One thousand umbrellas
Upturned couldn't catch all the rain
That drained out of my head
When you said we were
Over and over I cried
'Til I floated downstream
To a town they call
Mise
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- XTC
Тексты песен XTC
- XTC - 1000 Umbrellas
- XTC - 25 O'clockThe urge to take you grows more strong For time had made me wait too long Each watch I smash apart Just adding to my power Each watch I smash apart Just bringing near the hour of 25 o'clo
- XTC - Across This AntheapSoldiers, workers, slaves and farmers, Nurses, queens and drones. Wish they'd leave my head tonight, Let me rest my bones. (Ziggedy zig zag just look at 'em. Ziggedy zag, hey hey) A
- XTC - All Along The Watchtower(No lyrics avaible)
- XTC - All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)Andy Partridge) What can I say? Why do we starve a thing thats near extinction? From day to day, These weeds of fear, Are choking our conviction, Life's like a jig-saw, you get the straigh
- XTC - All You Pretty GirlsDo something for me, boys If I should die at sea, boys Write a little note, boys Set it off afloat, saying Bless you, bless you, all of you pretty girls Village and city girls by the quayside
- XTC - Another SatelliteMy heart is taken it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren't you aware of the gravity Don't need
- XTC - Are You Receiving Me?Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissing Your lips a
- XTC - Atom AgeI'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matching settee I'm heading
- XTC - Ball And Chain(Colin Moulding) Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah, The diggers and the tower cranes, The diggers and the tower cranes.
- XTC - Ballet For A Rainy DayOrange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day S
- XTC - Battery BridesBattery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery brides She left school with a million othe
- XTC - Battery Brides (Andy Paints Brian)Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery brides She left school with a millio
- XTC - Beating Of HeartsDo you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A-coming from the farthest hillside A-coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard the loudest sound In this and eve
- XTC - BeatownB E A T O W N I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone They're in Beatown, i
- XTC - Big DayIt's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven, could be hell In a cel
- XTC - Blame The WeatherWhen your love's flown out the window, And the pain comes through the door. Once again you've missed the boat, And you're stranded on the shore. And you find out that what you had, Was never yours at
- XTC - Boarded UpBoarded up Yeah, we're boarded up Nailed up shut Yeah, we're boarded up Music venue has had its day Death watch beetle band moved in to play Groups don't come down from London way Co
- XTC - Books Are BurningBooks are burning In the main square, and I saw there The first eating the text Books are burning In the still air And you know where they burn books People are next I believe the printed word
- XTC - BungalowBungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Savin
- XTC - Burning With Optimism's Flamesever seen her glowing all that bright she's throwing like some aurora from her head it's growing reaching to the ground and all around like a Navajo blanket Never heard her singing
- XTC - Buzzcity TalkingWhat makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight Cause it's Buzzcity talking it's Buzzcity talking Go and find a late night bar
- XTC - Chain Of CommandHow bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand My microbes and I Can't wait to lay down and die We realise that w
- XTC - Chalkhills And ChildrenI'm floating over strange land, It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon. I'm floating over strange land, And then stranger still, there's no balloon. But I'm getting high
- XTC - Church Of WomenA lie for a lie, but a truth for the truth Church of women is made out of milk which their love turns to butter -er -er Church of women will have you give praise with a laugh, bark and stutter -
- XTC - Complicated GameI ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger Someone else will come along and
- XTC - CrocodileCrocodile No you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in ki
- XTC - Crowded RoomAcross a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those - faces in a crowded room them - bodies in a crowded room their - breathing in a crowded ro
- XTC - Cynical DaysAnother year's gone by, The world's grown older, Sometimes I heave a sigh, People grow colder. Every day I do my best to show, I can make it in this world I know, But all the bad thoughts that people
- XTC - Day In Day OutClock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven, Friday is heaven Day in day out Day in day out Wish you were here On the shop floor And toge
- XTC - Dear GodDear God, Hope you got the letter, And I pray you can make it better down here. I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer, But all the people that you made in your image, See them sta
