Skunk Anansie Album

I'm living without you
I know all about you
I have run you down into the ground
Spread disease about you over town

I used to adore you
I couldn't control you
There was nothing that I wouldn't do
To keep myself around and
close to you

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I couldn't care less

I...
I...

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know

I used to amuse you
I knew that I'd lose you
Now you're here and begging
for a chance
But there's no way in hell
I'd take you back

Do you have an opinion?
A mind of your own?
I thought you were special
I thought you should know
But I've run out of patience
I've run out of comments
I'm tired of the violence
I couldn't care less

I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new
I'm looking for a new

We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town
We were the talk of the town

I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special
I thought you were special

I hit him with a piece of his philosophy
Anglo-Saxon muck in his type of greed
What did he do to deserve such hate
(He tried to) intellectualise my blackness

He tried to summerize, to institualise
Still I could recognize, he was materialized

He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me

He's always tryin' to make up for his little slips
The joke about the nigga and the yellow nip
Then he tells me I'm so different from those other shits
(When he tries to) intellectualise my blackness

He tried to summerize, to institualise
Still I could recognize, he was materialized

He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me

Motherfucker don't you lecture-rise me
Don't you ever try to lecturize me
Motherfucker don't you lecture-rise me
Oh No

He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me

He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me

He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me

I'll be your sailor girl
I'll tip my cap to your parade
Life won't be dreary no
I'll be the waves inside your bed

Pain is your beauty
It hurts the vision in our eyes
Your eyes are smiling now
They watch me cry, they watch me die, watch me die

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my darling

Your eyes seep through me
You think you hate the way I mince
I'm screwing yours dreams now
So cynical at your expense

Oh what a sacrifice
All of my dreams will melt away
So who's so special now
No one's more special, more than me, more than me

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
I can dream, I can dream
I can love, I can love

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

My darling, my saviour
My darling, my saviour
I'll tip my cap to your parade
Life won't be dreary no
I'll be the waves inside your bed

Pain is your beauty
It hurts the vision in your eyes
Your eyes are smiling now
They watch me cry, they watch me die, watch me die

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my darling

Your eyes seep through me
You think you hate the way I mince
I'm screwing yours dreams now
So cynical at your expense

Oh what a sacrifice
All of my dreams will melt away
So who's so special now
No one's more special, more than me, more than me

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
I can dream, I can dream
I can love, I can love

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else

My darling, my saviour
My darling, my saviour

I never claimed to be your
saviour
I said I had a dirty mouth
Stop analysing my
behaviour
If you're too dumb
to work it out

I've got to keep myself together
You know I hate
to disappoint
A masochistic lamb to slaughter
Maybe you miss the point?

I'm feeling small
I'm climbing the walls
I don't let it show

Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could
let it go
You'll never come
sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

Maybe I could write a letter
To help me with my self-esteem
You should get to know me better
No one's ever what
they seem

I'm feeling small
Climbing the walls
I don't let it show

Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could
let it go
You'll never come
sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
mean to me
You still don't know what
to think of me
You still don't know what you
think of me

Now that you know what you know
I bet you wish you could
let it go
You'll never come sucking your thumb
Better off dumb

Now that you know what you know
You're going to reap what you sow
Nothing will come sucking
your thumb
Better off dumb

You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
mean to me
You still don't know what
to think of me

You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
think of me
You still don't know what you
think of me

You still don't know what
I think of me
You still don't know what
you think of me

Nighttime
We’re not alone if we dream together
Of the good times
We got through cos we won’t surrender
Head on my shoulder, glass of red wine

If we left the night behind (?)
We have won this already 

Li la la li, li la la li
I watched you reach for the sky
Li la la li, li la la li
Chrysalis to butterfly

Sometimes
You don’t win gold, you don’t win silver
At the right time
You’ll find bronze makes you the winner
Tears running freely, and I dry from your cheek

If you left the night behind (?)
You have won this already

Li la la li, li la la li
I watched you reach for the sky
Li la la li, li la la li
Chrysalis to butterfly
To butterfly
Kiss your lips and watch you fly, my butterfly
Chrysalis to butterfly

It’s bedtime
Emotions chase us, our dreams will follow
It’s a good time, mmm
For me to give you the strength I borrowed
Sigh when I hold you, last drop of wine

If you left the night behind (?)
I have won this already

KABOOM
Get it right
Get it right now
Get it right
Do it good
Get it right now
KABOOM
Get it right
Get it right now
Get it right
Do it good
Get it right now

Oh let's bomb the factory
That makes all the
wannabes
Let's burst all the bubbles
That brainwash the masses

As far as I can tell
It doesn't matter who you are
If you can believe there's
something worth fighting for
The color of an eye
The glory of a sudden view
The baby in your arms
The smile he always shoots
at you

Believing in nothing
Makes life so boring
So let's pray for something
To feel good in the
morning

As far as I can tell
It doesn't matter who you are
If you can believe there's
something worth fighting for
The color of an eye
The glory of a sudden view
The baby in your arms
The smile he always shoots
at you

KABOOM
Get it right
Get it right now
Get it right
Do it good
Get it right now
KABOOM
Get it right
Get it right now
Get it right
Do it good
Get it right now
KABOOM
KABOOM
KABOOM

Oh doctor
We're dying
There's no use in crying
So live for tomorrow
And do what you have to

As far as I can tell
It doesn't matter who you are
If you can believe there's
something worth fighting for
The color of an eye
The glory of a sudden view
The baby in your arms
The smile he always shoots
at you

Oh let's pray for something
To feel good in the morning
In the morning
As far as I can tell
(Get it right now)
In the morning
As far as I can tell
(Get it right now)
In the morning
As far as I can tell
(Get it right now)
As far as I can tell
(Get it right now)
As far as I can tell
(Get it right now)

