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Beggars can be choosers album by the Newtown neurotics, funny lyrics lmao
16:38 Dec 05 2009 Times Read: 853
WAKE UP
It all begins at school when they tell you you're useless
And the jobs you get offered makes the matter conclusive
For years and years they've been telling you lies
Your full potential's never been realised
And then you slip into the attitude of
'I make a mess of everything I try to do'
CHORUS:
Don't sit around; you've got to wake up and live
Don't piss around; you've got to wake up and live
You religiously say it's not worth trying
But christ almighty, do you need enlightening!
I'm not talking about a type of career
I'm talking about just enjoying being here
Make the most of your life everyday
And every opportunity that comes your way
CHORUS
They've got you exactly where they want you to be
Shackled in feelings of in-a-a-adequacy
It's no fun to hide your feelings inside
Feelings you can't understand or describe
It affects everything that you do
Apathy is slowly killing you
CHORUS
What have you done? -Yes I'm talking to you
What have you achieved?
Does this question disquieten you
Like it still does me, like it still does me?
You don't own an ounce of self-respect
You don't own an ounce of self-respect
So you're treated like no-one
What did you really expect?
I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you
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The Mess.
Saturday night smashed out of my brains
laying on the floor looking really intelligent
oh what's news I hear you say
all of my dreams have gone down the drain
It just goes to show I wasn’t paying attention
things just worsened day by day
in every way.
Chorus:
oh, oh look at me
I'm as hip as i can be
I'm wasted, just look at the mess I am in.
Spent half of the night walking the streets
looking for a party that never existed
every week is just the same
well we talked about sex but never of love
we bragged about girls with which we'd had fun
oh but the thing that's really sad
we never had.
Chorus:
I was brilliant at school but not in exams
my teachers they could not understand
how five years work went to the wall
and then I got into trouble 'cos I got in the way
when things went wrong, well I got the blame
I was Idle through no fault of my own
none of my own.
Chorus:
oh, look at me no-one 'round here wants me
I'm wasted just look at the mess I am in.
Down there, they are laughing at you
down there, it is you who's gonna get screwed
down there, they will walk all over you
down there, down there, down there.
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GET UP AND FIGHT
There are people out there who make me see red
They're making careers from getting out of there heads
Competing to be the wreck of the year
Cultivating porridge between their ears
They take, they take but they give nothing back
To a world that may one day break their backs
There are people fighting in every way
To protect the freedoms you enjoy every day
Your opinions have a familiar ring
Nothing I do or say will change anything
You say politics are boring, boring and grey
But would you rather see cruise brighten everyone's day?
We can't sit back and watch a whole world go down
Jesus christ, take a look around
They're getting away with things we shouldn't allow
We're walking around with our heads in a poisonous cloud
CHORUS:
Get up, get up and fight
Don't sit around whining and wasting my time
Get up, get up and fight
Don't let them run your lives
We've been running away but now we're running out of time
Look I'm being honest with you
Oh, if only you knew
The things they do to keep you down
So you dance through the night forgetting your cares
But when the dancing is over the problem's still there
How are we going to make our nations rise?
Agitate, educate and organise
Governments alone can't cause such distress
Without the people who let them get away with it
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NO RESPECT
Sexual double standards
They make me sick, they divide and rule
Well you're second class if you were born a woman
Yes, it's so different if you are a male
CHORUS:
No man is a whore; he invented the name
No man is a slut; he feels no shame
No man is a slag; he is one of the lads
No man is a cow and she knows now
That love can be so foul
And you show no respect
Which makes me feel you're afraid of the opposite sex
You show no respect
You're afraid of the opposite sex
Try, can't you try to see behind those lies?
I'm sorry if I'm boring you
But your inuendo is really no point of view
What you see here is a warm, freethinking woman
And not the face of a bastard race
CHORUS
How, how many times have we spat in their eyes?
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NEWTOWN PEOPLE
Newtown people you are so cold
Newtown people, they haven't got a soul
But they try, oh they try, they try
But no matter what they do
It all comes to nought
CHORUS:
But they've gone wrong, they've missed it, but it is near
161 has got to be around here
They've gone wrong, they've missed it, but then again
161 has got to be around the next bend
But this town is like a maze
And I hate to admit it to you
That I think we're lost again
Newtown people you are so bored
Newtown people just don't bother anymore
Well there's lots of youth with nothing to do
No money in their pockets for them to use
But you can bet your life they're all in love with you
CHORUS
When god created this town it was for practise
He then created hell and the fact is
Well it is heaven compared with here
The entertainment's better down there
So why the hell don't the buses run
We're always waiting for one
It's no wonder the shelters get done
Frustration's unleashed on the thin metal sheet
And wet concrete; yes there's far too much concrete in this town
Newtown buildings, they are so grey
As if specially designed to suit the newtown, suit the newtown day
There's not a bit of colour to brighten up your life
It makes the winter months all the harder to survive
But we all know we've gotta pull through
CHORUS
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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE THE MARCH IS?
