Tenement Funster / Flick Of The Wrist / Lily Of The Valley

part I: Tenement Funster

My new purple shoes

Bin amazin' the people next door

And my rock'n'roll forty fives

Bin enragin' the folks on the lower floor

I got a way with the girls on my block

Try my best to be a real individual

And when we go down to smokies and rock

They line up like it's some kind of ritual

Oh give me a good guitar

And you can say that my hair's a disgrace

Or just find me an open car

I'll make the speed of light outa this place

I like the good things in life

But most of the best things ain't free

It's the same situation just cuts like a knife

When you're young and you're poor and you're crazy

Young and you're crazy...

Oh give me a good guitar

And you can say that my hair's a disgrace

Or just find me an open car

part II: Flick Of The Wrist

Dislocate your spine if you don't sign

He says I'll have you seeing double

Mesmerize you when he's tongue tied

Simply with those eyes ooh

Synchronize your minds and see

The beast within him rise

Don't look back don't look back

It's a rip off

Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby

Blow him a kiss and you're mad

Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out

A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head

He's taken an arm and taken a leg

All this time honey baby you've been had

Intoxicate your brain with what I'm sayin'

If not you'll lie in knee deep trouble

Prostitute yourself he says

Castrate your human pride ooh

Sacrifice your leisure days

Let me squeeze you 'till you've dried

Don't look back don't look back

It's a rip off

Work my fingers to my bones

I scream with pain I still make no impression

Seduce you with his money make machine

Cross collateralise big time money money

Reduce you to a muzak fake machine

Then the last goodbye

Flick of the wrist and you're dead baby

Blow him a kiss and you're mad

Flick of the wrist he'll eat your heart out

A dig in the ribs and then a kick in the head

He's taken an arm and taken a leg

All this time honey baby you've been had

part III: Lily Of The Valley

I am forever searching high and low

But why does everybody tell me no

Neptune of the seas an answer for me please

The lily of the valley doesn't know

I lie in wait with open eyes

I carry on thru' stormy skies

I follow ev'ry course my kingdom for a horse

But each time I grow old

Serpent of the Nile relieve me for a while

And cast me from your spell and let me go

Messenger from seven seas has flown

To tell the king of Rhye he's lost his throne

Wars will never cease

Is there time enough for peace?

The lily of the valley doesn't know