry but I can't help you.
Shut up and kiss me.
Yeah I know that it's all shit.
I never said I could change it, just that it fucking stinks.
So now I'm borrowing lines.
Well I'll give them back in time, just as soon as I have done with it.
I'm so sorry I'm nothing special.
Shut up and kiss me.
I'm never going to lie to you.
I'm always going to try for you.
I wish I could promise that I'll never let you down.
Won't let you down.
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9. |
Flat Stanley
02:44
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You'd like to watch the sunrise for a second time around
In the hope that you might see things clearer.
Look for contentment or some happiness.
They're not the same but which one is nearer?
They're not the same, could you be nearer?
Just not the same but you are nearer.
It's your picture book thinking.
You can't find an answer that you're happy with.
Have you ever thought to change the question?
Why spend your life thinking everything's complex?
You might find the answers are much simpler.
Could it be the answers are much simpler?
It could be the answers are much simpler.
It's your picture book thinking.
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10. |
Wipeout the Day
02:28
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You breathe deep, you try to relax
But your mind is still full of the everyday blandness.
You look in, do you like what you see?
Or do you still feel like you've filled the (w)hole up with nothing?
It's one of those times when I'd...
Sometimes I'd like to wipeout the day.
It's a smile, it slipped away.
Lost the best part of the dream by being rudely awoken.
It's the door, or is the phone?
It doesn't matter now that the spell has been broken.
It's one of those times when I'd...
Sometimes I'd like to wipeout the day.
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11. |
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Cut open my throat and you will see the words.
The ones that stuck there when I tried to tell you
How I feel about the world and you and books
And all the things I've learned to love and hate
In this fucked up world of ours.
Who fucked up this world?
(Sometimes I) don't know what makes me happy.
I don't know what makes me sad.
I don't know what makes me happy.
Not knowing the reasons tonight,
It doesn't seem so bad.
Let's open our eyes, stop tearing them out.
It make it easier for us to show each open hands
Instead of fists clenched hard against the cold,
The pain, the fear and how we're taught to hate.
Why are we taught to hate?
(Sometimes I) don't know what makes me happy.
I don't know what makes me sad.
I don't know what makes me happy.
Not knowing the reasons tonight,
It doesn't seem so bad.
I don't know the reasons.
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12. |
Stonewalled
02:41
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There are no prizes for guessing it wrong once again.
What's plain in your eyes is just what you intend.
Round and round it goes.
Are you second from last or are you second to none?
Is your time standing still or has it all gone by you?
Faster and faster, faster and faster away.
The biggest lie is fooling yourself you're a friend.
What surprises is that you're seeing it through to the end.
Or so the story goes.
Are you second from last or are you second to none?
Is your time standing still or has it all gone by you?
Faster and faster, faster and faster away.
Every time I kick down the walls you build,
There's someone there who's picking the pieces up.
Before I know it you're building walls up again.
I'm stonewalled again.
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Scarper! UK
Five little idiots from Hull.
1995 - 2002
1
Album
3 EPs
2 Split EPs
250 UK gigs
1 US gig
Lots of friends and the best of times.
... more
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