- FIVE MINUTES

She covers her moves with a jeweller's precision
She watches his hands and he stares at her feet
She knows what's coming but tries to avoid it
If she keeps him interested she can keep him guessing
He moves with authority he likes the control
He smiles defiant she stutters excuses
He brushes his jacket and fingers his chin
She tries to avoid it but she knows what's coming

She wants five minutes it may be a lifetime
She moves towards him to break down the barriers
But it's full of hostilities and causes embarrassment
He avoids her eyes she avoids the obvious
If she can keep him interested she can keep him guessing
There's a panic a tension everything's irrelevant
She wants five minutes it may be a lifetime
She can feel it happening but she tries to avoid it
If she can keep him interested she can keep him coming
She wants five minutes it may be a lifetime

'There is only what is. The what should be never did exist'
LENNY BRUCE

- ABUSING WORDS

Standing there like some Jehovah's Witness
Giving me a sermon reject reject
Pointing your fingers and abusing words
Someone somewhere please take this person away from me
How can you know what I'm feeling
How can you see what I'm seeing
I think maybe we need a little air in this room
One of us is going to win
And the other better be prepared to lose

As long as we understand I don't see any problems
It all seems straightforward
I'll use you and you can take from me

Stephen's a fine upstanding lad
With a firm hand in moral guidance reject reject
But he treats me like an idiot sometimes
And sometimes I deserve it
But how can he know what I'm feeling
And how can he see what I'm seeing
I think maybe we need a little humour in this room
One of us is going to win
And the other better be prepared to lose

As long as we understand I don't see any problems
It all seems so reasonable
I'll use you and you can take from me

- FOOL FOR YOU

I sometimes think if I wasn't living this
then I would be laughing too
And with all this free advice you would have thought
that I could get through it

I'm a fool for you
It's not a revolution It's just my contribution
I'm a fool for you
It's not a revolution It's just an observation

I sometimes feel that with all this confidence
that I should have more control
And with all this sincere advice you would have thought
that I could get through it

I'm a fool for you
It's not a revolution It's just my contribution
I'm a fool for you
It's not a revolution It's just an observation

Are you always this certain
But you don't realise that I've found a purpose
And I know what you're thinking
But you don't realise I can be that composed

'One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth'
HENRIK IBSEN

- FIRST SUSPECT

I've put two cups on the coffee table
We could talk all night
I really think you understand me
Go ahead and finish the wine

And you say I'm just another bloke
It's just another night
Let's go to bed
You've got to get up for work

I'm a prime target you're the first suspect
I've put two cups on the kitchen table
It's nearly 8.15
Can I give you a lift somewhere
Go ahead and finish your tea

And you say I'm just another bloke
It's just another night
Let's go to bed
You've got to get up for work

I'm a prime target you're the first suspect

'It's still the same old story. A fight for love and glory. A case of do or die.
The world will always welcome lovers
AS TIME GOES BY'

- SUSAN GETS BY ON LOVE

Susan gets by on love
Susan gets by on beautiful things
There's never an ear for lies
Susan prefers her delicate dreams
She sprinkles her life with windows
Susan prefers to dismiss the everyday things

Susan stands naked and Susan gets
torn by a beautiful thing
Susan gets by on love
And gets hurt in her delicate dream
Susan stands naked and Susan gets torn '
by a beautiful thing
Susan gets by on love

'The Queen of hearts she made some tarts
All on a summer's day
The knave of hearts he stole the tarts
And took them clean away'
NURSERY RHYME

- IF THAT WASN'T LOVE

I'll never understand it
If that wasn't love then what in the world was it
I'll never believe it
If that wasn't love then what in the world was It

No complications no pain
You take the records and I'll take the hi fi
What am I supposed to say now
Keep it quiet I don't want anyone else involved

I'll never understand it
If that wasn't love then what in the world was it
I'll never believe it
If that wasn't love then what in the world was It

Somewhere I lost that boyish smile I
t seems they all go straight for the jugular
The sooner they understand me the better
I'm still not satisfied

Love is like the measles. We all get it once'

