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sci-fi lullabies Album title: SCI-FI LULLABIES
Release date: October 6, 1997
Tracklist:
My Insatiable One, To the Birds, Where the Pigs don't Fly, He's Dead, The Big Time, High Rising, The Living Dead, My Dark Star, Killing of a Flashboy, Whipsnade, Modern Boys, Together, Bentswood Boys, Europe is Our Playground, Every Monday Morning Comes, Have You Ever Been This Low?, Another No One, Young Men, Sound of the Streets, Money, WSD, This Time, Jumble Sale Mums, These Are the Sad Songss, Sadie, Graffiti Women, Duchess

my insatiable one

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1992 Song duration - 2:57 Track 1 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "The Drowners"
In the high life, I've got this feeling now I've got this horrible feeling On the escalator they took it out on him, As the ridiculous world went by Oh, he is gone He's my insatiable one... On the high wire, dressed in a leotard There wobbles one hell of a retard On the escalator we shit paracetamol, As the ridiculous world goes by Oh, he is gone He's my insatiable one And he was my inflatable one...

to the birds

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1992 Song duration - 5:23 Track 2 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "The Drowners"
Don't take your life, 'cos your bicycle won't fly You could be going to heaven tonight Don't spoil the show for the love of some albino You won't be going to heaven alone I see her by the window waiting every night So I wouldn't give a shit if my bicycle's in bits I think I'm going to heaven on it I see her by the window pour the poison for you I'll go there through the window in my sixteen-hole boots And I'll sing to the birds here at my side And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life Don't take your life 'cos your bicycle won't fly You could be going to heaven tonight And I wouldn't give a shit if your bicycle's in bits I think I'm going to heaven on it I see her by the window, and I see there's a day We'll walk out through the traffic And pour the poison away So I'll sing to the birds here at my side And I'll sing to the birds who will save my life I will lie down for her

where the pigs don't fly

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1992 Song duration - 5:32 Track 3 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Metal Mickey"
Out in the sticks, out in the stickiness They're chasing round in stolen ice cream vans They're sparking up with someone, oh They're covering their jumpers in roses, oh Where the pigs don't fly, oh... Out over there, out in the sticky wire fire, Your royal stickiness, your highness I've heard there's someone saying "I do" And banging out an old piano tune Where the pigs don't fly, I do Where the pigs don't fly, I do I do

he's dead

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1992 Song duration - 5:11 Track 4 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Metal Mickey"
I wake up every day, but I don't want it that way Take my thoughts to the roundabout 'Cos me and them, we like to get out Oh, what you do in your head You do in your head Oh, if he is dead He said he had a horrible house I looked in and learned to shut my mouth He said I had the look of a son With all the love and poison of London Oh, what you do in your head You do in your head Oh, if he is dead Oh, I'll watch you do in your head You'll do in your head Oh, if he is dead

the big time

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1993 Song duration - 4:13 Track 5 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Animal Nitrate"
I watch the slow hand kill the day I see my starring role tick away I watch the skyline for him to come And when he comes along, we'll be gone... ...And we'll go into the city, into the light We'll be there in the headlines, there overnight, 'Cos this is the big time, this is the way Now he's in the big time, he'll show you the way. This is the big time, this is the way Now he's in the big time... And you're in the way.

high rising

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1993 Song duration - 5:49 Track 6 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 5 on the EP "Stay Together" (US version) Track 3 on the single "So Young
You'll hide among the covers and wave as the aeroplanes go by, There's nothing to say when you sleep all day, but "bye-bye". Your mind will find another, and that's where the days have gone, And all you can hear is a stereo somewhere playing a pig-of-a-song And you'll know her, know her, when she comes. When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come. She called you from across the city, you hired a car to crawl, But with the high rise still in your eyes you wonder who's out there at all. And you'll know her, know her, when she comes. When you turn the light out, light out, she'll come. When you turn the light out, she'll come. Stop making me older, start making me new.

