Persuasion

My supermarket trolley glides around the shelves of frozen foods
My supermarket trolley glides around the shelves of pre-packed goods
It rattles an accompaniment to the droning from the speakers
When I knock a jar
Checkout five
I stand and watch oblivious as it shatters
Will the manager please go to checkout five
Someone passes we near collide, she's silent but she's frantic
Can't figure out why she bought so many useless items
Checkout five, will the manager please go to checkout five
I can't figure out why I bought so many useless items

There is a problem at checkout five
I only wanted cigarettes
Will you investigate please
I push my trolley further
I glide around the frozen foods
Lost in here forever (4x)

My arms do things oblivious of my wishes and my orders
The frantic woman
Checkout five, will the manager please go to checkout five
Has turned white, a hand apon her shoulder
Buy more now (6x)

I only hear the neutral sounds of the cheap impersonators
And I outrun my limitations (2x)
Buy more now (6x)
Checkout five, there is a disturbance at checkout five

I only hear the neutral sounds of the cheap impersonators
And I outrun my limitations (16x)

I don't want them
I can't afford all these things (8x)
I don't want them
Please
I don't want all these things
Please, please, please leave me alone (3x)
Please
I don't want them
Please
I can't afford them (2x)
Please, please
Leave me alone (8x)
I can't afford them
Leave me alone
(starts sobbing)

Buy my product, buy my product

Where Did Our Love Go

(chorus)
And now I'm surrounded
So helpelessly
You know I believe,
You wanna leave me

Facility Girls

Chorus:
She's a secretary in the day time
A modern venus on the 8th floor
She's a secretary in the day time
A bright young thing with a promising career

She's a secretary in the daytime
A model beauty at the typewriter
She's a secretary in the daytime
A smile for the boss and she's doing fine
She's got the abilties, she's got the facilities
She's got the abilties, she's got the facilities

She's a secretary in the daytime (2x)
She makes herself a drink and climbs into bed
The sheets are clean and cool
Its so nice to rest her aching head
She thinks back on the working day
Her boss, the silly things he said
She smiles, she shuts her eyes and she's dreaming of Terry
A mechanic, sometimes working 8 'til 10
Its so rare, she ever sees him
And she wants so much to see him again
He bought her a ring and the flowers on the bedside table
And she knows that she loves him but does he love her?
She kisses the photo on the wall beside her bed
And tries to hold back a silly tear
She's a working girl now
And mummy lives so far away, so she bites her lip
She knows that Terry will be calling soon one day

I look at the clock and I'm feeling the rhythm of love
It's going through me
I look at the light and it sends a lonely shiver down my spine
It gets right through me
Thinking of you in someone else's arms
I'm thinking of you in someone else's eyes
You're everything I like and everything I despise
Why don't you leave me
Running my fingers through your hair
Running your fingers down the back of my neck
Playing your games with your innocent eyes
I try hard to smile through all your lies
But it starts to hurt me, hurt me
It's like a page from True Love Stories
A page from True Love Stories (2x)

(chorus)
She's got the abilities, she's got the facilities
It's like a page from True Love Stories
She wrote a message on her typewriter
It said that she was just a number
?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?
They said that she was a facility
It's like a dream, dream, dream
Goodnight

Insecure Me

Chorus:
It was the morning after the month before
And I'm looking like a nose with eyes
Take a trip or letter to make me feel better
'Cause I know my mirror never lies
Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can(?)
And the hand that holds the whip is not your own
Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old
Is it me, this feeling insecure?

Hiding in the darkness where they can't see your eyes
In a naked city cinema
Watch the bodies rolling around on the screen
And nobody gives a damn who you are
You're surrounded by the bitter and the boring
And you wonder if you're on the turn
And again you get hurt when they're dishing the dirt
Is it me, this feeling insecure?

I haven't got time to worry 'bout the future
Well I'm busy covering up my past
Start to consider a tuck(?) behind my ears
Well I wonder if my looks will last
I could hit the bottle and the depths of despair
But come up fighting like the best
And I can tell myself that I'm winning the war
But then again I'm different than the rest

I'm not the hardest person in the world
But like the song says 'I will survive'
And I may be a wreck and a pain in the neck
But at least I feel that I'm alive
So I'll spit in your face and put you over the place
If I'm ever feeling so unsure
And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft cell
It's not me, this feeling insecure

(chorus)

[Rap by Cindy Ecstacy - 12" only:]

Forget the lows, just live the highs
And wipe the make up from my eyes
Forget the faces that I despise
As I know my mirror never lies
I come up fighting like the best
But then I'm better than the rest
And I wonder how my looks will last
Because my love is really fast
And you wonder if you're on the turn
Oh baby won't you ever learn
That I'm a cut above the rest
Don't worry 'bout the way I'm dressed
And if my make up looks a mess
I'm not about to get depressed
'Cause I'm the one that loves to lose
Just a loser in my fucking(?) shoes
And I've got the touch and I've got the feel
To make a good time really real
I'll just spit right in your face
And push you all around the face
Just love to love, just love to live
Just love to live, just love to love
And baby are you so so sure
That you're the one that's insecure?

