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Budgie - You're All Living In Cuckooland lyrics



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01. Justice

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
Don't want to talk with you no more
Don't want to shut that door on you
Only want to stop what's causing this commotion

This ain't a case of pick and choose
It's more about if you win or lose
This is the way, it's not about my emotions

Love, hope, peace, justice

I'm sick and tired of what I see
I've found another way to be
Cos everything I see is blighted, or it's rusted

I'll take a chance and turn away
I'm giving up on you today
Cos if I don't I know I will be busted

Love, hope, peace, justice

02. Dead Men Don't Talk

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
Dead men don't talk.

I can see that you don't give a damn
Your big sneer because of who I am
You've got me down with your master plan
So?

I guess you're scared if I "spill them beans"
You don't know what love means
You're more concerned about designer jeans
So?

Unite tonight and say I'm right
Dead men don't talk
Unite tonight you know I'm right
Dead men don't talk

Tried the water with the tip of my toes
So sad had to blow my nose
Too hot, that's the way it goes
So?

Don't worry about the knock on the door
Can't talk cos I'm on that floor
Ain't going to be a threat no more
So?

Don't care if you crush my thumbs
Or use my head like a kettledrum
You're good ways are going to stay undone
So?

03. We're All Living In Cuckooland

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley
I can see we're tumbling down to earth
As for me I'm falling for all I'm worth
Everything that's wrong isn't right for me
I'm not wrong cos right is the way to be
You know, you know
We're all living in cuckooland!

All the killers celebrate victory
Unbelievers check out your history
And all the helpers dying to help you out
Everybody's drinking us to a drought, no doubt
You know, you know
We're all living in cuckooland!

Words are twisted so you can't understand
The aural menace spreading across this land
Even love is hated for being good
That'll end when people do what they should do
You know, you know
We're all living in cuckooland!

04. Falling

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
I tried to crawl away from it all
All that I did just speeded my fall
Falling, falling

I know the take, write it in haste
Now that the world is up to my face
Falling, falling

All through the day, all through the night
I keep on hoping that I'll win the fight
Falling, falling

Giving it up, I can't give it away
Giving t up, I can't keep it at bay
Giving it up, I can't give it away
Giving it up, I can't keep it at bay

05. Love Is Enough

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley
Love, love, love is enough
All through the storm it will keep you
Love, love, love is enough
Fill up your heart and be free

Love, love, love is the stuff
Better than gold, making you whole
Drink, drink, drink from the cup
Fill up our soul and be real

Close your eyes and think about it
All the light will go without it
Put away your fear about letting go
So you'll find life in the word

Love, love, love is enough
No more in need, no more to bleed
Love, love, love is enough
Make it your life and be free
Lift up your heart and be free

06. Tell Me Tell Me

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
It's a kind of life that was meant to be
All you ask, if you ask, well you asked of me
Can it be that you met someone who smiles
When you say that you wanted to delete my files

Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What's wrong with you?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What can I do?

Well, I know if you're feeling hot or you're feeling cool
If you ask me to try, will I be your fool
Give it up if you care, it can change your mind
If you feel that your goal has to be refined

Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What's wrong with you?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What can I do?

State of the art, state of your mind
State what you need, State your kind
If I try, if I try to receive the wave
At this time of life nothing can be saved

Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What's wrong with you?
Tell me, tell me, tell me
Tell me, tell me, What can I do?

07. (Don't Want To) Find That Girl

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
She likes to party with the high class
Yeah, to make a big noise
It's said she's always perfumed
Yeah, to please the naughty boys
Do you wanna be her, yeah, to get, get, get your way
Do you, do you, oh yeah to fill a dizzy day
One for the Gucci shoes in a row
Stepped on a pile of knives, kept for show

D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)
D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)
D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)

You've got your book with all your numbers
Yeah, to make a rendezvous
Your little Peep toe matches living in a human zoo
Do you wanna be her? Yeah, she's selling her soul
Hah, do you, do you? Yeah, goodtime for 'mark it down'
One in the money, two to the show
Go get the bling now walk out go

D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)
D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)
D'ya wanna find that girl? (Don't wanna find that girl)

Cats eyes, cats eyes, cats eyes every time I look at you
That's why, that's why, that's why. I'll never be attracted to you
Make up, make up, make up, what kind of thing do you mean?
Wake up, wake up, wake up, you just wanna be seen on the scene.

Well yeah, you ordered your aromas you got secret stones
You call the paparazzi (yes) to get your picture shown
Do you really want her? Do you wanna be that girl?
Do you, do you, yeah, you'll only get yourself burned
It's one for the Gucci shoes in a row,
Make for the Cadillac, Quid pro quo.

08. Captain

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley
Captain, captain, won't you take me round the world with you
Captain, captain, on the love boat I will be the crew
Oh and I'll be with you

I can scent the filthy seas, sulphur in the morning breeze
How are we to find our way? Without your guiding hand I'll stray
Round the mountains made of tyres, bridges stacked like Eiffel towers
Somehow you will navigate, through the maze and out the gate. Away

Health and safety pirates hide, like rag worm just above the tide
for unsuspecting men like me, to nip and trip me as I flee.
Voices call from swollen lungs, to other threats in other tongues
Aliens from other worlds will meet us to exchange a word or two

Captain, captain, won't you take me round the world with you
Captain, captain, on the love boat I will be the crew
Oh and I'll be with you

Somewhere is a far off land, with crystal water, golden sand
And all the trees are full of fruit, light years from the grimy soot
'till you say the final word, at the end of all known worlds
you take my hand and comfort me, now we cross the endless sea
Forever, ever

Life is like an endless sea, I'll make it if I know you're with me
We can take the highest wave with you I am safe

Captain, captain, won't you take me round the world with you
Captain, captain, on the love boat I will be the crew
Oh and I'll be with you

09. I Don't Want to Throw You

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
I don't know why I make your sparks fly
And bring you down and I steal away all your tears (yes I do)
Are we messed up like oil and water
Or I'm an octane and maybe you're the fire

Don't want to throw you but this thing is going nowhere
Don't want to throw you but this thing is up in the air

It's like eating a razor sandwich when
Under your tree while in a lightning storm (yes it is)
If my music is dead to your ears
And your friends hate it but I can't change my form, oh no

Don't want to throw you but this thing is going nowhere
Don't want to throw you but this thing is up in the air

You're so pushy and I won't take that
And did you notice I'm moving on my way. Yes.

10. I'm Compressing The Comb On A Cockerel's Head

Music & lyrics by Burke Shelley, Simon Lees
Oh I been on my knees I can't say my prayer
I've been up a mountain, falling down the stairs
I can't fix my bones, got to put it right
What you gonna do boy, if you've got to fight
Yes it's our chance, wanna bit more dance
Get down on my knees now or I'll go to seize
I can't move my toes I can tie the knot.
Yes I'm gonna lose, oh my legs are shot.

I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head
I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head

Yeah, think I've got the cure, think I found it out
Baby it's a joke, won't you scream and shout.

I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head

Got to mend my bones, got to run a race
Got to play my songs, got to lift the bass
Got to shake my head, got to move my feet
Got to wake the dead, girding up the beat yes

I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head
I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head

Seizing up my hip, think I'm gonna die
Got to bite my lip cos I'm running out of time
Heard about the same state, got to make it pose
That is not the way that I can hear you grow

I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head
I'm compressing the comb on a cockerel's head

My heart ain't broken my bones are broken
My heart ain't broken my bones are broken
My heart ain't broke my bones are broke
My heart ain't broken my bones are broken