"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 ."

"By the time we got to Woodstock It was going up in flame In June, under the silvery moon, Why do all your songs turn out the same?"

"That stuff inside your houses and that stuff behind your eyes."

"The way we exist isn't to be a shining example for the world. All the 10-point plans in the world don't change the fact that ultimately we do this because it makes us feel euphoric."

", but she's pretty much obsolete."

"[W]e’ll be remembered as a footnote; the band who chucked water over ; the band who had a hit with . And I’m happy with that, to be honest. Of course we’d like to be remembered as being part of British culture, as having played a part in talking about the changing world around us. But let’s face it, [the] Falling over song will win in the end."

"You see me You hear me There are millions Think just like me"

"In general, ‘reverent’ is not an adjective to be applied to Chumbawamba."

"Back in Leeds, The news we heard No-one killed, And no-one hurt Wish all the young men used only words."

"This is tearoom England. They'll kick your face in so politely."

"I get knocked down But I get up again, You're never gonna keep me down."

"We live for words and die for words, Principles we can't afford."

"[W]ithin the band, we’d all still have to hold tight to the rigging and make sure we were still heading in the same direction, make sure we were doing what we wanted to do together. And enjoying it! Because all this talk of Pitching in and Taking Advantage makes it sound like no fun, like Mao-suited Communists chirping the Party Line. Chumbawamba (despite what a lot of people might think) was never like that. We were too busy laughing to not have fun."

"So if you meet with these historians, I'll tell you what to say: Tell them that the Nazis never really went away."

"If any ask us why we died We tell them that our leaders lied Sold us out down the riverside Whose side are you on?"

"Out with the old, cheated by the new."

"Smoother words, nicer suits — don't be fooled, they're still wearing jackboots! The words get tired when you hear them every day! The Nazis changed, but they never went away!"

"Alcohol, testosterone, and ignorance and fists"

"I'm not so brave, and I'm not so crazy And I'd rather be a coward than pushing up daisies."

"Nothing ever burns down by itself; Every fire needs a little bit of help."

"Beware the Holy Trinity: Church and State and Law"

"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."

"Where do you want to go today? Somewhere you can never take me."

"The people at the top have further to fall."

"In a world full of no ones I am a someone."

"I was taught by , but I blame it on ."

"Look at the small print: it's what we agreed Sign your name before we teach you how to read."

"Take the train, A last goodbye, Throw your rhymes at passers-by"

"Say 'amen', and shoot to kill."

"Hear the music coming, loud as you can stand, You will never be the same again, Let the beat into you, let it turn you 'round, Let it be your best friend, You are the future, it's your time, You and you and you, Stay together this is yours and mine, What we're gonna do."

"Here we are in the years The blood, the sweat, the tears Have made us bondage slaves In a world that we never made, The politicians lick our bones, The tacticians, hearts of stone They turn us against our brothers Make us fight and kill each other Locked in lust we put our trust in dogs"

"You are the people, now you shine, You and you and you, Stay together, let me speak the line, What you gonna do?"

"Don't ask for why, don't ask for help, Don't ask for anything, that you can't do yourself The wolf is here, he's at your side You better fight him, or it's you that's gonna die, The wolf is at your door, The wolf"

"Go up on the mountain, Speak to gods and men, See if they can tell you why they died, Ask them when we stop the greed, Ask them why we have to bleed, They will tell you "brother, when the eagle screams we die.""

"Now even though I'm old and weird, I remember what she said, I always knew she was right, So I kept it in my head, I never tried to hurt the world, Never was drove by greed, Believe I mostly did my best, What more do you want from me?"

"I make love to mountain lions, Sleep on red-hot branding irons, When I walk the roadway shakes, Bed's a mess of rattlesnakes, Voodoo child, black cat bone, Scratch your back, hear you moan, Get me up, you go down, tall building, single bound"

"Politicians kissing babies for good luck T.V. preachers sell salvation for a buck You don't need no golden cross to tell you wrong from right The world's worst murderers were those who saw the light"

"If you can't see what bloody fools we were, Then you were also born a bloody fool, Listen to the hundred million dead, They didn't know it, but they died for you,All you know is that you're young & tough, Don't you think those millions thought the same, If you don't know where it all went wrong, You'll just make the same mistake again & again & again."

"I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand My image is of agony, my servants rape the land Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore."

"So that's the story, what you see is what you get, No doubt there's better men than me But I ain't met one yet No doubt the dancer calls the tune, So you can call on me I'm all I've got, and what I am is what I'll be"

"Take the eagles from the sky And ride into the sun Make a stand, the time has come The tournament's begun Throw the dice, spin the wheel Turn the card of fate The day is coming soon my friend You don't have to wait"

"Blasting chunks of magma into the stratosphere A thousand scarlet sunsets the land, a sea of fear To the east of Java basking in the sea The sign of Krakatoa is rising from the deep"

"Saxon was one of the early leaders of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, alongside Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, even outdistancing them at the onset."

"Read the books, learn to save your life, How can you find the knowledge if you don't, All the brave men died before their time, You'll either be a hero, or you won't"

"Nobody ever wants to hear the truth, Too much like taking blame, The way we are we are the living proof, Bad news boogie and sunk in shame."

"Don't you listen to a single word Against rock'n'roll The new religion, the electric church The only way to go I don't give a good goddamn My life's been alright I'm gonna crazy out of my mind Every single night."