Original Issue Date: November 1979
CD Issue Date: July 1985
CD Track Listing:
Love Song
Machine Gun Etiquette
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
Melody Lee
Anti-Pope
These Hands
Plan 9 Channel 7
Noise Noise Noise
Looking at You
Liar
Smash It Up (Part 1)
Smash It Up (Part 2)
Ballroom Blitz
Suicide
Rabid (Over You)
White Rabbit (extended version)
Lineup:
Dave Vanian (Vocals)
Rat Scabies (Drums)
Captain Sensible (Guitar)
Algy Ward (Bass)
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LOVE SONG
[2:21]
Ladies and gentlemen...how do.
Hey man, what's happening?
I'll be the ticket if you're my collector
I'll dodge the fare if you're my inspector
I'll be the luggage you'll be the porter
I'll be the parcel if you'll be my sorter
Just for you here's a love song
Just for you here's a love song
And it makes me glad to say
It's been a lovely day
And it's okay
I'll be the mail if you'll be the guard
I'll be the ink on your season ticket card
I'll be the rubbish you'll be the bin
I'll be the paint on the sign if you'll be the tin
Just for you here's a love song
Just for you here's a love song
And it makes me glad to say
It's been a lovely day
And it's okay
Just for you here's a love song
Just for you here's a love song
And it makes me glad to say
It's been a lovely day
And it's okay
It's okay
MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE
[1:48]
I remember what you said
[second time around]
Don't you wish that we were dead
[second time around]
No more getting pushed around
[second time around]
Not that we've gone underground
[second time around]
Now its time for you to see
[second time around]
What the Love Song did for me
[second time around]
Really famous stinking rich
[second time around]
Straight up there without a hitch
[second time around]
Now I remember what you said
[second time around]
Don't you wish that we were dead
[second time around]
No more getting pushed around
[second time around]
Back to haunt you with our sound
[second time around]
I JUST CAN'T BE HAPPY TODAY
[3:42]
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
A lot of you know there's not a smile
There's no feeling fine without being fined
There's a price on your head
No fun is had when justice is read
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
They're closing the schools
They're burning the books
The church is in ruins
The priests hang on hooks
The radios on ice
The telly's been banned
The army's in power
The devil commands
Illegal to dance, forbidden to cry
You do what you're told, you never ask why
Ignore all those fools
They don't understand we make our own rules
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy
Just Can't Be Happy
Just Can't Be Happy Today
I Just Can't Be Happy
Just Can't Be Happy
Just Can't Be Happy Today
MELODY LEE
[2:07]
Melody Lee, a broken mind and a broken dream
It must have been a change of heart
Your life was cruel they called it art
Melody Lee, you need a nuke to set you free
You know you can't cheat tomorrow
If you hide any sorrow
Melody Lee, you gotta find your secret enemy
You're on the run with nowhere to go
If you die want someone to know
Forget your heart, you need not stay
A second longer than today
Melody Lee, a broken mind and a broken dream
It must have been a change of heart
Your life was cruel they called it art
ANTI-POPE
[3:21]
I'm going back to church tonight
Just like back when I was eight
But I don't mean to pray
I'm gonna nick the collection plate
I've got nothing against church
Or the people who go there and show there
Plain ignorant and don't understand
At congregation at weekends will
Change their behavior
So many people are weak enough
To have to seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope
There's gonna be some fun tonight
Spread the news around the town
The vicar's a transvestite
With a fetish for alter gowns
I've got nothing against church
Or the people who go there and show there
Plain ignorant and don't understand
At congregation at weekends will
Change their behavior
So many people are weak enough
To have to seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope
Religion doesn't mean a thing
It's just another way of being right wing
I think sex films are okay
I don't dig that poko way
I've got nothing against church
Or the people who go there and show there
Plain ignorant and don't understand
At congregation at weekends will
Change their behavior
So many people are weak enough
To have to seek answers from pedlars of hope
I should know I used to go there myself
That's the day I became antipope
THESE HANDS
[2:03]
These are the hands of a demented circus clown
Outside I'm laughing
But inside I'm really wearing a frown
I see you laugh at me
But baby in my dreams
It's quite a different scene
Chasing you through the night
With my hands around your neck
Funny how everything seems in technicolor yet
I find I'm laughing at you
And you are turning blue
Stop laughing
PLAN 9 CHANNEL 7
[5:08]
She plays her mouth into a smile
And offers that he stay a while
Two hearts that beat as one
And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun
Hollywood babbles on, babbles on
She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave
His flame gone along with the love he never gave
Not to be seduced by those red lips
Two dimensional comic clips
Hollywood babbles on
on and on and on and on and...
