Zooropa

Zooropa...Vorsprung durch Technik
Zooropa...be all that you can be
Be a winner
Eat to get slimmer

Zooropa...a bluer kind of white
Zooropa...it could be yours tonight
We're mild and green
And squeaky clean

Zooropa...better by design
Zooropa...fly the friendly skies
Through appliance of science
We've got that ring of confidence

And I have no compass
And I have no map
And I have no reasons
No reasons to get back

And I have no religion
And I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit
The limit of what we got

Zooropa...don't worry baby. It'll be alright
Zooropa...you got the right shoes
Zooropa...to get you through the night
Zooropa...it's cold outside, but brightly lit
Zooropa...let's go to the overground
Get your head out of the mud baby
Put flowers in the mud baby
Overground

No particular place names
No particular song
I've been hiding
What am I hiding from?

Zooropa...don't worry baby. It's gonna be alright
Zooropa...uncertaintly...can be a guiding light
Zooropa...I hear voices, ridiculous voices
Zooropa...in the slipstream
Zooropa...let's go, let's go...overground
Zooropa...take your head ou of the mud baby

(She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud)

Babyface

Catching your bright blue eyes
In the freeze frame
I've seen them so many times
I feel like I must be your best friend
You're looking fine, so fine, oh my,
Dressed up like a lovely day

Babyface, Babyface
Slow down child, let me untie your lace
Babyface, Babyface
Cover girl with natural grace
How could beauty be so kind
To an ordinary guy?

Coming home late at night
To turn you on
Checking out every frame
I got slow motion on my side
Turning around and around
With the sound and colour
Under my control
Round and around, going down
Dressed up like a lovely day

Babyface, Babyface
Tin foil hair all tied up in lace
Babyface, Babyface
Bitter sweet girl won't you give me a taste
How could beauty be so kind
To an ordinary guy?

Do do do...etc

Babyface, Babyface, slow down child,
Let me untie your lace
Babyface, Babyface
Open that door
Let me unpack my case
Babyface, Babyface
You're everywhere child
You're all over the place
Babyface, Babyface
Your coming to me from outerspace
How could you be so kind
To an ordinary guy?

Numb

Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry everything's just fine
Just fine

Don't grab
Don't clutch
Don't hope for too much
Don't breathe
Don't achieve
Don't grieve without leave

Don't check just balance on the fence
Don't answer
Don't ask
Don't try and make sense

Don't whisper
Don't talk
Don't run if you can walk
Don't cheat compete
Don't miss the one beat

Don't travel by train
Don't eat
Don't spill
Don't piss in the drain
Don't make a will

Don't fill out any forms
Don't compensate
Don't cower
Don't crawl
Don't come around too late
Don't hover at the gate

Don't take it on board
Don't fall on your sword (FAT LADY-Backing Vocals)
Just play another chord
If you feel you're getting bored I feel numb
I feel numb
Don't change your brand Too much is not enough
Don't listen to the band Gimme some more
Don't gape Gimme some more
Don't ape Of that stuff love
Don't change your shape Too much is not enough
Have another grape

Don't plead Too much is not enough
Don't bridle I feel numb
Don't shackle I feel numb
Don't grind Gimme what you got
Don't curve Gimme what I don't get
Don't swerve Gimme what you got
Don't lie, die, serve Too much is not enough

Don't theorize, realise, polarise
Chance, dance, dismiss, apologise
I feel numb
Don't spy Gimme some more
Don't lie Gimme some more
Don't try Of that stuff love
Imply Gimme some more
Detain Too much is not enough
Explain
Start again I feel numb

Don't triumph
Don't coax
Don't cling
Don't hoax
Don't freak
Peak
Don't leak
Don't speak
I feel numb
Don't project I feel numb
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest
I feel numb
Don't struggle
Don't jerk
Don't collar
Don't work
Don't wish
Don't fish
Don't teach
Don't reach
I feel numb
Don't borrow
Don't break
Don't fence
Don't steal
Don't pass
Don't press
Don't fry
Don't feel
I feel numb
Don't touch
Don't dive
Don't suffer
Don't rhyme
Don't fantasize
Don't rise
Don't lie
I feel numb
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest
I feel numb
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest I feel numb

