The Tracksuit Trilogy

Left in Guatemala another high drama / They say I'm speaking evil let's just say mañana / You're looking for these people why not pretty chica? / Bang, Bang you're dead / Held up in Venezuela had no cigarettes / They want to see my papers but I've only got debts / Mr. CIA? No Mr. Regret / Bang, Bang you're dead / Mucho macho bikers with a knife to my face / Hey I was only kidding you, you got good taste / A heavy metal disco on a cactus range / Bang, Bang, you're dead / Got across the border took a train to N.Y.C. / Sold all the secrets for a paltry fee / I don't do it for myself, I do it for my country / Bang, Bang, you're dead / In the east village kinda hippie chic / Glow-worms in taxis, where the skinny girls meet? / Vodka and coke and tantric sex / Bang, Bang you're dead.

I got a lot of emotion but it don't seem that way / I got a lot of emotion but it don't seem that way / When Madonna's on the stereo we're dancing cheek to cheek / In the discotheque we heavy pet I don't want to sleep / Woke up, another fucking suicide / Newsflash, it probably ends in genocide / Collapse, the buildings aren't made of bricks / Relapse, the treatment makes you feel sick / Starvation, every third world nation / You hustle it only ends in more trouble / Banged-up, another injustice / Say what, you think I haven't sussed this?

Candle lights on the floor / The broken discs spun are second hand / Do you like Japanese jam? / So we jam and jam like never before / Sleeping on the floor tonight / Blue, blue hands still hold the mic / Nothing matters anymore / Japanese jam so sore / Narcotic days and narcotic nights / We're so young so young.

It's hard enough being polite to the people you don't even like / It's hard enough without a girlfriend getting up early and working / It's hard enough trying to dance in your Kookai nylon pants / Won't show any passion things like that are out of fashion / It's hard enough when you're young it's even harder when you're old with no one / It's hard enough being a Siamese twin always having to do the same things / It's hard enough when you're in prison and there's no one there to listen / Won't show any feelings only end up deceiving / It's hard enough for you to explain it always ends up sounding the same / It's hard enough when you're at school every day there's something there to prove / It's hard enough to show affection always the fear of rejection / Her make-up's running down her face they think she has got no taste / It's hard enough being aloof looking cool and acting cute / It's hard enough to be that certain well you always end up hurting / It's hard enough for all those Buddhists when most of us think they're useless / No need to hide the facts we're not coming back / It's hard enough being attractive eating up all the laxatives / It's hard enough hanging around the shopping malls in town / It's hard enough acting bored you only want to be adored / They say the future's looking bright but you can't get through another night / It's hard enough.

Who knows the reason maybe it's fate / Now that you've found me why do I hesitate / It's empty and silent but we don't speak / You know I'm shaking inside / Why did we meet? / Remember the bad times remember to trust / Some days have meaning sometimes I laugh / But most times I'm so lonely / How did it come to that? / I can't stand this feeling want comfort and touch / Yes that would be something / But that is not enough / Remember the bad times remember to trust.

I like it in the morning / I like it in the dark / I like it when you're talking / I like it when you're not / Chinese little devil your stories make me glad / I like it with no make-up / I like it if you're fat / l like it when you're naked / l like it when you're clothed / I like it in the disco / I like it in the home / Every little finger feeling with your tongue / I like it when we're drinking / I like it when you come / I like it when we argue / I like it when you scream / I like it when you're sulking / I like it when you're mean / We're living eating breathing sometimes it seems unreal / I like it when you whisper / I like it when you dream / I like it yes I like it / I think you ought to know/ l like it yes I like it don't ever let me go / l like it yes I like it my teeth are going to crack / I like it yes I like it I'm always coming back.

Nature park the Arab Spar / Mosey down to cash the cheque / Everyone's asking us what happens next? / And the fields are glum / And the maisonettes are crumbling down / To Ragga sounds / On their backs burnt foreheads / Vomit down their trouser legs / Let it all hang out but we all stay in / The neon lights of Heartbeats / Jacuzzi life of lizard kings / No one swings just break your head / On heavy stuff the smell of lead / The running man in Lois Jeans / Is not in fashion though it seems / The betting stops: with the slops / And scabs are picked by tiny ticks / Let it all hang out but we all stay in.

He likes her and she likes he / They can do anything they please / Casual sex in Bristol / Do anything for a thrill / Coming home very late / Bad conversations can't think straight / So hungover all the next day / He'd sure like the glamour / But can't stand the pace / All in all just killing time / But all this time it's killing me / On the record deck spins a morbid track / How come he always feels like that? / 24 hours bored in 24 ways / All used up with nothing to say.

It’s a shame what they’re saying / But no one really knows / Took a train to Alcudia / That's a long, long way from home / Said she'd run off with this fella / Dressed in gold and a wide brimmed hat / Twenty years getting beaten up / You couldn't blame her for doing that / It's a long, long way from England's suburban council flats / To where the sea feels delicious / And the sun warms her back / He calls her Sangria / Because she likes to drink a lot / He's bought her five gold wedding rings / She says it's got to stop / He works as a singer in a cheap hotel of sorts / Where the dancers like to linger / And the clients like to look / But he can only think of her / A tear almost in his eye / Can't wait to get home / And be by her side.