Take me in your arms again
Wash me in your eyes
Tie me to the house again
Love me 'till love dies
Blame me for everything
Not just the bad times
Whispering sweet nothings in your ear
Just like a dead bird sings
Look into my face again
Between us there's a mile
I can see a hole in the sky
As wide as your smile
As wide as your smile
It's not that you've gone away
It's that I've never met you
But I wish you'd come back to me
Just like the night turns blue
Just like the night turns blue
Just like a dead bird sings
Love me 'till love dies

If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
I tick like a bomb,
a little bomb with feelings
in every single country,
under every ceiling.
Theres no feeling, theres no feeling at all
Theres no feeling, theres no feeling at all
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Im built like a house
A little house thats peeling
As it peels away then youll see
Theres no feeling, theres no feeling at all
Theres no feeling, theres no feeling at all
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la la la la
I burn like a tree at the end of the garden.
Weve put up a swing for the children.
Theres no feeling theres no feeling at all.
With the world on TV shes shes given up believing
Theres nothing left to see,
I was teasing.
I was teasing, I was teasing her on
I was teasing, I was teasing her on
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
If youll be mine, Ill be yours,
If youll be mine, Ill be yours.
Sha la la la
Sha la la la
Sha la la la la la la

Look at my hands
Theyre all over you
My rusty nails stuck to you like glue
My arms around you
Like audio tape
Got a little red horn hidden underneath this cape
It's not dirty
It's not rude
I'll go to Kuwait if I wanna get wanna get crude
It's not filthy
It's not lewd
I wanna be famous just so I can get sued
Guess who's my girlfriend
Yeah, it's Jesus, she's my girlfriend
Wanna know who my boyfriend is
No, nought out of ten
Jesus ain't a man, she's my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend, Jesus is my girlfriend
It's not drink
It's not food
It's a man in a shuttle with a tube
I can't fly, so what, I can't cook
Can't even catch a tune with a hook
I've been to Hong Kong
And South Dakota
In a little wood plane
Without a motor
Got a girl in bed
When I took it further
Where, Jamaica?
No, I coaxed her, ha, ha!
It's not dirty
Its not rude
I'll go to Kuwait if I wanna get wanna get crude
It's not filthy
It's not lewd
I wanna get famous just so I can get sued
I love her
My girlfriend
I love her
My girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend

Remember that tank top you bought me.
You wrote 'You're Gorgeous' on it.
You took me to your rented motor car and filmed me on the bonnet.
You got me to hitch my knees up and pulled my legs apart.
You took an instamatic camera and and pulled my sleeves around my heart.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous our love will see us through.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous I know you'll get me through.
You said my clothes were sexy, you tore away my shirt.
You rubbed an ice-cube on my chest snapped me 'til it hurt.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous our love will see us through.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous I know you'll get me through.
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
You said I wasn't cheap. You paid me twenty pounds.
You promised to put me in a magazine on every table in every lounge.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous our love will see us through.
Because you're gorgeous I'd do anything for you.
Because you're gorgeous our love will see us through.
Because you're gorgeous I know you'll get me through. I know you'll get me through.

It's time to come down from your spire
Jesus come back, you're a liar
I've covered the church in fish wire
I'll know you're here, like hellfire
Hell fire
If we hear a trip in the aisle
Turn on the lights with a big smile
There's no beautiful child
It's tealeaves with the roof tiles
Tealeaves with the roof tiles
We go on home with the radio on
Tune into paradise on the long wave
For a millionth time a born again song
Rings out like a bad shave

Way up in the clouds
Angels don't fly
Big silver birds
Re-writing the sky
Taxi & take off now
I close your eyes
Look out of the window
Watch the ground die
I live all day-to vacate the place-I love-uh huh
I work all day-to leave the way I live-behind
Way down on the ground
People don't fly
But here we at the airport
Like ladybirds in July
Just like back home
I wish that you were here
If I had a cellular phone
I'd drown it in my beer
I was once like you
Dreaming you were me
Locked inside your pretty head
Wishing I was free
But I was so different then
And you were roughly the same
Love was in your pretty head
And sex was on my brain

You asked me not to speak
Then kissed me on the cheek
You said that I was wrong
You said that I was weak
I tried to think awhile
You said I was too long
And when I tried to smile
You sung this pretty song
Drink this baby, it's atomic soda
It'll blow your mind back to how it was
Standing in the snow, icicles on your nose
I felt what once was through your frozen clothes
Standing on the shore, looking at the lake
My arm around you won't stop you shake
In the Wintertime when the leaves are gone
I look at you

Put the car in reverse
and come back to me
without you this house is a hearse without wheels
you can't work out which cringing
which cringing feels worse
when i touch you like this
on the place that it hurts
Give me all that you have
if you don't i will steal it
all the things that you've lost
i can reel them in
i'm falling apart every minute of every day
but you're there to put me back together again
When i don't know where you are
i feel lost
your trail feels so warm
but i'm covered with frost
when i left in the morning
she smelled so good
then i whispered quite nicely, quite rightly
I can't make you feel good
you can't make me feel bad
i'll never get you back
so you'll never be sad

