Abc - Only The Best Will Do

Elegant faces

Won't you stand aside

I'm only looking for the real ride

Now's not the time

To run away and hide



* i've got no time for fakers

Only the best will do

Looking through my eyes, baby

It's such a spectacular view

Now that these times are changing

Only the best will do



Pale imitations

Will fade away

People are talking

With nothing to say

I wouldn't let anyone

Talk to me that way



(* repeat)



You



** ain't that peculiar

Neptune's your ruler

Awake from your slumber

Give me your number

How candid the camera

That captures the best of you

Only the best will do



(* repeat)



Only the best will do

(repeat with following)



(** repeat)



Only the best will do

Abc - 4 Ever 2 Gether

Speak no

Evil



You can't tell me, how to run my life

You can't tell me, drugs you're using

You're talking loud, and saying nothing

Walking proud, and going nowhere fast

You know



If you could tell me, how to find belief

If you told me, i'd believe you

Speak no evil, hear no evil

See no evil, i'll close my eyes

You know, love grows



_ chorus:



4 ever 2 gether, 4 years 2 come

4 love 2 strong, 4 us 2 part

4 ever 2 gether, 4 years 2 come

4 love 2 strong, 4 us 2 part



I stuck a marriage proposal

In the waste disposal

If that's the trash aesthetic,

I'd suggest that we forget it

Your 12 disciples might kiss and tell, but

You can tell me much more than they can,

Right now



A mathematical equation

Won't describe my liaison

The stars in the sky might try persuading

But you can tell me, i won't hear you

You can't tell me, i gave up the listening

Years ago



_ to chorus



So you're broken heart, here, take it to the mender

I got something on the agenda



Speak. no

Evil



4 ever 2 gether, 4 years 2 come

4 love 2 strong, 4 us 2 part

For when two hearts but strong and sweet

One promise i can never meet



Forgive and forget, for goodness sake

For love this strong, might make or break

4 ever 2 gether, 4 years 2 come

4 love 2 strong, 4 us 2 part



Two's a party, three's a crowd

I'm surprised what get's allowed

Three coins inside the fountain

You saw mohammed move the mountain



Speak no evil

Abc - Date Stamp

This heart's up for sale

Yeah, this heart's on the stand

Mix and match and melt in my mouth

Nothing ever goes quite as planned

You fly north and i'll sail south



So redevelop product

Redesign this package

Still refuse to reach in your pocket

Everything is temporary written on that sand

Looking for the girl that meets supply with demand



_ chorus:



Love has no guarantee

(yes i'm date stamped)

Promise me eternity

(guess i'll fade away)

Even with a pedigree

(yes i'm date stamped)

Love has no guarantee



That heart's on display, yes, that heart's off the rails

A ship in the harbour with wind in its sails

Chain up love inside the chain-store girl

Chain up love and exchange it



Is monsieur a connoisseur or just short-changed?

Off the rack or custom-fit it all seems the same

Look but don't touch in paradise

Don't let them catch you damaging the merchandise



_ to chorus



I get sales talk from sales assistants

When all i want to do girl, is lower your resistance

Everything is temporary, written in the sand

Looking for the girl that meets supply with demand



Love has no guarantee

Brings out the woman in me

Even with a pedigree

Love has no guarantee



No chance of subtlety

No promise of eternity

Even with a pedigree

Love has no guarantee

Abc - Vanity Kills

Have you heard the latest? (you love you)

Have you seen who just walked in (vain vain vain vain)

(uh huh, you love you) right over there

She's so vain vain vain vain

Vain vain vain vain



I'm glad you've found someone who loves you

But sad to say that someone is you

And now perhaps you'll both be happy

Guess that makes two just you and you

Someone who cares so much about you

But does that someone have to be you

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah



Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, it kills



So glad i found you glancing in the mirror

Gazing deeply at love's patron saint

Admire the frame, survey the scenery

Or are you just inspecting the paint

Temptation's strong modesty's so weak

High on yourself humble you ain't

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah

Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah



Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills (no way)

