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The Stranglers lyrics
Album: The Meninblack [1981]
| Just Like Nothing on Earth | |
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A woman in Wellington wet her whistle
With a wild man from way back when
She sucked her thumb and she held her head
For the man she didn't ken
A Nip in Nippon napped a nod
And knew Nomad near the nearside window of his Mitsubishi
His kid was scared he said he thought it was something new
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
A man on the main motor mile mesmerised much
monkey magic meandering piecemeal
You know UFOs utilise euphoric united ecstatic
Fantastic traumatic burning rubber blubber
Blackout checkout for philandering sons of magic women
His brain was blazed and amazed he said he thought
It was something new
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
Just...
Like...
Nothing...
On... Earth...
On... Earth...
Just like nothing on earth
Just like nothing on earth
It was just like nothing on EEEEEWWWWWRRRRGGGTH!
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| Second Coming | |
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SECOND COMING
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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
Date of Transcription: 3rd April 2002
This transcription and more is exclusive to and can be found at :-
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(play riff throughout the verses)
Somewhere in Africa, somewhere in Rome
People are sleeping awake in their homes
Waiting for shepherds to tend to their sheep
Their disappointments lay piled in a corner heap
chorus:
A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.
A second co - ming will come in. A second co - ming will come in.
Turn on the sets and then wait for the show
Will he have long hair and what will he know?
Will he tell jokes or will he make us cry?
If we write to him will he send back a reply?
(chorus)
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
A second co-ming will come in
(it will come in!)
Like everybody I wait for the day
Like everybody I'll send him away
He may be ugly and have problem hair
Even speak funny and make all the people stare
A second co - ming will come in
A second co - ming will come in
A second co - ming will come in
A second co - ming will come in
Second coming...
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| Four Horsemen | |
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FOUR HORSEMEN
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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
Date of Transcription: 3rd April 2002
This transcription and more is exclusive to and can be found at :-
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One reported, long ago
No one heard and laughed as though
It twas some product of mad man's minds
Not clear enough to cure the blind
And in all the corners of the globe
They'll shield their eyes from shining robes
Defying science, all the laws
The like of them not seen before
Their gifts much worse than the three kings
Rewriting future, changing thoughts
And all the battles that we fought
Are these the devil, are they four?
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| Thrown Away | |
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THROWN AWAY
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Transcription by: Richard Stanforth (rtstanforth@hotmail.com)
Date of Transcription: 3rd April 2002
This transcription and more is exclusive to and can be found at :-
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If ever you had counted
The centuries you threw away
And all the lies that you had started
And all the chances thrown away
If I set sail for new horizons
Could I still leave you waiting here?
I would chase just one set of chances
The others would be thrown away
Even though we tried, time wasn't on our side
Then there came the day we threw it all away
Thrown away, thrown away, thrown away
My winter nights are so much colder
Than yours could ever be
I wish I hadn't been a traveller
I would not have had to go away
When all is said and all is over
When all is just a memory
Our ships will stay for just a moment
Leaving false Gods and hypocrisy
Even though we tried, time wasn't on our side
Then there came the day we threw it all away
Thrown away, thrown away, thrown away
Even though we tried, time wasn't on our side
Then there came the day we threw it all away
Thrown away, thrown away, thrown away
Thrown away, thrown away, thrown away
repeat 'thrown away' bit until fade...
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| Top Secret | |
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Stranglers - Top Secret
Sits In His Room At Night
Flits Back And Forth Round The World
As He Calls In The Moonlight
Sees All The Empires Fall
Writes It All Down With His Pen
In Free Hand Once For All
He Sees Something To Tell But
He's Got No One To Tell
The Top Secret
And He Means It
All Day His Mind Troubles
Him As He Cures All The Ills
Of The World With His Knife
Centuries Pass When He Dies
And The Answers Get Buried
And Mistook For Life
He Sees Something To Tell But
He's Got No One To Tell
The Top Secret
And He Means It
All Day His Mind Troubles
Him As He Cures All The Ills
Of The World...
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