To do what I should do to long for you to hear
I open up my heart ... and watch her name appear
A word for you to use a girl without a cause
A name for what you lose when it was never yours
The first time baby that I came to you
I'd do things that you want me to
The second time baby that I came to you
Oh you found my love for you
The third time baby that I came to you
Oh Oh Oh I knew
The last time baby that I came to you
Oh how your flesh and blood became the word
Name the girl outgrew the girl was never real
She stands for your abuse the girl is no ideal
It's a word for what you do in a world of broken rules
She found a place for you along her chain of fools
Small talk small talk small talk
Ooh we're tired of prophesying
We heard the word was good but it's stupefying
Small talk get up and do some death defying small talk
I heard a whisper
that careless talk costs more than you bargained for
In seventh heaven if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly
Small talk oh baby it's so inconsequential
Everybody heard enough about your big potential
Small talk oh no information given small talk
Small talk oh well your such a little socialite
We heard your chit chat now you get it up and get it right
Small talk oh show us what your made of baby small talk
Absolute on power drive I need you so to keep me alive
Absolute I long for you a girl to make a dream come true
Absolute a principal to make your heart invincible to love
Ooh love you ... holy girl your lips of clay
Will whisper words of yesterday
Holy girl my paramour I know too much to be so sure
Holy girl you kiss away the meaning of the working day
For love / ooh love you ...
Where the words are worn away we live to love another day
Where the words are hard 'n' fast we talk of nothing new but the past
Where the words are vodka clear forgetfulness has brought us near
Absolute a principal to make your heart invincible
To love oh to love to love
Now I know to love you is not to know you
Oh I got too near to you oh in the court of contempt
I have to tell you one thing I'm certain
I've been overtaken girl oh by the need to be loved
We don't have forever to find a reason
How I lost the will to love you out in the way of the world
Maybe I could see you when this is over
Maybe when our hearts are healed oh what a day to behold
There'll be a day lovers away
When you can call me and mend a broken heart
There'll be a time long after mine
When he will call you and mend a broken heart
Not a lot to say now except I miss you
Not a lot to take your place oh in the heart of the boy
Ooh a little knowledge is so exciting
You became a part of me oh and the world that we knew
I guess it's a sickness that keeps me wanting
Ate away the heart of me oh and the heart that I loved
Still beyond believing in love forever
Quite the brightest star - girl oh in the reason of sleep
Listen to her say got a little radio held to my body
I can feel your back beat boy moving a muscle of love
Turn it up and press it I don't understand it
I can feel your message boy calling me over and out
Here's a verse for nothing an introduction
To the way the world will be now we're apart and alone
Mustn't be unhappy when you remember
Lovers never lose each other oh such a lot to be learned
I need love for the power got to understand
I need love for the power got the upper hand
I need love for the power use it oh so fast
I need love for the power love'll never last
And I don't work that hard not for love
Drowning in my teardrops
And I don't work that hard not for love
Drowning in my teardrops
Oh I'll be good want you so much
give me the word wrap it for love
Oh I'll be true oh I love you so much
give me the word and I'll honour and obey
I submit for approval got to understand
I submit for approval got the upper hand
I submit for approval use it oh so fast
I submit for approval n'love'll never last
I got a piece for the wicked use it oh so fast
I got a piece for the wicked love'll never last
I'm gonna work that hard oh for love
Even in my teardrops
I'm gonna work that hard oh for love
Even in my teardrops
I took a backseat a backhander I took her back to her room
I better get back to the basics for you
You gotta conscience compassion you got away with the word
You gotta heart full of complacency too
I don't have a purpose omission I'm empty by definition
I got a lack girl that you'd love to be
You wanna diva a deduction you wanna do what they do
Wanna do damage that you can undo
Apart from everyone away from your love
A part of me belongs apart from all the hurt above
I got a perfect way to make a new proposition
I got a perfect way to make a justification
I got a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
I got a perfect way to make the girls go crazy
I took a day job amendment I took a liking to you
I took a page out of my rulebook for you
You wanna message a confession you wanna martyr me too
You wanna margin of error for two
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
I made an offer an exception I made a sense out of you
You took a good look at your book but I knew
In times of tenderness in terms baby so true
Until such time as I can understand all the things you do
Want to forgive you for all the things that you do
Wanna forget how to remember with you
Maybe tomorrow the next letter or when the weather gets better
I've got to wait here for your moon to turn blue
This is a perfect way to make a new proposition
This is a perfect way to make a justification
This is a perfect way to make a certain a maybe
This is a perfect way to make the girls go crazy
Hard that I'm gonna hear about you oh about you baby I do
Hard that I'm gonna be without you oh without you baby I do
I stand to lose if I love you you stand to gain
We stand for all who believe in vain
Let's fall in love n' be glad to get it over oh I'm over baby for you
Call him and tell him that it's over oh it's over baby it's through
I got the time that you left me you got the keys to his car
We got the nerve to have got this far
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover to fall for you
I'm tellin' you baby 'cos baby it's true
I'm gonna be the lover oh I'm gonna be the lover
Heard your the heroine of virtue oh I heard it baby it's true
Heard how your honesty had hurt you oh I heard it baby it's true
I found a new hermeneutic I found a new paradigm
I found a plan just to make you mine
N' now I know that I need you to be near me oh mear me baby I do
Know that I need you girl to hear me oh you hear me baby you do
Come back n' give me a reason come back 'n take me away
Come back n' mean all the things you say
There's nothing I wouldn't be to get to be together
There's nothing I wouldn't be my heart depends on me
There's nothing I wouldn't do including doing nothing
There's nothing I wouldn't do for you to be with me now sugar
And each time I go to bed I pray like Aretha Franklin
Each time I go to bed I pray like Aretha Franklin
Because baby baooo I'm a would be w.o.o.d. I'm a would be would be b.e.e.z.