the living dead

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1994 Song duration - 2:51 Track 7 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the EP "Stay Together" (US version) Track 2 on the single "Stay Together"
Where's all the money gone?-- I'm talking to you, All up the hole in your arm, Is the needle a much better screw? But oh, what will you do alone? 'Cos I have to go. Where is this life of fun that you promised me? Nothing here works but your works and I mean it I have to leave But oh, what will you do alone? 'Cos I have to go. If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy? You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead Could have had a car, could have had it all, Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall. I know where the money's gone-- I know what you do 'Cos I've seen the hole in your arm and The needle's a much better screw But oh, what will you do alone? 'Cos I have to go.

my dark star

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1994 Song duration - 4:25 Track 8 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the EP "Stay Together" (US version) Track 3 on the single "Stay Together"
In a hired car she will come to England from the sea, And as the tide flows the London snows will come. And from the skyline shines the lies of the government's singular history So in a hired world she will buy a gun And she will come from India with a love in her eyes That say, oh how my dark star will rise In rented gear 2000 years we waited for a man But with a tattoed tit she'd die for us all tonight. And she will come from India with a gun at her side, Or she will come from Argentina With her cemetery eyes that say Oh, how my dark star will rise, ...and she will rise.

killing of a flashboy

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1994 Song duration - 4:08 Track 9 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "We Are The Pigs"
All the white kids shuffle to the heavy metal stutter And go shaking on the scene like killing machines And they know that when she's stacked up top She'll be a sucker for the shotgun show Shaking obscene like killing machines here we go It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh He's a killer he's a flash boy oh Oh if you shake your fake tan thru aerosol land you'll know That you'll suffer your sex by the caravenettes oh no And that shitter with the pout won't be putting it about no more Or shaking obscene like a killing machine here we go It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh He's a killer he's a flash boy oh... ...oh and Athena loves your body So think of the sea my darling Think of the sea as you murder me, murder me, murder me, murder me, murder me... It's the same old show, he's a killer, he's a flash boy oh This is the killing of a flash boy oh.

whipsnade

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1994 Song duration - 4:22 Track 10 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "We Are The Pigs"
We are only young, But we style our future with a cattle gun And we aren't idle rich, So we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch Cause when the firelight shocks like a cop shop pyre We'll sack the politics for premonition and fire And we'll move like nureyev that night Coast to coast, side to side Shines the lies of fine enlightened minds Coast to coast We are only young But we style our future in the shadow of guns And we are not idle rich So we smile for tomorrow with a bitch of an itch Cause when the stylised kick of the filmstar whip Cracks down on the millions, Cracks the kids on their hips Then we'll move like nuryev that night 'Cos coast to coast, side to side Shines the lies of fine enlightened minds Coast to coast, side to side Feel the steel that shines outside the blinds Coast to coast, side to side Blades engraved with babies' names While pylons hide the suicide Coast to coast, side to side Shines the light of fine enlightened minds Coast to coast, side to side Feel the steel that shines outside the blinds Coast to coast, side to side Blades engraved with babies' names While pylons hide the suicides

modern boys

Written by Anderson/Butler Produced by Ed Buller, 1994 Song duration - 4:10 Track 11 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "The Wild Ones" (CD 1) Track 13 (hidden) on the US version of "Dog Man Star"
Come unto me my winter son We could lie on the rails And when the morning comes We'll be miles away Miles away Slipping away while the city sleeps Running away from this cruel disease Miles away, miles away Modern boys, modern boys Hand in hand, sick of the fear Chasing away all the hungry years We're the modern boys Come onto me my sickly thing We could lie on the rails But to really win we'll just drive away, drive away Yes, the world calls my international So let the decades die, let the parties fall And we'll be miles away, miles away Because we'll be living like Modern boys, modern boys Hand in hand, sick of the fear Chasing away all the hungry years Into the night, under the stars Jumping the lights in the silent cars He's on your left, I'm on your right It's so easy in the concrete night

