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typed by James Lawrence
Thank
you for the impossible effort!
These lyrics have been
taken from the lyric sheet accompanying the Japanese version of this
album, and I have checked them for each song. I have identified the
backing vocals in most places with brackets "()".
Important:
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lyrics.
Songs:
Asylums
In Jerusalem
A
Slow Soul
Jacques
Derrida
Lions
After Slumber
Faithless
Sex
Rock-A-Boy
Blue
Gettin'
Havin' & Holdin'
The
Sweetest Girl
Asylums
In Jerusalem
Written
by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
Let
him go cos he is rocking
He is sorry that he never changed
Let him go, he is sorry
He's been talking in the tongues again
And he will worry yeah
But please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
At all, at all all all, at all
Let him go, let him go cos
he is sorry
Let him never be the same again
Let him swing and let him worry
Wah it's asylums in Jerusalem
Because they are worried yeah
Then please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
At all, at all all all, at all
Let him shake a little let
him rock a little
Let him worry
He's in awe but he hates himself
Let him hip hop hippety hop now hurry
It's asylums in Jerusalem
Don't let him worry no
Then please don't ever let him go
Don't you ever, ever let him go at all
Don't let that boy go
Don't let him go - at all
Well I know that it rocks
And I know that it shakes
And I know it's got to fall because
It's made it's last mistake
(Now) he's a saint oh but
there's so many
They built asylums in Jerusalem
Let him shake a little let him rock a little
Let him worry
Let him never be the same again
Oh he will worry yeah
An' he wants to be above the law
But he doesn't know what he's fightin' for at all
At all, at all all all, at all
Let him pop a little let
him swing
And he is sorry
Cos there's something that he couldn't say at all
Let him shake a little let him step a little
Let him worry
Cos it's asylums in Jerusalem
Don't let him worry no
With his hammer and his popsicle
They put him in h-hospital for good
Don't let that boy go
Don't let him go - at, at, at all
Oh at all
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A
Slow Soul
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
You, you who have no-one
There is nothing I can tell you that you need
You want for nothing
There is no-one I can show you any better
Each time you take it
It gets so hard, it gets so very hard to do - oh and
Each time we break it
Much greater than before
You, you heard all those
sweet things
But you know too much to ever let it happen
You know how to listen
How to look and find there's no-one worth your worry
Every time you wake up
It's every time I see there's somethin' left to do - oh and
You who have nothing
Much greater than before
(Don't need what you want)
(Don't want what you need)
You better think twice and I'll call you at home
No-one to blame - not one single thing
There isn't something to make you go home
(Know that I love you)
I don't understand
(Know that I need you)
It's just much too bad
You who have no-one
Much greater than before
You stuck in North London
Your days will drag and linger for a lifetime
You know too much baby
Than to think his gentle arms will make it better
It's gonna beat you
You've seen too much to ever get to feel at ease - oh and
Y'can't get away baby - oh no
As easy as before
Please don't settle for
less
You're the only thing I know I really need
You - I guess you get lonely
But I know your heart won't settle for a second
But you got more sickness
It gets so hard it gets so very hard to do - oh and
But you got more sadness
Much greater than before
Please don't
forget - oh no
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Jacques
Derrida
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
I'm in love with the
bossonova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel
I'm in love
I'm in love with the bossonova
He's the one with the cashanova
I'm in love with his heart of steel
I'm in love
How come no-one ever told
me
Who I'm working for
Down among the rich men baby
And the poor
Here comes love forever
And it's here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh-oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain
Still support the
revolution
I want it I want it I want
that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because
I'm in love with a Jacques
Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart my baby's heart
I'm in love
I'm in love with a Jacques Derrida
Read a page and know what I need to
Take apart my baby's heart
I'm in love
To err is to be human
To forgive is too divine
I was like an industry
Depressed and in decline
Here comes love for ever
And it's here comes love for no-one
Oh here comes love for Marilyn
And it's oh my baby oh my baby
What you gonna do?
In the reason - in the rain
Still support the
revolution
I want it I want it I want
that too
B'baby B'baby it's up to you
To find out somethin' that you need to do
Because
Oh I'm in love with bop
sh'dayo
Out of Camden Town for a day - oh
I'm in love with just gettin' away
I'm in love
Oh I'm in love with militante
Reads Unita and reads Avanti
I'm in love with her heart of steel
I'm in love
He held it like a
cigarette
Behind a squadee's back
He held it so he hid its length
And so he hid its lack - oh
An' it seems so very sad
(all right!)
Well I want better than
you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapacious
Rapacious you can never satiate
(ate what?!) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state
I got incentive that you
can't handle
I got the needs you can't assuage
I got demands you can't meet
'n' stay on your feet
I want more than your living wage
Well I want better than
you can give
But then I'll take whatever you got
Cos I'm a grand libertine with the
Kinda demeanour to overthrow the lot
I said rapacious
Rapacious you can never satiate
(ate what?!) desire is so voracious
I wanna eat your nation state
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Lions
After Slumber
Written by Green Gartside, published by Chrysalis Music Ltd.
