Rag And Bone Buffet

Xtc Rag And Bone Buffet歌詞
1.Another Satellite

作詞:Andy Partridge

My heart is taken, it's not lost in space
And I don't want to see your moony moony face
I say, why on earth do you revolve around me?
Aren't you aware of the gravity?
Don't need another satellite

I'm happy standing on my feet of clay
I have no wish to swim your milky, milky way
I say, why on earth do you send your letters 'round here
Only to gum up the atmosphere?
Don't need another satellite

So circling, we'll orbit another year
Two worlds that won't collide
So circling, we'll orbit another year
Moon still tries to steal the tide away

Don't need another satellite
Don't need another satellite

Abort your mission, let's just say you tried
Before you glimpse I have a darker, darker side
I say, why in Heaven's name do you come on these trips
Only to freeze in a total eclipse?
Don't need another satellite

So circling, we'll orbit another year
Two worlds that won't collide
So circling, we'll orbit another year
Moon still tries to steal the tide away

Don't need another satellite
Don't need another satellite
Don't need another satellite
Don't need another satellite
Don't need another satellite


2.Blame The Weather

作詞:Moulding Colin Ivor

When your love's flown out the window
And the pain comes through the door
Once again you've missed the boat
And you're stranded on the shore

And you find out that what you had
Was never yours at all
Friends and lovers that you knew so well
Will never take your calls

So, you blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, can't you see you're in your prime?
You're turning creases into lines

If you play the game
You've got to be prepared to take a knock
You get put down so many times
But you keep on getting up

So put your tears away
And don't forget to worry is a crime
Nothing bears thinking about too much
You'll be old before your time

So, you blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, can't you see you're in your prime?
You're turning creases into lines

The pool of tears you left to drown in
The helping hands that never came
The years you lost out to another
All up in flames

So, you blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, blame the weather
Oh oh, can't you see you're in your prime?
You're turning creases into lines


3.Cockpit Dance Mixture

作詞:Andy Partridge

Man acting like a farmer
And he's treating the woman like a poor cow
He got to treat you better from now

But man is just a baby
And he's needing your milk of kindness I vow
To drink as much as you will allow

All the way through history
Man machine, no mystery
All the way through history
Girl have the brain to act just like the weaker sex

Down in the cockpit
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it
Down in the cockpit
Man need the woman to pull him right out of it

Queen wants the castle back from the rascal
Queen wants the castle
Now

The girl tribe are growing up
And filling the world full with a new soul
To get so far they paid a high toll

Try not to make, the same mistakes
As man has made or you'll fall in that hole
And you will see us changing our role

Oh, look what is this creature
Down in that hole?
Some say they were called men


4.Countdown To Christmas Party Time

作詞:Andy Partridge

Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown To Christmas party time

We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you

Grab a woman beneath the mistletoe
Kiss her lips and make her glow
No more fighting, no more fuss
Ah, it's Christmas!

Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown To Christmas party time

We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you

Eat and drink and dance some more
Invite the whole street through your door
Sing out loud, don't swear or cuss
Ah, it's Christmas!

Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown To Christmas party time

Countdown
Countdown to Christmas
Countdown To Christmas party time

We're so happy
We want you to be happy too
We're so happy
And we want to share the secrets of happiness with you

Countdown
10 days
Countdown to Christmas
9 days

Countdown
8 days
Countdown to Christmas
7 days

Countdown
6 days
Countdown to Christmas
5 days

Countdown
4 days
Countdown to Christmas
3 days

Countdown
2 days
Countdown to Christmas
1 day
Ah, it's Christmas!


5.Extrovert

作詞:Andy Partridge

Yes, it's true

I want that apple, just like William Tell
No more floor gazing, no more head down the well
I'm feeling extrovert
I should be shaking the stars instead of hugging the dirt

I swear

I'm really burning, fit to boil up the sea
Human volcano at a zillion degrees
I'm feeling extrovert
Instead of quiet and shy I'm really dying to fly

I feel like someone else
Yes I do, yes I do, yes I do
I feel like someone else
I feel new, not so blue, I feel
Extrovert

No hidden message, nothing political
You needn't listen, I just wanted to show
I'm feeling extrovert
I am the lion who's roaring not the mouse that gets hurt

I feel like someone else
Yes I do, yes I do, yes I do
I feel like someone else
I feel new, not so blue, I feel
My trumpet plays for you
I'm gonna blow it now


6.Happy Families

作詞:Andy Partridge

Have you got Miss Fortune
She's the daughter of rich parents, all she does is cry
One four-letter word is all she wants
But you can't buy love so there's no supply