- XTC - Dear Madam BarnumI put on a fake smile And start the evening show The public is laughing I guess by now they know So climb from your high horse And pull this freak show down Dear Madam Barnum I resign as clown
- XTC - Deliver Us From The ElementsWe can plant a seed And watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the rains had never been? Chorus:
- XTC - Do What You DoDo what you do what you do ... to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see ain't in the sky
- XTC - Down In The Cockpit(Andy Partridge) Man acting like a farmer and, He's treated the woman like a poor cow, We got to treat you better from now, But man is just a baby and, He's needing your milk of kindnes
- XTC - DyingIt frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs When they carried you out your mouth was open wide The cat w
- XTC - Earn Enough For UsI've been praying all the week through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the
- XTC - Easter TheatreGold sun rolls around Chocolate nipple brown Tumble from your arms Like the ground your breasts swell Land awake from sleep Hares will kick and leap Flowers climb erect Smiling from the moist
- XTC - English Roundabout(Colin Moulding) People rushing round with no time to spare. I'm so dizzy, I'm neither here nor there. In this traffic jam, I just want to shout, Let me off o' this English rounda
- XTC - Fly On The Wall(Colin Moulding) I am the fly on the wall, My prying eyes are looking through your bottom drawer. I just came flying through your door, You didn't notice that your number had been called. I
- XTC - Frivolous TonightLet us talk about some trivial things we like A bit of this and that Let's chew the fat Pour ourselves a glass of stout And let our Rael Brook shirts hang out Nothing makes us more content To l
- XTC - Fruit NutTending my fruit, tending my fruit Ah you've got to have a hobby A man must have a shed to keep him sane Spraying my buds, spraying my buds Got to keep away diseases I mix the poisons and the w
- XTC - Funk Pop A RollFunk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slaves Funk pop a roll consumes you wh
- XTC - Garden Of Earthly DelightsKid, Stay and snip your cord off, Talk and let your mind loose, Can't all think like Chekov, But you'll be O.K. Kid, Is this your first time here? Some can't stand the beauty,
- XTC - Generals And MajorsGenerals and Majors ah ah they're never too far from battlefields so glorious out in a world of their own They'll never come down till once again victorious Generals and Majors alway
- XTC - Goosey GooseyHey goosey goosey I believe it's for having fun Hey goosey goosey I believe it's for everyone. One red morning With no warning Life comes crashing in To wake you early with it's golden din. One blue e
- XTC - GrassLaying on the grass my heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone W
- XTC - Great FireGreat fire burning You supplied the spark Fores burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance a match on the tinderwood You never spoke but
- XTC - GreenmanPlease to bend down for the one called the Greenman He wants to make you his bride Please to bend down for the one called the Greenman Forever to him you're tied And you know for a million
- XTC - Harvest FestivalSee the flowers round the altar See the peaches in tins 'neath the headmaster's chair Harvest festival See the two who've been chosen See them walk hand in hand to the front of the hall Harvest festiv
- XTC - HelicopterOh heli Oh heli I'm crouching here with a telescope in hand Looking across our lego land I really think it's about time that she came down She a laughing giggly whirlybird She got to b
- XTC - Here Comes President Kill AgainHere comes President Kill again, Surrounded by all of his killing men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is de
- XTC - Here Comes The President Kill AgainHere comes President Kill again, surrounded by all of his killing Men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants Killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead. Ho
- XTC - Hold Me My DaddyHold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might've fired off a coupl
- XTC - Holly Up On PoppyHolly up on Poppy Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on Poppy Trotting to the top She talks and banners unfurl Their secrets crayoned in
- XTC - Human AlchemyAn alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black into the skins Of brightest gold An alchemy , human alchemy We stoked the fires of trade with
- XTC - Humble DaisyHumble Daisy Form a chain to hold all battleships in check Humble Daisy Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck Ragged rug unbound Tangle trip the lovers Royal barge aground Brighter
- XTC - I Am The AudienceI am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite applause excepted To the o
- XTC - I Bought Myself A LiarbirdI bought myself a liarbird He came with free drinks just to blur The lies falling out like rain On an average English summer's afternoon I bought myself a new notebook Sharpened my guitar
- XTC - I Can't Own Hernd I may as well wish for the moon in hand I own this river, I own this town All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down But I can't own her and I never will No I can't own her a