together

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1995 Song duration - 4:31 Track 12 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "New Generation" (CD 1)
She was standing smoking counting stolen change, Don't someone have the guts to complain? Said "superman, I'm a big fan, Let's get something straight, Well you don't have the guts to complain" Now your son's coming out to play Your son's coming out to play When you're on your own Standing by the phone We should get together Got a supermarket stance Just taking it hand-in-hand We should get together Just think of the life you'll save Not stuck in your early grave We should get together I saw you standing smoking counting stolen change But I don't have the guts to complain Well I picked you up, got mixed up with you, That's OK 'Cos now I've got the guts to complain And now your son's coming out to play Your son's coming out to play When you're on your own Standing by the phone We should get together Got a supermarket stance Just taking it hand-in-hand We should get together Just think of the life you'll save Not stuck in your early grave We should get together

bentswood boys

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1995 Song duration - 3:20 Track 13 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "New Generation" (CD 1)
When you're high on diesel nightly And the traffic starts to roll You smoke a cigarette and watch the black girls In a white boys world Anything is possible for the Bentswood boys Where the karma comes with the kids and the cat food You see Tina push the pram 'Cos she was on her back in his estate car And in the back of his van Anything is possible for the Bentswood boys For the Bentswood boys (things are happening) For the Bentswood boys (mmm...tell it like it is!) Don't take me down, don't take me down Don't take me down south

europe is our playground

Written by Osman/Anderson Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 5:37 Track 14 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Trash" (CD 1)
Run with me baby, let your hair down Through every station, through every town Run with me baby, let's take a chance From Heathrow to Hounslow, from the Eastern Block to France Europe is our playground, London is our town So run with me baby now Run with me baby, let your hair down Through every station, through every town Run with me baby, let's make a stand From peepshows to disco, from Spain to Camber Sands Europe is our playground, London is our town So run with me baby now...

every monday morning comes

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 4:28 Track 15 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Trash" (CD 1)
Oh when you and I Watch the planes go by Silver in the sky We do whatever we like Oh when you and me See the birds and the sea The people on the streets We do whatever we please But every Monday morning comes, Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah Oh every Monday morning comes, Every Monday morning, yeah Oh when you and I Watch the London sky The traffic rolling by We do whatever we like So we chase the day away And feel the morning rain Piss our money down the drain And do whatever they say But every Monday morning comes, Every Monday morning, yeah, yeah Oh every Monday morning comes, Every Monday morning, yeah

have you ever been this low?

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 3:52 Track 16 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Trash" (CD 2)
Have you ever been this low? The taxis take you where you wanna go Broken windows, endless television shows I haven't ever been so low I am the one, I sing the song My lights are on but there's nobody home So much happening today A thousand people come and go and stay and fade away They draw the blinds and watch the show Have you ever been so low? I am the one, I sing the song My lights are on but there's nobody home ...nobody home

another no one

Written by Anderson Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 3:57 Track 17 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Trash" (CD 2)
She takes the blame, takes the pain but the world smiles 'Cos outside is just a taxi ride to drive away So she packs her bag, calls a cab and the world smiles And inside well she feels all right and turns to say: "Yes it's the end, the final showdown Yes it's the end of our small love You'll have to find another no one to take the shit like I have Well I guess this is the end, I guess this is the end." She feels the sun, phones her mum and the world smiles 'Cos outside in the morning light it's another day So she packs her bag, smokes a fag and the world smiles 'Cos inside well she feels all right, and turns to say: "Yes it's the end, the final showdown Yes it's the end of our small love You'll have to find another no one who'll take the shit like I have Well I guess this is the end, I guess this is the end... Oh well..."

