Released: 21st Mar 1998
Recorded: Sing Sing Studios
Produced: Neill King
- Leaving Home -
- Benedict -
- Harpoon -
- Jerks of Attention -
- Invaders -
- Spoil the Show -
- Blame -
- Puckdefender -
- Lino -
- Military Strongmen -
- Teflon -
- Twilight = Dusk -
- La Di Da Da -
- Monument -
- Tracksuit -
LEAVING HOME
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
Were you laughed at by your friends And were you lost for words when everybody finally told you what they thought
You can't keep up with the trend It makes you lose but somehow everybody always makes up in the end
Oh, was it something that I ate
Oh, didn't even touch my plate
Oh, suddenly I'm feeling great
Do you like me now
Chorus:
Leaving home, life was never good to me
Leaving home, I smell the morning air
Leaving home, life was never good
You can work it out we're leaving home
Verse 2:
I could hear them through the door
As people came in laughing at the way they acted when they were alone
And an argument can start with nothing more than this
To be the light and leave you standing on your own
Oh, am I doing it again
Oh, I'm a loser now and then
Oh, and I smile at everything
Do you like me now
Chorus
Verse 3:
Hope I like the life I find when I leave everything behind
I hope I'm sure I've made my mind to go and leave home
Chorus
BENEDICT
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
Yeah!
Benedict sits in his room,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
Green men are coming soon,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
He waits for them in the dark,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
He stands alone in the ball park,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
Chorus:
They didn't wanna find you
They didn't wanna beat you, beat you
They didn't wanna find you
They didn't wanna beat you, beat you
ohhh
Verse 2:
Benedict's losing his head,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
He keeps it under the bed,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
His mine will let him know,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
When it is time to go home,
Benedict, Ben-Benedict
Chorus
Verse 3:
Oh, We're suddenly much better than you x 3
Oh, We're suddenly much better
Now you're looking at the new fave
Now you're going to see the next rave
Keep on blasting out and go green
Blame it on the magic brain bean, yeah
Ben-ben-ben-ben x 4
HARPOON
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
This will take some explaining but I think you will agree
There is no use pretending that there's hope for you and me
Chorus:
And I love her, but do you think she can see
When I tell her, it's the end for you and me
It was over, ever since you went and shot me
Like a harpoon, Like a harpoon, Like a harpoon in my heart
Like a harpoon, Like a harpoon in my heart
Verse 2:
Yeah I can handle the fighting, it's the affection I can't stand
And I don't mind us talking, just don't try and touch my hand
Chorus
Verse 3:
When you left I didn't want you back
But now your gone so won't you come right back
Come right back x 5
Chorus
Why does it hurt
Simple matters don't seem worth
We're the same but it's not happening again
Chorus
JERKS OF ATTENTION
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
There is no pain, my bodies drained
I never should of had that fourth slice straight
We gathered round, the lost and found
But my jerks of attention let me down
Pre-Chorus:
Well I took the first one, And I pulled it back.
And what was once green
Had all turned black, had all turned black
And there was nothing left to say.
Chorus:
I'm ten foot tall, the world's so small
I know it all when I'm wasted
What you see, inside of me
Has been set free when I'm wasted, wasted.
Verse 2:
I'm getting there, my constant stare
And I don't think I'll move from this chair
We've got them both, Archers of loaf
And the Stone Roses in the stereo
Pre-Chorus
Chorus x 2
Wasted, wasted Wasted, wasted
Chorus
I don't want to be straight, don't want to be straight
I don't want to be wasted, wasted, wasted,
INVADERS
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
It was in the evening, or was it afternoon
It doesn't really matter, they were in my room
No there no here to save you x3
No there not
Chorus:
One by one
They tricked me one by one
They stripped me one by one
They fixed me one by one
Invaders picked me
Verse 2:
I thought that I should go now but I just had to stay
Stick around and listen to what they had to say
No we're not going to hurt you x3
No we're not
Chorus
Change:
Ohhhh, arrggghhh, oohhh Invaders, Invaders, Invaders, Invaders
Ooh, I like their eyes, like buggy flies
Their purple skies, where no one dies,
Their silken hair, and what they wear
Without a care for nothing
Say that you care but you fucking don't
And you say that you care but you fucking don't
And you say that you care but you fucking don't
And you say that you care but you fucking don't
Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah
Backing:
Watch out for invaders...
