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THE HEADMASTER RITUAL

Belligerent ghouls
Run Manchester schools

Spineless swines
Cemented minds

     Sir leads the troops
     Jealous of youth
     Same old suit since 1962

He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck

     I wanna go home
     I don't wanna stay
     Give up education
     As a bad mistake

Mid-week on the playing fields
Sir thwacks you on the knees

     Knees you in the groin
     Elbow in the face
     Bruises bigger than dinner plates

I wanna go home
I don't wanna stay

Da-da-da ...

Belligerent ghouls
Run Manchester schools

Spineless bastards all ...

     Sir leads the troops
     Jealous of youth
     Same old jokes since 1902

He does the military two-step
Down the nape of my neck

     I wanna go home
     I don't want to stay
     Give up life
     As a bad mistake

     Please excuse me from gym
     I've got this terrible cold coming on
     He grabs and devours
     He kicks me in the showers
     Kicks me in the showers
     And he grabs and devours

I want to go home
I don't want to stay...

Da-da-da ...

RUSHOLME RUFFIANS

     The last night of the fair
     By the big wheel generator
     A boy is stabbed
     And his money is grabbed
     And the air hangs heavy like a dulling wine

     She is Famous
     She is Funny
     An engagement ring
     Doesn't mean a thing
     To a mind consumed by brass (money)

     And though I walk home alone
     I might walk home alone ...
     ...But my faith in love is still devout

     The last night of the fair
     From a seat on a whirling waltzer
     Her skirt ascends for a watching eye
     It's a hideous trait (on her mother's side)
     From a seat on a whirling waltzer
     Her skirt ascends for a watching eye
     It's a hideous trait (on her mother's side)

     And though I walk home alone
     I might walk home alone ...
     ...But my faith in love is still devout

     Then someone falls in love
     And someone's beaten up
     Someone's beaten up
     And the senses being dulled are mine
     And someone falls in love
     And someone's beaten up
     And the senses being dulled are mine

     And though I walk home alone
     I might walk home alone ...
     ...But my faith in love is still devout

     This is the last night of the fair
     And the grease in the hair
     Of a speedway operator
     Is all a tremulous heart requires
     A schoolgirl is denied
     She said : "How quickly would I die
     If I jumped from the top of the parachutes ?"
     La ...

     So ... scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
     (This means you really love me)
     Scratch my name on your arm with a fountain pen
     (This means you really love me)
     Oh ...

     And though I walk home alone
     I just might walk home alone
     But my faith in love is still devout
     I might walk home alone
     But my faith in love is still devout
     I might walk home alone
     But my faith in love is still devout
     La ...

I WANT THE ONE I CAN'T HAVE

On the day that your mentality
Decides to try to catch up with your biology

     Come round ...
     'Cause I want the one I can't have
     And it's driving me mad
     It's all over, all over, all over my face

On the day that your mentality
Catches up with your biology

     I want the one I can't have
     And it's driving me mad
     It's all over, all over, all over my face

     A double bed
     And a stalwart lover for sure
     These are the riches of the poor

     And I want the one I can't have
     And it's driving me mad
     It's all over, all over my face

     A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails
     Raised on Prisoner's Aid
     He killed a policeman when he was
     Thirteen
     And somehow that really impressed
     Me
     And it's written all over my face

Oh, these are the riches of the poor
These are the riches of the poor

     I want the one I can't have
     And it's driving me mad
     It's written all over my face

On the day that your mentality
Catches up with your biology

     And if you ever need self-validation
     Just meet me in the alley by the
     Railway station
     It's all over my face
     Oh ...

WHAT SHE SAID

     What she said :
     "How come someone hasn't noticed
     That I'm dead
     And decided to bury me ?
     God knows, I'm ready !"
     La-la-la ...

     What she said was sad
     But then, all the rejection she's had
     To pretend to be happy
     Could only be idiocy
     La-la-la ...

     What she said was not for the job or
     Lover that she never had
     Oh ...
     No no no ...

     What she read
     All heady books
     She'd sit and prophesise
     (It took a tattooed boy from
     Birkenhead
     To really really open her eyes)

     What she said :
     "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an
     Early death
     AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING !"

     What she said :
     "I smoke 'cos I'm hoping for an
     Early death
     AND I NEED TO CLING TO SOMETHING !"
     No no no no ...

THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE

     Park the car at the side of the road
     You should know
     Time's tide will smother you
     And I will too
     When you laugh about people who feel so
     Very lonely
     Their only desire is to die
     Well, I'm afraid
     It doesn't make me smile
     I wish I could laugh

     But that joke isn't funny anymore
     It's too close to home
     And it's too near the bone
     It's too close to home
     And it's too near the bone
     More than you'll ever know ...

     Kick them when they fall down
     Kick them when they fall down
     You kick them when they fall down
     Kick them when they fall down
     You kick them when they fall down
     Kick them when they fall down
     You kick them when they fall down
     Kick them when they fall down

     It was dark as I drove the point home
     And on cold leather seats
     Well, it suddenly struck me
     I just might die with a smile on my
     Face after all

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     And now it's happening in mine

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     And now it's happening in mine
     Oh ...

