Pulp--Different Class

1: Mis-Shapes


Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits 
Raised on a diet of broken biscuits, oh 
We don't look the same as you 
And we don't do the things you do 
But we live around here too, oh really 

Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits, 
We'd like to go to town but we can't risk it, oh 
'Cause they just want to keep us out 
You could end up with a smash in the mouth 
Just for standing out, oh really 
Brothers, sisters, can't you see? 
The future's owned by you and me 
There won't be fighting in the street 
They think they've got us beat 
But revenge is going to be so sweet 

We're making a move, we're making it now 
We're coming out of the side-lines 
Just put your hands up - it's a raid, yeah 
We want your homes, we want your lives 
We want the things you won't allow us 
We won't use guns, we won't use bombs 
We'll use the one thing we've got more of 
- that's our minds 

Check your lucky numbers 
That much money could drag you under, oh 
What's the point of being rich if you can't think what to do with it? 
'Cause you're so very thick, oh 
We weren't supposed to be 
We learnt too much at school now we can't help but see 
That the future that you've got mapped out is nothing much to shout about 

We're making a move, we're making it now 
We're coming out of the side-lines 
Just put your hands up - it's a raid, yeah 
We want your homes, we want your lives 
We want the things you won't allow us 
We won't use guns, we won't use bombs 
We'll use the one thing we've got more of 
- that's our minds 

Brothers, sisters, can't you see? 
The future's owned by you and me 
There won't be fighting in the street 
They think they've got us beat 
But revenge is going to be so sweet 


2: Pencil Skirt


When you raise your pencil skirt like a veil before my eyes 
Like the look upon his face as he's zipping up his flies 
Oh, I know that you're engaged to him 
Oh, but I know that you want something to play with, baby 

I'll be around when he's not in town 
I'll show you how you're doing it wrong 
I really love it when you tell me to stop 
It's turning me on 

You can tell me some lies about the good times that you've had 
But I've kissed your mother once and now I'm working on your Dad 
Oh baby, 

I'll be around when he's not in town 
I'll show you how you're doing it wrong 
I really love it when you tell me to stop 
Oh, it's turning me on 

If you look under the bed then I can see my house from here 
So just lie against the wall and watch my conscience disappear, now baby 

I'll be around when he's not in town 
I'll show you how you're doing it wrong 
I really love it when you tell me to stop 
Oh it's turning me on. 

I only come here cause I know it makes you sad 
I only do it cause I know you know it's bad 
Oh yes I know that it's ugly and it shouldn't be like that 
But oh it's turning me on. 


3: Common People


She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge 
She studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College 
That's where I caught her eye 
She told me that her Dad was loaded 
I said in that case I'll have a rum and coke-cola 
She said fine and in thirty seconds time she said 

I want to live like common people 
I want to do whatever common people do 
I want to sleep with common people 
I want to sleep with common people like you 

Well what else could I do - I said I'll see what I can do 
I took her to a supermarket 
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere, so it started there 
I said pretend you've got no money 
She just laughed and said oh you're so funny 
I said yeah? Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here 
Are you sure you want to live like common people 
You want to see whatever common people see 
You want to sleep with common people 
You want to sleep with common people like me 

But she didn't understand 
She just smiled and held my hand 

Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job 
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school 
But still you'll never get it right 
'Cos when you're laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall 
If you call your Dad he could stop it all 
You'll never live like common people 
You'll never do what common people do 
You'll never fail like common people 
You'll never watch your life slide out of view 
And dance and drink and screw 
Because there's nothing else to do 

Sing along with the common people 
Sing along and it might just get you thru' 
Laugh along with the common people 
Laugh along even though they're laughing at you 
And the stupid things that you do 
Because you think that poor is cool 

Like a dog lying in a corner 
They will bite you and never warn you, look out 
They'll tear your insides out 
'Cos everybody hates a tourist 
Especially one who thinks it all such a laugh 
And the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath 
You will never understand 
How it feels to live your life with no meaning or control 
And with nowhere left to go 
You are amazed that they exist 
And they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why 

Wanna live like common people like you 



4: I Spy


I spy a boy, I spy a girl 
I spy the worst place in the world, in the whole wide world 
Oh you didn't do bad, you made it out 
I'm still stuck here, oh but I'll get out 
Oh yeah, I'll get out 

Can't you see a walks among you seeing through your petty lives 
Do you think I do these things for real? 
I do these things just so I survive 
And you know I will survive 
It may look to the untrained eye 
I'm sitting on my arse all day and I'm biding my time until I take you all on. 
My Lords and Ladies. I will prevail I cannot fail. Cause I spy 

Oh I've got your numbers, taken notes, and all the ways your minds work 
I've studied. And your mind's just the same as mine except that you're just clever swines 
You never let your masks slip, you never admit to it, you're never hurried. Oh no no no 
And every night I hold my plan how I'll get my satisfaction 
How I will blow your paradise away away away ooh 
Cause I spy 