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, it kills



So vain, vain vain vain

You love you (yeah)

Give it, give it us, give it us

So vain, so vain, so vain



Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you

Vanity kills, it don't pay bills

Vanity kills, you love you



Vanity kills, if the blast don't get you

Then the fallout will



You love you

Abc - Tower Of London

Let me take you to trafalgar square

Let me take you there

Every street's a fashion catwalk

Everyone's debonair

Let me take you to piccadilly

Guess it leads somewhere



Tower over centuries, tower over london

Tower up and frankly i'm amazed

What's done cannot be undone, not here not in london

What's done can never be erased



So, tower up! - it's those little things

Make life interesting- tower of london!

Tower up! - wasting time

Your's and mine - tower of london!

Hip london! hip london!



Let me take you to st.james's square

Let me groove you there

Diplomats get target practice

In the open air

Psychobillies scream blue murder

Then they hit mayfair



Tower over centuries, tower over london

Tower up and frankly i'm amazed

What's done cannot be undone, not here not in london

What's done can never be erased



So, tower up! - it's those little things

Make life interesting- tower of london!

Tower up! - wasting time

Precious time - tower of london!

Tower up! i'll meet you there

I'll be there - tower of london

New york! - don't make me laugh

I've seen photographs - tower of london...

Abc - Who Can I Turn To?

If only i could stand

On my own two feet

Oh honey, then i'd know

Life could be so sweet



Someone to drive

Someone to blame

Someone to rush through my veins

Someone to wash it all away



* who can i turn to now

If not you, tell me

Who can i turn to

If not you



If i could get

What i want for free

Then i wouldn't have to borrow

Take a tranquilliser

From your limousine driver

Before we crash into tomorrow



Someone to love

Someone to hold me

Someone so courageous

Someone to drag me in from the cold



(* repeat 3 times)



Who can i turn to (tell me who)

Who's gonna be there (if not you)

Tell me who (tell me)

Tell me who (tell me)

Tell me who

Tell me who can i turn to

(if not you)

Ooh (tell me who)

You've got to, you've got to

Tell me who

Abc - Fear Of The World

There's so much panic in this world

But we are living in the best

Of all possible worlds



Fear of the world

No fear, no fear of the world



Deep inside of me

Well i got this wanderlust

Remember how we talked last night?

Well it's just as we discussed

Ashes turn to ashes

Cash turns to dust

There's no-one in this world right now

You think you can trust



No real bruises i can show

Travelling the world on the radio

No real scars i can display

Burning up tomorrow into yesterday



Fear of the world

No fear, no fear of the world



Deep inside of me

In the seat of my pants

There's a pain as big and hard

As a civil disturbance

Conquer all your fears

Seize every chance

In the end make fear your friend

And change your circumstance



No real bruises i can show

Travelling the world on the radio

No real scars i can display

Burning up tomorrow into yesterday



Fear of the world

No fear, no fear of the world

Fear of the world

No fear, no fear of the world

Abc - Between You And Me

So trouble comes strolling through the door

But anything worth having's worth fighting for

Fiction or fact you'll supply the plot

We'll both be featured - like it or not



Yes i guess you think i'm stupid and brutal

I should confess that the feeling is mutual



It's not between the devil and the deep blue see

Not between the truth and hypocrisy

Not between freedom and democracy...

But between you - between you...

Between you and me

Between you - between you...

Between you and me



The stars and stripes meet the hammer and sickle

Not for honour but roubles and nickles

It ain't fisticuffs, it's a full scale war

Your secrets no secret anymore



Yes i guess you think i'm stupid and brutal

I should confess that the feeling is mutual



It's not between the devil and the deep blue see

Not between the truth and hypocrisy

Not between freedom and democracy...

But between you - between you...

