SUPERHITS The Lyrics
THE BOTTOM LINE (Jones)
The horses are on the track
Theres a new dance thats going around
When the hits start flying you gotta get down
All the young people dance round the square
That old time groove is really nowhere
When you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up of the floor
Don`t know what you`re waiting for
A dance to the tune of economic decline
Is when you do the bottom line
Nagging questions always remain
Why did it happen and who was to blame?
When you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up of the floor
Don`t know what you`re waiting for
They`ve been doing it down at the zoo
And I can show ya heres what to do
All of the States and over UK
Even the Soviets are swinging away
When you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up of the floor
Don`t know what you`re waiting for
The road aheads` clear as a motorway
Give us this day our daily bread and send us on our way
Perchance to dream or take a holiday
Romeo oh Romeo
You gotta have your say
So when you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up off the floor
Anything you want is yours
When you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up of the floor
Don`t know what you`re waiting for
So when you reach the bottom line
The only thing to do is climb
Pick yourself up off the floor
Anything you want is yours
Part two - Part two
I`m gonna take you to part two part two
C`MON EVERY BEATBOX (Jones/Letts)
"Sit tight and listen keenly while I`ll play for you a brand new musical biscuit"
There`s been a brainwave at the radio station
Old idea from the woodstock generation
Calling all the kids from across the nation
In some it brings out love in others termination
Love and unity
Don`t worry bout the power we got a generator
And publicity
Batteries for rent you can pay us later
Get your digital watches in synchronization
Producer of the shows got a selfish motivation
It`s the place to be and we got a location
Another gold disc for an album compilation
Bring the family
Everybodys` welcome there will be no discrimination
Take a tip from me
In case there`s a problem bring identification
C`mon every beatbox in the place to be
C`mon every beatbox we got a ramellzee
C`mon every beatbox let`s party and how
C`mon every beatbox let`s party right now
Party right now!
Watch me
I got it
Watch me
So the holy smokes are coming we got a confirmation
Centre of the city been a major transformation
Gandhi got a shock and he took a vacation
Check the wild life it`s a real fascination
Hope they stay in line
Raiders Possè British born but still they`re Jamaican
Dailing 999
Salt `n pepper people stirred not shaken
C`mon every beatbox in the place to be
C`mon every beatbox we got a ramellzee
C`mon every beatbox let`s party and how
C`mon every beatbox let`s party right now
Party right now!
"Hold it right there"
"The white man left me nothing out here but the underworld
and that`s were I dance, where do you dance?"
The knights of Saint George dressed for aggrovation
Heard about the party and they sent a delegation
The bulldog crew don`t need no provocation
Got a strange idea about the country`s liberation
B.A.D. and little Sipho
Help keep the peace don`t need no lawbreaker
No one can stop the show
The promotor didn`t book no undertaker
C`mon every beatbox in the place to be
C`mon every beatbox we got a ramellzee
RUSH (Jones)
If I have my time again
I would do it all the same
Ain`t change a single thing
Even when I was the blind
For the heartache and the pain
Got a cause throughout my ears
How I`d love to be your man
Through the laughter and the tears
Situation no win
Rush for the change of atmosphere
I can`t go on so I give in
Gotta get myself right outta here
Now I`m fully grown
And I know where it`s at
Somehow I stayed thin
While the other guys got fat
All the chances that are blown
And the times that I`ve been down
I didn`t get to high
Kept my feet on the ground
Situation no win
Rush for the change of atmosphere
I can`t go on so I give in
Gotta get myself right outta here
And of all my friends
You`ve been the best to me
Soon will be tha day
When I repay you hands and knees
Broken hearts are hard to mend
I know I`ve had my share
But life just carries on
Even when I`m not there
Situation no win
Rush for the change of atmosphere
I can`t go on so I give in
Gotta get myself right outta here
Situation no win
Rush for the change of atmosphere
I can`t go on so I give in
Gotta get myself right outta here
Gotta get myself right
Gotta get myself right
Gotta get myself right
Outta there
Gotta get myself right
Gotta get myself right
Gotta get myself right
Outta there
THE GLOBE (Jones/Stonadge)
(feat. Gogglebox and Sipho the human beatbox)
Break it on down
Bless you
Bless you
I wanna bless you
Bless you
Where are you going
My beautiful friend
Is this the road that
You take till the end
And if we left behind
Is this the highway
Of our mankind
Axes spins so round and round we go
Where we`re goin` no one really knows
Here we here we here we here we go
Feel the fire
Way down below
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
Gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Come on dim the lights
Switch on the strobe
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Down at the Globe
Get up and clean your teeth and have a shave
It`s 1 a. m. let`s go out to a rave
One more and before we hit that grave
It`s harder than a microwave wave
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
Gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Where`s the party officer?