It's just like in the old days 
I used to compose my own critical notices in my head 
The crowd gasps at Cocker's masterful control of the bicycle 
Skilfully avoiding the dog turd next to the corner shop 
Imagining a blue plaque above the place I first ever touched a girl's chest 
But hold on, you've got to wait for the best 
You see you should take me seriously. Very seriously indeed 
Cause I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks 
Smoking your cigarettes, drinking your brandy, messing up the bed you chose together 
And in all that time I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon 
And catch us at it in the front room 

You see I spy for a living and I specialise in revenge 
On taking the things I know will cause you pain 
I can't help it, I was dragged up 
My favourite park's a car park, grass is something you smoke, birds is something you shag 
Take your year in Provence and shove it up your arse 
Your Ladbroke Grove looks turn me on, yeah 
With roach burns in designer dresses and thousands of tiny dryness lines beating 
Beating a path to the corner of your eyes 
And every night I hatch my plan, it's not a case of woman v man 
It's more a case of haves against haven'ts and I just happen to have got what you need 
Just exactly what you need, yeah 
La la la la la la la la la la, In the midnight hour 
La la la la la la la la la la, I will come to you, I will come to you 
I will take you from this sickness, dinner parties and champagne 
I'll hold your body and make it sing again 
Come on - sing again, let's sing again, oh yeah 
Cause I spy, yes, 

I spy, ssss. I spy a boy and I spy a girl. 
I spy the chance to change the world, to change your world. 



5: Disco 2000


Well we were born within one hour of each other 
Our mothers said we could be sister and brother 
Your name is Deborah. Deborah. It never suited ya 
And they said that when we grew up, we'd get married and never split up 
We never did it although often I thought of it 

Oh Deborah, do you recall 
Your house was very small with wood chip on the wall 
When I came around to call you didn't notice me at all 
I said let's all meet up in the year 2000 
Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown 
Be there at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road 
I never knew that you'd get married 
I would be living down here on my own 
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago 

You were the first girl at school to get breasts 
Martyn said that yours were the best 
The boys all loved you but I was a mess 
I had to watch them trying to get you undressed 
We were friends but that was as far as it went 
I used to walk you home sometimes but it meant 
Nothing to you, cause you were so popular 

Ah Deborah, do you recall 
Your house was very small with woodchip on the wall 
When I came around to call you didn't notice me at all 
I said let's all meet up in the year 2000 
Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown 
Be there at 2 o'clock by the fountain down the road 
I never knew that you'd get married 
I would be living down here on my own 
On that damp and lonely Thursday years ago 

Oh yeah, oh yeah 

Oh what are you doing Sunday baby 
Would you like to come and meet me maybe you can even bring your baby 
Ohhh ooh ooh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh 
What are you doing Sunday baby 
Would you like to come and meet me maybe you can even bring your baby 
Ooh ooh oh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh. Ooh ooh ooh ooh. Oh. 



6: Live Bed Show


She doesn't have to go to work but she doesn't want to stay in bed 
Cause it's changed from something comfortable to something else instead 
This bed has seen it all from the first time to the last 
The silences of now and the good times of the past 
And it only cost ten pounds from a shop just down the road 
Mind you that was seven years ago and things were very different then 
It didn't get much rest at first, the headboard banging in the night 
The neighbours didn't dare complain and everything was going right 
Now there's no need to complain 'cos it never makes a sound 
Something beautiful left town and she doesn't even know its name 
Now every night she plays the sad game ooh ah ah 
Called pretending nothing's going wrong oh, oh 
But she knows if this show was televised no one would watch it not tonight 
But 7 years ago. La la la la la la la 

Now there's no need to complain 
'Cos it never makes a sound 
Something beautiful left town and she never even knew its name 
She doesn't have to go to work but doesn't want to stay in bed 
'Cause it's changed from something comfortable to something else instead 


7: Something Changed


I wrote the song two hours before we met 
I didn't know your name or what you looked like yet 
Oh I could have stayed at home and gone to bed 
I could have gone to see a film instead 
You might have changed your mind and seen your friends 
Life could have been very different then 
But something changed 

Do you believe that there's someone up above? 
Does he have a timetable directing acts of love? 
Why did I write this song on that one day? 
Why did you touch my hand and softly say 
Stop asking questions that don't matter anyway 
Just give us a kiss to celebrate here today 
Something changed 

When we woke up that morning we had no way of knowing 
That in a matter of hours we'd change the way we were going. 
Where would I be now if we'd never met 
Would I be singing this song to someone else instead 
I dunno but like you said 
Something changed. 


8: Sorted for E's & Wizz


Oh is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? 
Or just 20,000 people standing in a field 
And I don't quite understand just what this feeling is 
But that's okay 'cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz 
And tell me when the spaceship lands 'cause all this has just got to mean something 

In the middle of the nite, it feels alright, but then tommorow morning 
Oh then you come down 
Oh yeah the pirate radio station told us what was going down 
Got the tickets from some mashed up bloke in Camden Town 
Oh and no-one seems to know exactly where it is 
But that's okay 'cause we're all sorted out for E's and wizz 
At 4 o'clock the normal world seems very, very, very far away 
Alright. In the middle of the nite, it feels alright, but then tommorow morning 
Oh then you come down. Just keep on moving... 