Will you take your Master Charge?
The boy who's living well beyond his parents' means
(Happy families)
See his parents kill theirselves with work to keep
Their dandy in the latest jeans
(Happy families)

Happy families is a kid's game
Happy families is your main aim
It starts out with a dealing in the middle of the night
And ends up with a full house

If you play your cards out right
Mum says Dad is cheating, you should see
The grown-ups fight for happy families
The game that's sure to please

Have you got your Master Race
The bigot son who like his dad is full of fear
(Happy families)
Not so much a sun, more of a storm to her
To burn the books when Dad's not here
(Happy families)

Happy families is a kid's game
Happy families is your main aim
You start out with your first cub
And you think that life's a song

You'll end up with a wolf pack
If you lay your cards out wrong
Dad says Mom is cheating
You can see the children long
For happy families
The game that's sure to please

Have you got Miss Carriage
She's the girl who wants a baby that she cannot find
(Happy families)
Strange, the ones who want to win the race
Are usually the ones who fall behind


7.Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass

作詞:Andy Partridge

Heaven is paved with broken glass
Since your hammer struck my heart
This world, a hell of trees and grass
All is wrong like north gone south
There's a bad taste in my mouth

Everything was stars
'Til you had a notion to leave
Beauty marks turn scars
Bet you had a laugh up your sleeve

Congratulations love, love, love, love
You made a fool of me and physics

Heaven is paved with broken glass
Since your hammer struck my heart
This world, a hell of trees and grass
All is wrong like north gone south
There's a bad taste in my mouth

Everything was gold
'Til you thought you were above me
Soldier turns to rogue
Pretty turns to pretty ugly

Congratulations love, love, love, love
You made a fool of me and physics

And I'm feeling cheated
And I'm feeling used
And what's even worse is
You just look amused

Heaven is paved with broken glass
Since your hammer struck my heart
This world, a hell of trees and grass
Since your hammer struck my heart
Heaven is paved with broken glass


8.I Need Protection

作詞:Colin Moulding

Oh, I need protection

Nothing is safe and
Nothing is truly sacred
If you want to stay alive
Keep your body from the undertakers

Sing out
Oh, I need protection

Have you ever had a threat?
Have you ever had, stare?
You can see it on TV
From the pleasing safety of your armchair

Sing out
Oh, I need protection

When it slap you in the face
Will you take, to consider
What will you do
When he says to you, stand, deliver

Will you take to your heels
And fight to brazen your features
Yeah, it won't go away
With just one click of your fingers

Sing out
Oh, I need protection
Protection


9.Looking For Footprints

作詞:Colin Moulding

I want a back seat
Because I'm dead beat
I'm respirating

Gives us sleepyheads, sleepyheads
The road ahead, it takes us to our bed
Sleepyheads, sleepyheads
Our minds they race but our bodies are dead

Just like looking for footprints
Looking for footprints

The lights are twisted
Each one is misted
To far and counting
Head nod in twenty

Gives us sleepyheads, sleepyheads
The road ahead, it takes us to our bed
Sleepyheads, sleepyheads
Our minds they race but our bodies are dead


10.Mermaid Smiled

作詞:Andy Partridge

From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be

Borne on foaming seahorse herd

Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands

Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child 'til mermaid smiled

Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell

Breakers pillow fight the shore

She wriggles free in the tide
I'm locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand

I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid smiled


11.Officer Blue

作詞:Colin Moulding

Officer blue
Really love the things you do
Even when I was just eight years old
(Eight years old)

Officer blue
Is it true what they say?
That when you work you're still at play
(Still at play)

Oh, officer blue
I really love the things you do
It's magical, people in a human zoo

Officer blue
Cast a shadow on the wall
But by torchlight even mice look tall
(They don't fall)

Officer blue
In a blaze of human form
And your stripes and badges to conform
(You conform)

Officer blue
Really love the things you do
Even when I was just eight years old
(Eight years old)

Officer blue
Is it true what they say?
That when you work you're still at play
(Still you play)


12.Pulsing Pulsing

作詞:Andy Partridge

Pulsing pulsing
There's a beat in his arm still
Pulsing pulsing
Like the throb of an anthill

Pulsing pulsing
No death in the rain
I've been washing my hands

I'm pulsing
You're pulsing
Who's pulsing?
What's pulsing?

Pulsing pulsing
There's a lump in his throat still
Pulsing pulsing
At the site of a crash throw

Pulsing pulsing
No push in the vein
I've been washing my hands


13.Punch And Judy

作詞:Andrew Partridge

Gather 'round!

