RATTUS NORVEGICUS
Sometimes
Someday I'm going smack your face (X2)
Somebody's going to call your bluff
Somebody's going to treat you rough
Sometimes there's only one way, I gotta fight...
Sometimes I get to feel so mean (X2)
Sometimes you look like you're too clean
Sometimes I see the in between
Sometimes only one way, I gotta fight...
You're way past your station
Beat you honey, 'til you drop
You're way past your station
It's useless asking you to stop
I got morbid fascination
Beat you, honey 'til you drop
Sometimes you're gonna get some stick (X2)
Somebody's standing in our way
Somebody's gonna have to pay
Sometimes there's only one way, I gotta fight...
Goodbye Toulouse
Your streets were paved with love
Your skies were blue Goodbye Toulouse
I walked your streets in fear
I washed your streets with tears Toulouse
Goodbye Toulouse
Your cafes tell the tale
Of saddened millionaires Toulouse
A million dreams I've had
A million lies I've told Toulouse
Goodbye Toulouse
Paula looked down on me
From her high balcony Toulouse
I will return some day
So you can hear me say Farewell
Goodbye Toulouse (X3)
London Lady
Little lady with Dingwall's bullshit
Ah, you're so stupid, foetid brainwaves
Little lady what really happens
When you see mirrors you get the shivers Ahhh.....
Making love to the Mersey Tunnel
We like sausage. Have you ever been to Liverpool ?
Please don't talk much it burns my ears
Tonight you've talked for a thousand years.
What I'm trying to say
Plastic's real when you're real sick (X8)
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about (X2)
Oh..London Lady, why did you lay me?
Your head is crowded with the names you've hounded
The lines around your eyes they show me
You realise the party's over London Lady, party's over London Lady
Tell me what you've got to look so pleased about (X2)
Princess of the Streets
She's gone and left me
I don't know why
That girl she's crazy
She made me cry
She's gone and left me
I don't know why
Yeah she's the queen of the street
What a piece of meat
She's real good looking
She makes me sigh
Blue jeans and leather
Her heels are high
She's real good looking
she makes me sigh
Yeah, she's the queen of the street
What a special treat
(Chorus)
She's no lady
She'll stab you in the back
She's no lady
She's princess of the pack
With words of fire
She'll make you small
With eyes that smile
She'll make you tall
With words of fire
She'll make you small
But you would rather wait a year
'til she gave you a call
She's gone and left me
I don't know why
That girl she's crazy
She made me cry
She's gone and left me
I don't know why
But she's queen of the streets
what a piece of meat
(Chorus)
Hanging Around
Big girl in the red dress
She's just trying to impress us
And she's got the barley fever
But she doesn't make a sound
She's just hanging around (X2)
Down the Court Road early
With the hustlers big 'n' burly
There's a million of them selling
And the buyers can't be found
They're just hanging around (X2)
(Chorus)
Chirst has told his mother
Chirst he told her not to bother
Coz he's alright in the city
Coz he's high above the ground
He's just hanging around (X2)
One of them comes closer,
He's got a monkey on his shoulder,
And the monkey's getting grinner,
But his eyes are on the ground,
He's just hanging around (X2)
I'm moving in the Coleherne,
With the leather all around me,
And the sweat is getting steamy,
But their eyes are on the ground,
They're just hanging around (X2)
(Chorus X2)
Peaches
Strolling along minding my own business
Well, there goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down (X2)
Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches
Well I got the notion girl that
you got some suntan lotion in that bottle of yours
Spread it all over my pealing skin baby, that feels real good
All this skirt, lapping up the sun,
Lap me up, why don't you come on and lap me up?
Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches
Well there goes another one just lying down on the sand dunes
I better go take a swim and see if I can cool down a little bit
'Cos you and me woman, we got a lot of things on our minds
You know what I mean?
Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches
Will you just take a look over there? Where? There
Is she trying to get out of that clitoris?
Liberation for women, that's what I preach, preacher man
Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches
Oh shit! There goes the charabang
Looks like I'm going to be stuck here the whole summer
Well, what a bummer!
I can think of a lot worse places to be
like down on the streets
Or down in the sewer or even on the end of a skewer
Down on the beaches
Just looking at the peaches etc.
(Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
Didn't have the money round to buy a Morry Thou
Been around and seen a lot to shake me anyhow
Begged and borrowed sometimes I admit I even stole
But the worst crime that I ever did was playing rock and roll
But the money's no good, just get a grip on yourself (X2)
Suffering convictions on a two way stretch inside
The air in here is pretty thin, I think I'll go outside
Committed for insanity, and crimes against the soul
The worst crime that I ever did was play some rock and roll
But the money's no good, just get a grip on yourself (X2)
And you should know
Now I find from week to week the sentence sticking fast
Turn the corner, rub my eyes and hope the world will last
Stranger from another planet, welcome to our hole
Just strap on your guitar and we'll play some rock and roll
But the money's no good, just get a grip on yourself (2)
And you should know
Ugly
I could have read a poem called Ozymandias to her,
Instead, I lived for the moment
It was a futile gesture, anyway. I was here! And she was here!
And being broad, of mind and hips, we did the only thing possible
I guess I shouldn't have strangled her to death but
I had to go to work and she had laced my coffee with acid
Normally I wouldn't have minded but I'm allergic to sulphuric acid
Besides, she had acne and if you've got acne, well,
I apologise for disliking it intensely.
But it's understandable that ugly people have got complexes
I mean it seems to me that ugly people don't have a chance
It's only the children or the fucking wealthy who tend to be good-looking
An ugly fart attracts a good looking chick, if he's got money (X3)
It's different for Jews somehow
I'd like to see a passionate film between
The two ugliest people in the world.
When I say ugly, I don't mean rough looking, I mean hideous
Don't tell me that aesthetics are subjective.
You just know the truth when you see it whatever it is
Muscle power (X4)
Down in the sewer
Down in the sewer
Picking up quite a lot of empty coca cola cans
and there sure are a lot of them around here
How did I get down here? Well it's a long story.
I should have stayed down home out on the farm
and kept my tootsies warm instead of freezing them off down here
There's lots of rats down here
You can see the whites of their eyes
They got sharp teeth, deep breath and lots of diseases
People say you shouldn't stay down here too long
Lose your sense of light and dark
Lose your sense of smell
I tell you what I'm gonna do
Gonna make love to a water rat or two and breed a family
They'll be called the survivors
You know why? No!
They're gonna survive
I'll see you in the sewer darling and don't be late
I'll see you in the sewer (repeat)
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