This EP was released in Japan, and has various remixes; particularly amusing are the Country & Western versions of songs, but the novelty wears off...
Amnesia (Single Mix)
Goodbye to the summer
Sold down the river
Unhappy ever after
Well did you ever?
Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny?
Same old joke and it's not funny
Burns are red, bruises blue
Out with the old, cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
You sing the same old verse
Stick like glue for better or worse
What goes around comes around, again, again, again
This heart pulled apart
Hydra fighting head to head
Burns are red bruises blue
Out with the old cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Oh, amnesia, oh
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
(repeat)
Tubthumping (Country & Western Version)
We'll be singin' when we're winin' we'll be singin'
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
Pissin' the night away, pissin' the night away
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Oh, Danny Boy, Danny Boy, Danny Boy
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
Pissin' the night away, pissin' the night away
He drinks a whiskey drink, he drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink, he drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him of the better times
Don't cry for me, next door neighbor
I git knocked down, but I git up again, you're never gonna keep me down
(repeat)
Mouthful Of Shit (Country & Western Version)
Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit
Well I'm really back to basics right beside a bar
Choke the double trouble big one to the joker with the card
Good call
What's the crack, what's the damage done today
From the commons to the common a banana skin away
Throw it up, throw it out
Chuck a nightmare dart
Quiet
Compere on the mic turns turning to the court
Putting beef vol-au-vents across the Union Jack
Bolinger and Bitter says the colonies are back
Chorus:
Hear ya, I can't hear ya, I can't hear ya, I can't hear ya
Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit
You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, fire
(Repeat chorus)
Up your ronson
Take a tab
With a flash of Zippo light
Through the hip parade passing to the Polaroids right
The manic little rebel got a bottle in his hand
A rhyming manifesto and a butty from his mam
Local lad made bad with cowboy charm
Said he doesn't really mean every screw-'em-all barb
Pass the mic
Karaoke for the yesteryear stars
Time to weep into your beer 'til the fireworks start
(Repeat Chorus)
You think you're god's gift
You're a liar
I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire, fire
(Repeat chorus)
One By One (Acoustic Version)
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
We live for words and die for words
Principles we can afford
When all our Brothers turn to Lords
Whose side are you on?
You tell the world your hands are tied
History three times denied
A sea of changes three miles wide
Whose side are you on?
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
This conspiracy of shame
Murder by some other name
Play up and play the game
Whose side are you on?
If any ask us why we died
We tell them that our leaders lied
Sold us out down the riverside
Whose side are you on?
One by one the ships come sailing in
One by one the ships go sailing out
(Repeat)
Drip Drip Drip (Country & Western Version)
Eat, sleep, and crap
For to prey on your needs
Down a dark street
Backwater Leeds
I seen yer comin'
Come in, lads!
You seen the ad?
Too bad, bad, bad
What you git
Is what you see
Trickledown theory
And it's coming to me
Life's a whip-round
I got the whip
It's a sinking ship
Drip, drip, drip
(Chorus)
Drip, drip, drip goes the water
(Repeat)
Take me in
Throw me out
Put me up
Let me down
Dark, Satanic
Run-of-the-mill
Sing us a song
And I'll send you the bill
My nicotine grip
My smokin' gun
It's how I get my fun
Better run, run, run
Your olfactory nerves
All up the spout
You can't smell a rat
When your nose is out
Rent-to-kill
By any other name
Kiss an old flame
Shame, shame, shame
(Repeat chorus)
Give us this day
Farty old breath
Stinking steeple
Gash on the bowhead
A hole in the wall
Lay low for awhile
Come out, pitch a foul
Smile, smile, smile
My eggs are fried
My [?] is cracked
Written in blood
And cultured pig fat
All this fuss
Too much on the plate
Join the club
Too late, late, late
Too late, too late
The Big Issue (Acoustic Version)
(Chorus)
There are those
Spend the night under bridges
Over by the river
Down in the park through the winter
But there's a house that I know, safe and warm
And no-one ever goes there
Down where the priests bless the wine
She's been born into the wrong time
She's got nonsense on her mind
She's a poet, she's a builder
She's as bored as bored can be
She's a have-not, she's a know-all
She knows just how to say yes
She's skating frozen chaos
Till the no-good gods are dead
But sometimes in the dead of night
Woken by the city lights
She wonders how she keeps alive
(Repeat chorus)
She's a clueless social climber
Likes the wrong side of the bed
She's a pick-me-up and a drink-to-me
In the company of friends
She's tried every variation
She's so common, she's so cold
She's homesick for a future
Can't stomach what she's told
On every street in every town
All her days are up and down
At home among the lost-and-founds
(Repeat chorus)
(Repeat chorus)
Stitch That (Country & Western Version)
A husband came home drunk each night
And he thrashed her black and he thrashed her white
He thrashed her to within an inch of her life
Then he slept like a log, did her husband
One, two, three, four
A husband came home drunk each night
And he thrashed her black and he thrashed her white
He thrashed her to within an inch of her life
Then he slept like a log, did her husband
As he lay and snored in bed
A strange idea came into her head
She went for the needle and she went for the thread
And straight to her sleeping husband
She started to stitch with a girlish thrill
With a woman's art and a seamstress' skill
She pinned and tucked with an iron will
All around her sleeping husband
Husband awoke with a pain in his head
And found he could not move in bed
'Sweet Christ I've lost the use of me legs!'
Wife just smiled at her husband
Thrashed him black, she thrashed him blue
With a frying pan and a colander, too
A rolling pin just a stroke or two
A battered and bleeding husband
Isn't it true what small can do
With a thread and a stitch and a thought or two
He's wiped his slate, his boozing's through
Goodbye to a drunken husband
One, two, three, four
Amnesia (Acoustic Version)
Goodbye to the summer
Sold down the river
Unhappy ever after
Well did you ever?
Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny?
Same old joke and it's not funny
Burns are red, bruises blue
Out with the old, cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
You sing the same old verse
Stick like glue for better or worse
What goes around comes around, again, again, again
This heart pulled apart
Hydra fighting head to head
Burns are red bruises blue
Out with the old cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
A lot of people won't get no justice tonight
A lot of people won't get no justice tonight
A lot of people won't get no justice tonight
A lot of people won't get no justice tonight
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
(repeat)
Amnesia (Done Lying Down Version)
Goodbye to the summer
Sold down the river
Unhappy ever after
Why did you ever?
Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny?
Same old joke and it's not that funny
Burns are red, bruises blue
Out with the old, cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
You sing the same old verse
Stick like glue for better or worse
What goes around comes around, again, again, again
This heart pulled apart
Hydra fighting head to head
Burns are red bruises blue
Out with the old cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
I'm not funny? Is that what you're saying? I'm not funny?
All I'm saying, in a word, is 'no'
Amnesia
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
(repeat)
I don't remember...
Amnesia (Jimmy Echo Version)
Goodbye to the summer
Sold down the river
Unhappy ever after
Well did you ever?
Did you ever reach for the glued-down penny?
Same old joke and it's not funny
Burns are red, bruises blue
Out with the old, cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Amnesia
You sing the same old verse
Stick like glue for better or worse
What goes around comes around, again, again, again
This heart pulled apart
Hydra fighting head to head
Burns are red bruises blue
Out with the old cheated by the new
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
Oh, amnesia, oh
Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?
I don't remember...
(repeat)
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