Swing for the crime

Locked in a room full of words
I know one I'd mentioned with the curs*
The simpleton who sweetly smiles at his young lover now beguiled
The sycophantic morons lie at Romeo who is the bride, let's ride

Stoned as I walk down the hall
The adman waits to hear the curse and call*
The angels scream in discontent as to the river they are lent*
The actors bow and pay the rent, the government may close them in*

Let's swing for the crime everyone in double time
And we hope that you had a good time
Yeah you can smile as you sign on the line
Because life on your knees can be fun
Surprised now you're not the only one

Led like a lamb into this gloom
Yeah Freud is in the back room with his goons
Now they've got new experiments, the metal groans the lens are rent*
The anti-hero's mock dissent, we mark it now by mass content

We swing for the crime everyone in double time

Scream like you're birthday to cry*
Is changed by the words that you learned
But Jack the ripper is inside
And Moriarty has imbibed
They leave the marry all the while*
Laugh at how they're circumcised*

They swing for the crime everyone in double time
And we hope that you had a good time
Yeah smile as you sign on the line
Because life on your knees can be fun
Are you glad that you're not the only one?

All time through paradise

Red light is on all the good is gone
I'm in a home, I'm all alone
All to myself I say we gotta get off this shelf and
The moon it don't shine and the sun it don't call

So we gotta walk down to the city park
To where everybody's calling out for someone
Who might save their little life because
The moon it don't shine and the sun don't call on the phone
And all the lost children now they think that they are the ones who'll come walkin' on home

You read a book, saw how it looked
Everybody took a little chance
Down to the mainstreet where we traded in for cheap romance
And the moon it don't shine and the sun don't call on the phone
And all them lost children now think that they are the ones who'll come walkin' on home
But they're gone

The moon it don't shine and the sun don't call on the phone
And all them lost children now they think that they are the ones who'll come walkin' on home
But they're gone

Yes they are gone
Everybody's gone
Yeah, all gone

You were the one who thought life was someone damn had no life
All times through paradise you thought it'd be quite so nice but
The moon it don't shine and the sun don't call on the phone
An all them lost children now they think that they are the ones who'll come walkin' on home
but they crawl to the moon and the sun, he won't crawl to anyone
And the night is a dark sign it takes the light from the day
And my eyes they don't see what the world was for me to be
And we're walking home

I said we're walking home
I said we're walking home
Yeah we're walking home

Every day's a holiday every night's a party

Night time, neon sign, synthetic grin
Fast cars, drag bars, ice in my gin
Discotheques were all the rage, dancing til two
Champagne and misery where are you?

Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink

Loud music, crowds grooving, drunk at the door
Life in the mirror cracked, sick on the floor
Coffee addict, automatic pistols were drawn
Be my suicidal heart-throb cest de l'amour

Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink

Everyday is a holiday and everynight it's party time
'Cause all the world is mine, all the world is mine

Night time, neon sign, synthetic grin
Fast cars, drag bars, ice in my gin
Discotheques were all the rage, dancing til two
Champagne and misery where are you?

Let's have another drink
Let's have another drink

Yeah yeah
Uh huh....
Lah dah de dah de dah...

Brisbane (Security city)

Thirteen hot nights in a row
The cops drive past and they move slow
A million people staying low
With mangoes ripe, who needs to grow?

I don't want it let down
My own hopes for this town
It's so hard to get around
Lots of cars but not much sound
In town

Lot's of junk on the radio
Just take a look and you will know
I start to feel I'm being used
In a scheme that's been hidden from public view

I don't want it let down
My own hopes for this town
It's so hard to get around
Lots of cars but not much sound
In town

It's always guarded by the sea
Our prison island is not free
Our hope goes but is still there
It doesn't alter if you stare

Living room isolation
Extraordinary situation
I see police but where's the crime?
We're just like convicts doing time

Thirteen hot nights in a row
The cops drive past and they move slow
I start to feel I'm being used
In some scheme that's been hidden from public view
I don't want it let down my own hopes for this town
It's so hard to get around
Lots of cars but not much sound
In town....

