I can't read about it
burns the skin from your eyes
I'll do fine without it
here's one you don't compromise
Lies come hard to disguise
Let me to fight it out--
not wild about it
Lay your seedy judgements
who says they're part of our lives?

Chorus:
You own the money 
you control the witness
I hear you're lonely
don't monkey with my business
You pay the profits to justify the reasons
I heard your promise
but I don't believe it
that's why I'll do it again

no no notorious

Girls will keep the secrets
so long as boys make the noise
Fools run rings to break up
something they'll never destroy
Grand notorious slam--
BAM!
and who really gives a damn
for a flaky bandit?
don't ask me to bleed about it
I need this blood to survive

(chorus)

no no notorious

It's a little bit late now
but there is times you will
get a little bit out of hand
making all of a spill
and if we can lay this down
you're going all the way
take a look and I'll check it out
Cuz I can always find it

Such a lonely Place...Ooooh
This room without your face...Ooooh
Ooooooh...American Science
All night long 
she can two-step and sway
Ooooooh...it's such poor manners
don't keep me waiting
come lay down beside me

A little megalomania
becomes you evidently
there ain't a thing you can't acquire
with your cling-wrap plaything
just look at this state
I crawl around in a daze
like symptomatic case
of your soul persuasion

Such a lonely Place...Ooooh
It moves me into place...Ooooh
Ooooooh...American Science
All night long 
she can two-step and sway
Ooooooh...it's such poor manners
don't keep me waiting
come lay down beside me

(chorus)

Working on the weekend baby
she's working all through the night
a jump into the deep end gave her
the evidence she required
take five--she's got pearls
don't fake it when it comes to 
making money, so...
she smiles,
but that's cruel
if you knew what she'd think,
if you knew what she was after...

sometimes she wonders...
and she laughs in her frustration

would someone please explain
the reason for this strange behaviour
in exploitation's name
we must be working for the skin trade

doctors of the revolution gave us
the medicine we desired
besides being absolutely painless
it's a question of compromise

you've got steel
it's so cool
get angry at the weekend
then go back to school
so big deal--it's what rules
when it comes to making money--
say yes, please, thank you...

sometimes you wonder
and you ask yourself the question

(chorus)

I know the answer...
but I'm asking you the question...

(chorus)

How does it feel
when everyone surrounds you
how do you feel 
if crowds just make you feel lonely
what do you say
people going to try to pin you down
waiting to smile
but there's no understanding
how after awhile
you keep falling off the same mountain
try to explain it
nothing really gets them that high.

Steal away in the morning
love's already history to you
it's a habit you're forming
this body's desperate for something new
just a matter of feeling
this moment's madness shot too fast
and tears will dry as you're leaving
who knows you might find something to last

Emotions again
saved up for a rainy Monday
but you laugh just the same
cuz it's been pouring on Sunday;
dial up your numbers 
and never let the zeros bring you down
how does it feel
is time to heavy to hold
whatever you desire
for (?) the moment is holy
whenever you slow down to see life is passing by

Steal away in the morning
love's already history to you
it's a habit you're forming
this body's desperate for something new
just a matter of feeling
this moment's madness shot too fast
and tears will dry as you're leaving
who knows you might find something to last.

Repeat

Shall we walk?
shall we run?
through my head 
you understand
does the body you conceal
need the touch of someone's hand?
Ashes, violations--
who would they burn for?
In your isolation...
why can't you see?

