1. DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO
(Graeme Douglas/Ed Hollis)

I'm gonna break out of this city
Leave the people here behind
Searchin' for adventure
It's the type of life to find
Tired of doing day-jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I'm sure I must be someone
Now I'm gonna find out who

Why don't you ask them
What they expect from you
Why don't you tell them
What you are gonna do
You get so lonely
Maybe it's better that way
It ain't you only
You got something to say

Do anything you wanna do

I don't need no politician
Tell me things I shouldn't be
Neither no optician
Tell me what I ought to see
No one tells you nothing
Even when you know they know
But they tell you what you should do
They don't like to see you grow

Why don't you ask them...

Do anything you wanna do

Gonna break out of this city
Leave the suckers here behind
Searchin' for adventure
It's the type of life to find
Tired of doin' favours
With no thanks for what I do
I know I must be someone
Now I'm gonna find out who

Do anything you wanna do



2. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
(Michael Monroe/Jude Wilder)

Who needs gold stars in heaven man?
I want mine right away
I'm sick of broken promises
Some never do what they say
Living in tomorrow or yesterday
You can't be here today
If you gotta ask you'll never know
You snooze you lose anyway

Right here, right now,
Tomorrow don't matter to me
Right here, right now
Whatever's gonna be will be
Right here, right now
Gotta get what's mine today
I want it here right now
'Cos later might be too late

Some selfproclaimed selfish hypocrites
Laid down their laws and rules
To make you think there's some great reward
For all your suffering some day soon
You want it all or none at all,
Fly high or take a fall
Grab your chance with both hands
Make the dream come true

Right here, right now
Gotta get what's mine today
Right here, right now
And don't stand in my way
Right here, right now
Ain't got no time to wait
I want it here right now
'Cos later might be too late

It's an exercise in futility
Like the Chinese fire drill or musical chairs
We won't waste time on conformity
And that mud pie in the sky surely can wait

Right here, right now...




3. STRANDED
(Michael Monroe/Pink Gibson)

So you finally ditched me last night
Something just don't seem right
This thing has dragged on for so long

I never planned to use you
I just can't stand to lose you
No matter what I try and say
You keep on takin' the wrong way

We've been down this road before
Something's always changing
Now all my dreams crashlanded
And I wound up left out stranded

Inside my head is a padded room
And you were my medication
Maybe I thought it would last somehow
But it's all in the past now

We've been down this road before
Something's always changing
I play the cards I'm handed
Now I'm stuck here left out stranded

Broken connection, a changing direction
All lonely, tired of rejection
Reckless abandon I can't get a hand on
Don't give a damn, there's no ground I can stand on

We've been down this road before...




4. I WON'T LIE DOWN AND DIE
(Charlie Harper/Nicky Garratt)

Just got hit by a ton of bricks but I won't lie down
While I'm alive I'm gonna get my kicks and I won't lie down
I'm cold an' dirty, from the wrong side of town and I won't lie down
Ain't got no money to throw around but I won't lie down

Doctor said I'm livin' on borrowed time but I won't lie down
Get so sick my baby cries and I won't lie down
My head's all spinning and my legs are weak but I won't lie down
Smoke and drink ‘til my heart stands still but I won't lie down

I won't lie down and die...

I've seen heaven and I've seen hell but I won't lie down
I say little and I say it well and I won't lie down
I'm gonna be around ‘til kingdom come and I won't lie down

I won't lie down and die…




5. SHATTERED SMILE
(Michael Monroe/Pink Gibson)

Life smiles, some people say
My whole life has been one of those days
Sold down the river of complications
Life has more side effects than most medications

Just because I don't sleep
Doesn't mean that I've stopped dreaming

Something else always gets in the way
Things can change in a day
But I'm not too shattered to smile
It's the way that it goes
The highs and the lows
I'm not too shattered to smile

I never miss a chance to blow my only chance
My door's locked when opportunity's knocking
I'm for real, even when I'm fakin'
Thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken

Just because I don't look
Doesn't mean that I've stopped seeing

Something else always gets in the way...

I'll abuse every excuse in the book
I can't hide my devastation
Under endless aggravation
Loneliness is home…

Something else always gets in the way...

Still I'm not too shattered to smile
I'm not too shattered to smile




6. WHAT LOVE IS
(Stiv Bators/Cheetah Chrome)

I don't need none of your bedroom bruised sweet box
An' I don't need none of your spoiled ass sweet talk

I‘m gonna write on your face with my pretty knife
I wanna toy with your precious life
I want cha ta know
I want cha ta know
I want cha ta know
I want you to know what love is

I don't need none of your tender back-seat love
An' I don't need none of your two-bit machine love

I'm gonna write on your face...

