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8/12/2019 Velvet Goldmine Lyrics

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Shudder to Think - Hot One Lyrics

Well, you're the grand one

Have you noticed?

When you walk in all the fairy boys are very nervous

Well, my starship doesn't want meAnd neither does his world

I'm glad I caught you on my view screen, sailor

You're the grand one

Come and court me

'cause this wooing is what I'm wanting

When my spacesuit comes to warm me

And hold me like a god

I am the captain of the gravity, Maxwell

Everywhere I see your faces

Hot one

From a starship over Venus to the Sun

But it's a crime!

You're mistaken!

Momentary seizure of love - oh love

Well, you're the grand one

But darling, I'm a mess

I've got human minds we can form

But the boys are not impressedWhen my spacesuit comes to warm me

Just hold me like a god

I'll be the captain of the gravity, Maxwell

I see your faces in the strangest places

Hot one


But it's a crime!

You're mistaken!

Momentary seizure of love - oh love

Hot one


But it's a drag!

You're so mean!

Destroying my belief in, in love - oh love


3/27

Placebo - 20th Century Boy Lyrics

Owwww!!Friends say it's fine

Friends say it's goodEverybody says it's just like Robin Hood

I move like a catCharge like a ramSting like a bee

Babe, I wanna be your man

Well it's plain to seeYou were meant for me

Yeah, I'm your toyYour 20th Century boy

Friends say it's fineFriends say it's good

Everybody says it's just like rock 'n' rollFly like a planeDrive like a car

Bawl like a houndBabe, I wanna be your man

20th Century boyI wanna be your toy20th Century boy

I wanna be your toy

Friends say it's fineFriends say it's good

Everbody says it's just like Robin HoodI move like a cat

Charge like a ramSting like a bee

Babe, I wanna be your man

20th Century boyI wanna be your toy

20th Century toyI wanna be your boy


4/27

The Venus in Furs - 2HB Lyrics

Oh, I was moved by your screen dreamCelluloid pictures living

Your death could not kill my love for youTake two people romanticSmoky nightclub situation

Your cigarette traces a ladder

Here's looking at you kidCelebrate years

Here's looking at you kid

Wipe away tearsLong time since we're together

Now I hope it's forever

Ideal love flies away nowWhite jacket black tie wings tooYou gave her away to the hero

Words don't express my meaningNotes could not spell out the scoreBut finding not keeping's the lesson

Here's looking at you kidHard to forget

Here's looking at you kidAt least not yet

Your memory staysIt lingers ever

Will fade away never


5/27

Wylde Ratttz - T.V. Eye Lyrics

Lord

See that catYeah I do mean you

See that catYeah I do mean you

She got a TV eye on meShe got a TV eye

She got a TV eye on me, oh

See that catDown on her backSee that cat

Down on her back



See that catYeah I love her so

See that catYeah I love her so



Right on, right on, right onSee that cat

Yeah I love her soSee that cat

Yeah I love her so




6/27

Shudder to Think - The Ballad of Maxwell Demon Lyrics

Got tired of wasting gas living above the planet

Mister, show me the way to earthThe boys of Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds

Never come around here no moreSometimes I wonder if I'm still alive

Six feet down at age 25Maxwell Leather Demon rock hand jive

I came down like waterFor the age of solar

Hail to the fatherKiss your sons and daughters

Goodbye goodbyeSteam steady roller

Lady tongue controllerTen feet tall, better walk it back down

Despite the great duress, always get off 'cause damn it!It's the only sure-fire way to winYour poison doesn't hurt me, no

Tender wine disguised in a milk-fat fair kiddie showI'm here to celebrate the one below

At last I've heard from good God above

As the slap on my ass by a lipstick-kissed elbow glove

I came down like waterFor the age of solar

Hail to the fatherKiss your sons and daughters

Goodbye goodbyeSteam steady roller

Lady tongue controllerTen feet tall, better walk it back down

I came down like water

For the age of solarI came down like water

Kiss your sons and daughters

Ten feet tall, better walk it back down


7/27

Grant Lee Buffalo - The Whole Shebang Lyrics

Darling, you can't live your life

Singing songs in exileYou were born for stardom's crown

And not for self-denialSo don't you close the door on fate

When she comes to callAnd tell her that you'll join her there

At the masquerader's ballFunny how some people never love at all

We'll take the whole shebangAll or nothing, anything

Ecstasy's the birthright of our gangWe'll take the whole shebang

Free your heart of guilt and shameCome and claim what's yours

The whole shebang

Nothing on this earth could hold you prisoner, my dearExcept for contemplations evil brother, love is feared