Punch and Judy did it truly
And were married in a haste
In love, maybe, using the baby
As a kind of romance paste

She's grown fatter, her hair cut shorter
Looks much older than nineteen
He's a drinker, not a thinker
Baby spoiled his could-have-been

This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
'Cos who do we know, dear, who acts like that?
Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy, in a semi
On a brand new council plot
Sunday lunchtime, beer-for-punch time
While his dinner's far from hot

She grows tired, cab is hired
She goes 'round to see her friend
He comes back late, fool is irate
We will see his temper bend

This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
'Cos who do we know, dear, who acts like that?

Punch and Judy in a quandary
She's walked out and he is mad
Now he's grown up, can't smash home up
Retribution must be had

Punch and Judy had a baby
Who brought them to married bliss
Mr. Punch has drunken hunch
That he must punish kid for this

This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
This must be make-believe
'Cos who do we know, dear, who acts like that?
Punch and Judy


14.Strange Tales, Strange Tails

作詞:Andy Partridge

Strange tales
Scribbled on a uniform
Strange tails
Scribbled down in cuneiform

(It had been written)
You had
(To get in)
You know a cat'll play
You used to be a big mouse

Strange tales, strange tails

Strange tales
Scribbled on the shelter walls
Strange tails
Scribbled as the idol falls

Strange tales, strange tails


15.Take This Town

作詞:Andy Partridge

Living in a rabbit tunnel
Keep the doggy in her kennel
Mustn't let her see the world, oh, no
Don't treat her like that, oh, no

Don't treat her like that
Leaving after mom and daddy
Carry home just like a cat, he
Mustn't let them see your kill

Shout it clear for all to hear
You won't shoot this bird down
Shout it clear for all to hear
We're going to take this town
(Turn and done bridge give the orders)
(Keeping lunch in perfect orders)

Mustn't let them know their minds
(Turning on too early music)
(Bring up on each other that they)
Mustn't let them over the lines
It's time she stopped being your ornament

It's time she put it in the past for permanent
You can't hold her if she wants to roam around
Around around around around
You can't hold her dreamin', keep her gagged and bound
Gagged and bound

We're going, we're going to
We're going to take
We're going to take this
We're going to take this


16.Thanks For Christmas

作詞:Balthazar, Kasper, Melchoir, Andy Partridge

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the love and happiness
That's snowing down
All around

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the winter friendliness
That's snowing down
All around the world

It's nearer
Children's eyes shine clearer now
As they decorate the trees
All across the seven seas

It's nearer
Yule log fires burn clearer now
In the winter's frosty air
Sing with us and we can share our

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the love and happiness
That's snowing down
All around

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the winter friendliness
That's snowing down
All around the world

It's dawning
Santa's reindeer yawning now
All their festive work is done
Filling houses up with fun

It's dawning
Here is Christmas morning now
Greatest day of all the year
Listen out and you will hear our

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the love and happiness
That's snowing down
All around

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the winter friendliness
That's snowing down
All around the world

It's such a shame it's only one day every year
Three hundred and sixty-four days full of doubts and fear
You've been saving your love up
Let it out 'cause Christmas is here

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the love and happiness
That's snowing down
All around

Thanks for Christmas
Thank you for the winter friendliness
That's snowing down
All around the world


17.The World Is Full Of Angry Young Men

作詞:Colin Moulding

Gone are the days
When hate filled my heart
I feel now I am a happy man
I laugh now at values that I had

All through my youth
I was shouting and no one would hear
Blind to the ways of the people
Who now I hold dear, It's loud and clear

The world is full of angry young men
Chip on the shoulder, an ideal in their head
The world is full of angry young men
Who think life owes them something but you only get out what
goes in

There was a time when I fought the world
I see now, it was just an actors stage
I see clear,
The colors through the haze

As time goes on, your opinion will change like the weather
Things that you said, now seem small
They just don't seem to matter
I learned for the better

The world is full of angry young men
Chip on the shoulder, and an ideal in their head
The world is full of angry young men
Who think life owes them something but you only get out what
goes in

There was a time I was lost in the dark
I ran a race I didn't know where to start
Now I've changed my ways seeing better days
I'm turning my world upside down

The world is full of angry young men
Chip on the shoulder, and an ideal in their head
The world is full of angry young men
Who think life owes them something but you only get out what
goes in

Angry young men
What you put in is what you get out


18.Tissue Tigers (The Arguers)

