Jarvis Cocker Album

In the beginning there was nothing
To be honest, that suited me just fine
I was three weeks late coming out of the womb
In no great rush to join the rest of mankind
Where there were

Further complications
Further complications in store, yeah

I was not born in wartime
I was not born in pain or poverty
I need an addiction, the needed affliction
To cultivate a personality
I need some

Further complications
Further complications in store, yeah
Your life is just a carrier bag

The enemy without has moved in somewhere else
If your parents didn't screw you up why not do it yourself?
Go fight your battles, go to a disco
You wanna suffer, go to a rock show

Do you follow me? (Follow me)
Then follow me (Follow me)
Yeah follow me (Follow me)
Then follow me
Follow me to

Further complications
That's right
Further complications in store, yeah
Your life is just a carrier bag
Oh they'll fill it and the straps will snap

I used to think that people all chose the lives they led
But so many different choices that you've got to make instead
Don't write a novel - a shopping list is better
It's a complicated boogie and I don't know any better baby

Further complications
Oh!
Further complications in store, yeah
Your life is just a carrier bag
Oh they'll fill it and the straps will snap

Further complications
Further complications
Do you follow me?

Angela (Angela)
An unfinished symphony (Angela)
Angela (Angela)
She's mobile poetry (Angela)
And she's nearly 23
Making four-fifty an hour
Complimentary shower
They call her Angela

Angela
Oh Angela
Angela

Angela (Angela)
Boom you blew my mind (Angela)
Angela (Angela)
I feel the sap rising tonight (Angela)
A dry stick at the end of a branch
And an overzealous hand
You can't glue it back, no
Snapped off by Angela

Angela
Oh Angela
Oh!

Angela
Oh Angela

Angela
Angela
Yeah Angela! (Angela)
Oh Angela! (Angela)
Angela! (Angela)
Oh Angela (Angela)!

Oh Angela

[No lyrics]

I met her in the museum of paleontology
And I make no bones about it
I said if you wish to study dinosaurs,
I know a specimen whose interest is undoubted

Trapped in a body that is failing me
Well, please allow me to be succinct
I wanna love you whilst we both still have flesh upon our bones
Before we both become extinct

That's what I told her: I wanna be your lover
And then I told her twice: I wanna be your lover

Well, he says that he loves you like a sister
Well I guess, I guess that's relative
He says that he wants to make love to you
Well instead of "to", shouldn't that be "with"?

Oh, I told you once: I wanna be your lover
And now I've told you twice: I wanna be your lover

And so I come to you filled with guilt and self-loathing
And I am praying that you could make me good
And so I fall upon your neck just like a vampire
Yeah, like a vampire who faints at the sight of blood

And I told you once: I wanna be your lover
I'm gonna say it again
And then I told you twice: I wanna be your lover

Well this is my CV and I've got no one else to blame
So I will state, state my case, I will state it again

Come and help yourself to leftovers
Got a little surplus love and affection
And getting cuddly, so won't you cuddle me?
I could be your teddy bear... oh yeah

I know I ain't no eligible bachelor
This is no mouthwatering proposition
Make no mistake, you're in big trouble, little lady
If we start a-hugging and a-kissing
And a-kissing, are you listening?

'Cause I told you once
And then I told you twice
And now I told you three times
And at the risk of repeating myself
I'm gonna say it again

Yeah
I wanna be your lover
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I wanna be your lover
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I wanna be your lover
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I wanna be your lover
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
I wanna be your lover

I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind
If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time
If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who is alive
And if every relationship is a two-way street, I have been screwing in the back whilst you drive

I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow
My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow
I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever
And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever
Forever and ever

I can dance you to the end of the night 'cause I'm afraid of the dark
I have to confess I'm out of my depth
You're going over my head and straight through my heart

Some girls like to play it dirty, some girls want to be your mum
Me, I disrespected you whilst we were waiting for the taxi to come
My morality is shabby, my behaviour unacceptable
No, I'm not looking for a relationship, just a willing receptacle

I never said I was
I never said I was
I never said I was

I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow
My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow
I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever
And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever
Forever and ever

I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow
My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow

I never said I was deep

[No lyrics]

