Celebrate The Bullet (album)

(Who Likes) Facing Situations

Don't just sit there I'm bored and so are you

All you do is go on and on

Why worry if things are okay

It's a funny situation

Who's innocence is all of this guilt

Why think there's always someone else to blame

But you still don't care if it doesn't reach you

If it doesn't reach you

 

Can't you see what it means to be me

I can't seem to get through to you and me

We are in constant incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado

 

Just when I thought I must be numb to the pain

They're still tampering inside

But you still don't care

If it doesn't reach you

If it doesn't reach you

 

Boy me neck hot and sweaty- in the heat-in the city

People let me down and piss around

Never meaning what they say

Each and every day

Just when I thought it-it-it

Here you take it

 

Deepwater

Deepwater, deepwater

I'm in trouble and I'm up to my neck again

Deepwater, deepwater

I'm out of money and it's banked by the fat fish

Opening and closing their mouths

But there's no sound in my ears

I never wanted to be in deepwater again

 

Deepwater, deepwater

Too hard to sleep with my eyes open

Deepwater, deepwater

Crying ice cold tears, a drop in the ocean

Killer sharks watching my every move

Echoes of someone laughing at me

I never wanted to be in deepwater again

 

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Away.................................................. Away

 

Deepwater, deepwater

Drown my sorrows with too many blues

Deepwater, deepwater

Sometimes I've had to cast away my pride

Like a prisoner on an island wachin the tide

Cut-off, shut-off, no-one holds the key

I never wanted to be in deepwater again.

 

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Away.................................................. Away

 

Deepwater, drifting downstream

Won't you throw me a rope

Deepwater, fighting the current

Staring at your boat

 

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Deepwater, drifting miles and miles and miles away

Away.................................................. Away

 

Red Reflections

Stretched out on the sofa

Making witty conversation

Instant coffee in the cups

Then the milk went sour

Now honesty was all I wanted

Enough warmth to mix it right

Didn't want my loving on the rocks

But couldn't melt the ice

 

Then the door shut

And the mirror falls

My jagged image

Rests against the wall

 

And I see

Red reflections in the mirror of the night

 

The mirror shows all your secrets

Puts all your fears on view

It always plays its jokes

Only when you're looking at you

 

And if loneliness was a colour

It would be white

But all I see is red reflections

In the mirror of the night

 

The mirror shows all your secrets

Puts all your fears on view

The darkness lights your eyes

In the quiet I hear a thousand sighs

 

Then the door slams shut

And the mirror falls

My jagged image

Rests against the wall

 

And I see

Red reflections in the mirror of the night

 

Tell Me What's Wrong

We were friends do you remember

Not so long ago

Each and every time we meet

You seem to be avoiding me

I've been hearing things all around

You've been saying that I'm a clown

I guess the truth is plain to see

Man to man is your worst enemy

 

Won't you tell me

What have I done

For you to try and bring me down

I felt the change change towards me

Tell me tell me what's wrong

 

Oh won't you tell me

Oh won't you tell me

Won't you tell me

Tell me tell me what's wrong

 

After all's been said and done

I guess that's how it ought to be

Just you remember this

The bad you do will follow you

 

I can see things more clearly now

To me it just don't make no sense

I guess the truth is plain to see

You're now my enemy

 

Won't you tell me

What have I done

For you to try and bring me down

I felt the change change towards me

Tell me tell me what's wrong

 

Oh won't you tell me

Oh won't you tell me

Won't you tell me

Tell me tell me what's wrong

 

I can see things more clearly now

To me it just don't make no sense

I guess the truth is plain to see

You're now my enemy

 

Oh won't you tell me

Oh won't you tell me

Won't you tell me

Tell me tell me what's wrong

 

After all's been said and done

I guess that's how it ought to be

 

Bombscare

I hear an urgent message

From a panicking voice

Start moving your feet

Get out into the street

There's been a bombscare

 

An unattended bag in the corridor

Looking innocent

But we're all unsure

There's been a bombscare

 

If this is a joke it's not funny to me

My heart clocks the seconds and my shoes are loose

Is someone out to get me

Or is someone making headlines for the 9 o'clock news

 

Bombscare

 

Girl in the office

Shoppers down in the street

Do you care, do I care

Now we're living in fear

There's been a bombscare

 

The unattending hand

Plays a bitter game

A faceless choice

Kill or maim

This is a bombscare

 

Whoever you are now you've gone too far

You're not fighting for them, you're not fighting for me

Shatter glass, shut us up, cut us up brick it up, break it down

Your good reasons mean nothing to me

Now you're scared

 

Automatic printout brings the numbers and news

Telephones are calling, but the lines are dead

Is it the IRA or the SAS

All you can do is stand and guess

 

Right in the east

And down in the west

People them a wonder

A who a the best

Lord, cho, let me tell you is a

Bombscare

For dis ya world is a bombscare

 

