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Alternate Lyrics Songbook
Posted by Con Coleman on 9 February 2011 - 1:14pm.
Shameless I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue rip-off that we've probably done before, but here goes anyway.
You think you've lost your love
Well I saw her yesterday
...and she still hates your guts
I feel it in my fingers
I feel it in my toes
...that's the last time I visit the Arctic without sufficient cold weather clothing
I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
...and here we are, still going strong, no complaints
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A few more
Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
And today things are still pretty good.
Billy Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who says that I am the one
Well, okay, there was that city break in Bruges
What you want, baby I
What you want, baby I got.
What you need, you know I got it.
I get considerable satisfaction from working in Tesco.
Got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it 'till my fingers bled
Then put it on top of the wardrobe and forgot about it.
It's a God-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousey hair
- Then she went blonde and took Macca for 25 mill.
.
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on last chance power drive.
Bloody M25.
.
Miss Otis regrets she is unable to lunch today
She's got the roaring backdoor trots.
Punctured bicycle On a
Punctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate
Still, it was insured.
On a Smiths roll
I was looking for a job
and then I found a job
I'm doing really well for myself
There's a club if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you.
Then you do. She's really nice, and you both live happily ever after.
Please please please let me get what I want
Medium Rare, with chips and seasonal vegetables please
Thank you.
Da Die Ron Ron
I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still.
It was a small service. Family only, so he wasn't able to attend.
When you feel like you can't go on
And all of your hope is gone
And your life is filled with much confusion
Because happiness is just an illusion
And you feel your world is tumbling down
You've been watching too much X-Factor
I am a lineman for the county
Mainly I repaint the boundaries on football pitches, cricket squares, that sort of thing.
My baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends.
So we're investing in a hyperbaric chamber and joining a book group.
Stand in the place where you live
Now face south.
Take the third right onto Penton Avenue and the post office is right in front of you.
Can't miss it.
Last night I said these words to my girl
I'll try not to snore. What time is your alarm going off, then?
I'm driving in my car
I turn on the radio.
It's bloody Ken Bruce again, so I change to CD.
Joy Division
You cry out in your sleep
Because you ate cheese
The Promised Land
I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia
California on my mind.
I walked down the high street, bought a Beach Boys album and was home for supper time.
I see you drivin' round town with the girl I love
And I'm like, "Thanks for giving her a lift to work".
Virgil Caine is my name
And I served on the Danville train
Pushing the refreshments cart.
Sorry. I cannot stop.
Well if you ever plan to motor west:
I'd recommend the M4 and then the M5. The A303 may be the scenic route but you will run into hellish traffic around Stonehenge.
Well since my baby left me
I've found a new place to dwell.
The internet.
Well your railroad gate
Is actually the property of Network Rail.
What a drag it is getting old
But not that much of a drag. I mean, we're still working and are more than comfortable financially.
I'm a man.
I spell M.
A.
N.
Man.
Say, Big Bird, what are you doing?
How many roads must a man walk down
Before admitting he's lost, getting out his iPhone and checking his location on Google Maps?
The tide is high but I'm holding on.
Thank god for inflatables.
I am imagining
all of these posts read out by Alan Partridge, and laughing quite a lot.
There's a place for us
Somewhere a place for us
if Kirsty Allsopp gets her finger out
Awopbopaloobop
Alopbamboom
And can you read the second line?
I'm losing my favourite game.
I think bits of it keep falling down the back of the sofa.
.
Well, since my baby left me,
I found a new place to dwell.
5 minutes off junction 8
at the Novotel.
Hello darkness, my old friend
Sodding drummer couldn't change a lighbulb again
Asked a girl what she wanted to be
She said "Baby, can't you see?
I wanna be famous, a star on the screen,
If you're not Max Clifford, fuck off, know worra mean?"
Why do birds suddenly appear
Everytime you are near?
Could it be
That they, like me,
Long to shit on you?
A candy-colored clown they call Leon Kowalski
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Wake up, it's time to die"
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was angrily muttering to himself. Something about a lost Oyster Card and no Boris bikes around as usual. Endless people kept saying to him "Hello Boss. How are you. Are you looking for a good time?"
I am the son..
And the heir
Of a multimillionaire businessman and financier. I think I'll base my tax-interests offshore and become an MP and green campaigner.
One man come on a barbed-wire face
And had to be careful. You wouldn't want to get it caught, would you?
One man come on a
barbed wire face? Is that a Freudian slip, or intentional?
Freudian. Completely and utterly freudian.
I feel somewhat ashamed to say. Mind you, I spend more time watching grot than listening to U2 so it's not all that astonishing.
Oh, Lenny...
... it had to be you, didn't it?
Look.. I could've denied it and claimed irony or something.
Like anyone would've believed me..
And we made our love on wastelands
And through the barricades.
Well.. we tried, but some of the barricades were a bit sturdy and I couldn't find a hole that was big enough.
I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham.
And I was right.
She married Dave the binman, you know. Lucky bastard.