Channel 7 with shades of gray
Too close but two worlds away
Plan 9 her domain
Too close but two worlds away
They say
Step into the night
She plays her mouth into a smile
And offers that he stay a while
Two hearts that beat as one
And eyes that hardly ever saw the sun
Hollywood babbles on, babbles on
She lays a wreath of lilies on his grave
His flame gone along with the love he never gave
Not to be seduced by those red lips
Two dimensional comic clips
Hollywood babbles on
on and on and on and on and...
Channel 7 with shades of gray
Too close but two worlds away
Plan 9 her domain
Too close but two worlds away
Step into the night
NOISE NOISE NOISE
[3:10]
It's 7am on a brand new day
I'm gonna start it in the perfect way
Put the greatest record on
I kick the dog and kick the cat
Insult my mum insult my dad
Scream out loud and sing along
We say noise is for heroes [heroes]
Leave the music for zeroes [zeroes]
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes [heroes]
Oh yeah
I'm down the pub the time is one
Hit the jukebox for my favorite song
Gonna turn it up too loud
Have a couple of games of pool
Argue with a drunken fool
Have a beer with the usual crowd
We say noise is for heroes [heroes]
Leave the music for zeroes [zeroes]
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes [heroes]
Oh yeah
It's noise that makes the world go round
I can't survive without that sound
The sound torments me
It's 8 o'clock down the church hall
Enormous amplifiers six feet tall
Gonna turn them up full blast
The vicar waves his arms and looks absurd
The noise drowns out his godly words
And he can't get out too fast
We say noise is for heroes [heroes]
Leave the music for zeroes [zeroes]
Noise Noise Noise is for heroes [heroes]
Oh yeah
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
Noise Noise Noise
LOOKING AT YOU
[5:06]
When it happened
Something snapped inside me
Made me wanna hide
All alone on my own, all alone on my own
I stood up on the stand my eyes shut tight
Didn't wanna see anybody
Feeling alright, having a good time
Hey
Doing alright, doing alright
Doing alright, doing alright
I saw into the dancing crowd
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair
Opened up my eyes baby
You made me realize all I wanna do now
All I wanna do now babe is look at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
Yeah yeah
I saw into the dancing crowd
Felt like screaming out loud
I saw you standing there
Saw your long, your long hair
Opened up my eyes baby
You made me realize all I wanna do now
All I wanna do now babe is look at you
Looking at you babe, looking at you
Looking at you, looking at you baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
You baby
Yeah yeah
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LIAR
[2:44]
There's not a word of truth in anything that I say
I don't really want to listen till they go away
I haven't finished and I never try
If you ask for reasons I just lie
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I tell you how I feel and why it is
And what you are if you don't start to give
I love spending hours watching television
I stole my best lines from Anna Ford and decrepit politicians
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I smoked your last cigarette I say that someone else did
I send your mum to the bed to find if your sisters frigid
You ask me why, I just lie
I'm a liar, liar
I'm gonna be the biggest liar in the world
I'll be so good you'll believe every word
I could even make you believe Adolf Hitler
Send him to Russia for the winter
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
I'm a liar, liar, I never tell the truth
SMASH IT UP (PART 1)
[1:59]
Instrumental
SMASH IT UP (PART 2)
[2:53]
We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout till my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up till there's nothing left
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
People call me villain oh its such a shame
Maybe it's my clothes must be to blame
I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up
Smash it up, you can keep your krishna burgers
Smash it up, and your Glastonbury hippies
Smash it up, you can stick your frothy lager
Smash it up, and your blow wave hairstyles
We've been crying now for much too long
And now we're gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout till my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up till there's nothing left
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