But love is extra-terrestrialAnd love falls from the stars

Like Maxwell Demon's silver disk

Into this world of oursFunny how we keep on loving, true love power




The whole shebang

Kick up your heels and paint your faceWave goodbye to yesteryearWe can swing in outer space

Or from the chandeliersThough sometimes it breaks my heart, I hide my tears



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The whole shebang

The Venus in Furs - Ladytron Lyrics

You've got me girl on the run around run around

You've got me all around townYou've got me girl on the run around

And it's getting me down, getting me down

Lady if you want to find a loverThen you look no further

For I'm gonna be your only

Searching at the start of the seasonAnd my only reasonIs that I'll get to you

I'll find some way of connectionHiding my intentionThen I'll move up close to youI'll use you and I'll confuse you

And then I'll lose youBut still you won't suspect me


9/27

Pulp - We are the Boyz Lyrics

Ooh / We are the boyz / And we are class / At getting trashedSo make some noize / We are the boyz / We are the lads

We sleep with slags / We nick their fags / We got no choiceWe are the boyz / Oh we are the boyz / We don't ask whyBecause we're alive / We are the boyz / We are the boyzWe're in the place / So shut yer face / You got no choiceWe are the boyz / We are the guys / We're getting high

While you're getting by / So just make some noize'Cos we are the boyz / Oh we are the boyz / And we don't ask why'Cos we're always right / Because we're alive / Oh we are the boyz!

We are the boyz / And don't look now / 'Cos we're coming down

Don't make no noize / Cos we are the boyz / Now we are the menAnd that was then / It won't happen again / But we had no choice

Cos we're the boyz / Oh we were the boyz / But we're not any moreNot now we're so mature / Now we've got insured

ecause we're not so sure / No we're not so sure / Oh no we're not so sureNot so sure / Not so sure as we were / When we were the boyz

We were the boyz / Oh, we were the boyz / C'mon, we're still the boyzWe're still the boyz / Oh, we're still the boyz / Oh c'mon, we are the boyz

We are the boyz / Oh, we are the boyz.


10/27

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain Lyrics

Make me a deal and make it straight

All signed and sealed I'll take it

To Robert E. Lee I'll show it

I hope and pray he don't blow it 'causeWe've been around a long time just try try tryin' to

Make make the big time...

Take me on a roller coaster

Take me for an airplane ride

Take me for a six days wander but don't you

Don't you throw away my pride aside besides

What's real and make believe

Baby Jane's in Acapulco

We're flyin' down to Rio

Throw me a line I'm sinking fast

Clutching at straws can't make it

Havana sound we're trying hard edge the hipster jiving

Last picture show's down the drive-in

You're so sheer you're so chic

Teenage rebel of the week

Flavors of the mountain streamline

Midnight blue casino floors

Dance the cha-cha through til sunriseOpen up exclusive doors oh wow!

Just like flamingos look the same

So me and you, just we two got to reach for something new

Far beyond the pale horizon

Some place near the desert strand

Where my Studebaker takes me

That's where I'll make my stand but wait

Can't you see that Holzer mane

What's her name Virginia Plain


11/27

David Johansen/ Johnny Thunders - Personality Crisis Lyrics

Well we can't take it this week

and her friends don't want another speechhoping for a better day to hear what she's got to say

all about that Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot

but now frustration and heartache is what you got(that's why they talk about Personality)

But now your tryin to be some no you got to do somewanna be someone who cow wow wows

but you think about the times you did, they took every ounce

when it sure got to be a shame when you start to scream and shout

you got to contradict all those times you were butterflyin' aboutyou were butterflyin' all about that

Personality Crisis you got it while it was hotbut now frustration and heartache is what you got

