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Skylarking
by Xtc
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Overall Rating:
3.5742
Avg. Critic Score:
3.8500
Skylarking Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
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- Meet you in the secret place
- Scuffling in the dirt I wait
- Whistle will blow, whistle will blow,
- Share a joke the laugh's on me
- But when I get you on your own we'll see
- Someone might hear, someone might hear
- You're a working girl now
- You've got money of your own
- Hmmm The meeting place
- Hmmm The meeting place
- Strolling under grimey skies
- Machines that make you kiss in time
- Smoke on your breath, smoke on your breath
- Chimney never looked so good
- Never looked the way it should
- From lying in the bracken wood
- Coat on the ground, coat on the ground
- Take a walk down the lane
- We'll be late back again
- Hmmm The meeting place
- Hmmm The meeting place
- One thousand umbrellas
- Upturned couldn't catch all the rain
- That drained out of my head
- When you said we were
- Over and over I cried
- 'Til I floated downstream
- To a town they call
- Misery oh oh misery
- Misery oh oh misery
- And one million teacups
- I bet couldn't hold all the wet
- That fell out of my eyes
- When you fell out with me
- Now I'm crawling the wallpaper
- That's looking more like a roadmap
- To misery oh oh misery
- How can you smile and forecast
- Weather's getting better
- And you'll soon forget her
- If you let the sunshine come through
- How can you smile and forecast
- Weather's getting better
- If you never let a girl rain all over you
- And just when I thought that my vista was golden in hue
- One thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
- One million salt seas
- Recalled from school atlas
- Alas would be filled to the brim
- Sunny Jim couldn't jump it
- How can I be pleased
- When I'm handed the keys
- To a town they call Misery
- Oh oh Misery
- So with a mop and a bucket
- I'll just say forget her
- And carry on sweeping up
- Where I've been weeping
- The Jesters will creep in
- To strike down the newly crowned Monarch
- Of Misery oh oh Misery
- How can you smile and forecast
- Weather's getting better
- And you'll soon forget her
- If you let the sunshine come through
- How can you smile and forecast
- Weather's getting better
- If you never let a girl rain all over you
- Just when I thought that my skies were a June July blue
- One thousand umbrellas opened
- Two thousand umbrellas opened
- Ten thousand umbrellas opened to spoil the view
- It's your big day, your big day
- So you want to tie the knot
- Tie it tight, don't let it rot, the memory of this day
- Are you deafened by the bells
- Could be heaven, could be hell
- In a cell for two
- Big day come and big day go
- Life goes on after the show
- But will your love have the fire and glow
- Like on the big day
- Statistics they don't say a lot
- But can you keep what you have got forever together
- There's a lesson to be learnt
- Many fingers have been burnt with the touch of gold
- Love can come and love can go
- What your chance is I don't know
- But if you have love then let it show like on the big day
- You're a new recruit
- The big day
- in your wedding suit today
- Like on the big day
- yes you're looking fine
- The big day
- sign on the dotted line
- The big day
- it's your wedding march today
- My heart is taken it's not lost in space
- And I don't want to see your mooney mooney 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
- , hope you got the letter, and...
- I pray you can make it better down here.
- I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer
- but all the people that you made in your image, see
- them starving on their feet 'cause they don't get
- enough to eat from God, I can't believe in you
- Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard
- loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
- and all the people that you made in your image, see them fighting
- in the street 'cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
- I can't believe in you
- Did you make disease, and the diamond blue? Did you make
- mankind after we made you? And the devil too!
- , don't know if you noticed, but... your name is on
- a lot of quotes in this book, and us crazy humans wrote it, you
- should take a look, and all the people that you made in your
- image still believing that junk is true. Well I know it ain't, and
- so do you, dear God, I can't believe in I don't believe in
- I won't believe in heaven and hell. No saints, no sinners, no
- devil as well. No pearly gates, no thorny crown. You're always
- letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you
- drown. Those lost at sea and never found, and it's the same the
- whole world 'round. The hurt I see helps to compound that
- Father, Son and Holy Ghost is just somebody's unholy hoax,
- and if you're up there you'd perceive that my heart's here upon
- my sleeve. If there's one thing I don't believe in
- it's you....
- It frightens me when you come to mind
- The day you dropped in the shopping line
- And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs
- When they carried you out your mouth was open wide
- The cat went astray and the dog did pine for days and days
- And we felt so guilty when we played you up
- When you were ill, so ill
- What sticks in my mind is the sweet jar
- On the sideboard. And your multicolored tea cosy
- What sticks in my mind is the dew-drop hanging off your nose
- Shrivelled up and blue
- And I'm getting older, too
- But I don't want to die like you
- Don't want to die like you
- Fire they cried
- So evil must die
- And yields are good
- So men pull back hoods and smile
- The scapegoat blood spilled
- Spittled and grilled it crackled and spat
- And children grew fat on the meat
- Change must be earnt
- Sacrificial bonfire must burn
- Burn up the old
- Bring in the new
- Burn up the old
- Bring in the new
- Assembled on high
- Silhouette against the sky
- The smoke prayed and pranced
- And sparks did their dance in the wind
- Disguises wore thin with less and less skin
- And the clothes that were draped
- Was all that told man from ape
- Change must be earnt
- Sacrificial bonfire must reign
- Reign over good
- Banish the bad
- Oh,Reign over good
- Banish the bad, oh, ohh
- 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
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