1. DEAR MISS LONELY HEARTS

Dear Miss Lonely Hearts, I had to write this letter
To tell you how I came to meet her
She was sweet but I dated her sister
That's how I made my mistake and I can't forget her

I felt depressed till a friend of mine suggested
That I write to this address
So unless you can find a cure for my loneliness
It will persist, it will persist

Lonely boy looking for another
Lonely girl to love one another
Lonely hearts turn to each other
Lonely souls, lonely souls

Dear Lonely Boy, I doubt if my reply will bring much joy
It seems from your letter that you lied
Or strongly implied that you were satisfied
To take her sister by your side

I became distressed at your total lack of tactfulness
So at best all I can suggest
Is that you resist and you put an end
To such thoughts of silliness

Lonely boy looking for another
Lonely girl to love one another
Lonely hearts turn to each other
Lonely souls

Dear Miss Lonely Hearts, I've got problems
You're the only one I know that can solve them
I love a girl but I'm dating her sister
And if I persist in my pursuit I will kiss her

Dear Lonely Girl, I doubt if this reply will bring much joy
But you must not trust this boy
You must not lust this boy
Resist and do not kiss this boy

Lonely boy looking for another
Lonely girl to love one another
Lonely hearts turn to each other
Lonely souls, like an lonely souls

Lonely boy, I'm writing
Lonely girl looking for a lonely girl
Lonely hearts, I'm lonely
Lonely souls

Lonely boy
Lonely girl
Lonely hearts
Lonely souls

Lonely boy
Lonely girl
Lonely hearts
Lonely souls

Lonely boy
Lonely girl
Lonely hearts
Lonely souls

Lonely boy
Lonely girl
Lonely hearts
Lonely souls


2. KING’S CALL

It was a rainy night
The night the king went down
Everybody was crying it seemed
Like sadness had surrounded the town

Me, I went to the liquor store
And I bought a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin
I played his records all night
Drinking with a close, close friend

Now some people say that that ain't right
And some people say nothing at all
But even in the darkest of night
You can always hear the king's call
You can always hear the king's call

Well, they put him away in Memphis
Six feet beneath the clay
Everybody was crying
Everybody said it was a plain gray day

Me I went to the liquor store
And I bought another bottle of wine and another bottle of gin
I played his records all night
And I got drunk all over again

Now some people say that that ain't right
And some people say nothing at all
But even in the darkest of night
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call

I wonder if you're lonesome tonight
And I'd rather go on hearing your lies
Than to go on living without you

Now some people say that that ain't right
And some people say nothing at all
But even in the darkest of night
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call

(Now the stage is bare and I'm standing here)
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call
(They might as well bring the curtain down)
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call

(I cried the night the king died)
You could always hear the king's call
You could always hear the king's call
(You could always hear the king's call)
You could always hear the king's call


3. A CHILD’S LULLABY

Close your eyes, my sleepy child
Don't let a teardrop fall
There is no need to cry child
There is no need at all

Dry your eyes and sleep now
Let your sweet dreams flow
And when you rise know that I'll be near
Because I love you so

Don't be sad, my baby girl
Don't be bad or blue
Please don't be sad, my baby girl
Your daddy is here with you

Dry your eyes, don't weep now
Don't let a teardrop fall
Close your eyes and sleep now
God, protect us all

And God is the greatest thing
That only the fools do not know
To love God is the greatest thing
But I'm a fool and I love you so
God knows that I love you

Sleep tight, my sweet child
Don't let a teardrop flow
Goodnight, my sleepy child
There is no need for sorrow

So dry your eyes and sleep now
Let your sweet dreams flow
And when you rise know that I'll be near
Because I love you so

God knows that I love you
Sleep tight, my sweet child
Goodnight, my sweet child


4. TATTOO (GIVING IT ALL UP FOR LOVE)

She comes home at 5:30
And though her clothes are never dirty
She'll change them just the same
She likes to keep her name

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

She's got a tattoo on her tummy
And her mummy plays Gin Rummy
Hey, you might think it's funny
But she's making all the money

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up, giving it up)

She keeps a silver armadillo
Well, hidden beneath her pillow
Now some think it's a cupie doll
But they've got such crazy minds

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

Oh, she has a unique technique
For making me obsolete, complete
She needs a beat, she needs it sweet
She needs it neat

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)
She's giving it all up for love
(Tattoo giving it up, giving it up)

She's giving it all up for love
(Up for love, up for love)


5. SOLO IN SOHO

Stop this lying, stop this cheating
Stop treating me like I am some kind of fool
Over whose eyes you can pull the wool, you're not so cool
Remember it's to me you are speaking

Stop cutting, stop hurting
Stop this dirt about you lifting up your skirt
To any man dressed in pants
With shirt buttons undone and flirting

When you're so low down in Soho
There is no hope, no how
No place to go
You will go along

Some people say I'm a crazy kind of fool
But be that as it may
You always treat me cruel
Solo in Soho

Stop talking, stop eating
We can't go on meeting and greeting
And meeting and sleeping and meeting and cheating
You know that's deceiting and that's only repeating

When you're so low down in Soho
There is no hope, no how
You've got nowhere to go
But you go along

Some people say I'm a crazy kind of fool
But be that as it may
You always treat me cruel
Solo in Soho

Solo in Soho

When you are so low in Soho
There is no hope, no how, no how
You've got nowhere to go
But you go along

Some people say I'm a crazy kind of fool
But be that as it may
Always treat me cruel
Solo in Soho


6. GIRLS

Oh, won't you send a letter home?
To say I'm living on my own, girls
I need someone to love
I need someone, girls

It's true
I've been telling you all these lies
And I can't understand it
Why I've been telling thee all these lies?

