Bob Geldof
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Great Song Of Indifference
I don't mind if you go
I don't mind if you take it slow
I don't mind if you say yes or no
I don't mind at all
I don't care if you live or die
Couldn't care less if you
laugh or cry
I don't mind if you crash or fly
I don't mind at all
I don't mind if you come or go
I don't mind if you say no
Couldn't care less baby let it flow
'Cause I don't care at all
Na na na, ...
I don't care if you sink or swim
Lock me out or let me in
Where I'm going or where I've been
I don't mind at all
I don't mind if the government falls
Implements more futile
laws
I don't care if the nation stalls
And I don't care at all
I don't care if they tear down trees
I don't feel the
hotter breeze
Sink in dust in dying sees
And I don't care at all
Na na na , ...
I don't mind if culture crumbles
I don't mind if religion
stumbles
I can't hear the speakers mumble
And I don't mind at all
I don't care if the Third World fries
It's hotter there I'm
not surprised
Baby I can watch whole nations die
And I don't care at all
I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind
I don't
mind I don't mind
I don't mind at all
Na na na , ...
I don't mind about people's fears
Authority no longer hears
Send a social engineer
And I don't mind at all
I Don't Like Mondays
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was good as gold.
And
he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need
to be shown?
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't
like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The
whole day down.
The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a
waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't that
peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reasons do you need.. ooh-ooh-ooh
Tell me
why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell
me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down, down,
down... shoot it all down
All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon
we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the
bullhorn crackles,
And the captain tackles,
With the problems and the hows
and whys.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What
reason do you need to die, die, ooh...ooh?
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload.
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's
going to make them stay at home.
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He
always said she was good as gold.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there
are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?
Tell me why?
I
don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why?
I
don't like, I don't like, I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like,
I don't like, I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.
Room 19
Sha-la-la-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-lee
Sha-la-la-la-la
I
feel free
When I woke up I was freezing
Shaking like a leaf
I was
stuck up on a shelf
With the other guys in Room 19
Then the brain here right beside me
Speaking telepathically
Said "Hi, my name is Stalin
Glad to see you here in Room 19"
Yeah Tchaikovsky played the music
While Pasternak wrote
poetry
As they sliced our brains to study
Why we ended up in Room 19
Well 'ol Sakharov was outraged
And said "Exactly what you
mean?"
And Lenin said "There is no Heavan
So I can't believe in Room 19"
Set me free, free, free.
Walking Back To Happiness
Dark skies are falling down on my head tonight
But I looked
up and I could clearly see that moon
For a second I thought I was somewhere
Romantic like Mississippi
But I was walking down Chelsea Bayou
It takes
you by suprise the places you find yourself in
One minute you're here
Next
minute you're there
And then you're gone
If it wasn't for a well placed
sense of direction
You could lose your head and simply carry on
Walking
back to happiness
I've been walking back to happiness
Like Helen Shapiro
did
Me and Helen
Arm in arm
Foghorns boom the daylight gloom descends
Too soon on
wintry afternoons
That frightened heart of youth is with me now
Still
staring out from it's upstairs room
And you can take any road you wish to
walk on
You can swim to the furthest shore
Or you can be like Joan of Arc
babe
And plug into the planet's core
And go walking back to happiness
I
feel happy already watch me smile
See me laughing
Later on see me cry
And as it gets colder and the night wears on a little bit
I
cool down yes I cool my heels
I remember my father and me down on the East
Pier
He's pointing at the ships saying "They're leaving here"
Where do
they go?
Where do they go?
Eastward Ho
Eastward Ho
Yes I remember my
father
Standing on the edge of the Pier
Pointing with his finger "Eastward
Ho"
And were walking back to happiness
And here we go
A Gospel Song
If you see her say hello
If she asks how I'm doing let her
know
If she says is he O.K. say it's slow
But he's coming round
And if
you sleep with her
Through the darkest night
And you wake beside her in
the early light
Kiss her gently like I might
And bring her round
If she stumbles if she trips and slows
In the darkest rain
and through the driving snow
Bring her straight here
I'll be on my own
But bring her round
And every dream and every shadow that you heard
Makes you
want to cry
'Cause it's a big bad world
If you want her let her know
If she's leaving let her go
All of this will pass but it passes slow
And you'll come around
When the
wind blows through October skies
And you wake up in the cold twilight
And
you stretch your hand out and there's
Nothing there but the night
And the
darkness is all around
If you see her say hello
If she asks how I'm doing
let her know
If she says is he O.K. say it slow
But he's coming round
When the rain falls from the blackened sky
There's a heart
breaking but it feels alright
See I should have done something but I let it
slide
And I'll come around
Every dream and every shadow that you've heard
Don't make
it cry like you want to die
In this big bad world.
Crucified Me
Crucified me, Bob Geldof
First time that I saw you, you
were standing in the hall
You said you knew everything but I knew you knew
fuck all
There were tremors in your cheekbones, there was longing in your
eyes
But I thought I smelt a nameless fear buried in your thighs
You
crucified me
Do you see that you crucify me
I crounched down in the
hallway, you huddled on the step
There were shadows in the alcove, we were
way out of our depth
There was thunder in the hallway, there was lightning at
the gate
Electric storms flashed through the walls in fixed and fluid states
And crucified me
Do you see taht you crucify me
Now and then I call your
name and now and then it's clear
Baby you can call in vain even though you're
near
You were cloaked in your depression like a widow in her veils
How
could we begin to think that we could ever fail
You crucify me
Do you see
that you crucify me
First time that I saw you, you were standing 'gainst the
wall
You swore I knew everything but you knew I knew fuck all
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