Lemon

Lemon
See through the sunlight
She wore lemon
Never in the daylight
She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
But when you're dry
She draws the water from a stone

I feel like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly slipping under
I feel like I'm holding onto nothing

She wore lemon
To colour in the cold grey night
She had heaven
And she held on so tight

A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
A man captures colour
A man likes to stare
Turns his money into light
To look for her

And I feel like I'm drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore
And I feel like I'm swimming out to her

Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins

Lemon
See through in the sunlight

A man builds a city
With banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can
See the world outside You're gonna meet her there
A man makes a car She's your destination
And builds a road to run (them) on You gotta get to her
A man dreams of leaving She's imagination
But he always stays behind

And these are the days when our work has come assunder
And these are the days when we look for something other

Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins

A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close Gotta meet her there
A man captures colour She's your destination
A man likes to stare There's no sleeping there
Turns his money into light She's imagination
To look for her
She is the dreamer
She's imagination
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close

Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
I see you check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
The wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Is that what it is?

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows

And if you look, you look through me
And if you talk it's not to me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing

If I could stay...then the night would give you up
Stay, and the day would keep its trust
Stay, and the night would be enough

Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans, London, Belfast and Berlin

And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout I'll only hear you

If I could stay...then the night would give you up
Stay then the day would keep its trust
Stay with the demons you drowned
Stay with the spirit I found
Stay and the night would be enough

Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel hits the ground 

Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car

You're a precious stone, you're out on your own
You know everyone in the world, but you feel alone
Daddy won't let you weep
Daddy won't let you ache
Daddy gives you as much as you can take
A-ha, sha-la, A-ha, sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car

A little uptight, you're a baby's fist
Butterfly kisses up and down your wrist
When you see him coming, you're licking your lip
Nails bitten down to the quick
A-ha, sha-la, A-ha, sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car

You've got a head full of traffic
You're a siren's song
You cry for mama, and daddy's right along
He gives you the keys to a flamin' car
Daddy's with you wherever you are
Daddy's your best friend
Daddy'll hold your hand right up to the end
A-ha, sha-la, A-ha, sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday's alright

Some Days Are Better Than Others

Some days are dry, some days are leaky
Some days come clean, other days are sneaky
Some days take less, but most days take more
Some slip through your fingers and onto the floor

Some days you're quick, but most days you're speedy
Some days you use more force than is necessary
Some days just drop in on us
Some days are better than others

Some days...it all adds up
And what you got is enough
Some days are better than others

Some days are slippy, other days sloppy
Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy
Your skin is white but you think you're a brother
Some days are better than others

Some days you wake up with her complaining
Some sunny days you wish it was raining
Some days are sulky some days have a grin
some days have bouncers and won't let you in

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place
Some days are better than others

Some days are honest some days are not
Some days you're thankful for what you've got
Some days you wake up in the army
And some days...it's the enemy

Some days you work, most days you're lazy
Some days you feel like a bit of a baby
Lookin' for Jesus and His mother
Some days are better than others

Some days...you feel ahead
You're making sense of what she said
Some days are better than others

Some days you hear a voice
Taking you to another place
Some days are better than others

The First Time

I have a lover
A lover like no other
She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul
And she teach me how to sing

Shows me colours when when there's none to see
Gives me hope when I can't believe that
For the first time I feel love

I have a brother,
When I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me

When I feel myself goin' down
I just call and he comes around
But for the first time I feel love

My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to His kingdom (coming)
Gave me a cup of gold
He said "I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see"
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key...
For the first time
For the first time
For the first time
I feel love

Dirty Day

I don't know you...and you don't know the half of it
I had a starring role...I was the bad guy who walked out
They say be careful where you aim
Because where you aim you just might hit
You can hold onto something so tight
You've already lost it

Dragging me down
That's not the way it used to be
You can't even remember
What I'm trying to forget

