Pulp--This is Hardcore

THE FEAR

This is our "music from a Bachelor's Den"
The sound of loneliness turned up to tne
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed
And it sounds just like this

This is the sound of someone losing the plot
Makin out that they're okay when they're not
You're gonna like it, but not a lot and the chorus goes like this:

Oh Baby, here comes the fear again
The end is near again
A monkey's built a house on your back
You can't get anyone to come in the sack and 
Here comes another panic attack
Oh here we go again

So now you know the words to our song
Pretty soon you'll all be singing along
When you're sad, when you're lonely
And it all turns out wrong
When you've got the fear
And when you're no longer searching for beauty or love
Just some knind of life with the deges taken off.

when you can't even define what it is 
That you are frightened of
this song will be here

Oh Baby, here comes the fear again
The end is near again
If you ever get that chimp off your back
If you ever dind the thing that you lack
But you know you're only having a laugh
And here we go again
Until the end


DISHES

I am not Jesus though I have the same initials
I am the man who stays home and does the dishes
And how was your day?
Is that woman sitll trying to do your head in?
A man told me beware of 33.  
He said, "It was not an easy time for me" 
but I'll get through even though I've got no miracles to show you.
I'd like to make this water wine but it's impossible
I've got to get these dishes dry.
I'll read a story if it helps you sleep at night
I've got some matches if you ever need a light
Oh I am just a man but I'm doing what I can to help you

REPEAT CHORUS

And I'm not worried that I will never touch the stars
cos stars belong up in heaven 
and the earth is where we are
Oh yeah
And aren't you happy just to be alive?
Anything's possible.
You've got no cross to bear tonight
No not tonight
No not tonight
I am not Jesus though I have the same initials


PARTY HARD

I used to try very hard to make friends 
with everyone on the planet
I've see you havin' it, havin' it yeah 
But now you've just had it
Entertainment can sometimes be hard when teh thing
That you love is the same thing that's holding you down
This man is dangerous, 
he just shed his load on your best party frock
Before you enter the palace of wisdom you have to decide:
Are you ready to rock?
Oh can you party with me?
Can you show me a good time? 
Do you even know what one looks like?
And I don't need to hear your stories again
Just get on the floor and show me what you're made of
Just what exactly are you made of?
Baby, you're driving me crazy. 
Baby you're driving me crazy
I was having a whale of a time
until your uncle Psychosis arrived
Why do we have to half-kill ourselves just to prove we're alive?
I'm here whenever you need me and whenever 
You need me I won't be here
And have you ever stopped to ask yourself?
If you didn't come to party then why did you come here?
why did you come here?
Baby, you're driving me crazy
Baby you're driving me crazy
And do you really know want to know just
how come you turned out so dumb?
When the party's over will you come home with me?
When the party's over will you come home with me?
Now the party's over will you come home to me.
Will you come home to me?


HELP THE AGED

Help the aged, one time they were just like you
Drinking, smoking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue
Help the aged, don't just put them in a home, 
Can't have much fun in there all on their own

Give a hand, if you can, try and help thme to unwind
Give them hope and give them comfort
Cos they're running out of time
IN the meantime we try

Try to forget that nothing lasts forever
No big deal so give us all a feel
Funny how it all falls away

When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby
Teach you stuff although he's lookiin' rough
Funny how it all falls away

Help the aged 'cos one day you'll be older too
YOu might need someone who can pull you through
And if you look very hard behing the lines upon their face
You may see where you are headed and it's such a lonely place
In the meantime we try

You can dye your hair but it's the one thing you can't change
Can't run away from yourself
In the meantime we try, etc...

Funny how it all falls away.....so help the aged.



THIS IS HARDCORE

You are hardcore, you make me hard.
You name the drama and I'll play the part.
It seems I saw you in some teenage wet-dream
I like your get-up if you know what I mean

I want it bad.  I want it now.
Oh can't you see I'm ready now.

