lyrics from disc 1 of the "Statement" cd compilation
by Poison Girls, including the album "Hex"
- Revenge
- Cat's Eye
- Piano Lessons
- Closed Shop
- The Moon (I Wanted)
- Old Tart
- Crisis
- Ideologically Unsound
- Bremen Song
- Political Love
- Jump Mama Jump
- Under The Doctor
- Reality Attack
- Persons Unknown
- State Control
- Bully Boys
- Tension
- SS Snoopers
You thought that I had
broke your heart
and got away scot free
But all the things I did to you
they're doing back to me
I'll pack my bags and leave my home
and face a dark new town
And a friendly face
I'll cut him down
Revenge is sweet
and sweeter still
To kill and not to die
Revenge is sweet
and sweeter still
To live and not die
I'd like to break a brand new heart
and tell a stranger lies
Revenge is sweet and sweeter still
to kill and not to die
I'll find another friendly face
who's never even heard your name
And what you did to me
I'll do the same to you
Revenge is sweet
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I'm feeling like a cats eye in the
fast lane of a motorway
Those things that go bump
in the night
I'm feeling like a T shirt,
I feel like a toothache
I look like hell and appear quite white
You saw the mess, you saw the crush
Did I fall or was I pushed
You come back crying,
you need a shoulder
You look pathetic, I feel angelic
But where's the humour
in hearing rumours
There's a million miles
between tears and a smile
You saw the mess, you saw the crush
Did I fall or was I pushed
I'll sign my name to
anything you send me
But don't make me panic
I'm feeling manic
And please excuse me
if I take my music
And only sing you angry songs
I saw the mess, I saw the crush
You felt me push,
I hope your crushed
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We are having piano lessons
Practice your piano
Practice makes perfect
They are marching past the window
They are marching down your street
They have noticed that expensive car
And your freezer full of meat
And how you can't
Rest without
The guard dog at your feet
They are drilling in the playground
They are training on the green
There's a million of them out there
And their guns are made of steel
You don't know them
But they know you
And their bayonets are real
We are having piano
we are having piano
we are having piano lessons
They've learned all their lessons
You taught them all they know
You shouted out the orders
And you told them where to go
So don't complain
When they return
The treatment blow by blow
Or will you come with us on the run
With the wild girls on the run
Or will you stay behind
And take to guns...
They're marching past the window
Down your suburban street
They have emptied out the corner shop
They've eaten all the meat
So watch out boys
Because they've killed
The guard dog at your feet
We are having piano
we are having piano
we are having piano lessons
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I get my money just once a week
Then I go walking in the High Street
All those posters try to catch my eye
Saying come in and buy me
I said 'my money's
just as good as the rest'
You tell me straight
you only deal in the best
You say 'I'm not trying
to mess you about
But I'm afraid that I'm just clean out'
I don't believe you when you say
You ain't got what I want
I met some people
that really ought to know me
I'm coming on strong and they're
coming on slowly
Talking to them
just trying to get through
They say 'Come back
with something new'
My ideas - they're as good as the rest
You tell me straight
you only deal in the best
You say 'Don't come here
wasting my time'
You say 'I'm not a musician
but the company's mine'
I don't believe you when you say
You ain't got what I want
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I wanted the moon
you gave me an ice-cream
I wanted to talk about love
You wanted a free ride
I drove to Harlow
You looked like you wanted to run
I offered you biscuits
you sprayed me with stardust
I wondered if you had a heart
You wanted it both ways
I told you that no way
Could we take it all back when we part
I walked round in circles
We both kept our distance
But I couldn't keep out of your eyes
And while we were drinking
I couldn't help thinking
What a sweet surprise
I could tell it was serious
you fell about laughing
I couldn't believe it was true
I gave you an apple
I watched while you bit it
I saw you were watching me too
I wanted it easy
you stayed in the morning
You said it's too late to turn back
A crazy beginning
a race with no winning
A double edged circular track
I wanted the moon
you gave me an ice-cream
I wanted to talk about love
I wanted the moon
you said take it, I left it
Cos you only said it in fun
It was like I was dying
you played at doctors
You gave me sweets from a jar
You wouldn't stop playing
I couldn't stop running
We made it to Mars.
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If I had my time again
I'd like to come back as a man
If I had my time again
A cock and not a hen
I don't want to be like my mother
Hang behind
Fall behind
Wait on all the others
If I had my time again.