It was a dirty day
A dirty day

You want explanations...
I don't even understand
If you need someone to blame...
Throw a rock in the air
You're bound to hit someone guilty

From father to son
In one life has begun
A work that's never done
Father to son

(And love...it won't last kissin' time)

Get it right
There's no blood thicker than ink
Hear what I say
Nothing's simple as you think

Wake up
Somethings you can't get around
I'm in you
More so when they put me in the ground

It was a dirty day
A dirty day
Hank says
THE DAYS RUN WAY LIKE HORSES OVER THE HILLS

The Wanderer

I went out walking through streets paved with gold
Lifted some stones
Saw the skin and bones
Of a city without a soul
I went out walking under an atomic sky
Where the ground won't turn
And the rain it burns
Like the tears when I said goodbye

Yeah I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering

I went drifting through the capitals of tin
Where men can't walk
Or freely talk
And sons turn their fathers in
I stopped outside a church house
Where the citizens like to sit
They say they want the kingdom
But they don't want God in it

I went out riding
Down that ol' eight lane
I passed by a thousand signs
Looking for my own name

I went with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you

I went out there
In search of experience
To taste and to touch
And to feel as much
As a man can
Before he repents

I went out searching, lookin' for the one good man
A spirit who would not bend or break
Who would sit at his father's right hand

I went out walking with a bible and a gun
The word of God lay heavy on my heart
I was sure I was the one
Now Jesus, don't you wait up
Yeah I went out for the papers
Told her I'd be back by noon

Yeah I left with nothing
But the thought you'd be there too
Looking for you...
Yeah I left with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you...
I went wandering

Discotheque

you can reach but you can't grab it
you can't hold it control it you can't bag it

you can push but you can't direct it
circulate regulate oh no you cannot connect it

you know you're chewing bubblegun
you know what that is but you still want some
you just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff

you get confused but you know it
yeah you hurt for it work for it LOVE
you don't always show it

LET GO LET'S GO...DISCOTHEQUE
GO GO...LET GO...DISCOTHEQUE

looking for the one
but you know you're somewhere else instead
you want to be the song
the song that you hear in your head

LOVE

it's not a trick...you can't learn it
it's the way you don't pay that's okay 'cause you can't earn it

you know you're chewing bubblegun
you know what that is but you still want some
'cause you just can't get enough of that lovie dovie stuff

LET GO LET'S GO...DISCOTHEQUE
GO GO...LET GO...DISCOTHEQUE

looking for the one
but you know yo're somewhere else instead
I want to be the song be the song that you hear in your head

LOVE

but you take what you can get
'cause it's all that you can find
oh you know there's something more
but tonight, tonight, tonight

BOOM CHA
BOOM CHA
DISCOTHEQUE

Do You Feel Loved

take these hands they're good for nothing
you know these hands have never worked a day
take these boots they're going nowhere
you know these boots they don't want to stray
you got my head filled with songs
you got my shoelaces undone
take my shirt go on take it off me
you can tear it up
if you can tie me down

DO YOU FEEL LOVED? DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

TAKE THE colours of my imagination
TAKE THE scent hanging in the air
take this tangle of a conversation
and turn it into your own prayer
with my fingers as you want them
with my nails under your hide
with my teeth at your back
and my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies

DO YOU FEEL LOVED? DO YOU FEEL LOVED?
AND IT LOOKS like the SUN BUT IT FEELS LIKE THE RAIN

love's a bully pushing and shoving
in the belly of a woman
heavy rhythm taking over
to stick together
a man and a woman
stick together
man and woman
stick together...

DO YOU FEEL LOVED?
DO YOU FEEL LOVED?

AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN
BUT IT FEELS LIKE RAIN
and THERE'S HEAT IN THE SUN TO SEE US THROUGH THE RAIN

Mofo

lookin' for to save my save my soul
lookin' for the places where no flowers grow
lookin' for to fill that GOD shaped hole

mother mother sucking rock and roll

holy dunc, spacejunk comin' in for the splash
white dopes on punk staring into the flash
lookin' for baby Jesus under the trash

mother mother suckin' rock and roll
mother rock and roll

mother am I still your son, you know I've waited for so long to hear you say so
mother you left and made me someone
now I'm still a child but no one tells me no

lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world
lookin' for the father of my two little girls
got the swing got the sway got my straw in lemonade
still looking for the face I had before the world was make

mother mother sucking rock and roll
bubble poppin' sugar droppin' rock and roll

woo me sister
move me brother
soothe me mother
rule me father
show me mother

If God Will Send His Angels

nobody else here baby no one else here to blame
no one to point the finger...it's just you and me and the rain
nobody made you do it, no one put words in your mouth
nobody here taking orders when love took a train heading south
it's the blind leading the blond
it's the stuff the stuff of country songs

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN
AND IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
would everything be alright?

God has got his phone off the hook babe would he even pick up if he could?
it's been a while since we saw that child hangin' 'round this neighbourhood
see His other dealing in a doorway see Father Christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sister's eyes are a blister...THE HIGH STREET never looked so low

it's the blind leading the blond...
it's the cops collecting for the cons
so where is the hope and where is the faith...and the love?
what's that you say to me
does love...light up your Christmas tree?
the next minute you're blowing a fuse
and the cartoon network turns into the news

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
AND IF GOD WILL SEND A SIGN
WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
WHERE DO WE GO

Jesus never let me down you know Jesus used to show me the score
then they put Jesus in show business now it's hard to get in the door

it's the stuff it's the stuff of country songs
but I guess it was something to go on

HEY IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
I SURE COULD USE THEM HERE RIGHT NOW
WELL IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS
WHERE DO WE GO...

Staring At The Sun

SUMMER stretching on the grass...summer dresses pass
in the shade of a willow tree creeps a crawling over me
over me and over you stuck together with God's glue
it's going to get stickier too...
it's been a long hot summer
let's get undercover
don't try to hard to think...don't think at all

I'm not the only one starin' at the sun
afraid of what you'd find if you took a look inside
not just deaf and dumb I'm staring at the sun
not the only one who's happy to go blind

there's an insect in your ear if you scratch it won't disappear
it's gonna itch and burn and sting
do you want to see what the scratching brings
waves that leave me out of reach
breaking on your back like a beach...
will we ever live in peace?
'cause those that can't do often have to
those that can't do often have to...preach

to the ones staring at the sun...
afraid of what you'll find if you took a look inside
not just deaf and dumb...staring at the sun
I'm not the only one who'd rather go blind

intransigence is all around...military still in town
armour plated suits and ties...daddy just won't say goodbye
referee won't blow the whistle God is good but will He listen
I'm nearly great
but there's something I'm missing I left in the duty free
though you never really belonged to me

you're not the only one starin' at the sun
afraid of what you'd find if you stepped back inside
I'm not sucking my thumb I'm staring at the sun
not the only one who's happy to go blind

Last Night On Earth

she feels the ground is giving way
BUT she thinks WE'RE better off that way
"the more you take the less you feel
the less you know the more you believe
the more you have the more it takes today"

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
she DOESN'T CARE WHAT IT'S worth
SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

she's not waiting on a saviour to come
she's at a bus-stop with the NEWS OF THE WORLD
AND THE sun sun here it comes
she's not waiting for anyone

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
she knows just what it's worth
SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

slipping away...slip slide the clock tells her that time is slipping...
the world turns and we get dizzy minute hands and seconds sticking...
slipping away there's something going on she
might be missing
the world turns and we get dizzy
is it spinning for you the way it's
spinning for me
she's living living next week now
you know she's going to pay it back somehow
the future is so predictable
the past is too uncomfortable

YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
YOU GOT TO GIVE IT AWAY
she ALREADY knows it hurts
SHE'S LIVING LIKE IT'S THE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH
last NIGHT ON EARTH
LAST NIGHT ON EARTH

Gone

you get to feel so guilty got so much for so little
then you find that feeling just won't go away
you're holding on to every little thing so tightly
till ther's nothing left for you anyway

