1. PUPPET
LIFE
Wires stick through my soul, my actions are controlled
Turning me from free man to puppet life suspended,
in puppet life
Your demands are my role,
lost in space and time
I crawl for you
Once I had my own mind but in your sewer I was blinded
Wallowing around like an albino crocodile, in puppet life
I used to laugh an make the
sun shine
But then you come and made me freeze
I haven't had a friend for such a long time
Cut the strings, fee me please, oh please, I beg you
Once my world was wild but
clear
No-one over me to watch an overhear
Now I have only dreams to sell
I'm going cheap at the gates of hell, at the gates Of hell, hell
Our bodies can take no more
The fascist always ends up on the floor
Our day will come we pray, I'll be OK when I've
Been mended, mended
But until then I will be swinging on your rope, with no hope
All I have, all I know are puppets.
2. FUNK ME
You suck all my power - oh electricity
Melt me every hour - on the hour like a clock
Tick-tock
Am I cockoo, am I demon? Give my heart a chance
Are your reptile, am I dreamin'? I watch your long tongue
Funk me till I'm crazy maybe
you can make me see
My eyes are glazey in the madness you've left me
In the jungle, oo-ah, oo-ah, oo-ah, oo-ah
This disco spell danger -
I am Lone Ranger
Won't someone touch me - Hell's hot licks clutch me
I hear my sweet heart scream
Funk me till I'm crazy you
can help me find a way
Out of this maze inside, lizard love is free
In the jungle, oo-ah, oo-ah, oo-ah, oo-ah
Funk me till I'm crazy, sex
is just a dream
I drink your gaze and soak in dust and cream
Funk me till I'm crazy -
make my magic scream
Lizard love is easy - sex is just a dream
I'll meet you here on Monday - this time we'll get so tight
Vanity has burn ways - you have my heart tonight
Aa-aa-ah, aa-aa-ah, aa-aa
Funk me till I'm crazy sex
is just a dream
I drink your gaze and soak in dust and cream
3. THE MESSAGE
Got to work in the morning, still stuck in a dream,
cooped up on moonlab, I went to the screen
Years of waiting, still no sign of hope
Then I saw a light flash on the radio telescope
I couldn't believe it, heart
turned to stone
I tried to swallow, I picked up the phone
I said to my assistent, "You won't believe this but
I don't give a damn
I've just received a message - come over here
As soon as you can, now hurry."
'Earth calling moonlab, it's
too early to say but we
Believe the signal's about a thousand light years away
Whatever form of life it is, for all we know
Might be extinct now, wiped out centuries ago
Shut up, locate the planet, communication has begun
It's from the second nearest star system to our
sun now, there it is
"You'd like to see us
but that cannot be - we
cannot even reach you with simple telepathy
Your mind is not developed, you'd find us much too strange
You see, we have no structure, we constantly change
We merge with our surroundings, we fluidly adapt our shape
If we came down now
You would be the form we'd take
Do you understand?
Do you understand?
4. All White Jack
I'm black, I'm red, I'm white, I'm all three in the night
All look the same to me
I see you try to split the people with your tricks
Play hangman with yourself, crack the whip
Chorus: (Hey!) I'm in the
darkroom keep out the light
Developing an image of you tonight
Negative eyes make the future black
Thank God I'm positively all white jack
White man, superior white
man
You're a superman, it's a super plan
But only for a white man in a white house
We are no angels, I'm all white jack
I see you crack your head
You sat up on a wall but now I see you fall
I love to see you swim inside your sea of sin
But now I hear you cal
Chorus:
All whit jack, all white jack
The time has come to sow
the seed of change
Into the Euromind
Chorus:
All white jack, can't you see I'm all white etc.
All white etc.
5. OBSESSION
All the best girls belong to somebody else through a window.
I've seen it all before up here in the grey of my room -
"I'm watching every move you make.
I'm watching every breath you take"
With my park-bench eye I see them
all go by imagining so
much more all through the day
till the moon comes-
"watching every move you make,
clock-watching, passing you by.
We're laughing at you.
We're pointing your way"
-I MUST BE STRONG-
"We're laughing at you, we know about
games you play you know what to say"
-I'VE GOT TO BE STRONG-
Now the days died, time to slip outside.
I watch a girl say goodbye to her friends.
I'll follow and think what to say-
"Stop thinking time will fly for you.
Stop thinking.
You know what to do"
I could hold her soft white hand and
make her understand me
but I know how that story ends.
