lyrics from disc 2 of the "Statement" cd compilation
by Poison Girls, including the album "Chappaquiddick Bridge"
- Promenade Immortelle
- State Control (see lyrics to the album,"Hex")
- Another Hero
- Hole in the Wall
- Underbitch
- Alienation
- Pretty Polly
- Good Time
- Other
- Daughters & Sons
- Tender Love
- Dirty Work
- Statement
- Don't Go Home Tonight
- Fuckin' Mother
Strong with the strength
of all that has gone and all that will change
Strong with the strength
of the longing and pain
That flows through our veins
Strong we are strong
with the rage of the past
And all that will fade
Strong we are strong with wave upon wave
Of change after change
Strong with the strength
of the dreams that we made
That fall and fade
Strong with the strength
of the hurt and the words
Our lips never gave
Strong we are strong
with the sport of the game
The loss and the gain
Strong we are strong with wave upon wave
Of change and desire
AND WE HAVE SURVIVED AND
WE STAND HERE AGAIN
Lust and lies and the love that we made
of our lust and lies
Trust that we gave for another new start
when it all fell apart
The beating of thighs and the love we made
with the meeting of eyes
the beating of hearts for another new start
when it all fell apart
Strong we are strong
like the river of death that runs from our veins
Strong we are strong
with the strength of our minds
And the hope that remains
Strong with the strength
of wave upon wave of age after age
Strong with the strength
of the hands the feet
That will stand here again
AND WE ARE BUT YOUNG
AND WE STAND HERE AGAIN.
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There's no escape from barren weather
The cold war and the upturned collar
Our agents are all under cove
There are no treaties to deliver
The red man trapped in his enclosure
The black man aiming from his shoulder
The white man dying of exposure
And children everywhere grow older
The Hollywood avengers
are drunk and disqualified
Missionaries on morphine
lie giggling and paralyzed
On and on the bullet glides
to find its mark between the eyes
It finds its mark
Another hero bites the dust
There are no wise guys to save us
Against the merciless crusaders
There's nowhere safe to hide from raiders
Who capture hostages for traders
The red man trapped in his enclosure
The black man aiming from his shoulder
The white man dying of exposure
While women everywhere grow bolder
Kissinger and Nixon
are hiding in the abattoirs
Maggie Thatcher's patching up
her makeup in the broken glass
The bloody iron shows
as she drives past in her armoured car
As she drives past
Another hero bites the dust
The hit men in their chosen places
Fix their sites and hide their faces
Slip through the crowd in narrow spaces
Slip through the night and leave no traces
The red man trapped in his enclosure
The black man aiming from his shoulder
The white man dying of exposure
As dead men everywhere grow colder
The cowboys and the Kennedys
are grabbing what there is to sell
The president's advisers
advise us all to go to hell
And those who deal in weapons
are rumoured to be doing well.
The rumour goes
Another hero bites the dust
There are no heroes fit to rule
they're all half saint. Half bloody fool
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Looking through a hole in the wall
Watching myself
through someone else's eyebrow
Staring at someone
who shouldn't be there at all
Watching myself
through someone else's eyeball
Looking through a hole in the wall
Staring at someone
Could be it's you it's you
The paper's peeling
by the mirror so I can see through
Staring at someone
Could be it's you it's you
Looking through a hole in the wall
Trying to catch your eye
there where the insects crawl
Why don't you catch my eye
don't you know I'm there at all at all
Trying to catch your eye
there where the insects crawl
Looking through a hole in the wall
Every day children play
there on the other side
Hide and seek hide and seek
seek and hide seek and hide
Every day children play there
on the other side
Looking through a hole in the wall
Face to face with someone else's eyeball
Mirror clone mirror clone
I wait alone alone alone
Face to face with someone else's eyeball
Looking through a hole in the wall
Watching myself
through someone else's eyebrow
Staring at someone
who shouldn't be there at all
Watching myself
through someone else's eyeball
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Do you when you're trying ever
Wonder which way up it goes
Wonder which way up it goes
Wonder which way water flows
Wonder which way you must go?
Do you when you're crying ever
Fall away from daytime light
Fall away into the night
Nightime nightmare knowing
No-one knows you?
UNDERBITCH
And do you when you're buying ever
Wonder where the money goes
You buy your photocopy clothes
Feel it like a body blow
Pocketknife jack-knife
Peeping Tom lady?
UNDERBITCH
And do you when you're dying ever
Curse the cocky juggernaut
Cocky bugger juggernaut,
Boss mob topdog,
Jellyhead that ran you down
And feels you up?
UNDERBITCH
jellyhead/topdog/NUMBER ONE/big gun/
big gun/dead loss/number one?/get lost/
you make your money/for the big gang/
for the big man/big bang/you take the
money/sell your body/to the top dog/big
knob/jellyhead/drop dead/they take your
money/take your money/CBI/EMI/CBS/
SPG/ICI/EEC/SAS/BBC/big deal/big
wheel/dry run/for the big gun/
NUMBER ONE/big gun/sit tight/
you're all right/you pay the price/jesus
christ/you pay the price/a dead loss/
take the money/sell your body/
underdog/underdog/underdog/
underdog/underdog/underdog/
jellyhead/topdog/boss mob/big knob/
big deal/big wheel/big gun/
NUMBER ONE...?
