Альбом Boomtown Rats

On a night like this I deserve to get
kissed at least once or twice
You come over to my place
screaming blue murder, needing
someplace to hide.
Well, I wish you'd keep quiet,
Imaginations run riot,
In these paper-thin walls.
And when the place comes ablaze
with a thousand dropped names
I don't know who to call.
But I got a friend over there in the
government block
And he knows the situation and he's
taking stock,
I think I'll call him up now
Put him on the spot, tonight.

They saw me there in the square
when I was shooting my mouth off
About saving some fish.
Now could that be construed as
some radical's views or some liberals'
wish.
And it's so hot outside,
And the air is so sweet,
And when the pressure drop is heavy
I don't wanna hear you speak.
You know most killing is committed at
90 degrees.
When it's too hot to breathe
And it's too hot to think.

There's always someone looking at
you.
S-s-s-s-someone.
They're looking at you.

And I wish you'd stop whispering.
Don't flatter yourself, nobody's
listening.
Still it makes me nervous, those
things you say.
You may as well
Shout it from the roof
Scream it from your lungs
Spit it from you mouth
There's a spy in the sky
There's a noise on the wire
There's a tap on the line
And for every paranoid's desire...

There's always Somone looking at
you.
S-s-s-s-someone looking at you...
They're always looking at you.

"Traffic's wild tonight"
Diamond smiles her cocktail smile.
Tonight she's in heavy disquise.
She looks at her wrist to clock the
passing time.

"Weather's mild tonight"
She wonders do they notice her eyes,
She wonders will her glamour survive,
And can they see she's going down a
third time.

Everybody tries,
It's Dale Carnegie gone wild,
But Barbara Cartland's child
long ago perfected the motionless
glide.

In the low voltage noise,
Diamond seems so sure and so
poised
She shimmers for the bright young
boys,
And laugh's "Love is for others, but
me it destroys"

The girl in the cake
Jumped out too soon by mistake,
Somebody said the whole things half
baked
And Diamond lifts her glass and says
"cheers"

She stands to the side
There's no more to this than meets
the eye,
Everybody drinks Martini dry,
And talks about clothes and the latest
styles.

Chorus:

They said she did it
With grace.
They said she did it
With style.
They said she did it all
Before she died
Oh No
I remember Diamond's smile

Nobody saw her go,
They said they should have noticed
'cos her dress was cut so low.
Well it only goes to show
Ha, ha, how many real men any of us
know.

She went up the stairs,
Stood up on the vanity chair,
Tied her lame belt around the
chandelier,
And went out kicking at the perfumed
air.

Repeat Chorus

I took a tube train through the
subway systems.
I rode those tunnels like a six foot
mole.
I came back out and I was gasping
for air.
I made it to your place, I was praying
you'd be home.
We really shouldn't be alone tonight.
Let's go to a movie where everybody
fights
But in the end there's dancing, songs,
and smiles
You need lots of smiles....when the

Chorus
Wind chill factor's minus zero
Wind chill factor's minus 10 below.
Wind chill factor's minus zero
Wind chill factor. There you go.

It's one of those days where I don't
like myself (uh huh)
But I get along with myself O.K.
(O.K.?)
I'll slip beneath these sheets and
shiver here awhile (hmmmm)
I find this happening more frequently
these days.
Still....I practice nightly, I try to keep
ahead.
This art of surfacing is all but dead.
But I keep coming up, with time
enough to breathe,
I take what I need.....when the

(repeat chorus)

Do you agree (no)
With anything (no)
Do you believe (no)
In anything (no)
At all (no)

You know when winter comes to visit
these big cities,
And the wind starts howling through
the elevator shafts.
Well, our love is like one of those
older, colder buildings.
But there's cracks in my concrete, I
begin to feel the draught.

You start to laugh (no)
You say you've won (no)
It's just I lost (no)
That's not the same (no)

I hobble to my corner and view the
situation.
And we'll settle finally for some form of
deep freeze
Hibernation.......now the

(repeat chorus)

My camera,
Sees things my eyes can't see.
I have it focused,
From here to eternity.
Catch the moment, catch the light,
catch your breath
Let me freeze your frame.
We'll synchronize machine and brain,
But don't mind me...
I'm having my picture taken.