Does anyone know where the march is?
We've been searching for hours
We couldn't get the generator started
We were on the back of a lorry
But with no power we had no sound
While we were tackling the problem
The march moved off and disappeared into town
CHORUS:
Oh where did it go - god knows
It could have been worse I suppose
Just look at us
We're standing there in our rebel clothes
Singing rebel songs with a rebel pose
We were waiting for the traffic to clear
Stuck outside Tesco's
Does anyone know where the march is
we bellowed at the passers by
They thought we were a bunch of crazies - no reply
We saw a kid clutching a leaflet
Ah, this is where the march must've been
She told us we were all stupid
It was causing the traffic jam that we were in
CHORUS
A band with a message
Going nowhere
So we played to the shoppers
In the end we didn't care, we didn't care
They said, what's this, what's this, oh how subversive
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LIFE IN THEIR HANDS
Hello there
It's been a long time
What's this I've heard on the grapevine?
Oh is it true?
You're not telling lies?
Let's talk some more when we get inside
The sound system
Was playing real loud
The rhythms were hard, the message was proud
Oh how we danced
Till it turned bad
Because my drink; it slipped out of my hand
But then a bouncer pulled me aside
And before I could apologise
He said something about a joke
That I'd made at the door
I hadn't wished to offend him
But that search was something more
I overhead them
One night in a pub
They talked about the fun they dad working in the clubs
Oh and the tales
Made my hair stand on end
What type of man would employ these three men?
Check it, check it
Well, out of the dark there now stared
Six unblinking eyes
Which followed me everywhere
I shan't relax tonight
But what's worrying me the most
Is how the hell I get outside without bumping into them
They said:
You can drink if you want, pal
You can drink if you like
But don't step out of line 'cos your life is in our hands
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MY DEATH
Once again my mind is in a mess
A general feeling of worthlessness
That draws me to the darker side of life
Of all my friends, everyone I've met
I feel a compulsive need to impress
So I may feel someone's on my side
CHORUS:
Hold me, love me, stay with me until my death
To my death
Sometimes I feel I'm pushing boulders up a mountainside
Sometimes when I wake I feel like a king
But by mid-afternoon I know I'm nothing
Without that constant reassurance throughout the day
No man is an island when it comes to his needs
But he tramples on others to satisfy these
Oh god, some of the games we play
CHORUS
I'd love to pick a strawberry while I'm hanging from this ledge
Dreamt I surrendered to a merciless sea
Tired, so tired of it battering me
(Colin) I'm just as puzzled now as you
That may be so but you still cling to the raft
Terrified of the infinate dark
We're all just frightened people cowering form ourselves
I like to live for the moment and live for today
And savour any pleasuures that come my way
But how can I do that when my ingrowing toenail is killing me?
Today is dull, that's what we're told
We live for an expectation or a memory
CHORUS
We're all just frightened people cowering from ourselves
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LIVING WITH UNEMPLOYMENT
I was living in a newtown
I had problems with my parents
So I moved on up to London town
Where they said things were happening, going down
CHORUS:
Living in a besit
Bunking the tube trains
Sleeping all day long
And you know no-one, 'cos you don't go out
'Cos you've got no work
You just watch television
Living with unemployment
I, I ain't got a job
And there's no work in the city
They, they always try to blame it on the blacks
But it's really those in power who stab you in the back
CHORUS
Round our way we ain't got a lot
And after two years on the dole I felt I'd been left to rot
But now I've joined the army and, believe it or not
I'm going to Northern Ireland and I'm gonna get shot!
CHORUS
Living with unemployment
Oh you get so lonely
Living with unemployment
It gets so frustrating
Living with unemployment
And the Neurotics wanna tell you what it's like to be
Unemployed, out of work, unemployed, out of work
(Mother's plea) Try to stay out of trouble, dear
It's lonely for you
And it's lonely for me
It's lonely for all of us
Can't you see?
CHORUS
Living with unemployment
Oh you get so lonely
Living with unemployment
It gets so frustrating
Living with unemployment, living without
(Club reggae section)
When you've out of work
They treat you like dirt
I said, when you're out of work
They treat you like dirt
It's all part of the plan, part of the plan
We are the scroungers
Living with unemployment
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Probably the most funny and interesting neurotic lyrics ever .... claps lmao, listening to this no matter how i feel always makes me laugh at some point : )
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