GOODBYE YOU CAN KEEP THIS SUIT OF LIGHTS
I'LL BE UP WITH THE SUN
ANDNOTCOMINGDOWN...IMNOTCOMINGDOWN
IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

you wanted to get somewhere so badly
you had to lose yourself along the way
you change a name but that's okay...it's necessary
and what you leave behind you don't miss anyway

GOODBYE YOU CAN KEEP THIS SUIT OF LIGHTS
I'LL BE UP WITH THE SUN
ANDNOTCOMINGDOWN...IMNOTCOMINGDOWN
IMNOTCOMINGDOWN

AND I'M ALREADY GONE
FELT that way all along
closer to you ever day
didn't want it that much anyway

you're taking steps that make you feel dizzy
then you get to like the way it feels
you hurt yourself you hurt your lover
then you discover...
what you thought was freedom was just greed
goodbye...no emotional goodbye
we'll be up WITH the sun
are you still holding on
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down

Miami

weather 'round here choppin' and changin'
surgery in the air
print shirts and southern accents
cigars and big hair
we got the wheels and petrol is cheap
only went there for a week
got the sun got the sand
got the batteries in the handycam...

her eyes all swimming pool blue
dumb bells on a diving board
baby's always attracted to the things she's afraid of
big girl with the sweet tooth
watches the skinny girl in the photo shoot
freshmen squeaky clean
she tasted of chlorine
MIAMI MY MAMMY

love the movies...love to walk those movie sets
get to shoot someone in the foot
get to smoke some cigarettes
no big deal we know the score
just back from the video store
got the car and the car chase
what's he got inside the case
I want a close up of that face
here comes the car chase

MIAMI MY MAMMY
MIAMI

I bought two new suits...miami
pink and BLUE...MIAMI
I TOOK A PICTURE OF YOU...miami
I said you looked like a madonna
you said...maybe...said I want to have your baby...BABY
WE COULD MAKE something beautiful
something that wouldn't be a problem
at least not in...miami

some places are like your auntie
but there's no place like
MIAMI MY MAMMY

The Playboy Mansion

If coke is a mystery
and michael jackson...history
if beauty is truth
and surgery the fountain of youth
what am I to do
have I got the gifts to get me through
the gates of that mansion

If oj is more than a drink
and a big mac bigger than you think
if perfume is an obsession
and talk shows...confession
what have we got to lose
another push and maybe we'll be through
the gates of that mansion

I never bought a lotto ticket
I never parked in anyone's space
the banks they're like cathedrals
I guess casinos took their place
LOVE 'COME ON DOWN'
don't wake her she'll come around

chance is a kind of religion
where you're damned for plain hard luck
I never did see that movie
never did read that book
love come on down
let my numbers come around

don't know if I can hold on
don't know if I'm that strong
don't know if I can wait that long
till the colours come flashing
and the lights go on

then will there be no time of sorrow
then will there be no time for shame
and though I can't say why
I know I've got to believe

we'll go driving in that pool
it's who you know that gets you through
the gates of the playboy mansion

then will there be no time of sorrow
then will there be no time for pain
then will there be no time of sorrow
then will there be no time for shame

If You Wear That Velvet Dress

tonight the moon is playing tricks again
feeling sea sick again
and the whole world coud just dissolve...into a glass of water

I've been good 'cause I know you don't want me to
do you really want me to be blue as you...
it's her daylight that gets me through

we've been here before...last time you scratched at my door
the moon was naked and cold I was like a two year old
who just wanted more
if you wear that velvet dress
if you wear that velvet dress

tonight the moon has drawn its curtains
it's a private show no one else going to know
I'm wanting

sunlight sunlight fills my room
it's sharp and it's clear
but nothing at all like the moon...

it's okay...the struggle for things not to say
I never listened to you anyway
and i got my own hands to pray...

but if you wear that velvet dress
but if you wear that velvet dress

tonight the moon is a mirrorball
light flickers from across the hall
who'll catch the star when it falls...

if you wear that velvet dress

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