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     Oh ...
     And now it's happening in mine
     Happening in mine
     Happening in mine
     Happening in mine
     Happening in mine

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     Oh ...
     And now, now, now it's happening in mine
     (I've seen this happen)
     Happening in mine
     Oh... now, now

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     Oh ...
     And now it's happening in mine
     (Happen)
     Happening in mine
     Oh ...
     Happening in mine
     Happening in mine
     Happening in mine

     I've seen this happen in other people's
     Lives
     Oh ...
     And now, now, now it's happening in mine
     Happening in mine
     Mine, mine
     Happening in mine

HOW SOON IS NOW ?

     I am the son
     And the heir
     Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
     I am the son and heir
     Of nothing in particular

     You shut your mouth
     How can you say
     I go about things the wrong way ?
     I am Human and I need to be loved
     Just like everybody else does

     I am the son
     And the heir
     Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
     I am the son and heir
     Oh, of nothing in particular

     You shut your mouth
     How can you say
     I go about things the wrong way ?
     I am Human and I need to be loved
     Just like everybody else does

     There's a club, if you'd like to go
     You could meet somebody who really loves you
     So you go, and you stand on your own
     And you leave on your own
     And you go home, and you cry
     And you want to die

     When you say it's gonna happen "now"
     Well, when exactly do you mean ?
     See I've already waited too long
     And all my hope is gone

     You shut your mouth
     How can you say
     I go about things the wrong way ?
     I am Human and I need to be loved
     Just like everybody else does

NOWHERE FAST

     I'd like to drop my trousers to the world
     I am a man of means (of slender means)
     Each household appliance
     Is like a new science in my town
     And if the day came when I felt a
     Natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
     In the ocean
     And when a train goes by
     It's such a sad sound
     No ...
     It's such a sad thing

     I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen
     Every sensible child will know what this means
     The poor and the needy
     Are selfish and greedy on her terms
     And if the day came when I felt a
     Natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably jump
     In the ocean
     And when a train goes by
     It's such a sad sound
     No ...
     It's such a sad thing

     And when I'm lying in my bed
     I think about life
     And I think about death
     And neither one particularly appeals to me
     And if the day came when I felt a
     Natural emotion
     I'd get such a shock I'd probably lie
     In the middle of the street and die
     I'd lie down and die ...
     Oh, oh

WELL I WONDER

     Well I wonder
     Do you hear me when you sleep ?
     I hoarsely cry
     Oh ...

     Well I wonder
     Do you see me when we pass ?
     I half die ...
     Oh ...

Please keep me in mind
Please keep me in mind

Gasping - but somehow still alive
This is the fierce last stand of all I am

Gasping - dying - but somehow still alive
This is the final stand of all I am

Please keep me in mind

     Well I wonder
     Well I wonder
     Please keep me in mind
     Keep me in mind
     Keep me in mind

BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME

     Unruly boys
     Who will not grow up
     Must be taken in hand
     Unruly girls
     Who will not settle down
     They must be taken in hand

     A crack on the head
     Is what you get for not asking
     And a crack on the head
     Is what you get for asking

     Unruly boys
     Who will not grow up
     Must be taken in hand
     Unruly girls
     Who will not settle down
     They must be taken in hand

     A crack on the head
     Is what you get for not asking
     And a crack on the head
     Is what you get for asking

     No ... a crack on the head
     Is what you get for not asking
     And a crack on the head
     Is what you get for asking

     A crack on the head
     Is just what you get
     WHY ? Because of who you are !
     And a crack on the head
     Is just what you get
     WHY ? Because of what you are !
     A crack on the head
     Because of :
     Those things you said
     Things you said
     The things you did

     Unruly boys
     Who will not grow
     Must be taken in hand
     Unruly girls
     Who will not grow
     They must be taken in hand
     Ah ... oh, no ... oh, no
     Ah ... oh, no ... oh, no
     No ... no, no, no
     No ... no, no

MEAT IS MURDER

     Heifer whines could be human cries
     Closer comes the screaming knife
     This beautiful creature must die
     This beautiful creature must die
     A death for no reason
     And death for no reason is MURDER

     And the flesh you so fancifully fry
     Is not succulent, tasty or kind
     It's death for no reason
     And death for no reason is MURDER

     And the calf that you carve with a smile
     Is MURDER
     And the turkey you festively slice
     Is MURDER
     Do you know how animals die ?

     Kitchen aromas aren't very homely
     It's not "comforting", cheery or kind
     It's sizzling blood and the unholy stench
     Of MURDER

     It's not "natural", "normal" or kind
     The flesh you so fancifully fry
     The meat in your mouth
     As you savour the flavour
     Of MURDER

     NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
     NO, NO, NO, IT'S MURDER
     Oh ... and who hears when animals cry ?