And you're a prima ballerina on a spring afternoonchange on into the wolfman howlin' at the moon

hooowwwlall about that Personality Crisis you got it while

it was hotbut now frustration and heartache is what you got

now with all the crossin fingers that mother nature saysyour mirrors get jammed up with all your friends

that personality everything starts to bendPersonality when your mind starts to bend

of a friend, of a friend

Personality wondering how celebrities ever metlook and find out on television

Personality Crisis you got it while it was hotfrustration and heartache is all you got don't you worry

Personality Crisis please don't cryit's just a Personality Crisis please don't stop

because you walk a Personalitytalk a Personality


12/27

Lou Reed - Satellite of Love Lyrics

Satellite's gone

up to the skies

Thing like that drive me

out of my mind

I watched it for a little while

I like to watch things on TV

Satellite of love

satellite of love

Satellite of love

satellite of

Satellite's gone

way up to Mars

Soon it will be filled

with parking cars

I watch it for a little while

I love to watch things on TV

Satellite of love

satellite of love

Satellite of love

satellite of

I've been told that you've been bold

with Harry, Mark and John

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday

with Harry, Mark and John

Satellite's gone

up to the skiesThing like that drive me

out of my mind

I watched it for a little while

I love to watch things on TV


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Satellite of love

satellite of love

Satellite of love

satellite of

Satellite of loveSatellite of love

Satellite of love

Satellite of love

Satellite of love

Satellite of love


14/27

T-Rex - Diamond Meadows Lyrics

If I could have grownAll upon my own

If I could have grownI grew

If I could have grewI do

If I had a throneYou could call it home

If I cry my tears are yoursTo open any frozen doors

Hey let's do it like we're friendsLet's do it do it

Hey let's do it like we're friends.


15/27

Paul Kimble and Andy Mackay - Bitter's End Lyrics

At last the crimson chord cascade

To shower dry cordials withinToo late to leap the chocolate gatePale fountains fizzing fort pink gin

While destiny begins to flyThe farmyard chorus sings its wake

Upstanding anthem to the skyToo soon to realize their fate

You were the raven of OctoberI knew the sign you flew around

Up in the air so high above meNever needed to look downI never though I'd be a rover

I didn't even look aroundBut now I know you've found another

So will someone please find me

Give now the host his claret cupAnd watch madeira's farewell drink

Note his reaction acid sharpShould make the cognoscenti think


16/27

The Venus in Furs - Baby's on Fire Lyrics

Baby's on fireBetter throw her in the water

Look at her laughingLike a heifer to the slaughter

Baby's on fireAnd all the laughing boys are bitching

Waiting for photosOh the plot is so bewitching

Rescuers row rowDo your best to change the subject

Blow the wind blow blow

Lend some assistance to the object

Photographers snip snapTake your time she's only burning

This kind of experienceIs necessary for her learning

If you'll be my flotsamI could be half the man I used to

They said you were hot stuffAnd that's what baby's been reduced to

Juanita and JuanVery clever with maracas

Making their fortunesSelling secondhand tobaccoes

Juan dances at Chico'sAnd when the clients are evicted

He empties the ashtraysAnd pockets all that he's collected

But baby's on fireAnd all the instruments agree that

Her temperature's risingBut any idiot would know that


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The Venus in Furs - Bitter-Sweet Lyrics

Well, this is such a sad affair

I've opened up my heart so many times

But now it's closed

Oh my dear

Every salted tear

It wrings

Bitter-sweet applause

But when the show's in full swing

Every once in awhile

High stepping chorus lines

Mean I'm forgetting

Mein lullaby - liebchen

How rich in contrast

Love can be

Sometimes I'm quite amused

To see it twist and turn

To taste both sweet and dry

These vintage years

Lovers you consume, my friend

As others their wine

Nein - das ist nicht

Das ende der Welt

Gestrandet an Leben und Kunst

Und das spiel geht weiter

Wie man weiss

Noch viele 'schoum'....wiedersehen

(Translation of German lyrics:

No - this is not the end of the world

Stranded because of life and art

And the game goes on as you know

Schoum....see you)

And now, as you turn to leave

You try to force a smile

As if to compensate

Then you break down and cry


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The Venus in Furs - Tumbling Down Lyrics

Gee, but it's hardWhen one lowers one's guard to the vultures

Now, me I regard itA torturous hardship that smolders

Like a peppermint eaten awayWill I fight? Will I swagger, or sway?

