Apocalypse now, the new world order, anti-Christ, they’re at the door
The phoney tough, the crazy brave, I’ll take it all to the grave
A misspent youth, a new mutation, Friday night you celebrate
But Saturday the first’s just a Saturday
Emptiness and frozen heads, you’re on your knees with a new disease
The zodiac says one thing, your boss says something else
The jackpot, the bingo, yeah the jackpot, let’s do the bingo
You’re alive, but so is the man that’s been hired
To delegate your daily rate, oops, don’t drink too much
Make it last, you’ll need some when you’re on the run
You miss and episode of your favourite soap
Don’t worry boy, it’s in ‘The Bible Code’
You’re alive, but you’re not in control
No lover, we’re not in control.

I’ve gotta learn one day soon
To drop these pictures I cling to from the honeymoon
‘Cause nothing ever stays the same
Except for the mistakes you make again and again

Am I hallucinating you?
Are you hallucinating me?
Or are we just lost together hallucinating the whole goddamn thing?

Because I want to know what gives when we go
It don’t seem at all like we’ll ever know for sure
Because I want to know what gives when we go
It’ll never be found but while we’re here to stay

What go around come around

I’ve gotta learn inside out
To make you see I’m just another bag of doubt
‘Cause everything that ever happened
Was meant to happen just the way that it turned out

Am I hallucinating you?
Are you hallucinating me?
Or are we just lost together hallucinating the whole goddamn thing?

Because I want to know what gives when we go
It don’t seem at all like we’ll ever know for sure
Because I want to know what gives when we go
It’ll never be found but while we’re here to stay

What go around come around

Loving it up in a target market. Switch down for red.
Switch up for off and you’re carsick. I’m never never
Taking it on my time ever again to let a shyster make me
Feel I need more medicine. Homeopathic Echinacea
In the mainline. Sucking it in and sucking it out and
Fine wine. Opiate the cake and make the tea.
You do your best to guarantee our pride and joy
Gets to her ballet classes on time.

Where is the fire escape? Are you burning?
Where is the fire escape? Are you burning…

… out with it now, I want to believe you
I’m translating lies but I still won’t leave you.
I’ve got to find another way for us to keep in touch
An emotional crutch. An emotional crutch.
If your mum and dad ever queue up, if your mum and dad ever queue up
Ask them why they never use your direct line.
It’s ‘cause they still feel guilty about your … your broken spine

Where is the fire escape? Are we burning?
Where is the fire escape? Are we burning for

One world at a time, but worlds never stop. They collide.
I think I’m gonna have to hide.

God get me out of the digital bureau. I’ve got a technique
But I’m so insecure. Oh no, I’m gonna have to shuffle up a new deck
I’m a nervous wreck. I’m a nervous wreck.
I’ve got to slow down for someone to love me
I’ve got to keep up to show that I’m hungry
I look at you now against the sun
I think ‘Love has come, love has come’ but

Where is the fire escape? Are you burning?
Where is the fire escape? Are we burning for

One step at a time but I want to run ‘til we make the climb

I guess I’m gonna have to hide.

You cannot hate what you’ve never loved
You cannot hate what you’ve never loved
But it doesn’t stop you from losing friends
Again and again and again and again and again and again. Hide

She shouldn’t exist and that’s the real twist
Because I saw her in the flesh
She’s more than magazine covers and imaginary lovers
Yes I’ve been blessed
And now I’m scared to dream
Because if dreams like you can come true then ’p
Anything is possible

She made me see the universe in me
And how I’ve never let it through
She may not be for me but without her I’d be
Still searching for truth
And if this promise breaks
Thanks anyway now I can see that
Anything is possible.

You’re not the kind of girl that suffers fools without a fight
So how did you accept the only offer of the night
Your friends have all gone home, this mirror ball is all you’ve got
He beckons you toward the floor and you’re thinking why the hell not?

But you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice

Suddenly you’re questioning the working weeks ahead
And all that springs to mind’s the million words you never said
Come back, come back to me, come back home to meet the folks
You could dazzle us with miracles and we’d laugh at all your jokes

But you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice

And every prayer reminds you of the night your dreams were smashed
But if you’d prised off his disguise you’d have sold him in a flash

That’s why you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice that you’d been out dancing with Jesus
No you didn’t notice at all

Tired and hungry, nothing left to do
I’m taking a break ‘cause I’m afraid
I’ve been faking it all just for you

Can’t speak to no one
Can’t let you get too near
‘cause I’m scared I’m not really here.

