1. KERB CRAWLER

Single mesh gearbox
Overhead cam
Mohair motorised wolf
L-l-l-l-looking for lambs
Power-assisted steering
8-track stereo
Leopard skin upholstery
FM radio

Kerb crawler
White side walls with grooves
Kerb crawler
So fast he hardly moves
Kerb crawler
He really approves of
Your high heels clicking
Like a pair of cloven hooves

Excuse me lady
Are you looking for a lift?
I ain't going nowhere special
I'm just out on the drift
I'll take you anywhere you want
Drop you outside your door
I might drive us down the Autobahn
With my foot right to the floor

Fandago insect in the skyscraper shade
He's a night-city mantis
In the neon parade
Come on, come on


2. BACK ON THE STREETS

I took a ride in an elevator, I was
heading for the 99th floor
In less than just a split-second later, I was
standing right outside of her door
She looked kinda mean on her video screen
And she said "Come in and please take a seat"

That's when I was
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again

A businessman had said sign his contract to
make you a supernova exploding star
The galaxies will shake with your impact
Your way, everything ?? ??? bizzare
Just sign on this line
And drink up your wine
The Universe is in for a treat

That's when I'm
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets
Back on the Streets Again

Feel the concrete under my feet
I'm freer than a cheetah, man
Back on the Streets Again


3. QUARK, STRANGENESS AND CHARM

Einstein was not a handsome fellow
Nobody ever called him al
He had a long moustache to pull on
It was yellow
I don't believe he ever had a girl
One thing he missed out in his theory
Of time and space and relativity
Is something that makes it very clear he
Was never gonna score like you and me
He didn't know about

Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark ssenegnarts and charm

I had a dangerous liason
To be found out would have been a disgrace
We had to rendezvous some days on
The corner of an undiscovered place
We got sick of chat chat chatter
And the look upon everybody's face
But all that does not not anti-matter
Now we found ourselves a black hole in space
And we're talking about

Quark strangeness and charm
Quark strangeness and charm
Quark enessgnarts and charm
Quark strangeness and charm

Here it comes it goes quark quark
Quark now.


4. 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)


5. STEPPENWOLF

You can see my eyes are lupine
The liquid golden fires glare
My loping walk, my slinking spine
Are signs that there is something there
The way my nostrils flare for odours
The way my ears prick up for sound
My hair's electrically aware
Tells me things for miles around
I am a man-wolf, I am a wolf man
I have half a canine mind
I have half the mind of man
I am neither of one kind
Maybe it was only an hallucination
I'm no stranger to such things
I made a thorough investigation
The image had a power that clings
To my jaded imagination
My brain has found the bells it rings

Like a wolf my wilful loafing
My languishing alone in my lair
Where you will never hear me laughing
I'm half in love with dark and despair
The Moon's a howling, mouth of mercury
Quicksilver quivering in the sky
It echoes like a cave of chromium
That'll vacuum up my soul when I die
I am a wolf man, I am a man-wolf

A freak, a fiend, a figment of mind
A species of the steppes and city

I am neither of one kind
Dissolving in the slendour of this desolation
The forest has been filled by a fog
Exactly a description of my isolation
I made a note of it in my log
To the secret of all creation
I follow my own trail like a dog

I am a wolf man who walks alone in the gas lamp
Shadows of the streets at night
I am a man-wolf upright on two feet in the
city dressed somberly as a man
I am a wolf man under skies heavy with snow
My eyes are convex lenses of ebony embedded
in amber
I am a man-wolf
The fat bourgeois and his dopple ganger
are buried in their solid glare
Twin specimens of insect set for display
I am a man-wolf, the man in me would kill the wolf
I am a wolf man, the wolf in me would eat the man
I am a wolf man, who despises the
striving of common men
Who sees them at work, at their daily tasks
at factories and office desk
Who watches them at evening,
elbows lift at tavern tables,
heads lolling in song
Ich weiss nicht wat ik zagen zollen

