by XTC on album Skylarking

Dear God, hope You got the letter And I pray You can make it better down here I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer But all the people that You made in Your image See them starving on thei

by XTC on album Drums And Wires

We're only making plans for Nigel We only want what's best for him We're only making plans for Nigel Nigel just needs that helping hand And if young Nigel says he's happy He must be happy, he must be

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

Never been near a university Never took a paper or a learned degree And some of your friends think that's stupid of me But it's nothing that I care about Well, I don't know how to tell the weight of

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

Hey, hey, the clouds are away There's straw for the donkeys And the innocents can all sleep safely All sleep safely My, my, sun is pie There's fodder for the cannons And the guilty ones can all sleep

by XTC on album Nonsuch

Peter Pumpkinhead, hey, 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

by XTC on album Black Sea

Generals and Majors ah ah! They're never too far From battlefields so glorious Out in a world of their own They'll never come down Till once again victorious Generals and Majors always Seem so unhapp

by XTC on album Skylarking

Orange and lemon raincoats Roll and tumble together Just liked fruit tipped from a tray Pineapple wet heads Watch new hairdos crumble As scenery, sunlight shifts away Ballet for a rainy day Silent f

by XTC on album Nonsuch

First there's the handshake It's so warm that you could bake by it Designed to take attention from their Ugly underneath Then there's the wedding The coordinated bedding And the fairy tale shredding

by XTC on album Skylarking

Laying on the grass My heart it flares like fire The way you slap my face Just fills me with desire You play hard to get 'Cause you're teacher's pet But when the boats have gone We'll take a tumble,

by XTC on album White Music

XTC White Music Statue Of Liberty The first time I saw you standing in the water You must have been all of a thousand feet tall Nearly naked - unashamed like Herod's daughter Your love was so big

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

All around the world, every boy and every girl Need the loving The humble and the great, even those we think we hate Need the loving Soldiers of the queen, all the hard men that we've seen Need the l

by XTC on album Oranges And Lemons

Everyone's creeping up to the money God Putting tongues where they didn't ought to be On stepping stones of human hearts and souls Into the land of 'Nothing for free' Well, the way that we're living

by XTC on album Drums And Wires

Happy I'm floating Around on my feet now You make me go dizzy I'm weak at the knees As I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall I feel like I'm walking 'Round a ten feet tall Well, you say I'm

by XTC on album Skylarking

Season cycle moving round and round Pushing life up from a cold dead ground (It's growing green, it's growing green) Well, darling, don't you ever stop to wonder About the clouds, about the hail an

by XTC on album Mummer

Can't you see, love and affection When it's put in your direction? Wrapped in your mysterious wonderland No fast car can make you grow up Gentlemen, you think you've sewn up Locked in your wonderful

by XTC on album Skylarking

It frightens me when you come to mind The day you dropped in the shopping line And my heart beats faster when I think of all the signs All the signs When they carried you out your eyes was open wide

by XTC on album Black Sea

Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock Hey, rock, rock I'm enlisting, overseas aid Need assisting, help with a maid Get the expert, on mademoiselles He could diffuse, any bombshell If I cou

by XTC on album Skylarking

I've been praying all the weeks through At home, at work and on the bus I've been praying, I can keep you And to earn enough for us I can take humiliation And hurtful comments from the boss I'm just

by XTC on album Miscellaneous

It isn't even winter but I'm freezing, freezing This sort of feeling isn't pleasing And what I want to know, man Why? Oh why, does she treat me like a snowman? It isn't even winter but I'm freezing,

by XTC on album Black Sea

Birds beware, expect me up there Me and air are feeling light today Jets should hide, I'll fly alongside Me and pride are bolted tight today I've been set off by a pretty little girl Like a rocket fr