English Bands

""Who would want to be the men of the people \ when there is people like you?" - Teddy Picker"

""You sharpen the heel of your boot and you press it in my chest \ And you make me wheeze \ Then to my knees you do promote me." - Dangerous Animals"

"“Flicking through a little book of sex tips \ Remember when the boys were all electric?” - Fluorescent Adolescent"

""That place on memory lane you liked still looks the same \ But something about it's changed." - Fireside"

""And I hate that little game you had called \ Crying." - Crying Lightining"

""And I can't help myself \ All I wanna hear her say is are you mine?" - R U Mine"

"How to tear apart the ties that bind, perhaps 'fuck off' might be too kind" - "Do Me A Favour"

""I've seen your frown \ and it's like looking down the barrel of a gun." - Mardy Bum"

""Last night what we talked about \ It made so much sense \ But now the haze has ascended \ It don't make no sense anymore." - From The Ritz To The Rubble"

"I probably still adore you with your hands around my neck \ Or I did last time I checked." - 505"

""I think you should know you're his favorite worst nightmare." - D Is For Dangerous"

"The world is spinning too fast, I'm buying lead shoes, to keep myself tethered to the days I tried to lose."

"There's a monkey in the jungle, watching a vapor trail Caught up in the conflict between his brain and his tail."

"I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag, I'm useless, but not for long, The future is coming on."

"You can’t get what you want, but you can get me"

"All our love and all our of pain Will be but a tune. The sun and the moon, The wind and the rain. Hand in hand we'll do and die, Listening to the band that made us cry. We'll have nothing to lose, We'll have nothing to gain. Just to stay this real life situation For one last refrain."

"Something happens and I'm head over heels. I never find out till I'm head over heels. Something happens and I'm head over heels. Ah don't take my heart, Don't break my heart, Don't throw it away. I made a fire and watching burn. Thought of your future With one foot in the past now just how long will it last. No no no have you no ambition."

"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man."

"Too many people living in a secret world While they play mothers and fathers, We play little boys and girls. When we gonna make it work? I could be happy, I could be quite naive. It's only me and my shadows, Happy in our make believe."

"In violent times, You shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white, They really really ought to know. Those one track minds That took you for a working boy. Kiss them goodbye, You shouldn't have to jump for joy."

"Welcome to your life, There's no turning back. Even while we sleep, We will find you Acting on your best behaviour, Turn your back on mother nature. Everybody wants to rule the world."

"How can I be sure When your intrusion is my illusion? How can I be sure When all the time you changed my mind? I asked for more and more How can I be sure?"

"Shout. Shout. Let it all out. These are the things I can do without. Come on, I'm talking to you. Come on."

"It's not that you're not good enough, It's just that we can make you better. Given that you pay the price, We can keep you young and tender. Following the footsteps of a funeral pyre, You were paid not to listen now your house is on fire. Wake me up when things get started, When everything starts to happen."

"Halargian world."

"I believe that when the hurting and the pain has gone We will be strong, Oh yes we will be strong. And I believe that if I'm crying while I write these words, Is it absurd? Or am I being real?"

"All around me are familiar faces, Worn out places, worn out faces. Bright and early for their daily races, Going nowhere, going nowhere. And their tears are filling up their glasses, No expression, no expression. Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow, No tomorrow, no tomorrow."

"Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy birthday, happy birthday And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen."

"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had. I find it hard to tell you, 'Cos I find it hard to take. When people run in circles, It's a very, very Mad World."

"Once a label is on something It becomes an it. Like it's no longer alive."

"You don't like me, I ain't feelin' y'all neither, Y'all need to roll your blunts with more cheeba."

"You and me were meant to be walking free in harmony One fine day We'll fly away Don't you know that Rome wasn't built in a day?"

"Everything you touch, you don't feel Do not know what you steal."

"Playgirl, why are you dancing when you could be alone?"

"They only want you when you're seventeen: When you're twenty-one, you're no fun. They take a and let you go, Say they'll let you know, so come on."

"The Beatles were just a band. Led Zeppelin: just a band. The Beach Boys: just a band. The Sex Pistols: just a band."

"Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals, no matter how great they are or were."

"Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music. Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music. Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music. Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music."

"Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants. Use it to get into their heads."

"Thou shalt choose a political party based on their policies, as opposed to just going with who your family has always supported. They are not a football team."

"Learned the lesson early on: the truth is boring, and it takes too long."

"We had some good machines But they don't work no more I loved you once Don't love you any more."

"You know evil is an exact science: Being carefully, correctly wrong."

"Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals, everybody happy as the dead come home Big black nemesis, parthenogenesis, no one move a muscle as the dead come home."

"Nigel Farage is an arse. His party is made up of bigots and its policies are racist."

"We'd be much less likely to object to MP3 than to a bootlegger because selling records without our permission is vastly different to people having access to our stuff for free."

"And have you ever noticed how it's never poor or working class people who object to someone else making a living from work?"

"Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of all Margaret Thatcher's victims."

"We had been making music for 15 years so nothing fazed us. We supported Aerosmith and their show was full of bombast and laser effects and we knew we couldn’t compete. So we gathered round one microphone and sang an a cappella song about fascism."

"If you see us [perform] live, you know we have a sense of humor because we're just not cool. We wear stupid costumes. It's not dignified. It's more Liza Minnelli than ."