- SOMEONE TO TALK TO

I rang you this morning
but l got the ansaphone
So I walked around to your place
I knocked but it appears you're not at home
I tried to catch you at the supermarket
Before you picked your kids up from school
So I sat and waited
It's sod so sad
I need someone to talk to
but it appears I'm talking to myself

I wrote you a letter this afternoon
Complete with spelling mistakes
But I threw it in the bin
I'm a pessimist and I don't believe in miracles
I saw myself as Al Pacino
Freeing myself from these chains
But if I see a hand I need to touch it
It's sad so sad
I need someone to talk to
but it appears I'm talking to myself

- WAR ZONE

Stephen says I have to cross the wire
A new desperation a new panic
In no mans land I'm digging not giving in
I can't seem to control this emotion
Where's my enemy
I'm twitching and I'm shell shocked
Here in the war zone

Stephen says I should try to explain myself better
But I haven't got the words or the patience
Here in no mans land it all seems so polite
I can't seem to control this anger
Where's my enemy I'm twitching and I'm shell shocked
Here in the war zone

I am not getting any new flags though,
only using an old one I had left over from the last war.'
MASS OBSERVATIONS

- WHO'S BEEN TELLING YOU LIES

Who's been telling you lies like this before
Who's been selling you lies
Who's been telling you lies like this before
Who's been selling you lies

When you were at school they taught you to compete
They said it will satisfy your needs
Try to sell you things that you don't want
And you don't need
Which will fulfil your desire
I've got a hole in my head give me more
I've got a hole in my pocket just give me more

Who's been telling you lies like this before
Who's been selling you lies
Who's been telling you lies like this before
Who's been selling you lies

I remember that condescending smile when
You informed me that there are no guarantees
So you really think this hand
Makes a difference when you get friendly
I get suspicious
There's a hole in my head give me more
There's a hole in my pocket just give me more

Who's been telling you lies....

'It is quite likely that fish and chips, art-silk stockings,
tinned salmon, cut-price chocolate, the movies, the radio,
strong tea and the football pools have between them averted revolution'
GEORGE ORWELL -ROAD TO WIGAN PIER

- EMPIRE DAYS

Living the dreams of one hundred thousand
Seeing that life's not just pieces of paper
I was sitting in a carriage with some tight lipped Englishman
Saying how good life must have been before the unions
You could get your own way
And there were profits to be made
Dreaming of Empire Days

And the man on the telly's telling me everything's fine
And how we're all so much better off than before
They're still telling you to smile
While they sit and count the numbers
Dreaming of empire days

Living the dreams of one hundred thousand
Seeing that life's not just pieces of paper

- THE WORLD'S FIRST VITAPHONE ANNOUNCEMENT

'You stand there in the wings... and sometimes you want to yell
because the band sounds so good. Then you walk out and if its
a really good audience, a very strange set of emotions can come
over you. You don't know what to do. It's a combination of feeling
like Queen Victoria and an absolute ass.'
JUDY GARLAND

- MR. CLEANAM

On the comer past the newsagent
who's cleaning up the glass from someone else's party
He acknowledges his neighbour
and with a capable smile and a dash of enthusiasm
He informs the bus driver who's been on since 6.30
that this city's full of hawks
And Trafalgar Square must be the
closest thing to heaven on earth
This must be heaven

At the city centre bus depot and enlightened
Mr. Cleanam steps off the bus
And with only a minute to spare avoiding the rush
a little wiser Mr. Cleanam feels
It's quite likely that avoiding the facts
it appears we're balanced on a knife edge
And Trafalgar Square must be the closest thing
to heaven on earth

A day at the races, a week in Majorca
And a Sunday drive if the weather's fine
Mr. Cleanam 'I think the pigeons are restless'
A little wiser Mr. Cleanam
'I think the pigeons are restless'
This must be heaven

'Through the silent streets of London they go...
at any moment comedy, tragedy, mystery may come
to the kerbstone and lift a finger to them.'
H.V. MORTON-THE NIGHTS OF LONDON

ALL WORDS: MARK LONG , ALL MUSIC: OPPOSITION (LONG, BELL, HALL)