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Lush Lyrics
Following the last-ever show in Manchester on November 2016, a long-time fan published a beautifully illustrated hardbound lyrics book, as a tribute to the band. Created with their full support, the book contains band-supplied/verified lyrics for every song recorded by Lush, including all B-sides, covers, and the reunion EP.

The lyrics on this page come from that limited-edition book, making them available to all Lush fans.

ALL SONGS RECORDED BY LUSH - 71 ORIGINAL SONGS AND 12 COVERS

ALPHABETICAL LIST

500 | All This Useless Beauty | Astronaut | Baby Talk | Bitter | Blackout | Breeze | Burnham Beeches | Carmen | Cat’s Chorus | The Childcatcher | Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep | Ciao! | Covert | Cul De Sac | Dear Me | De-Luxe | Demystification | Desire Lines | Downer | Etheriel | Ex | Fallin’ In Love | Fantasy | For Love | Girl’s World | God’s Gift | Half And Half | Heavenly | Heavenly Nobodies | Hey Hey Helen | Hypocrite | I Have The Moon | I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend | I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind | I've Been Here Before | The Invisible Man | Kiss Chase | Ladykillers | Last Night | Laura | Leaves Me Cold | Light From A Dead Star | Lit Up | Lost Boy | Love At First Sight | Lovelife | Mannequin | Matador | Monochrome | Never-Never | Nothing Natural | Ocean | Olympia | Out of Control | Outdoor Miner | Outside World | Papasan | Piledriver | Plums and Oranges | Pudding | Rosebud | Runaway | Rupert The Bear | Scarlet | Second Sight | Shut Up | Single Girl | Starlust | Stray | Sunbathing | Superblast! | Sweetie | Sweetness And Light | Take | Thoughtforms | Tinkerbell | Tiny Smiles | Tralala | Undertow | Untogether | When I Die | White Wood

GROUPED BY TIME PERIOD

MAIN
ALBUM
1990
Gala
1992
Spooky
1994
Split
1996
Lovelife
2016
Blind Spot (EP)
Sweetness And Light
Sunbathing
Breeze
De-Luxe
Leaves Me Cold
Downer
Thoughtforms
Baby Talk
Scarlet
Bitter
Second Sight
Etheriel
Hey Hey Helen
Stray
Nothing Natural
Tiny Smiles
Covert
Ocean
For Love
Superblast!
Untogether
Fantasy
Take
Laura
Monochrome
Light From A Dead Star
Kiss Chase
Blackout
Hypocrite
Lovelife
Desire Lines
The Invisible Man
Undertow
Never-Never
Lit Up
Starlust
When I Die
Ladykillers
Heavenly Nobodies
500
I've Been Here Before
Papasan
Single Girl
Ciao!
Tralala
Last Night
Runaway
Childcatcher
Olympia
Out of Control
Lost Boy
Burnham Beeches
Rosebud

B-SIDE
SONGS

FROM EP
'SINGLES'

ORIGINAL SONGS: God’s Gift
Astronaut
Cat’s Chorus
White Wood
Girl’s World
Tinkerbell
Outside World
Cul De Sac
Pudding
Shut Up
Sweetie
Matador
Ex
Dear Me
Heavenly
Carmen
Plums and Oranges
Piledriver
 
COVERS: Fallin’ In Love
Outdoor Miner
Love At First Sight Demystification
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
I Have The Moon

I'd Like To Walk Around in Your Mind


NOT ON ANY ORIGINAL LUSH RELEASE

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep   Rupert The Bear   Half And Half   Mannequin   All This Useless Beauty

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500
Emma Anderson

Shake baby shake
You know I can fit you in my arms
Brake baby brake
Taking me in with all your charms

I’ve never been inside you
But you’re so alluring
They call you ‘Little Mouse’
By name in Rome and Turin

Looking now at your famous shape
They don’t make them
Like you anymore

When things are looking good
There’s always complications
I can’t be with you
So I’m at the railway station

Let’s run away and be so alive
Escape the drudgery
Of this nine-to-five

Shake baby shake
You know I worship from afar
Brake baby brake
How I wish you were my car

 

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All This Useless Beauty
Elvis Costello

It’s at times such as this
She’d be tempted to spit
If she wasn’t so ladylike
She imagines how she might have lived
Back when legends and history collide
So she looks to her prince
Finding since he’s so charmingly slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
And she’s waiting for passion or humour to strike

What shall we do with all this useless beauty

Good Friday arrived
The sky darkened on time
‘Til he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby
And said It’s okay if you cry
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn’t guess
He desires to impress his associates
But he’s part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny

She won’t practice the looks
From the great tragic books
That were later disgraced to face celluloid
It won’t even make sense
But you can bet if she isn’t
A sweetheart or plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat

Nonsense prevails
Modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades
To a pale compromise
And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they’re the gods of antiquity
It’s something you missed
Didn’t even exist
It was just an ideal
Is that such a surprise

© 1996 Universal Music Publishing Ltd

 

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Astronaut
Emma Anderson

I recall how
We used to meet
Running through
The windy streets
Faces touched
With body heat
I know

I can see us
Breathing from above
Lives are changing
With our useless love
Is that enough

To feel her pain
To be him
The same
To see you in vain

I rely on
A moment’s thought
Floating like
An astronaut
Hiding is
The last resort
I know

 

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Baby Talk
Miki Berenyi

Swallowed her down
She’s inside me
She’s struggling now
She can’t break free

And my eyes are closed
My lips are sealed
She can’t escape
But I can feel
Kicks in me

Climbing my spine
She’s inside me
Wants to escape
Wants to breathe

And I wish I could
Tell you what she feels
And I wish you could hear
When she speaks
In my sleep
In my dreams

 

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Bitter
Miki Berenyi

Just don’t imagine that
I’ll still remember you
Don’t even think I’ll try
I’ll take my memories
And drown them in my glass
And then I’ll drink
A toast of bitterness and
Wash you from my heart

I count the blessings
That you took away from me
I laugh to think I cried
I don’t need what you got
I don’t miss what you do
‘Cause I can raise my glass
And drink a toast
Of bitterness to you

And now my mind recalls
No memory of you
And now I raise a smile
And drink a toast
Of bitterness to you

Just don’t imagine that
I still remember you
Don’t even think I care
You took your love elsewhere
And I drank mine away
With bitter thoughts of you
That washed my
Memories of you away

 

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Blackout
Emma Anderson

I’m not interested
In what you have to say
You’re just a vacant space
Other people’s lives
Upon which you prey
It’s a permanent disgrace

Why do you think you know
What’s best for me
What I should
And shouldn’t do
Why do you judge my history
And tell me to improve

In the confines of your mind
You think we’re all the same
I’ve left them all behind
Though you wish I hadn’t

In finding fault in others
I can’t see
What you have to gain
I know that you get pleasure from
Other people’s pain

You’re not so perfect
And I realise the scene
You’re all coming from
When you say you care
I know what you mean
You’re really lying

All the people around here
Love to hear about a fall
They all surface and disappear
In an instant

 

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Breeze
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

Pink cloud sits sky high
Skips to the starlight
Rains tinsel whispers
Breeze blows away

I crawl inside me
My eyes to heaven
Pink cloud sits sky high
Breeze blows away

Silver air
Everywhere
Doesn’t care
But silver winds
Cut my skin
Everywhere

Breathe in green velvet
My lips taste warm earth
Pink cloud sits sky high
Breeze blows away

Summer sun
So much fun
Colours run
Hot summer’s kiss
Cloudless bliss
Burns my tongue

 

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Burnham Beeches
Miki Berenyi lyrics
Emma Anderson music

Long ago
My love was like a light
That danced on a stream
Clear and sweet
His letters used to make
My heart skip a beat

