Wake Up The Mess Get Up And Fight No Respect Agony

Newtown People Does Anyone know The March is? Life In Their Hands My Death Living With Unemployment

 

Wake Up. It all begins at school when they tell you you're useless and the jobs you get offered makes the matter conclusive for years and years they've been telling you lies your full potential's never been realised and then you slip into the attitude of I make a mess of everything I try to do Chorus: Don't sit around; you've got to wake up and live Don't piss around; you've got to wake up and live. You religiously say it's not worth trying but Christ almighty, do you need enlightening! I'm not talking about a type of career I'm talking about just enjoying being here make the most of your life everyday and every opportunity that comes your way. Chorus: They've got you exactly where they want you to be shackled in feelings of in-a-a-adequacy It's no fun to hide your feelings inside feelings you cant understand or describe It affects everything that you do apathy is slowly killing you. Chorus: What have you done?-yes I'm talking to you what have you achieved? does this question disquieten you like it still does me, like it still does me you don't own an ounce of self respect you don't own an ounce of self respect so you're treated like no-one what did you really expect? Well I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you. (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

The Mess. Saturday night smashed out of my brains laying on the floor looking really intelligent oh what's news I hear you say all of my dreams have gone down the drain It just goes to show I wasn’t paying attention things just worsened day by day in every way. Chorus: oh, oh look at me I'm as hip as i can be I'm wasted, just look at the mess I am in. Spent half of the night walking the streets looking for a party that never existed every week is just the same well we talked about sex but never of love we bragged about girls with which we'd had fun oh but the thing that's really sad we never had. Chorus: I was brilliant at school but not in exams my teachers they could not understand how five years work went to the wall and then I got into trouble 'cos I got in the way when things went wrong, well I got the blame I was Idle through no fault of my own none of my own. Chorus: oh, look at me no-one 'round here wants me I'm wasted just look at the mess I am in. Down there, they are laughing at you down there, it is you who's gonna get screwed down there, they will walk all over you down there, down there, down there. (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

Get up and Fight There are people out there who make me see red they're making careers from getting out their heads competing to be the wreak of the year cultivating porridge between their ears they take, they take and they give nothing back to a world that may one day break their backs. There are people fighting in every way to protect the freedoms you enjoy every day your opinions have a familiar ring nothing I do or say will change anything you say politics are boring,boring and grey but would you rather see cruse brighten everyone's day? we can't sit back and watch a whole world go down Jesus Christ!, take a look around they're getting away with things we shouldn't allow we're walking around with our heads in a poisonous cloud. Chorus: Get up, get up and fight don't sit around whining and wasting my time don't let them ruin your lives we've been running away but now we're running out of time. look I'm being honest with you oh, If only you knew the things they do to keep you down So you dance though the night forgetting your cares but when the dancing is over the problem's still there how we gonna make our nations rise? agitate, educate and organise governments alone can't cause such distress without the people who let them get away with it. Chorus: We've been running away (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing). Back to Top List

No Respect. Sexual double standards they make me sick, they divide and rule well you're second class if you were born a woman yes, it's so different if you are a male Chorus: No man is a whore; he invented the name No man is a slut; he feels no shame No man is a slag; he's one of the lads No man is a cow; and she knows now that love can be so foul and you show no respect, no respect which makes me feel you're afraid of the opposite sex, no respect, no respect try, can't you try to see behind those lies I'm sorry if i'm boring you but your innuendo is really no point of view what you see here is a warm free-thinking woman and not the face of a bastard race. Chorus: How,how many times have we spat in their eyes? Too many times. (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

Agony. You are the most infuriating person I've ever met we argue all night and both of us end up getting so upset I knew I was wrong but that raging feeling still drove me on Chorus: and it's so embarrassing, it's so embarrassing I wish that I could cry 'cos that's all I want to do cry instead of bruising you cry, do what a man's not supposed to do in public, on the street let ask you something when was the last time you saw a man cry on TV? and it's, and it's, and it's agony I managed to control myself and I walked away in the end away from violence or breaking down in front of my friends I told them all lies I said a speck of dust had blown in my eyes Chorus: unfriendly world embrace your friends they're all around you for productivity divide your enemies and you'll keep smiling, you'll keep smiling, you'll keep smiling and telling me, "ah, shut up you sissy" and it's agony. I don't care who is left or who is right or who's wrong 'cos when I get a bee in my bonnet it's always you who gets stung oh what a pain when you can't shed a tear without feeling ashamed Chorus: and it's tearing me apart. (Copyright DREWETT 1983- Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

