1. HIGH RISE

Flat block
Of two dimensions
Neon tote board to the sky
Keeping scores of people
Stacked up so high

Above the ground
Where all they can hear is the sound
Of the wind in the antennae
It's a human zoo
A suicide machine

They're just like you
They're just like you might have been
They're just like you
Might have been
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine

Childhood
Of concrete cube shaped
Flypaper stuck with human lives
Caged up rages
Swarming hornet hives

Tear out the telephones
Rip out the pages of directories
And wreck all these
High speed lifts and elevators
Be a sabotage rebel without applause

High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise
Stacked up in a high rise block

High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise
Stacked up in a high rise block

Starfish
Of human blood shape
Tentacles of human gore
Spread out on the pavement
From the 99th floor

Somebody said he jumped
But we know he was pushed
He was just like you
Might have been
On the 99th floor of a suicide machine

High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block

High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise (Living in a high rise)
High rise
All stacked up in a high rise block


2. BRITISH TRIBAL MUSIC

(Instrumental)


3. SPIRIT OF THE AGE

I would have like you
To have been
Deep frozen too
And waiting still
As fresh in your flesh
For my return to earth
But your father refused
To sign the forms
To freeze you
Let's see
You'd bee
About sixty now
And long dead
By the the time i return
To earth
My time held dreams
Were full of you
As you were
When i left:
Still under-age

Your android replica
Is playing up again
It's no joke
When she comes
She moans
Another's name

That's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
It's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
And that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
That is the spirit of the age

I am a clone
I am not alone
Every fibre of my flesh
And bone
Is identical to ther others'
Everything i say
Is in the same tone
As my test-tube brothers'
Voice.
There is no choice
Between us
If you had ever seen us
You'd rejoice
In your uniqueness
And consider every weakness
Something special
Of your own
Being a clone
I have no flaws to identify
Even this doggerel
That pours from my pen
Has just been written by
Another twenty
Telepathic men
It says:
O for the wings
Of any bird
Other than a battery hen.

But that's the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
That's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
It's just the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
Adjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)
Unjust the spirit of the age
(spirit of the age)


4. URBAN GUERILLA

I'm an urban guerrilla
I make bombs in my cellar
I'm a derelict dweller
I'm a potential killer
I'm a street fighting dancer
I'm a revolutionary romancer
My rising sign is Cancer
I'm a two-tone panther

So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all of our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road

I'm a political bandit
And you don't understand it
You took my dream and canned it
It is not the way I planned it
I'm society's destructor
I'm a petrol bomb constructor
I'm a cosmic light conductor
I'm the people's debt collector

So watch out Mr. Business Man
Your empire's about to blow
I think you'd better listen, man
In case you did not know


5. BORN TO GO

We were born to go,
We're never turning back
We were born to go,
and leave a burning track
We were born to go,
and leave no star unturned
We were born to grow,
We were born to learn

We're breaking out of the shell,
We're breaking free
We're hatching our dreams into reality

We were born to blaze,
a new clear way through space
A way out of the maze,
that held the human race
We were born to go,
as far as we can fly
We were born to go,
to blow the human mind

We're breaking out of the shell,
We're breaking free
We're hatching our dreams into reality


6. SPACE IS DEEP

Space is dark, it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
It is so big, it is so small
Why does man try to act so tall?

Is this the reason deep in our minds?

It does not feel, it does not die
Space is neither truth nor lies
Into the void we have to travel
To find a clue which will unravel

Is this the reason deep in our minds?

The secret lies with our tomorrow
In each of us is a hidden sorrow
Path goes onwards through the night
Beyond the realms of ancient light

Is this the reason deep in our minds?


7. YOU SHOULDN'T DO THAT

You shouldn't do that, should do that
You try so hard to get somewhere,
They put you down, and cut your hair,
They're saying you're no good, they just don't care,
You're trying to fly, you get nowhere,
You get no air, you're getting aware.
You shouldn't do that, should do that.
You want so hard to get somewhere,
With trees and flowers growing there,
If you can't make it you're going spare,
You're trying to fly, you get nowhere,
You get no air, you're getting aware.


8. SILVER MACHINE

I just took a ride
in a silver machine
and I'm still feeling mean
I got a silver machine
Do you want to ride
see yourself going by
other side of the sky
Well I got a silver machine
It flies sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your Zodiac sign
It flies out of a dream
It's anti-septically clean
You're gonna know where I've been
In my silver machine