Eyes as bright as a moonlit sea
Smiling up at the sunlit trees
Faces cold in the winter freeze
Breath as warm as an August breeze

I’m so shy
I never speak a word
‘Til we’re on our own
That’s just fine
As long as
Everybody leaves us alone

Search your eyes in the dappled light
Kisses soft as you hold me tight
Don’t let anyone in our sight
Dazed at witnessing pure delight

Tears in the icy kitchen air
Breathe as the mist contains our kisses

Sigh in the misty street-light glow
I watch you walk away forever

 

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Carmen
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

Carmen tells me what she’s done
Says she’s having fun
Wants to be a mum

Copper hair and golden smile
Sparkles all the while
Life can be a trial

Carmen’s in a world of pain
Don’t cry now for yesterday
Baby’s gone but she’s okay

Carmen tells me where she’s been
Nightmares that she’s seen
Makes me want to scream

Hear the things that she’s been through
Grey and black and blue
Life can be so cruel

Sit down here and take a drink
Tell me about everything
Andy shrugs and then he winks again

Chocolate box and photograph
Life is hard and life is tough
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again

It’s time we started heading home now
I’ve made mistakes along the way
It makes no sense but I’m okay now
It’s happened again
I guess I’ll live another day

 

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Cat’s Chorus
Miki Berenyi

Drinking
Sitting in a corner
Smiling to the others arriving
Here we are again

Talking
Telling all our stories
Laughing at the things
That we’ve all been through
Over all the years

And as the hours pass ‘til midnight
We’ll sing together in the moonlight

But looking back
To when we first met
We seemed so different
So many years have passed
So much time
And we’re still here
Whatever times may come
Don’t ever change
No

Outside we’re singing in the moonlight
And we’ll be here again the next time

We’ll be laughing in the moonlight
Singing songs ‘til midnight

Bunny, Kate and Emma
Maxine and Melissa
Four and twenty virgins

Laughing in the moonlight
Singing songs ‘til midnight

 

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The Childcatcher
Miki Berenyi

Baby, he says
You are like the clean white page and I the pen
The innocence I find in
Between your girlish thighs
Is like the fountain of youth to my old bones

And she replies
Daddy’s little girl’s a precocious child
I love to please
I’ll do anything you ask of me
Eager to fulfil all of Daddy’s needs

Baby, he says
I can never love older girls like I love you
You’re easier to please and you never give me grief
‘Cause you accept everything I say and do

And she replies
I’m in no position to make demands
I have no past
No-one else has done to me what you do
I’ve got no-one else to compare you to

And as you grow older
Try to act sixteen all your life
Old women grow bitter
Don’t let that happen to you

And why is it charming
Pretending I’m younger than my years
Why can’t I grow up with dignity
Set me free

Baby, he says
Now that you’re older I feel our love has died
Once upon a time you never criticised me
Oh I much preferred you as a child

And I reply
Everything you said to me was a lie
I know your kind
You just want a daughter without the wife
You don’t need a girlfriend
You need a life

 

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Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
Lally Stott / Guiseppe Cassia

Where’s your mama gone
Little baby gone
Where’s your mama gone
Far far away

Last night I heard
My mama singing a song
Oo-ee chirpy chirpy cheep cheep

Woke up this morning
And my mama was gone
Oo-ee chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep chirp

© 1971 Warner Chappell Music

 

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Ciao!  
Miki Berenyi

I’ve been so happy
Since I walked away
I never thought that
I could feel as great as I do today
‘Cause you were nothing
But a big mistake
And life is wonderful
Now that I’m rid of you

Oh, I must have been crazy
To have stayed with you
I can’t believe I thought
I was in love with you
But now the scales have fallen
I can really see
And I say go to hell
‘Cause that’s where you took me

Well, I’ve felt better
Since I slammed that door
You always cramped my style
I never noticed before
It’s been a non-stop party
Since I flew the coop
I can’t believe I fell for
Such a loser like you

And is it any wonder
That I felt so blue
When I was always
Having to put up with you
Oh here we go again
Just lay the blame on me
Don’t say another word
‘Cause sweetheart you’re history

I know
That you
Miss me really
Bet you wish
That you still had me
You’ll never find
Someone like me
But I’ve got no regrets at all

[I bet you’re loving]
      [every minute of it, aren’t you]
[sitting in your kitchen]
[eating meagre meals with]
[the curtains closed]
[well]
[be a bedsit martyr then]
[I don’t give a damn anyway]

‘Cause I’ve met this girl
And she’s so good to me
She’s really beautiful
Fantastic company
When I’m with her
I realise what love can be
‘Cause she’s fifty times
The person you’ll ever be

Good luck mister
Do you think I care
Since you’ve been gone
The offers have been everywhere
I’ve got a million guys
Just lining up for me
I’ve turned a corner
Boy, my life is ecstasy

Well, I’ve been in heaven
Since I walked away
I never thought that
I could feel as great as I do today
‘Cause you were nothing
But a waste of space
And life is wonderful
Now that I’m over you

 

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Covert  
Miki Berenyi

I’m hiding inside me
Eye sees through my smile
As I shine for the
Eyes of another
Let him inscribe
What he admires
Let him inspire
So many lies
I can provide
Any disguise

Night folds me beside you
I hide from your eyes
For I know
This illusion is kinder
Than what you’ll find inside

If I reveal my crime
My deception
My invention
My obsession
You may despise
What you may find
Hiding behind
All of the lies
Let me provide
One more disguise

You won’t understand me
I can’t let you try
Still I dream of the day
You discover
I am the spy

 

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Cul De Sac
Phil King

(Instrumental)

 

 

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Dear Me
Miki Berenyi

Look at this page
Which I wrote yesterday
Just a selfish expression
Of fear and depression
Of my insecurity
So much a part of me
Swells up the pages
Of numerous diaries
Humiliations both real and imagined
All lie on this page
And stare back at me mockingly
I run away from them
Push them away from me
Soon and again
They return to embarrass me

Down comes the rain
And I try to explain
The events and the places
Emotions and faces
But sometimes the mess
Of my mind just depresses me
Where are the words
That can tame this confusion
There was a time
When I knew all the names
Of the people I’d loved
And the places I’d loved them
But those days are past
And I know nothing lasts
Only memories that fade
Into memories I’ve made up
[I]
[think]
[of him]
[does he]
[still]
[think]
[of me]
[and I]
[cry]
[in]
[my sleep]
[when I]
[think]
[of my]
[deepest]
[weakness]

I lie in my bed and
Stare up at the ceiling
Reliving events of a previous evening
My poor little ego that bruises so easily
Fighting my conscience to justify reasons
Look in your soul
Tell me what do you see
Can you honestly say
You’re completely at ease
Do you believe that
Your conscience is clean
Well, I say you’re a liar

Down comes the rain
And I sit here again
With the people I’ve loved
In the places I lost them
A past that’s made up
Of the real and imagined
My only excuse was my ignorant youth
And I’ve lied to myself
That I’ve grown up since then
So then what’s my excuse
For the things that I still do
Deep in my soul
I admit I don’t know me
And if I’ve learned something
It’s that I know nothing at all
[one]
[thing]
[I know]
[is that]
[I’m on]
[my own]
[and the]
[faults]
[in my]
[soul]
[are for]
[me]
[to]
[untangle]
   [on my own]

 

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De-Luxe
Emma Anderson

I’ve been waiting on the slide
Suggest I open wide
No incentive to hide
Happy coursing through my veins
Don’t even know my name
When I’m up
You’re coming down

Inside of me
Some sight to see
Some sight to feel
Our earthy bed

When we’re wrapped in polythene
What’s that supposed to mean
Paper flowers bring me luck
No birds in sight to fear
Stick sticks in you my dear
When I’m up
You’re coming down

