WiLd MoOd sWIngS (1996)

want

club america

this is a lie

the 13th

strange attraction

mint car

jupiter crash

round & round & round

gone!

numb

return

trap

treasure

bare

Want

 

I'm always wanting more

Anything I haven't got

Everything

I want it all

I just can't stop

Planning all my days away

But never finding ways to stay

Or ever feel enough today

Tomorrow must be more

Drink more dreams more bed more drugs

More lust more lies more head more love

More fear more fun more pain more flesh

More stars more smiles more fame more sex

But however hard I want

I know deep down inside

I'll never really get more hope

Or any more time

Any more time

Any more time

Any more time

 

I want the sky to fall in

I want lightning and thunder

I want blood instead of rain

I want the world to make me wonder

I want to walk on water

Take a trip to the moon

Give me all this and give me it soon

More drink more dreams more drugs

More lust more lies more love

But however hard I want

I know deep down inside

I'll never really get more hope

Or any more time

Any more time

Any more time

Any more time

Club America

 

I ride into your town on a big black Trojan horse

I'm looking to have some fun

Some kind of trigger-happy intercourse

"Club America salutes you" says the girl on the door

"We accept all major lies

We love any kind of fraud

So go on in and enjoy...

Go on in and enjoy!!!"

 

I'm buying for my bright new friends

Blue Suzannes all round

And my mood is heavily pregnant...

Yeah you're right

I couldn’t help but notice your icy blue eyes

They've been burning two holes in the sides of my head

Since the second I arrived

 

And it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars

And your canary feather dress

Your hair in such a carefully careless mess

That you're really trying very hard to impress

 

You're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life

Sensational dazzling perfectly sized

Such a wonderful person living a fabulous life

Sharing it with me in Club America tonight...

 

So we talk for a while about some band you saw on TV

But I don't listen to you and you don't listen to me

Yeah it's an old routine but it's a very special part of the game

And you don't really care what I call you at all

When I can't quite remember your name

 

And it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars

And your canary feather dress

The way you're so carefully couldn't care less

That you're really trying very hard to impress

 

You're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life

Sensational dazzling perfectly sized

Such a wonderful person living a fabulous life

Sharing it with me tonight

Yeah you're a wonderful person living a fabulous life

Fantastic divine and thrillingly bright

Such a wonderful person living a fabulous life

With me in Club America tonight...

This Is A Lie

 

How each of us decides

I've never been sure

The part we play

The way we are

How each of us denies any other way in the world

Why each of us must choose

I've never understood

One special friend

One true love

Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

 

However unsure

However unwise

Day after day play out our lives

However confused

Pretending to know to the end

 

But this isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

 

How each of us believes

I've never really known

In heaven unseen and hell unknown

How each of us dreams to understand anything at all

Why each of us decides

I've never been sure

The part we take

The way we are

Why each of us denies every other way in the world

 

However unsure

However unwise

Day after day play out our lives

However confused

Pretending to know to the end

 

But this isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

This isn't truth this isn't right

This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real

This is a lie

The 13th

 

"Everyone feels good in the room" she swings

"Two chord cool in the head" she sings

"A-buzz a-buzz a-buzzing like them killer bees..."

Tell me this is not for real

Please tell me this is not for real...

 

From time to time her eyes get wide

And she's always got them stuck on me

I'm surprised at how hot honey-coloured and hungry she looks

And I have to turn away to keep from bursting

Yeah I feel that good!

 

She slips from the stage

A foot no more

But it seems to take an hour for her to reach the floor

And the two chord cool still grooves

As she slides towards me smooth as a snake

I can't swallow I just start to shake

And I just know this is a big mistake

Yeah but it feels good!

 

Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!

Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!

 

"If you want I can take you on another kind of ride..."

"Believe me I would but..."

Deep inside the 'but' is 'please'

I am yearning for another taste

And my shaking is 'yes'

 

"You will be all the things in the world you've never been

See all the things in the world you've never seen

Dream all the things in the world you've never dreamed..."

But I think I get a bit confused...

Am I seducing or being seduced?

 

Oh I know that tomorrow I'll feel bad

But I really couldn't care about that

She's grinning singing spinning me round and round

Smiling as I start to fall

Her face gets big her face gets small

It's like tonight I'm really not me at all

And it feels good!

 

Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!

Do it to me! Do it to me! Do it to me!

 

It feels good!

Strange Attraction

 

It started with a dedication

"Lost in admiration - happy birthday - I'm forever yours - blossom"

Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies

I smiled surprised at how when flickered through

The wings flew by spelled out my name...

 

Six months went by the summer lost

Obsessively the letters dropped into my life

The same soft blood smooth flowing hand

"Please try to understand - I have to see you - have to feel you -

Tell you all the ways I need you - yours forever in love..."

 

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

And alters but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade

 

The year grew old incessantly she wrote to me

She'd started smoking poetry!

I laughed in recognition of a favourite phrase

She'd pulled me in...