I don't need none of your sleaze ball greased love
An' I don't need none of your spoiled ass sweet talk

I'm gonna write on your face...




7. RUMOUS SETS THE WOODS ALIGHT
(Will Birch/John Wicks)

Everyone's talkin'
The lines are all buzzin' today
So much is gossip
I don't think they know what they say
Did you hear it this way
He was fighting for his life last night
Hearsay
And I don't believe they got it right
Rumour sets the woods alight

Everyone's guessing
When they get to talk of his wealth
Too much romancing can only be bad for your health
Consider the source
Now it's really got you
Someone saw him with a guy last night
Not true
'Cause I don't believe you heard it right
Rumour sets the woods alight

Please don't lie anymore
And we won't cry anymore…

You're never happy
Unless someone's breaking the law
The truth is a little passé and the facts are a bore
Can you be sure
Did you hear it this way
Someone paid to have him die last night
Hearsay
And I don't believe you heard it right
Rumour sets the woods alight




8. GERMFREE ADOLESCENTS
(Poly Styrene)

I know you're antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
But you're deep frozen like the ice

She's a germfree adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away
The s.r. way

You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with Listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes

She's a germfree adolescent...

Her phobia is infection
She needs one to survive
It's her built-in protection
Without fear she'd give up
And die

She's a germfree adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
She's a germfree adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
She's a germfree adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away, scrub away, scrub away
The s.r. way




9. LIFE'S A BITCH AND THEN YOU LIVE
(Michael Monroe/Jude Wilder/Pink Gibson)

Not one person ever lived without hurtin'
Somewhat, somewhere, some
Ain't no pain much worse than mental strain
I'll wake up in a good mood somehow,
Someday, somewhere once again
I try and control my crankiness 'til then

Dum things are easy
Some things flip you out
Who can tell what life is all about

Life's a bitch and then you live
What you get is what you give
You forsake and you deceive,
You put out and you receive
Life's a bitch and then you live

Why'd we have to work so hard
For every single little thing
Someone always thinks they're gonna win
When you've lost most of your best friends
And your loneliness won't leave you alone
You find out that things don't mean a thing

Can you face the music
When you don't sing the song
Can you lose control while in control

Life's a bitch and then you live
You don't forget but you forgive
You forsake and you deceive,
You put out and you receive
Life's a bitch and then you live...




10. TELEPHONE BILL'S ALL MINE
(Dave Lindholm/additional English lyrics Michael Monroe & Pink Gibson)

Washington D.C.
Call you anywhere
London to New York
Is anybody there?
Finland, Tokyo, Amsterdam
I wanna tell you now

I know, I know, I know, I know
Telephone bill's all mine
All mine, I know, I know, I know, I know
Telephone bill's all mine

You probably wash your hair by the phone
Talk about anything
Can't get through, I'm all alone
I just let it ring
I just can't seem to pour my heart out
To an answering machine

I know, I know...

You could at least sometime meet a real person
Tell it face to face
Too shy to look in the eye
A little out of place
I need to hear the sound of your voice
To make me feel at home

I know, I know...




11. JIMMY BROWN
(Casino Steel)

I wish I was born in Lebensborn
Then all the other kids would have wished they could be like me
I wish I was born a movie star
I'd pick the best girls and drive my own flashy car

But my name is ordinary Jimmy Brown
The plainest looking kid in London town
Ordinary, boring Jimmy Brown
No one's having fun when I'm around

Oh, oh Jimmy Brown
Oh, oh Jimmy Brown
What can we do with a wimp like you

I wish I could play like Dee Dee Ramone (1-2-3-4)
I wouldn't have to sit in the corner of the pub alone
I wish I could drive a Chevrolet
I'd have the best clothes and nice bleached blond backcombed hair

But my name is ordinary Jimmy Brown...

Oh, oh Jimmy Brown...




12. IDENTITY
(Poly Styrene)

Identity
Is the crisis
Can't you see
Identity identity

When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself
Do you see yourself
On the T.V. screen
Do you see yourself
In the magazine
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream?

Identity...

When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
Did you do it in a fit
Did you do it before
You read about it?

Identity...




13. HEY, THAT'S NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE
(Leonard Cohen)

I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy golden storm.
Yes, many loved before us
I know that we are not new
In city and in forest
They smiled like me and you.
But now it's come to distances
And both of us must try
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme.
You know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me
It's just the way it changes
Like the shoreline and the sea.
But lets not talk of love or chains
And things we can't untie,
Your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy golden storm.
Yes, many loved before us
I know that we are not new
In city and in forest
They smiled like me and you.
But let's not talk of love or chains
And things we can't untie,
Your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.