Washed Up and Left For Dead

It's common knowledge there's always one exception

Not quite a part of the crowd

He tries so hard, just to laugh in the right places

But he knows it's just not funny

He has this feeling, he just knows it

They don't like him 'cos he's different

He knew all about the no-go areas

But he went there just the same

 

He was washed up and left for dead

Nobody told him he was just not wanted

It got so cold after midnight

Oh yeah

 

Don't want the money

He just wants the fame

There's something driving him inside

 

His friends don't like him

 'cos they think that he's so stupid

So he just goes out on his own

He saw a movie that night and it moved him

It was just like his life story

But he got jumped by some thugs

On the way home

No-one came to his rescue

 

He was washed up and left for dead

Nobody told him he was just not wanted

It gets so cold after midnight

Oh yeah

 

Night after night he's out biting the pavement

Hurt his hands clapping for the group

He can't dance, but he can certainly cause trouble

Yeah, ah -ooh

 

He was washed up and left for dead

Nobody told him he was just not wanted

It gets so cold after midnight

Oh yeah

 

Celebrate The Bullet

Celebrate the bullet

Put your finger on the trigger

But you don't have to pull it

'cos you know it won't bring them

Back to you, back to you

 

Celebrate the bullet

But you have to snigger

You told 'em all to shove it

'cos you know it won't bring them

Back to you, back to you

 

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

 

Celebrate the bullet

Put your finger on the trigger

But you don't have to pull it

'cos you know it won't bring them

Back to you, back to you

 

Celebrate the bullet

It all seems to get much bigger

Do you really have to prove it

'cos you know it won't bring them

Back to you, back to you

 

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

Celebrate the bullet

 

Selling Out Your Future

Switching on the city lighting

All the homes feel so secure

'cos the west is ever caring

She can keep your home fires burning

Switching to a bedroom lighting

Hiding low you're insecure

Hand around the candle you say

There's no more joy to come tomorrow

 

Caught in the act

You were taking your time

You said nothing would change

Nothing would change so

Nothing would

 

Selling out your future

Selling out your future

 

Drew the curtains shut the lights out

Slept alone upon the floor

But you couldn't stop the draught creeping

Underneath the front door

You ignored the press gang selling

Lottery tickets at the stairs

But you already sold your hat for

A dark green helmet yesterday

 

Caught in the trap

You had nothing to choose

You saw everything lost

You had nothing to say

Nothing to say, so nothings said

 

Selling out your future

Selling out your future

 

Switching on the city lighting

All the homes feel so secure

'cos the west is ever caring

She can keep the camera staring

Switching on your colour vision

Smiling faces lie to you

Faded voices crying 'Fall into line

The 'Fall out', comes tomorrow

 

Caught in the trap

You were taking your time

They were buying your mind

You had nothing to say

Nothing to say, so nothings said

 

Selling out your future

Selling out your future

 

Cool Blue Lady

Cool blue lady sing your song

Twist your heart out it won't take long

Yeah you wonder just what it's all for

No one would tell you they watch to see you fall

 

Cool blue lady cool blue lady

Cool blue lady, cool blue lady

 

Cool blue lady you tried so hard

How could those people play you like a card

There's so much pain from what you got inside

Makes you want to want to run and hide

 

Cool blue lady, cool blue lady

Cool blue lady, cool blue lady

 

Cool blue lady how you sang the blues

When you loved how come no-one loved you

You told your secrets and gave a lot of soul

Seems like you had an impossible goal

 

Cool blue lady, cool blue lady

Cool blue lady, cool blue lady

 

Their Dream Goes On

Just a shape

Just a quick glimpse

Loud immediately

Just a quick glimpse

Faces light up

Glow in the daytime

They're all gone

Find no sense-keep moving on

I looked at you

Turn electric blue

It doesn't matter

At all to them

That faces light up

Glow in the daytime

Dream goes on

While their dream goes on

 

Bristol & Miami

Cafe on the corner peeling painted sign

Water in he vinegar and it never changes to wine

Causing no fuss just smoking inside

Heavy light bursts in and the shadows rush to hide

 

Then Bristol caught fire

Smell of burning in the air

Everybody listening to the reggae jukebox singer singing

 

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

 

Four thousand miles to the west

People only take so much

When surrounded by the best they want to reach out and touch

Miami beach hot and lazy

Sun a yellow ball of light

Hiding invisible men living in a world of white

 

Bristol and Miami

Where's it gonna be tomorrow

Anytime, anywhere

It's only time we borrow

 

Sun beat down, hot heavy afternoon

Hurricane swept the town, and didn't finish so soon

Black smiles thrown in the dust

Replaced by anger

White grins begin to rust when

They're looking in the face of danger

 

Then Miami caught fire

Smell of burning in the air

Everybody listening to the reggae jukebox singer singing

 

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

 

Black man singing in the heat of the night

Broken dreams just fly away

 

dy listening to the reggae jukebox singer singing

 

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

Sing on, sing on

Listen to the echo of the street

 

Black man singing in the heat of the night

Broken dreams just fly away