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Here we go party time break it all down
Where is the failure
Not in this land
But still you try to
Get what you can
You know that it`s bad but
If you insist
Here`s one more chance now
That you just missed
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
I believe you
I believe you
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Waking up the global warning way
Nepal cornflakes for my special kay
What`s the halth departement got to say
Don`t smoke more than 50 fags a day
Come on dim the lights
It`s party time
Switch on the strobe
Do what you like
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have a ball
Down at the Globe
Come on party on down
Come on dim the lights
Let`s have ball
Switch on the strobe
Let
Let let let`s have a ball
We`re gonna have a ball tonight
Let`s have ball
Down at the Globe
JUST PLAY MUSIC! (Jones/Letts/Roberts)
Move my feet
And touch my sole
Bass sound drum beat
Rock`and roll
Just play that music
I don`t care what key it`s in
Where it`s come from
Where it`s been
Just play that music
I don`t need to see your face
I don`t need no autographs
I can`t play your interviews
Can`t hear your photographs
You don`t need to be profound
In fact don`t speak
Just play that sound
Just play that music
I`ll turn on my radio
If you`ve got a great live show
Just play that music
If it`s hitting make it stick
Do your job just play music
Critics mags and interviews
Who cares about bad reviews
Does it have to be so tame
Do I have to twist and shout
Do we have to play this game
Or be down and out
It don`t have to look the same
I keep trying to tell `em
It don`t have to all sound lame
I sing the song you sell `em
If it`s hitting make it stick
Do your job just play music
If you need an ear to lend
I`ve got the cash to spend
Move my feet
And touch my sole
Bass sound drum beat
Rock and roll
Just play that music
I don`t care what key it`s in
Where it`s come from
Where it`s been
Just play that music
Does it have to be so tame
Do I have to twist and shout
Do we have to play this game
Or be down and out
It don`t have to look the same
I keep trying to tell `em
It don`t have to all sound lame
I sing the song you sell `em
Does it have to be so tame
Do I have to twist and shout
Do we have to play this game
Or be down and out
It don`t have to look the same
I keep trying to tell `em
It don`t have to all sound lame
I sing the song you sell `em
Just play that music!
Just play that music
I won`t refuse it
I`d like to tell ya
Just play that music!
Stay on that feeling
Don`t you loose it
Stay on the stageing
Just play that music!
Don`t you loose it
Just play that music!
Some like theYankee sound
Just play that music!
Sometimes from London town
Just play that music!
I`ve seen the that alley ground
Just play that music!
Sometimes from London town
Just play that music!
V. THIRTEEN (Strummer/Jones)
"Goodmorning Sodom and Gomorra
Goodmornig sinners
No that wasn`t your radio set on the bleep again"
Sodom and Gomorra
Let the DJ play
`Cos I`m only gone tomorrow and here today
Lotta rockheads on the block
Dougie died and Sue got frocked
If the stove is hot then I ain`t lost
And Rosa says my star is crossed
Little Jamie writes V. Thirteen
Comes in by the door goes out by screen
He don`t listen to me he knows everything
Girls on the avenue ask me to sing
Sodom and Gomorra
Let the DJ play
`Cos I`m only gone tomorrow and here today
The paper drags and folds me down
Like a paper cup I fly around
I`ve been eating food that ain`t been checked
And the Russian rain is beating down my neck
Screen blackout on the southern war
Cue talk breakdown on point forty four
There must be a place the preacher say "I guess"
But a drifter will tell you no place is best
Shout for all the people who have nothing to say
`Cos were only gone tomorrow and here today
Was a one off dirt jam when England came good
One night in a thousand they`ve played knock on wood
We used to go roamin` go roamin` around
When you don`t look for something it`s sure to be found
Sodom and Gomorra
Let the DJ play
`Cos I`m only gone tomorrow and here today
Shout for all the people who have nothing to say
`Cos were only gone tomorrow and here today
Sodom and Gomorra
Let the DJ play
`Cos I`m only gone tomorrow and here today
Yes I`m only gone tomorrow and here today
"Sodom and Gomorra this is London gov."
SIGHTSEE M.C! (Strummer/Jones)
Here we buy some old English wreck
And we start it up for the girls to check
Its mugs night out at the old palais
And the girl wants a ride on a saturday
Its time for the hour for the drunks to shout
As the barman shoves the people out
The red light says come on down
And streetfights breakout all over town
It`s an English custom it`s ceremony
I`m your guide for the ride Sightsee M.C!
I `ve been in Pentonville I`ve been in Battersea
I`m your guide for the ride Sightsee M.C!
We got plenty of sixties slums
They said she jumped from floor twenty one
It`s empty now but it blocks out the sun
Used to be the shape of things to come
The children runnin`raggedy breaking the glass
Smashing the lights in the underpass
Gonna need no flag when they`re seventeen
For waiting at someone who looks like the Queen
I`ve been in Chinatown I`ve been in Embassy
I`m your guide for the ride Sightsee M.C!