作詞:Andy Partridge

I shout this, you shout that
The clouds are coming over looking awful black
It's all hot air

You say go, I say stay
Clear blue sky goes Sheffield gray
It's all hot air

I've grown immune to your claws
Pussycat, I know

All your threats are tissue tigers
Crawling across the table to me
All your threats are tissue tigers
Ripping 'em up is easy for me now

I shout this, you shout that
An eye for heart and a tit for a tat
You easy tear

Think your stripes are yellow and black
I can only see the yellow one down your back
You easy tear

I've grown immune to your claws
Pussycat, I know

All your threats are tissue tigers
Crawling across the table to me
All your threats are tissue tigers
Ripping 'em up is easy for me now

We argue all life long
You'd swear that black was wrong
Throw tantrums like Queen Kong
I've trapped you in my song

All your threats are tissue tigers
Crawling across the table to me
All your threats are tissue tigers
Ripping 'em up is easy for me now


19.Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen

作詞:Colin Moulding

There's too many cooks in the kitchen
There's too many minds on the job
There's too many cooks in the kitchen
Everybody wants a piece of the action
Cooking the books and getting their fractions wrong

What we need is law and order
Everybody knows
Can't have chiefs without the injuns
Stepping on their toes

There's too many cooks in the kitchen
There's too many daps in the pie
There's too many cooks in the kitchen
Everybody needs a place in the rat race
Playing games of power, it's only a cat chase

Too many, too many, too many
Too many cooks in the kitchen


20.Over Rusty Water


21.History of Rock & Roll

So, let's briefly summarize what we know, shall we?

The 50's
The 60's
The 70's
The 80's

Thank you, and goodnight.


22.Respectable Street

作詞:Andy Partridge

It's in the order of their hedgerows
It's in the way their curtains open and close
It's in the look they give you down their nose
All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose

Heard the neighbor slam his car door
Don't he realize this is respectable street
What d'you think he bought that car for
'Cos he realize this is respectable street

Now they talk about abortions
In cosmopolitan proportions to their daughters
As they speak of contraception
And immaculate receptions on their portable
Sony Entertainment Centers

Heard the neighbor slam his car door
Don't he realize this is respectable street
What d'you think he bought that car for
'Cos he realize this is respectable street

Now she speaks about diseases
And which sex position pleases best her old man
Avon lady fills the creases
When she manages to squeeze in past the caravans
That never move from their front gardens

Heard the neighbor slam his car door
Don't he realize this is respectable street
What d'you think he bought that car for
'Cos he realize this is respectable street

It's in the order of their hedgerows
It's in the way their curtains open and close
It's in the look they give you down their nose
All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose

Sunday church and they look fetching
Saturday night saw him retching over our fence
Bang the wall for me to turn down
I can see them with their stern frown as they dispense
The kind of look that says they're perfect

Heard the neighbor slam his car door
Don't he realize this is respectable street
What d'you think he bought that car for
'Cos he realize this is respectable street

He realize this is respectable street
He realize this is respectable street
He realize this is respectable street


23.Scissor Man

作詞:Andy Partridge

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names
Maybe you are in his book of names

So be kind and helpful to your mother
Just think twice before you try to steal
When he cuts with sticky silver snippers
You may find that wounds will never heal

All self made bad boys
If you refuse to believe he exist
You won't be frightened
When you find out you're on his list
You're on his list, you're on his list

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names
Maybe you are in his book of names

So be good and never poison people
Just think twice before the deed is done
When you wake up guilty in the morning
You may find important pieces gone

All self made bad boys
If you refuse to believe he exist
You won't be frightened
When you find out you're on his list
You're on his list, you're on his list

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names
Maybe you are in his book of names

All self made bad boys
If you refuse to believe he exist
You won't be frightened
When you find out you're on his list
You're on his list, you're on his list

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names
Maybe you are in his book of names


24.Ten Feet Tall

作詞:Colin Moulding

Happy I'm floating
Around on my feet now
You make me go dizzy
I'm weak at the knees

As I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

Well, you say I'm faking
And I say don't worry
The way that I bubble
There's something in the make

As I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

Right, the chemistry is right
This boy has reached his height
This feeling just goes on and on, and on, and on
From strength to strength, I'm ten feet long

Yeah, I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

But I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

Right, the chemistry is right
This boy has reached his height
This feeling just goes on and on, and on, and on
From strength to strength, I'm ten feet long

Yeah, happy I'm floating
Around on my feet now
You make me go dizzy
I'm weak at the knees

As I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall

I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
I feel like I'm walking
'Round a ten feet tall
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