Some say I’m vague
And I’d easily fade
Foolish parade of fantasy

Drink in your eyes
Drink in your sighs
Grass in my thighs
My aching legs

 

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Demystification
Stephen Lake

I look out the window
And I wonder at it all
Staring at the symbols
That decorate the wall
Now everybody’s calling
To come and join them all
But I can’t go with no-one
‘Til I understand the call

Don’t come round for me
Unless you got what I want

My electronic shaver
Won’t plug into the wall
Now I can’t go to the party
The electrician didn’t call
And I hear they’re counting numbers
In a store down in Whitehall
So much information
What can they do with it all

Don’t come round for me
Unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
About what’s going on

Some people talk of Shiva
And some they talk of God
Some talk of politicians
And some they talk of love
They mystify their heroes
With the chances we could take
I’m not looking for escapism
I just want to escape

© 1981 Wipe Out Music Ltd

 

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Desire Lines  
Emma Anderson

It’s raining in this room
And it’s so hot outside this room
I don’t know no-one here
I don’t want to be here in this room

We hold parties in our sleep
We fill ourselves up in our sleep
And I’ll heal you when you’re ill
Though it’s hard keeping still in our sleep

Prise the hair out of her mouth
Whilst the circus is heading south
While we search in the sand
Don’t ask them to understand
Why they cover up
Their hands and their mouths

Lignes-Desir
Emma Anderson

Il pleuvait
Dans cette chambre
Et il fait si chaud
Dehors cette chambre

Je ne connais pas personne ici
Je ne veux pas y être
Dans cette chambre

On fait la fête
Dans notre sommeil
On s’enivre
Dans notre sommeil

Je prendrai soin de toi malade
C’est difficile d’être immobile
Dans notre sommeil

Enlève ses cheveux
De sa bouche
Pendant le cirque
S’en va au Sud

Quand on cherche dans le sable
Ne demande pas de comprendre
Pourquoi ils couvrent leurs mains
Et leurs bouches

French lyrics © 2016 Miki Berenyi

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Downer
Emma Anderson

In me
You’ll see
Dirt flows freely

But you may find
That my thoughts
Are unkind

Pure life
Needs knife
Cuts off my life

But as you see
Hurting you
You bless me

I always
Wanted to cry
After the act
Close my eyes
I always longed
For the deep
Then I just
Wanted to sleep

Blood stream
Cruel dream
Never make clean

Down by my side
I feel safe when I hide
So can you see
That my thoughts
Are for me

 

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Etheriel
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

I know it hurts to see
That in the end
They sympathised with me
I know it hurts to say
It couldn’t happen
Any other way

I remember
When you were free
No-one else
Then you came to me
Cursed you then
That it couldn’t last
All the laughs we had
In the past

And if it hurts you too
I hope you know
That I’m still fond of you
And if it’s still unfair
Remember that
I thought you never cared

Sing to me
Comfort me
Turned away
Someone else
Takes my place

And so you made your choice
When I needed most
To hear your voice
But you were never there
And that was when
I thought you never cared

 

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Ex
Miki Berenyi

Once upon a time I knew
How to make you happy
Or make you blue
Guess I’ll be the same again
But it’s not that easy
To just be friends

Look at where we are today
With our pointless efforts
To lay the blame
Maybe things can never work
After so much betrayal
And so much hurt

We’re in the same position
But a million miles apart
Maybe things will work eventually
But I just don’t know where to start

When love has gone away
Something takes its place
Does it really have to be hate
So what’s it going to be
It’s up to you and me
I just hope it isn’t too late

Things we say
to make
The other pay
for all the pain
All it does it get us nowhere
Yes maybe in the end
We can be good friends
I want to but it isn’t easy
     [let’s stop all]
[the games]
[dishing out]
[the blame]

So love has been and gone
How do we go on
Is there something still worth saving
Well, what’s it going to be
We can wait and see
Tell me do you think we’ll make it

Let’s stop the silly games
Dishing out the blame
I know that you feel the same way
This doesn’t have to be such a tragedy
Everything will work out some day

Well, maybe in the end
We can just be friends
I want to but it isn’t easy
Yes maybe in the end
We will be good friends
This is how it really should be

 

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Fallin’ In Love 
Dennis Wilson

Flowers come in the spring
All the love I can bring
Bring it for my baby
All I can do
You know
You know it's for my baby
I love him so
I let him know
He's my baby
Ooh my baby

Fallin’ in love
Summer winds again
Together with my baby
Love the love I live
Live the love that I love
Living with my baby
I love him so
I love to grow
With my baby
Yes my baby

Yes I’m in love
Love, in love with my baby
He knows I'm in love
Love, in love with my baby
I love the way he smiles
Love, in love with my baby
Because I’m in love
Love, in love with my baby

© 1970 Wixen Music

 

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Fantasy
Emma Anderson

When I’m home
I listen hoping for a clue
And you know they can’t
Tell us what to do
When you’re gone
Out of sight not out of mind
But you know this feeling
Took me years to find

And your eyes
They always know where it hurts
And your lips
Kiss me ‘til I’m fit to burst
Each day you watch me
With your static gaze
And smile
Naked at my silly ways

Planets spin around your head
Milk and sugar in my bed
Even when you’re far away
I can hear you every day

Wise hands grasping the delicate prize
I just wait for the time of our lives

My desires can’t be bought in black and white
Only you make me feel secure inside
For I know you really love no-one but me
And I smile because they think it’s fantasy

No-one knows what’s going on
They don’t know where we belong
Let you swim around my face
Live inside my special place

It’s only you that holds the key
Don’t know what you do to me
In our little secret world
I can be your little girl

 

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For Love
Miki Berenyi

Pretty little girl she shines
Knowing she is young she smiles
Happy just to be a prize
Happy just to see his smile

Silly little girl she tries
Thinking she is good and wise
Doesn’t recognise the lies
Falling from her lips she sighs
This is so real
It’s what I feel
I look in your eyes and lose myself

Silly little girl denies
Ever understanding why
Her face is full of sad surprise
Every time she hears him cry
What do you feel when you’re with me
I look in your eyes and see myself

But there’s no connection
Just his own reflection
Isn’t this the way you wanted me
In love with you
Do anything for you


 [what do you mean]
[what do I feel]

She looked in his eyes to lose herself
And when it falls apart she cries
Doesn’t think to look inside
She just covers up her eyes
Doesn’t see her own disguise

And though she feels this sorrow
It will fade tomorrow
She’ll pretend that
This was really love
She’ll make their fall seem beautiful
She won’t remember this at all
She won’t recall
The truth at all
She wants to fall
Again



     [what do you mean]
[what did I feel]

 

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Girl’s World
Emma Anderson

You can be someone
But you can’t be me
And I know that somehow
I will never be free

Years ago in the darklands
I was dressed like a toy
Now this doll has her own hands
And she wishes you felt joy

When there might be another
It makes you shiver in the cold
That is why I don’t bother
Involving you in my world

Smashing glasses
And breaking vases
You lied to me over and over
You never listened to me

There was too much affection
You treated me as if I were clay
Home became like a prison
In my mind I kept running away

 

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God’s Gift  
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

What’s your passion
I think I see
You just can’t bear to let things be
What’s your weakness
I think I know
You just can’t bear to let things go
Finger in every pie
Can’t let a chance pass you by

Green with envy your greedy eyes
Have picked the flesh from all our lives
You want others to act the same
To flatter you with jealousy

Life is a race to be won
You’ve got to beat everyone
You’ve got to be number one

Popular and beautiful
Adored by men and women too
Perfect in every way
At least that’s what you say
You’ve lived and loved and suffered too
No-one’s got a patch on you
A saint, a star
A goddess and a brain

But the truth now
Are you happy in your lies
You know nothing’s perfect
Aren’t you lonely in your lies

Finger in every pie
Can’t let a chance pass you by
Make up your life with the lies