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Got to live with isolation
Alienation's just a cup of tea
I hear you people talk about frustration
No choice for me
There's no time to get it all together
Ways and means will sell you down
the river
Just watch the dealers trade on your
frustration
Living on the garbage in your brains
forever
Got to live with isolation
Alienation's just a cup of tea
I hear you people moan about
frustration
No choice for me.
Just watch out it's another greedy hero
Picking through your habits and
spitting out the bones
Better keep your distance keep his
fingers off your carcass
He'll tie another knot in you and weigh
you down with stones
There's no cure, there's no nice feelings
We're waiting for a party and we can't
wait forever
Who's pure and who's not dealing?
We're trying to be arty and we just
act clever
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Polly is a pretty girl
Polly is a future girl
Left her sweet suburban home
Went to make it on her own
Her mother was a TV mum
Kept a sweet suburban home
Taught her daughter how to use
Only the best cosmetic foam
Taught her daughter how to use
Her assets in a world of trade
Taught her daughter very well
Polly soon had got it made
Polly is a future girl
Liberation is her way
Pulling on her seamfree tights
She made straight for the city lights
Anxious to please. Genetic disease
How shall I please you. Shall I be witty
Anxious to please genetic disease
How shall I please you
Shall I show you my titty ?
Polly's doing very well
Up there in the city lights
That's the way her money goes
To pay for all her seamfree tights
Polly is a pretty girl
Liberation is her way
Polly is a future girl
Polly always pays her way
Her job is hard. She does it well
She plays around with bulls and bears
She plays hard she plays to win
Piling up her stocks and shares
Polly is a future girl
She makes a profit never loss
Polly is a pretty girl
Polly doesn't give a toss
Anxious to please. Genetic disease
How shall I please you
Was that all they taught her
Anxious to please. Genetic disease
How shall I please you
Shall I give you my daughter
Her job is hard she plays to win
Pretty Polly's in the know
Never late she takes the pill
Easy come and easy go
Pretty Polly's on the game
Polly knows her V.A.T.
Liberation is her way
Polly gets her tights for free
Polly is a pretty girl
Got an independent mind
She's got liberated dreams
Not the romantic kind
Polly is a pretty girl
Running rings around her boss
Polly is a future girl
Polly's never at a loss
Anxious to please. Genetic disease
She's good at her job
And her boss says 'You're so pretty'
Anxious to please. Genetic disease
She'll never know for sure
Why she does so well in the city...
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I saw you shove
that hosepipe down your trousers
So you can shiver
with something to shake
I'm gonna rip
them buttons off your tease shirt
I'm gonna peel
that wrapper off your face
Obsessive sexuality
I'm gonna lick
that sugar off your hairstyle
I'm gonna pick
the icing off your cake
I saw you stuff
that kleenex in your brassiere
I saw you stick a cherry on your fake
Deceptive sexuality
Lalalalalalala good time
Lalalalalalala good time
Lalalalalalala gotta have a good time
You can forget
the meaning of existence
You can forget
the things that make you tick
Just look at me
I'll weaken your resistance
Push you over take you over
take you quick
Fascistic sexuality
Fascistic sexuality
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You're so other
You turn me on so strange
You plunge me in so deep
Lurch me out of my made up mind
You're such another kind
You're so other
You turn me on so strange
Plunge me in so deep
Plunge me in to the heart of me
You creep me in my sleep
You're so other
You fall me or did you push
You shook me off my tree
Lurched me out of my made up mind
You swam me out to sea
You're so other
You're so white so pale
As you lie on my dark skin
You're from the other side
No familiarity to ease me in
You're so other
You turn me on so strange
You move me along my skin
You're from an other side
Sensuality to tease me in
Will you be my lover
I have loved another
But none so other
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When you wake up sweating
Sweating from a dream
From a dream you had the night before
And you're feeling old
And you feel the cold
From a draught that's coming
through your door
And your daughter's shining
Shining like the sun
Like the sun that's streaming
through your door
And you wonder who it is
Wonder who or what it is
That has put a foot in your door
And your son has gone out
Yes he's gone out hunting
With the man who was your brother
And your daughter's lying
Lying on the bed
With the man who was your lover
And you're feeling old
And you feel the cold
From a draught that's coming
through your door
And you wonder who it is
Wonder who or what it is
That has put a foot in your door
And your daughter's gone out
Yes she's gone out dancing
With the one who was your lover
And she's picked up all your songs
All the songs you ever sang
And she's picked up plenty more
And you're feeling old
And you feel the cold
From a draught that's coming
through your door
And you wonder who it is
Wonder who or what it is
That has put a foot in your door
Daughters and sons-
sing your own songs
Daughters and sons-
got your own songs to sing
Daughters and sons-
there are new songs to sing
Daughters and sons-
sing your own songs
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Tender Lover
Be my tender lover
Be my tender lover
Will you be my lover
My tender lover
Be my tender love
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Bombing cities pulling switches
We won't do your dirty work
Bombing cities pulling switches
We won't do your dirty work
We won't do your dirty washing
We won't do your dirty work
We won't sterilize your dishes
Screw your dirty work
Bombing cities pulling switches
We won't do your dirty work
Making death is full employment
We won't do your dirty work
Bombing cities bombing people
While you eat your dirty meal
We won't serve you at your table
Screw your dirty deal
We won't make your dirty weapons
To defend your dirty law
All that's left is dirty water
Watch the automatic door
We won't clean the dirty basin
Blood that sticks to stainless steel
We won't do your dirty washing
War machine is bloody real
Contribution to appeasement
Pay the economic whore
Flesh and blood on dirty linen
All that's left is dirty air
We won't make your dirty weapons
To defend your dirty cause
All that's left is dirty water
We don't want your dirty war
Ask yourself what else
Ask yourself.
