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The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette lyrics



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01. Love Song

Music & lyrics by The Damned
Ladies and gentlemen...how do.

Hey man, what's happening?

I'll be the ticket if you're my collector
I've charge the fare if you're my inspector
I'll be the luggage if you'll be the porter
I'll be the parcel if you'll be my sorter

Just for you here's a love song
Just for you here's a love song
And it makes me glad to say
It's been a lovely day
And it's okay

I'll be the mail you'll be the guard
I'll be the ink on your season ticket card
I'll be the rubbish you'll be the bin
I'll be the paint on the sign if you'll be the tin

Just for you here's a love song
Just for you here's a love song
And it makes me glad to say
It's been a lovely day
And it's okay

02. Machine Gun Etiquette

Music & lyrics by The Damned
I remember what you said (second time around)
Don't you wish that we were dead (second time around)

No more getting pushed around (second time around)
Not that we've gone underground (second time around)

Now its time for you to see (second time around)
What the Love Song did for me (second time around)

Really famous stinking rich (second time around)
Straight up there without a hitch (second time around)

I remember what you said (second time around)
Don't you wish that we were dead (second time around)

No more getting pushed around (second time around)
Back to haunt you with our sound (second time around)

03. I Just Can't Be Happy Today

Music & lyrics by The Damned
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today

A lot of you know there's nothing to smile
There's no feeling fine without being fined
It's a price on your head
No point being sad when justice is red

I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today

They're closing the schools
They're burning the books
The church is in ruins
The priests hang on hooks
The radios on ice
The telly's been banned
The army's in power
The devil commands

Illegal to dance Forbidden to cry
You do what you're told and never ask why
Ignore all those fools
They don't understand we make our own rules

I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy, Just Can't Be Happy, Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy, Just Can't Be Happy, Just Can't Be Happy Today

04. Melody Lee

Music & lyrics by The Damned
Melody lee, a broken man and a broken dream
It must have been a change of heart
Your life was cruel they called it art

Melody lee, you need a nuke to set you free
You know you can't cheat tomorrow
If you hide any sorrow

Melody lee, you gotta find your secret enemy
You're on the run with nowhere to go
If you die someone to know

Forget your heart, you need not stay
A second longer than today

Melody lee, a broken man and a broken dream
It must have been a change of heart
Your life was cruel they called it art

05. Anti-Pope

Music & lyrics by The Damned
(Bollocks!)

I'm going back to church tonight
Just like back when I was eight
But I don't mean to pray
I'm gonna nick a collection plate

I've got nothing against church
Only people that go there and show they're
Plain ignorant and don't understand
A congregation at weekends will change their behaviour
So many people are weak and then have to
Seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope

There's gonna be some fun tonight
Spreading news around the town
That the vicar's a transvestite
With a fetish for robes and gowns

I've got nothing against church
Only people that go there and show they're
Plain ignorant and don't understand
A congregation at weekends will change their behaviour
So many people are weak and then have to
Seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope

Religion doesn't mean a thing
Its just another way of being right wing
I think sex films are okay
I don't dig that pope, no way

I've got nothing against church
Only people that go there and show they're
Plain ignorant and don't understand
A congregation at weekends will change their behaviour
So many people are weak and then have to
Seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope

06. These Hands

Music & lyrics by The Damned
These are the hands of a demented circus clown
Outside I'm laughing but inside I'm really wearing a frown
I see you laughing at me
But baby in my dreams
Its quite a different scene

Chasing you through the night with my hands around your neck
Funny how everything seems to make me colliette
I find I'm laughing at you
And you are turning blue
Ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha ha ha Ho ho ho

Stop laughing

07. Plan 9 Channel 7

Music & lyrics by The Damned
She plays her mouth into a smile
And offers that he stay a while
Two hearts that beat as one
And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun
Hollywood babbles on
She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave
His flame gone along with the love he never gave
Not to be seduced by those red lips
Two dimensional comic clips
Hollywood babbles on
On and on and on and on and...

Channel 7, with shades of grey
Too close but two worlds away
Plan 9, hello may
Too close but two worlds away
They say

Step into the night

She plays her mouth into a smile
And offers that he stay a while
Two hearts that beat as one
And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun
Hollywood babbles on
She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave
His flame gone along with the love he never gave
Not to be seduced by those red lips
Two dimensional comic clips
Hollywood babbles on
On and on and on and on and...

Channel 7, with shades of grey
Too close but two worlds away
Plan 9, hello may
Too close but two worlds away
They say

08. Noise, Noise, Noise

Music & lyrics by The Damned
It's 7am on a brand new day
I'm gonna start it in the perfect way
Put the greatest record on

I kick the dog and kick the cat
Insult my mum insult my dad
Scream out loud and sing along

We say noise is for heroes (heroes)
Leave the music for zeroes (zeroes)
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes (heroes)
Oh yeah

I'm down the pub the time is one
Hit the jukebox for my favourite song
Gonna turn it up too loud

Have a couple of games of pool
Argue with a drunken fool
Have a beer with the usual crowd

We say noise is for heroes (heroes)
Leave the music for zeroes (zeroes)
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes (heroes)
Oh yeah

Its noise that makes the world go round
I can't survive without that sound
The sound torments me

Its 8 o'clock down the church hall
Enourmous amplifiers 6 feet tall
Gonna turn them up full blast
The vicar waves his arms and looks absurd
The noise drowns out his godly words
And he can't get out too fast

We say noise is for heroes (heroes)
Leave the music for zeroes (zeroes)
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes (heroes)
Oh yeah

Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise

09. Looking at You

Music & lyrics by MC5
When it happened
Something Snapped inside me
Made me wanna hide
All alone on my own, all alone on my own
I stood up on the stand my eyes shut tight
Didn't wanna see anybody
Feeling alright, having a good time
Doing alright, doing alright
Doing alright, doing alright