Everybody asks your name, they say we're all the same and it's "nice one", "geezer" 
But that's as far as the conversation went 
I lost my friends, I dance alone, it's six o'clock I wanna go home 
But it's "no way", "not today", makes you wonder what it meant 
And this hollow feeling grows and grows and grows and grows 
And you want to phone your mother and say "Mother, I can never come home again 
'Cause I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere 
Somewhere in a field in Hampshire". 
Alright. In the middle of the nite, it feels alright, but then tommorow morning 
Oh then you come down. What if you never come down? 


9: F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E


The room is cold and has been like this for several months 
If I close my eyes I can visualise everything in it right down 
Right down to the broken handle on the third drawer down of the dressing table 
And the world outside this room has also assumed a familiar shape 
The same events stuffed in a slightly different order each day 
Just like a modern shopping centre 
And it's so cold - yeah it's so cold 

What..is..this feeling called love? 
Why me? Why you? Why here? Why now? 
It doesn't make no sens no. It's not convenient no 
It doesn't fit my plans no 
It's something I don't understand oh 

And as I'm standing across this room 
I feel as if my whole life has been leading to this one moment 
And as I touch your shoulder tonight 
This room has become the centre of the entire universe 
So what do I do? 
I've got a slightly sick feeling in my stomach 
Like I'm standing on top of a very high building, oh yeah 
All the stuff they tell you about in the movies 
But this isn't chocolate boxes and roses 
It's dirtier than that 
Like some small animal that only comes out at night 
And I see flashes of the shape of your breasts and the curve of your belly 
And they make me have to sit down and catch my breath 
It's so cold yeah, it's so cold 

What..is..this feeling called love 
Why me? Why you? Why here? Why now? 
It doesn't make no sense no. It's not convenient no 
It doesn't fit my plans no 
But I got that taste in my mouth again 
F.E.E.L.I.N.G. C.A.double L.E.D. L.O.V.E. 


10: Underwear


Why don't you shut the door and close the curtains 'cos you're not going anywhere 
He's coming up the stairs and in a moment he'll want to see your underwear 

I couldn't stop it now. There's no way to get out 
He's standing far too near. How the hell did you get here? 
Semi-naked in somebody else's room. I'd give my whole life to see it 
Just you stood there only in your underwear 

If fashion is your trade then when you're naked I guess you must be unemployed yeah 
Cos once it's underway there's no escaping the fact that you're a girl and he's a boy 
I couldn't stop it now. There's no way to get out. He's standing far too near 
How the hell did you get here. Semi-naked in someone else's room 
I'd give my whole life to see it. Just you stood there only in your underwear 

If you close your eyes and just remember that this is what you wanted last night 
So why is it so hard for you to touch him. For you to go and give yourself to him? 
I couldn't stop it now. There's no way to get out. 
He's standing far too near and how the hell did you get here semi-naked in somebody else's room 
I'd give my whole life to see it. Just you stood there only in your underwear 

I want to see you. Want to see you standing in your underwear. Har. 



11: Monday Morning


There's nothing to do so you just stay in bed, oh poor thing 
Why live in the world when you can live in your head? 
You can go out late from Monday till Saturday turns into Sunday 
And now you're back here at Monday so we can do it all over again 
And you go aah ah ah 
I want a refund, I want a light, I want a reason to make it thru the night, alright 

And so you finally left school, so now what are you going to do? 
Now you're so grown up, yeah you're oh oh oh oh oh so mature oh 
Going out late from Monday, chuck up in the street on Sunday 
You don't want to live till Monday you're gonna do it all over again. 
And you go aah ah ah 
I want a refund, I want a light, I want a reason for all this 
Night after night after night after night 

Oh I know that it's stupid but I just can't seem to spend a night at home 
'Cos my friends left town and I'm here all alone 

Oh yeah they say the past must die for the future to be born 
In that case die little mother - ooh. 

Stomach in, chest out, on your marks, get set, go. 
Now, now that you're free, what are you going to be? And who are you going to see? 
And where, where will you go and how will you know you didn't get it all wrong 
Is this the light of a new day dawning? A future bright that you can walk in? 
No it's just another Monday morning. Do it all over again oh baby 



12: Bar Italia


Now if you can stand I would like to take you by the hand, yeah 
And go for a walk past people as they go to work 
Let's get out of this place before they tell us that we've just died 
Move, move quick, you've gotta move. Come on it's through, come on it's time 
Oh look at you, you, you're looking so confused just what did you lose? 

If you can make an order could you get me one 
Two sugars would be great 'cos I'm fading fast and it's nearly dawn 
If they knocked down this place, this place, it'd still look much better than you 
Move, move quick, you've gotta move. Come on it's through, come on it's time 
Oh look at you, you, you're looking so confused, what did you lose? 
It's ok it's just your mind 

If we get through this alive I'll meet you next week, same place, same time 
Oh move, move quick you've gotta move. Come on it's through, come on it's time 
Oh look at you, you, you're looking so confused, what did you lose? 
That's what you get from clubbing it 
You can't go home and go to bed because it hasn't worn off yet and now it's 
Morning there's only one place we can go 
It's around the corner in Soho where other broken people go 
Let's go.