One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To...

The urge to take you grows more strong For time had made me wait too long Each watch I smash apart Just adding to my power Each watch I smash apart Just bringin...

One thousand umbrellas Upturned couldn't catch all the rain That drained out of my head When you said we were Over and over I cried 'Til I floated downstream To...

(Andy Partridge) What can I say? Why do we starve a thing that's near extinction? From day to day, These weeds of fear, Are choking our conviction, Life's like...

Am i the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend Am i the kind of jill who could play with jacks Am i the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend The kind of ...

Am i the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend Am i the kind of jill who could play with jacks Am i the kind of girl who could be your boyfriend The kind of ...

My heart is taken it's not lost in space And I don't want to see your mooney mooney face I say why on earth do you revolve around me Aren't you aware of the gra...

Are you receiving me? You are deceiving me I know, see I know When we're out walking Your mouth ain't where it's supposed to do the talking When we're in kissi...

SS ave us from the ball and chain save us from the ball and SS chain save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah the SS S diggers and the t...

(Colin Moulding) Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Oh yeah, The diggers and the tower cranes, ...

(Colin Moulding) Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, Save us from the ball and chain, oh yeah, The diggers and the tower cranes, ...

Orange and lemon Raincoats roll and tumble Together, just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery sunlight shift...

Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery bri...

Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery bri...

Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room And find yourself a waiting groom Ba ba ba ba battery brides Ba ba ba ba battery bri...

Do you know what noise awakes you Every morning from your bed A-coming from the farthest hillside A-coming from inside your head You have heard You have heard t...

B E A T O W N I spoke to your boss this morning He asked why you weren't home? I said sir they left without warning You won't even get them on the telephone The...

It's your big day, your big day So you want to tie the knot Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day Are you deafened by the bells Could be heaven...

Push me off to start the fun On a bike ride to the moon Lots of room for everyone On a bike ride to the moon And we'll bring back cheese for my Auntie Jane And...

Push me off to start the fun On a bike ride to the moon Lots of room for everyone On a bike ride to the moon And we'll bring back cheese for my Auntie Jane And...

Books are burning In the main square, and I saw there The first eating the text Books are burning In the still air And you know where they burn books People are...

Born out of your mouth with your kiss my system formed star breath congealing Born out of your mouth in your words my birds will soar Egg newly laid, tumbling s...

Brainiacs Daughter Made me a suit of bricks and mortar And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes Brainiacs Daughter Took me on a sleigh ride underwater And I'm craz...

Brainiacs Daughter Made me a suit of bricks and mortar And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes Brainiacs Daughter Took me on a sleigh ride underwater And I'm craz...

Difficult age You're just fourteen And you're not friends with your body Painfully thin Look at your skin Play with yourself for a hobby How can they love a ma...

Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we?re working every hour that God made ...

Never seen her glowing All that bright she's throwing Like some aurora From her head it's growing Reaching to the ground and all around Like a Navajo blanket N...

What makes you wander far Don't know who you are Now if the vibe is right I'll go out tonight Cause it's Buzzcity talking it's Buzzcity talking Go and find a la...

Thanks to erich sellheim Well, let me tell you about my girlie She goes by the name of sleepy shirley She become a real life wiro Since she learned how to do t...

How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand My microbes and I Can't wait to lay down and...

I'm floating over strange land, It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon I'm floating over strange land, And then stranger still, there's no balloon But I'm gett...

I'm floating over strange land, it's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon I'm floating over strange land, and then stranger still, there's no balloon But I'm ge...

Copyright 1993 emi virgin song inc obo Emi virgin limited Composer: andy partridge Andy partridge - vocals, guitar, percussion, claps Colin moulding - bass, h...

Man acting like a farmer, And he?s treating the woman like a poor cow He got to treat you better from now But man is just a baby, And he?s needing your milk of ...

Collideascope Careful, don't look down the wrong end You will see ships that fall out of the sky Who put that nail in your eye You make me want to cry with your...

Fire sign, indicate luminous pornography Heliograph and morse photography Signal ad, signal ad, signal ad Commerciality, commerciality, commerciality Coherent,...