My diplomacy, my security,
my hope and my ice-cream
My tomorrow and my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration
My notebook and my limit, my importance and my glycerine
My customer, my function, my lawlessness, my charm
My hunger, my refusal, my tissue and my vodka
My ommission, my ability, my telephone and my holler
My relaxing, my distress, my bedroom, my cassette
My dictation and my pulse, my fortune and my death
My flake and my restlessness, my headache and my dirt
My paper and my charity, my rose and my pallor
My guess and my closet, my light 'n' my time
My worry, my perversity, my transgression
My temptation and my polythene, my gunshot [click]
My jealousy and my water
My demands 'n' my angels 'n' my waiting 'n' my distance
My death, my curtness, my insulin, my memory
My partner 'n' my sadness, my story, my wantoness
My wish, my despair, my erasure, my plantation
My white chocolate, my thoughtlessness, my gracelessness
My courage and my crying, my pockets 'n' my mistakes
My body and my sex, my gaze and my helplessness
My letter, my sugar, my homework, my walk
My records, my smile and my struggle
My reflection, my eyelid, my fragility, my discretion
My hair, my austerity, my tattoo, my demise
My fooling and my terror, my problem and my judgement
Oh my disguise, my tongue
My ownership, my formula, my property, my thought, my razor
My blessing and my silence, my lust and my practice
My sincerity, my penecillin, my window and my androgyny
My mother, my recorder, my pity and my posing
My light, my carelessness, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer, my drummer
My tenderness 'n' my car, my undoing and my history
My bottle and my drugs, my drugs, my drugs
Tomorrow, my temperature, my lips and my selfishness
My cigarette, my uncertainty, my penetration, my notebook
[breath] My limit, my
importance, my glycerine, my customer, my function
My lawlessness, my charm and my hunger
My refusal, my tissue, my vodka, my admission
[instrumental break]
My ability
and my telephone, my holler, my relaxing
My distress and my bedroom, my restlessness, my headache
My dirt, my paper, charity, my rose
My pallor, my guess and my closet,
my light 'n' my time, my worry, my perversity
My transgression honey, my temptation honey
My polythene, my jealousy
My water, my demands, my angels
My waiting, my distance, my death, my curtness, my insulin
My memory, my partner, my refrigerator
My sadness, my story, my wantoness, my skipping
My wish and my despair, my erasure, my plantation, my chocolate
My thoughtlessness, my gracelessness, my courage and my crying
My pockets, my homework
Like lions after slumber in unvanquishable number
Oh yeah
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Faithless
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
Tears of sorrow, tears of
joy
Oh come at once for the sweetest boy
(nobody knows)
That's the price that the boy has paid
To choose not to be afraid
That's the price that the
girl has paid
Oh for all the promises she made
(y'look pretty good)
She is triple hep 'n' blue
She'll never ever know what's true
Fallout of love
It's the fallout of love
(what you want and you need)
Do right, they do wrong, they understand
That they're never ever ever ever gonna win
These are the better times
(oh yeah darlin'!)
I'm a hetero-genius
I wanna testify (oooh)
But she does it but she doesn't understand
Faithless now I just got
soul (baby)
Ooh look at the girl go (baby)
Oh look at the girl go
She looks so fine (so fine)
Do you do you do (baby)
Do you do you do
(But you looks so good)
Do you do-oh
Do you do
Do you do-oooh
Oh who coulda seen it
(who coulda heard)
Who coulda told them
(who coulda known)
Oh who coulda seen it
(who coulda heard)
Who coulda told them
(who coulda known)
They do it but they never
understand
Tell me, tell me, tell me,
tell me now
Tears of sorrow, tears of
joy
Oh come at once for the sweetest boy
(nobody knows)
That's the price that the boy has paid
To choose not to be afraid
Fallout of love
Ow! The fallout, baby, fallout of love
(nobody knows)
The girl is righteous and she understands why
These are the better times
All the boys down at the club
They say "Now she must be something"
I said "You don't know the half of it Jack!"
