1. SAT IN YOUR LAP

I see the people working
And see it working for them
And so I want to join in
But then I find it hurts me

Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is something that you never have

I see the people happy
So can it happen for me?
'Cause when I am unhappy
There's nothing that can move me

Some say that knowledge is something that you never have
Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that heaven is hell
Some say that hell is heaven

I must admit, just when I think I'm king
(I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit
(I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king
(I just begin)

I've been doing it for years
My goal is moving near
It says, "Look! I'm over here"
Then it up and disappears

Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
Some say that knowledge is ho-ho-ho-ho

I want to be a lawyer
I want to be a scholar
But I really can't be bothered
Ooh, just gimme it quick, gimme it, gimme gimme gimme gimme!

Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that knowledge is ho ho ho
Some say that heaven is hell
Some say that hell is heaven

I must admit, just when I think I'm king
(I just begin)
Just when I think I'm king, I must admit
(I just begin)
Just when I think everything's going great
(I just begin)
Hey, I get the break
Hey, I'm gonna take it all...
(I just begin)
When I'm king...
(...just begin)

In my dome of ivory
A home of activity
I want the answers quickly
But I don't have no energy

I hold a cup of wisdom
But there is nothing within
My cup, she never overfloweth
And 'tis I that moan- and groaneth

Some grey and white matter
"Give me the karma, mama!"
I'm coming up the ladder
"A jet to Mecca"
I'm coming up the ladder
"Tibet or Jeddah
Up the ladder...
"To Salisbury
A monastery
The longest journey
Across the desert
Across the weather
Across the elements
Across the water!"


2. THESE GOES A TENNER

Okay, remember
Okay, remember
That we have just allowed
Half an hour
To get in, do it, and get out

The sense of adventure
Is changing to danger
The signal has been given
I go in
The crime begins

My excitement
Turns into fright

All my words fade
What am I gonna say?
Mustn't give the game away

We're waiting
We're waiting
We're waiting

We got the job sussed
This shop's shut for business
The lookout has parked the car
But kept the engine running
Three beeps means trouble's coming

I hope you remember
To treat the gelignite tenderly for me
I'm having dreams about things
Not going right
Let's leave in plenty of time tonight

Both my partners
Act like actors:
You are Bogart
He is George Raft
That leaves Cagney and me
("What about Edward G.?")

We're waiting
We're waiting
We're waiting

You blow the safe up
Then all I know is I wake up
Covered in rubble. One of the rabble
Needs mummy
("What's all this then?")
The government will never find the money
("What's all this then?")

I've been here all day
A star in strange ways
Apart from a photograph
They'll get nothing from me
Not until they let me see my solicitor

Oh, I remember
That rich, windy weather
When you would carry me
Pockets floating
In the breeze

Oh, there goes a tenner
Hey, look, there's a fiver
There's a ten-shilling note
Remember them?
That's when we used to vote for him


3. PULL OUT THE PIN

Just as we hit the green
I've never been so happy to be alive
Only seven miles behind
You could smell the child
The smell of the front line's survival

With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
(I pull the pin)

You learn to ride the Earth
When you're living on your belly and the enemy are city-births
Who need radar? We use scent
They stink of the west, stink of sweat
Stink of cologne and baccy, and all their Yankee hash

With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
(I'm pulling on the pin)
Ooh, I pull out, pull out the pin
(Pulling on the pin, oh...)

Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!

I've seen the coat for me
I'll track him 'til he drops
Then I'll pop him one he won't see
He's big and pink and not like me
He sees no light
He sees no reason for the fighting

With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
(I'm pulling on the pin)

I had not seen his face
'Til I'm only feet away
Unbeknown to my prey
I look in American eyes
I see little life
See little wife
He's striking violence up in me

With my silver Buddha
And my silver bullet
(I'm pulling on the pin,)
Ooh, I pull out, pull out the pin
(Pulling on the pin, oh...)

Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him.
And I love life!
I love life!
I love life!

Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him. I love life!
Just one thing in it:
Me or him
And I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!
I love life!


4. SUSPENDED IN GAFFA

Out in the garden
There's half of a heaven
And we're only bluffing
We're not ones for busting through walls

But they've told us
Unless we can prove
That we're doing it
We can't have it all

He's gonna wangle
A way to get out of it
She's an excuse
And a witness who'll talk when he's called

But they've told us
Unless we can prove
That we're doing it
We can't have it all
We can't have it all

"I caught a glimpse of a god, all shining and bright"

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
It all goes slo-mo
I don't know why I'm crying
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all

I try to get nearer
But as it gets clearer
There's something appears in the way
It's a plank in me eye

With a camel
Who's trying to get through it
Am I doing it?
Can I have it all now?

