Live Eighties

I looked at you last night
I did not recognise your face
You smiled at me last night
I don't know how much more I can take
I'm sick of all this small talk
Going round In circles, it's driving me insane
Sick of all this small talk
Hours and hours and nothing's changed
Well, I'll tell you, I've never felt so much.

You screamed at me last night
But you just ignored my cries
You smiled at me last night
Well, I don't know how much more I can take
I'm sick at all this small talk
Being Ignored, well it's driving me insane
Sick of all this small talk
Hours and hours and I'm still to blame
Well I'll tell you I've never felt so much.

We talked at each other last night
We might as well have saved our breath
You aimed some words at me last night
It's a shame your ears don't
work as well as your mouth
Well I’m sick at all this small talk
Going round in circles, it’s driving me insane
Sick at all this small talk
Hours and hours and nothing’s changed
Well I'll tell you, I've never tell so much pain.

Silence how come you never smile
Face me Afraid to face yourself
What you dont have I’m told you will never miss
Silence How can we be so cruel

Poets are what you read reading between the lines
A thirst for knowledge know ledge of another kind
Words are all we have and words are all you need
Silence how come you never laugh

Sometimes it’s like bashing your head against a
brick wall
You confuse me
BREAKING THE SILENCE

Security Safe inside your head
Hiding secrets Some things can never be said
What you dont see I’m told you can never feel
Silence how come you never smile
Sometimes its’s like bashing your head against a
brick wall
You confuse me
BREAKING THE SILENCE

Stephen says I have to cross the wire
A new desperation a new panic
In no mans land l’m digging not giving in
I can’t seem to control this emotion
Where‘s my enemy
I'm twitching and I'm shell shocked
Here in the war zone

Stephen says I should try to explain myself better
But I havent got the words or the patience
Here in no mans land it all seems so polite
I can't seem to control this anger
Where’s my enemy
I'm twitching and I'm shell shocked
Here in the war zone

I got the message
I heard you want to know who’s
your best friend
What's the hurry
I heard it’s brighter on the right side.

I dream in colour
It's just the way I am.

I need solutions
I'm only human that's the pain
And if there's some confusion
Tell lies take sides
I got the message
I heard you want to know who’s
your best friend
What's the hurry
I heard it’s clearer inside

I dream in colour
it’s just the way I am
I got the message.

She covers her moves with a jeweller’s precision
She watches his hands and he stares at her feet
She knows what's coming but tries to avoid it
If she keeps him interested she can keep him guessing
He moves with authority he likes the control
He smiles defiant she stutters excuses
He brushes his jacket and fingers his chin
She tries to avoid it but she knows what’s coming

She wants five minutes it maybe a lifetime

She moves towards him to break dawn the barriers
But it’s full of hostilities and causes embarrassment
He avoids her eyes she avoids the obvious
If she can keep him interested she can keep him guessing
There’s a panic a tension everything’s irrelevant
She wants five minutes it may be a lifetime
She can feel it happening but she tries to avoid it
If she can keep him interested She can keep him coming

She wants five minutes it may be a lifetime

Living the dreams of one hundred thousand
Seeing that life's not just pieces of paper

l was sitting in a carriage with some tight lipped Englishman
Saying how good life must have been before the unions
You could get your own way
And there were profits to be made
Dreaming of Empire Days
And the man on the telly’s telling me everything’s fine
And how we’re all so much better off than before
They’re still telling you to smile
While they sit and count the numbers
Dreaming of empire days

Living the dreams of one hundred thousand
Seeing that life’s not just pieces of paper

Standing there like some Jehovah’s Witness
Giving me a sermon reject reject
Pointing your fingers and abusing words
Someone somewhere please take this person away from me
How can you know what I'm feeling
How can you see what I'm seeing
I think maybe we need a little air in this room
One of us is going to win
And the other better be prepared to lose

As long as we understand I dont see any problems
It all seems straightforward
I'll use you and you can take from me

Stephen's a fine upstanding lad
With a firm hand in moral guidance reject reject
But he treats me like an idiot sometimes
And sometimes I deserve it
But how can he know what l’m feeling
And how can he see what I'm seeing
I think maybe we need a little humour in this room
One of us is going to win
And the other better be prepared to lose

As long as we understand I dont see any problems
It all seems so reasonable
I'll use you and you can take from me

Sitting in an english garden drinking tea and eating
cakes. We come from different stock and it’s hard to
see your pointof view. Makes you wonder how they
ever get through it, it’s the same thing every night. I’ve
seen it in colour and I’ve seen it in black and white.

She wants a colour television, he wants a TV game;
she wants a splitlevel cooker. Happy families chasing
paperback fame. Makes you wonder how they ever get
through it, it’s the same thing every night. I’ve seen it
colour and I’ve seen it in black and white.

He wants a permanent position, they really want him
to make the grade. She wants to know if the really
loves her. Happy families chasing paperback fame.
Makes you wonder how they ever get through it, it’s
the same thing every night. I’ve seen it in colour and
I’ve seen it in black and white.
She wants a colour television, they really want him to
make the grade. In black and white.