If you know it's a fact
Then you know I want you back, girls
I need someone it's true, I need you, girls
It's true for me there's you, girls
Got class, I need her fast, girls

She's been telling me all these lies
And I can't understand it
She's been telling me all these lies
That girl don't love me no more, oh girl

I had to write this letter
To tell you how I came to meet him
He was sweet and I loved him
Now each time we meet
I can't seem to forget him

I feel so depressed
Lost love of romeo
Casanova has finally lost out on love
I'm jealous of his past

Oh, won't you send a letter home
To say I'm living on my own, girls?
I need someone to love
I need someone, girls

With class, that's fast
Don't move slow, girls
Oh no, not alone, oh no, girls
For me

I've been telling you all these lies
And I can't understand it
I've been telling you all these lies
I must have been crazy, girl, oh girl

My dream any sadness, sorrow or gloom
Your laugh that fills the air
With the scent of the sweetest perfume
You feel so good, you just don't care

I lay awake night crying
Because my dream may not come true
You see I love you
Please this is my one and only dream

Girls, girls
Who's fast, she's got class, she loves last
Girls, she's not slow, she won't go
She won't leave you, alone
Girls, don't leave me alone


7. YELLOW PEARL

We all must beware of the yellow pearl
The Yellow Pearl control
Attack, attack, attack, attack
Yellow Pearl

It is foolish to venture into strange enchanted places
If they aren't the places you want to be

Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack
We will arise, we will control
We will command, we will patrol

It is foolish under the guise of love and liberty
That we should capitalize and rob
And fell the poor for the socialistic tree

We will arise, we will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack, that's what you lack

We shall arise, they will arise
We shall control, they will control
We shall command, they will command
We shall patrol, they will patrol

We must fight back, we will arise
They will arise, we will control

We are now living in a situation
Where that self same situation depends on the Yellow Pearl
We will arise, we will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack

We will arise, we will control
We will command, we will patrol
Arise, Yellow Pearl's upon us now
We must fight back

We will arise, we will control
Attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack, attack
Is what we lack, is what we lack

Don't trust in Liberty to save your soul
It is genocide to let liberty lose control
We must decide


8. ODE TO A BLACK MAN

If you see Stevie Wonder, tell him I hear
If you hear little Stevie Wonder, tell him I see
I don't want no songs for plants, I want songs for me
I don't want no songs for plants, I want liberty
I'm livin' in the city

If you see the doctor, tell him he's king
(Dr. Martin Luther)
If you see the doctor, tell him he's still king
(You too, Muhammed Ali)

But this bad black boy
Won't be blown away by anything
Yes, this bad black boy
Won't be blown away by anything

There are people in this town that try to put me down
They say, "I don't give a damn"
([Incomprehensible])
But the people in this town that try to put me down
Are the people in the town
That could never understand a black man

Don't take it no more
Don't take it no more
Don't take it no more

There are people in this town that try to put me down
They say, "I don't give a damn, damn"
But the people in this town that try to put me down
Are the people in the town
That could never understand a black man

Don't take it no more

If you see Robert Johnson, tell him I hear
(You too Robert Marley, Robert Mugabe)
If you see Malcom, tell him I'm next, vexed
If you see Jimi, Jimi Hendrix

If you see my brothers, tell them it's clear
I've been living on the wrong side, but now I hear
I've been living on the wrong side, but now I hear

Don't take it no more
Don't take it no more

Mr. Joshua Nkomo
He don't take it no more
Jomo Kenyatta, oh no
He don't take it no more
Haile Selassi, Rastafarian
Don't take it no more
Professor Longhair
Don't take it no more


9. JAMAICAN RUM

The woman she like to Rumba
The woman she like Calypso
The steel drums drive her crazy
And she can't seem to say no
She just can't seem to resist them, no

She's been drinking Jamaican rum
Dancing to the steel drums
From the Caribbean
Drinking Jamaican rum

It's that West Indian rhythm
It was wild, it was wild
The night she came home drunk
She kicked in the door
"And said lover you know what I want
Lover, give me what I want"

She's been drinking Jamaican rum
And she's living with a black man
He's from the Caribbean
Drinking Jamaican rum

She's been drinking Jamaican rum
Dancing to the steel drums
From the Caribbean
Drinking Jamaican rum

Rum and cola, it's very popular
And it's twice as nice with ice


10. TALK IN ‘79

The clash were headed for a head on collision
Crash for complete control
The pistols left behind a swindle and a scandal
That nobody wished to handle
Sham 69 were left in a shambles, Generation X was next

Elvis and Nick Lowe, they had a go
With the help of the attractions
And Joe Jackson said it wasn't his style
Dave Edmund survived alive on top of a rock pile

Devo didn't know if they were men
Because they couldn't get no satisfaction
The rats were caught in their own trap
Steve Strange began to change

Ultravox had a system
Kraftwerk nearly beat them
And the yellow magic orchestra missed them
Eno rose for Lowe

The slits became rasta
And the buzz cocks played faster and faster with adrenalin
John Cooper Clarke he was smart
The public image became limited
The police were re released and came out as a three piece

The 'Rocky Horror Show' became the history of tomorrow
Nina Hagen, she was a German maiden
And the music press revealed their anger
When threatened by the stranglers

This broadcast was brought to you in 1979
I'm just talking to you over these waves
Not just about another time and another place
And before we knew it
The old wave was gone and controlled