I can choose
Each day who I want to be.
You can choose
Each day who you want to see,
We'll scan the crowd and pan the
rounds of all those
Distant scenes,
Immortalize a slice of time,
Hey don't mind me...
I'm having my picture taken.

Flash: another instant in an
instamatic,
Click: another reflex set on automatic,
Snap: another moment of the life
dramatic,
You really should have been there it
was so fantastic

I'm so wired,
Very tired,
Why can't I
Close my eyes.

Times speeding
It's day, it's night, it's night, it's day
And it's time
I went to sleep.
Chorus:
Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired,
I'm falling on my feet
Tired and sick, I'm sick and tired,
Why can't I close my eyes and go to
sleep?
It's not as easy as it seems.

Sssh
Draw the blinds
Sssh
Kill that light,
Sssh
Put down that book,
Sssh
The phone rings
Sssh
I'm not here
Sssh
I'm off the hook

(I'm so wired)
Close your eyes,
(Very tired)
Put down your head,
(Why can't I)
Go to sleep
Close my eyes.

If I took enough of these red things,
Get some permanent sleep, blue
things,
What lullabys would you sing, white
things

I wanna go
It's a long drive home
Don't wanna stay,
One more minute

Close my eyes and go to sleep
It's not as easy as it seems,
Close my eyes and go to sleep
I'm jumping fences, counting sheep
I'm counting fences, jumping sheep
I'm fencing jumpsuits in my sleep
I'm counting fencing, I can't think

Silicon chip inside her head
gets switched to overload
and nobody's gonna go to school
today
she's gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
he always said she was good as gold
and he can see
no reasons
'cause there are
no reasons
what reason do you need to be
shown

tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like mondays
i want to shoot the whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And Mother feels so shocked
Father's world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own
little girl
Sweet 16 ain't it peachy keen
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need, oh-h-h

(Chorus)
Down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the
playground now
She wants to play with her toys
awhile
And school's out early and soon we'll
be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
With the problems and the how's and
why's
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die,
oh-h-h

tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like, i dont like
tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like, i dont like
tell me why
i dont like mondays
tell me why
i dont like mondays
i wanna shoot, oooo-ooo-ooot,
the... whole... day... down

Turn on the TV
Turn on the radio.
Turn down that sound
Turn down that sound

Open the curtains
Open the windows.
What's happening around
What's happening around

I'll do some washing
I might go shopping
I'm going downtown
I'm going downtown

Someone told me, "nothing
happened today."

I woke up late
I had a headache
I went back to sleep
Go back to sleep

I stood there waiting
Waiting for something
There wasn't a thing
Not even one thing

Someone told me, "nothing
happened today."

Harry Hooper living in No. 10
Bought a toupee and glued it to his
head
"It looks very natural," everybody
said.
But then his wife said "Toupee, isn't
that a French word?"
And Harry said, "Ole." She said,
"That's a Spanish word."
And he said "O.K., can't tell the
difference these days."

I watched TV
Cos I wanted to see
The late news at 10
It came on and then

She shuffled her papers
She swivelled in her chair
She looked up and said

The weather was fair
And then it turned cold
It started to rain
Pouring with rain.

Some people died
Some people were born
And some stayed the same
And some went insane

Tomorrow's Wednesday
Today was Tuesday
And this is the date
March 28th

It was the morning
Then afternoon
And then the night came
And then the night came

Oh...and someone told me, "Nothing
happened today."
Yes, someone told me, "Nothing
happened today."
It happened today.

Oh, in her two pound coat
She really thinks she's cloaked in
mystery
She's actin' like some character from
Agatha Christie
I got a pain in my shoes and all I
wanna do is dance

Uh-oh, I can remember those
carefully sharpened eyeballs
Sparkling like bloodshot diamonds in
the snowfall
She always said she thinks she
knows where things are roughly at
Well maybe she does, but then she
says

Does it feel nice, does it feel right,
does it feel alright
Does it feel good - quite nice
Can you keep it up, can you keep it
up - upright
Does it let you down, I heard it let you
down - sometimes

Snap me in your breach, I want to be
your bullet
I want a little kiss that's gonna take
my breath away
And every lover tries to do things in a
different way
Ah-hey-hey-hey

Does it feel nice, does it feel right,
does it feel alright
Does it feel good - quite nice
Can you keep it up, can you keep it
up - upright
Does it let you down - I heard it let
you down - sometimes

