1. SMASHED AND BLIND

I've been derelict, I've been down
Dragged my bottom lip all over town
She left me, whore
One of these days I won't love her anymore
She's got a new man now
And good luck to him
Cos there's a world of hurt
That he will be swimming in

I choose to drink alone
And I ain't crying in my beer
Every glass is full of hate
And who says hate is full of fear?

Love love love
Smashed and blind
Love love love love love
Love love love
Time after time
In this sick world it ain't easy to believe in
Or to find

Love means nothing anyway
You don't need love to live
She ripped your guts out
Then she said she [unintelligble]

I choose to drink alone
And I ain't crying in my beer
Every glass is full of hate
And who says hate is full of fear?

Love love love
Smashed and blind
Love love love love love
Love love love
Time after time
In this sick world it ain't easy to believe in
Or to find but it's not on my mind

Your girl wants to won you, because you met her mother
Her mother's an ugly psycho bitch and your girl says
I don't want to end up like that
But she's well on her way
Like a cruel reflection in a mirror that she can't escape
It surrounds her cos it's in her
The image is there all the time
And turns her into it.
She becomes the reflection and she's lost when you turn out the light
How can you break the mirror?
Smash it into a million pieces
Grind it into dust, there has to be a way
There's got to be a way
To break the circle, stop the play
And send the actors home
To write lines of their own.

I've been derelict, I've been down
Dragged my bottom lip all over town
She left me, whore
One of these days I won't love her anymore

I choose to drink alone
And I ain't crying in my beer
Every glass is full of hate
And who says hate is full of fear?

Love love love
Smashed and blind
Love love love love love
Love love love
Time after time
In this sick world it ain't easy to believe in
Or to find


2. YOU LOAD ME DOWN

I'm going to the store
To get myself some beer
And if they canned up sanity
Would they sell it here?
I'd buy myself a truckload
And drink away the night
Maybe then my baby
You and me would be all right
Cos you load me down
You load me down
You load me down with my regrets
I'm like a ship about to sink
I'm just drinking to forget
And I don't forget to drink
I don't forget to drink it down
You load me down

Thinking how it used to be
To be alone with you
Telling any lies we could
To steal an hour or two
It ain't like that now, babe
We're together and you're mine
With a silent rhetoric
We wish away our time.

You load me down
You load me down
You load me down with my regrets
I'm like a ship about to sink
I'm just drinking to forget
And I don't forget to drink
I don't forget to drink it down
You load me down


3. EZY

Love is love and it lives out loud
Shakes the world and standing proud
Gives the power and gives the grace
To make this world a better place
You got hope when you got someone
To share your tears when your hard day's done
To hold you like there's a nuclear blast
To peel away each indifferent mask

Take it easy, baby
Cos you got me
While we got each other
We've got luxury

Easy baby, easy
Easy baby, cos you got me.

Work is hell all I want to do
Is lose myself in loving you
Forget how much I don't get paid
Forget everything except my babe

And when the bailiffs knock the door
Cos we can't pay our bills no more
They can take the cooker and the tired TV
So long as I've still got you loving me.

Take it easy, baby
Cos you got me
While we got each other
We've got luxury

Easy baby, easy
Easy baby, cos you got me.


4. BLACK LAGOON

pour my brain into a can
And beer swamps my mind
Turning me from a man
Into something less defined
An open wound
With raw emotions bleeding forth
The night becomes a swamp
As the brew takes its course

I'm falling down into
A black lagoon
Pour me a pint of my best friend
And set them up again.

A melancholy anger weeps
In shadows of lost hope
The mutant climbs inside my eyes
And sanity is soaked.
The taste is sweet and satisfies
A midnight afternoon
I am sinking slowly
In the potion's black lagoon

I'm falling down into
A black lagoon
Pour me a pint of my best friend
And set them up again.

Pour me a glass of cold dark beer
And don't ask me to smile at you, my dear
There's no answer in the bottle
However hard I look
There's no wisdom in that cocktail
However hard it's shook


5. BROKEN DOLL

Do you like the job you do
Or is it like you're in a zoo
Where every cage has got a broken doll?
All cracked and smashed in different ways
Even so they look the same
All they do is stop you feeling tall.
They want to get there
But they don't want to pay for the ride
I know everything has got a price.

Lady luck is gonna shine on us some day Lady luck is gonna shine
Lady luck is gonna shine on us some day
Lady luck is gonna shine

Do you spend your working day
Wishing you could get away?
Then good luck to all of our escapes
Cos things we fight the hardest for
We find we never want at all
It binds us to them all the more

They want to get there
But they don't want to pay for the ride
I know everything has got a price.

Lady luck is gonna shine on us some day Lady luck is gonna shine
Lady luck is gonna shine on us some day
Lady luck is gonna shine

When I've got the night shift
Then I've got sleepless days
When I've got the day shift
Then all my nights are late
The foreman thinks my singing is a joke
But I've got more than him
What I've got is hope that maybe...


