Bittersweet 1985

Alone Without You

Platform One

I Cringed I Died I Felt Hot

KFAD Wait For No One

2 M.B

These Things

The Taste Of Your Tears

Torture

Sugar Candy Mountain Buddhas

Mind Yer Toes

Lyrics

01 ALONE WITHOUT YOU

Alone without you

A hot room, Septembers gloom

Lick my lashes, kiss my cheeks

Remembered lines in between the sheets

Alone without you

Pass the phone, someone pass the phone

Shall we try to make July

You're like the sea to hold impossible and bold

But your taste it lingers on

On my hands and on my tongue

Alone without you

Pass the phone, someone pass the phone

Shall we try to make July

Shall we try to make July

When you called me at home

You said you lived on your own

Just dreaming of me

When I called you at home

Someone else picked up the phone

It wasn't you

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03 I CRINGED I DIED I FELT HOT

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

If love is the escape then tell me is a kiss the gate

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

Too many lips it seems to me are sealed to save their face

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

The whispers in the dark can seem cold and lacking heart

Transparent under clinical scrutiny what was sweet becomes obscene

Stinging your heaving spleen

And gag as your force fed religiously

Just like you did to me

I cringed I died I said I cringed I died I felt hot

To find your pale imitation of my love

I cringed I died I said I cringed I died I felt hot

Because of your pale imitation of my love

From the heat of Adelaide to the clubs of Sauchiehall Street

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

Via the New York tenements and the dancing Japanese

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

The crippled lover crawls their ego on the floor

Easy prey for an opportunist

I reached up to far for you were no holy grail

Just a sad reflection of my hearts desire

I cringed I died I said I cringed I died I felt hot

To find your pale imitation of my love

I cringed I died I said I cringed I died I felt hot

Because of your pale imitation of my love

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

Hear me talk to you - hear me talk to you

Because you're a stranger now

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05 2MB

A pouted glare to a glitter frown

Tilted teenage crown

Worn well

You were my solid gold metal guru

Spinning a spine shiver spell

Take a film then a scream

It all adds up 2MB

High heels stomping under lurex flairs

You were the young soul dream

Black mascara, cork screw hair

Even in ballet shows you were mean

Take a film then a scream

It all adds up 2MB

Take a film then a scream

It all adds up 2MB

A pouted glare to a glitter frown

Tilted teenage crown

Worn well

You were my solid gold metal guru

Spinning a spine shiver spell

Take a film then a scream

It all adds up 2MB

Take a film then a scream

It all adds up 2MB

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07 THE TASTE OF YOUR TEARS

I don't know about me

I can't say that I have changed

What I was is what I am

That still remains

What I love is what I see

But you've just twisted me too much

Tested and pried

To look inside

Now you can't stay

The taste of your tears

Tears me apart

The bittersweet salt cracks my heart

I don't know about me

I can't say that I have changed

What I was is what I am

That still remains

To au revoirs I have grown wise

I know goodbye should mean goodbye

There's no regrets

Just dry your eyes

Wipe your face

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09 SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN BUDDHAS

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

I say hide

Let it Fly

Sugar Gravy Train go by

I say hide

Turn the tide

Them buddha boys they've got no pride

A hint in the eye

That glint of gold

Swing your plastic hip

Spin your video

Just follow my lips

I'll say it slow

I'm talking sugar candy mountain buddhas'

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

Kiss my cheeks and tap my back

Lay your 30 bits of silver there

Put all you promised in the pan

And flush it to the sewer then

A hint in the eye

That glint of gold

Swing your plastic hip

Spin your video

Just follow my lips

I'll say it slow

I'm talking sugar candy mountain buddhas'

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

Baby Baby Baby

Sugar candy mountain buddhas' beware

Beware

You better get wise 'cos here they come

You better get wise they've come

You better get wise 'cos here they come

You better get wise they've come

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02 PLATFORM ONE

The strength of my imagination

Is tearing me apart

I've wings of snow

Wrapped around my arms

I can go anywhere that I want

I would tread water I would swallow salt

Rather than float with the tide

I'd grow potatoes in a flower patch

You Know appearances don't keep you alive

Dance on the cliffs of Dover or the city slums

And head for Platform One

Hip hop belu lu lola is Platform One

And I'm bittersweet

There's warm sand between my toes

My hands they will be tanned

There's a village somewhere in France

We'll disappear like Monica Rose

Dance on the cliffs of Dover or the city slums

And head for Platform One

Hip hop belu lu lola is Platform One

And I'm bittersweet

And here's the secret believe and you will be it

Ooh hey yeah yeah

And here's the secret just believe and you will be it

Dance on the cliffs of Dover or the city slums

And head for Platform One

Hip hop belu lu lola is Platform One

And I'm bittersweet

But I know I wont cry forever

People never cry forever

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04 KFAD WAIT FOR NO ONE

Wait for no one - no one

I don't wait for no one and I'm not gong to start with you

I don't wait for no one never seen any reason why I should

So once more summers through the rain fall so what's new

On corners everywhere holidays end leaving vacant stares

So what are they waiting for - the youth youth youth

What are they dreaming of

Do they want to be kings for a day

Snip snip the memories shorn onto the barbers floor

Reflections off the wall show kings wishing for one day more

I don't want no one day reign

For a one day reign would cloud over my campaign

The sun shines everyday

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06 THESE THINGS

Drawing on a lip stained cigarette

While nervously

You play with your St Christopher

The wind blows around us in the car

We drive down country lanes

Film scores blur with the speed

These things that you do

These things that you say

These things are all that I adore

Talking until we could rip the sleep from our eyes

Exhausted

Our heads spin with wine & plans

The pictures you paint

Become the landscape of my heart

And although others may not see

These things that you do

These things that you say

These things are all that I adore

These things are

These things are

These things are all that I adore

These things that you do

These things that you say

These things are all that I adore

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08 TORTURE

Love me like you said you could

Love me till I'm numb

Love me like you said you could

Call me and I'll run

Right now, I want you

Right now, I want you

It's more than torture

When you're on your knees

It's more than torture

When you choose to tease

Love me like your favourite sweet

Your just desserts and more

Cover me in cheesecake mix

Swallow me up whole

Right now, I want you

Right now, I want you

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10 MIND YER TOES

I am a victim of history

An empire child wrapped in civility

But only mad dogs and Englishmen

Would believe that one

For from her shores there grew a great nation

The Ronald Coleman humble heroes

With the manic stares and night club glares

Mind yer toes

While corn beef bombs

Were mashing British tommies

The cries from home could turn your blood cold

Forget the victims

Forget appearances

Mind yer toes

I can survive as long as you are with me

I will skip up and down the pastures green

Forget the animals

Because I love you

I love you

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