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I denounce the system
that murders my children
I denounce the system
that denies my existence
I curse the system
that makes machines of my children
I reject the system
that makes men of machines
I reject the system
that turns bodies of my own sweet flesh
into monsters of iron and steel and war
And turns the hands of my children
into robot claws
I reject the system
that turns the hearts of my children
Against this earth
I curse the system
That turns the genitals of my children
Into factories of fire and destruction
and rapes our flesh
and tears our womb
this earth our home.
There are no words for us no words
When the fireball
rapes the flesh of the earth
When the fireball
tears the womb of the world
When the bullet
rips apart the son and the lover
When the bullet
rips apart the son and the lover
Lays to waste
the wombwork and the labour
Where are they
that will cherish my flesh
Where are they
that will cherish my children
The men that will stand
against the deathdealers
The children who can say no
to the lifestealers
Where are they that will
curse the deathdealers
I denounce the system
There are no words for us no words
Rooted in pain
they sell their own flesh
Rooted in pain
they do anything for money
They deal in death
with minds that feed on hate
In fear of life they kill without pity
In fear of love they wound and they rape
In fear of love they rape without pity
Where are they
that will cherish my flesh
Where are they
that will cherish my children
The men that will stand
against the deathdealers
I denounce the system
There are no words for us no words
Only a curse
leaps from my throat
Only a curse
leaps like blood from my throat
To curse the warlords
that lay to waste our labour
That lay to waste
the wombwork and the labour
That lay to waste
the wombwork and the labour
That lays to waste
That lays to waste
waste... waste...
waste... waste...
waste
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Big changes can come from just little actions
From one small risk big changes can come
Are you a child of a friend of the state
Are you a little chicky of a friend of the state
Do you go to work for a friend of the state
Are you making time with a friend of the state
Don't go home tonight
Do you go to bed with a friend of the state
Do you suck the dicky of a friend of the state
Are you wined are you dined
by a friend of the state
Do you suck the titty of a friend of the state
Don't go home tonight
So do you sell your body
to a friend of the state
And don't you see the money
is too little and too late
And do you sell your sister
like a chicken on a plate
And would you kill your brother
to satisfy the state
Don't go home tonight
So have you been seduced
by a friend of the state
Who offered you security
and freedom if you wait
Who tricked you with a uniform
and filled you up with lies
When you try to find your own way
using your own eyes
Don't go home tonight
Have you been betrayed
by a friend of the state
Has your trust been trashed
by a servant of the state
Do they use you and confuse you
and fill you up with hate
Then turn you loose to do your worst
in the service of the state ?
Don't go home tonight
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Your sexual experience is limited
The condition you are in is inhibited
Don't you think it's all in your control
Do you know what you want
Or do what you're told?
I'm not your fucking mother
I'm not your fucking whore
I'm not your baby sister
or the girl next door
you can roll your eyes to heaven
for a virgin to adore
But there's someone right beside you
who could ask for more
But you eye each other up
for a fight or a fuck
I'm not a fucking image
created by your stare
it's no good looking up to me
to tell you what to wear
I've got no fucking answers
and I don't fucking care
But I do hear you asking
And I do believe you care
As you eye each other up
for a fight or a fuck
Your sexual experience is limited
The condition you are in is inhibited
Don't you think it's all in your control
Do you know what you want
Or do what you're told?
I'm not a pretty package
to titillate your prick
Stuff the revolution, boys,
if your insults make me sick
You've had your final warning
cos we've all run out of time
Better get a lead-lined jockstrap
of the very best design
As you eye each other up
For a fight or a fuck
Your penis is your burden
your torment and your shame
I'm not another wanking pot
to feed your bigboy game
You've had your final warning
cos we've all run out of time
Better get a lead-lined jockstrap
of the very best design
As you eye each other up
For a fight or a fuck
Your sexual experience is limited
The condition you are in is inhibited
Don't you think it's all in your control
Do you know what you want
Or do what you're told?