Popular and beautiful
Adored by men and women too
Perfect in every way
At least that’s what you say
But don’t you think that what we see
Belies the things you claim to be
A saint, a star
A goddess and a brain

 

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Half And Half
Miki Berenyi

So much happened
And I couldn’t deny
That I broke your feelings
With the way that I lied
So I do understand
The reason you became so weak
Oh baby you’re not half the person
That you used to be

Brag your exploits down the telephone
While you scatter her images
Around our home
And it’s strange how
Where you feel pride
I felt only shame
I guess it’s not unusual
That I took all the blame
Did you feel as guilty
When you whispered out my name

They say it takes a while
To really mean goodbye
You say you feel confused
But I’m just feeling used
A year of misery
Has left its mark on me
I should have left you when
I wanted to back then

It’s never fair

I wish I could remove
The things I put you through
There’s nothing I could change
If we began again
But you don’t have to take any more

I guess I’m only half the person
That you thought I’d be
I’m thinking of the time
When you first said that you loved me
I’m feeling like I’m half the person
That I ought to be

 

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Heavenly
Miki Berenyi

It’s a fantasy
Believe me
You touch my soul
With what you do

 

 

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Heavenly Nobodies
Miki Berenyi

Just because they seem
To understand the way you feel
It just doesn’t mean that
They feel the same way too
Just because they seem to
Hold a mirror to your life
It just doesn’t follow
That they’ll be just like you
Take no heroes, it’s no good
They don’t stand up to you
Just take the bits you think that you can use

I remember when I was younger
I thought the answers were locked in people
So I admired the ones whose lives were
A source of envy to people like me

But do you really want to meet
The ones who write your dreams
Believe me it’s a fantasy
You won’t like the reality
If you want heroes keep them safe
They don’t stand up to life
So lock them in your soul
And lose the key

I love you, I don’t want to meet you

When I see you it makes me feel
There’s someone else out there like me
You touch my soul with what you do
It all makes sense when I hear you
You understand the way I feel
I know exactly what you mean
It’s like I’ve known you all my life
I think of you I feel all right

But in the flesh how would it be
If you could really see
The weaknesses you never knew
Alive and staring back at you
If you want heroes keep them safe
They don’t stand up to life
So lock them in your soul
And lose the key

 

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Hey Hey Helen
Benny Andersson / Björn Ulvaeus

So at last you’re free
It’s the way you wanted it to be
It’s the price you pay
To be called a woman of today

Is it worth the pain
To see the children cry
Does it hurt when
They ask for Daddy

Hey Hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey Hey Helen
Can you make it alone

So you’re free at last
And beginning to forget the past
Does it make you sad
When you think
About the life you had

But you’re right
You had to take
A second chance
So you fight
To find your freedom

Hey Hey Helen
What’s the matter with you
Hey Hey Helen
Don’t you know what to do
Yes you do

© 1975 Universal/Union Songs Musikförlag AB
Bocu Music Ltd

 

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Hypocrite
Miki Berenyi

A silly girl I run around
And never know my reasons
And though you’re laughing with me
I know what you say about me

I can’t explain
It’s not your business anyway
So don’t say you understand
And don’t pretend you’re on my side

And I remember when
You hated her for sleeping next to him
I see your smiling face
But I know you’ve done worse to me

You hypocrite
Don’t talk to me
‘Cause you’re not fit to know me
So don’t pretend that
You could have ever been a friend

And still I’m sure you think it’s okay
What you’ve done to me
‘Cause I’m so bad to him
Don’t even try to hide behind that stupid lie
I know your kind and
I know where your loyalties lie

The silly girls we run around
And never know our reasons
And though I understand
I guess I’ll say that you betrayed me

I’m a hypocrite
I dish it out but I can’t take it
I know you think it’s wrong
And maybe you’re right but this is my song

And still I’m sure you think it’s okay
What she did to me
‘Cause I’m so bad to him
Don’t even try to hide behind that stupid smile
I know our kind and
I know where our loyalties lie

 

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I Have The Moon   
Stephin Merritt

We have walked
In ancient times
And we’ve been burned
For many crimes
We have ended many lives
But we never really died

You have the sun
I have the moon

You’d have to fly
Around the world all day
To keep the sun
Upon your face
I’d like to come and comfort you
But I’d be blinded by the blue

You have the sun
I have the moon

You’re bound to die
Under the sun
And I’ll be doomed to carry on
You have become
Like other men
But let me kiss you once again

You have the sun
I have the moon

© 1994 Gay And Loud (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Stephin Merritt/The Magnetic Fields

 

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I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
T Dunbar / J Gangwer

Sitting here
So close together
So far we’re just friends
But I’ve been wondering whether
Am I just imagining you
Do you really have a thing for me
Like I think I see
When I see you smile
And your smile’s for me
I gotta tell you

Hey you
I wanna be your girlfriend
Trying to say I want
To be your number one
Hey you
I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me
‘Fore I’m done

Late at night
When I can’t sleep
Picture in my mind
I see you and me
I’ll tell you what I want to be
You to say that you’re in love with me
You know feels so good in a dream
That I know in life
We just got to be
I gotta tell you

Gonna make you love me
Yeah, I’m gonna make you love me
Number one

© 1979 Carlin Music Corp

 

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I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind  
Vashti Bunyan

I’d like to walk around
In your mind someday
I’d like to walk all over
The things you say to me

I’d like to run and jump
On your solitude
I’d like to rearrange
Your attitude to me

You say you just want peace
And you’d never hurt anyone
You see the end before
The beginning has ever begun

I would disturb
Your easy tranquillity
I’d turn away
The sad impossibility
Of your smile

I’d sit there hearing the sound
Of the things I like about you
I’d sing my songs and find out
Just what they mean to you

But most of all
I’d like you to be unaware
And I’d just wander away
Trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don’t even know
That I’ve been there

© 1970 Branch Music / Vashti Bunyan

 

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I've Been Here Before
Emma Anderson

I’ve tried to be strong
I’ve tried to be tough
But I think that this time
I’ve had more than enough
I’ve seen too much of your games
And your immature stuff
You’re a waste of time

All the people I’ve known
Throughout all the years
Too many vodkas
And too many beers
And I’ve learnt a few lessons
From all of the tears
You’re way out of line

I feel so lucky sometimes
I sit down and I look at all my friends
They mean more than
The stupid fools
That pass my way

I used to prefer those
Who weren’t good for me
Somehow the attraction beat reality
Now all the rubbish they spill
It means nothing to me
I’m just much more wise

Some people grow up
And some only pretend
They’re all over the place
These children dressed up as men
They can’t imagine how
A woman can be only a friend
And they deal in lies

I feel so lucky sometimes
I sit down and I listen to my friends
They say more than
The empty words
That pass my way

And I feel so lucky sometimes
I’ve got a feeling
I’ve been here before
I can see the world for
What it really is

You think that I’m jealous
Well, don’t be so vain
I can tell in your voice
You think I want you again
Well if I did
You know I think
I’d be a little insane
You just leave me cold

You and her in
Your sad little world
You can only exist
With the help of a girl
Well, I’m glad it’s not me
I’ve got my life to unfurl
You’re just way too old

 

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The Invisible Man
Emma Anderson

Outside
You are waiting for me
Hiding
You catch me
When I am needing
A friend to hold

You can soothe me
Lie above me
Press hard

Then you strike
And I think that I’ll die
‘Cause I can’t breathe
Can’t breathe
Please let me start screaming

Eyes are open
Seeing nothing
Hands are tied
And I can’t function
Please let me start screaming

 

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Kiss Chase
Miki Berenyi

Tiny children on their own
They learn so fast
How to make new friends
How to play their new games

I remember a man
He had shiny hair
Always hanging around
When you went away
Little eight year old
She knows too many secrets
Much too young
To understand what it means

