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XTC - Do What You Do
Do what you do what you do ... to me
The stars are out and so am I
The stars I see ain't in the sky
I'm heading for the twilight zone
Please don't take me home
XTC - Deliver Us From The Elements
XTC - Dying
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XTC - Books Are Burning
<br />Books are burning<br />In the main square, and I saw there<br />The first eating the text<br />Books are burning<br />In the still air<br />And you know where they burn books<br />People are next<br />I believe the printed word sho...
XTC - Brainiacs Daughter
<br />Brainiacs Daughter<br />Made me a suit of bricks and mortar<br />And a matching stove pipe hat, oh yes<br />Brainiacs Daughter<br />Took me on a sleigh ride underwater<br />And I'm crazy for girls like that<br />Oh yes Sir, yes Sir...
XTC - Bungalow
<br />Bungalow<br />Bungalow<br />By the sea<br />Bungalow<br />In the sea air<br />Climbing rose<br />Time to spare<br />Luxury accommodation traps the sun<br />So we're working every hour that God made<br />So we can fly away<br />Savi...
XTC - Buzzcity Talking
<br />What makes you wander far<br />Don't know who you are<br />Now if the vibe is right<br />I'll go out tonight<br /><br />Cause it's Buzzcity talking<br />it's Buzzcity talking<br />Go and find a late night bar<br />If I'm not back, ...
XTC - Chain Of Command
<br />How bright are the fires of thought<br />In a chain of command<br />How bright is the medical torch<br />When it's put in our hand<br /><br />My microbes and I<br />Can't wait to lay down and die<br />We realise that we must be spe...
XTC - Collideascope
<br />Collideascope<br />Careful, don't look down the wrong end<br />You will see ships that fall out of the sky<br />Who put that nail in your eye<br />You make me want to cry with your...<br /><br />Collideascope<br />Everything looks ...
XTC - Complicated Game
<br />I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no<br />I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no<br />I say it really doesn't matter where I put my finger<br />Someone else will come along and move it<br />And it's alw...
XTC - Crocodile
<br />Crocodile<br />No you won't make me jealous<br />That she left me for him<br />Scene one standing<br />Crushed on landing<br />You may have walked out<br />But I'll swallow up my fate<br />Scene two sitting<br />Man in kitchen<br /...
XTC - Crowded Room
<br />Across a crowded room<br />I first set eyes on you<br />My vision was impaired<br />Obstructed out of view<br /><br />By those - faces in a crowded room<br />them - bodies in a crowded room<br />their - breathing in a crowded room<...
XTC - Day In Day Out
<br />Clock in my head<br />Clock on the wall<br />And the two of them<br />Don't agree at all<br />Friday is heaven, Friday is heaven<br /><br />Day in day out<br />Day in day out<br />Wish you were here<br />On the shop floor<br />And ...
XTC - Dear God
<br />, hope you got the letter, and...<br />I pray you can make it better down here.<br />I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer<br />but all the people that you made in your image, see<br />them starving on their feet 'cause...
XTC - Dear Madam Barnum
<br />I put on a fake smile<br />And start the evening show<br />The public is laughing<br />I guess by now they know<br />So climb from your high horse<br />And pull this freak show down<br />Dear Madam Barnum<br />I resign as clown<br ...
XTC - Deliver Us From The Elements
<br />We can plant a seed<br />And watch it grow<br />Food enough to fill a table<br />Running water down an overflow<br />Eat as much as we are able<br />But would the fruit turn ripe<br />If the rains had never been?<br /><br /><i>[Cho...
XTC - Do What You Do
<br />Do what you do what you do ... to me<br />The stars are out and so am I<br />The stars I see ain't in the sky<br />I'm heading for the twilight zone<br />Please don't take me home<br /><br /> ...
XTC - Dying
<br />It frightens me when you come to mind<br />The day you dropped in the shopping line<br />And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs<br />When they carried you out your mouth was open wide<br />The cat went astray and t...
XTC - Generals And Majors
<br />Generals and Majors ah ah<br />they're never too far<br />from battlefields so glorious<br />out in a world of their own<br />They'll never come down<br />till once again victorious<br /><br />Generals and Majors always<br />seem s...
XTC - Great Fire
<br />Great fire burning<br />You supplied the spark<br />Fores burning spreading through the ark<br />Animals are panicking<br />I'm animal and panicking<br /><br />Your glance a match on the tinderwood<br />You never spoke but I unders...
XTC - Have You Seen Jackie?
<br />Have you seen Jackie?<br />He's a strange strange strange little girl<br />Make up on his face and his hair in curls<br />Have you seen Jackie?<br />She's a strange strange strange little boy<br />Her long black beard is her pride ...
XTC - Helicopter
<br />Oh heli Oh heli<br />I'm crouching here with a telescope in hand<br />Looking across our lego land<br />I really think it's about time that she came down<br />She a laughing giggly whirlybird<br />She got to be obscene to be obhear...
XTC - Holly Up On Poppy
<br />Holly up on Poppy<br />Canter never stop<br />She has escaped from the world<br />Where they bake beautiful girls<br />Holly up on Poppy<br />Trotting to the top<br />She talks and banners unfurl<br />Their secrets crayoned in swir...
XTC - Human Alchemy
<br />An alchemy, human alchemy<br />We stole them from their freedom to be sold<br />To turn their skins of black into the skins<br />Of brightest gold<br />An alchemy, human alchemy<br /><br />We stoked the fires of trade with human co...
XTC - Humble Daisy
<br />Humble Daisy<br />Form a chain to hold all battleships in check<br />Humble Daisy<br />Knit a ladder down to nature's sunken wreck<br />Ragged rug unbound<br />Tangle trip the lovers<br />Royal barge aground<br />Brighter than all ...
XTC - I Am The Audience
<br />I am the audience<br />There's no doubt, no consequence<br />I could make the morning papers<br />If I use my capers<br />Let's be the Audience<br />I might lose my patience<br />Polite applause excepted<br />To the ones selected, ...
XTC - I Bought Myself A Liarbird
<br />I bought myself a liarbird<br />He came with free drinks just to blur<br />The lies falling out like rain<br />On an average English summer's afternoon<br /><br />I bought myself a new notebook<br />Sharpened my guitar and went to ...
XTC - I Remember The Sun
<br />Hot as golden sand in fields<br />We whiled away the hours<br />I'm thinking of the days we had<br />Enormous super powers<br />Yes I'm sleeping, my mind's on the blink<br />I thought a page, like it's written in ink<br />When I re...
XTC - I'm Bugged
<br />I'm bugged you all look like insects<br />In your brand new sunspecs<br />I'm bugged I'm bugged<br />I drop a little note through my sympathetics door<br />I think I'm going ga ga I just can't take anymore<br />At first I see 'em s...