The Stranglers : La Folie

Punk-Rock / United-Kingdom
(1981 - Liberty Records)
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Non Stop
Dedicated emancipated
Claims she waited her life for her man

Loves to pray every day
Says she’s not frustrated in any way

Dressed in a black cotton sack
Pledges herself and she never looks back

She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
And she’s running/running/running/running/running

Enlisted sister knows her mister
Never two times with the rest of the clan

In her eyes you sympathise
The afterlife holds a better plan

She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun

And she gives up her whole life
And she’ll never be your wife
‘Cos she;s got the best lover
Better than any other
Better than any other

She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
And she’s running/running/running/running/running

Dedicated emancipated
Claims she waited her life for her man

Loves to pray every day
Says she’s not frustrated in any way

She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun
She’s a non stop nun

And she gives up her whole life
And she’ll never be your wife
‘Cos she’s got the best lover
Better than any other
Better than any other
Better than any other

2. Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead

They crucify you when you get it wrong
When things are fine they put you ahead
They laugh at you with your trousers down
They pick the stones and aim them at your head

When you’re alive they won’t care what you said
What you deserve and all the blood you bled

It doesn’t matter what you try to hide
The sun comes out and then the truth is read
Your fans’ll love you when you’re alive
But the wreaths are laid by the rest instead

When you’re alive they won’t care what you said
What you deserve and all the blood you bled

‘Cos everybody loves you when you’re dead
Kneel and pray by the side of your bed
And everybody loves you when you’re dead
Kneel and pray just like your momma said

When you’re alive they won’t care what you said
What you deserve and all the blood you bled

You’ll turn in your grave at what’s gonna be said
You’ll finally be appreciated
‘Cos everybody loves you when you’re dead
‘Cos everybody loves you when you’re dead

3. Tramp

Takes the time to stay one place
Though his clothes aren’t finest lace
Read the lines on a tramp’s face

Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child

Law has missed him every day
Doesn’t need it anyway
Life is the next meal away

A lost woman long ago
Does she miss him does he know?
Does it matter in the snow?

Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child

Taking his time just like you just like me
Wandering so fancy free
Searching for love in the call of the wild
Travelling lost like a child

4. Let Me Introduce You To The Family

I love the family
Longer than longevity
Mother tells me what to be
Taller than the tallest tree
I love the family
Sister loves me tenderly
Sitting on my daddy’s knee
Let me introduce you to the family

I love the family/I love the family
I love the family/I love the family
I love the family/I love the family

I love the family
Friends will fall for the family
Brother you are dear to me
Watch it grow the family tree
Can’t outrun the family
It gets me where I want to be
Trough thick and thin it will help me
Let me introduce you to the family

I love the family/I love the family
I love the family/I love the family
I love the family/I love the family

I love the family
Repeat

5. Ain’t Nothin’ To It

Back up boy forty five feet
Always looking for a freebie
Why don’t you let up sometime
Hawks out here with his axe n’ me with this lead sheet on
Trying to scuffle up those two’s n’ fews
For uncle so’s I can bail out my full orchestration

Looks like he got me but this cat wouldn’t feed
Grass to a horse in a concrete pasture
He’s so tight he wouldn’t buy a pair of shorts for a flea
Just look at him n’ dig that vine
All off tome his strollers look like he’s ready to
Jump he’s playing ketchup n’ I got to tighten his wig
Hold it down n’ I’ll come up with line two like I said

Ain’t nothin’ to it, just here
Ain’t nothin’ to it, just here
Ain’t nothin’ ain’t nothin’ to it just here

I saw that dinner up the street guzzlin’ foam in
The drinkden and the sharks are droppin’ the shucks
Like the yellow kid trying to tighten her and
Weaving the four f’s all around her
I nixed her out long ago, man, she’s too sometimey
She will and she won’t
She do and she don’t always on the fence and
Sleeps with her glasses on
Man
Man
Ain’t nothin’ ain’t nothin’ to it just here

She’s faust to me, so skip it and forget it
She’s faust to me, so skip it and forget it

6. The Man They Love To Hate

They woke to grey English morning
And to a strange honeymoon
The girl who gave him all her love
And the man who said it still wouldn’t do

His parents always worked hard
Never went to bed late
nd though they were God’s own people
They’re still the ones he loves to hate

He never wanted to
Suffer this fate
All the girls have fallen for
The man they love to hate

The city is an animal
It snores and by day it roars
And though he loved to hate it
He couldn’t live without it’s flaws

With pastel curtains moaning
At a thousand harsh words – then hush
The girl she wanted to leave
Because she loved the man too much