Church of indifference

I look at the world from my window
There's nothing I'd rather see
Millions of people walk by me
Not just the ones I've ignored

Put my hands on my knees
Say goodbye to old friends I don't need
The sheep look out to the sea
My search for life lost it's attraction
There's nothing left to explore
Only time could give an answer
But the clock it won't say a word

You don't need me
But you want my flesh
Since you tasted blood
I don't do no wrong and I can't tell right

But now I'm so sick of this success
And God looking down on me
And everything looks oh so pretty
As long as it's not too free

You can do what you want
Hope it don't offend me if you care
So press a young and then a smile supress it all
Take a square if it's there
Walk around the world
You could join

The church of indifference
It don't give no love
The church of indifference
Like the good god above

The man who has everything might say
That something's a terrible fate
Religion and other dependance
We can't afford them if they

Maybe one day things will change for better or for worse
So don't you give thanks for a speech
Take a square if it's there
Walk around the world

You could join the church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby

The church of indifference
It don't give no love
The church of indifference
Is like the good god above

Outside a phonebooth you tell me
That everything's much too late
But did you believe when I told you
I'd settle for second rate?

The time has come to give up my hopes and foolish pride
'Cause we've all been taken for a ride.

Take a square if it's there
Walk around the world
You could join
You could join the church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby
The church of indifference, baby

(psychobabble)

Crazy Googenheimer Blues

Well I woke up this mornin' with the blues
My baby she left a note she said we're through
She said quit your drinkin' boy or else I'm gone
And now all day long I hang my head and moan

Yeah my baby left me I hang my head and moan
Please forgive me baby, come back home

She left me 'cause I didn't treat her right
I get drunk in the morning 'n' stay out all the night
I try to call her on the phone, tell her that I'm all alone
Now my baby's gone I been sleepin' with my dog

Yeah my baby left me I hang my head and moan
Please forgive me baby, come back home

Well I woke up this mornin' with the blues
My baby she left a note she said we're through
She said quit your drinkin' boy or else I'm gone
And now all day long I hang my head and moan

Yeah my baby left me I hang my head and moan
Please forgive me baby, come on home

Everything's fine

With a bit of luck everything's falling in place
The maybe things will feel it's been such a race
Now everything's fine, carry on

If times are hard it's just too bad, just go on your way
Some people will do anything, well that's what they say
But everything's fine, carry on

When you look at life all you see is a dull reality
Wait until some clown on stage explains to you life's mysteries

If somebody tells you put your hands on your head
Think you look just like a snake when you crawl like a worm
But everything's fine, carry on

When you look at life all you see is a dull reality
Wait until some clown on stage explains to you life's mysteries

Ah bop bop bop bop bop Everything's fine, carry on
Everything's fine, carry on
Yeah, everything's fine, carry on
Everything's fine, carry on
   And on and on and on and on and on

The Prisoner

(psychobabble)

You're a man in a cage
I see you everyday
You're the one who has everything

But your thoughts are disturbed
You don't like what you've heard
You condemn what you don't understand

And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else

Watch the light as it moves
Feel the eyes in your room
You are free you can do anything

And you think you're happy, better than the rest
Still you're a prisoner just like everybody else

    (whistling)

Lock your heroes away
Put your mind out to play
Take a walk to the edge of town

As you're dragged to the ground
Close your ear to the sound
But you're safe 'cause it can't happen here

And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else

And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner just like everybody else

And you think you're happy, better than the rest
But you're a prisoner like everybody else

Yeah and you think you're happy, so better than the rest
But you're a prisoner just like everybody else

    (whistling)

Security

I want security, without it I'm at a great loss
I want security, yeah I want it at any cost, now
I don't want no money, no no no no
I don't want no fame
For security I have a need for it, babe yeah
All I need, babe, is security, yeah
And a little love that will be true
My baby that's what I want from you

Your sweetened lips, they tell me that you're the one for me
So darling how can I forget?
I said how can I forget now?
I want security, I'm gonna tell you once again now
I want security, I wanna get it in the end now
Your sweetened lips you know, they tell me that you're the one for me
So darling how can I forget?
So darling how can I forget now?