Between you and me

Between you - between you...

Between you and me



So trouble comes strolling through the door...

Abc - 15 Storey Halo

It'll never happen until you remove

Until you flatten your 10-20-30-40-15 storey halo



Bottle blondes and beach boys

Might marvel at the size

But honey something that big

You now the best don't advertise



Has no-one ever told you

You gotta body build to last?

But with that 15 storey deadstop

You're going nowhere, and fast



10-20-30-40! 15 storey halo!

10-20-30-40! 15 storeys high!

10-20-30-40! 15 storey halo

10-20-30-40? 7 miles wide

7 miles wide!



"ask a judge and jury

Joe find me 12 just men

We're gonna bottle up their fury

Make sure don't happen again"



All the rebel boys got payrolled

Now they're queuing outside the bank

Like 14 carat playboys

On a trans-cool trans-world tramp



10-20-30-40! 15 storey halo!

10-20-30-40! 15 storeys high!

10-20-30-40! 15 storey halo

10-20-30-40? 7 miles wide

7 miles wide!



And so you meet this guy

A regular gala-had

A real house-trained barbarian

And so you drop him

Like a bad habit

But anything that comes along

You grab it



Oh we're all waiting

For a saving grace

Hands that soothe

Hands that smoothe the human race

Yes we're all waiting

For a saving grace

Hands that soothe

Hands that smoothe the human race

Abc - Unzip

Love's just the gimmick

A mime or a mimic

That makes sex seem respectable

Make you feel more than a dream holding me

Holding me, holding me, holding me



Lips that seem so kissable

Unpermissible unzippable unzip!

Why take pleasure in censorship

Unzip! unzip! unzip!



She's vegetarian except when it comes

To sex

He's strictly ad lib

Except when he consults the text



Lips that seem so kissable

Unpermissible unzippable unzip!

You're just the captain of a sinking ship

Unzip! unzip! unzip!

Lips that seem so kissable

Unpermissable unzippable unzip!

You shoulda let your snarl, slip

Unzip! unzip! unzip!

Abc - The Power Of Persuasion

Cock a snoot,

Loop the loop,

Hock the hula-hoop,

But now it yo-yo'd back again

Shiver me timbers,

Just jumped ship with a little faith

We could win the championship

Parachute substitute, problem is it's soooo cute

Workless, cashless, hungry and in debt

Outta house, outta home, outta pocket



They persuade you,

That they made you then betrayed you

And they blame you with the power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion



You bought the troll,

You bought the gonk,

You took it home, and put it on a pedestal

We needed a saviour,

But from its behaviour

Why did it have to be so extra-terrestrial?

Tax deductible. cash corruptible,

Never the less another poolswinner

Penniless dog tooth check,

Cash and carry find a girl,

Settle down and marry



They persuade you,

That they made you

The proclaim,

And they'll maim you with the power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion

The power of persuasion



I sold the eskimo snow

Build the skyline outta playdo

Persuading you that monochrome is dayglo



With the power of persuasion

Abc - United Kingdom

There's a gang i've just joined

There's a gang i've just joined

Three million strong you'd agree

Four million strong you'd agree

Enrollment was easy, so easy

Getting out proves to be the difficulty



From land's end to john o'groats

From land's end to john o'groats

They are making ends meet

Mending holes in their coat

Fasting and feasting on bread and margarine

Burning dreams build upon buried hopes



United kingdom - you'd better ring them

You've a solution - you better bring them

United kingdom - united kingdom

You've a solution - you better bring them



Opportunity, i guess they all came and went

Finding it hard

Finding the rent you'll find it funny

With your finger running down

Situations vacant

In school he was an athlete

Now he's not so self-assured

"after all of these o-levels is this my reward?"

There's a silent majority, that's seen and

Never heard from charles i, charles ii

To charles iii



United kingdom - you'd better ring them

You've a solution - you better bring them

United kingdom - united kingdom



This busted, rusted, upper-crusted

Bankrupted done and dusted

No-man-to-be-trusted united kingdom



Proud to stand beneath the union jack?