I saw a neon sign reflected in a pool of liquid sky
It was not what I expected I was only walking by
The sign said "to the magic theatre"
It is not for everyone
It is but for madmen only, the
first performance has begun
I looked up to see that notice
where the lights were shining from
Nothing but blank wall was there
and their reflection too was gone
Maybe it was only an hallucination
I'm no stranger to such things
I made a thorough investigation
The image had a power that clings
To my jaded imagination
My brain has found the bell it rings


6. 25 YEARS ON

I started out one day
And I worked in a factory
My mind went blank,
I needed a battery
Didn't do me no good
I got the sack,
My work was slack

They said there's life up there in the galaxy
The world's in collision
There's people with an allergy
25 years of,
25 years of,
25 years of social research

Spent 25 years doesn't matter anymore

I stand around the streets
And lie around the floor
Looking at the sky
I watch the world go by...

25 years,
25 years


7. PSI POWER

When I was a kid in school
They showed me symbols on a card
Then they sent them from a locked and bolted room
I had to fake that it was hard
Circle, square, triangle, waves
I got them crystal clear by the hour
And all I said was "may I please take a rest?"
I didn't want them to know I was possessed

With Psi Power
Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

When I was a teenage kid
and I hung around the streets
I could see inside the mind
of any girl that I wanted to meet
Wave, triangle, circle, square
They opened to me like a flower
Would you like to have your mind caressed?
Can't you feel that I'm possessed

With Psi Power
Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

Psi Power
Psi Power
Psi Power
I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep

It's like a radio you can't switch off
There's no way to get peace of mind
I'd like to live inside a lead-lined room
And leave all this Psi Power behind

Circle, square, triangle, waves
It's a gift that soon turns sour
Why don't they let me get some rest?
It's too much to understand and to digest

Psi Power
Psi Power
Psi Power

I can read your mind like a magazine
I see where you're at
I know what you mean
I get all the secrets that you'd rather keep


8. THE ONLY ONES

Icarus flew too near the sun
Into the blue his red wax did run
He fell to the earth and sealed the scroll
The daredevil angels our luck would unfold

They are the only ones
The chosen only ones
They are the only ones who are free

Half-human half-bird ascending so high
No whisper is heard from deep in the sky
On wings they climb, they beat and they soar
Through space and time toward heaven's door

In chariots of fury and flame
We head for above to stake out our claim
With radioscopes, electronic eyes
We scan for our hopes in different skies


9. 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


10. UNCLE SAM'S ON MARS

Shoals of dead fish float on the lakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars
And science is making the same mistakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars
No one down here knows how to work the brakes,
but Uncle Sam's on Mars

Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on
Mars, he's on Mars

Layers of smoke in the atmosphere have made the earth
too hot to bear
The Earth might be a desert soon, America has left
the Moon

Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on Mars, Uncle Sam's on
Mars, he's on Mars

He's digging for dreams in the red sand
He's got his bucket and spade in his left hand
He's digging for dreams
He's looking for life

What's he doing out there?
He's looking for life
Looking for life
There may be life out there

(Nixon to Armstrong - July 21st 1969:)
I'm talking to you by telephone from the
Oval Room in the White House.
And this certainly must be the most exciting telephone
call ever made here on Earth. I just can't tell
you how proud we all are. For every American this
has to be the proudest day of their lives. And
for people all over the world, I'm sure they too
join with us in recognising what a tremendous
achievement this is. For one priceless moment
in the whole history of Man......

MacDonalds Hamburger
Construction works
And he's looking for life
Looking for life to wind up
He's looking for life to stamp out
He's looking for life to grind out
He's looking for life, so mind out

I hope you brought your credit card with
you, and I hope you know how to
drive on these long, lonely freeways and
intersections we've got up
here. We've got two cars in the garage,
two cars in the garage, and
drum-majorettes in white ankle socks and
baton twirling on Sundays.
We've got stripes and the stars and Uncle
Sam's on, Uncle Sam's on, Uncle
Sam's on, Mars....