| X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolscents (1978) |
- The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
- Obsessed With You
- Genetic Engineering
- Identity
- I Live Off You
- Germ Free Adolescents
- Art-I-Ficial
- Let's Submerge
- Warrior in Woolworths
- I Am a Poseur
- I Can't Do Anything
- Highly Inflammable
- Age
- Plastic Bag
- I Am a Cliche
- Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
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The Day the World Turned Day-Glo
I clambered over mounds and mounds
Of polystyrene foam
And fell into a swimming pool
Filled with fairy snow
And watched the world turn day-glo
you know you know
The world turned day-glo you know
I wrenched the nylon curtains back
As far as they would go
And peered through perspex window panes
At the acrylic road
I drove my polypropolene
Car on wheels of sponge
Then pulled into a wimpy bar
To have a rubber bun
The X-rays were penetrating
Through the laytex breeze
Synthetic fibre see-thru leaves
The I fell from the rayon trees
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Obsessed With You
You are just a concept
You are just a dream
You're just a reflection
Of the new regime
You are just a symbol
You are just theme
You're just another figure
For the sales machine
Ooo ooo they're obsessed
With yoo ooo
Ooo ooo cos they're watching
Yoo ooo
You are just a victim
You are just a find
Soon to be a casualty
Of time
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Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering
could create the perfect race
could create an unknown life-force
that could us exterminate
Introducing worker clone
as our subordinated slave
his expertise proficiency
will surely dig our grave
It's so tempting
will biologists resist
when he becomes the creator
will he let us exist
Bionic man is jumping
through the television set
he's about to materialise
and guess who's coming next
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Identity
Identity is the crisis can't you see
identity...
When you look in the mirror
do you see yourself
do you see yourself
on the TV screen
Do you see yourself in the magazine
when you see yourself
does it make you scream
When you look in the mirror
do you smash it quick
do you take glass
and slash your wrists
Did you do it for fame
did you do it in a fit
did you do it berofe
you read about it
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I Live Off You
I live off you
and you live of me
and the whole world
lives off of everybody
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
be somebody be somebody...
The cat eats the rat
while the pimp beats the whore
as she just screams out
for more and more
See we gotta be exploited
See we gotta be exploited
be somebody be somebody...
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Germ Free Adolescents
I know you're antiseptic
Your deodorant smells nice
I'd like to get to know you
But you're deep frozen like the ice
He's a germ free adolescent
Cleanliness is her obsession
Cleans her teeth ten times a day
Scrub away scrub away scrub away
The S.R. way....
You may get to touch her
If your gloves are sterilised
Rinse your mouth with listerine
Blow disinfectant in her eyes
Her phobia is infection
She needs one to survive
It's her built-in protection
Without fear she'd give up and die
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Art-I-Ficial
I know I'm artificial
But don't put the blame on me
I was reared with appliances
In a consumer society
When I put on my make-up
The pretty little mask not me
That's the way a girl should be
In a consumer society
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
My existence is elusive
The kind that is supported
By mechanical resources
I wanna be instamatic
I wanna be a frozen pea
I wannna be dehydrated
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
In a consumer society
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Let's Submerge
It's dark and eerie
And it's really late
Come on kid's don't hesitate
We're going down to the underground
We're going down we're going down
To the underground
The hades ladies are dressed to kill
Dagger glares from Richard hell
Tension heightening heating frightening
Thunder rolls as fast as lightning
If you've got the urge
Come on let's submerge
The subterranean is a bottomless pit
The vinyl vultures are after it
Molten lava sulphur vapours
Smoulder on to obliterate us
If you've got the urge
Come on let's submerge
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Warrior in Woolworths
Warrior in Woolworth's
Humble he may seem
Behind his servile innocence
He plots and he schemes
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
He's the rebel on the underground
She's the rebel of the modern town
Warrior in Woolworth's
His roots are in today
Doesn't know no history
He threw the past away
Warrior in Woolworth's
Dips on friday nights
Youths meet at Stockwell Tube
Weapons rule their lives
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I Am a Poseur
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
I am a poseur and I don't care
I like to make people stare
Exhibition is the name
Voyeurism is the game
Stereoscopic is the show
Viewing time makes it grow
My facade is just a fake
Shock horror no escape
Sensationalism for the feed
Caricatures are what you breed
Anti-art was the start
Establishments like a laugh
Yes we're very entertaining
Overtones can be betraying
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I Can't Do Anything
I can't write
And I can't sing
I can't do anything
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
Freedom tried to strangle me
With my plastic popper beads
But I hit him back
With my pet rat
Yeah I hit him back
With my pet rat
I can't spit
And I can't kick
I can't even be thick
I can't read
And I can't spell
I can't even get to hell
I can't luv
And I can't hate
I can't even hesitate
I can't dance
And I can't walk
I can't even try to talk
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Highly Inflammable
Highly inflammable
waiting to explode
neurotic tensions
risen overflowed
You thought i was a woman
I thought you were a man
but I was Tinkerbill
and you were Peter Pan
Influenced by the fashion pages
influenced by others' phases
It ain't hip if you are retro
you're a pseudo quasi intellectual
Supreme quality
we used to compete
the right to decide
is denied to the sheep
You thought i was a woman
I thought you were a man
but I was Tinkerbill
and you were Peter Pan
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Age
Darling am I
Getting old
Tell me dear
I must be told
Y'know it's a
Million dollar fear
If lines
Creep in over here
Age she's so afraid
Age she's no the rage
She never seems to realise
Celluloid beauty
Never dies
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Plastic Bag
1977 and we are going mad
It's 1977 and we've seen too many ads
1977 and we're gonna show them all
That apathy's a drag
My mind is like a plastic bag
That corresponds to all those ads
It sucks up all the rubbish
That is fed in through by ear
I eat Kleenex for breakfast
And use soft hygienic Weetabix
To dry my tears
My mind is like a switchboard
With crossed and tangled lines
Contented with confusion
That is plugged into my head
I don't know what's going on
It's the operator's job, not mine
I said
My dreams I daren't remember
Or tell you what I've seen
I've dreamt that I was Hitler
The ruler of the sea
The ruler of the universe
The ruler of the supermarket
And even fatalistic me
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I Am a Cliche
I am a cliche I am a cliche
I am a cliche I am a cliche
I am a cliche you've seen before
I am a cliche that lives next door
I am a cliche you know what I mean
I am a cliche pink is obscene
Yama yama yama yama yama yama
Boredom boredom boring boredom
Yama yama yama yama yama yama
Boredom boredom boring boredom
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Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
Bind me tie me
Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave
To you all
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Oh bondage up yours
Oh bondage no more
Chain-store chain-smoke
I consume you all
Chain-gang chain-mail
I don't think at all
Thrash me crash me
Beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim
For you all
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