Happy dealing up a no ace pack?

Polishing black boots

Priming the riot squad

There go i but for the grace of god

Covering up the agony with mindless entertainment

You'll be happy when they're ripping up the pavement

Bringing down the axe on steelworks and foundries

Someone said love knows no boundaries

Close your eyes and think of england

Lie back and think of her



United kingdom - you better ring them

You've a solution - you better bring them

Abc - S.o.s.

So here we are

Drifting on an open sea

So here we are

For all we know but then again

We know for all we know

You know, you know



With all the power that i possess

Let's match their money with our own finesse

Why should we ever have to settle for less?

Why does this message always have to be...

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

One cool million for one cool caress



So here we are

Still drifting on an open sea

So here we are

For all we know but then again

We know for all we know

I know, i know



With all the power that i possess

Let's match their money with our own finesse

Why should we ever have to settle for less?

Why does this message always have to be...

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

One cool million for one so possessed



S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

S.o.s. s.o.s. s.o.s.

Abc - That Was Then But This Is Now

Why make the past your sacred cow?

I guess you've changed, you've changed and how

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Fruit's grown rotten on the bough

Reap what you sow, with a counterfeit plough

Yeah, yeah, yeah



That was then but this is now

That was then but this is now



More sacrifices than an aztec priest

Standing here straining at that leash

All fall down

Can't complain, musn't grumble

Help yourself to another peace of apple crumble

And consequently:

Hearts of oak are charged and blistered

Russians should be baby-sitted

Americans enlisted



That was then but this is now

That was then but this is now

That was then but this is now

Abc - So Hip It Hurts

Do you remember when men wore skirts? - so hip!

In kipper ties like jealous flirts - so hip!

In calico and in brocade shirts - so hip it hurts!



Do you remember when girls wore slacks? - so hip!

Traffic stops, men get heart attacks - so hip!

Seems so strange that they took it like that - so hip it hurts!



He's so hip - so hip it...

She's so hip - so hip it...

They're so hip - so hip it hurts!

So hip it...



Whose the girl with the kinski eyes? - so hot!

They kind of face you could idolise - so what!

The kind of shape that gets advertised - so hip it hurts!



Once it was normal for a girl to curtsey

I'll admit even though it hurts me

She'd squeeze informal until it screams for mercy

So hip it hurts!



He's so hip - so hip it...

She's so hip - so hip it...

They're so hip - so hip it hurts!

So hip it hurts!

So hip it...



Afro-wigs on albino squares...

Polka-dots on alpaca flares...

Solar powered electric chairs...

So hip it hurts

Abc - If I Ever Thought You'd Be Lonely

Hold a candle to a naked flame

Ask the atheist his christian name

Try parachuting from a burning plane

Finding someone else you could blame



If i ever thought you'd be lonely

If i ever thought you'd be there

If i ever fought the alimony

Painted pony

You'd be there



Eskimo heart

Bedouin throat

A butcher trussed up in a camel hair coat

A crowning in the castle

A drowning in the moat

Ocean dried,

Desert afloat



If i ever thought you'd be lonely

If i ever thought you'd be there

If i ever fought the alimony

My one and only

You'd be there



One for the lady,

One for the gent

Signatures in wet cement,

And if you ever ask,

What i meant then i'd never know,

Then i'd never know...

Abc - King Money

Not what you are,

But what you've earned

Where jack-queen-king

Money's concerned

A friend in need is a friend in debt

That kinda friend king money can forget.

May those that are full get struck dumb

When they tell the hungry of the good times

To come,

More money than sense in their defence

And cheaper jokes at our expense



So if your king is money

Then i feel sorry for you

And if you think that it's funny

Then maybe you do...