- XTC - I Can't Own Hernd I may as well wish for the moon in hand I own this river, I own this town All of its climbers and its wino's sliding down But I can't own her and I never will No I can't own her and that's a bitter
- XTC - I Remember The SunHot as golden sand in fields We whiled away the hours I'm thinking of the days we had Enormous super powers Yes I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink I thought a page, like it'
- XTC - I'd Like That'd like That if we could cycle down some lane I'd like that if we could ride into the rain No macs, getting wet I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria, hah hah We'd laug
- XTC - I'm Bugged'm bugged you all look like insects In your brand new sunspecs I'm bugged I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga I just can'
- XTC - I'm The Man Who Murdered Lovehorus: I'm the man who murdered love Yeah! What do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah! What do you think to that? He was begging on his bended knee For me to put him fro
- XTC - In Another LifeWell, would you want me, in your afternoons If I seduced ya, in your Mills and Boons Well, I'll be the master if you'll be the mate But don't you get those headaches In another life I'll bring your mi
- XTC - In Loving Memory Of A NameBoom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You may have died for your country
- XTC - It's Nearly AfricaAndy Partridge) Chant your spirit free; Rush to greet truth like a dart Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag o'bones. That's not traffic roar, That's a leopard in your hear
- XTC - Jason And The Argonauts(Andy Partridge) There may be no golden fleece, But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen, Let me put my bag down a
- XTC - Jumping In GomorrahJ.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free J.U.M.P.I.N.G. jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves, if you got 'em We'll get st
- XTC - King For A DayEveryone's creeping up to the money god, putting tongues where they didn't ought to be. On stepping stones of human hearts and souls, Into the land of ";nothing for free."; W
- XTC - Knights In Shining KarmaKnights in shining karma Tend your flame And with love for armor They'll remain Ever by your bed Guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rain Knights in shining karma will rem
- XTC - Knuckle Down(Andy Partridge) Knuckle down, Love his skin, It doesn't matter what colour skin he's locked in, Knuckle down, Knuckle down and love that skin. Knuckle down, Love his race, It doesn
- XTC - LadybirdO ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your garden I crave your pardon if I woke you with my thinking Ladybird O ladybird I have heard you wish to walk me through your meadow You&
- XTC - Leisure(Andy Partridge) Leisure They taught me how to work, But they can't teach me how to shirk correctly. As you see, Science once again robs us of our jobs. They've put a micro-chip in m
- XTC - Life Begins At The HopI have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop Come with me to the church on the corner the hop There's nuts and crisps and ccc cola on tap A good time had by the boys and girls at the
- XTC - Life Is Good In The GreenhouseEverybody lives somewhere Mud hut or igloo But what I got is the hottest spot And it's away from you Everybody says something Truth lies or both But dear all your hot air Don't encou
- XTC - LimelightI'm in the limelight No time for sun ray We are the happening This day is our day I'm in the limelight ah ah Big on my block now ah ah I'm in the limelight ah ah I'm in the
- XTC - Living Through Another CubaLiving through another Cuba it's 1961 again and we are piggy in the middle while war is polishing his drum and peace plays second fiddle Russia and America are at each other's throats
- XTC - Love At First SightSee the lovers all gone crazy looking for romance it seems many sleepless nights will follow some may lose but some succeed Love at first sight what they want is... love at first sight Make
- XTC - Love On A Farmboy's Wagesigh climbs the summer sun High stands the corn And tonight when my work is done We will borrow your father's carriage We will drink and prepare for marriage Soon my darling, soon my darling
- XTC - Making Plans For NigelWe're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs this helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He
- XTC - Me And The WindMe and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are pulling kites and pushing tress Me and the wind are celebrating your loss Me and the wind are feeling freer than air should ever be S
- XTC - Meccanic Dancing (Oh We Go!)Woolworth beauty Factory beau Arm in arm They must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing oh we go Can't wait until the weekend comes I want to be with all my c
- XTC - Melt The Guns(Andy Partridge) Programmes of violence, As entertainment, Brings the disease into your room. We know the germ, Which is man-made in metal, Is really a key to your own tomb. Prevention is bett
- XTC - Merely A ManHigher. I'm a king, yes, I'm a head of state. But I'm the kitchen boy who'll wash your dirty plate. I had no message and the message was, We're all Jesus, Buddha, and th
- XTC - Mermaid SmiledFrom pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands
- XTC - MillionsWe smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from oh so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the
- XTC - Miniature SunI'm 12 o'clock, All daylight hours, I'll warm your bed, I'll grow your flowers. Like I'm a miniature sun. This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one. I'
- XTC - My Bird Performs(Colin Moulding) Fine art never moved my soul No vintage wine designer clothes But my world shakes for me My bird sings sweetly A different kind of tinsel Decorates my tree Yes my bird performs
- XTC - My Brown GuitarIn my heart, in my heart You want some lovely, I got some lovely In my head, in my head Where the lions wear the right tie, where the gems roar, there be lovely You want some lovely, I got some lov
- XTC - My WeaponI dunno wot she got I dunno wot she got I dunno what she got but it seems to have a grip upon me No telling where she learn the things she do to me And I don't know what she done wrong but I
- XTC - Neon ShuffleHey - what you going to do now You're standing there and wondering how You've got to make some noise Just like one of the girls Or even one of the boys When you do it It ain't n
- XTC - New Town AnimalI think my watch has bust and so is time I borrowed all my love so nothing's mine There's nothing decent on the TV page Like a new town animal in a furnished cage It's gone eleven
- XTC - No Language In Our LungsThere is no language in our lungs to tell the world just how we feel no bridge of thought no mental link no letting out just what you think there is no language in our lungs there is no muscle
- XTC - No Thugs In Our House(Andy Partridge) The insect-headed worker-wife will hang her waspies on the line; The husband burns his paper, sucks his pipe while studying their cushion-floor; His viscous poly-paste breath comes
- XTC - OmnibusClimb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Omnibus Ain't nothing i
- XTC - One Of The MillionsI got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong. I'm not akin to the Eighties thing, Where you look after number one. But I won't rock the boat, 'Cause I'
- XTC - Outside WorldShe has six swans singing in her sauna So she can't hear what's going on No she can't hear what's going on In the outside world In the outside world In the outside Bad black
- XTC - Paper And Iron (Notes And Coins)Paper, iron, won't buy Eden working for paper and for iron work for the right to keep my tie on working for paper and for iron work for the unicorn and lion I pray the kids aren't sta
- XTC - Pink ThingAnytime you rise, I'm here, And I'm crazy for you pink thing. You make me want to laugh, You make me want to cry, When I stroke your head I feel a hundred heartbeats high, Pink thing.
- XTC - PlaygroundI climb up, spending daylight slide down drunken on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife, runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground (it's a playground) Marked b
- XTC - Poor Skeleton Steps OutPoor skeleton steps out, Dressed up in bad blood, Bad brains, bad thoughts, and others deeds. Poor skeleton no doubt, One of these days, You can cast aside your human, be free. When the citie
- XTC - Private EyeI've got a private eye to see if you've a mother I've got a private eye to find out where you go I've got a private eye to see if you've a lover I've got a private eye to tell me what you know You rea
- XTC - Radios In MotionThere's a message up in China That they getting in Japan Bouncing off an ocean liner Make em shake em in Siam All the kids are complaining That there's nowhere to go All the kids are
- XTC - Real By ReelIn this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry The can film you in bed Or when you take a bath They can tape every cry They can tape every laugh They c
- XTC - RedYou better watch your tape boys It's the tint that angers the beast Got their sails in the sunset they've already got the east Red red red Don't you let them make you Don't
- XTC - Reign Of BlowsReign of blows Reign of blows Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown o
- XTC - Respectable StreetIt's in the order of their hedgerows it's in the way their curtains open and close it's in the look they give you down their nose all part of decency's jigsaw I suppose Heard
- XTC - River Of OrchidsHey! I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds Take yourself out to play I want to see River of Orchids where we ha
- XTC - Roads Girdle The GlobeAm I asleep Or am I fast You every race You first, you last Roads girdle the globe We all safe in your concrete robe Hail mother motor Hail piston rotor Hail wheel Roads girdle the globe Am
- XTC - Rocket From A BottleBirds beware, expect me up there me and air are feeling light today jets should hide, I'll fly alongside me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl
- XTC - RookRook, Rook Read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, Crow Spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, Rook Gaze in the brook If there's a secret can
- XTC - Runaways(Colin Moulding) Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways, (Please come home) Oh run-a, oh run-a, oh runaways (Please come home) Daddy hit you in a temper, But he's sorry now, (Please come home)