I remember a woman
With silver hair
And the smell and the taste
Of the bed we shared
So that’s how I behaved
Every time that you went away
And now though I’m older
Nothing’s changed               [playing the same games]

And I knew every day
Came a chance that you’d leave me
So I found what I could
To take your place
Told me not to cry
Said that I’d survive
As he waved goodbye

And I want to try
Not to make you cry
Want us to survive
Never say goodbye

But that’s how I behave
When you go away
Because though I’m older
Nothing’s changed               [playing the same games]

And I know every day
There’s a chance that you’ll leave me
So I find what I can
To take your place

 

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Ladykillers
Miki Berenyi

Here we go
I’m hanging out in Camden
Drinking with my girlfriends
On a Saturday night
This guy says
Come and meet my girlfriend
She’s sitting in the corner
Looking rather uptight
So I say Hello and I try to be nice
But I see he’s feeling itchy
Trying to play us off each other
Girls, girls, please don’t fight
[You get the picture]

Hey you, the muscles and the long hair
Telling me that women are superior to men
Most guys just don’t appreciate this
You just try convincing me you’re better than them
So he talks for hours about his sensitive soul
And his favourite subject is sex
I don’t even think he really wanted it
But Christ, this guy’s too much
[I wanna tell him]

I’m as human as the next girl
I like a bit of flattery
But I don’t need your practised lines
Your school of charm mentality
So save your breath for someone else
And credit me with something more
When it comes to men like you
I know the score
I’ve heard it all before
[Here comes the next one]

Blondie was with me for a summer
He flirted like a maniac but I wouldn’t bite
I’m weak and he was so persistent
He only had to have me ‘cause I put up a fight

Oh God, the boy had such an ego
He liked to talk about himself
All day and all night
You think you’re such a ladykiller
But you were nothing special
‘Til you turned out the light

When he’s nice to me
He’s just nice to himself
And he’s watching his reflection
I’m a five foot mirror
For adoring himself
Here’s seven years bad luck
[I wanna tell him]

When you say you love me
You’re just flattering your vanity
But I don’t need your practised lines
Your school of charm mentality
So save your breath for someone else
And credit me with something more
When it comes to men like you
I know the score
I’ve heard it all before

Ooh, you’re such a ladykiller
Always on a winner
Thinking that you’re in there
Oh boy, you’re such a ladykiller
Super sexy mister
Call it what you will

Oh, you think you’re such a ladykiller
I just bet you’re still there
Posing in the mirror
Hey girls, he’s such a ladykiller
But we know where he’s coming from
And we know the score

 

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Last Night
Emma Anderson 

And even in your darkest hour
The recipe I cook for you
Can release its latent power
And make your body feel brand new

Can’t you hear the music play
Being centre of what you want
Try to leave the past behind
Memories don’t appeal

All the things we said
All the things we did
All the things that passed
Were satisfied

So what happened last night

I went out into the blue
Sat watching the cars go by
I walked into a bar
I don’t remember anything
After the second glass

Well that’s all very well
They all say that
It’s very easy
You’re not going to
Get away with it this time
That’s for sure

 

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Laura
Emma Anderson

Mirror maid
Tummy ache
Make up run
Lipstick girl
Black stick curl
In the New York sun

Inside out
You know about
My silly game
Even though
You don’t know
About my name

Where I’ve been
What I dream
What I seem

Clumsy eyes
Realise how to
Write the word
Basically
You sing for me
When I am hurt

Stoned and blind
Never mind
Luckie’s song
Press the keys
I can be where
You belong

I’m a fan
Of your hand

And I’m in love
Cry above

And I’m a fan
Of your hand
Every man

 

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Leaves Me Cold
Miki Berenyi

Dream’s deep heat
Teasing my mind
Sleep feels sweet
Stealing my sighs
She breathes deep
When he’s inside
Dream’s deep heat
Poisons my mind

Inside me
There’s a separate world
It’s winning and
I’m losing control
I’m coming but
My eyes are closed
I’m coming but it
Leaves me cold

Night’s bright lights
Dim in the day
Blind eyes
Smile at you today
I find I’m falling away
My eyesight’s
Never the same

Inside me
There’s a separate girl
She’s winning and
I’m losing control
She’s coming but
My eyes are closed
She’s coming
But I wake up and it
Leaves me cold

 

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Light From A Dead Star
Miki Berenyi

He lives his life
In a world full of women
And he takes what
He wants from their love
And he throws the rest away
I cling to him and pray
But still he slips away
And now it’s just too late
To wish him back again

She won’t put up with this life
So she leaves him
And she finds someone else
Falls in love and
She travels far away
I say that it’s okay
And swallow all my pain
And now it’s just too late
To wish her back again

They left me here
On my own
In a nightmare
And I just can’t forgive any more
So I smile and turn away
Don’t listen when they say
They wish that I could stay
‘Cause now it’s just too late
To wish me back again

 

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Lit Up
Emma Anderson

You feel like I do
Like the whole world’s
Forgotten you
And your life
Is so dull
And predictable

Your room seems like a cell
And you don’t sleep very well
And your friends only talk
To point and to mock
And to ridicule

One day
Things won’t seem
The same way
I know

Morning in the mirror
Things will suddenly
Seem much clearer
I promise it’s all right

His words don’t flatter me
And they’re printed for all to see
I don’t care
He’s not there
It’s all history

The future’s yours to hold
And you’re really not very old
And your life is so white
So clean and so bright
And holds mystery

 

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Lost Boy
Miki Berenyi lyrics
Emma Anderson music

There’s a face I recognise
Seeing you again
Is such a lovely surprise
Beckoning me with your smile

Wait just a moment
‘Til I know where I am
I feel your fingers slipping
Out of my hand
Now I’ve lost you
Where’d you go to

Faces crowd you from my sight
Seems like I’m always
Just a moment behind
Thought I saw you walk outside

There’s something nagging
In the back of my mind
Why did I think
I’d never see you alive
Oh, I’m dreaming
Don’t stop sleeping

Room to room
I run to find you
I should have never
Let you out of my sight
Desperate to be beside you

I didn’t know
I’d never see you again
Just want a moment
To be with you again
Oh, I’m waking
Now you’re fading

 

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Love At First Sight
Stuart Moxham

I was waiting at the station
When your train came in
Wasn't you I was tiptoeing for
But you gave me a grin

Felt my heart in my throat
Felt my soul going out to you
Could this be love at first sight
I just didn't know
I didn’t know

Don't you feel insecure
All about your love for me
There's nothing I adore more
Than a fake heart bleeding

© 1981 Copyright Control

 

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Lovelife
Emma Anderson

You are the one
In your concrete arms
I adore you
Dirty and dear
Block out the sun
In your twists and turns I invade
You show me no fear

We blow around like
Tiny leaves in a big storm
Finding there’s nothing left
To breathe or to keep warm

You ebb and flow
And your rhythm beats my head
Leave me alone while you swallow up your dead

You are the one
You cradle me and kill
Caressing my face
Leave me undone
You suffocate and have me
This is the place

Every door conceals a dream and a nightmare
Nothing is ever really pure in the stale air

And when it’s dark
Everything becomes more clear
Lie in the park when I want to have you near

You are the one
In your concrete arms
I adore you
Dusty and dear
Block out the sun
In your twists and turns I invade
You show me no fear

Left it unsung
I shall leave but I’ll return
Poison my lungs
My blood is full of lead
Things unsaid
My love for you still burns

 

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Mannequin
Colin Newman / Graham Lewis

Well you’re a waste of space
No natural grace
You’re so bloody thin
You don’t even begin

To interest me
Not even curiosity
It’s not animosity
Just don’t interest me

You’re an energy void
A black hole to avoid
No soul, no heart
You don’t even start

