by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

I'm floating over strange land It's a soulless, sequined, showbiz moon I'm floating over strange land And then stranger still, there's no balloon But I'm getting higher Wafted up by fame's fickle fir

by XTC on album White Music

Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me Do what you do what you Do what you do what you Do what you do to me The stars are out and so am I The stars I see, ain't in the

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Watch them go one two three I'm so happy and so is she In a dance band Show, slow, quick, quick, slow Heel to hell and toe to toe In a dance band Oh, you can do the Bosanova Till the night is throug

by XTC on album Big Express

Ah well, that's this world over Ah well, next one begins Will you smile like any mother As you bathe your brand new twins? Will you sing about the missiles As you dry odd numbered limbs? Ah, well, t

by XTC on album Mummer

Great fire burning, you supplied the spark Fires burning spreading through the ark Animals are panicking I'm animal and panicking Your glance, a match on the tinder wood You never spoke but I underst

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Peter Pumpkin Head came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the Vatican what gold's for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us o

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

Soldiers, workers, slaves and farmers Nurses, queens and drones Wish they'd leave my head tonight Let me rest my bones A billion feet sound just like a billion drums A bed is creaking as the messiah

by XTC on album Nonsuch

Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for

by XTC on album Nonsuch

Rook, rook, read from your book Who murders who and where is the treasure hid? Crow, crow, spill all you know Is that my name on the bell? Rook, rook, gaze in the brook If there's a secret, can I be

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Untie the gown, float to the ground She revolve 'round, making no sound Air leaving slow, still breathing though Decaying through brown, diving she's bound Hours swum down, treasure unfound Air leavi

by XTC on album Black Sea

You've learnt no lessons All that time so cheaply spent There's no youth culture Only masks, they let you rent Travels, travels in Nihilon We've seen no Jesus come and gone Fashion, their vampire Dr

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

I think my watch has bust And so is time I borrowed all my love So nothing's mine There's nothing decent On the TV page Like a new town animal In a furnished cage Like a new town animal In a furnish

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

I got so much to say But I'm afraid it'll come out wrong I'm not a king to the eighties thing Where you look after number one But I won't rock the boat 'Cause I'm scared what might happen I won't roc

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop Come with me to the church on the corner, the hop There's nuts and crisps and there's c-c-cola on tap A good time had by those boys and those girls at t

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

I look out of my window at night I see the stars and I'm filled with fright I got a feeling someone's looking It ain't the aliens at the foot of my bed It's more the ale inside my head I got a feelin

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Oh, knuckle down, love his skin It doesn't matter what color skin he's locked in Knuckle down, knuckle down and love that skin Knuckle down, love his race It doesn't matter if you win or lose a little

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Scared of love, love and swimming pools Falling in, you said, was for fools But when you're standing on the edge You won't hear me because your blood is singing Jump, jump, go ahead and jump, jump If

by XTC on album Drums And Wires

How bright are the fires of thought In a chain of command? (Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) How bright is the medical torch When it's put in our hand? (Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh) My microbes and I We can't wait to lay

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

XTC Miscellaneous The Troubles Well hush my children don't you cry The troubles will soon all be over The tears that swell in every eye Will fall to the ground and bring clover The soldiers are

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Wait till your boat goes down That's when you'll need me most Wait till your boat goes down And you're washed up on some foreign and unfamiliar coast Yachting's fine Sailing 'round and 'round in soci