ADICTS - Songs of praise (1981)

England
Hurt
Just Like Me
Tango
Telepatic People
Mary Whitehouse
Distortion
Get Adicted
Viva la Revolution
Calling Calling
In the Background
Dynasty
Peculiar Music
Numbers
Sensitive
Songs of Praise
Sound of Music
Who Spilt My Beer?

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England
I hate this war
Can't take any more
It's a real gas
How long does it last
I don't wanna die for England
I don't wanna die at all
I got my uniform
Now it's battle torn
I'm wet and I'm cold
What a way to grow old
I don't wanna die for England
England will survive
I don't wanna die for England
I don't wanna die at all
I don't wanna die for England
Didn't hear the bugle call

Hurt
The girl that I love
Doesn't love me too
I'm singing oh I'm hurt
Drown my sorrows in a bar
A man came from the dark and hit me
Oh, I'm hurt
Everything's wrong, everything's bad
Everything happens to me
Everything's down
since I came to this town
I used to be so happy
Home wasn't far
but someone stole my car
I'm singing oh I'm hurt
By now I was getting bugged
And soon I was getting mugged
Singing oh I'm hurt

Just Like Me
You say what you want to say
You do what you want to do
You be what you want to be
You go where you want to go
You say that you want to say
You have what you want to have
You live your own life just like me

Tango
Picked up umbrella
Put on my bowler
Looked in mirror
Ready for the tango
I phoned a taxi
For me and Maxine
She looked fantastic
We danced the tango
We drank champagne
We danced again
We had laughter
And then after
Face to face we danced
the tango
Cheek to cheek we danced
the tango

Telepatic People
Their open minds are doing time
Sucking on our space and time
Destitute they'll find their goal
Looking in an empty hole
Telepathic people
Looking in my mind
Telepathic people
I don't know what you'll find
Private thoughts they try to hide
When hopelessly they look inside
Searching through your every thought
To find something they haven't caught

Mary Whitehouse
She don't like pornography
When it's on the BBC
She won't even look at me
Oh no no no she don't love me
I love Mary Whitehouse
She don't love me
I love Mary Whitehouse
She don't love me
I know she ain't that wonderful
She's only trying to be helpful
When she sees all those nudes
She'll speak out and say
That's very rude
Mary Mary they think you're crazy
How does your mind work
With silver bells
And ..... shells
You're digging up the dirt

Distortion
Turn on the radio
Can't quite hear
Outside Interference
Fills your ears
Have to be careful what you say
Might get distorted
in much the same way
Read the stories of your deeds
It's not quite right
you're not too pleased
Just a small voice in a big crowd
Gets distorted when you shout loud

Get Adicted
Nobody gonna kick us out
We are here to stay
Bang your head against the wall
We won't go away

Get adicted in '79
Get adicted while you've still got time
Get adicted in '79
Get adicted

We won't cause a revolution
We just wanna tell
This is 1979
We're gonna give it hell

Viva la Revolution
Into the Dungeon with evil men
The people has risen we're free again
Come out of the closet
Come out of the hole
Come out of the woodwork
Come into the fold
Rebels and fighters, a license to kill
Unite with the bandits down from the hills
Open your windows
Open your doors
Open your minds
To a freedom of thought

Viva la Revolution...

Raise our voices, raise our flag
Smash the symbols of the life never had
Long live the symbols
Long live the scheme
Long live our hopes
Long live the dream
Dance in the streets at the carnival
Celebrate the victory now
Drink the wine from the rich man's cask
This revolution won't be the last

Calling Calling
Calling calling all the world
Why do you have to be this way
Calling calling all the world
Why do you have to be afraid
I know things are bad
We can make them good
You might think its crazy
but I know we could
Change life and make it better
Think about the future
Calling calling all the world
I know we're not a pretty sight
Calling calling all the world
It's up to us to make it right
Calling calling all the world
Why can't wars just cease
Calling calling all the world
Live together in love and peace

In the Background
It's peaceful here
No one to interfere
With quiet observations
Just watching and waiting
And not getting involved
With physical solutions
That never get
The problem solved
In the background
Out of the limelight
It's out of order
Not being a part
Of the scenic route
An impartial art
Of avoiding dispute

Dynasty
...

Peculiar Music
Isn't it strange
But it makes a change
From the usual mediocraty
Sing about big brother
Or sing about some other
Brave new world
Medieval factions
With nuclear reactions
Make interesting subjects
This is civilization
Or imagination
Or some old melodrama
The future enslaves us
Will something ever save us
From a fate worse than life
We don't understand
But we should demand
To know the reason

Numbers
I don't wanna be a number
Just like being a prisoner
I just wanna stay free
Don't wanna be a number three
O I don't wanna be a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Signing on the dot
Got my name on a form
Thought I had it made
They treat you just insane
You are just a number
And I ain't got a name
You are just a number
And I ain't got a name
Sitting in a prison cell
Numbers on my chest
Age is just a number
Mummy does know best

Sensitive
If I phone you up, and you feeling down.
and nothing's going right tonight,
Your sinking in the ground.

Your so sensitive...

If I say some thing wrong, you might start to cry
I don't wanna get you down, don't want you to cry.
Your so sensitive sensitive sensitive sensitive.

Songs of Praise
Sing to me
And I'll whistle along
Because I haven't learnt the language
And I might get it wrong

oh, oh, oh, oh
Songs of Praise...

On Your face
Is a profile of you
I can see you know
The right things to do
Congregation words and music

Sound of Music
Hip Hop Hipety Hop
Come on Kids Lets Bop.
Hip hop hipity hop,
I'm going down to the record shop.
Boogaloo and cootchy coo
I'm gonna dance to my favourite tune.
There we go nice and slow,
Arm in arm and round we go.
Stay at home and cook for me,
I wanna dance with Julie Andrews.
Oh I love the Sound of Music
Oh I love the Sound of Music
Arm in arm round we go
to the sound of music.

I listen to the radio,
to the sound of music.
Shooby doo and docee do ,
oh the sound of music.
I just bought a new Hi Fi,
for the sound of music.
Lots of groovy sounds to buy.
come on kids , get down.

Oh I love the Sound of Music
Oh I love the Sound of Music
Oh I love the Sound of Music
Oh I love the Sound of Music

Who Spilt My Beer?
Walked in the Pub ordered a pint
Put it on the table
Oh oh oho.oh
Put it on the table
Stayed in there for an hour or more while
I talked to Mabel
Who spilt my beer, who spilt my beer?
I'm asking you to tell the truth
Who spilt my beer
Second and third came to an end
Its closing time again