Tell me
Why don’t you tell me

© 1977 Carlin Music Corp

 

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Matador
Phil King

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Monochrome
Emma Anderson

Wake with the sun
What’s going on
When you’re gone
Fall asleep
When you’re near
What’s going on
When you’re here

And sometimes I think if
I stand by the phone it may ring
And sometimes I worry and fear
What tomorrow may bring
And you sing

Breathe with your sigh
Makes me high
Don’t know why
Touching your skin
Wishing you were within

Your eyes in a saucer
But mine are just clouded in grey
We’ve so much to say
But I can’t and you just go away
Anyway won’t you stay

Wake with the sun
What’s going on
When you’re gone
And when I lost control
I was cold and I felt old

The ground is beneath me
But slowly it’s falling away
You say we’re like children
So why won’t you come out to play

And sometimes I think if
I look at the phone it may ring
And sometimes I worry and fear
What tomorrow may bring
When you sing

 

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Never-Never
Emma Anderson

Only children
Sometimes comprehend
Loneliness can
Often be a friend
Have to shut yourself in
Don’t know how to begin
Telling it to someone
Who doesn’t fit in

I am sunken in biology
I cannot control
That part of me
I don’t want to hurt you
But I know I will do
Maybe we could find out
What are we to do

I don’t have
Long fingernails to use
Would we care
If we were black and blue

We’re both sick
But still you hold my hand
We’re together
But I understand
Walk along the seaside
This is not a joyride
Tell me in the meantime
It’s okay

 

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Nothing Natural
Emma Anderson

Before I met you I was blind
Pills and liquid filled my mind
Beneath your outline I was new
Overflowing with your tune

And don’t you know you’re beautiful
Next month I missed you like a child
Couldn’t see past you though I tried

And don’t you know you’re beautiful

Now I think of every hour
When you still retained your power
And the precious nights we’d share
When we’d breathe in common air

The feeling now you’re gone
This wretched life goes on
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key

The sunlight always comes too soon
My body asks me what to do
I was so small and vulnerable
And you are only beautiful

The seasons shining in your hair
And it was more than I could bear
But I can see you in my smile
And you are only beautiful

 

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Ocean
Miki Berenyi

Come with me
Into a cool blue stream
Bleed into oceans green
Lips open wide
Drinking the tide

Reach for me
Here where the
Ocean sea melts
And you sink with me
Deeper inside
I’ll make you mine

Take me down
Down where
Their voices drown
Down where
The only sound
Echoes for me

Floating away
Under the waves
Kiss me again
You’ll tell me when

Salt on my lips
Cool fingertips
Under the sea
Stay here with me

 

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Olympia
Emma Anderson 

Will I ever be Olympia
Will I ever be a girl like her
Will I ever have to say the word
And instantly I’ll be adored

Could I ever deign to have the look
Instead of have to read a book
Will I ever be Olympia
Will I ever be a girl like her

And if ever there’s a will
There’s a place in Notting Hill
You can go and visit still
And if ever there’s a way
To find a hopeful ray
Will I find it out today

Will I ever be Olympia
Could I ever have a cat like her
Could I ever lie around all day
Eating chocolate and marmalade

Now it’s time to find the perfect world
Dress myself up like the perfect girl
Could I ever be Olympia
Could I ever be in love like her

In the chaos of our lives
Can we ever find the time
To cherish feeling fine
And in the aftermath of pain
Can the balance be regained
Will we ever be the same

And now time to switch off
Sit down
Turn the lights off
Lie back
Treat this sofa like your own
Look out
Here comes trouble
Look out
We’re in a muddle
Keep running ‘til you find
You’ve reached your home

 

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Out of Control
Miki Berenyi lyrics
Emma Anderson music

Don’t cry darling
Let’s try to make up
Please don’t push me, I’m over the top
Drown my sorrows
We’ve just got to stop
I’ll say sorry if you let it drop

I can’t understand why you won’t take my hand
Out of control and you hurt me so much
Feeling I’m falling
No hope and no warning
Out of control but I love you so much

Don’t say sorry, it’s not what you mean
I can’t help you if that’s how you feel
I see the storm gathering now
Dark clouds that block out the light

Cries in the wind as the lightning begins
Out of control ‘cause you hurt me so much
Tears in the rain and a sky full of pain
Out of control but I love you so much
Words are still stinging
My eardrums are ringing
All that I want is the joy of your touch
Breaking our hearts as our worlds fall apart
Out of control but I love you so much

Hold me darling I don’t want to fight
Too far too close, I can’t get it right
I won’t ask you to rein it now
Change has already begun

I’m feeling I’m falling
The future is calling
Out of control ‘cause you’re in such a rush
Sweet in the centre
It’s all the adventure
Out of control but I love you so much

Seasons are changing
Our love’s rearranging
All that I want is the joy of your touch
Twisted together, our love is forever
Out of control and I love you so much

 

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Outdoor Miner
Colin Newman / Graham Lewis

No blind spots
On the leopard’s eyes
Can only help
To jeopardize
The lives of lambs
The shepherd cries

An outdoor life
For the silverfish
Eternal dust
Less ticklish
Than the clean room
A houseguest’s wish

He lies on his side
Is he trying to hide
In fact it’s the Earth
Which he’s known since birth

Face worker
A serpentine miner
A roof falls
An underliner
Of leaf structure
The egg timer

© 1979 Carlin Music Corp

 

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Outside World
Emma Anderson

Lately I don’t feel quite as I should
Lately I don’t feel quite as I could
I’ve been tired, lonely
Sick of all this talk
It’s been heading downward
Since we left New York

Lately I’ve been feeling really down
Sorry but my mind’s in London town
Is it me or are these hotels really bad
I want some decent TV
Not this endless ad

Don’t worry
You’re a long long way from home
People speak to me but I feel so alone

Can’t you understand
My body’s changing fast
It’s not up to me
How long I’m going to last

 

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Papasan
Miki Berenyi

Maybe I should
Make you stay away
So you can
Really concentrate
On where you are today

When you phone
I sit and think alone
And wonder if your life
With her is really as you say

Then again you’re still a friend
I’ll be loyal to you ‘til the end

Come to me
With wounds
You want to heal
I’ll listen and
I’ll try to understand
The way you feel

Never fear
That I’ll be gone from here
I’ll always be around
For you to talk to me
My dear

We can try to justify
Reasons for and reasons why
Some are true
And some are only lies

With fingers crossed
You close your eyes
And hope that things
Will turn out fine
There’s not a lot that I can do
If you’re too weak
To face the truth

‘Cause if the things
You tell me are
The way you really claim they are
Then I can only pity you
For being such a fool

 

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Piledriver
Chris Acland

Is this the last time
I don't know
Feeling so tired
Patience wearing thin
Oh, what to do
Where else can I go
Used to have a good time
Don’t know who I am

It’s building up inside me
It’s welling up inside me

I don’t like the way you tell me
That I could do that in my sleep
We used to have a great time
When we didn’t look so cheap
Oh it’s such a drag
Oh it’s such a bore
Can I just keep singing along
Or can I be ignored

It’s coming up inside me
It’s welling up inside me

Just for one day to get away
To be somewhere else
To find some time to
Try to think straight
Don’t crash like he did
It all seems so complicated
Don’t tell me you like
Where you are now
Is this the last time
I don’t know

Is this the last time
I don’t know
Used to have a good time
Don’t know who I am

It’s building up inside me
It’s welling up inside me

© 1996 Copyright Control

 

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Plums and Oranges
Emma Anderson 

It’s a lonely day in this house
Grey and insular in this house
I’m so bored and jaded
I’m so tired of feeling blue

It’s a sunny day in your house
I can’t see the clouds in your house
This is where I’m staying
I just want to be with you

