London Lyrics
MESSAGE
This is a message, this is a wake up call
If you 've fallen further than you thought you could fall
Go on, get up now, you screwed yourself to the floor
But you're not screwed, if you choose, anymore
This is a message for you, you should take this call
This is a message for you, before you fall back down
Hey automatic, disengage, cut the schedule, leave the plan alone
Walk with the living, the flesh and the blood are waiting for you back home
And when the pieces get picked up
There are those edges that can cut
It's a risk you're going to take
You've got to stop this almost-clever
Simple things should be simply said
What you believe in, if there's anything
Let it replace the mess in your head
This was a message for you,
I hope you took this call
This was a message for you to stop you falling down, back down
STRANGER
Are you jealous, still super zealous
Do you miss it, or kiss and dismiss it
Do you get the guest list, may be the second best list
Or are you lining up with all the rest list ?
Stranger
Does the mirror hold surprise for you ?
Stranger
So what comes next when dreams come true ? (Was it good for you ?)
Blow the dust off, scrape the rust off
Is it worth it if you could even unearth it ?
What are you thinking, are you swimming or sinking ?
What is it you're feeling now, happy or sad somehow ?
Everyone around you feels the heat
They'd burn their fingers for a piece
But you of all should sympathise
A city full of those that never will
Stand close enough to get their thrill
Do you want what you see through their eyes ?
THE ROCKET SHIPS OF LA JOLLA
The rocket ships of La Jolla are waiting to blast away, blast away
Away for adventure, a trip of a lifetime of discovery
And you are the captain, going without me
California drive-by, shooting film from the car
Church by the road like rockets pointing at the stars
How did we get here, what on earth went wrong ?
Leave the earth on a rocket ship if you feel you don't belong
It's just an idle dream, a fantasy, but I'll tell you something
A dream was good enough for me
California sunshine, north London rain
The same sky that launched them both will welcome you again
A house of devotion, more than it seems ?
Fool myself with appearances
If you know what I mean
ASLEEP ON THE MOTORWAY
It could just be me but there's a phoniness about
The magic and the mystery of 3am
Pondering not so much the meaning of life
More the miles per lonely hour before a coffee stop again
Asleep on the motorway
There is a world beyond the glare of these lights
Asleep on the motorway
Trying hard to believe it's just one of those nights
No-one here to guide me through the darkest hour
Just lines on the road likes days in a year
Trains of thought run alongside, remote in the dark
You've gotta keep alert to stop 'em getting too near
And then it hits me, or rather, I hit it
HELLO NEON
You can hear the night is calling with it's sentences unended
And the promises it seldom ever keeps
I have to hear some music make the windows shake
Either that or sounds to make my heart ache
Dressed like this, it's the best that I can do
The mirror sees me out the door
Hello Neon !
Are you ready for me
Turn up all your lights for me
I'm a heavy passive smoker and a hyperactive drinker
And I'm squashed bewteeen two people I don't know
She thinks she once met me was it quite some time ago ?
He just looks away and he lets his boredom show
This conversation, it's the best that I can do
Beyond the weather and the news
Help me ! Is this the best I can do ?
Decision time what's the best for me to do
Is it a bus or a taxi home
THE A TEAM
A lined red face burns in the sun, frying on the pavement
This Mr T endorses rum, now you know
T for Tennants from the can, it' the choice of champions
Become an extraordinary man, a Super man
Legal at 18
To try for the A Team
It's the children most impressed, "that clown's lost his make up"
He's raging at the damned success, at being the best
We may never make the grade, not the likes of you and I
But once or twice a week we try, then we dry
It takes dedication
To be on on the A Team
Not just teenage bravado
You went the extra mile
Forget the weekenders 'cos
All that practice came good just like you knew it would
The cream of the cream
Go off in the A Team
There are still placings now
To be on the A Team
HALF UP THE HILL
Half up the hill, as near to you now as I ever will be
All mixed up, nowhere to go
All these remotes but I'm not in control
Out of sight still in reach
Early morning Germans on the beach
I should have said something
What was it stopped me ?
So still I know nothing I'm only..
Terms and conditions will apply
For not much detail, see inside
Place false hope here
Remain out of the clear
Stuck in the riddle of you
Personal superglue
THE PRINCESS OF MY HEART
The princess of my heart, she is someone I know
She doesn't appear in the headlines wherever I go
The princess of my heart won't good fortune to see
Oh but it's my good fortune that she is with me
I hope she knows, yes she knows, then that's alright
How dark would be my heart if she were taken away ?
The death of a famous name would mean little that day
I hope she knows, yes she knows, then that's alright
I hear the lynch mob baying I'd better guard what I am saying
They've come to tear apart the few
Heartless ones of a different view
And I'm sitting here not much to show
Just a few lines to let her know, maybe she knows
Then that's alright
The princess of my heart she is someone I know
GETAWAY CAR
Here come the getaway car
Inside, the getaway star
Here come the getaway car
The getaway car don't get that far
Here come the getaway car
Inside, the getaway star
Here come the getaway car
The getaway car don't get that far
Police sirens going the wrong way but it makes no difference
There's nowhere left tor you to go
This is no way to spend a day
Looking back, scared shitless
I'm telling you nothing you don't know
Here come the getaway car
This ain't no film star
Here come the get away car
The getaway car's no Jaguar
Here come the getaway car
This ain't no film star
Here come the get away car
The getaway car's no Jaguar
Some of the people stop and stare
But where's the glamour ?
Just two scared kids in a dirt cheap car
This is no way to spend a day
Looking back, scared shitless
I'm telling you nothing you don't know
There sits the getaway car
Smashed up, won't get that far
Doors wide, the getaway car
On foot, the getaway star
There sits the getaway car
Damn close but no cigar
This was the getaway car
The getaway car don't get...far !
TO GET THERE
There's little left to fight except the demons inside
A pandemonium of pride
The measure of the man, as seen on TV
All the things that you could be
Just trying to be advert man
You don't have to dream to get there
But it's harder than it seems to get there
Everyone needs something to aim for
It isn't life or death, I'm not searching a soul
Trying to plug an absent hole
But it's meaningful to me, trying to find the line
See how I am defined
All the people that I need to see now
All the places that I need to be now
Did the time slip by when I looked the other way
Think of tomorrow when I should be thinking of today
The measure of the man, as seen on TV
All the things that you could be
NOWHERE SLOW
All the people going nowhere
Going nowhere slow
All the people going nowhere
Going nowhere slow
I saw the apocalypse licking it's lips
Sat in a van on the M25
You could just sit and stare, it was going nowhere
Chances are it will never arrive
In my car, well, I don't go far
And it's driving me insane
Went to the park and ride
But the city had parked then died
There's nothing left there anyway
Back to the motorway
Fell asleep like yesterday
Maybe I dreamed it, I couldn't say
I saw the apocalypse swinging it's hips
IN THE FACE OF ALL OF THIS
Where there's an aircraft down
There'll be casualties from some English town
There's always an African war
Meaning one vote, once, once more
In the face of all of this
What troubles do you and I possess ?
In the face of all of this
Trouble enough it seems
Down in Afghanistan
They've killed a woman who dressed like a man
A city is under mud But it's OK, there's no television blood
In the face of all of this
Our troubles are easy to resist
Here's the Chinese
They do exactly what they please
And the toll is climbing high
In the face of all of this
What troubles do you and I possess ?
In the face of all of this
Troubles I'll now put away
