1. DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME

Young teacher, the subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking - she's so close now
This girl is half his age.

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me.

Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy
To be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration
So bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting
His car is warm and dry.

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me.

Loose talk in the classroom
To hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom
The accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her
He starts to shake and cough
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabakov.

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me.

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me.


2. WALKING ON THE MOON

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon.

Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Walking back from your house
Walking on the moon
Feet they hardly touch the ground
Walking on the moon
My feet don't hardly make no sound
Walking on, walking on the moon.

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away
No way
And if it's the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow's another day
You stay
I may as well play.

Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon
We could walk forever
Walking on the moon
We could be together
Walking on, walking on the moon.

Some may say
I'm wishing my days away
No way
And if it's the price I pay
Some say
Tomorrow's another day
You stay
I may as well play.

Keep it up, keep it up.


3. DEATHWISH

Deathwish in the fading light
Headlight pointing through the night
Never thought I'd see the day
Playing with my life this way.

Gotta keep my foot right down
If I had wings I'd leave the ground
Buning in the outside lane
People think that I'm insane.

The day I take a bend too fast
Judgement that could be my last
I'll be wiped right off the slate
Don't wait up 'cause I'll be late.


4. FALL OUT

I never followed leaders
I got no machine
An' I paid my dues all along
Always says your freakin'
When I mess with other people
'Cause I knew that I was really alone.

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys.

I saw my education
It was my indoctrination
Just to be another parking machine
Always says your freakin'
When I mess with other people
'Cause I knew that I was not very clean.

Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Henri!
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall out, fall out with all the leaders and guys
Fall Out!

I've got my own team
And I've paid my dues all along
Always had to fake it
When I mixed with other people
'Cause I knew that I was really alone.

Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs.

I sold my education
It was my indoctrination
Just to be another cog in the machine
Always had to fake it
When I mixed other people
'Cause I knew that I was not very clean.

Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs

Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall out, fall out all the leaders and gangs
Fall Out!



5. MAN IN A SUITCASE

I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
It looks home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night.

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face.

Another key for my collection
For security I race for my connection
Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well
The world's my oyster a hotel room's a prison cell.

Must I be the man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face.

I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it hold my suitcase
It looks like home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night.


6. BRING ON THE NIGHT

The afternoon has gently passed me by
The evening spreads its sail against the sky
Waiting for tomorrow
Just another day
God bid yesterday goodbye.

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight.

The future is but a question mark
Hangs above my head there in the dark
Can't see for the brightness
Is staring me blind
God bid yesterday goodbye.

Bring on the night
I couldn't spend another hour of daylight
Bring on the night
I couldn't stand another hour of daylight.


7. DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find
The only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind
And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me.

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true.

Poets, priests and poiticians
Have words to thank for their positions
Words that scream for your submission
And no one's jamming their transmission
'Cos when their eloquence escapes you
Their logic ties you up and rapes you.

De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
Their innocence will pull me through
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da
They're meaningless and all that's true.


8. THRUTH HITS EVERYBODY

Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold.

Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, o boy
Truth hits everybody
Truth hits everyone.

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death.

Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, o boy
Truth hits everybody
Truth hits everyone.

Where you want to be
Won't you ever see.

Truth hits everybody
Truth hits everyone
Now.


9. WHEN THE WORLD IS RUNNING DOWN

Turn on my vcr
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on The Tammy Show
Same tape I've had for years
I sit in my old car
Same one I've had for years
Old battery's running down
It ran for years and years.

Turn on the radio
The static hurts my ears
Tell me where would I go
I ain't been out in years
Turn on the stereo
It's played for years and years
An Otis Redding song
It's all I own.

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around.

Plug in my MCI
To excercise my brain
Make records on my own
Can't go out in the rain
Pick up the telephone
I've listened here for years
No-one to talk to me
I've listened here for years.

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around.

When I feel lonely here
Don't waste my time with tears
I run "Deep Throat" again
It ran for years and years
Don't like the food I eat
The cans are running out
Same food for years and years
I hate the food I eat.

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around.

When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around
When the world is running down
You make the best of what's still around.


10. BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU

Bed's too big without you
Cold wind blows right thru my open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be.

When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride
No regrets no love no tears
Living on my own was the least of my fears.

Bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big
Without you.

Since that day when you'd gone
Just had to carry on
I get thru day but late at night
Made love to my pillow but it didn't feel right.

Every day, just the same
Old rules for the same old game
All I gained was heartache
All I made was one mistake.

Now the bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big
Without you.


11. DRIVEN TO TEARS

How can you say that you're not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction, what should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity.

Driven to tears.

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existance is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
'Cos this is what we've seen.

Driven to tears.

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do.

Driven to tears.


12. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Just a castaway
An island lost at sea
Another lonely day
With no one here but me
More loneliness
Than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair.

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle.

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life
But love can break your heart.

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle.

Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles
Washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
A hundred billion casatways
Looking for a home.

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle.

Sending out an s.o.s.


13. ROXANNE

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night.

Roxanne
You don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light.

I loved you since I knew you
I wouldn't talk down to you
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again
It's a bad way.

Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light.


14. CAN'T STAND LOSING YOU

I've called you so many times today
And I guess it's all true what your girlfriends say
That you don't ever want to see me again
And your brother's gonna kill me and he's six feet ten
I guess you'd call it cowardice
But I'm not prepared to go on like this.

I can't, I can't
I can't stand losing
I can't stand losing you.

I see you've sent my letters back
And my LP records and they're all scratched
I can't see the point in another day
When nobody listens to a word I say
You can call it lack of confidence
But to carry on living doesn't make no sense.

I can't, I can't
I can't stand losing.

I guess this is our last goodbye
And you don't care so I won't cry
But you'll be sorry when I'm dead
And all this guilt will be on your head
I guess you'd call it suicide
But I'm too full to swallow my pride.

I can't, I can't
I can't stand losing
I can't stand losing you.


15. SO LONELY

Well someone told me yesterday
That when you throw your love away
You act as if you just don't care
You look as if you're going somewhere
But I just can't convince myself
I couldn't live with no one else
And I can only play that part
And sit and nurse my broken heart.

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely.

Now no one's knocked upon my door
For a thousand years or more
All made up and nowhere to go
Welcome to this one man show
Just take a seat they're always free
No surprise no mystery
In this theatre that I call my soul
I always play the starring role.

So lonely
So lonely
So lonely
So lonely.

So lonely.