- XTC - Sacrificial BonfireFire they cried So evil must die And yields are good So men pull back hoods and smile The scapegoat blood spilled Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat And children grew fat on the meat C
- XTC - Scarecrow PeopleHope you enjoyed your flight, In one of our new straw aeroplanes, You'll find things here are just like what you're used to. There's lots of waste and razor wire, And no one gives
- XTC - Scissor ManSnipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man, Putting end to evil doers games. Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man, Maybe you are in his book of names. Maybe you are in his boo
- XTC - Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss HerIt's raining on the beach She inches close but out of reach The waves look painted on Seagulls screaming The sea is warship grey It whispers ``Fool!'' then slides away Black coa
- XTC - Season CycleSeason cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground It's growing green It's growing green, well Darling don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds about the hail and thunde
- XTC - Senses Working OvertimeHey, hey, The clouds are whey. There's straw for the donkeys, And the innocents can all sleep safely, All sleep safely. My, my, Sun is pie. There's fodder for the cannons, And the gu
- XTC - Set Myself On FireHa Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho Now you see it Now you don't Has no bones To hurt your throat Good and sweet Nice to eat If you like it Just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set mysel
- XTC - Sgt. RockI'm enlisting, overseas aid Need assisting, help with a maid Get the expert, on mademoiselles He could diffuse, any bombshell If i could only be tough like him Then i could win My own, small, battle o
- XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)I'm enlisting, overseas aid need assisting, help with a maid get the expert, on mademoiselles he could diffuse, any bombshell If I could only be tough like him then I could win my own, sm
- XTC - Shake You Donkey UpHere he come again Dress in all that skin Like he was still human being Look at he long ears And he big brown eyes And with them truth he is seeing Isn't it a shame you kicked that girl
- XTC - Shore Leave OrnithologySlacks, coffee trend I could have been in the us navy Flapping grey, coffee smoke I could have been in another nineteen-fifty Where the hell were you? Rough stencil, print music Cardboard, cardboard,
- XTC - Snowman(Andy Partridge) It isn't even winter and I'm freezing, freezing, This sort of feeling isn't pleasing, And what I want to know, man, why, oh why, Does she treat me like a snowman?
- XTC - Spinning TopI'm like a spinning top Going round and around Well I don't know what's up And I sure don't know what's down Now watch me - I'm like a spinning top Can't tell
- XTC - Standing In For JoeI'm standing, standing in for Joe Joe called round to ask me, Would I do a favor? While he's gonna be out of town He says his girl needs company, she gets so restless Would I keep her safe
- XTC - Statue Of LibertyThe first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly naked - unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big It made New York look small
- XTC - Stupidly HappyI'm stupidly happy Everything's fine I'm stupidly happy My heart pumping wine I'm stupidly happy With idiot grin I'm stupidly happy You won't catch me in All th
- XTC - Summer's Cauldronrowning here in Summer's Cauldron Under mats of flower lava Please don't pull me out this is how I would want to go Breathing in the boiling butter Fruit of sweating golden Inca Please
- XTC - Super-TuffIn the car park In the lamplight Go for a walk Clock him shiv-fight Sodium-a-shine on All the faces white now And he got his Docs on Bottle out all right now As you might say Him super-tuff
- XTC - Ten Feet TallHappy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees I feel like I'm walking Round ten feet tall Well you say I'm faking And I say don'
- XTC - That Is The WayGo and speak to your niece (do this do that) Kiss your aunt on the cheek Don't talk back, now run along It's gone eight, say goodnight That's the way that it's done Boy and g
- XTC - That WaveThat wave Pulled me into your eyes Through the greeney grey pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave Lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the youn
- XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirlcan't hold you down If you want to fly Can't you see I'm all broke up inside Well just you use your two X Ray eyes Hurt like Kryptonite Put me on my knees Now that I've fo
- XTC - The Ballad Of Peter PumpkinheadPeter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would
- XTC - The DisappointedThe disappointed All shuffle round in circles Their placards look the same With a picture and a name Of the ones who broke their hearts The disappointed All congregate at my house Their voices
- XTC - The Everyday Story Of SmalltownSmalltown, snoring under blankets Woken by the clank It's just the milkman's dawn round Smalltown, hiding undercovers The lodgers and the lovers Are asleep 'round Smalltown Shin