Maybe you do king money

King money, king money



The midas touch doesn't mean

That much until you're crippled with greed,

Using gold as a crutch or half a man

For half a crown for half a kingdom

For half a town

No geldt-in-my-pelt-jack,

No cash in my shack so tell me the things

That you think i lack

Just what kinda price are you willing to pay

For a holiday from the royal tourniquet



So if your king is money

Then i feel sorry for you

And if you think that it's funny

Then maybe you do...

Maybe you do king money

King money, king money



Standing by the xerox machine

I want to duplicate some money

Build a fortune up in black and white

But i'll need a master copy.



You're gonna give your love to me

Shake an apple off the apple tree

When she moves it's poetry

Come to me now, one, two, three



King ka

King ka

King king money



Plan the perfect double murder

Maybe win the pools when i get some money

Honey, i'll be knee high in consumer

Durables



Adorables...

Abc - Love's A Dangerous Language

Love's a dangerous language

Survey the damage

See what love has done

Oh, my precious darling my sacred angel

Look what we've done



Oh, you're scared and frightened

I know your frightened

Don't be afraid yes

We'll take your problem wheel

Drive it slowly to a shallow grave



So in those special moments

That might make you think you were happy then

Moving blue through pink but you're happy now

And you think you'll sink



The buckle is tied for a white knuckle ride

When the buckle is tied,

Then the judgements denied



Oh, my own she vixen we're sworn to secrecy,

This crime is ours

Yeah, so quench your thirst

And when i'm hungry

I'll eat my words



So in those special moments

That might make you think you're happy now

Moving blue through pink you were happy then

But you think you'll sink



The buckle is tied for a white knuckle ride

When the buckle is tied,

Then the judgements denied wherever we go

Wherever we hide

In the white of your eyes

I see the feelings just died

Abc - When Smokey Sings

Debonair lullabies in melodies revealed

In deep despair on lonely nights

He knows just how you feel

The slyest rhymes - the sharpest suits

In miracles made real



Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night

You know you're right just to hold her tight

He soothes it right - makes it outtasite

And everything's good in the world tonight!



When smokey sings - i hear violins

When smokey sings - i forget everything

As she's packing her things

As she's spreading her wings

The front door might slam

But the back door it rings

And smokey sings...he sings



Elegance in eloquence - for sale or rent or hire

Should i say - yes i match his best

Then i would be a liar

Symphonies that soothe the rage

When lovers hearts catch fire



Like a bird in flight on a hot sweet night

You know you're right just to hold her tight

He soothes it right - makes it outtasite

And everything's good in the world tonight!



When smokey sings - i hear violins

When smokey sings - i forget everything

As she's packing her things

As she's spreading her wings

Smashing the hell

With the heaven she brings

Then smokey sings...he sings



Luther croons

Sly's the original - originator

James screams

Marvin was the only innovator

But nothing can compare

Nothing can compare

When smokey sings



When smokey sings - i hear violins

When smokey sings - i forget everything

As she's packing her things

As she's spreading her wings

She threw back the ring

When smokey sings...

Smokey sings...

Smokey sings...

Abc - Bite The Hand

With a little faith we could raise the land

With a little hope we could move as planned

With a little faith we could raise the land

With a little hope we could move as planned

Farm the ghetto up,

Feed the famine down with our nose to the grindstone

Ear to the ground

Find a steady job,

Build a happy home

Farm a steady crop,

Then depose the throne

We could irrigate thirst quenching lake,

Make a fertile place

Thus the desert spake...



Spill the feathers up,

Slash the silk might as well stop boo

Hooing over all that spilt milk,

Empty trap, screaming eye,

Seething lip, stop wondering

Why butter mountains here.

Better motivate it's getting late,

Assassinate the grain, co co co co commotion

Before a global war,

We'd better bridge the ocean



Just like an open wound that

Forever bleeds just like an open plain

In scattered seeds or the foolish man

Believing all he reads,

He begs, he pleads.