by XTC on album Rag And Bone Buffet

From pools of xylophone clear From caves of memory I saw the children at heart That we once used to be Borne on foaming seahorse herd Compose with trumpeting shell From lines across their hands A so

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

I'm out and I'm driving Got my eyes set on romance She says, "I've got a brand new thing Want to show you this dance" I say, "Am I learning it steady" She say, "Look you're doing it already" It's th

by XTC on album Go 2

Woolworth beauty, factory beau Arm in arm they must go To the church of dance with the light on low Meccanic dancing, oh, we go Meccanic dancing, oh, we go Meccanic dancing, oh, we go Meccanic dancin

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

I'm 12 o'clock, all daylight hours I'll warm your bed, I'll grow your flowers Like I'm a miniature sun This ball ignited when she told me I was her only one I'm not the same now I'm not that plain li

by XTC on album Rag And Bone Buffet

When your love's flown out the window And the pain comes through the door Once again you've missed the boat And you're stranded on the shore And you find out that what you had Was never yours at all

by XTC on album White Music

In a milk bar and feeling lost Drinking sodas as cold as frost Someone leans in my direction Quizzing on my juke-box selection What do you call that noise That you put on? This is pop, yeah, yeah Thi

by XTC on album Rag And Bone Buffet

I shout this, you shout that The clouds are coming over looking awful black It's all hot air You say go, I say stay Clear blue sky goes Sheffield gray It's all hot air I've grown immune to your claw

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Blue overall Overall the rooftop's blue birds fly apart Blue overall Overall the bones that cage this stupid heart Got blues drawing crosses on my front door Blues a-bringing buckets 'round the back

by XTC on album Rag And Bone Buffet

Gather 'round! Punch and Judy did it truly And were married in a haste In love, maybe, using the baby As a kind of romance paste She's grown fatter, her hair cut shorter Looks much older than ninete

by XTC on album Rag And Bone Buffet

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by XTC on album Drums And Wires

In this secret time, invading on our privacy Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry They can film you in bed or when you take a bath They can tape every cry, they can tape every laugh They can tu

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

I climb up, spending daylight Slide down, bankrupt on the other side Some sweet girl, playing my wife Runs off with a boy whose bike she'll ride Playground, it's a playground Marked by the masters an

by XTC on album Nonsuch

That wave pulled me into your eyes Through the greeny gray pebbles And countless cathedrals arriving That wave lift me into your mouth Turning spires and spittle of pearls To perplex the young diver

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

We, we will dance like tiny boats with cotton sails Upon the tops of the seas That, that would pull us down to the depths and crush us flat If given half a chance No need to look back to pictures of

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

She likes it hot She likes a tan She steals my infra fed When I'm gone Oh no, can it be We're heading for a heatwave Oh no, can it be We're heading for a heatwave Her hair is bleached like it's been

by XTC on album Drums And Wires

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Putting end to evil doers games Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man Maybe you are in his book of names Maybe you are in his book of name

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

J U M P I N G Jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free J U M P I N G Jumping in Gomorrah, I'm religion free Bring your horn of plenty Gold calves if you got 'em We'll get stuck in history All aboard fo

by XTC on album Nonsuch

Hey yeah Hey yeah, yeah Climb up here beside me We can ride and find a friend unfound Put your foot upon the laughing gas And drive your grin around Omnibus, take all of us All of us, take Omnibus A

by XTC on album Nonsuch

Crocodile, no, you won't make me jealous That she left me for him Scene one standing Crushed on landing You may have walked out But I'll swallow up my fate Scene two sitting Man in kitchen Bit and c

by XTC on album Drums And Wires

We smelled your soup on the fire cooking We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright So bright and yet they come from, oh, so far away We heard your flags and your banners flapping We felt the a