Please believe me when I say
All is what it seems
I’ve packed them up
And thrown them away
You know what I mean
From the inside
To the outside over again

Please believe me when I say
All is what it seems
The fish next door are shining today
You know what I mean

It’s a different day in this house
Plums and oranges in this house
This is where I’m staying
This is where I want to be

 

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Pudding
Emma Anderson

Who wants pudding
And who wants honey
And who wants bananas and cream

Who wants possessions
With various obsessions
Which God will remove if you scream

Nothing much has changed

My body’s a-creakin’
My mind keeps a-leakin’
My feet are all dirty and grey

I live in my nightgown
From sun up to sun down
And watching the sweet tooth decay

Nothing much has changed

Blind spots
Join the dots
Colour in Barbie and Ken

Scab on the knee
Biscuits for tea
I live in my cupboard
With friends then

Nothing much has changed

 

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Rosebud
Miki Berenyi lyrics
Emma Anderson music

I am holding my breath
Closer to death
Waiting for a chance

Sleep now
Lie in the bed
That’s when I send
My curse into your heart
The fragile fantasy expires
If you won’t do
What they desire

But in the heat of the lights
It’s harder to say no
You look so vulnerable alone

They’re just having some fun
How is it wrong
If you wear a smile
I will pluck out their eyes
Throwing their worthless gifts into the fire

A drop of blood is all it takes
To close your eyes
And seal your fate
And when the fireworks end
A hundred years will pass
I’ll hold your happiness
In my heart

Goodnight my baby girl
And dream of paradise
My thorns will cradle you with love

I am holding my breath
Closer to death
Waiting for my chance

 

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Runaway
Miki Berenyi

Come on boy
I want to dance now
Line by line
We talk all night yeah
Hold me down
I think I’m flying
Everybody’s eyes are shining
Run away to where the world is fine

Hold on boy
You’re falling fast now
Line by line
You go nowhere yeah
Drag me down
I feel I’m sinking
Can’t relate to what you’re thinking
Run away to where the sun don’t shine

Hello, hello
Are you still there
You don’t answer me
‘Cause you just don’t care
Act so young but you look so old
And you’re too far gone
To find your own way home

Life’s so hard for you to handle
You can’t live without your devil
Boy, you think that you’re so special
Well, life is hard for everyone
Believe me

Hello, hello
Are you still there
You don’t answer me
‘Cause there’s no-one there
Run away from your own sweet soul
And you’re too far gone
To find your own way home

 

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Rupert The Bear  
Frank Weston / Ron Roker

There’s a little bear
Like you’ve never seen before
Who’s a lot of fun
Children everywhere
Grow to love him more and more
He’s their number one

There’s a million stories to be told
Of the things that he’s done
And he’s going to share
Them all with you
So come along

Oh Rupert, Rupert the bear
Everyone sing his name
Rupert, Rupert the bear
Everyone come and join
In all of his games

There is Badger Bill
Little Tiger Lily too
And a whole lot more
They are Rupert’s friends
And they’re waiting here for you
So unlock the door

There’s a magic land
Not far away
And they call it Nutwood
Where you’ll meet
A little teddy bear
If you are good

Rupert the bear
My little Rupert

© 1971 ATV/Sony Music Publishing

 

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Scarlet
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

Nothing can eclipse
Tender fingertips
Youthful girlish hips
Crimson pouting lips

But what d’you say
When nothing’s meant
What d’you do
When all is spent

Faithless faceless night
Drenched in empty light
Scarlet starlet’s bright
Vanity’s delight

Cream of life
You’ll find in her
First to come
She’s first to serve

Turned away
You’re out of luck
Spurned again
No-one to fall in love

 

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Second Sight
Miki Berenyi

Peel back empty night
Grey dawn breaks into white
Sun climbing the sky
Your eyes reflecting the light
Clouds out of sight
But when the day is through
Will I see you again

Keep your eyes on me
Don’t let go of my hand
Running together
We go together so well
I can tell

Run where I run
Play where I play
Do what I do
But when this day is through
Will I see you again

 

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Shut Up
Emma Anderson

I can’t seem to find
The time to ponder
I only think when
I go for a wander

Life is too short
I feel that I’m caught
I can’t go on feeling like this

I close my mind to
Boring stuff that you say
I’m cold and numb to
Things that you put my way

It’s gone on too long
I have to be strong
My interest is gone long ago

I can’t bear it
When you start to moan
‘Cause night and day
You’re always on the phone

And the fact my house
Is not my home
Why can’t you
Just leave me alone

 

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Single Girl
Emma Anderson

Single girl
I don’t want to be a single girl
Don’t want to be
On my own again tonight
Don’t want to put out the light

Single girl
I don’t want to be a single girl
Single girl
Who would want to be a single girl
Don’t want to talk
To myself again tonight
Don’t want to put out the light

When you abandoned me
Well, it was heaven sent
When I abandoned you
It was what you meant
Well, it was me that knew it
And it was you that went
Haven’t changed our minds
It was meant to be

Don’t want to clean up
Your mess again tonight
Don’t want to be in a fight
And I can do what
I want again tonight
With who I choose [2]
It’s all right
Single girl
I just want to be
A single girl

 

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Starlust
Emma Anderson /  Miki Berenyi

Walking at midnight
In the darkness alone
Standing in the shadows
And I’m watching your glow

Standing in the red light
And I’m smiling at you
Dreaming of the starlight
Just waiting for you

I’ll do anything to
Make you mine
Make me shine
Take me if you want me
I don’t care
I don’t mind

I want your starlight
Make it mine
Make me shine
Touch me with your light
And I’ll burn like a star

 

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Stray
Miki Berenyi

In your green field sleep
Chasing through the trees
Do you still see me
Do you still hear me

Do you still meet me

 

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Sunbathing
Emma Anderson

Sunbathing
And she came
Down from above
Close my eyes
And I feel like
I’m in love

Wrapped in silk
How I got here
I don’t know
Tastes like milk
And there’s
Nowhere else to go

Soft red lips
Slowly open wide
Honey drips and
I long to feel inside

Deep and warm
The only place to be
Sleep ‘til dawn
And she does
The same for me

Draw a fine line
Heal my bad spine
Close together
Now it’s all mine

Wake in sunlight
Silence
Bleak white
Realise she’s gone

 

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Superblast!
Emma Anderson

Me in the world
Losing tears
Shedding fears
Strain for the sun
Make you run
Make you come

You don’t know
You don’t know

I’m in my home
All the time
On my own
Low finger fine
Take what’s mine
From behind

You don’t know
You don’t know
It’s not there
You don’t care

You’re still inside of me
Beneath the cotton core
My pictures smile at me
But soon they’ll rise and soar

Fill up my space
Turn around
Fade and trace
Be absolute
Blue and white
Fatal fruit
She nylon smile
Full of lies
Shining eyes
Cover my grin
Take a chance
Maybe win

It’s not there
It’s not fair
You don’t know
You don’t care

 

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Sweetie
Chris Acland / Miki Berenyi

Driving back again
And he’s feeling trashed again
Honestly he says, I’ll go carefully he says
I know that one was close, okay
But I swear I’m in control, he says
Let’s go back to yours again
‘Cause I need a little more
And here I go again
I’m feeling off my head
I’ll get another round
Oh, just one more then we’ll hit the road

Oh, my history is a nightmare
Wife and kids, you know it’s a nightmare

I know that sounds so bad
But I can’t explain
Or maybe you’re right I’m crap
And I just can’t explain
I know I’ve been around
But now it’s really love

[I can’t try to tell you why]

[I can’t begin to tell you why]

[I can’t try to tell you why]

And here I go again
I’m feeling off my head
I’ll get another round
Oh, let’s just say that it’s one for the road

Have I had enough
Am I looking really rough
Call my answer-phone
I pretend I’m not at home