Snap me in your breach, I want to be
your bullet
I want a little kiss that's gonna take
my breath away
And every lover tries to do things in a
different way
But that's what they all say

Give it up, give it up - give it up, give
it up

Does it feel nice, does it feel right,
does it feel alright
Does it feel good - quite nice
Can you keep it up, can you keep it
up - upright
But does it let you down, I heard it let
you down - sometimes

Does it feel nice - Is it alright, I heard
it let you down - sometimes
Can you keep it up - quite nice, I
heard it's quite nice - alright
Is it alright - quite nice, I heard it let
you down...

Give it up - can you keep it up -
Sometimes - I heard it let you down
Alright - Can you keep it up - All night
- I heard it let you down
Quite nice - Can you keep it up - I
heard it let you down
Can you keep it up - I heard it let you
down
Can you keep it up

hrough tunnel vision watch him rant
and rave
He says there's life beyond the grave
He lost his slice of the eternal cake
Well, God's in His Heaven and He's
on the take

That's nice (that's nice) that's neat
(that's neat)
It's bitter and it's sweet, is it trick and
treat
You're talkin' fast but you're
preaching feast - now

Bits and pieces I remember slightly, it
was a long time ago
We'd have our hot and holy
conversations
And solve the problems of the
drunken world

Now a clerical collar chokes at your
convictions
You strangle slowly for the old
addiction
It's Heaven's army and you're so
professional
But listen closely to this closed
confessional

That's nice (that's nice), it's neat (it's
neat)
It's bitter and sweet, is it trick and
treat
You're talkin' fast but you're
preaching feast now

We'd take a recipe for religion
And bring it to the theological kitchen
Mix it up to make our own concoction
Believed in God but you'd shake a fist
at him

And Ray, does it seem holy, hey Ray-
ay, does it seem hard
And Ray-ay, it isn't that easy - now-
ow

Oh-hoh-hoh, oh-hoh-hoh, oh-hoh-hoh
Oh-hoh-hoh, oh-hoh-hoh, oh-hoh-hoh

You said you spoke to God and
asked a question
You were wonderin' what's the use of
it all
He said everybody does what they
want to
Provided that it's true, that's all

He said, hey Big G you said there's
my problem
I'm not so sure 'bout what's true
He said I'll let you in on my big secret,
Ray
The final truth is - there is no truth,
and

Na-na-na-na, bop shoo wop shoo
wop
Na-na-na-na, Oh-hey-yeah
Na-na-na-na, bop shoo wop shoo
wop-ac

The offices are emptying their pale-
faced wards into the street,
Flickering their strip-light eyes,
shivering they readjust their lives
From the air-conditioned heat.
The humdrum and mundane
Is nearly driving them insane.
But you get hooked so quick to
anything
Even your chains,
You're crouching in your corner 'til
they open up your cage.

Chorus:
And when the night comes
It'll help you disappear
And when the night comes
Forget about the day that brought you
here.

Frankie takes the train and makes it
home in time to catch the evening
news,
Opening a can of beans he learns the
world has turned without much help
from him.
Hey Frank, why not get drunk
tonight?
Hey Frank, I think it'll be alright,
You'll be too far gone to notice when
the neighbors start complaining,
But they're used to it by now, every
day's the same.

(repeat chorus)

And when the night comes,
He might get on the phone,
She's a stuck-up bitch,
But she lives on her own,
And he heard her talking dirty to the
girls the other day,
And she knew that he had heard her
and she looked "as if to say"
And then later up in marketing while
going through the files,
She bent a little too far down, then
turned around and smiled.
He got her number,
He got the phone,
He dialed the number,
He heard the tone.
He said "Tonight's the night that I've
been waiting for,
Oh I know you've seen me worship
you from afar,
And I might tell you that I love you
and I will but just for
Tonight, one night, alright tonight."
In his three piece cunning
camouflage nobody
can guess what Frankie's thinking,
Last night she said "I don't know if I'm
drowning
Maybey it's because I'm sinking."
He said "It'll be okay
I'll get outta here one day"
And she said "Frankie, you're no
different from any of the rest,
They've nailed you to that table and
chained you to your desk."
But when the night comes....

(repeat chorus)