I drove all night just to get to you
To wake you from your sleep
And make love to you
And not have you say "What the bloody hell.. What time is it? What've you got in your hand? No I bloody don't want to. Bugger off. I'm going back to sleep"
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again
That's lovely darling. Pour me a gin and tonic, would you?
You know that it would be
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I were to say to you
I play Centre Forward for Chelsea.
There are more questions than answers
on this consumer survey that I have only just started to fill in.
I know I stand in line
Until you think you have the time
to spend an evening with me
And I've got serious doormat issues
And then I go and spoil it all
By saying somethin' stupid like
Christ, woman, have you got the painters in or something?
When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
I'll be kicking myself for not paying the leccy bill.
Hope I die
befor
People say I'm the life of the party
'Cos I tell a joke or two.
Some people, anyway.
Other people say: "Who the fuck invited Michael McIntyre?"
First I was afraid
I was petrified
But on closer inspection, it was just actually a funny-shaped shadow that looked a bit like a tarantula, so I was fine.
I'm on the highway to hell
poxy satnav
You walked into the party
Like you were walking on to a yacht
No surprise really, as it was a party on a yacht
FLASH!
AH-AAAAAAAAAAAAH!
3 for 2 in Somerfield
HONEY! Whaddya do for MONEY?
Oh - loss adjuster. Interesting.
What's the frequency, Kenneth?
106.2 - London's Heart.
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight
fitfully, unsure how and why he has wound up in the jungle when he really belongs on the savannah.
I try and laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
But that vasectomy bloody hurt, if I'm honest.
It don't mean a thing
If it's spoken in a language with which you're not familiar.
Borrowed from my friend Rufus
Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak
Somewhere in this town
Probably in the fucking JAIL, you idiot.
I hurt myself today
To see if I could feel.
Got a nasty paper cut
And I just want it to heal.
There's a lady who swears all that glitters is gold
Mind you, she used to work in Ratners
Bread - Make it with you
Heyeye have you ever tried...
Look, I've just put the kids to bed, walked the dog and ironed your shirt. Just pull me nightie down when you're finished and don't wake me up.
Honky tonk woman
I met a gin-soaked bar-room queen in Memphis
I said “Gin’s a bugger to get out - I’d whip that dress off and get it straight in the Hotpoint with some Daz, if I were you”
It was the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was a bailin' hay
Still, that's bob-a-job week for you.
In the mornin you go
In the mornin you go gunnin'
For the man who stole your water
And you fire till he is done in
But they catch you at the border
And now here comes Gazza, with half a roast chicken, some lager and a fishing rod.
It was the third of September
That day I'll always remember
Hang on a mo, it might have been the twenty-seventh of April
The silicon chip inside her
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
That's definitely the last time I'm getting one these things off eBay, no matter *how* lifelike they say they are.
Plaistow Patricia
Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and
the rest of the cabinet.
Upside, inside out she's livin la vida loca
She'll push and pull you down, livin la vida loca
Her lips are devil red, you know that you want to poke her..
Hey Joe
Where you goin' with th...
Shiiiiiiitttt!
Arnold Layne
had a strange hobby
Collecting clothes
Moonshine washing line
Hundred pound fine
Scenes from an Italian restaurant
A bottle of red
A bottle of white
I have a schneaking shuspishun I may be a teensy bit pished
Ooooh...
I bet you're wondering how I knew
'Bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
Well, you put it in your Facebook status update, you two-timing git
(Incidentally, when I started this thread I crossed my fingers and hoped that a few folk might chip something in. Not only has the number of posts filled my heart with joy, but some of them have filled my keyboard with coffee. Thank you massivistas.)
Some more
Where do you go to, my lovely
When you're alone in your bed?
George Clooney on a beach, like the rest of them.
Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
I blame the hat made of peanuts
And one I heard on Buzzcocks:
Oh Carol, I am but a fool
So I'll have eight vowels and one consonant
Always a good game
Woke up this morning feeling fine
Now that doesn't happen often, must be the Chubby Checker effect.
On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Some bastard's nicked the soft top again.
We've already said goodbye
Since you gotta go
Oh you had better go now
Or I'll get the police to enforce the restraining order.
Oh the smell of the bakery from across the street
Got in my nose
But the council won't do anything about it. Don't they know who I am? I'll sue them all.
All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I've never felt so miserable
Eight Miles High...
... and when you touch down...
Bits of you break quite badly.
One pill makes you larger, one pill makes you small
and the ones that daddy gives you
will be evidence in his forthcoming trial.
Emily tries but misunderstands
mind you, she's only eighteen months.
Tonight there's going to be a jailbreak...
At the jail.
Woodstock
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
- Damn hippy, didn't half put a dent in the bumper
There is a house in New Orleans
that survived the flood remarkably well
You better stop dreaming of the quiet life
Why? It's all I've got to look forward to
Come On Eileen
(You add the punchline!)
The Police
Roxanne
You don't have to put on the red light
I bought clear bulbs.
And I'm not that fond of lava lamps anyway.