Casino Dino and Roulette Len
All know my name and back again
This alley runs to the farm on the hill
Where the nights are wild and the petrol spill
Firestone Freddy and Molotov Jack
Their shadow goes but it soon come back
Striking sparks in floods of oil
No name no flag for mother soil
You can guarantee she`ll burn tonight
`Cos England keeps the household white
You know it ain`t safe it`s way too early or late
The Mets` gonna getcha down in Bishopsgate
I ain`t at number 10 I`m at number twenty three B
I`m your guide for the ride Sightsee M.C!
Take all the bed box people and the opera lights
London town is ours tonight
Well it`s over to you and bye from me
I`m your guide for the ride Sightsee M.C!
CONTACT (Jones/Donovan)
Feelings fly around
Around up in the air
Bouncing off the walls
Getting under my hair
On the carpet in the weave
Up in trees on the leaves
Feelings flying everywhere
I`m on the right track
For what I want to say
I got to get it out
There ain`t no other way
To make contact
There ain`t no getting away
From how I feel today
Feelings flying around
Around up in the air
Out in the hall
And sitting in my chair
I`ve seen them on the train
Coming down with the rain
Feelings flying everywhere
I`m on the right track
For what I want to say
I got to get it out
There ain`t no other way
To make contact
There ain`t no getting away
From how I feel today
Feelings flying around
Around up in the air
Some are really small
They come from over there
Hard to ignore
I see them all the more
Feelings flying everywhere
I`m on the right track
For what I want to say
I got to get it out
There ain`t no other way
To make contact
There ain`t no getting away
From how I feel today
I`m on the right track
For what I want to say
I got to get it out
There ain`t no other way
To make contact
There ain`t no getting away
From how I feel today
I`m on the right track
For what I want to say
I got to get it out
There ain`t no other way
To make contact
There ain`t no getting away
From how I feel today
E=MC2 (Jones/Letts)
Somebody I never met
But in a way I know
Didn`t think that you could get
So much from a picture show
Man dies first reel
People ask what`s the deal?
This ain`t how it`s supposed to be
Don`t like no aborigine
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Took a trip in Powis Square
Pop star dyed his hair
No fans to scream and shout
When mobsters came to flush him out
Gangland slaying underground
New identity must be found
On the left bank for a while
Insanity Bohemian style
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Met a dwarf that was no good
Dressed like little Red Riding Hood
Bad habit taking life
Calling card a six inch knife
Ran off really fast
Mumbled something `bout the past
Best sex I`ve ever seen
As if each moment was the last
Drops of blood colour slide
Funeral for his bride
But it`s him who`s really dead
Gets to take the funeral ride
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Space guy fell from the sky
Scratched my head and wondered why
Time slide into time
Across international dateline
Scientist eats bubblegum
Hall of fame baseball
Senators a Hoodlum
Big chiefs in the hall
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Stray thoughts fear to tread
Placed upon the screen instead
Shes my flame too hot to hold
Had to settle for her cold
Bloodlust - Greek God - Gold discovery
Gone bust - Tight wad - Slow recovery
Axe job - Flame thrower - Ironbar and gun
Betting shop - New owner - A walk in the sun
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Spread the news the Maestros back
With a beat - box soundtrack
The King of brains - Queen of the sack`
Executives have heart attack
It`s assault course celluloid
The money makers would avoid
Sometimes notions get reversed
Centre of the universe
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
Ritual ideas relativety
Only buildings no people prophecy
Timeslide place to hide nudge reality
Foresight minds wide magic imagery
MEDICINE SHOW (Jones/Letts)
Covered wagon medicine show
Take you to the place where the healing flows
Weak in spirit we got the juice
Wont save your soul it`ll shine your shoes
Treated king to kangaroo
Santa Fe to Timbuktu
Don`t be fooled by imitation
This is the stuff that cured a nation
We took the tube and the high plains too
Never stopped long just passing through
A drop of the laughter of the maids of France
Makes a hopeless cripple dance
It was really vile weather
When we got to tarred and feathered
You could hear the six guns sound
As they chased us out of town
In India we`re all the rave
Discovered that its great as aftershave
Dropped in the sea just off Japan
Swapped 20 bottles for an aqua-walkman
Immunity from ridicule
Improves your brains if you`re a fool
And I read in the Middle East
They traded some for a hostage release
Now if you`re bald it`ll give you hair
If you got straight trousers it`ll give you flares
Feeling up you`ll get depressed
Out of style here`s a brand new dress
It was really vile weather
When we got to tarred and feathered
You could hear the six guns sound
As they chased us out of town
The stuff we sell is just the best
Passing all consumer test
Days of heaven nights of sin
Voodoo stick and sharks fin
When all around you seems like hell
Just one sip will make you well
Multipurpose in a jar
If you ain`t ill it`ll fix your car
In days of yore for all bad feelings
Washing socks and stripping ceilings
Nowadays its used medicinally
For all known human malady
It was really vile weather
When we got to tarred and feathered
You could hear the six guns sound
As they chased us out of town
Guaranteed don`t you know
Money back?
You`ll get a no!
It`s the one and only medicine show