He had a bad old man who beat him
Took a hammer to his knees just to please him
Now he's thirty-five and half-alive
He's an open mouth in a beehive
He's gonna smile and be happy
Make everyone know that he's happy
Put his smiling face on a billboard
Kiss him from your car, he's happy
He's not happy
With his swollen lips around his early teens
In his dress he can't believe it's in his genes
Some days he's half-man, and then he's half-God
But on his blue days he wouldn't touch his greens
He's gonna make you smile and be happy
Make everyone know that he's happy
Put his smiling face on the TV
Kiss him from your chair, make him happy
He drowned his stepson in the duckpond
Let the wifebeater out to make a pop song
He put razor blades in the ice cream
Shot a paedophile in a wet dream
Mmm
He's got a young man who feeds him
Whispers sweet nothings just to please him
He makes him cool for the TV
Makes half the man he is a celebrity
With his swollen lips around his early teens
In his dress he can't believe it's in his genes
He's half a man, and half a God
One half bitch, one half dog.
He drowned his stepson in the duckpond
Let the wifebeater out to make a pop song
He put razor blades in the ice cream
Made nobody famous on the big screen
Put the whole wide world on remote control
He put a five times rapist on his TV show
On every single channel in every single home
You can even hear his voice on the telephone
Mmm
Shalala

Dead Bird Sings
Take me in your arms again
Wash me in your eyes
Tie me to the house again
Love me till love dies
Love me till love dies
Blame me for everything
Not just for the bad times
Whispering sweet nothings in your ear
Just like a dead bird sings
Look into my face again
Between us theres a mile
I can see a hole in the sky
As wide as your smile
Its not that youve gone away
Its that Ive never met you
But I wish that youd come back to me
Just like the night turns blue
Just like the night turns blue
Take me in your arms again
Balme me for everything
Not just the bad times
Whispering sweet nothings in my ear
Just like a dead bird sings
Love me till love dies

Have you ever seen the golden mile
Have you ever driven someone wild
Have you ever wanted to kill a screaming child
Have you ever taken the mean out of meanwhile
Oh, I hope so
(x3)
I look up at the sky
And a plane's flying by
Smoking around the loops of your nickname
I used to call you CFC
It used to rhyme with happy
But now I'm sad
I've got no one to blame
Except myself
And that's selfish
So I'm going out
With my suitcase

You & me
Me & you
(x3)
You & me & me & you & you & me & me
& me & you
As long as we are one, one of what?
I don't care
One of what?
I don't care
(x2)
................ In any language, baby
It means I love you
I look in the mirror
I see right through
I am beside myself
When I'm inside you
You make the sky green
You make the sun blue
No, baby, it ain't God I love...it's you
Me & you, You & me, me & you & you & me
So complicated
It's so unexpurgated
Underrated
Over sensationalised
Under materialised
Ooh, such big words
We don't need them
All we need is you & me
(x2)

Baby bird...don't you cry
Don't you fly away from me
..don't you fly
..don't you fly
La la la...
I've gift-wrapped you a tiny tree
With golden leaves for you

Are you the tornado in my sails
Are you Jesus without the nails
Are you the bury met without the rails
Are you Paris without snails
Of course you're not
But you're all I've got
And that's fine

I'll sing about love
'Till I'm 45 & fat
I'll take almost anything
But I won't take that
You can tie me up in knots
But I'll keep on coming
You can take away my voice
But I'll keep on humming
c-o-c-a
c-o-l-a
'Till I turn blue
Sing-singing about love
I'll take any old tat
But I won't take that
We'll teach the world to sing
You all know the words
So singalong, singalong, singalong
For a better world
C-o-c-a
C-o-l-a

Look at my hands
They're all over you
My rusty nails stuck to you like glue
My arms around you like audio tape
Got a little red horn underneath this cape
It's not dirty
It's not rude
I'll go to Kuwait if I wanna get, wanna get,
Wanna get crude
It's not filthy
It's not lewd
I wanna get famous just so I can get sued
Guess who's my girlfriend, yeah, ten out of ten
Yeah it's Jesus, she's my girlfriend
Want to know who my boyfriend is,
No, nought out of ten
Jesus ain't a man, she's my girlfriend
Jesus is my girlfriend
It's not drink, It's not food
It's a man in a shuttle with a tube
I can't fly, so what, I can't cook
Can't even catch a tune with a hook
I've been to Hong Kong

I hold you closely you push me away
I want forever you just want today
Give me your fingers wash out your mouth
Bite off my tongue on this bloody couch
But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good night
I hear the tick of a bomb
All your hair in a fuse
You ask me for a light
To blow away these blues
Run me a bath, then plug me in
I'm like a T.V. learning to swim
But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good night
I hold you closely you push me away
I want forever you just want today
Give me your fingers wash out your mouth
Bite off my tongue on this bloody couch
But I don't blame you
You're always right
I'm like a bad day
On your good good good good night