Tee hee, miladyShe cries like a baby

Scold us

See her tumbling down

Heil to the monkeyWe're having a funky reunion

Wasted and sunkHe can only have Sunday communion

He's got nicotine stains in his eyesHe's got nothing to protect but his pride

Oh smothered a kissOr be drowned in blissful confusion

See her tumbling down


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Steve Harley - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) Lyrics

You've done it all, you've broken every code

And pulled the rebel to the floorYou spoilt the game, no matter what you say

For only metal - what a bore!Blue eyes, blue eyes, how come you tell so many lies?

Come up and see me, make me smileOr do what you want, run on wild

There's nothing left, all gone and run awayMaybe you'll tarry for a while

It's just a test, a game for us to play

Win or lose, it's hard to smileResist, resist, it's from yourself you have to hide


There ain't no more, you've taken everythingFrom my believe in Mother Earth

How can you ignore my faith in everythingWhen I know what Faith is and what it's worthAway, away, and don't say maybe you'll try



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The Venus in Furs - Sebastian Lyrics

Radiate simply, the candle is burning so low for me

Generate me limply, I can't seem to place your name, cherieTo rearrange all these thoughts in a moment is suicide

Come to a strange place, we'll talk over old times we never spied

Somebody called me SebastianWork out a rhyme, toss me the time, lay me, you're mine

And we all know, oh yeah!

Your Persian eye sparkle; your lips, ruby blue don't speak a soundYou, oh so gay, with Parisian demands, you can run-around

And your view of society screws up my mind like you'll never know

Lead me away, come inside, see my mind in kaleidoscope

Somebody called me SebastianLove me sublime, mangle my mind, do it in style,

So we all know, oh yeah!

You're not gonna run, babe, we only just begun, babe, to compromiseSlagged in a Bowery saloon, love's a story we'll serialisePale angel face; green eye-shadow, the glitter is outasiteNo courtesan could begin to decipher your beam of light

Somebody called me SebastianDance on my heart, laugh, swoop and dart, la-di-di-da

Now we all know you, yeah!


21/27

Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk Lyrics

Oh cheeky cheeky

Oh naughty sneaky

You're so perceptiveAnd I wonder how you knew.

But dead finks don't walk too well (oh no)

A bad sense of direction (oh no)

And so they stumble round in threes (oh no)

Such a strange collection.

Oh, you headless chicken

Can those poor teeth take so much kicking?

You're always so charming

As you make your way up here.

And dead finks don't dress too well

No discrimination

To be a zombie all the time

Requires such dedication.

"Oh please sir, will you let it go by,

'Cos I failed both tests with my legs both tied

In my place the stuff is all there

I've been ever so sad for a very long time.

My my, they wanted the works:

Can you this? and that? I never got a letter back

More fool me, bless my soul

More fool me, bless my soul."

Oh perfect masters

They thrive on disasters

They all look so harmless

Till they find their way up here.

But dead finks don't talk too well

They've got a shaky sense of diction

It's not so much a living hell

It's just a dying fiction.


22/27

Wylde Ratttz - Gimme Danger Lyrics

Oh, give me danger little strangerand I'll heal your disease

Oh, give me danger little strangerand I'll heal your disease

there's nothing in my brainbut some ugly memory

kiss me like the ocean breeze

well, if you would be my loverI will shield you from tearsbut if you will be my master

then I will do anything

there's nothing left alive but somedark glassy eyes

erase my feeling one more time

hey, come on gimme dangerdie, little stranger

swear you're gonna feel mecome on gimme dangerdie, little stranger

swear you're gonna feel me . . .

gimme dangerlittle stranger . . .

oh, gimme dangereveryday

can you feel it . . .

I got a feelingI got a feelingI wanna feel it

oh, I wanna feel it . . . . . . .


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Andy Pratt - Avenging Annie Lyrics

They ran through hills and forestAs two under a spell

He was a city boy Floyd the outlawAnd she thought she new him well.