SPOIL THE SHOW
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
I know I've said things I didn't mean to say
And I know I've done thing I didn't mean to do
I'm stupid, pathetic
Sometimes I say, things that I never mean to say
And sometimes I do things I don't wanna do
But we can leave that out
Chorus:
I'm waiting for the early sign
That signals everything is fine
I've rocked the boat enough
I know To make a scene and spoil the show
Verse 2:
I get jealous, way too easy all the time
And over zealous, way to easy on time
Before I see things straight
Sometimes I say things I never mean to say
And sometimes I do somethings I don't wanna do
But we can leave that out
Chorus x 2
The show, the show, the show...
BLAME
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
I was strolling down your road
When I saw you now I know
It's clear, it's all your fault dear
And the price I had to pay
Shit that I took everyday
I lived was all that you could give
And I know that you're to blame x 6
I've been fighting it so long
But I know that I'm not wrong
With this, I'm totally pissed
So I'll take it out on you
And all your girlfriends too
Cause they hate me but they're too blind to see
And I know that you're to blame x 6
Sssah
And I know that you're to blame x 6
It'll never be the same
PUCKDEFENDER
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
You and me tie ourselves on to the railway
Tugging on things that catch us up
Sitting off things that fly us down the freeway
Blowing our brew from plastic cups
Chorus:
Nothing to do, (when you're) in this situation
The pilots are drunk, we're all dead
Proving we're worth, the casual observation
Proving we're worth the food we're fed
And I'm hurking up the pieces
All the pieces that I've found
And I'm picking up the pieces
Off the ground, Yeah
Verse 2:
You and me fall down onto the wrong side
Laughing at those that pushed us down
Climbing back up, we enjoy the free ride
Climbing back up but they've all gone
Chorus
Verse 1
Chorus
LINO
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
There is the mat
Wipe where it's at
You can come in
So can the cat
I can see me
Under my feet
Under a fan
Spreading the heat
If everyone's ready and waiting for you, Yeah
Then come along Friday what is there to do?
We like to clean, our hands with preen
To keep all the germs away from the scene
That's our motto,that's what we say
That is the truth, that's how it'll stay
If everyone's ready and waiting for you, Yeah
Then come along Friday what is there to do?
Scrub and make clean the lino, lino
In case of visitors
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean, it's hard to clean
There is the mat
Wipe where it's at
You can come in
So can the cat
I can see me
Under my feet
Under a fan
Spreading the heat
If everyone's ready and waiting for you, Yeah
Then come along Friday what is there to do?