She'd toss her head and quickly walk away-
"Just do it. Now's your chance to show.
Just do it, you know you can!
We're laughing at you, we're pointing your way"
(I MUST BE STRONG)
We're laughing at you we know all about
your games you know what they say
(I'VE GOT TO BE STRONG)
But I had to get you all
by yourself because I want you all for myself.
If I saw you with anyone else I'd break up into pieces.
You make me feel so stupid, I've always been so shy.
Anyone can tell you I wouldn't hurt a fly but I feel so far above you
you'll be easy to make love to, even if it means You have to die die
die
and I'll kiss you as you're lying in the mud I'll kiss your mouth
And wipe away the blood
I'll take you home an kiss you in the night when you're cold
I'll kiss you when I'm helpless and I'm feeling 2 years old feeling
2 years old
YOU'RE BACK IN A ROOM
I did no wrong:
THEY'RE COMING FOR YOU
BANG INSIDE YOUR HEAD
YOU STILL HEAR HER SAY:
-I say I did no wrong.
She's dead (It wasn't me
who did it) She's dead.
It must have been somebody else. She's dead.
Look at me. I am a baby.
She's dead, No she's not she's only sleeping
WAKE UP WAKE UP!!
Shesdeadshesdeadshesdeadshesdead
Shesdeadshesdead I didn't do it
It only seems to happen with a corpse or a dream
Dead bodies don't betray you. They never try to scream
6. Radar Bug
It's a pleasure dome, with a solar ceiling
It's home sweet chrome, but I don't feel much feeling.
Colour of skin - white paste
Blank screen, nothing seen, then your face
Sonar blips your echo
Radar bug I feel you tug my wire - I love your video
I can feel you crawl across
But the synthesizer says: "Feeling strange?
Select a smell, pick a dream, choose your taste".
There's music from the song machine but I still feel out of place
Now my sockets found your
plug
You gotta home in, sonar skin
Radar bug, radar bug.
7. Metropolis
This is no dream, this is for real, with you forever
We got to impale the slugs in your brain, with you forever
Crackle of the creeps, punish all the pain
Trigger off a dream, there's only on way
Metropolis, metropolis metropolis
with you forever
Metropolis - it's hip to drink piss
Metropolis - this is the twist
Metropolis, with you forever
Now you have a night - so
deep and so dark
To burn your light - I'm burning inside
Police incite, Baboon's gonna bite
Wanna go back? You wanna
go back?
Hide here, confide here - all words are wall to wall
Feed us, tease us - robot radar dummies are installed everywhere
This is no dream - this is
for real, with you forever
We want to sustain all the hope in your brain - metropolis with you
forever
Crackle off the creeps - they hang on your back
Punish all the pain - it doesn't exist
Trigger off a dream, there's only one way
You wanna got back? You wanna
go back?
Hide here, confide here - all words are wall to wall
Feed us, need us
Choose your partner, pay your token
Sleeping duty has awoken now
Dance with a Chinese girl
8. British Baboon
1.British baboon, he's on the scowl
So softly spoken, deep down you can hear him howl
Another day's business over for the conning beast of prey
Survival of the fattest means, rip-off in every way
See him at a party pin a
victim to the wall
Pink with drink, he gives her a wink
He's rehearsed it all
Upstairs, coats on the bed, he lays her down,
strokes her head
His eyes begin to drool, she says No! He says Fool!
1st Chorus:
Whaddya say?
Whaddya take me for
Whaddya say?
Get away form that door
I'm just a monkey
Swing a little bit for me
2. Next night out clubbing
he measures up the meat
Cold eyes on heat
Stone-age girl blue-black-blue flickers on his peep show
Watch out ooooh, he's come at her elbow
Dancing, he's obscene ¾ she knows, where he's been
He says "Come back to my luxury flat where the jungle juices glow"
She says "I don't understand."
Snarling he says "Oh-Oh"
2nd Chorus (same as the 1st)
"Don't move, I'll prove my kiss is bliss"
Ah, I'm pissed
Civilisation smoothed his
style
Baboon sophistication made his mouth a twisted smile
But he never bared his fangs in public, never showed his claws
When with a grin, she says to him "Hey little apeman ¾ up
yours!"
3rd Chorus
Whaddya say?
Whaddya take me for
Whaddya say? Get away from that door
You may be a hunky, swinging' from tree to tree
But I'm not a flunkey, and you'll never feed off me
You're on the make but one day you'll break
Snap, just like that.