I saw into the dancing crowd
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair

Opened up my eyes baby
You made me realise what I wanna do now
All I wanna do now babe is look at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
Yeah yeah

I saw into the dancing crowd
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair

Opened up my eyes baby
You made me realise what I wanna do now
All I wanna do now babe is look at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby

10. Liar

Music & lyrics by The Damned
Theres not a word of truth in anything that I say
I don't really want to listen till they go away
I haven't finished and I never try
If you ask me reasons I just lie

I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth

I tell you how I feel and why it is
And what you are if you don't start to give
I love spending hours watching television
I stole the best lies and then I call up your crepid politicians

I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth

I smoked your last cigarette I say that someone else did
I send your mum to the bed to find if your sisters frigid
You ask me why, I just lie
I'm a liar, liar

I'm gonna be the biggest liar in the world
I'll be so good you'll believe every word
I could even make you believe Adolf Hitler
Send him to Russia for the winter

I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth

11. Smash It Up

Music by The Damned
Instrumental.

12. Smash It Up

Music & lyrics by The Damned
We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout til my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up til theres nothing left

Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up

People call me villain oh its such a shame
Maybe its my clothes must be to blame
I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest

Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up

Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up

Smash it up, you can keep your krishna burgers
Smash it up, and your Glastonbury hippies
Smash it up, you can stick your frothy lager
Smash it up, and your blow wave hairstyles

And everybody's smashing things down
I said everybody's smashing things down yeah

13. Ballroom Blitz

Music by Sweet
Lyrics by Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn
It's been getting so hard living with the things you do to me
My dreams are getting so strange I´d like to tell you everything I see
I see a man at the back as a matter of fact his eyes are as red as the sun
And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her ´cause she thinks she's the passionate one
Oh yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening
And the music was soothing and they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah
And the man at the back said: "Everyone attack" and it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said: "Boy I wanna warn you" and it turned into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz

[Repeat 4 times]

I'm reaching out for something touching nothing´s all I ever do
I softly call you over When you appear there's nothing left of you
Now the man at the back is ready to crack as he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is everyone's moaner she could kill you with a wink of her eye
Oh yeah, it was electric, so frightfully hectic
And the band started leaping, ´cause they all stopped breathing
Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]

Oh yeah it was like lightning, everybody was frightening and the music was soothing
And they all started grooving
Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus]

It´s, it´s a ballroom blitz [Repeat 3 times]

Yeah

14. Suicide

Music & lyrics by The Damned
It's too much confusion for a young man to take,
Look at my eyes that ain't easy to fake
I got no spirit left to break
I'll slash my wrists ain't no mistake
Help me...oh help me
Help me...oh oh help ...me
Suicide suicide it's hap'nin' again
Suicide suicide I'm losin' my brain
Suicide suicide what can I do?
Gonna kill myself....because of you

I've lost track, of logical thinking
I'm sitting in a room, not even blinking
Into the darkness I am sinking
About to hear the angels singing
Help me, oh help me
Help me, oh heeeelp meeeeeee
Suicide suicide it's hap'nin' again
Suicide suicide I'm losing my brain
Suicide suicide what can I do?
Gonna kill myself, because of you

My mind's goin' round, faster and faster
The scripts been read and there's no disaster
I was in with a chance but I'm a bastard
I'm lying awake in a hospital plaster
Help me, oh help me
Help me, oohh help..me
Suicide suicide it's hap'nin' again
Suicide suicide I'm losin' my brain
Suicide suicide what can I do?
I'm gonna kill myself,because of you

15. Rabid (Over You)

Music & lyrics by The Damned
I read about a bug eyed mad dog
Taking London in a storm
I heard about a blue eyed heroine
Screaming out for help
I held my breath as ten claws
Came through the cabin door
And timing forces slipped a cross
The trator's sticky core

I was just a hero of the human race
But monsters keep on trying
To take control of space

I heard about a great new movie
That took the world by storm
People said the effects were groovy
The plot was personal
The garbage was whiter than white
The villain mostly dark
The hero was enlightened by light
Dogs began to bark

I was just a hero of the human race
But monsters keep on trying
To take control of space

You treat me like a dog
Give me a bone to chew
Frothing at the mouth
Frothing all over you
Yeah I get rabid over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
I'm kind of rabid over you

Your daddy's got a gun
He's gonna put me down
Compliments of public health
Horror teenage town
Yeah I've been bitten over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
Rabid rabid rabid

I can't stand the rain (rabid)
Water on the brain (rabid)
I'm kind of rabid over you
I just gotta hide (rabid)
I wanna bite (rabid)
I'm kind of rabid over you

I can't stand the rain (rabid)
Water on the brain (rabid)
I'm kind of rabid over you
We just gotta hide (rabid)
I wanna bite (rabid)
I'm kind of rabid over you

16. White Rabbit

Music by Jefferson Airplane
Lyrics by Grace Slick
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all

Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call

Call Alice
When she was just small

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow

Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion have fallen [unverified] dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's lost her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head

One pill makes you nervous
And one pill makes you fall
And the ones that you've been taking
Won't do you any good at all

Go ask Alice
She just hit the floor

Now you said, you could take it
Yeah, you'd said anything
But when your habit does all the talking
Yeah, you'd say anything

You could ask Alice
But I think she's gone

Now you've just lost all your money
And you've been thrown out of your home
But for that one more gram of cocaine
You'd sell your very soul

Go ask Alice
Well, now she knows

She's living in a dreamworld
And (?)
But you'd better pull yourself together
'Cause this is reality

But I think that you'd might be
Better off dead, use your head
Use your head, use your head