Scrub and make clean the lino, lino
In case of visitors, visitors
Like what you get when you've just started retarded
Think of what you want and who you are
M, m, m, My life, when I think is so circumstancial
You take what you're given it's never substancial
But that doesn't matter, when I am around her
I think of something more, but what will I use it for
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean, hard to clean
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean
You don't wanna know, you just want them to go
They walked on your lino and it's hard to clean
Hard to clean
Can you tell me what I mean
MILITARY STRONGMEN
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
I'm on parade, you don't say: why can't you see that
Keeping my feelings at bay: why can't you see that when
When you're around, you just get me down, I'm better off without you x 2
I'm just better off
Verse 2:
All of the years add up to: why can't you see that
Something has happened to you: why can't you see that when
When you're around, you just get me down, I'm better off without you x 4
You just get me down
It's not me, it can't be I'd rather leave
It's getting hard, to be a part of what is around
Is this the situation of the time
If so you can have yours, I want mine
I know there's something better you could be
Now I am past caring, completely
When you're around, you just get me down, I'm better off without you x 4
TEFLON
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
We were going along
To a particular song
Just hanging around
Feet scuffing the ground
Catching us on a roll
We were collecting the dole
Doesn't mean something's wrong
We were just slipping along
Slipping along
Slipping along
Yeah
Slipping along
At a party we found
People hanging around
There was nothing to do
We were smoking a few
Saw two girls outside
They were both pretty wired
I thought something was wrong
But they were just getting it on
Slipping along
Yeah
Slipping along
1, 2, 3, 4
So long, I'm slipping on, and on
Yeah
We were going along
To a particular song
Just hanging around
Feet scuffing the ground
Catching us on roll
We were collecting the dole
Doesn't mean something's wrong
We were just slipping along
Slipping along
Slipping along
Yeah
Slipping along
1, 2, 3, 4
So long, I'm slipping on, and on
Yeah
TWILIGHT = DUSK
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
I don't wanna go anymore
I don't wanna go anymore
Stop pushing me through the door
I don't wanna go anymore
Anymore, anymore, anymore
I don't wanna fight anymore
I don't wanna fight anymore
Picking myself off the floor
I don't wanna fight anymore
Anymore, anymore, anymore
I said I'd try but you don't believe me
You still don't know who I am, if only I had the guts to tell you
If I had the guts to tell you
If... If... If...
LA DI DA DA
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Well I've been outside and it's not my scene
And I know you don't know what I mean
But I'm trying hard, 'cause I've never been
On the other side, of a day dream
La da di da da...
And I've been around, tried to be kind
But it gets me down, when I often find
People that I meet, in this state of mine
Hanging onto threads, falling behind
La da di da da...
Seems I've found,
Something to stick around my neck and be proud
Seems I know,
Somethings will never go with what you've got on show
Even so...
La da di da da...
MONUMENT
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Verse 1:
I'm really gonna pack in this new job I do
It's gonna be the death of me
I went to a party of some girl that I knew
At least the alcohol was free
With all the family around
We couldn't find a common ground
And so we left with what we found
When we first came so
Chorus:
Where you been, where you been, where'd you go
Leaving me alone and feeling low
I'm supposed to be the one you want
I'm supposed to be the one you want
Verse 2:
I'm supposed to be the one you want
I know that I don't earn one hundred points in bed
But will you love me anyway
It's just that there's so much going on in my head
That I don't know what to say
Your car rolled away out of sight
You can not leave without a fight
Okay you lose so we were right
When we first came so
Chorus x 2
TRACKSUIT
ALBUM: SLIGHTLY ODWAY (JAPAN), 1998
Well I don't want to make things bad
But these last few weeks are the worst I've had
And that's really sad, it's really sad, you know - woah!
Because I knew what we were gonna say
And I didn't want it to end that way
Like on a winters day, but that's okay
Because I've got my tracksuit ready on
Don't give me your friends
Yeah they're driving me round the bend
I just wanted some time alone
So we could sort this thing out, lifes a rolling stone
So I'll take you for an elephant ride
And I'll show you things that I feel inside
Yeah that's what I'll do, cos I like you
And I don't wanna let things slide
Aaaaahhhhhhh.......
So I hope everything's alright
Because I know I won't see you tonight
I just turn out the light and fall asleep
Without a peep
And when I wake up with my tracksuit on
Well then I'll know that you've been away too long
So I'll play a song, I'll play a song
And I'll dedicate it just for you
Can we still be friends
Yeah that's all that we've got in the end
But I've been secretly holding out
That some day you will say you want more than that
So I'll take you for an elephant ride
And I'll show you things that I feel inside
Yeah that's what I'll do, cos I like you
And I don't wanna let things slide
Aaaaahhhhhhh.......