Oooh ooh smash it up, smash it up, smash it up
And everybody's smashing things now
I said everybody's smashing things now yeah
BALLROOM BLITZ
[3:30]
It's been getting so hard
Living with the things you do to me
My life is getting so strange
I'd like to tell you everything I see
I see a man at the back as a matter of fact
And his eyes are as red as the sun
And the girl in the corner let no one ignore her
She thinks she's the passionate one
It was like lightning
Everybody was fighting
And the band started grooving
Everybody started grooving
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah-Yeah-Yeah
And the man in the back said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner everybody's boiler
It'll turn into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz, ballroom blitz
It's been getting so strange
Living with the things you do to me
I softly call you over
You appear there's nothing left to do
I see a man at the back as a matter of fact
As he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is everyone's boiler
She could kill you with a wink of her eye
Oh Yeah! It was electric
So prefectly hectic
And the band started leaving
And everybody started breathing
And the man in the back said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner is everybody's boiler
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
Oh Yeah! It was like lightning
Everybody was fighting
And the band started leaving
And everybody started breathing
And the man in the back said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner is everybody's boiler
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
Ballroom blitz
It's it's ballroom blitz
It's it's ballroom blitz
It's it's ballroom blitz
SUICIDE
[3:14]
There's too much confusion for a young man to take
Look at my eyes that ain't easy to fake
I've got no spirit left to break
I'll slash my wrists ain't no mistake
Help me
Oh help me
Help me
Oh help me
Suicide, suicide, it's happening again
Suicide, suicide, I'm losing my brain
Suicide, suicide, what can I do
I'm gonna kill myself because of you
I've lost track of logical thinking
I'm sitting in a room not even blinking
Into the darkness I am sinking
About to hear the angels singing
Help me
Oh help me
Help me
Oh help me
Suicide, suicide, it's happening again
Suicide, suicide, I'm losing my brain
Suicide, suicide, what can I do
I'm gonna kill myself because of you
My mind's going round faster and faster
The scripts been read and there's no disaster
I was in with a chance but I'm a bastard
I'm lying awake in a hospital plaster
Help me
Oh help me
Help me
Oh help me
Suicide, suicide, it's happening again
Suicide, suicide, I'm losing my brain
Suicide, suicide, what can I do
I'm gonna kill myself because of you
RABID (OVER YOU)
[3:41]
I read about a bug eyed monster
Taking London at a storm
I heard about a blue eyed heroine
Screaming out for help
I held my breath as tentacles
Came through the cabin door
And slimy forces slipped across
A trail of sticky gore
I was just a hero of the human race
But monsters keep on trying
To take control of space
I heard about a great new movie
That took the world by storm
People said the effects were groovy
The plot was much the norm
The goddess was whiter than white
The villains mostly dark
The hero was enlightened by light
Dogs began to bark
I was just a hero of the human race
But monsters keep on trying
To take control of space
You treat me like a dog
Give me a bone to chew
Frothing at the mouth
Frothing all over you
Yeah I've bitten over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
Your daddy's got a gun
He's gonna put me down
Compliments of public health
Quarantineage town
I've been bitten over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
I'm kind of rabid over you
Rabid
Rabid
Rabid
I can't stand the rain...rabid
Water on the brain...rabid
I'm kind of rabid over you
I just gotta hide...rabid
Oh I wanna bite...rabid
I'm kind of rabid over you
I can't stand the rain...rabid
Water on the brain...rabid
I'm kind of rabid over you
We just gotta hide...rabid
I wanna bite...rabid
I'm kind of rabid over you
WHITE RABBIT (EXTENDED)
[5:13]
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
But the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small
One man on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen softly dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head, feed your head
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