The Nightwatchman / Brave Exhibitions
Friends of my World/ The Voice / Roman Roman
Somebody's Watching / After A Fashion / Dive Position
I Mistake Myself / Shivers

Riddle House / Scatterbrain / Enemy Of State
Ho Ho / Masturbation Generation / Boy Hero

The Nightwatchman

Don’t watch the nightwatchman he finds it hard to say hello
He sits up inside the tower he watches you come and go
And he’s waiting for you tonight
Don’t watch the nightwatchman he finds it hard to say hello

And he’s waiting for you
And he wanna touch you too
I wanna hold you tonight

Don’t watch the nightwatchman he cries a lonely tear
Locked up in his little tower he’s been there a hundred years
And he’s waiting for you tonight
Don’t watch the nightwatchman he finds it hard to say hello

And he’s waiting for you
And he wanna touch you too
I wanna hold you tonight
And he’s waiting for you
And I wanna touch you too
He wanna hold you tonight

Oh tonight
Baby tonight
Tonight

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Brave Exhibitions

You won’t find me in your handbook of heroes and you won’t see me in your hall of fame
All the girls they come around and remove their mystery
Do you get the picture
I can get embarrassed too you know
And I would be a perfect host
I would vaseline my teeth for you

I’ve been counting on a brave exhibition
Oh, I’m unsuitable
You would kiss me just like you used too
Then I might take a chance too

My doctor is ill, my teacher’s gone on holidays
Looks like I’m on my own
I’m so scared to be alone with you
Do you get the picture
I can a little nervous do you know
All the girls they come around and take off their mystery
Oh no

I’ve been counting on a brave exhibition
Oh, I’m unsuitable
You would kiss me just like you used too
Then I might take a chance too
On you

CHORUS

I’ve been counting on a brave exhibition
Oh, I’m unsuitable
You would kiss me just like you used too
Then I might take a chance too
On you

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Friends of my World

On this side of the divided room the light grows thin
My world trembles with the sounds of them
They move through the night they run like fugitives
Escaping with only just their lives

You’re friends of my world, you’re brides and grooms much too soon
You’re friends of my world, you pay as you go you’re in my show

On this side of the divided room the light grows dim
In next to no time we’re all involved again
And science takes another man
Too frail and scared to know what has possessed him

You’re friends of my world, you’re this and that, mud on the doormat
You’re friends of my world, you came as you are you left in my car

Oh baby you are so divine
Across the desert across the line
And the Sphinx that lies in Egypt’s view
That’s a friend of my world too

A friend of my world too
A friend of my world too
A friend of my world too

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The Voice

The voice the voice it troubles you for there is no one there at all
You have the choice, she could be black or white,
you are not trapped (tricked?), you can rise or you can fall

It’s not up to me, I’ve been caught in the lights
I am no Houdini, I’ve been mesmerized
By sights and sounds
And the voice, the voice it’s calling you
Calling you

I feel a spy, he’s in my house, I see his prints upon my door
I hang my paintings up so high, then I don’t appear so tall

It’s up to you, your lips taste of wine
And they cut me closer, oh God, they’re touching mine
Oh, could this be true
But the voice, the voice it’s calling you

It’s not that I’m feeling sick (I feel insecure ?),
that’s my last portrait in my room (there's/that's mother's portrait in my room)
Oh no no no no no no no
It’s just that I need to be reassured, like any other fool
Oh no no no no no no no
No no no
No
No

Sunday is here, let’s make the break, let’s pretend
Put down your books, pick up your friends

There’s no time to lose, there’s no time at all
There’s no time to lose, there’s no time
Could this be you
The voice (the voice), the voice (the voice) it’s calling you
Oh, the voice (the voice), the voice (the voice) it’s calling you
I hear that voice (the voice), the voice (the voice) it’s calling you
Oh, the voice (the voice), the voice (the voice) it’s calling you

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Somebody's Watching

Somebody’s watching me
I hope they don’t kiss and tell
Somebody’s watching me
But I can’t see them very well

I use the supernatural, I use Mother Nature as well

Somebody’s following me
Into the greenhouse
Somebody’s watching me
Through the glass

I use Manson and I use mascara as well

Set the… ? (Sanctuary, Oh Sanctuary?)
It’s never… ?
Oh release, oh release her
I’m hanging around like the Mona Lisa

Somebody’s watching me
Somebody’s watching me
Somebody’s watching me
Somebody’s watching me
Somebody’s watching me
Everybody is watching me

I use mirrors then I face my time, but oh well

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After A Fashion

After a fashion which is
Purely the mood that takes me
I’ll set my mouth on fire and kiss ya ‘till ya blister
The tears I cry
Out her
spell out a word
all for you

Watch the thin boy in dark clothes
Falling over pianos
Trips on the moving carpet
Play like he’s deaf and dumb and blind
The answer is
Quite obvious
Oblivious to all but you

After a fashion
She’s the answer
After a fashion
I’m the question

After a fashion
She’s the answer
After a fashion
I’m the question

Watch the thin boy in dark clothes
Falling over pianos
Trips on the moving carpet
Plays likes he’s deaf and dumb and blind
The answer is
Quite obvious
Oblivious to all but you
CHORUS

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Dive Position

Does a rain dance in my room and then assumes a dive position
Had a vision it’s looking grim, all damp with grief in her water wings

I…sigh…to…you
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me

Hear the taps fill the bath, it’s almost dark in a dive position
My disposition I shouldn’t have thought at all
Draped in shame she runs the gauntlet

I…sigh…to…you
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me

Oh, let’s all start again
We can still be friends
We can just stop…

…And I sigh
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me

Does a rain dance in my room and then assumes a dive position
Had a vision it’s looking grim
All draped in pain, oh, such a big splash

I…sigh…to…you
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me
Touch me

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I Mistake Myself

I mistake myself
For the silhouette
I used to know
Cold on the stairs

Written and locked in the bottom drawer
Moping in denial (no point in denial; open in denia; hoping in denial?)

I mistake myself
As you walk in my room
And I write my mind (my my, my name?)
On the back of my hand

Sitting alone in the dining room
Moping in denial

I mistake myself
For pieces of paper
In various editions
I guess I’m quite complete

Must I hold my breath and turn blue
Moping in denial

Take a look over your shoulder
My face on the wall is staring in your window
Be quiet I’m talking I can’t hear what I’m saying
The shape I made is the hand that bites me

I mistake myself
I mistake myself
I mistake myself
I mistake myself

HA HA HA HA
We all fall down

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Shivers
(Howard)

I've been contemplating suicide,
but it really doesn't suit my style,
so I think I'll just act bored instead
who can take (alt: And Contain) the blood I would've shed?

She makes me feel so ugly (alt: so weary) (alt: so ill at ease)
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell

But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE

I keep her photograph against my heart
for in my life she plays a starring part
all alcohol and cigarettes
there is no room for cheap regrets

But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a permanent shiver down my
SPINE

She makes me feel so ugly
my heart is really on it's knees
but I keep a poker face so well
that even mother couldn't tell

But my baby's so vain
she is almost a mirror
and the sound of her name
sends a perennial shiver down my
SPIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIIII-YI-YIYIYI-INE

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Riddle House
(Howard)


The street is very wide
and I can't see across it
my house isn't clear to me
the cars move in between

Chorus

And I say: Question
when is a door not a door???
and I say: "That's not right!
answer when it's a jar

The numbers soft as soap
and tend to bend in addition
they're much too wan for me
I'd prefer some consistancy

Chorus

The windows open wide
but I can't see out of it
the view is not very there
some-times I look for it

Chorus

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