Long after that great summerWhen she first came into her fameAnd the avenger from Oklahoma

Was added to her nameThe avenger she became.

Well they call her avenging AnnieThe avenger of womanhood

She spends her whole life telling liesThese on a mess and over good

She'll take all these spoilt young hippiesRunning around playing games

They're surrounding your bed, she'll blow your headShe'll put you through a change.

What you've done to othersShe'll do unto you.

Then she met her sensitive outlawHe was the best thing she ever did seen

She was to be his wife for the rest of her life,But she was so blind she could never had seen.

No!

So she joined up with her outlawAnd headed for California.

He treated her worse than she'd ever imagined

He didn't say he didn't want her aroundHe kept it up so long, she couldn't be strong

He run her right into the ground.

After five long years,He picked her up and slapped her down.

Then she told her friends about him


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They all were on her sideBut she could see through the haze he looked so pale

She put her head right down and she cried.

For her poor lover

She cried like a mother for her poor lover.

And now she lives on a mountain topAnd she's almost thirty-five

And she's found her peace and found her releaseHappy just to be alive.

And she might go back to her FloydIf she thinks it's the thing to do

He gave up murder and theft after she leftAnd you know she still loves him to

Just like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoeJust like a worn out shoe

Well they call her avenging AnnieThe avenger of womanhood

She spends her whole life telling liesLeads them on a mess and over good.


25/27

Brian Eno - The Fat Lady of Limbourg Lyrics

Well, I rang up Pantucci,

Spoke to Lu-chi,I gave them all

They needed to know.If affairs are proceeding

As we're expecting,Soon enough the weak spots will show.

I assume you understand that we have options on your time,And will ditch you in the harbour if we must:

But if it all works out nicely,You'll get the bonus you deserve

From doctors we trust.

The Fat Lady of LimbourgLooked at the samples that we sent

And furrowed her brow.You would never believe thatShe'd tasted royalty and fame

If you saw her now.But her sense of taste is such that she'll distinguish with her tongue

The subtleties a spectrograph would miss,And announce her decision,While demanding her reward:

The jellyfish kiss.

Now we checked out this duck quackWho laid a big egg, oh so black

It shone just like gold.And the kids from the city,

Finding it pretty, took it home,And there it was sold.

It was changing hands for weeks till someone left it by their fireAnd it melted to a puddle on the floor:

For it was only a candle, a Roman scandal oh oh oh,

Now it's a pool.That's what we're paid forThat's what we're paid for

That's what we're paid for here.


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Fredda Payne - Band of Gold Lyrics

Now that you've goneAll that's left is a band of gold

All that's left are the dreams I holdBand of gold

And the memories of what love could beIf you were still here with me

You took me from the shelter of my motherI have never known or loved another

We kissed after taking vowsThat night on our honeymoonWe stayed in separate rooms

I wait in the darkness of my lonely roomFilled with sadness filled with gloom

Hoping soonThat you'll walk back through that door

And love me like you tried beforeNow that you've gone

All that's left is a band of goldAll that's left are the dreams I hold

Band of goldAnd memories of what love could be

If you were still here with me

Don't you know that I waitIn the darkness of my lonely room

Filled with sadness filled with gloomHoping soon

Thta you'lol walk back through that doorAnd love me like you tried before

Since you've been goneAll that's left is a band of gold

All that's left are the dreams I holdBand of gold

And the memories of what love could be

If you were still here with meI wait in the darkness of my lonely room

Filled with sadness filled with gloomHoping soon

That you'll walk back through that doorAnd love me like you tried before


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T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer Lyrics

I was dancing when I was twelve

I was dancing when I was aaahI danced myself right out the womb

Is it strange to dance so soonI danced myself right out the womb

I was dancing when I was eightIs it strange to dance so late

I danced myself into the tombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself into the tomb

Is it wrong to understandThe fear that dwells inside a man

What's it like to be a loonI liken it to a balloon

I danced myself out of the wombIs it strange to dance so soonI danced myself into the tomb

But when again once more

I danced myself out of the womb

Is it strange to dance so soonI danced myself out of the womb.

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