- XTC - The Last BalloonThe last balloon is leaving, the last balloon from fear The last balloon is leaving, form that line right here Climb aboard, climb aboard you menfolk You won't need any bombs or knives Climb ab
- XTC - The LovingAll around the world, Every boy and every girl, Need the loving. The humble and the great, Even those we think we hate, Need the loving. Soldiers of the Queen, All the hard men that we'v
- XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His SoulThe man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold The man who walked across his hear
- XTC - The Mayor Of SimpletonNever been near a university, Never took a paper or a learned degree, And some of your friends think that's stupid of me, But it's nothing that I care about. Well I don't know how
- XTC - The Meeting PlaceMeet you in the secret place Scuffling in the dirt I wait Whistle will blow, whistle will blow, Share a joke the laugh's on me But when I get you on your own we'll see Someone might he
- XTC - The RhythmHe makes a beeline for the place Where he gets his only ace Sometimes he's standing in the rain Oh Gene Kelly's hat and cane He has the Rhythm in his head He has the Rhythm, sing! I
- XTC - The Smartest MonkeysWell man created the cardboard box to sleep in it And man converted the newspaper to a blanket Well you have to admit that he's come a long way Since swinging about in the trees We're t
- XTC - The Ugly UnderneathFirst there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly Underneath Then there's the wedding The co-ordinated bedding And the
- XTC - The Wheel And The MaypoleI've got the plow if you've got the furrow I've got the rabbit if you've his burrow home I've got the pen if you've got the paper Time is but clay and I'll see you and the wheel turn You and the wheel
- XTC - Then She AppearedThen she appeared, apple Venus on a half open shell Then she appeared, the first photograph on Fox Talbot's gel I was a little frightened Flying with my senses heightened Cherubim cheered W
- XTC - This Is Pop?In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop Yeah Ye
- XTC - This World OverAh well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs?
- XTC - Towers Of LondonTowers of London when they had built you did you watch over the men who fell Towers of London when they had built you Victoria's gem found in somebody's hell Pavements of gold leadin
- XTC - Train Running Low On Soul CoalMe train running low on soul coal They push+pull tactics are driving me loco They shouldn't do that no no no They shouldn't do that Me train running low on dream steam They pull me wh
- XTC - Travels In NihilonYou've learnt no lessons all that time so cheaply spent there's no youth culture only masks they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon we've seen, no Jesus come and gone Fas
- XTC - Wake Up!You put your cleanest dirty shirt on Then you stagger down to meet the dawn You take a ride upon a bus, it's just a fuss You know it keeps you born You get to know a morning face You get to
- XTC - War DanceThere's an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain't seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parti
- XTC - We're All Lightnd I won't take from you Don't you know 'bout a zillion years ago Some star sneezed, now they're paging you in reception Don't you know Jack and Jill-ion years ago Som
- XTC - When You're Near Me I Have Difficultyhen you're near me I have difficulty respirating When you're near me I have difficulty concentrating When you're near me I have difficulty standing upright When you're near me
- XTC - WonderlandCan't you see Love and affection When it's put In you direction Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car Can make you grow up Gentlemen You think you've sewn up Locke
- XTC - Wrapped In GreySome folks see the world as a stone Concrete daubed in dull monotone Your heart is the big box of paints And others, the canvas we're dealt Your heart is the big box of paints How coloured
- XTC - X WiresIt's the airwaves of the world Not the hairwaves on your head Oh But anything can be On land and in the sea When you've got Crosswires When you've got Crosswires Everything is B
- XTC - Yacht Dance(Andy Partridge) We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails upon the tops of the seas, That would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat if given half a chance. No need to look back
- XTC - You And The Clouds Will Still Be BeautifulAnd every morning before I'm awake I walk around the world to make sure she's alright And every evening 'fore I bolt the door I give the stars a stir to make sure they will spin all ni
- XTC - You're The Wish You Are I Hadhat was I supposed to do? I turned around with the world and she simply was there My blood ran like ice right through She had your face and your lips And your eyes and your hair You're the
- XTC - You're My DrugYou take me to heaven from deeper than hell ever dug And you fly me higher than a trip on a magical rug Confessions unravel You bang with your gavel And here I stand guilty In a court where you are th
- XTC - Your DictionaryH-A-T-E Is that how you spell love in your dictionary K-I-C-K Pronounced as kind F-U-C-K Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary Black on black A guidebook for the blind Well now tha