I've seen all the pictures
I've studied them forever
I wanna make a movie so let's star in it together
Don't make a move til I say "Action" 
Oh here comes the hardcore life

Put your money where your mouth is tonight
Leave your make-up on and I'll leave on the light
Come over here babe and talk in the mic
Oh yeah I hear you now
It's gonna be one hell of a night
You can't be a spectator
Oh no
You got to take these dreams and make them whole
Oh this is Hardcore, there is no way back for you
Oh this is Hardcore, this is me on top of you
and I can't believe that it took me this long
That it took me this long
This is the eye of the storm
it's what men in stained raincoats pay for 
But in here it is pure, yeah
This is the end of the line. 
I've seen the storyline played out so many times before
Oh that goes in there
Then that goes in there
Then that goes in there
And then it's over
Oh what a hell of a show but what I want to know:
what exactly do you do for an encore?
Cos this is Hardcore


TV MOVIE

Without you my life has become a hangover without end
A movie made for TV:
Bad dialogue, bad acting, no interest
Too long with no story and no sex
Is it a kind of weakness to miss someone so much?
To wish the day would go away?
Like you did yesterday 
Just like you did yesterday
And I can't think of a way to get through this pain
To be happy again to make it alll alright 
and I know it must be bad 
Cos sitting here right now all I know is I can't even think
I can't even think 
I can't even think of anything clever to say
So I say: "why pretend any longer?
Cos I need you here with me
It's obvious that I miss you so much so please say you're gonna stay
So please say you're gonna stay
So please say you're gonna stay
The night is getting darker and there's nothing on TV but I'll sit tight til morning light. yeah I'll wait until the day 
Until the day that you say you're gonna stay


A LITTLE SOUL

Hey man, how come you treat your woman so bad?  That's not the way you do it.  No no no you shouldn't do it like that.  I could show you how to do it right.  I used to practice every night on my wife, now she's gone.  Yeah she's gone.  YOu see your mother and me, we never got along that well you see.  I'd love to help you but everybody's tellling me you look like me but please don't turn out like me.
You look like me but you're not like me I know. I had one, two, three, four shots of happiness. I look like a big man but I've only got a little soul.  I only got a little sould.  Yeah I wish I could be an example.  Wish I could say I stood up for you and fought for what I thought was right.  But I never did.  I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night.  You think I'm joking?  Well, try me.  Yeah, try me.  yeah come on, try me tonight, I did what was worng though I knew what was right.  I've got no wisdom that I want to pass on.  Just don't hang 'round here, no, I'm telling you son.  You don't wanna know me.  Oh that's just what everybody's telling me and everybody's telling me you look like me but please don't turn into me.  You look like me but you're not like me I hope.  I have run away from the one thing that I ever made.  NOw I only wish that I could show you -- wish that I could show you a little soul.  Wish I could show a little soul.


I'M A MAN

Laid here with the advertising sliding past my eyes like cartoons from other people's lives, I start to wonder what it takes to be a man.  Well I learned to drink and I learned to smoke and I learned to tell a dirty joke.  If that's all there is then there's no point for me.  So please can I ask just why we're alive?  Cos all that you do seems such a waste of time and if you hang around too long you'll be a man.  Tell me bout it.  You car can get up to a hundred and ten--you've nowhere to go but you'll go there again and nothing ever makes no difference to a man.  So you stumble into town and hold your stomach in.  Sho them what you've got tho' they've seen everything.  Yeah you're a beauty but they've seen your type before.  You've got no need but still you want, so go and book that restaurant.  The wine will flow and then you'll just fly away.  So please can I ask just why, etc... 
Nothing ever makes no difference to a man.  That's what I am.


SEDUCTIVE BARRY


SYLVIA


GLORY DAYS


THE DAY AFTER THE REVOLUTION


**LIKE A FRIEND (BONUS TRACK)** 

Don't bother saying sorry
Why don't you come in?
Smoke all my cigarettes - again.
Everytime I get no further
How long has it been?
Come on in now
Wipe your feet on my dreams.

You take up my time
Like some cheap magazine
When I could have been
learning something
Well, you know what I mean.

I've done this before
And will do it again
C'mon and kill me baby
Whilst you smile like a friend
And I'll come running
Just to do it again.

You are the last drink I never should have drunk
You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can't seem to kick
You are my secrets on the front page every week.
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the train I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my age.

Like a car crash I can see but just can't avoid
Like a plane I've been told I never should board
Like a film that's so bad but
I've just got to stay 'til the end
Let me tell you -
it's lucky for you that we're friends.