He never wanted to
Suffer this fate
All the girls have fallen for
The man they love to hate

His father was a fighter
And he practised on his son
His mother was just some furniture
Who’d lost the will to run

The girl she wrote him a farewell note
And though he probably didn’y care too much
The girl she finally left him
Because she loved the man too much

7. Pin Up

She’s a centrespread special size of the month
She’s the one on the wall
Watched by him she’s scared to move

She’s very well known only in the one stance
She’s the girl that survived over a hundred million glances

She’s the pin up

She’s always on his mind a technicolor dream
The secret weapon
She lives on his locker door

She’s the girl he dreams of when he’s at sea
Although she’s in 2-D he’d like her at home waiting

She’s the pin up
She’s the pin up

All over submarines
They think she’s so serene
As a mermaid she don’t look much
But such a sin could be this year’s last year’s thing

She’s a charity gives something for nothing
A wallchart for his heart a victim of all his desires
Sometimes he dreams of a scratch me scratch me section
A rope ladder of hair a Babylon for him to climb

She’s the pin up
She’s the pin up

All over submarines
They think she’s so serene
As a mermaid she don’t look much
But such a sin could be this year’s last year’s thing

She’s a centrespread special size of the month
She’s the one on his wall
Watched by him she’s scared to move

She’s very well known always in the one stance
She’s the girl who’ll survive over a hundred million glances

She’s the pin up She’s the pin up
Repeat

8. It Only Takes Two To Tango

It only takes two to tango
It only takes two to start the dance
You gotta begin with circumstance
It takes two to tango
It only takes two

It only takes two to tango
It only takes to to start the war
You gotta make do or you gotta get more
It take two to tango
It only takes two

It only took two in ancient history
To get to the top of the monkey tree
Better wait and see
Better wait and see
Better wait and see

It only takes two to tango
It only takes two to start the dance
You gotta make do could be your only chance
It takes two to tango
It only takes two

It only took two in ancient history
To get to the top of the monkey tree

Better wait and see

Repeat

9. Golden Brown

Golden brown, texture like sun
Lays me down, with my might she runs
Throughout the night
No need to fight
Never a frown with golden brownEvery time just like the last
On her ship tied to the mast
To distant lands
Takes both my hands
Never a frown with golden brownGolden brown, finer temptress
Through the ages she’s heading west
From far away
Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brownNever a frown (never a frown), never a frown
With golden brown (with golden brown), with golden brown
Never a frown (never a frown), never a frown
With golden brown (with golden brown), with golden brown
Never a frown (never a frown), never a frown
With golden brown (with golden brown), with golden brown
Never a frown (never a frown), never a frown
With golden brown (with golden brown), with golden brown

10. How To Find Tue Love And Happiness In The Present Day

Once I knew a man in love with money
He said it solved his worries and his cares
The one day
I heard him say
Something I hear everywhere

Once I knew a man in love with power
He bought a uniform and he kept it clean
Then one day
I heard him say
There’s something he’s never seen

Tell him how to find true love and happiness
In the present day
Tell him how to find true love and happiness
In the present day

Then I know a girl in love with living
Didn’t like to stay in one place long
Then one day
I heard her say
She’d discovered something’s wrong

Tell her how to find true love and happiness
In the present day
Tell her how to find true love and happiness
In the present day

Repeat

Tell him how to find true love and happiness
In the present day (X 3)

11. La Folie

Bonsoir
Ton vehicule n’a pas l`air d`avoir de passager
Peux-tu: Veux tu me recevoir
Sans trop te deranger?
Mes bottes ne feront pas trop d`echos dans ton couloir
Pas de bruit avec mes adieux
Pas pour nous les moments perdus
En attendant un uncertain au-revoir
Parce que-j’ai la folie, oui c’est la folie

Il etait une fois un etudiant
Qui voulait fort, comme en literature
Sa copine, elle etait si douce
Qu’il pouvait presque, en la management
Rejeter tous les vices
Repousser tou les mals
Detruire toutes beautes
Qui par ailleurs, n’avait jamais ete ses complices
Parces qu’il avait la folie, oui, c’est la folie

Et si parfois l’on fait des confessions
A qui les raconter – meme le bon dieu nous a laisse tomber

Un autre endroit, une autre vie
Eh oui, c’est une autre histoire
Mais a qui tou raconter?
Chez les ombres de la nuit?
Au petit matin, au petit gris
Combien de crimes ont ete commis
Contre les mensonges et soi disant les lois du coeur
Combien sont la a cause de la folie
Parce qu’il ont la folie

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