Every little thing she does is magic
That's because she's a professional conjuror
I don't want to talk...
about things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me,
Now, I've got antibiotics at least the rash has disappeared.
One for Lenny
Michelle,
Kin 'ell,
She has norks,
The shape of the Liberty Bell,
My Michelle
Grunge edition
1.
At home drawing pictures of mountain tops
When they're finished we display them on the door of the fridge.
2.
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I admit that I have been feeling a little green around the gills.
3.
I believe them bones are me
in this X-ray image of my abdomen.
I am the milkman of human kindness.
Also orange juice and cottage cheese.
Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street
Ah, the England footballers and their WAGS have arrived.
You know that it would be
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I were to say to you
I remembered to put the bins out.
HJH
What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
I will try not to sing out of key
- and fuck it even if I do they'll just get that Autotune gizmo and make me sound AWESOME
When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
You should probabaly get out more, find a new hobby.
I got a sixty-nine Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor
Make me an offer.
Early one morning the sun was shining
I was laying in bed
Thumpingly hungover so I got up and made a strong coffee.
Every breath you take and every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take, I'll be watching you
Until I get hit with the restraining order.
When I find myself in times of trouble
That's when I call claims direct.
You're
rather good at this, skirky!
Thank you Helena.
*Bows, doffs cap, kisses hand*
Young man
there's no need to feel down.
Oh, you married Jordan.
Smoke on the warthog...
Fire in the sty.
In the days we sweat it out on the streets..
..of a runaway American dream
At night we watch Eastenders.
If you should ever leave me
Make sure you take that fucking cat
She may be the beauty or the beast
or just average looking..I'm not fussy at this point
Oh it's so funny seeing you here after so long girl
Did I tell you I'm signed to Stiff?
Born down in a dead mans town
...well, Nantwich.
Oasis Special
- I don't know what it is that makes me feel alive
the fundamentals of human consciousness are so hard to pin down.
All that I can really do is restate the Cartesian maxim:
"I think therefore I am."
- It's a bit early in the midnight hour for me
things seldom get started before 12:53.
- Slide away and give it all you've got
then maybe have a go on the swings or the climbing frame.
Some might say
you're a pack of under-talented derivative one-trick ponies
Is it my imaginasheeun
Or does this song sound quite a lot like we nicked the riff from T. Rex?
Slowly walking down the hall...
Come on Nan, they'll be shut before we get there.
In My (mid) Life
There are places I remember all my life...
- But where the hell have I put the car thingies, you know, the - what do you call them -, the, erm, keys.
I caught you knocking at my cellar door
Wondering if that's where I keep the Black & Decker.
I am angry
I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin
That's the match.com advert written
Don't start me talking
I could talk all night
Until Geoff starts the breakfast show at 6
Love is contagious
so make sure he double bags it, ladies
Burn Baby Burn
disco inferno
million dollar insurance
taken out last week
It's close to midnight
me mam will be wondering where I am
I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still
I suppose the name 'Kevorkian' on the brass plate should have been a bit of a giveaway.
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I pressed '2' for Customer Service
And now I'm listening to bloody Celine Dion
Hitting a bum note
Doctor, doctor, give me the news
I've got a bad case of haemorrhoids
And from my favourite Elvis Presley song, Shitty Behinds
I've just had a crap
I can't walk out
Because I can't find the loo paper...
AC/DC
I posted this one on another message board when they partnered up with Wal-Mart.
(to the tune of The Jack)
She said she's always been on discount
But how was I to know
From the USPC code on her spine
And the flyer in isle nine
That I'd be paying full price
In the 10 items or less line...
Dusty
I don't know what it is that makes me love you so
I only know I never want to let you go
Though you're fat and smelly, I hope you see
Your massive lottery win means nothing to me...
What'll you do when you get lonely?
And no-one's waiting by your side.
Comfort eat and have a wank.
Moon River
Wider than a mile
All those bare bums bobbing along
Certainly make me smile
Courtesy of Fletch...(In Porridge)
"..Born Free
'til somebody caught me"
Another from Norman Stanley - Scotland the Brave
Come where the hands are clapping
Come where the toes are tapping
Come where the jocks are strapping...
FLETCHER!
One more from Fletcher..
I believe for every drop of rain that falls
Someone gets wet
Someone's knockin' at the door
Somebody's ringing the bell.
Tell them to sod off.
Hello Darkness, my old friend
I really quite liked Permission to Land
They paved paradise..
..put up a parking lot
About time too, I've been clamped
Three times this year alone
We all came down to Montreaux
On the lake Geneva shoreline
Nothing much happened
Oh..Ritchie got bitten by midges
In a clearing stands a boxer
and a fighter by his trade
urgh, is that a bit of ear in his mouth ?
Somewhere on a desert highway
She rides a Brompton
Did she wake you up to tell you that
you were bloody snoring again
I've been to a marvellous party
with these little fellas with sherbet on their bald heads
Mr Sandman, bring me a dream!
Have me chased by a monster made out of cornflakes, while my teeth fall out.