9. Babalon
I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast
Full of names of blasphemy and written on her
Forehead was MYSTERY - Babalon the great
Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth.
Then an angel cried, saying
Babalon is fallen and
become the habitation of devils and the hold of
Every foul spirit. For all nations of the earth have
drunk the wine of the wrath of her fornication and
the kings of the earth have fornicated with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich
through the abundance of her delicacies.
Chorus:
Babaloon the Great -mud mother
Babaloon the Great -soil sister
Babaloon the Great -she was Mary Magdalena
Babaloon the Great -she's your Whore Madonna
I believe in one earth, the
mother of us all and in
One womb wherein all men are begotten and
wherein they shall rest, mystery of mystery, in her name,
Babalon, crimson queen, she was painted,
tainted, unclean
Undermining family life
Everybody's mistress, nobody's wife
Our father lied -she never
died
Love became obsession and gulf between body
and soul opened wide
Conscience was a bleeding heart
Tore all lovers apart
Made a sword in the shape of a cross and a bomb that cried
"God's on your side."
He said "You're born to die, life's all sorrow
Don't change the world, think only of tomorrow"
Millions were killed, tortured and maimed
Allah be praised, she ought to be ashamed
Chorus:
She's not a screen dream to hang on the wall
Or a wet machine to peep beneath your pillow
She's not your girl next door or an ice queen to
waste away for
She's Babalon, equal to man
She'll do what she wants to do what she can
But Gad said the word, still heard now
"If she's not a virgin, she must be a cow"
Sparge verba, sparge verba,
sparge verba ¾
Venus orta mari
Exaudi penis carmina blanda precor
Phallum ejaculum tibi feram semper in meo amore
Babalon, I'm waiting for
you, I'm begging for you
Babalon listen to me, listen to me etc. NOW
Babalon you've got to come back
Bababababababababa Babalon
Please come back
Bababababababababababababa
10. Excess Bleeding Heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Sow the fruits of madness, they grow up in my tree
Your can live with luxury
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Stop your heart's sadness,
set your soul free
Come make love with luxury
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Everybody sing
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
They believe your're blind,
but we disagree.
We give light so you can see your
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Expel excess live on a pea,
and you'll
forget your luxury
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Madder, madder, madder, madder.
Up a snake and down a ladder life as
Full as you can find.
Maybe love should be blind
In the world everything needs re-focusing
This road leads to the palace of wisdom
Ooh excess bleeding heart
Ooh excess bleeding heart
11. Laughing Academy
Maxwall move along - Einstein, glad you could find time
Galileo's getting off the bus
Leonardo's in the rest room, there's a meal soon
Chorus:
Haaaas to be laughing Acaaaademy, Laughing
Acaaaademy etc.
(I want to be there, blind people see there)
The stocks in the market-place
(with a snigger,
they chuckle you away
The Inquisition
The witchfinder watching on the old lady on her
Own (They like to get you on your own)
Talking to yourself (talking to yourself)
Talking to the animals, talking to the plants
It's a loony with a polygraph (what a giggle)
The press-gang's seeking out your weak points
But your're in good company, ha-ha-harmony
Chorus:
We want your, we want you'll find it funny too
Here's what your learn to do
Laugh when they laugh at you ah-ah-ah
The punishment of mockery
is when you're dead
They put you down in history, crown on your head
If God writes all the jokes, Death is the punchline
Is it all a waste of time, state of mind? No
Chorus
CREDITS
ALL SONGS: Luxury-Bond-Giro -Except "THE MESSAGE": Luxury-Bond-Giro-Sekrit
PRODUCER: Mike Howlett
RECORDING ENGINEER: Aldo Bocca
MIXING ENGINEER: Lawrence Diana
COVER ARTIST: Mike Litherland
Many
thanks:
Mike Howlett for playing sequencer on "Laughing Academy"
Aldo for inspiration. Pecko&Bilbo for cutting remarks.
Lawrence for not bursting blood vessels,
Blackbeard Nick and the Advision Computer,
Jamie and Will for trucking on,
The Hermit for Money, Sister Susie for snoozing,
Babs Babalon for hellfire, Tricky Vicki,
The Fulham Burglars, MFA for potboilers,
Tony for a nice try, Rob Dicks for First Aidan,
(Brian, Frances&Brian of Screen Gems)
Recorded at EDEN STUDIO
Mixed at ADVISION STUDIO