I want security
Yeah that's all I'm living for
Yeah I want security
Babe I want it more and more now
Yeah that's all I'm living for
Is just a little security

This time

I'm talking to you but you're in a trance
You're Talking to me but I ain't got a chance
'Cause you'd rather sit with your radio

You lie in the sun and you read magazines
You think that you know everything on the scene
But you're hagning 'round only fooling yourself

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so, this time

So we sit around and I stare at the wall
And you don't care if I go on and on
As long as I say what you want to hear, girl

So you read your books and I crawl 'round the floor
The radio's on but you want more
So we take a walk through/to the discoteque

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time

And so you think you got nothing to do
You turn out the lights now you want something new
So you like wait with the radio

I'm talking to you but you're in a trance
You're Talking to me but I ain't got a chance
'Cause you'd rather sit with your radio

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time

This time I let you go
Next time I let you know
It's high time that I told you so
This time, this time

Take this heart of mine

You are so sublime
Just take one look at your face now
You didn't have an alibi
You heard it all and it's all lies
And you know that theres nothing I can do

You can do what you wanted to
You can try to be somebody else now
If you don't like what you see
Trade it in and leave it all for me
Take a chance now, you ain't got nothing to lose

So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
So take this heart of mine
Some time

All you needed was an alibi
An excuse to be the lonesome stranger
You're good and you learnt your lines
All you need now is someone in danger

Take a chance now, you ain't got nothing to lose

So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Some time

So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Some time

So take this heart of mine
Be so kind
Take this heart of mine
Some time

The Chameleon

Like stars up in a darkened sky
I stand obscured from view
With shining eyes that did not lie
I turn the page for you
The silent shadow in the night
I smile before I steal
Behind locked doors in emptiness
I am the things you do

Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon

Now child my man why not live and think
You have no time for rest
No thoughts, no words to comfort you
No smile or soft caress

I am the ride, the wishing well
The secrets to your fear
I light the candle burning bright
The call from distant years

Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon

Now I am your only friend
You must love the chameleon

I said now I am your only friend
Yeah, you must love the chameleon

Groovy little people that come around
Everybody look to the brand new sound
We gotta get down

I got a new trick, better than the old trick
Baby come with me we'll find a new kick, now

Cause I've seen the joke and it ain't funny
I think I might trade it in for some money

Tried so hard all these years
Tried so hard to live with my fears

I've just got to get out

I will do the John Travolta
I feel revolted
I will dance with anyone
I will get mine
Because I'm a chameleon I do what I can
I think that is nice, if I earnt some money
Being funny for a record company
They get me lots of wonderful things
They give me a house, a car, a nice place to entertain my friends
And I've got lots of friends who come around
Because I am a chameleon
They tell me that they love me true
They like the things that I do because -

Save me

Save me, I want you to save me
I said save me! I want you to save me right now

Promised myself that was the first little mess*
I done gived it up, no second chance
It's safe to say you chalk too fine*
The closer I go to you babe I'm going out of my mind

Save me, I want you to save me
I said save me! Come on save me right now

Those who love always give the most
Where crowds will gather now from coast to coast
Love leaves you cold and hurt inside
These ills of mine, they are justified

Save me, I want you to save me
I said save me! Come on save me right now

You are always sayin' that you needed me
But honey you abused my love
You set me free but you didn't mean it now
Somebody better help my baby, this gal's going so crazy

Save me, I want you to save me
I said save me! You better save me right now

Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, too
I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do
If you think anything about me, save me
Don't you know little girl that I - I'm beggin' you
Save me! I said I want you to save me
I said save me! I want you to save me right now

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Save me!
Save me!
Save me!
Save me!
Save me!
Save me!
Save me!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah