The Stranglers - Man Of The Earth
Another worker drops his pen
He wants to be done
And out on the run
Away fromhe curse, he'd swap all his worth
To be a man of the earth
For 2 or 3 weeks of the year
An Easter Bunny brings Christmas cheer
The Stranglers - Let's Celebrate
If you're by yourself, don't hesitate
Spent too long on a wooden fence
If you wanna come don't have to wait
If you wanna come don't hesitate
Let me get to taste your honey child
CHORUS
Let's celebrate
The Stranglers - Someone Like You
My mind was busy I had something to do
My world was planned and I was living so tranquilly
You turned me round just like a whirlpool
CHORUS
Someone like you (makes me dizzy)
Someone like you
Someone like you (drives me crazy)
The Stranglers - Out Of My Mind
Out of my mind, I can't get you
I'll tell you somethng, I feel hung over today
I'll tell you something, this head just won't go away
But when you smile, my day gets brighter
And in a while, my head's gone away
Out of my mind, I can't get you
Out of my mind, I can't get you
The Stranglers - Never To Look Back
Never to look back
The years distort the lies
We take for fact
I had a black shirt
But I wasn't one
All my loving is not enough for that
I had a black shirt
The Stranglers - Shakin' Like a Leaf
Wide awake with sleepy head
Thinkin' you should look beneath
And then you're shakin' shakin' shakin'
See a full moon in the sky
Time to be away and fly
Seems to be the sole relief
The Stranglers - Too Precious
Difficult to decide which
There were a few who had plenty
And there were poor who were rich
I saw some rocks that were shining
They drove the few to go spare
Beauty led to the blinding
So blind past all care
The Stranglers - It Only Takes Two to Tango
It only takes two to start the dance
You gotta begin with circumstance
It takes two to tango
It only takes two
It only takes two to tango
It only takes to to start the war
You gotta make do or you gotta get more
The Stranglers - Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
When things are fine they put you ahead
They laugh at you with your trousers down
They pick the stones and aim them at your head
When you're alive they won't care what you said
What you deserve and all the blood you bled
It doesn't matter what you try to hide
The sun comes out and then the truth is read
The Stranglers - Who Wants The World
Somewhere in the midlands
Tasted man tasted flea
Couldn't tell the difference
Asked around on Tuesday
Got nothing from a tree
The guide had said what talks is red
That's all there is to see
The Stranglers - Was It You?
The famine and the genital disease, was it you?
I don't really know what I can see but I can see I'm losing control
The K.G.B. and the C.I.A., was it you?
Democracy and freedom, was it you?
I don't really know what I can see but I can see I'm losing control
The Stranglers - Walk on By
Walking down the streets
And I start to cry
Each time we meet
Walk on by
I walk on by
And make believe
The Stranglers - Vladimir Goes to Havana
The uniformed nurse arrived and supplied Vladimir with writing paper, a pen and an envelope.
Vladimir wrote "To the advisory board for the Development of cultural visits to sympathetic States.
Dear Sirs, I have just read in last Septembers issue of Pravda that Doctor Mikhaïl Buggerovski, a colleague from the days of my lectureship at Moscow University, has been appointed as Scientific Advisor to the Soviet Delegation in Cuba for the promotion of soil mechanics at the research institute there.
Having survived the campaign of Afghanistan I am requesting that I continue my convalescence visiting Dr Buggerovski,⊂⊃isting him in his work in Havana, for a period of time which the board deems fit.
Yours faithfully, comrade Andropyournosin."
Methodically he folded the letter, placed it in the envelope, sealed it and addressed it.
Six weeks later Vladimir was standing on the deck of the SS Ivanitch, a black sea tourist cruiser disguised as a missile carrying cargo vessel to deceive the Americans.
The Stranglers - Vladimir and the Beast
For helping me to be totally reintegrated and normalised
Only in the world's greatest socialist democracy could one hope to be forgiven for losing temporary sight
of the aims and goals of the of the Marxist/Leninist revolution
Two years it took me to be cured of my illness
Being still a relatively young and fit man
I was still in search of fulfilment
The Stranglers - Vladimir and Olga
We took the children in the larder, and headed for the warm climbs of Odessa.
I'd worked hard the whole season,
Olga portrayed a tiredness which she strove to conceal.
We stopped at an inn and took some lunch - some simple fare of cheeses and borshch.
The bread tasted strange - Olga mentioned to me the old wives tale of 'bread mould madness'.
I laughed and ate, and ate and laughed.
The Stranglers - Viva Vlad
The Police laughed at his fantastic tale of misguided love in a tempting night.
For fun, he was bound and taken down to the harbour on the other side of the island.
There he was set adrift in a small dinghy donated by a frightened fisherman.
Guns were drawn and so were corks, and pot shots taken at his floating corpse.
Luckily for Vlad, their aim was high and they soon tired when the bullets ran dry.
All through the night he floated on and fell asleep until dawn arrived and he found himself aground on a beach with fish around, the waters run deep.
The Stranglers - Vietnamerica
On nightmares of the waste
The pagan values a bloodsweet crimson taste
Treasures captured
Pleasures enraptured
Lose their friendship
Vietnamerica
Vietnamerica
The Stranglers - Uptown
Gotta change my situation
I'm gonna pick a steed who's been built for speed
Who's a flat-racing sensation
I'm racing Uptown gotta saddle up
So I take my seat I'm off to the meet
Don't know when I'm getting back
I don't care who wins as the race begins
The Stranglers - In This Place
There's a place where I'm alone
to speak with you now you're gone
Now the autumn has come
In this place I call home
Even though the leaves have gone
I can speak with you now
And the winter will come
The Stranglers - In the Shadows
You turn around and die of fright
What's that in the shadows?
What's that in the shadows?
Walking down the streets at night
Turn around and you can die of fright
Walking on the streets at night
The Stranglers - In One Door
You better take me to another world
I can't abide all the coming and going
And what's gonna be unfurled
Take me to a distant country
Bathe my joins in exotic oil
I can't abide all the fussing and fighting
And all the wasted toil
The Stranglers - Ghost Train
Looking around at everyone
Taking a ride on the ghost train
Don't you know everyone
Wondering where they'll be taking the fare
Card sharping shooting one another for a comfortable chair
The Stranglers - Fools Rush Out
Angels got the better of them
Fools rush out
Hope there's a place in heaven for them
One of them wants a home
One of them wants to be left alone
Fools rush out
Fools rush out
The Stranglers - Cruel Garden
Plenty danger waiting there
Plenty hungry madames out today
Eat you up as soon as stare
Cruel garden
Cruel garden
Birds of prey are on the wing
