Roll up and shine
why don't you take a look in my mouth
why don't you take a look at yourself
so why don't you take a look around
so why don't we take a look inside
roll out the shock parade
free falling from a stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine

I hang the devil from a circus wire
face up seats four in love spitting fire
so why don't you take a look around
so why don't we take a look inside
it's time to live it's time to love
it's time to do what's afraid of
it's time to breathe time to relieve
it's time to shine
so why don't you take a look around
so why don't we take a look inside
roll out the shock parade
free falling from a stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine
bring on your shock parade
freaks falling from the stage
performance and cocktails
roll up and shine

The bartender and the thief
when you think about it
he's watching every word you say
hey dazed and when he's sussed you out
he calls her up and out she comes
and hustles us

the bartender and the thief are lovers
steal what they need like sisters and brothers
met in a church a night to remember
robbing the graves of bodies dismembered

he watched the lesbian talk
she kissed and groped but mostly talked in lust
crushed he couldn't make the call
his eyes were gripped on licking tongues
enough's enough failed for once

long digging
gone fishing
love drinking
the bartender and the thief are lovers
steal what they need like sisters and brothers
met in a church a night to remember
robbing the graves of bodies dismembered
saved what they stole
to meet at the alter
place where they first set eyes on each other
flew to the sun to start life all over
set up a bar and robbed all the locals

Hurry up and wait
we wait to wake to get a ride in the rain
buy a ticket they can check we can claim
so we don't spend what's our own
for a seat a place to stop a green light
a red cross they run around naked doing old things like the ones before
wait for a break so you can take a little something
that'll make your next break
come along a little quicker than the one before
wait for an answer spy a sweet dancer
as she walks from the door of the hall
wish you waited for your wedding vows
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?

we wait to get warm
the car starts from cold stall
to make a first move
magazines made the rules
to make us lose
wait for your dream man
the house you could both plan
the car in the sales
and the wet dream with the man you wished that you had
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?

a watched pot never boils
sugars seconds to dissolve
see your appetite lost foods relevance
is lost in mind
we wait to get there
and when we get there
we wait around for anyone
to tell us what we even got there for
u so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
so hurry up and wait
but what's worth waiting for?
repeated

so join the queue
me and you
wait in line
it takes our time to be satisfied

Pick a part that's new
I've never been here before
didn't know where to go
never met you before
I've never been to your home
that smells not unknown
foot steps made of stone
walking feels familiar
you can do all the things that you like to do
all around underground
pick a part that's new
you can do all the things that you like to do
all around upside down
pick a part that's new

people drinking on their own
push buttons on the phone
was I here once before
is that my voice on the phone
that last drink on my own
did I ever leave at all
confusions familiar
you can do all the things that you like to do
all around underground
pick a part that's new
you can do all the things that you like to do
all around upside down
pick a part that's new

*repeated*

so what's new to you?

Just looking
there's things I want
there's things I think I want
there's things I've had
there's things I wanna have
do I want the dreams
the ones we're forced to see
do I want the perfect wife
the word perfect ain't quite right
shopping every day
take it back the next break
they say the more you fly the more you
risk your life
I'm just looking I'm not buying
I'm just looking keeps me smiling

a house I seen another coulda' been
you drenched my head and said what I said
you said that life is what you make of it
yet most of us just fake
I'm just looking, I'm not buying
I'm just looking, keeps me smiling

Half the lies you tell ain't true
you could lick or chew
tongue in style tonight
champagne drag queen suit
pinstripe outta line
it's time to try
how blisters on your feet
blisters up your spine
if I could choose from two
I'd mime to be a smile
but when you rely on a lie that's true
and no one believes in the things you do
'cause half of the lies you tell ain't true
I'm gonna find out I'm gonna find a piece of you

you could pick and lose
diesel dreams for crime
I should win and choose
colours undersize
a naked fake that's
a face that fits for two
sex brings out the spies
hanging from your feet
Hollywood star style
but when you rely on a lie that's true
no one believes in the things you do
'cause half of the lies you tell ain't true
I'm gonna find out, I'm gonna find a piece of you
*repeated*

I wouldn't believe your radio
travelling through
a tunnel under sea
you never know if it cracks in half
you're never ever gonna see me
but you can have it all if you like
you can have it all if you like
and you can pay for it the rest of your life...
life

I wouldn't believe your wireless radio
if I had myself a flying giraffe
you'd have one in a box with a window
but you can have it all if you like
you can have it all if you like
and you can pay for it the rest of your life...
life

life in the summer's on it's back
you'd have to agree that that's the crack
so take what you want
I'm not comin' back

Kelly on "I would believe your radio":
Woke about four in the morning with Ringo Starr and George Harrison singing this tune in my dream. they were sitting on the pavement outside my mother and fathers house. the initial idea was for Stuart to sing it, and keep the Ringo theme going.