...So

(Instrumental)

It's a Mugs Game

Oh God, It's another night
And your head is feeling like a lump of lead
You should never have drunk those party fours
You should have been home being good instead
And the feeling of deja vu in the end
Is the same and again
You ran out of your silver things
And you're trying to be so high class
But you need a bath
And you hair is looking like string
And though you're nearly broke
You end up paying for all the drinks
And you tell them "Oh, it's nothing.
There's a million where those came from."
And then you whisper
To your longest suffering friend
"Please lend me a few quid."

Oh God, It's another day
And your stomach is feeling like a blown up balloon
You should have never eaten that greasy food
The doctor told you that chili is bad for you blood
And your standing at the chemist as food's
Coughing up your guts like a rap at the door
And all this for a packet of Dojo's
And the assistant gives you a wink
And you turn bright red
It's at times like this that you wish you were dead
And you take the whole packet
And you feel like you drunk a bottle of bleach
And you tell yourself "never, never again.
Not until next week anyway."

You were never one for holding drink
And you stagger off to the toilet
And you throw up like it was Christmas
And you miss the bowl
And you hit your shoes
And there's no paper towels
What else can go wrong with you
It's a choice between a cab fare home
And a packet of cigarettes
So you choose and the money sticks in the machine
And the manager says "Tough shit.
Drink up and leave"

Oh God, It's another disease
And you just got rid of the last
You were beginning to feel okay
And the friends you gave it to
Were speaking to you again
You find yourself having sex in the back of a car
And the girl underneath doesn't care
And her chewing gum is getting stuck in your hair
And your nearly there and she still doesn't care
And there's something wrong
Something that you've forgot
Oh, shit you've forgotten the rubber
And you don't want a kid
Well, deny it was you
Oh Christ, if your dad finds out
Then he'll make you stay in
And do you homework and cut your hair
And wear your school uniform out in the street
What a fate worse than death

Oh well, he can't hit you
You can hit him back
And play your records so loud
All the ones that he especially hates
Deep Purple in rock, Led Zeppelin too
Well even you hate those
Well, on second thought
I think I'll leave home and go and live in America
Because they earn more money there
And you can get away with murder

Oh, it's a mug's game
I can't wait 'til I'm twenty-one
And then tell them all to sod off

(I think it's silly)

Barriers

Searching through the memory books
Of photographs your lovers took
Why play the game of place the pain
When you end up feeling just the same
Anyway

Sleep comes so slowly now
So hard to keep the eyelids down
Hoping soon to drown the sound
Of a voice you know that whispers
In your mind

Oh it was a sad, sad day
The day you turned away
And there was nothing in your eyes
You had told me once you found it
Impossible to cry

I know you've been there and back
I've been there too
But it was never really deep in you
To do those things that you had to do

And in your sleepy bedroom eyes
I saw that signs as I lay awake all night
In the cold, into the light, burn my sight
And there was nothing, there was nothing
Anymore

And there was nothing, not a feeling
As you glanced back from the door
Move away to find another place that
Illustrates your point of view
Surrounded by the little things
That reassure, that reflect you

And there was nothing
There was nothing in my heart
There was nothing in my head
The light in your eyes is changing all the time
But I still have your smile burned into my mind

Disease and Desire

Today I awoke
With a scream in my throat
The reminders of you
On the sheets
The print of a torso
As far as I know
The feverish hollow
Another night of too much sleep

Disease and desire

Some wasting complaint
That was passed on by love
Gods little avenger
Smiles down from above
And I'd rather eat bugs
Than succumb to your love
And a kiss on the mouth
Is a mouth in the mud

Disease and desire

Just one last look at you
Pouring out of your body like sweat
They say familiarity breeds contempt, contempt, contempt

Disease and desire

No heaven up there
Oh, nothing so nice
Just the earth in my mouth
Paralyzed paradise
And I'd rather draw blood
Than succumb to your love
And I'd rather give it all up
Than fall for your love

Disease and desire

No way we'll meet again

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