6. TWICE AS MEAN

There's a Bible by my hotel bed
Inside it somewhere
Is a story, a story that said
Somebody cares
But we've got to be twice as mean
Just to get around
They're kicking you and me
While we're on the ground

Down fall the good guys, one by one
They never say what they mean
Each day is harder when you trust no one
I'm a prisoner of dreams

But we've got to be twice as mean
Just to get around
They're kicking you and me
While we're on the ground

I know that only angels have wings

A straight answer is like a kiss on the lips
But there are none it seems
No kisses, just angles and tricks
It's a tragedy

That we've got to be twice as mean
Just to get around
They're kicking you and me
While we're on the ground

I know that only angels have wings


7. CATHODE RAY CLINIC

I sit in front of this TV
And I can feel it swallow me
Dull my brain and steal my soul
Seduce me til my heart is cold
You can watch a student die
Or a plane fall from the sky
In a thousand dollar dress
Are glamour girls with plastic breasts
See our cripples, blind and deaf
With your money make them blessed
Let us show them that you care
You only see them once a year

God is here, He talks to me
And through the man whose tears preach
Show me something I can buy
So God will keep me high and dry

Is it real, I don't know
Turn it off, where do they go?
Is it real, can you tell
Apparitions hot from hell

Black Rock me girls on video
Dance sex with me on tipi toe
Beauty without tenderness
And they ridicule in a tiny dress
Only seven miles away
Lie victims of that black brigade
Three boys are shot and one is dead
As I stretch out on my bed

God is here, He talks to me
And through the man whose tears preach
Show me something I can buy
So God will keep me high and dry

Is it real, I don't know
Turn it off, where do they go?
Is it real, can you tell
Apparitions hot from hell

They're dying, dying in my room
They're laughing and they're dancing too
Crying, lost everything they own
And smiling on big Bob's game show
I'll go for the car, Bob, I'll go for the car
I want the car, Bob, I want the car

Behind the glass, inside the light
What is on the box tonight?

Is it real, I don't know
Turn it off, where do they go?
Is it real, can you tell
Apparitions hot from hell

I'm attending every day
The clinic of the cathode ray


8. THE LOVELESS

Too many righteous people
Are preaching on the streets
Saying "You can't do that"
We don't need their grief
Because look a little different
Not like they want us to
We ride a road to ruin
A hell-bent metal crew
We don't want your rules
Your words are cheap
We'll never bow down at your feet

We are the loveless
And we walk alone
We are the loveless
We stand on our own
We are the loveless
We'll never change
We are the loveless
And we will remain

Loaded guns are aimed
At the irreverent
And in the hands of justice
All the truth is bent
They say we're vicious and we're dirty
While they are so pristine?
We're dancing with a flick knife
Into the final scene

And we don't want their law
We don't want their police
They kick kids to fuck in the streets

We are the loveless
And we walk alone
We are the loveless
We stand on our own
We are the loveless
We'll never change
We are the loveless
And we will remain

You are just what you are
So never compromise
They'll make you play the whore
To every ponce in life

We are the loveless
And we walk alone
We are the loveless
We stand on our own
We are the loveless
We'll never change
We are the loveless
And we will remain


9. AFTER MIDNIGHT

After midnight, lay together
Arms round him, moon above
She was sad, he was lonely
That's where the fire starts in love
Was it the evening, was it the moment
A time when two bodies glow
He made a promise then he broke it
Now she's got nine months to go

All the rolling's over now

Outside the bus stop - tried to call him
her tears falling on the floor
She was sad, he was loaded
She didn't matter anymore.

All the rolling's over now


10. TEMPLE OF ROCK

Knock the door and then descend
Down the stairs and down again
Into the Temple of Rock
Tattooed backs and beer thighs
Shadows laugh and make up lies
In the Temple of Rock

Tell me anything, I'll do it, she said
As I passed in the hall
Don't I know that good things
Nearly always come packaged small

I want the hard core.

Don't I know that I look cool
Cos I'm drinking rocket fuel
In the Temple of Rock

Smashed and blind but I feel fine
Watered at that sacred shrine
It's the Temple of Rock

Tell me anything, I'll do it, she said
As I passed in the hall
Don't I know that good things
Nearly always come packaged small

I want the hard core.

I want a hard core bitch to worship
I want the good times with the bad girls
I don't mind if I beg
Cos I want to lick their legs


11. MOONLIGHT

Didn't it seem to good
Just as everything was as it should be
What was time, somewhere, some place we had to be
Mom says you can't go back, you can't turn back the clock
Isn't it good to be in love
This room and just the two of us
One night, the full moon woke us up
That moon and just the two of us
We took the moment by the horns
And the hours seemed to get lost

Confused by it all
I sit and wonder
Bemused and enthralled
Why are we apart?

Isn't it good to be in love
This room and just the two of us
One night, the full moon woke us up
That moon and just the two of us
We took the moment by the horns
And the hours seemed to get lost

Confused by it all
I sit and wonder
Bemused and enthralled
Why are we apart?


12. DEAD AT LAST

He ironed his shirt and pressed his pants
And with a dull empty sadness hanging over his heart
He shined his shoes.
'It's better than working for a living', the waitress said.
But all the time inside, Johnny's heart was breaking
open wide.
Playing in that half empty Twilight Room on a Saturday
Johnny tried to dream his life away
Hoping that he would wake up in the beam of a super trooper
Wishing that he was much cooler.
All he heard his head say was
"Life ain't like that".
In the sorrow of his dressing room he sat
So he drains the bottle
Loads the gun
Writes the note
No-one will come
Pulls the trigger
Breaks the glass
The man in the mirror
is dead at last.

The note said "Stick your club right up your ass,
This gig stinks, you're second class,
I'm going to save my pride, keep my head,
If people ask, that singer's dead."
So when every hour seems like a day
And nothing seems to go your way.
Don't let those bastards drag you down
You've got to hold on to what you've got
Don't swan dive off a bottle top
All you got to do is blow that town.