I answered her

A Christmas card in sepia

Arranging when and where

And how the two of us should meet...

 

Her opening so well prepared

A nervous smile

I couldn't take my eyes from her

She whispered

"Can I use some of your lipstick?"

It was perfect so believable

I couldn't help but feel that it was real

And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms...

 

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

And alters but the smallest things

You never know how anything will fade

 

So alone into the cold new year without another word from her

I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring

But weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came

And with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

 

"I'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination -

I was sure you’d be the one but I was wrong -

It seems reality destroys our dreams - I won't forget you - blossom"

Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

 

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

It varies but the smallest things

You never know how anything will change

Strange attraction spreads it's wings

And alters but the smallest things

And you never know...

Mint Car

 

The sun is up

I'm so happy I could scream!

And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be

Than here with you

It's perfect

It's all I ever wanted

I almost can't believe that it's for real

 

I really don't think it gets any better than this

Vanilla smile

And a gorgeous strawberry kiss!

Birds sing we swing

Clouds drift by and everything is like a dream

It's everything I wished

 

Never guessed it got this good

Wondered if it ever would

Really didn't think it could

Do it again?

I know we should!!!

 

The sun is up

I'm so fizzy I could burst!

You wet through and me headfirst

Into this is perfect

It's all I ever wanted

Ow! It feels so big it almost hurts!

 

Never guessed it got this good

Wondered if it ever would

Really didn't think it could

Do it some more?

I know we should!!!

 

Say it will always be like this

The two of us together

It will always be like this

Forever and ever and ever...

 

Never guessed it got this good

Wondered if it ever would

Really didn't think it could

Do it all the time?

I know that we should!!!

Jupiter Crash

 

She follows me down to the sound of the sea

Slips to the sand and stares up at me

"Is this how it happens? Is this how it feels?

Is this how a star falls?

Is this how a star falls?"

 

The night turns as I try to explain

Irresistable attraction and orbital plane

"Or maybe it's more like a moth to a flame?"

She brushes my face with her smile

"Forget about stars for a while..."

As she melts...

 

Meanwhile millions of miles away in space

The incoming comet brushes Jupiter's face

And disappears away with barely a trace...

 

"Was that it? Was that the Jupiter show?

It kinda wasn't quite what I'd hoped for you know..."

And pulling away she stands up slow

And round her the night turns

Round her the night turns...

 

Yeah that was it

That was the Jupiter crash

Drawn too close and gone in a flash

Just a few bruises in the region of the splash...

 

She left to the sound of the sea

She just drifted away from me

So much for gravity...

Round & Round & Round

 

Round and round and round and round and round we go

Trying so hard to get a hold of everyone here

We've got to show how much we love them all

We squeak with idiot fake surprise

Flap our hands and flutter our eyes

And lap up all their stupid lies

We've got to love them all

 

And I really don't know why we do it like this

Imitation smiles and how "It's wonderful to be here!"

I'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss

 

So round and round and round and round and round we go

Hanging on every shape they throw

It's strange the way we can't say no

Until we love them all...

 

So we laugh at every stupid joke

And smoke and choke and point and poke

And gag on countless lines...

How much we love them all!

 

And I really don't know why we do it like this

Imitation smiles and how "It's wonderful to be here"

I'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss

 

Maybe it's the sex with the drugs and the fools

Or maybe it's the promise of belief?

Maybe it's the pleasure and the pain of the cruel

Or maybe it's the promise of relief?

And I know that we've said it so many times before

"Once more and never again"

But however many times that we've said it before

Once more is never the end...

Gone!

 

Oh you know how it is

Wake up feeling blue

And everything that could be wrong is

Including you

Black clouds and rain and pain in your head

And all you want to do is stay in bed

 

But if you do that you'll be missing the world

Because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard

If you do that you'll be missing the world

You have to get up get out and get gone!

 

Yeah you know how it is

Wake up feeling green

Sick as a dog and six times as mean

You don't want to sing you don't want to play

You don't want to swing you don't want to sway

All you want to do is nothing

On a day like today

 

But if you do that you'll be missing the world

Because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard

If you do that you'll be missing the world

You have to get up get out and get gone!

Yeah get up get out and have some fun

You have to get up get out and get gone!

Yeah get up get out and get it on

Get up get out and get gone!

You have to get up get out and get living

Yeah this is really it...

 

So you know how it is

Wake up feeling grey

Nothing much to think and nothing much to say

Don't want to talk don't want to try

Don't want to think don't want to know

Who what where when or why...

 

Oh but you do that and you're missing the world

Yeah it's happening right now whatever you heard

You do that and you're missing the world

You have to get up get out and get gone!

Yeah get up get out and have some fun

You have to get up get out and get gone!

Yeah get up get out and get it on

Get up get out and get gone!

You have to get up get out and get living

Yeah this is really it!