young men

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 4:36 Track 18 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Beautiful Ones" (CD 1) Bonus track on the Japanese version of "Coming Up"
Tony only reads Asian babes Danny's doing doves on down the raves Terry drinks his money away Oh God, and his sons play drums all day On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, The young men You are the ones, are the scene, are the sons, are the young men Young men, here we, here we go again Les says punk isn't dead Mick is not impeccably bred Paul he just can't get out of bed Oh God, and Phil's still off his head On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, The young men You are the ones, are the system, are the sons, are the young men Young men, here we, here we go again On the scene, on the dole, in your eyes, in your soul, the young men You are the ones, are the scene, are the young men Cheating on the wives, all shiny suits and lazy lies, the young men Insulting everyone, picked up your sister, kicked your son, the young men Fighting in the clubs, flash on the streets, cash in the pubs, the young men Boozing on the train, p-45's and cheap champagne -- the young men

the sound of the streets

Written by Anderson Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - 5:02 Track 19 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Beautiful Ones" (CD 1)
She walks the streets of summer Inside her there's no future She walks the streets to pass the time The cash machines are laughing At plastic people passing She walks the streets to pass the time Sadie, Sadie hear the sound of the streets Insane as anything, ah Sadie, Sadie knows the sound of the streets It's insane as anything, ah She sees the midnight taxis The toilets and the backstreets She feels the wheels and needs a line Outside there's crazy parties There's painted faces laughing So many ways to pass the time Sadie, Sadie hear the sound of the streets Insane as anything, ah Sadie, Sadie knows the sound of the streets It's insane as anything, ah She walks the streets of summer Inside her there's no future She walks the streets to pass the time Inside she feels like winter For the child that died within her She walks the streets to pass the time Sadie, Sadie hear the sound of the streets Insane as anything, ah ah Sadie, Sadie knows the sound of the streets It's insane as anything, ah

money

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - Track 20 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Beautiful Ones" (CD 2)
You thought you'd come and amaze me honey You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money You thought you'd come and amaze me honey Get flash, get cash, get phoney You thought you'd come and amaze me honey You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money You thought you'd come and amaze me honey Get rich, get stitched, get lonely So come and amaze me, so come and amaze me It takes everyone, every son, every dad and every mum Some find a one and a one turns them on, it's money You thought you'd come and amaze me honey You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money You thought you'd come and amaze me honey Get wheels, get heels, get sloaney You thought you'd come and amaze me honey You thought you'd come on and amaze me with your money You thought you'd come and amaze me honey Get fucked, pissed up, get loaded So come and amaze me, so come and amaze me It takes everyone, every son, every dad and every mum Some find a one and a one turns them on, it's money

w.s.d.

Written by Anderson Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - Track 21 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Saturday Night" (CD 1)
Dressed as a cowboy on top of a hill it's sadder than it probably sounds He gets lovely the more he's ill, don't o.d. on him now Dressed as a woman with horrible hair and singing to the birds in town Who goes walking through traffic out there, don't o.d. on her now Oh, is it true what they say about you? Oh, is it true what they say about you two? Married to me is a hungry son who wants to push me from the 2nd floor We're so disco we can't get on in this world anymore Oh, is it true what they say about you? Oh, is it true what they say about you two? Dressed as a cowboy in a permanent gag it's sadder than it probably sounds So fucking what if he's licking the bag, don't o.d. on him now Oh, is it true what they say about you? Oh, is it true what they say about you two?

this time

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - Track 22 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Saturday Night" (CD 2)
Oh, day after day, every morning The city sighs and cars collide Oh we take the train through the winter hinterland and garage bands And we wash it away, we wash it away this grey, wash it away Oh, 'cos this time is yours and mine Oh hear the city sound, see the lonely crowds This scene is you and me Oh in the lazy sun, we're the only ones Oh, day after day every morning The roundabouts will take us south Past every train in every station Traffic signs and circle lines 'Cos this time is yours and mine Oh hear the city sound, see the lonely crowds This scene is you and me Oh in the lazy sun, we're the only ones This time is yours and mine Oh, we're the city sounds, we're the underground This scene is you and me Oh, we're the lazy suns, we're the only ones