The train was leaving in ten minutes or so
Struggling with the suitcases I did not see you go
My heart stopped beating and I felt my blood run cold

"Hold still" I told you but you moved
Now you're gone, I can't find you growing
Yeah, we are growing but why bother?
When you can hover

On your knees and behold the might of the master
Eyes explode at the very sight of the master
We're cosmic dust but you're everything to me

Like a single parent at the fair
And you're spinning above me
Spinning
You're moving fast but you're going nowhere
Yeah, baby that's the way

On your knees and behold the might of the master
Eyes explode at the very sight of the master
Kittens are cute but a full grown cat can be cuter
I'm alive but I plan to die in the future
Hold still, hold still, hold still

We're cosmic dust but you're everything to me

I will never get to touch you so I wrote this song instead
Thinking about you lying in bed, it's gonna get inside your head
And it's the best that I can do, this is the closest I could get
So let it penetrate your consciousness
Oh oh oh oh yes

Turn it up, turn me on, I'm feeling good but don't get me wrong
I know it's just a song

And every time you play it I will perform the best I can
Press repeat and there I am, and there I am, always glad to be your man
And this way, oh well there won't be any mess
As I assure you that there would be in the flesh
This is my very, very best

Turn it up, turn me on, I'm feeling good but don't get me wrong
'Cause I know it's just a song

Always eager, always ready, always in tune and always prime
And I'm always there for you, I'm always on time
Unlike in real life

Turn it up, turn me on, I'm feeling good but don't get me wrong
No, don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong 'cause I know
It's just a fucking song

Yesterday you fell out of the sky
Covered all my faults up just like snow
You turned this place into a winter wonderland
I barely recognise who or where I am

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

This substance does not belong in a city
Just as snow cannot stay on the ground for long
The gritters come and they turn it all to slush
Cos folks round here, well they've got to catch the bus

My heart melted at your touch, yeah
Turned into slush

Yeah...

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

And if I could, I would refrigerate this moment
I would preserve it for all time
And I know I don't stand a snowball in hell's chance
So let's sing Auld Lang Syne

(??)

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

Yesterday you fell out of the sky
Covered all my faults up just like snow
You turned this place into a winter wonderland
I barely recognise who or where I am

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

This substance does not belong in a city
Just as snow cannot stay on the ground for long
The gritters come and they turn it all to slush
Cos folks round here, well they've got to catch the bus

My heart melted at your touch, yeah
Turned into slush

Yeah...

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

And if I could, I would refrigerate this moment
I would preserve it for all time
And I know I don't stand a snowball in hell's chance
So let's sing Auld Lang Syne

(??)

My heart melted at your touch
Turned into slush

Grey floaters inside my eyes
And visible when you look into a clear blue sky
Memories of days gone by activated by a mirror ball shining bright
In a provincial disco on a Thursday night

You appeared from nowhere beside me on the floor
Identical in every detail to the way you were before
The best part of a decade since you went out of my life
The worst part of a decade, and here you are tonight
By my side

You're in my eyes, you're in my face
Just like before you went away
You're in my arms, I feel your warmth
And I will dance until the dawn
'Cause I don't want to lose you again, oh no
Yeah, I don't want to lose you again, oh no

A trick of the light, a disco hallucination
A waking dream, an impossible situation
Oh but you (??) don't stop, don't disappear
I need you here
I need you here

You're in my eyes, you're in my face
Just like before you went away
You're in my arms, I feel your warmth
And I will dance until the dawn
'Cause I don't want to lose you again, oh no
Yeah, 'cause I don't want to lose you again, oh no

And I don't want this song to ever end, 'cause I know if it did then you would disappear again. Let this be forever through the air. Caught in a loop that repeats on endlessly. It was the mirror ball that did it. A chance reflection that sparked you back to life, like you'd just been to the bar for a little while. And you smiled and there was nothing in your eyes like the silt in mine making it hard to get around. I thought you'd gone but all this time I'd been carrying you around in my eyes.
In my eyes
In my eyes

You're in my eyes, you're in my face
Just like before you went away
You're in my arms, I feel your warmth
And I will dance until the dawn
'Cause I don't want to lose you again, oh no
Yeah, I don't want to lose you again, oh no
Yeah, I don't want to lose you again, oh no