Numb

 

Yeah this is how it ends

After all these years

Tired of it all

Hopelessly helplessly broken apart

He finally falls

He doesn't want to think

Doesn't want to feel

Doesn't want to know what's going on

Says there's nothing he can do will change anything

He doesn't want to know what's going wrong

Because he's in love with a drug

One that makes him numb

One that stops him feeling at all

He's in love with a drug

Forget everyone

He really doesn't care anymore

Anymore...

 

Yeah this is how it ends

After all this time

Everything just fades away

Worn-out and empty and all alone

With nothing left to say

Oh it's all too big to make a difference

It's all too wrong to make it right

Yeah everything is too unfair

Everything too much to bear

He doesn't have the strength left for the fight

Says all he wants is the drug

The one that makes him numb

The one that stops him feeling at all

He just wants to take the drug

Forget everyone

He doesn't want to care anymore

Just keeps loving the drug

The one that makes him numb

The one that stops him feeling at all

Just keeps loving the drug

The drug that he's become

He isn't really here anymore...

 

And that makes me cry

Return

 

Oh I really love it here!

Oh you've thought of it all!

Candlelight! Coconut ice! And fur on the floor!

And I reeely love the way you wear your hair

And nothing more

So tell me...

What is going on?

I was sure that I'd already gone...

 

But all you say is we're all spinning

It's really not just me

But that doesn't seem to help me figure out how I can be

A prisoner in PVC a minute after three...

It didn't used to be like this

Must be all that sleep I missed...

 

Yeah but I really love it here!

You've done everything to please!

Stolichnaya! Banco de gaia! Bad timing on TV!

And I reeely love the way you turn

Your smile into striptease...

But I'm still not sure what's going on

And I can't help feeling something's wrong

 

But you just say that we're all spinning

And it's really not just me

But that doesn't seem to help me figure out how I can be

Still wrapped inside your rubber as I wriggle at your feet...

No it didn't used to be like this

Must be something strange I kissed...

Maybe when my eyes were closed?

 

So tell me what is going on?

I'm sure that I've already gone...

But all you say is we're all spinning

And it's really not just me

But that doesn't seem to help me figure out how I can be

Still fixed inside your fantasy

A TV refugee...

So tell me what is going on?

Just can't help feeling something's wrong...

Or is it right this way I feel?

Someone get me out of here!!!

I'm waiting on my knees...

Trap

 

Drowning like a fly in my drink

You drone about being on the brink

But I really don't care what you think

Oh I'm sick of it all

Sick of it all

I hate the way it's always the same

Hate recrimination and blame

And you just wait for me to fuck up again

Oh I'm sick of it all

Sick of it all

 

The ways you try and put me down

Sweet revenge for the things I've done

The ways you try and twist me around

"Give me a taste of my own medicine"

 

Drowning like a fly in my drink

You whine about being out of synch

But I really don't care what you think

Oh I'm sick of it all

Sick of it all

 

I hate the way you want me to be

Hate regret and humility

And you just wait for me to fall at your feet

Oh I'm sick of it all

Sick of it all

 

The ways you try and run me down

Make me pay for the things I've been

The ways you try and push me around

All you want to do is win

 

Any love you once felt for me

Has turned into this travesty

Of selfishness and jealousy

So why can't you just let me go?

Any love you once felt for me

Has turned into this travesty

Of selfishness and jealousy

So why can't I just let you go?

Treasure

 

She whispers

"Please remember me

When I am gone from here"

She whispers

"Please remember me

But not with tears...

Remember I was always true

Remember that I always tried

Remember I loved only you

Remember me and smile...

For it's better to forget

Than to remember me

And cry"

 

"Remember I was always true

Remember that I always tried

Remember I loved only you

Remember me and smile...

For it's better to forget

Than to remember me

And cry..."

Bare

 

If you've got something left to say

You'd better say it now

Anything but 'stay'

Just say it now

We know we've reached the end

We just don’t know how

"Well at least we'll still be friends"

Yeah one less useless vow...

"There are different ways to live"

Yeah I know that stuff

"Other ways to give"

Yeah all that stuff

But holding onto used to be

Is not enough

Memory's not life

And it's not love

 

We should let it all go

It never stays the same

So why does it hurt me like this

When you say that I've changed?

When you say that I've aged?

Say I'm afraid...

 

And all the tears you cry

They're not tears for me

Regrets about your life

They're not regrets for me

It never turns out how you want

Why can't you see?

It all just slips away

It always slips away

Eventually...

 

So if you've got nothing left to say

Just say goodbye

Turn your face away

And say goodbye

You know we've reached the end

You just don't know why

And you know we can't pretend

After all this time

So just let it all go

Nothing ever stays the same

So why does it hurt me like this

To say that I've changed?

To say that I've aged?

Say I'm afraid...

 

But there are long long nights when I lay awake

And I think of what I've done

Of how I've thrown my sweetest dreams away

And what I've really become

And however hard I try

I will always feel regret

However hard I try

I will never forget

 

I will never forget