jumble sale mums

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Ed Buller, 1996 Song duration - Track 23 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Saturday Night" (CD 1)
Oh jumble sale mums, what are they on? Kids walk round like they're half asleep And they've got somebody else's clothes on Jumble sale dads, boil in the bag Says something that I can't repeat, and he swears Oh this ain't the highlife, this ain't the highlife This ain't the highlife, this ain't the highlife Oh jumble sale mums, what are they on? Kids just sit hanging round the street And they've got somebody else's clothes on Jumble sale dads, now she's packed her bags He does some things that I can't repeat, and he swears Oh this ain't the highlife, this ain't the highlife This ain't the highlife, this ain't the highlife

these are the sad songs

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Bruce Lampcov, 1997 Song duration - Track 24 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Lazy" (CD 1)
Lay Lady Lay and Band of Gold A Day in the Life, And Dream of Sheep Seasong and Vincent and Death Disco Listen to the music in your sleep These are the sad songs, the broken words These are the sad songs, the lies you've heard These are the good times you keep inside These are the good things that you can have if you try Venus in Furs and An Occasional Dream Sign o the Times and Bill is Dead And Lazyitis and Big Louise Listen to the music in your head These are the sad songs, the broken words These are the sad songs, the lies you've heard These are the good times you keep inside These are the good things that you can have if you try

sadie

Written by Anderson/Oakes Produced by Bruce Lampcov, 1997 Song duration - 5:24 Track 25 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 2 on the single "Lazy" (CD 2 - Limited edition picture disc)
Inside her is the suburbs, in the sodium lights and the streets In the parked cars and the pretty parks, and in every lonely disease In the new loves under covers, in the cold touch of the right In the dead flowers and the silent hours In the nightclubs and the fights Cold, cold as the night, high as the trees, slow as you like Oh you know she's she's cold, cold as the night High as the trees, slow as you like... Sadie Inside her is the suburbs, in the old front room in the rain In all the bad days and the music that plays In the bored kids and their games In the new loves under covers, and all the young mums And their worlds Who are left at home when all the kids have grown watching the pretty young girls Cold, cold as the night, high as the trees, slow as you like Oh you know she's cold, cold as the night High as the trees, slow as you like... Sadie Oh and I've got to take it, and I've got to fake it And I've got to use her, and I've got to choose her And I've got to feel it, and I've got to steal it And I've got to be... Sadie

graffiti women

Written by Anderson Produced by Ian Caple, 1997 Song duration - 4 Track 26 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Filmstar" (CD 1)
Graffiti women draw pictures on the wall Graffiti slogans and situations scrawled Just made up people who wonder through your brain Graffiti people got nothing, got no name And you sleep but they'll find you And they'll carve their number in your mind And they'll steal what they want from who they want from time to time Graffiti women swap stories in the park Graffiti women take photos after dark In permanent people who wonder through the day Graffiti people got nothing, got no name And you sleep but they'll find you And they'll carve their number in your mind So steal what you want from who you want from time to time

duchess

Written by Anderson/Codling Produced by Ian Caple, 1997 Song duration - Track 27 on the album "Sci-Fi Lullabies" Track 3 on the single "Filmstar" (CD 1)
You've had your fun, your money's gone You're only friend is the telephone Oh duchess, now you're one of us You stay at home and lights the light They make you smile in the empty night Oh duchess, now you're one of us Well she knows Latinos and she knows Mexicans And she sits alone by the telephone But they won't call back again You count the pounds and cut your hair Won't someone send you a millionaire? Oh duchess, now you're one of us No friends to see, no car to drive You'd go to bars but you're much too shy Oh duchess, now you're one of us Well she knows Latinos and she knows Mexicans And she sits alone over 13 stone And they won't come back again She knows Latinos and she knows Mexicans But now things are tough and they've had enough And they won't come back again You've had your fun your money's gone You spend all day by the telephone



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