I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger So...

I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger So...

It's the airwaves of the world Not the hairwaves on your head Oh But anything can be On land and in the sea When you've got Crosswires When you've got Crosswire...

Across a crowded room I first set eyes on you My vision was impaired Obstructed out of view By those - faces in a crowded room them - bodies in a crowded room t...

Another year's gone by, the world's grown older, sometimes I heave a sigh, people grow colder Every day I do my best to show, I can make it in this world I know...

mmm mmm mm mm mm mm an acting like a farmer and he's treated the mm mm mm woman like a poor cow we got to treat you mm mm mm better f...

Jump for joy Jump for joy Dame fortune smile, ring my bell, lift your skirt, pour down some fortune on me Dame fortune smile, knock my door, doff your cap, deli...

Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is she In a 'Danceband' Show slow Quick quick slow Heel to hell and toe to toe In a 'Danceband' You can do the B...

Clock in my head Clock on the wall And the two of them Don't agree at all Friday is heaven, Friday is heaven Day in day out Day in day out Wish you were here On...

We can plant a seed And watch it grow Food enough to fill a table Running water down an overflow Eat as much as we are able But would the fruit turn ripe If the...

Cast away on a desert island Me and poor Crusoe are sharing the same fate Cast away on a desert island With Great Britain written on its name plate With my umbr...

The bar is crowded and bright But inside I feel empty and decaying The smoky air full of music and words It?s our record that is playing Disque bleu is all tha...

Ohh, stop shaking boy unless you're gonna shake with us relax you ain't breakfast, mmm Don't let us bug ya we just be having fun don't let us bug ya we won't ea...

Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper 'Cos I love you when you're wild Don't lose your temper Don't lose your temper Don't lose y...

Don't you ever dare call me chickenhead Don't you ever dare Don't you ever dare call me chickenhead Nobody has ever lived that ever did Nobody has ever lived

(andy partridge) Man acting like a farmer and, He?s treated the woman like a poor cow, We got to treat you better from now, But man is just a baby and, He?s ne...

It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs When they carried you out...

pp pppp pppp pp eople rushing round with no time to spare I'm so pp pp dizzy I'm neither here nor there, in this traffic pp pp pp jam I just wan...

I've been praying all the week through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hu...

I've been praying all the week through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hu...

Yes, it's true I want that apple, just like William Tell No more floor gazing, no more head down the well I'm feeling extrovert I should be shaking the stars in...

II am the fly on the wall my prying eyes are looking through II your bottom drawer I just came flying through your door II you didn't notice that y...

The hunt is on to find the fox Cross patchwork fields and spiny copse Much to and froing White horses showing Their pearly teeth He lead them up into a wood Wh...

The hunt is on to find the fox Cross patchwork fields and spiny copse Much to and froing White horses showing Their pearly teeth He lead them up into a wood Wh...

Funk pop a roll beats up my soul Oozing like napalm from the speakers and grill Of your radio Into the mouths of babes And across the backs of its willing slave...

Kid, stay and snip your cord off, talk and let your mind loose, can't all think like Chekov but you'll be OK Kid is this your first time here? Some can't stan...

Generals and Majors ah ah They're never too far From battlefields so glorious Out in a world of their own They'll never come down Till once again victorious Ge...

Generals and Majors ah ah they're never too far from battlefields so glorious out in a world of their own They'll never come down till once again victorious Gen...

Is the airplane sweeping low? Dropping leaflets down below Ho, ho, ho what they read, what they read [aw commation] Is affecting you Prince othello [stays he...

Laying on the grass my heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when th...

Great fire burning You supplied the spark Fores burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance a match on the tind...

When we're laying in bed And we're laying in love You and the blackness Fit me like a velvet glove That's why I go crazy When you flick on your lamp I'm dreamin...

Have you got Miss Fortune, she's the daughter of rich parents, all she does is cry One four-letter word is all she wants but you can't buy love so there's no s...

