Crime of the Century

Titres

1. 1 School ♪ 5:34 ▼

   I can see you in the morning when you go to school
   Don't forget your books, you know you've got to learn the golden rule,
   Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your work
   And be like Johnnie - too-good, well don't you know he never shirks
   - he's coming along!
   
   After School is over you're playing in the park
   Don't be out too late, don't let it get too dark
   They tell you not to hang around and learn what life's about
   And grow up just like them - won't you let it work it out
   - and you're full of doubt
   
   Don't do this and don't do that
   What are they trying to do?- Make a good boy of you
   Do they know where it's at?
   Don't criticize, they're old and wise
   Do as they tell you to
   Don't want the devil to
   Come out and put your eyes
   
   Maybe I'm mistaken expecting you to fight
   Or maybe I'm just crazy, I don't know wrong from right
   But while I am still living, I've just got this to say
   It's always up to you if you want to be that
   want to see that
   want to see that way
   - you're coming along!

2. 2 Bloody Well Right ♪ 4:31 ▼

   So you think your schooling's phoney
   I guess it's hard not to agree
   You say it all depends on money
   And who is in your family tree
   Right, you're bloody well right
   you know you got a right to say
   Right, you're bloody well right
   you know you got a right to say
   Ha-ha you're bloody well right
   you know you're right to say
   Yeah-yeah you're bloody well right
   you know you're right to say
   Me, I don't care anyway!
   Write your problems down in detail
   Take them to a higher place
   You've had your cry - no, I should say wail
   In the meantime hush your face
   Right, quite right, you're bloody well right... etc.

3. 3 Hide in Your Shell ♪ 6:48 ▼

   Hide in your shell cos the world is out to bleed you for a ride
   What will you gain making your life a little longer?
   Heaven or Hell, was the journey cold that gave your eyes of steel?
   Shelter behind painting your mind and playing joker
   
   Too Frightening to listen to a stranger
   Too Beautiful to put your pride in danger
   You're waiting for someone to understand you
   But you've got demons in your closet
   And you're screaming out to stop it
   Saying life's begun to cheat you
   Friends are out to beat you
   Grab on to what you scramble for
   
   Don't let the tears linger on inside now
   Cos it's sure time you gained control
   If I can help you, if I can help you
   If I can help you, just let me know
   Well, let me show you the nearest signpost
   To get your heartback and on the road
   If I can help you, if I can help you
   If I can help you, just let me know.
   
   All through the night as you lie awake and hold yourself so tight
   What do you need, a second-hand-movie-star to tend you?
   I as a boy, I believed the saying the cure for pain was love
   How would it be if you could see the world through my eyes?
   
   Too Frightening- the fire's getting colder
   Too Beautiful- to think you're getting older
   You're looking for someone to give an answer.
   But what you see is just an illusion
   You're surrounded by confusion
   Saying life's begun to cheat you
   Friends are out to beat you
   Grab on to what you can scramble for
   Don't let the tears...
   ... just let me know
   I wanna know...
   I wanna know you...
   Well let me know you
   I wanna feel you
   I wanna touch you
   Please let me near you
   Can you hear what I'm saying?
   Well I'm hoping, I'm dreamin', I'm prayin'
   I know what you're thinkin'
   See what you're seein'
   Never ever let yourself go
   
   Hold yourself down, hold yourself down
   Why d'ya hold yourself down?
   Why don't you listen, you can
   Trust me,
   There's a place I know the way to
   A place there is need to feel you
   Feel that you're alone
   Hear me
   I know exactly what you're feelin'
   cos all your troubles are within you
   please begin to see that I'm just bleeding to
   Love me, love you
   Loving is the way to Help me, help you
   - Why must we be so cool, oh so cool?
   Oh, we're such damn fools...

4. 4 Asylum ♪ 6:43 ▼

   Jimmy Cream was keen, his brain was always winnin',
   I can't keep tabs on mine, it's really quite a joke
   I see him down the road, I ask if he'd be willing
   To lend me 15p - I'm dying for a smoke
   Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum
   I'm just as sane as anyone
   It's a just a game I play for fun - for fun.
   I told em - look! - I said I'm not the way you're thinkin,
   Just when I'm down, I'll be a clown, I'll play the fool.
   Please don't arrange to have me set to no asylum
   It's just a game I play for fun - for fun.
   Will he take a sailboat ride?
   He is very likely to,
   Will he feel good inside?
   He ain't very likely to,
   Will he tell you he's alive?
   He is always trying to
   But nothin', no nothin', does he say
   In the morning when the day's begun
   - "Hello Good morning, how are you?"
   And in the evening or the noonday sun
   - "What a lovely afternoon!"
   Well I've been living next to you
   
