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Without You Iīm Nothing - 1998

1. Pure Morning
2. Brick Shithouse
3. You Donīt Care About Us
4. Ask For Answers
5. Without You Iīm Nothing
6. Allergic (To Thoughts of Mother Earth)
7. The Crawl
8. Every You Every Me
9. My Sweet Prince
10. Summerīs Gone
11. Scared of Girls
12. Burger Queen



1. Pure Morning


A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breasts and all the rest
A friend who’s dressed in leather
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend who’ll tease is better
Our thoughts compressed
Which makes us blessed
And makes for stormy weather
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
My Japanese is better

And when she’s pressed she will undress
And then she’s boxing clever
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend who bleeds is better
My friend confessed she passed the test
And we will never sever

Day’s dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning

A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend who’ll tease is better
Our thoughts compressed
Which makes us blessed
And makes for stormy weather
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend who bleeds is better
My friend confessed she passed the test
And we will never sever

Day’s dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
My Japanese is better
And when she’s pressed she will undress
And then she’s boxing clever
A friend in needīs a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breast and all the rest
A friend who’s dressed in leathe



2. Brick Shithouse


Meet the brick shithouse
This Is the brick shithouse
Meet the brick shithouse
Donīt you wish youīd never met her ?

Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching, when heīs around
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching

Meet the brick shithouse
Meet the brick shithouse
Kiss

Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching, when heīs around
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching when heīs around

When you cum you never make a single sound
Iīll be watching, when heīs around
When heīs around, when heīs around
Heīs around

Donīt you wish youīd never met her?

Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching, when heīs around
Now your lover went and put me in the ground
Iīll be watching when heīs around

When you cum you never make a single sound
Iīll be watching, when heīs around
When heīs around, when heīs around
Heīs around

Donīt you wish youīd never met her?



3. You Donīt Care About Us




If itīs a bad day, you try to suffocate
Another memory scarred
If itīs a bad case, then you accelerate
Youīre in the getaway car

You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us

If itīs a bad case, youīre on the rampage
Another memory scarred
Youīre at the wrong place, youīre on the back page
Youīre in the getaway car

You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us (oh oh)
You donīt care about us

Itīs your age, Itīs my rage
Itīs your age, Itīs my rage

Youīre too complicated, we should separate it
Youīre just confiscating, youīre exasperating
This degeneration, mental masturbation
Think Iīll leave it all behind, save this bleeding heart of mine

Itīs a matter of trust
Itīs a matter of trust
Itīs a matter of trust
Itīs a matter of trust

Because

You donīt care about us
You donīt care about us
You donīt care about us
You donīt care about us

Itīs your age, Itīs my rage
Itīs your age, Itīs my rage



4. Ask For Answers




Time to pass you to the test
Hanging on my loverīs breath
Always coming second best
Pictures of my loverīs chest
Get through this night
There are no second chances
This time I might
To ask the sea for answers

Always falling to the floor
Softer than it was before
Dog boy - media whore
Itīs who the hell you take me for

This time I might
To ask the sea for answers
These bonds are shackle free
Wrapped in lust and lunacy
Tiny touch of jealousy
These bonds are shackle free

Get through this night
There are no second chances
This time I might
To ask the sea for answers
These bonds are shackle free
These bonds are shackle free
These bonds are shackle free
These bonds are shackle free

Get through this, there are no second chances
This time, to ask the sea for answers



5. Without You Iīm Nothing




Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide
Iīll take it by your side
Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide
Iīll take it by your side
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies
Iīll take it by your side
Oversaturation curls the skin and tans the hide
Iīll take it by your side

Tick, tock
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tock

Iīm unclean, a libertine
And every time you vent your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
Your slipping slowly from my reach
You grow me like an evergreen
You never see the lonely me at all

I...