If I had another life
I'd get myself a wife
If I had another life
To care for me by day and night
I don't want to be like my mother
Hang behind
Fall behind
Wait on all the others
If I had another life.
I used to be a tart
Sold myself as art
Now I feel just like my mother
Her price is low
She doesn't bother
Everybody has their price
UP YOURS!
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Is it normal is it normal
Is it just another day
Have they emptied out the rubbish
Have the kids gone out to play
Are you waiting while the bath fills up
Watching while they read the papers
Read the headlines over breakfast
Breadlines deadlines has the milk come
It's time to have a crisis
Is it safe to go out shopping
Crisis crisis panic buying
Water dripping on the carpet
Is it normal is it normal
Is it just another day?
Are you waiting while the bath fills up
Watching while they read the papers
Have the shops ran out of rubbish
Is it time to have a crisis
Spill the beans
And take your clothes off
Can you stand it if I touch you
Watching while they read the papers
Water dripping on the carpet
Can I say no will he hit me
Plaster falling off the ceiling
Can you stand it if I touch you
Break the ice burn the house down
Is it normal is it normal
Is it safe to go out shopping
Leave the kids outside the toilet
Water dripping on the carpet
leave the kids outside the local
Strangers tapping at the window
Is it time to have a crisis
Watching while they read the papers
Peel the onions ask no questions
Hit the baby stop it screaming
Can you stand it if I touch you
Break the ice
And burn the house down
Normal Normal Crisis Crisis
Normal Normal Rape Crisis
Normal Crisis Normal Crisis
Crisis Murder Normal Normal
Is it normal is this normal
Is it just another day?
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It all keeps going round and round
You want him to throw you
on the ground
Want him to kiss you
and say he's yours
Want him to fumble in your drawers
You get romantic fantasies
Complete with flowers
and birds and bees
Want him to woo you
and say sweet things
Even get to thinking of diamond rings
Ideologically unsound
Ideologically uncool
Who do you keep playing the fool
Always fall between two stools
Got ideas above your station?
Need some further education?
Think you'd better go back to school
Cos you're ideologically uncool
Full of envy... jealous with it
Know what you want
but just can't live it
Ideologically uncool
I'm lost, so are you
Very lost, just like you
No-one knows what the hell to do
Because we're
Ideologically unsound
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They burned sisters they burned
And the fire is still burning
They burned sisters they burned
And the smoke from the fire
is still rising
We burn sisters we burn
We will set the world on fire
With our burning
We burn sisters we burn
We will set the world on fire
With our yearning
Remember the holocaust
Holocaust in Bremen
In the name of the Fatherland
In the name of the Fatherland
In nomine patri
For the sake of his property
Napalm napalm
Men burn men
Fire fire
Witches burn
Woman is heretic
Repudiate the Christus
Woman as heretic
Fire fire
Burn burn
Babies burn
Fire burn
Women burn
Witches burn
Women burn
Hecate a hex hex
Hecate a hex hex
Hecate a hex hex
Hex, Hex Hex
Hex, Hex Hex
Hex, Hex Hex
Hex
Hex
Hex
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I'm politically in love with you
Politically in love
You mean my whole life to me
I'm a prisoner of love
I'll release my locked lust with you
Animal in my brain
I must put my trust in you
Take you in my pain
No time for tenderness
No room for delight
Angry screams and loneliness
Interrupt the night
The voices that keep us
In shit and alone
They're our bastards sweetheart
But they can't keep us at home
I've lost that Disney feeling
Where has it gone
I've lost that Bambi spangle
Gone gone gone...
Our love is no privilege
No romantic dream
We embrace, our faces twisted
The masses are between us
Keep writing your letters
I find them on a wall
The war isn't over yet
We're waiting for the call up
I'm critically in love with you
Critically in love
You mean my whole life to me
I'm a prisoner of love
I'll release my locked lust with you
Animal in my brain
I must put my trust in you
Take you in my pain.
I've lost that Disney feeling
Where has it gone
I've lost that Bambi spangle
Gone gone gone...
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Your kids don't get to school on time
You don't watch the clock ma
The hair don't curl
and their teeth don't shine
It's all in doctor spock ma
Your man don't feel too good today?
