How do you look so young? You spent a thousand dollars on chewing gum Forgot your cheese in Rome Divert the plane from returning home Will anything thing ever be enough? Sparkling jewels glisten from above You were a beauty queen This week's girl from a magazine Obsessed with shopping sprees Dreaming of your powers to be Can a steel butterfly flap...Learn More

It’s been going on some time Net curtains are a twitching On the wires of the nerves Second hand slowly ticking With a glass to the wall Listening out It’s kind of scratching I could do without Going down on all fours Heard through the floors It’s a form of torture Coming through the walls Can you hear that banging? It’s hammering home All kinds...Learn More

We are sick and tired, we’re sick and tired Of a member of the clergy accepting free cups of tea There’s so much work to be done here at this jumble His face is full of biscuits like it’s some kind of jamboree Nothing seems to satisfy, finding fault in everything Happy to externalise than accept what lies within He is sick and tired, he’s sick...Learn More

Those sunnies look like our telly Fringe, cut square on a curly wig Hawaiian shirt, nylon sta press flare Medallion man lights up my Mother's cig Weekends in the club Aunties and Uncles we hold so dear Pop and crisps, bowls or snooker? One armed bandit, domies with beer You killed my father, now you must die You killed my father, now you must...Learn More

Don't point your finger at me I'm not responsible for misery I watch the world but I don't see Works it out better that way for me I'm just the man on the street I'll read my paper down the pub It won't burst my bubble I really don't think it should It's not like I don't care I don't give a shit I just show them the finger If it ever boils down to...Learn More

Plug yourself into responsibility Believe it for very sound reasons Argue for your own limitation Face the music of your own demons Fear of failure keeps you falling You don't have to do all the things you must They may string me up for saying less There’s a freedom you may learn to trust We are in the timeless now The spotless here and now We...Learn More

Went to a disco, I was 13 years old In a disused scout hut, I was all on my own I’d bought a new shirt, red, blue & green Bought it down Leeds market subject to my means Check out my psychedelic shirt So out of time it hurts If it’s not for you, not for you, it’s for me Back in the day, young offenders leave me be Gone from the cloakroom Strung...Learn More

I’m so tired of your face at my window Making demands, facing those commands Scratching the pane, break the glass Cursing the splinters, forcing the catch All you had to be was a good friend All you had to be was a good friend Now you’re in again, destroying my mind Shattering the pieces, drinking some wine You think you’re entitled to what...Learn More

If you're afraid of the dark The creature under the bed What currently lives in the wardrobe May also reside in your head Darkness conceals imaginary danger Tension leads to avoidance behaviour Shrinking courage limits decision Far brings fears like a home superstition I can't rescue you from despair You're a prisoner of your hea-heart Running...Learn More