Love’s been crueler
Than I had ever dreamt
Apologies turn into stainless steel
Like Kitchen Devils up against your neck

I can’t help making
My words become your tears
‘cause I’m scared I’m not really here.

Think a thought. Dream a dream.
But when you speak. Speak to me.
Is this unfinished feeling just a lie?
It takes me to the breaking point.
I can’t decide.

But I can be strong. I can be weak.
I can be everything you need.
You say it’s enough. You say it’s too much.
Every time we try to
Touch each other.

I’m feeling stronger. Don’t leave me now.
I’m feeling stronger. Don’t leave me now.

Eighty eight per cent of clowns
never fall in love.
I didn’t really think I was that funny. It’s funny.
But please don’t die of laughter ‘cause the joke’s all mine.

And I can be strong. I can be weak.
I can be all the things you need.
You say it’s enough. You say it’s too much.
Every time we try to
Touch each other.

I’m feeling stronger. Don’t leave me now.
I’m feeling stronger. Don’t leave me now.

Look out the window, see a girl in the next block.
Don’t speak the lingo. Your heart’s at the tips of her wings though.
Look for a reason why – shouldn’t shout ‘I need you’.
At worst she’d pull the blind. At best she’d grow old with you.
Everything will come to us from others for…
‘To be… is to belong to someone’.
It’s all behind the eyes, you’re scared of goodbyes
You wanted to leave but something just jumped out to test you.

There’s so many reasons why we should keep on holding on
There’s so many people think they want treacle but it’s salt they want.
There’s so many reasons why we should keep on holding on.
She said “Soldier on”.

Want forever? Switch it off and on. What’s forever?
What’s forever once you’re gone?
We’re not reading minds. We can’t change tomorrow.
And all that never died kept laughing through the sorrow.

You wanted to care. You wanted to ‘not’ care.
Your head’s in your hands and a voice out of nowhere said:
“Soldier on”.

Truth or illusion, don’t know where to start
I get delusions about the way we are
It’s a mystery, who put you into my head
It makes no sense to me
Why I can’t forget

And why am I still here without you
Why am I still burning out myself forever?
There’s nothing else to hang on to
You know that I want to
Understand where I’m at

And there could be one hundred reasons
But you’re the only one
There could be one hundred reasons
But you’re the only one

Since you went away
I’m as strong as a shipwreck
You won’t come out to play
I’m hanging with the rejects
Beginning to continue
Just asleep at the wheel
I touch the space around you
I want to learn how it feels

And there could be one hundred reasons
But you’re the only one
There could be one hundred reasons
But you’re the only one

Signing on in Holborn to cash a cheque by the Golden Mile
Nothing to do but watch the tourists take a picture, fake a smile
A fortnight’s cash can get you smashed to end a day that long
End up by the river singing karaoke songs

And I don’t know if I’m coming or going
And I don’t know if I’m coming or going

But in the night, the lights of the Thames, like sparkling gems
Are leading me home again
In the night , the lights are my friends, the lights of the Thames
They’re leading me home again

BBC world service kept me warm when we had to move
To Sunny Spain, my mother craved for a new life in the nude
Smoking kills and so do pills, HRT was a mystery
All I really wanted was a proper cup of tea

And I don’t know if I’m coming or going
And I don’t know if I’m coming or going

But in the night, the lights of the Thames, like sparkling gems
Are leading me home again
In the night , the lights are my friends, the lights of the Thames
They’re leading me home again

And I know you do actually understand,
You wanted Don Quixote, I wanted Peter Pan
But I was really ready to fly
And though I flew the nest just by the skin of my will
I still dream of us up on Muswell Hill
Laughing and ‘still’ holding hands

And I don’t know if We’re coming or going
And I don’t know if We’re coming or going

But in the night, the lights of the Thames, like sparkling gems
Are leading me home again
In the night , the lights are my friends, the lights of the Thames
They’re leading me home again

I’m seeing stars in the rain
It might not be great
But that’s alright
At least I’m going home with a smile.

I don’t know what’s behind her eyes
But something tells me I won’t mind
She looks at me like I’m a fool
She looks like she’s too cool for school
And I know we’re getting hurt again
But it won’t stop paper finding pen
I’ve fallen for her, now I’ve flown
But this time I don’t feel I’m going home alone.

I’ve seen her once or twice you know
So how do I explain it all?
I want to show I don’t mind letting go
But this don’t feel like all the others no..
I won’t be forgetting any of this
I keep on betting to win her kiss
Everything’s changed I’m in a zone

But this time I don’t feel I’m going home alone
This time I don’t feel I’m going home alone.

This time.