You didn't treat him right ma
If he don't work he gets no pay
You'd better fix him up tonight ma
... you know how
... fix him up good mama
This way that way jump mama jump
That way this way jump mama
... higher mama jump
You don't knit and you won't sew
And you never make the beds ma
You don't bake no jammy cakes
You just go out instead ma
They'll get you mama by your curly hairs
They'll have your guts for garters
And if you don't get back home tonight
... they'll have your tits
... for afters
This way that way jump mama jump
That way this way jump mama
... higher mama jump
Don't stop mama clean them floors
And the baby's bum is wet ma
All spick and span by half past four
You'd better not forget ma
There's love to make
and hearts to mend
Jump just one more time ma
... stay in line there mama
... do as you're told
This way that way jump mama jump
That way this way jump mama
... higher mama jump
... higher mama ... higher mama
... higher mama ... higher mama
... jump
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You can try hard work
You can try making money
You can try to make success
You can try strong drink
Take to acting funny
Or try some liberated sex
Try overeating. Get a new job
Have another baby
Maybe you're an artist
Lead a revolution
Take up yoga. Or just go crazy
Trancendental meditation
Try a new diet. Go to discos
Start again.
Try religion. Write a novel.
Buy some makeup. Take up jogging
Or just blame it all on the men...
What I'm trying to say
Is you gotta be strong
Cos nothing takes the pain away
For long
I don't want to go under
Under the doctor
Under under under under under
And when it gets real heavy
And you start getting stroppy
They'll deal you out
some mighty fine dope
Librium, Mogodon, Thorazine, Valium
They haven't got a pill called Hope
Thousands of us women
Been cut down by lobotomy
Terrorized by ECT
Bullied into passivity
Seduced into servility
I'm talking about you and me
What I'm trying to say
Is you gotta be strong
Cos nothing takes the pain away
For long
And I don't want to go under
Under the doctor
Under under under under under
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Reaching out my hand I slipped it over
A most expensive fruit
of some yellow colour
Reaching out my hand I softly stroked
The boy's face in memory of darkness
Reaching out my hand
at the bossman's door
I turned the handle - I touched the money
Reaching out my hand I took the money
Reaching out my hand I felt the cold zip
And the rough cloth of his trousers
The pigskin leather wallet
was fat in my fingers
Stuffed with his papers
stuffed with his money
It slipped from my fingers
fell down to the floor
Fell out round my feet
it was out of control
Reaching out my hand
I saw the handcuffs.
it's all right lady it's only a reality attack
it's all right lady you'll soon get your
sanity back
Reaching out my hand
I pressed my fingers round
A soft and scented fruit
of some dull red colour
Reaching out my hand the red juice
squeezed through my fingers
Like blood into the white bowl
Reaching out my hand to the cup of wine
That stained my teeth
I threw the cup at the window
And the red juice - red streaks falling
falling like rain
Like rain down the windows
like blood on my eyes
The steel wheels rumbling
on the tiled floor
As they carried me away
carried me away
Reaching out my hand I saw the needle.
Reaching out my hand I slipped it over
A strange and pulsing fruit of some
rare blue colour
Reaching out my hand
the baby sprang from my grasp
And leaped into the night sky...
Reaching out my hand
in the supermarket
Nightmare of ugliness
I AM ALONE
Reaching out my hand I cry for mercy
In the impossible dream
of the merchants of knives
Purveyors of furniture, dealers in dust,
displayers of lies, polluter's of flesh,
takers of tickets, packagers of packets,
fillers of shelves,
From the brightest shelf I choose
Reaching out my hand
I take the poison...