I pull out the plank and say
"Thank you for yanking me back
To the fact that there's
Always something to distract"

But sometimes it's hard
To know if I'm doing it right
Can I have it all?
Can I have it all now?
We can't have it all

"We all have a dream...maybe"

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
It all goes slo-mo
I don't know why I'm crying
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all

I won't open boxes
That I am told not to
I'm not a Pandora
I'm much more like

That girl in the mirror
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all
Not anywhere at all
No, not a thing
She can't have it all

"Mother, where are the angels? I'm scared of the changes"

Suddenly my feet are feet of mud
It all goes slo-mo
I don't know why I'm crying
Am I suspended in Gaffa?
Not until I'm ready for you
Not until I'm ready for you
Can I have it all


5. LEAVE IT OPEN

With my ego in my gut
My babbling mouth would wash it up
(But now I've started learning how)
I keep it shut

My door was never locked
Until one day a trigger come cocking
(But now I've started learning how)
I keep it shut

Wide eyes would clean and dust
Things that decay, things that rust
(But now I've started learning how)
I keep 'em shut
I keep 'em shut

Harm is in us
Harm is in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
("Leave it open!")
Harm is in us, but power to arm

Narrow mind would persecute it
Die a little to get to it
(But now I've started learning how)
I leave it open

I kept it in a cage
Watched it weeping, but I made it stay
(But now I've started learning how)
I leave it open
I leave it open

Harm is in us
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
Harm in us, but power to arm

Harm is in us
("Leave it open!")
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
("Leave it open!")
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
Harm in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us
Har in us, but power to arm
Harm is in us!
Harm is in us!
Harm is in us!
Harm is in us!
Harm is in us!
Harm is in us...
Harm in you and in me!

What you letting in?
Tell me what you're letting in
Say what we're gonna let in!

"We let the weirdness in
We let the weirdness in
We let the weirdness in
We let the weirdness in
We let the weirdness in"


6. THE DREAMING

"Bang" goes another Kanga
On the bonnet of the van
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
'Til you near him on the motorway
The tree begin to breathe
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
Coming in with the golden light in the morning
Coming in with the golden light is the New Man
Coming in with the golden light is my dented van

DRE-A-M-T-I-ME

The civilized keep alive the territorial war
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
Erase the race that claim the place
And say we dig for ore
Or dangle Devils in a bottle
And push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
(See the lights bounce of the rocks to the sand)
In the road
Coming in with the golden light - in the morning
Coming in with the golden light - with no warning
Coming in with the golden light - we bring in the rigging
Dig, dig, dig away

DRE-A-M-T-I-ME

Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree
You near him on the motorway, the tree begin to breathe
Erase the race that claim the place and say we dig for ore
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
Dangle Devils in a bottle and push them from the Pull Of The Bush
(See the sun set in the hand of the man)
"Bang" goes another Kanga on the bonnet of the van
(See the lights ram through the gaps in the land)
You find them in the road
In the road
(See the light)
Pull Of The Bush
(See the lights bounce of the rocks to the sand)
Push them from the - Pull Of The Bush
See the sun set in the hand of the man


7. NIGHT OF THE SWALLOW

The night doesn't like it
Looks just like your face on the moon, to me
And I won't let you do
What you want to do

It's funny how, even now
You're laughing

I won't let you do it

If you go, I'll let the law know
And they'll head you off when you touch the ground
Ooh, please, don't go through with this
I don't like the sound of it

It's funny how, even now
You're miles away

I won't let you do it
I won't let you do it
I won't let you go through with it

"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water"

"With a hired plane
And no names mentioned
Tonight's the night of the flight
Before you know
I'll be over the water"

"Like a swallow
There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find us
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"

In Malta, catch a swallow
For all of the guilty ...to set them free
Wings fill the window
And they beat and bleed

They hold the sky on the other side
Of Borderlines

"Meet them over at Dover
I'll just pilot the motor
Take them over the water
Like a swallow flying to Malta"

"With a hired plane
And no names mentioned
Tonight's the night of the flight
Before you know
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow"

"There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find us
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"

"Give me a break!
Ooh, let me try!
Give me something to show
For my miserable life!
Give me something to take!
Would you break even my wings
Just like a swallow?"

"Let me ...let me go
With a hired plane
And no names mentioned
Tonight's the night of the flight
Before you know
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow"

("Let me ...let me go!")
"There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find us
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning"

("Let me ...let me go!")
"With a hired plane
And no names mentioned
Tonight's the night of the flight
Before you know
I'll be over the water
Like a swallow"

("Let me ...let me go!")
"There's no risk
I'll whisk them up in no moonlight
And though pigs can fly
They'll never find us
Posing as the night
And I'm home before the morning..."