T-shirt suntan
he was walking 'round to you
one said French afternoon
so he called in to a shop for two
he brought himself an ice drink
a totally tropical nice drink
then he saw what he thought was you in a room
he thought about goin' over
but you were always much older
and your sex dressed breasts impressed too
he'd really like to get it together
before the twelve of never
so he's coming over
it's when all the phases come around
the clothes you wear
the sex and love it's enough
for the time
outta touch
out of luck

he always liked them older
so that his top lip touched on her shoulder
lionised undisguised
kill for you
like to show you his tee-shirt suntan
like to show you his minute head stand
then a gun spun open
it's when all the phases come around
the clothes you wear
the sex and love it's enough
for the time
outta touch
out of luck

*repeated*

from you to me to me to you

Is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
it's another way
to get through the day
picking up ripped cigarette boxes
hoping that one remains
yellow lucky day
suck deep and bathe
for the next ten minutes
spent coughing all the pleasures craved
write down all the things that you'd like to say
write down all the things that you'd like to change
write down all the places you'd like to stay
write down anything that you want
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
is nothing' gonna change the way
cracked rock top wall
let the ash to fall
left alone to wait
I've never looked at things I've liked
only things I hate
you're not the first today
not the softest face
was there any that you liked
was there any that you didn't fake?
write down all the things that you'd like to be
write down all the things that you don't believe
write down all the places you'd like to see
write down anything that you want
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?
is nothing gonna change the way?
because everything that's you
and the things that you like to do
and all of the things that are
come back again
is yesterday, tomorrow, today?

Kelly on "Is yesterday, tomorrow, today?":
Chris Rees, one of the boys down the club told me his son had asked him dad, is yesterday, tomorrow, today?" it's not what the song is about, but I liked the phrase for the title.

A minute longer
they're calling out
come on lets go
but I'm miles away
to a year before
laughs from a glass
drank to the past
on the old green seat
like velvet to the hand
think I'd like to stay a minute longer
would you like to stay a minute longer?

last one for some
sick from the rum
I play golf on the carpet with someone
crash back to date
few things I hate
but I'd rather us live
in the present day
think I'd like to stay a minute longer
would you like to stay a minute longer?

She takes her clothes off
she's got another fantasy
she lives in flat number twenty three
picked first prize for carnival queen
and now she takes her clothes off
collects the covers off her magazines
she longs to be another teenage dream
the problem is she's turning forty three
she still takes her clothes off

she got the nick name Porta bubble Joan
they found her dead, dead as nails at home
and she said I'm gonna be another Marilyn
bleach my hair and get real thin
and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me

she loved to have her little fantasies
she longed to be the wife of jimmy dean
but jimmys head sits in jimmys knees
she loves to take her clothes off

police are looking around at twenty three
they found her hanging from her swollen feet
they saw her dance last in Woolworth street
she loved to take her clothes off

she got the nick name Porta bubble Joan
they found her dead, dead as nails at home
and she said I'm gonna be another Marilyn
bleach my hair and get real thin
and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me
and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me

everybody wants to be the carnival queen
and everybody's gonna wanna dance with me
everybody wants to be the carnival king or queen
we all read the books
she takes her clothes off
one by one
off again

Plastic California
plastic California
looks like Blackpool outta date
some love some hate
it's all your competition
it's not my occupation true
but it's what you do
some love some hate
I like pink architecture
flip back my red strip deck chair
prove we got nothing to prove
gin stroke amnesia problems
overhearing talk of Hollywood
we wish we could ya should
some love some hate
it's a beautiful place for nature
and all the beautiful people make it true
but you look good as you
some love some hate
makes me feel great
I feel new d'ya feel new
ha, ha
well I'm pleased to meet you

I stopped to fill my car up
I stopped to fill my car up
the car felt good that day
I didn't know where I was going
but it felt good for a change
a five and a pocket full of silver
I paid the lady no change
and then it started to piss down
I started driving again
and then I looked up
and looked in the mirror behind me
a man round forty in the back seat
must have stepped in when I was empty
so why's he sat there just waiting
likely to smash my face in
he had a bag full of money
he said just drive me away
I didn't know where I was going
yet it felt good to be strange
and still I look up
and look in the mirror behind me
curiosity is over
he stepped down from the car
he pulled a gun from his jacket
said I was going to die
it gives me so much satisfaction
to watch you beg and cry
well I just made up this story
to get your attention makes me smile
I never looked up
or looked in the mirror behind me

Written in the new house after driving back from the cinema. it was written on an old upright piano. we'd swapped in the hairdressers for a T-shirt bartender came the next morning