EPISODE TWO: LYRICS

Thank you for the enquiries about the lyrics of the new songs. Here are three of them.

KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE UNDERGROUND:
Born in a time that wasn’t made to last. In 1977 it went fast.
Johnny told us to rise, not to give a shit. And then ‘Kiss me deadly’ and we had a hit.
Last night in the Roxy we fucked on the floor. Shot up in the bathroom and said we were bored.
(chorus)
But if you are here tonight – And you hear these sounds
Then we are still Kings and Queens of the underground
I don’t mean to be profound but if i’m still around
Then we are still Kings and Queens of the underground.

1984 ‘Rebel Yell’ had the floor. And all we said was ‘more more more’
Well I touched you with my ‘Eyes Without A Face’.
I was ‘Hot in the City. Yes I thought I was ace.
But I didn’t know then when i was in your front room
On MTV baby I was high as the moon

Oooh Golden years (x4)
(Guitar Break)

Sold all my vinyl – It went up my arm
And i thought rock n roll wouldn’t do me no harm.
Now i’m rolling a joint, yes I’m dressed in black
If we lose the music baby we can never go back

Jonesy said, ‘Bill, don’t be profound
If you are still a King of the underground’
If you hear my voice, dig these Rebel sounds
Then we are still Kings and Queens of the Underground
If you hear my voice and I’m still around…
Then we are still Kings and Queens of the Underground
Oooh Golden years (x4)

LOVE IS STRANGE:
See me rockin’, riding to my show. Police lights a flashing – they want me to slow.
I’m out for kicks and i’m feeling the need. Moving fast, baby, feel my speed.
Don’t try and stop me. Don’t get in my way. I’ve a date with love and I just can’t stay.
See the signs baby ‘man on fire’. My baby, love takes me higher and higher
(chorus)
Hey Hey Hey, love is strange. She feels me comin’ through the highway haze.
Hey hey hey Love is Strange. I saw you dancing in the dancehall days.

I’m at my gig, walkin down the hall. We fell in love at a Soc.hop ball.
She is wild, my L.A. child. Breaks me up when i’m feeling wired.
She holds a knife to my head. I told her man, ‘I was wild in bed’.
She told me ‘she loved me’, and she stole my mind. I said ‘I need you all the time’.

Love is strange baby – Windy and wild, oh yeah. Love is Strange.
But oh so fine. Yeah yeah yeah. Hey hey hey.

DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER:
I’m a man who thought he’d lost his vision – how to tell you how i feel.
i’m a man who thought he’d forgotton his emotions. Well I’m here to tell you words of love.
Yes a man who thought he’d left his religion. A man who thought he’d lost it all.
I’m a man who thought he couldn’t take it. Now I’m back to say those days are through, over you yeah.
(chorus)
Don’t shoot the messenger baby -Don’t take it out on me.
Don’t shoot the messenger baby – ‘Cos i got the love, got the love that can set you free.

Where I walked I saw mountains fall, and open the doors to hell.
Where I moved I saw oceans dry up – All my tears as well.

For a corruption of values girl, I spent my time in stir. Ah, ya know I lived it, honey.
I heard the tolling bell, I sunk down the well, I pulled back the veil, I touched the holy grail.
I have my message to sell. I have my message to sell.

But I found I regained my senses when I thought of you.
Yeah y’know I found my heaven. Yes I’m here to tell you words of love, God above, yeah.

Don’t shoot the……(chorus out)