I know that sounds so bad
But I can‘t explain
Or maybe you’re right I’m crap
And I just can’t explain
I’ll meet you in the bar
And maybe I just might
Turn up this time
Things are going to change

[I can’t try to tell you why]

        [I can’t begin to tell you why]


[I can’t tell you why]

And here I go again
I’m really off my head
I’ll get another round
Oh, just one more then we’ll hit the road

 

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Sweetness And Light
Emma Anderson

See my life
See my self
See my life
See my sight
[I’ve been so tired]
[I’ve been uptight]
[I’ve been so tired]
        [I could disappear]

See with you
Memories fading fast
And with me
It’s never going to last

You are the sweetness in my eyes
You are an apple in disguise

See with you
I never seemed
To look the other way
Only to stay
Only to breathe
Only to see
That space and light
Is what I really need

You are the sweetness in my eyes
You are an apple in disguise
I never wanted to tell lies
You are the sweetness in my eyes

You are the sweetness in my eyes
You are an apple in disguise
You are the juice I need for life
You are the sweetness in my eyes

 

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Take
Miki Berenyi

He’s perfect
At least within his dreams
He’s perfect
To satisfy my scheme
He doesn’t know my game
I don’t recall his name

And though it’s true
My flesh is new
Believe me dear
My mind is clear

He’s smiling at me
He thinks he’s won the night
I’m laughing at him
Imagine what you like

I know he’s seen
Inside I’m green
But still he’s blind to
What goes on
Inside my mind

He’s smiling at me
He thinks he’s won the night
I’m thinking of me
Imagine what you like

He claimed his prize
I had my price
I know it’s cruel
But I refuse to be
The only one to lose

 

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Thoughtforms  
Emma Anderson 

Come on, little man
Now all’s said and done
All that I’m asking
Is you show me some fun
I need purple views
And scenic greens
They can make me soar
And touch extremes

I just fell down from whitest skies
And now I start to realise
And all the colours talk to me

And if I had wings
Then I could take you in
I’d stay on the ground
And I could teach you things

The grass is strewn with blades of gold
These sights and songs I have been told
All hopes, desires that seem to sing

Come on, little man
Now your time’s nearly through
Colours are dripping down
Red and blue
I’m standing in the middle
Of a great glass ball
I’m told that I’ve nothing
But I’m having it all

I just rose up from blackest seas
My eyes were opened so widely
And it’s a shame to end this way

 

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Tinkerbell  
Miki Berenyi

Everybody knows a woman like me
Insecurity is my philosophy
I see other women
As the competition

I’m always nice to men
And so they’re nice to me
But other girls always seem
To be bitching about me
I say they must be jealous
I say that it’s because
Their boyfriends all fancy me

Close my eyes
And fantasise
A world of men and only me
So much fun
To be number one
What good are sisters to me

I just can’t relate to somebody
Unless I use my sexuality
Normal conversation
Always leaves me insecure

Men are so much
More approachable
Clever, kind and intellectual
And I never feel uncomfortable
In their company

Male appreciation
Is my one ambition
It’s a competition I must win

When I talk to girls
It’s just one-upmanship
Because I don’t want
Their friendship
Just their jealousy

 

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Tiny Smiles
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

I’d like to do
Something for you
You want me to
She’s just the same
She likes to play
I’ll hide kisses in your hair

Don’t feel ashamed
You’re not to blame
It’s just a game
But just the same
What would they say

Baby, angel on my knee
Our lips are sealed

Come sit with me
Slide on my knee
Sing just for me
And for a while
I’ll make you smile

Baby, angel on my knee
I know what you want from me
I’ll make you smile

Outside
She’s listening
To laughter
And whispering
But she won’t say
Nothing to him, see

She’s just the same

 

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Tralala
Emma Anderson

In this world I live in
I care for number one
Hell is round the corner
Never trust no-one

Funny how the people
Came to gather round
Oh so many people
When I was on the ground

I’ve never known what love is
There’s no Mr. Right
If they want to treat me good
Then that’s their sorry plight

Funny how the people
Came to give their voice
Are they really people
Or just silly little boys

Say what you want
I don’t mind
Say what you need
I don’t mind

I want all the people
To notice who I am
You’ve got to show them
What you’ve got
Or they won’t
Give a damn

 

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Undertow
Miki Berenyi

So you want
To be alone
Run and hide
Inside your home
Watch you fall
Away from me
Sinking into misery

Taste your smile
And hold my hands
Make you laugh
And make you dance
I remember this
Everything was
In our kiss

Sink my hands
Into the sea
Reach your fingers
Up to me
Trust me
One more time
I can only try
Throw yourself to me
And I’ll try
To pull you free

Let me try
To pull you free

 

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Untogether
Miki Berenyi

It’s not easy
But try to picture this
Do you remember
That we were once together
Isn’t it strange
Isn’t it
I’m sorry it’s come to this
But why are we here bothering
What was it we talked about

So just remind me
Of why we’re wasting so much time
Pretending that there is
Something more than only this
Only this pointless accusation
Tell me again
Why are we here

I’m not offended
By the things that you say
‘Cause it’s such a
Predictable way to behave
Talk and insult me
’Til you’re blue in the face
You were right
I was wrong
Now does that make you happy

I’m quite aware
Of all the bad things I did
You don’t have to remind me
Of why you dislike me
There’s no solution
To the mess that we’re in
It’s so sad and so boring
I wish you’d just leave me alone

But I understand
The games you play
I’m ashamed of
All the things I did to you

 

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When I Die
Emma Anderson 

If you walked in now
I wouldn’t start
I wouldn’t frown
And if you just appeared
I wouldn’t cry or think it weird

‘Cause you are still around
You’re in the air
You’re in the ground
And you can’t go away
I am afraid you’re here to stay

Friends don’t understand
They close the door
They raise their hands
She says she hears your voice
Of course she does
She has no choice

I was hours ahead
When they removed
You from your bed
They drank all the while
Until you said goodbye

Why are we sitting here in ourselves

I don’t look up
I don’t down
I look ahead
And make no sound
My love was there
I only stare

Healthy in my dreams
Is what you are
Is what it seems
What does it all mean
You’re only hiding behind a screen

Curse the English day
For what it forces us to say
Banish all the pain
‘Cause when I die
I’ll see you again

 

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White Wood
Emma Anderson / Miki Berenyi

Just hold my hand
And stroke my hair
And ask them not to stand and stare
My mind is scattered everywhere
And all around I see despair

My heart was broken long ago
I’ve come so far and sunk so low
The truth’s a man without a soul
I find him every place I go

All is fair in love they say
Liars, liars
I found only misery
Love is cruel
I can close my eyes
And see something better
Fairy-tales and fantasy
Let me sleep
Let me dream

Just hold my hand
And stroke my hair
And tell me everything’s okay
I’m waiting for my millionaire
Just lie to me and say he’s there

They say the truth is beautiful
Liars, liars
What do they know of the truth anyway
I can close my eyes
And be some place better [1]
Fairy-tales and fantasy
That’s the world for me

 

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Notes:

  • I cannot take any credit (or responsibility) for the lyrics on this page. They come from the limited-edition hardbound lyrics book described at the top of the page, and have been approved by the songwriters and the book's publisher, so I cannot make changes on my own. If any discrepancies are discovered between the written lyrics on this page and what was actually sung in the recorded song, please report them to me right away so I can pass them on to the book’s publisher and the songwriters. Once I receive their confirmation, I will be glad to make the appropriate changes here and document them in the footnotes.
     
  • The original lyrics page that was on this website for 10 years (until September 2017) can be still found here, for historical reference. It includes a list of previous sources and describes some of the many obstacles in determining the ‘correct’ lyrics. However it contains many known errors and should NOT be used as an authoritative reference.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 Dedicated to the memory of Chris Acland   

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