Take the plan, spin it sideways
I...
Fall
Without you, Iīm Nothing
Without you, Iīm nothing
Without you, Iīm nothing
Take the plan, spin it sideways
Without you, Iīm nothing at all



6. Allergic (To Thoughts of Mother Earth)




Any means in your horizon
Heaven in a tourniquet
The after life to keep your eyes on
Bitter pill you take you take today
With expert levitation forward
Polished to the nth degree
It takes itīs smile from every children
You take the beating

Any means in your horizon
Everything walks two by two
We gamble to be born again
You know I never wanted to
With expert levitation forward
Polished to the nth degree
It takes itīs smile from every children
You take the beating

The light divining
The light defining
The light divining
The light divining

Donīt let me down
Let me
Let me down
Let me
Donīt let me down
Let me
Let me down
Let me

The light defining
The light divining
The light divining



7. The Crawl




It takes the pain away
That could not make you stay
Itīs way to broke to fix
No glue, no bag of tricks

Lay me down, the lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl

Your smile will make me sneeze
When we were siamese
Amazing grace in here
Iīd pay to have you near

Lay me down, the lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl

Donīt go and lose your face
At some strangerīs place
And donīt forget to breathe
And pay before you leave

Lay me down, the lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl
Lay me down, the lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl



8. Every You Every Me


Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passionīs spent
My hearts a tart, your bodyīs rent
My bodyīs broken, yours is spent

Carve your name into my arm
Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed
Cuz thereīs nothing else to do
Every me and every you

Sucker love, a box I choose
No other box I choose to use
Another love I would abuse
No circumstances could excuse

In the shape of things to come
Too much poison come undone
Cuz thereīs nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every Me...hee

Sucker love is known to swing
Prone to cling and waste these things
Pucker up for heavenīs sake
Thereīs never been so much at stake

I serve my head up on a plate
Itīs only comfort, calling late
Cuz thereīs nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every Me

Every me and every you
Every Me...hee

Like the naked leads the blind
I know Iīm selfish, Iīm unkind
Sucker love I always find
Someone to bruise and leave behind

All alone in space and time
Thereīs nothing here but what hereīs hereīs mine
Something borrowed, something blue
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me

Every me and every you
Every me



9. My Sweet Prince


Never thought youīd make me perspire
Never thought Iīd do you the same
Never thought Iīd fill with desire
Never thought Iīd feel so ashamed

Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away
So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince, you are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one

Never thought Iīd have to retire
Never thought Iīd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire
Close up the hole in my vain

Me and my valuable friend
Can fix all the pain away
So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one

Never thought Iīd get any higher
Never thought youīd fuck with my brain
Never thought all this could expire
Never thought youīd go break the chain

Me and you baby
Still flush all the pain away
So before I end my day, remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
You are the one
My sweet prince
My sweet prince



10. Summerīs Gone


Cue to your face so forsaken
Crushed by the way that you cry
Cue to your face so forsaken
What a surprise

You try to break the mould
Before you get too old
You try to break the mould
Before you die

Cue to your heart that it racing
Stung by the look in your eye
Cue to your heart that is racing
What a surprise
You try to break the mould
Before you get too old
You try to break the mould
Before you die

Cue to your face so forsaken
Crushed by the way that you cry
Cue to your face so forsaken
Say goodbye

Sing for your lover
Like blood from a stone
Sing for your lover
Whoīs waiting at home

If you sing when youīre high
And youīre dry as a bone
Then you must realise
That youīre never alone
And youīll sing with the dead instead

You try and break the mould
Before you get too old
You try and break the mould
Before you die



11. Scared of Girls




An introverted kinda soul
The Earth did open
Swallow whole

Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī

Her next of kin who lived in sin
Was asking god to let her in

Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī

Iīm a man, a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it

An extroverted kinda girl
Did tour the world with MC5

Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī

Her younger sister, had a blister
Where I kissed her on her thigh

Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī
Careeninī

Iīm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
Iīm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it
Iīm a man a liar
Get into your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
Iīm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
I got a place inside it
Iīm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it
Got a place inside it



12. Burger Queen




Slightly bemused by his lack of direction
Hey you, hey you
Chooses his clothes to match his pallid complexion
Hey you, hey you
Brought to this world by caesarean section
Hey you, hey you
Now it takes him all day just to get an erection

Hey you
Things arenīt what they seem
Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things arenīt what they seem
Luxemburger Queen
Heīs a Burger Queen

Goes out to cruise and to meet his connection
Hey you, hey you
He never scores he just gets his injection
Hey you, hey you
Hey you, hey you
Still it takes him all day just to get an erection
Hey you

Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things arenīt what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Luxemburger Queen
Heīs a Burger Queen

Slightly bemused by the constant rejection
Hey you, hey you
Came to this world by caesarean section
Hey you, hey you
Dreams of a face that is pure as perfection
Hey you, hey you

Things arenīt what they seem
Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
Heīs a Burger Queen

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