There's nothing I wouldn't do to make you want for nothing
There's nothing I wouldn't do my heart belongs to you
There's nothing we shouldn't do to get to be so happy
There's nothing we shouldn't do oh let's forget taboo now sugar
Each time I love you you know what I need to do
And each time I need you baby you know, you know, know, know, know
There's nothing I wouldn't take oh even intravenous
There's nothing I wouldn't take to get to be approved
There's nothing I wouldn't be oh that's the gift of schizo
There's nothing that's new to me I've seen it all before now sugar
Hypnotize call me up when you thought of somethin' new for me to do girl
How could your nothings be so sweet you left your love letters incomplete
Ooh what a girl got nothin; to do mmm but she got that much for you
Ooh what the girl been puttin' you thru' mmm but she she got that much for you
Down on the beach and out in the bay ooh but I heard the sirens say
You better believe her or you better leave her now or never
Hypnotize how do you come to be having fun with everyone but me girl
Forgot to tell me something good you the word knew you would
Hypnotize how do you come to be havin' fun with everyone but me girl
How could your nothings be so sweet you left your love letters incomplete
Ooh what a girl got nothin' to do mmm but she got that much for you
Ooh what the girl been puttin' you thru' mmm but she got that much for you
Out on the street and Avenue A oh but I heard the sirens say
You better believe her or you better leave her now or never
In your eyes wanna tell you that your heart keeps rockin'
In your eyes wanna tell you that your heart keeps rockin'
In your eyes wanna tell you that your heart keeps rockin'
Hypnotize I forget to believe in heaven when I look at you girl
How could your nothings be so sweet you left your love letters incomplete
All Lyrics Copyright (c) 1985 Jouissance Music/WB Music Corp. ASCAP
The Tupamaros got a platinum card (all right)
I got a heart of gold and it's time to get hard (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi I gotta way to get rich (all right)
I gotta library and a seven day itch (and I like It)
I got money oh I got around but my life was going nowhere
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was
I was looking for love and I want your love baby love
When you gonna get me Boom! there she was - for me
The Tupamaros an immutable truth (all right)
I got a razor blade an' a beautiful youth (and I like it)
A Moto Guzzi an' a Gaultier pants (all right)
I got a reason girl was Immanuel Kant's (and I like it)
Pharmacopoeia I got a way with the word (all right)
I got an' alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)
(Looking for love now)(Are you looking for me)
(I'm looking for love now)(Wanted to get you girl)
When I was seventeen (Tell us about it Green)
there was a world to know about (Check it out)
Everyday she'd call me (What'd she say?)
Is it over yet? Do you love me?
Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the tears you cry - will dry in the dead of night
And now I'm in between (Tell us about it Green)
It all became a mystery (Check it out)
Everyday she calls me (What does she say?)
It is over yet? Do you believe them?
Overnite - and while your trouble's away
Under the stars up above - I'll build you another day
Close your eyes - I'll be home before it's light
And all the fears you have - will die in the dead of night
Someday - maybe soon - we could show them a way
I would love just to watch it falling
Oh my pretty one - show me a way
Overnite - I heard a satellite say
There'll be a wind from the west - to blow all your dreams away
Close your eyes - and maybe before it's light
Oh all the hopes that you have - will die in the dead of night
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
Come back baby I know it's over
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
Come back baby I know it's over
I could be new - for you - again
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
The one cute cookie who beat the boredom
Stay for a day - or - two - again
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
And you know 'bout it (know 'bout it)
Only negation's gonna last forever and the good girls get to know 'bout it
Lovesick - and I've taken too much
And I'm lovesick - never taken enough now baby
Lovesick - and baby I don't wanna be
Lovesick - anymore, let me tell you 'bout it
I got your number you know I got your number
I got your number you know I got it
Come back baby I know it's over
I'd love you to look - me up - someday
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
Hot shot sugar returns to toy town
You got to do - the world - your way
I was the first boy in this town to love you little girl
And you know 'bout it (know 'bout it)
This repetition's - gonna last forever and the good girls get to know 'bout it
Gonna get that girl and show her the time of my life
Gonna get that girl and show her the end of the world
Maybe I'll be the one thing she needs when I've found her
And worn your world away
Gonna get that girl and show her the time of my life
Gonna get that girl and show her the end of the world
She could be free of all that she sees when I've found her
And worn her world away
We'll believe now - in nothing at all
Nothing compares with the love of the one for ...