it's all right lady it's only a reality attack
it's all right lady you'll soon get your
sanity back
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This is a message to persons unknown
Persons in hiding. Persons unknown
Survival in silence
Isn't good enough no more
Keeping your mouth shut head in the sand
Terrorists and saboteurs
Each and every one of us
Hiding in shadows persons unknown
Hey there Mr. Average
You don't exist you never did
Hiding in shadows persons unknown
Habits of hiding
Soon will be the death of us
Dying in secret from poisons unknown
This is a message to persons unknown
Strangers and passers-by
Persons unknown
Turning a blind eye
Hope to go unrecognized
Keeping your secrets persons unknown
Housewives and prostitutes
Plumbers in boiler suits
Truants in coffee bars
Who think you're alone
Big men on building sites
Sick men in dressing gowns
Agents in motor cars
Who never go home
Women in factories
One parent families
Women in purdah
Persons unknown
Wild girls and criminals
Rotting in prison cells
Patients in corridors
Persons unknown
Statistics on balance sheets
Numbered and rubberstamped
Blind and invisible
You're lost in your homes
Liggers and layabouts
Lovers on roundabouts
Wake up in the morning
Persons unknown
Accountants in nylon shirts
Feminists in floral skirts
Nurses for when it hurts
Persons unknown
Astronauts and celibates
Deejays and hypocrites
Liars and lunatics
Persons unknown
Hopefuls on football pools
Teachers in empty schools
Kids into heroin not yet full grown
Typists and usherettes
Black men who can't forget
The lonely who long for
Persons unknown
Closet idealists
Baldheaded realists
Rastas and bikers
The voice on the phone
Pimps and economists
Royalty and communists
Rioters and pacifists
Persons unknown
Visionaries with coloured hair
Leather boys who just don't care
Garter girls with time to spare
Persons unknown
Judges with prejudice
Dissidents and anarchists
Policemen deal dirty tricks
To persons unknown
Strikers and pickets
Collectors of tickets
Radical architects
The queen on her throne
Soldiers in uniform
Sailors and stevedores
Beggars and bankers
Persons unknown
Football crowd hooligans
Bunking off school again
Workers down tools again
United's at home
Smokers with heart disease
Cleaners of lavatories
The old with their memories
Persons unknown
Flesh and blood is who we are
Flesh and blood are what we are
Flesh and blood is who we are
Our cover is blown...
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State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
What they sell is selling very well
And the price is up again
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
What you know is what they show
So it all goes round again
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
Politics are ultra chic
And wars are in again
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
Revolution's this year's thing
We're on the streets again - and again
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
It's all good for business
They're in the charts again - and again
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
They build you up
And they break you down
Then you're on the dole again
And again
You know it's true but what can you do
Look for a gap and get out of the trap
It's a vicious circle try and break loose
Break out of the trap
Get out of the noose
You know it's true but what can you do
Cos what you're feeling
Is a human being
Not this year's thing or last year's thing
This year's thing or next year's thing...
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
It's all good for business!
State control and rock and roll
Are run by clever men
And anarchy is this year's thing...
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The bully boys are coming
There isn't long to go
The bully boys are on their way
Will the end be quick or slow?
Survival of the fittest
In the country of the sick
The bully boys are coming
Will the end be slow or quick?
Survival of the fittest
The enemy is fear
The bully boys are coming
Can it really happen here?
Pornography of violence
The dogs will have their day
The bully boys are coming
Machismo rules O.K.?
But don't you cry my darlings
No don't you shed a tear
Just put on your black leather
The bully boys are here
No time to be a victim
When the enemy is fear
So put on your black leather
The bully boys are here
Overkill Overkill Overkill
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The tension between what you do
and you don't do
The tension between what you can
and you can't do
The tension between what you will
and you won't do
and you won't do
aaahhh what you won't do!
The tension between where you go
and you don't go
The tension between what you know
and you don't know
The tension between what you show
and you don't show
aaahhh... what you don't show
Tension is how you spend
most of your time
Tension is how you spend
most of your life
The smile in your eyes
in spite of the lies
aaahhh... the lies
The tension between what you say
and you don't say
The tension between what you take
and you won't take
The tension between what you make
and you won't break
aaahhh...what you won't break
If you had wings my love would you fly
If you knew that you never would die
Would you live - would you try
Try to live - would you try
ahhh...would you try
Total exposure Total abandon
Total exposure Total control
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They take away your money
If you're sleeping with a man
So you have to be dependent
That's how it all began
The one that does the screwing
Is the one that pays the bills
SS.Snoopers SS.Spies
Buzzing round your body like flies
The game is prostitution
With your fella or the state
It's a very old profession
But they've kept it up to date
And the one that does the screwing
Is the one that pays the bills
Yes the one that does the screwing
Is the one that pays the bills
SS.Snoopers SS.Spies
Buzzing round your body like flies
If you want an abortion
You can't please yourself
No you have to get permission
From the National Health
And the one that does the screwing
Doesn't have to take the pill
SS.Snoopers SS.Spies
Buzzing round your body like flies