But you're not a swallow!


8. ALL THE LOVE

The first time I died
Was in the arms of good friends of mine
They kiss me with tears
They hadn't been near me for years
Say, why do it now
When I won't be around, I'm going out?

"We needed you
To love us too
We wait for your move"

Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen
I didn't want to let them see me weep
I didn't want to let them see me weak
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone

"I needed you
To love me too
I wait for your move"

All the love, all the love
All the love you should have given
All the love, all the love
All the love we could have given
All the love, all the love
All the love...
("Run for the hills...")

The next time I dedicate
My life's work to the friends I make
I give them what they want to hear
They think I'm up to something weird
And up rears the head of fear in me
So now when they ring
I get my machine to let them in

"I needed you
To love me too
I wait for your move"

All the love, all the love
All the love you should have given
All the love, all the love
All the love we could have given
All the love, all the love
All the love...

"Take care, tootle-ooh"
"Bye-bye"
"Bye, so long now"
"Bye!"
"Later"
"Bye-ee!"
"Cheerio"
"Bye!"
"Bye-bye"
"Bye"
"Stay healthy"
"Bye-ee!"
"Bye"
"Cheers"
"See ya, luv"
"Bye!"
"Good bye"
"I'll see ya, luv"
"Good night"

"We needed you
To love us too
We wait for your move"


9. HOUDINI

I wait at the table
And hold hands with weeping strangers
Wait for you
To join the group

The tambourine jingle-jangles
The medium roams and rambles
Not taken in
I break the circle

I want this man
To go away now

With a kiss
I'd pass the key
And feel your tongue
Teasing and receiving
With your spit
Still on my lip
You hit the water

Him and I in the room
To prove you are with us too

He's using code that only you and I know
This is no trick of his
This is your magic

I'd catch the cues
Watching you
Hoping you'd do something wrong

Everybody thinks you'll never make it
But every time
You escape:

'Rosabel believe
Not even eternity
Can hold Houdini!'

"Rosabel, believe!"

Through the glass
I'd watch you breathe
("Not even eternity...")
Bound and drowned
And paler than you've ever been
("...will hold Houdini!")

With your life
The only thing in my mind...
We pull you from the water!

(Houdini!)

You
("Hou-di-ni...")
And I
And Rosabel believe


10. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE

("Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!")

When you left, the door was
(Slamming!)
You paused in the doorway
(Slamming!)
As though a thought stole you away
(Slamming!)
I watched the world pull you away
(Lock it!)

So I run into the hall
(Lock it!)
Into the corridor
(Lock it!)
There's a door in the house
(Slamming)
I hear the lift descending
(Slamming!)
I hear it hit the landing
(Slamming!)
See the hackles on the cat
(Standing)

With my key I
(Lock it)
With my key I
(Lock it up)
With my key I
(Lock it)
With my key I
(Lock it up)

I am the concierge chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love, nor money
("Let me in!")
My home, my joy
I'm barred and bolted and I
(Won't let you in)
(Get out of my house!)

No stranger's feet
Will enter me
(Get out of my house!)
I wash the panes
(Get out of my house!)
I clean the stains away
(Get out of my house!)

This house is as old as I am
(Slamming)
This house knows all I have done
(Slamming)
They come with their weather hanging 'round them
(Slamming)
But can't knock my door down!
(Slamming)

With my key I
(Lock it)
With my key I
(Lock it)

This house is full of m-m-my mess
(Slamming)
This house is full of m-m-mistakes
(Slamming)
This house is full of m-m-madness
(Slamming)
This house is full of, full of, full of fight!
(Slam it)

With my keeper I
(Clean up)
With my keeper I
(Clean it all up)
With my keeper I
(Clean up)
With my keeper I
(Clean it all up)

I am the concierge chez-moi, honey
Won't letcha in for love, nor money
("It's cold out here!")
My home, my joy
I'm barred and bolted and I
(Get out of my house!)
(Won't let you in)

(Get out of my house!)
No stranger's feet
(Get out of my house!)
Will enter me
(Get out of my house!)
I wash the panes
(Get out of my house!)
I clean the stains
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
Won't enter me
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
Yeah! Won't let you in!
(Get out of my house!)
(Get out of my house!)
"Let me in!

"Woman let me in!
Let me bring in the memories!
Woman let me in!
Let me bring in the Devil Dreams!"

I will not let you in!
Don't you bring back the reveries
I turn into a bird
Carry further than the word is heard

"Woman let me in!
I turn into the wind
I blow you a cold kiss
Stronger than the song's hit"

I will not let you in
I face towards the wind
I change into the Mule
"I change into the Mule"

Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw-hee-haw...

"Hee-haw! Hee-haw! Hee-haw!"