She does it but she
doesn't understand
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Sex
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
Sex sex sex - well don't
bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion so let's get indiscreet, yeah
Sex sex sex - watch you break out in a sweat
It's what you gonna get
Sex sex sex (uh-huh) - but you got the motion that the boys and girls all
wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get in on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh
Sex sex sex - well you
came here just to dance
Well c'est ci bon don't worry it's the same jouissance, yeah
Sex sex sex - don't ever let that go
You find any reason for what you wanna do now
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it
home
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get in on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh-yeah
Sex sex sex - well your
angle is acute
You gotta lotta finesse in your sharkskin suit now
Sex sex sex - you don't need no excuse
Your body has a function so you put it to a use, yeah
But you got the motion that the boys 'n' girls all wanna touch and take it
home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get in on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh-yeah
Sex sex sex
Sex sex sex - c'mon 'n'
break that rule
Let's break it into pieces that are long 'n' sweet 'n' cool, yeah
Sex sex sex (oooh) - you ain't got no money
But you will afford to loosen up and let it go
Get up and jump to debasement
Get up and masterstroke
(get it up, get in on)
Just cut that chi chi 'n' machismo
I said oh oh oh-yeah
Sex sex sex - well let's
lay it on a line
You can let me know with your eyes an' I'll let you know with mine, yeah
Sex sex sex - but don't bush around the beat
This is the soul of indiscretion, let's get indiscreet, yeah
You got the motion that
the boys and girls all wanna touch and take it home
Just cut that small talk 'n' the floorplay
Just cut that cute display
(get it up, get in on)
Amoral disarmament baby
I said oh oh oh-yeah
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Rock-A-Boy
Blue
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
The girls are hep 'n' the
men are divine
'n' everything is gin and roses
You are new to me an' I'm so happy
You can whisper and I will listen
The world becomes a motion picture
I got it beat oh I got it licked, yeah
Rock-a-boy blue
It seems so sad
But the film goes dim like
a faraway star
A frozen frame like silver paper
When the kissing gets very hard
Just to try and get at something
When the representatives turn to leaders
As long as you know as long as you need us
We'll be there
You know it's true
Don't they love like a
rock-a-boy should
Don't they rock like lonely lovers
Don't they want to make the money
Don't they want to be the Beatles
Things ain't clear, they're just transparent
The trick of the trade is to make them apparent-ly
Rock-a-boy blue
You know that I said that you know that
I learnt to live with the
beats in the bar
Made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, then more fool you
I learnt to live with the
beats in the bar
That made me sick with repetition
I learnt to love that one note samba
No surprise or definition
I guess I can learn to love what I used to
If you can get used to just getting used by
Rock-a-boy blue
Baby, more fool you
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Gettin'
Havin' & Holdin'
Written by Green Gartside, Copyright control.
When a man loves a woman
He is happy, maybe
When a man loves a woman
He is never alone, he's never alone
Baby, well you know that he's (ooh)
Bound to be heartbroken (heartbroken)
He's just bound to feel so ill at ease
Bound to nothing
Bound to lose, to lose yeah
When a man (when a man)
loves a woman
He is broken, I think you know he is
When a man loves a woman
He is always alone, he's always alone
Baby, well you know that he's (ooh)
Bound to be so happy (so happy)
He's just bound to feel so ill at ease
That only he will never realise he's in love
In love, yeah
S'time I just get so sad
Take that, baby, y'know I get so sad
It's just
A man loves a woman (loves
a woman)
He is jealous (jealous, jealous, jealous)
Baby, when a man loves a woman
It's the language of getting, having and holding
Baby, well you know that it's
Just like a great nation (great nation)
It's so bound to type up on the...
Typed-up on the wall
It's tired of joking - wet, wet with tears
So sad, yeah
When a man (when a man)
loves a woman (loves a woman)
He is happy, maybe
Gets his orders from chaos
Some say nothing will change oh nothing will change
Baby, well you know that it's (ooh)
True like the Tractatus (Tractatus)
Oh, knows it's harder than the rest
So exciting, so divine
Divine, yeah
Ooh, his love is a heart
breaking out
Ooh, his love is a heart breaking out
Ooh, his love is a heart breaking out
Oh, oh, you know that his love is a heart breaking out
When a man (when a man)
loves a woman (loves a woman)
He is happy
When a man (man) loves a woman
He is always alone, he's always alone
Baby, well you know that he's
Bound to be heartbroken (heartbroken)
Bound to feel so ill at ease
He hardly stands, she doesn't understand
He's in love
In love, yeah
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The
Sweetest Girl
Written by Green Gartside, published by Chrysalis Music Ltd.
Sweetest girl in all the
world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His eyes are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me
Sweetest girl in all the world
His words have died before me
When they walk in the
park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving
The sweetest boy in all
the world
His life has got so lonely
Sweetest boy in all the world
His life has got so lonely
Sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me
The sickest group in all the world
How could they do this to me
What I want I will take,
what you think that you know
Oh such an awful mistake to never let go
It's just loving - ooh loving
The weakest link in every
chain
I always want to find it
The strongest words in each belief
Find out what's behind it
Politics is pride too
Vagaries of science
She left because she understood
The value of defiance
When the government falls,
I wish I could tell
When, oh when necessity calls, I never can tell
It's just loving - ooh loving
Sweetest girl in all the
world
These words are for you only
Sweetest girl in all the world
These words have died before me
When they walk in the
park, I never can tell
When they walk in the dark, you know that it never can be told
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