   Bluesy Monday is the one day that they come here,
   When they haunt me and taunt me in my cage.
   I mock them all, they're feelin' small, they got no answer
   They're playin' dumb but I'm just lauging as they rage
   Don't arrange to have me sent to no asylum
   It's only a game I play for fun
   I've been foolin' everyone - everyone.
   Will he take a sailboat ride?
   He is very likely to
   Will he feel good inside?
   He ain't ever likely to
   Will he tell you he's alive?
   He is always tryin' to
   But nothin', no nothin' does he ever say
   In the morning when the day's begun
   - "Do you think it looks like rain"?
   And in the evening or the noonday sun
   - "You know I nearly missed my train"
   Well I've been living next to you my friend
   But what kind of friend are you?
   Is it the beginning or the sorry end?
   Will I ever see it through?
   I've never been insane
   Oh what's the game?
   I believe I'm dying...
   He's mad, mad, mad...
   Not quite right...
   Oooooooooo..............

5. 5 Dreamer ♪ 3:31 ▼

   Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
   Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
   I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
   Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
   I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
   You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you,
   Now there's not a lot I can do
   
   Dreamer, you stupid little dreamer;
   So now you put your head in your hands, oh no!
   I said "Far out, - What a day, a year, a laugh it is!"
   You know, - Well you know you had it comin' to you,
   Now there's not a lot I can do.
   
   Well work it out someday
   
   If I could see something
   You can see anything you want boy
   If I could be someone-
   You can be anyone, celebrate boy.
   If I could do something-
   Well you can do something,
   If I could do anything-
   Well can you do something out of this world?
   
   Take a dream on a Sunday
   Take a life, take a holiday
   Take a lie, take a dreamer
   dream, dream, dream, dream, dream along...
   
   Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer
   Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
   I said dreamer, you're nothing but a dreamer
   Well can you put your hands in your head, oh no!
   OH NO!

6. 6 Rudy ♪ 7:19 ▼

   Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line
   He don't wanna get there, but he needs time
   He ain't sophisticated, nor well-educated
   After all the hours he wasted, still he needs time.
   He needs time - he needs time for livin',
   He needs time - for someone just to see him.
   He ain't had no lovin'
   For no reason or rhyme
   And the whole world's above him.
   Well it's not as though he's fat-
   No there's more to this than that-
   See he tries to play it cool-
   Wouldn't be nobodys fool.
   
   Rudy thought that all good things comes to those that wait
   But recently he could see that it may come too late.
   
   All through your life, all through the years
   Nobody loved, nobody cared.
   So dim the light, dark are your fears
   Try as I might, I can't hold back the tears
   How can you live without love, it's not fair?
   Someone said give but I just didn't dare.
   What good advice are you waiting to hear?
   Hearing's alright for them that's all there
   You'd better gain control now
   You'd better show'em all now
   You'd better make or break now
   You'd better give and take now
   You'll have to push and shove now
   You'll have to find some love now
   You'd better gain control now.
   Now he's just come out the movie.
   Numb of all the pain,
   Sad but in a while he'll soon be
   back on his train...

7. 7 If Everyone Was Listening ♪ 4:04 ▼

   The actors and jesters are here
   The stage is in darkness and clear
   For raising the curtain
   and no-one's quite certain whose play it is
   How long ago, how long
   If only we had listened then.
   If we'd known just how right we were going to be.
   For we dreamed a lot
   And we schemed a lot
   And we tried to sing of love before the stage fell apart.
   
   If everyone was listening you know
   There'd be a chance that we could save the show
   Who'll be the last clown
   To bring the house down?
   Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall
   
   Well, what is your costume today?
   Who are the props in your play?
   You're acting a part which you thought from the start
   was an honest one.
   Well how do you plead?
   An actor indeed!
   Go re-learn your lines,
   You don't know what you've done
   The finale's begun.
   
   If everyone was listening you know
   There'd be a chance that we could save the show,
   Who'll be the last clown
   To bring the house down?
   Oh no, please no, don't let the curtain fall.

8. 8 Crime of the Century ♪ 5:36 ▼

   Now they're planning the crime of the century
   Well what will it be?
   Read all about their schemes and adventuring
   It's well worth a fee
   So roll up and see
   And they rape the universe
   How they've gone from bad to worse
   Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
   Rip off the masks and let's see.
   But that's no right - oh no, what's the story?
   There's you and there's me
   That can't be right

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