When everything is going wrong
And you can't see the point of going on
Nothing in life is set in stone
There's nothing that can't be turned around

Nobody wants to be alone
Everybody wants to love someone
Out of the tree go pick a plum
Why can't we all just get along

Boys
Boys in the girl's room
Girls
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys
Boys in the parlor
Girls
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind in your androgyny

No sweeter a taste that you could find
Than fruit hanging ripe upon the vine
There's never been an oyster so divine
A river deep that never runs dry

What you need (11 times)

The birds and the bees they hum along
Like treasure they twinkle in the sun
Get on board and have some fun
Take what you need to turn you on

Boys
Boys in the girl's room
Girls
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys
Boys in the parlor
Girls
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your

Boys
Behind closed doors and under stars
Girls
It doesn't matter where you are
Boys
Collecting jewels that catch your eyes
Girls
Don't let a soulmate pass you by

Boys in the girl's room
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlor
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind

Boys in the girl's room
Girls in the men's room
You free your mind in your androgyny
Boys in the parlor
They're getting harder
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your mind
I'll free your

Boys
Girls
Boys
Girls

Lost in time I can't count the words
I said when I thought they went unheard
All of those harsh thoughts so unkind
'cos I wanted you
And now I sit here I'm all alone
So here sits a bloody mess, tears fly home
A circle of angels deep in war
'cos I wanted you

Weak as I am, no tears for you
Weak as I am, no tears for you
Deep as I am, I'm no one's fool
Weak as I am

So what am I now? I'm love's last hope
I'm all of the soft words I once owned
If I opened my heart, there'd be no space for air
'cos I wanted you

Weak as I am, no tears for you
Weak as I am, no tears for you
Deep as I am, I'm no one's fool
Weak as I am

In this tainted soul
In this weak young heart
Am I too much for you?

In this tainted soul
In this weak young heart
Am I too much for you?

In this tainted soul
In this weak young heart
Am I too much for you?

Weak as I am, weak as I am,
Weak as I am, weak as I am, am, am

Weak as I am
Am I too much for you?
Weak as I am
Am I too much for you?
Weak as I am
Am I too much for you?
Weak as I am

Oh the shark has such teeth, dear
And he shows them pearly white
Just a jack knife has old MacHeath, dear
And he keeps it out of sight

You know when the shark bites
with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows start to spread
Fancy gloves though wears MacHeath, dear
So there's never, never a trace of red

On the sidewalk, Sunday morning,
Don't you know
Lies a body oozing life
Someone's sneaking round the corner
Could that be our boy, Mack the knife?

From a tug boat by the river
There's a cement bag just dropping on down
The cement's just for the weight, dear
Bet you Mack is back in town

Did you hear about Louie Miller he disappeared
After drawing out all his hard earned cash
And MacHeath spends like a sailor
Could it be our boy did something rash?

Jenny Diver, Sukey Tawdry
Polly Peachum, and old Lucy Brown
Oh the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Mack is back in town

Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver
Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown
Oh the line forms on the right, dear

written by Darius, Chris Braide & Andrew Frampton

I feel vulnerable, I'm scared
I hang on every word like there's a hidden meaning
It caught me unprepared
Now I'm climbing up the wall that stands between us

I keep hoping it's my imagination
Playing tricks with my heart on this occasion
I've just got this sinking feeling

So who's gonna drown now the dam's about to break
Tell me if it's me
I gotta know
I'm strong enough to tell you that it's more than I can take
I'm just hanging by a thread, gotta feeling I'm in over my head
Can't wait until tomorrow
Gotta know tonight

I feel naked, in your eyes
I'm so out of control it feels like I'm free-wheeling
Are we running out of time
I gotta find a way to stop this feeling

I keep hoping it's my imagination
Playing tricks with my heart on this occasion
But I've just got this sinking feeling

So who's gonna drown now the dam's about to break
Tell me if it's me
I gotta know
I'm strong enough to tell you that it's more than I can take
I'm just hanging by a thread, got a feeling I'm in over my head
Can't wait until tomorrow
Gotta know tonight

Cos when you pull back the covers
It's one way or the other, oh yeah
It's getting closer to midnight
I gotta go
Can't wait until tomorrow
Gotta know

So who's gonna drown now the dam's about to break
Tell me if it's me
I gotta know
I'm strong enough to tell you that it's more than I can take
Cos I'm just hanging by a thread, got a feeling I'm in over my head
Can't wait until tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow
Can't wait until tomorrow

YOU'RE TOO COOL TO BE SMART, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU'RE TOO SANE TO BE HARD, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU'RE TOO SAD TO BE HIGH, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUN

YOU GOT TO RISE UP, SWEET WOMAN CHILD
YOU GOT TO RISE UP, SWEET WOMAN CHILD
YOU GOT TO RISE UP, SWEET WOMAN CHILD
YOU'RE LOSING YOUR CONVICTIONS

YOU'RE TOO WISE TO BE COOL, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU'RE TOO DEEP TO BE GOOD, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU'RE TOO WEAK TO BE SOLD, BUT THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE
YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUN

YOU'RE LOSING ALL OF YOUR GOOD CONVICTIONS
YOUR INTEGRITY SLOWLY WATERED DOWN
NEVER MIND YOUR SOUL CONVICTIONS
NEVERMIND, NEVERMIND, NEVERMIND IT ALL

OH LORD WHEN YOU FEEL IT IN THE AIR
OH LORD WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WANNA CRY
OH LORD WHEN YOU LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH

RISE UP NOW (X4)