All we are now - and ever could be
Somewhere the forces of love come to disagree
Gonna give that girl a present that never arrives
Gonna give that girl a future that's hard to believe
She could be free of all that she sees when I've found her
And worn her world away
I wanna get 'em girl - teach 'em a lesson
I got the love for you - over and over
They got us workin girl - under illusion
I got the love for you - over and out
Oh what a trip just to keep us together
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(Tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - is just about the best thing ever
(Tell me baby how'd it get so good)
Baby, baby your love - still hurtin'
How do they make me wanna - do what I do - when I love you
We gotta show them girl - hip to the power
I got the love for you - better than ever
They got me lovin' girl - like I was crazy
I got the love for you - over and out
Oh what a trip just to keep 'em in power
I had a dream of us together in a world where we knew what was true
Oh Patti don't lead the life that I left you with
It's been such a long time and I know
We tried together to discover why we failed the test of our time
Oh Patti don't lead the life that they made for you
I'll be gone a long while and you'll know
And don't feel sorry for lover boy
You know he wants the world to love him and then he goes and spoils it all
Don't feel sorry for lover boy
He wants the world to love him then he goes and spoils it all for love
There's no one out here you can listen to and certainly never yourself
Oh Patti don't lead the life that I left you with
Listen to the cars call in the rain
I got so tired of concluding that there's nothing for us to conclude
Oh Patti don't look for certainty in your life
I've gone where a lost cause can be found
Bam salute and all the right reason now are out of reach
They ran away with beauty baby - out to Bop-A-Re-Bop beach
Bam Salute and when the work is over what can baby do?
But undermine and overthrow the cheatin' of the chosen few
Bop-A-Re-Bop beach now baby
Oh first and foremost - ooh you gotta get close
To the money and the madness that are mine - at any time
And last but not least - in the heart of the beast
There's a beauty that was once upon a time - and long ago
Bam Salute and all the just and proper you've been waiting for
Sailed away with virtue baby - out to Bop-A-Re-Bop shore
Bam Salute and now the judge and jury - you can lock away
And all your world's abandoned to - the wages for a working day
Bop-A-Re-Bop shore now baby
Oh the one thing I know - is that wherever you go
You won't find the peace of mind you're looking for - not any more
And since that's the case - put a smile on your face
You can love me - we can live above the law
Get you girl - a part of this world
Take it and show you nothing is ever what it seems
Get you girl - a matter of fact
Teach you a lesson nothing is ever more than dreams
You got it girl with the sugar and spice
Story of a love in a lost paradise (another day baby)
Hot and the sweet girl - a word of advice
Hit me up with a shot of the sugar and spice (anyway baby)
Let you girl - alone to believe
In a measure for measure in a three standard stoppages for you
Get you girl - a test of your love
Don't try and tell me how tough at the top it is for you
Get you girl - the best of both worlds
Do the puppy dog for me girl
Sugar and spices here for you
Get you girl - got a way to make it better
Take it and show you
Sugar and spices here for you
I just wanted to be so happy girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
Got to believe the doctor girl he told me yesterday (yes he did)
Said you don't need the pharmacology 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
Don't need the cardiology to have a change of heart
You gotta new and dangerous condition boy
He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy
Philosophy now
Oh for a girl (the bomb baby) Fix me a world (the blue shoes)
Oh for it stirred or it shaken to get to know you
Pull me through (the bomb baby) what can I do? (the blue shoes)
Oh now I know I'm mistaken to get to love you
Could you get me a new philosophy 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
I got to see a prophet girl before the day is out (yes I do)
And I don't want apothecary girl 'cos I want you baby I do want you baby
I got to see the Avatar to talk the world away
You gotta new and dangerous condition boy
He said you know you're gonna lose your own volition boy
Philosophy now
All songs written by Green Gartside/David Gamson (c) 1988 Jouissance Publishing USA/Gamson Songs/WB Music Corp. ASCAP except "Bam Salute" written by Green Gartside (c) 1988 Jouissance Publishing USA, admin. by WB Music Corp. ASCAPWeb page design & implementation © 1997 Chris Lee
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