I
wonder if the lights out
I
wonder if they're listening

Hold me
lay your shame away
Show me
where your lovers stay
Hold me
lay your ghosts away
Show me
for yourself

You are lost
and alone
but a prisoner of your pride
when the passions you ignore
you can never hide
One of these days
you're going to find out
'Cuz one of these days 
you're going to try
And what did I say
to make you wind up
with this spear of guilt inside

I
wonder if the lights out
I
wonder if they're listening

Hold me
lay your shame away
Show me
where your lovers stay
Hold me
lay your ghosts away
Show me
for yourself

Hey guys, 
turn it up to get sleazy--
twist it in a vise
Nobody said it was easy
just use your naked eyes...
How to see and 
how to hide it
How to save it well...
Maybe, maybe, maybe
You could take it and eat it
Chew your life supply

Where's the real life
In your illusion
On the dark side
Of power and confusion
Do the dance, 
Do the demolition
And lose the chance
to hear when you don't listen

Don't you feel edgy?
Bite your lips and bleed
Conversation is empty
Abandoned in the freeze
How to see and 
how to hide it
How to save it well...
Maybe, maybe, maybe
you could take it or leave it...
just need a little hit tonight

Where's the real life
In your illusion
On the dark side
Of power and confusion
Do the dance, 
Do the demolition
And lose the chance
to hear when you don't listen

Where's the real life
In your illusion
On the dark side
Your power's in confusion
Do the dance, 
Do the demolition
Don't lose the chance
to hear when you don't listen

I I I...
so misled

in the summer of London life
"gold," she said
was a month before I realized
"sold," instead
hey it's such an awful choice
gonna break my back
take it easy now, you're weepin' boy
don't wanna feel the crack

bust my head to say you lose it
now my body's gotta use it
I I I should not be
So misled
I I I should not be 
so misled

saw an advert in a magazine
"safe," it said
with the satisfaction guaranteed
to cool your head

I can see the solution
to this state of confusion
I I I should not be 
so misled
I I I should not be
so misled

(repeat)
(Ok, take it away)
do do do do do dooo dooo
la la la la laaa laaa
(repeat)

in the summer of London life...
was a month before I realized...
I gotta say, I miss you baby...
so misled...

Miss November Tuesday
bend your rubber rules
take your time but don't take
off your high heel shoes
she's in demand at dinner time
she's on the factory wall
and when the gentlemen retire
guess who's in control?
she blew your money 
on taking a cruise
if that isn't funny
well, watch out teacher...

ohh ohh, when the chamber's empty
she said, "ohh, ohh, meet el Presidente"

dress in flimsy clothing
use your lipstick line
to cover fear and loathing
with a pink disguise
you never refuse when she lies back
put a stripe on the union, and a star on the jack
she's on the case at dinner time
she's on the evening news
and if you dare step out of line
you're going to be abused
you may not like it
you may not be scared,
but hell has no fury like a 
young girl's ego

(chorus)

you might adopt an attitude,
look on the moral side
(looking on the moral side)
but if police are after you,
where's the best place to hide?
for this production,
they gave her a gun...
ain't no director, 
so watch out actors!

(chorus repeat)

The trade's on
She drains emotion
To drink from
The breast of fortune
Dreams have frozen
Crystal in the morning
Birthtime rose
A thorn for coronation

All arise from your rest
We'll find enough there to feed you
Soon you'll belong to the blessed
Spare us your lives while we need you

Loud is the music the crowd is ringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on...
Loud is the chorus your voice is bringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on...

Loud is the music the crowd is ringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on...
Loud is the chorus your voice is bringing
Out of my head as the winter marches on...

And on...
Winter marches on...

"bring back that child," she said
"spare me the price of freedom.
cold is my baby's head
blown by the wind of reason"
even the rage behind
cries out to see 
we're still standing
under the closing edge
pay for the crime of feeling

when all your pride is dead
you must be scared instead...

a quiet word is my proposition
a promise made of a fierce day
a body bleeds for this coalition
without surrender if you stay

"show me my youth," she cried
"wasted for desolation"
hold up the sacrifice,
pull down your institutions
resting while anger flies

question's the same...
who's deciding?
after the clouds have lain
shame on your generation

when all your guilt lies dead
you must be scared instead

a quiet word is my proposition
a promise made on a fierce day
the body bleeds for this coalition
without surrender if you stay

when all your pain lies dead
you must be scared instead

(repeat chorus 2x)

proposition...
(repeat)