Newtown People. Newtown people you are so cold Newtown people they haven't got a soul But they try, oh they try, yes they try But no matter what they do it all comes to naught Chorus: But they've gone wrong they've missed it, but it is near 161 has got to be around here They've gone wrong they've missed it, but then again 161 has got to be around the next bend But this town is like a maze Well I hate to admit it to you That I think we're lost again Newtown people you are so bored Newtown people just don't bother anymore Well there's lots of youth with nothing to do No money in their pockets for them to use But you can bet your life they're all in love with uhu Chorus: When god created this town it was for practice He then created hell and the fact is Well it's heaven compared with here The entertainment is better down there Why the hell don't the buses run We're always waiting for hours It's no wonder the shelters get done Frustrations unleashed on the thin metal sheets and the wet concrete, yes there's far too much concrete in this town Newtown buildings they are so grey As if specially designed to suit the newtown, suit the newtown day Well there's not a bit of colour to brighten up your life It makes the winter months all the harder to survive But you know, we all know we've gotta pull through, gotta pull through Chorus: (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

Does Anyone Know Where The March Is? Does anyone know where the march is? We've been searching for hours We couldn't get the generator started We were on the back of a lorry But with no power we had no sound While we were tackling the problem The march moved off and disappeared into town Chorus: Oh where did it go, god knows It could have been worse I suppose Just look at us We're standing here in our rebel clothes Singing rebel songs with a rebel pose We were waiting for the traffic to clear Stuck outside of Tesco's Does anyone know where the march is? We bellowed at the passers-by They thought we were a bunch of crazies, no reply We saw a kid clutching a leaflet Oh this is where the march must have been She told us we were all stupid, It was causing the traffic jam that we were in Chorus A band with a message Going no-where So we played to the shoppers In the end we didn't care, we didn't care They said "what's this, what's this, oh how subversive (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) Back to Top List

Life In Their Hands Hello there It's been a long time What's this I've heard on the grapevine? Oh is it true You're not telling lies, Let's talk some more when we get inside The sound system Was playing real loud The rhythms were hard the message was proud Oh how we danced 'till it turned bad Because my drink, it slipped out of my hand But then a bouncer pulled me aside And before I could apologise He said something about a joke That I made at the door I hadn't wished to offend him But that search was something more I overheard them One night in a pub They talked about the fun they had working in the clubs Oh and the tales Made my hair stand on end What type of man would employ these three men? Check it, Check it Well out of the dark there now stared Six unblinking eyes Which followed me everywhere I shan't relax tonight But what's worrying me the most Is how the hell I get outside without bumping into them They said, Chorus: You can dance if you like pal You can drink if you like But don't step out of line 'cos your life is in our hands Chorus repeated twice Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing) ack to Top List

My Death. Once again my mind is in a mess a general feeling of worthlessness that draws me to the darker side of life all of my friends, everyone that I’ve met I feel a compulsive need to impress so I may feel someone's on my side Chorus: Hold me, love me, stay with me until my death, my death, sometimes I feel I’m pushing boulders up a mountain side sometimes when I wake I feel like a king but by mid-afternoon I know I’m nothing without that constant reassurance throughout the day no man is an island when it comes to his needs but he tramples on others to satisfy these oh God, some of the games we play Chorus: I'd love to pick a strawberry while I’m hanging from this ledge. Dreamt I surrendered to a merciless sea tired, so tired of it battering me " I'm just as puzzled now as you" that may be so but you still cling to the raft terrified of the infinite dark we're all just frightened people cowering from ourselves I'd like to live for the moment, live for today and savour any pleasures that come my way but how can I do that when my in-growing toenail is killing me? today is dull, that’s what we're told we live for an expectation or a memory. Chorus: We're all just frightened people cowering from ourselves. (Copyright DREWETT 1983 - Universal Publishing). Back to Top List

Living With Unemployment. I was living in a newtown I had problems with my parents So I moved on up to London town Where they said that things were happening, going down Chorus: Living in a bedsit Bunking the tube trains Sleeping all day long And you know no one, cos you don't go out, cos you've got no work You just watch television Living with unemployment I, I ain't got a job, and, there's no work in the city They, they always try to blame it on the blacks But it's really those in power that stab you in the back Chorus Well 'round our way, we ain't got a lot but after two years on the dole, I felt I'd been left to rot but now I've joined the Army and, believe it or not I'm going to Northern Ireland and, I'm going to get shot! Chorus Living with unemployment oh you get so lonely Living with unemployment It gets so frustrating Living with unemployment And the Neurotics wanna tell you, what it's like to be Unemployed, out of work, unemployed, out of work (repeat) "Try to stay, out of trouble dear..." And It's lonely for you And it's lonely for me And It's lonely for all of us - can't you see? Chorus Living with unemployment Oh you get so lonely Living with unemployment It gets so frustrating Living with unemployment - living without When you're out of work They treat you like dirt I said, when you're out of work They treat you like dirt It's all part of the plan (8) We are the scroungers (4) Living with unemployment (Copyright JEAN MARIE CARROLL/NICKY TESCO alternative lyrics DREWETT 1983 Published by STREET MUSIC) Back to Top List Return to non-frames menu

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