See the flowers round the altar See the peaches in tins ?neath the headmaster?s chair Harvest festival See the two who?ve been chosen See them walk hand in han...

Have you got Miss Fortune, she's the daughter of rich parents, all she does is cry One four-letter word is all she wants but you can't buy love so there's no s...

She likes it hot she likes a tan she steals my infra fed when I'm gone oh no can it be we're heading for a heatwave Her legs are brown a trace of rust she's in ...

Here comes President Kill again, Surrounded by all of his killing men Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again Hooray, ring out ...

Here comes President Kill again, surrounded by all of his killing men Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again Hooray, ring out ...

(Hold me) Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before If this means war, why ar...

Holly up on poppy Canter never stop She has escaped from the world Where they bake beautiful girls Holly up on poppy Trotting to the top She talks and banners u...

An alchemy, human alchemy We stole them from their freedom to be sold To turn their skins of black into the skins Of brightest gold An alchemy, human alchemy We...

I am the audience There's no doubt, no consequence I could make the morning papers If I use my capers Let's be the Audience I might lose my patience Polite appl...

And I may as well wish for the moon in hand I own this river, I own this town All of it's climbers and it's wino's sliding down But I can't own her and I never...

I drank a rainbow but I could not get me drunk All I could get me was blue, Red round the eyes where I cried bout how green I'd been Regarding you And all the w...

Oh, I need protection Nothing is safe and, Nothing is truly sacred, If you want to stay alive, Keep your body from the undertakers Sing out! Oh, I need prote...

I'd like That if we could cycle down some lane I'd like that if we could ride into the rain No macs, getting wet I'd be your Albert if you'd be Victoria, hah ha...

Ha Ha Ha Ho Ho Ho Now you see it Now you don't Has no bones To hurt your throat Good and sweet Nice to eat If you like it Just repeat I'll set myself on fire I...

Now you see it, now you don't Has no bones to hurt your throat Good and sweet, nice to eat If you like it just repeat I'll set myself on fire I'll set myself o...

I'm bugged you all look like insects In your brand new sunspecs I'm bugged I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga ...

Chorus: I'm the man who murdered love Yeah! What do you think to that? I'm the man who murdered love Yeah! What do you think to that? He was begging on his ben...

I'm bugged you all look like insects In your brand new sunspecs I'm bugged I'm bugged I drop a little note through my sympathetics door I think I'm going ga ga ...

Boom goes my heart Dancing around your daisies Church bells will start Sat on you reading your ages I drift away In loving memory of a name Covered in moss You ...

Instant tunes only just been made Instant songs never to be played Instant tunes hanging out to dry Let me try to introduce you to Instant tunes Instant tunes I...

Instant tunes only just been made Instant songs never to be played, ha Instant tunes hanging out to dry Let me try to introduce you to Instant tunes Instant tu...

I'm heading into the atom age My contemporary house is all the rage My wife's getting lazy going gadget crazy Wants a pallette shaped coffee table and a matchin...

(Andy Partridge) Chant your spirit free; Rush to greet truth like a dart Shake your bag o'bones, Shake your bag o'bones That's not traffic roar, That's a leopa...

(Guest appearance by The Dukes of Stratosphear) It's snowing angels, on my front porch Take a broom and sweep one in I'm such a lucky guy, such a lucky guy Eve...

TTTTT here may be no golden fleece but human riches I'll release T oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with T beasts I've seen, let...

(Andy Partridge) There may be no golden fleece, But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen, Le...

(Andy Partridge) There may be no golden fleece, But human riches I'll release Oh, my head is spinning like the world and it's filled with beasts I've seen, Le...

JUMPING jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free JUMPING jumping in gomorah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves if you got 'em We'll get stuc...

JUMPING jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free JUMPING jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves, if you got 'em We'll get s...

k kk k k nuckle down, love his skin, it doesn't matter what colour kkkkk skin he's locked in knuckle down, knuckle down and love k k tha...

Knights in shining karma Tend your flame And with love for armor They?ll remain Ever by your bed Guarding, still sleeping Shield your soul from this rain Knigh...