"The top is high so your roots are forgottenGiving is good as long as you’re gettingWhat’s driving you? It’s ambition and bettingI said who do you think you are?"

"Brothers and sisters Rebuild your lives We're all drug takers Give us something tonight"

"I ain't got nothing to be scared of"

"So give me coffee and TV, history I've seen so much I'm going blind and I'm brain-dead virtually sociability, is hard enough for me take me away from this big bad world and agree to marry me we can start over again"

"Space is the place"

"Tender is the day, the demons go away"

"In this town cellular phones are hot with teens, and in this town we all go to terminal pubs, it helps us sweat out those angry bits of life, from this town the English army grinds its teeth into glass"

"And when she lets me slip away She turns me on all my violence is gone"

"It really, really, really could happen Yes, it really, really, really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go"

"He thinks his educated airs those family shares Will protect him, that you will respect him He moves in circles of friends who just pretend that they like him He does the same to them and when you put it all together There's the model of a charmless man"

"This is a low, but it won't hurt you when you're alone it will be there with you finding ways to stay so low"

"Bank holiday comes six times a year, days of enjoyment to which everybody cheers! Bank holiday comes (with) a six pack of beer then it's back to work A. G. AIN"

"Confidence is a preference for the 'abitual voyeur of wha' is known as (Parklife!)"

"End of a century, ooohhhh, it's nothing special"

"Girls Who Are Boys Who Like Boys To Be Girls Who Do Boys Like They're Girls Who Do Girls Like They're Boys Always Should Be Someone You Really Love"

"Jim stops and gets out the car goes to a house in Emperor's Gate goes through the door and to his room and then he puts the TV on turns it off and makes some tea says "Modern life well it's rubbish I'm holding on for tomorrow""

"I'll forget to breathe someday, I never stopped to think why"

"You need a holiday, somewhere in the sun with all the people who are waiting, there never seems to be one say something, say something else"

"So what's the worth In all of this If the child in your head If the child is dead"

"Advertisements are here for rapid persuasion If you stare too long you lose your appetite"

"And then you move move move move, and you push push push push, and you trip over yourself and you think to yourself, why am I here? I'm here because I got no fucking choice!"

"Y'know yer get down now, and yer look at the wall And what does the wall say to yer? I ain't a mirror, f#$k off! It's true though innit? Think about it Don't stall man I got 'ouses ter build"

"Caravan is lost In the sun and the dust No-one loves you When you are lost Yeah I've been a clown Trying to pull my whole world down I thought I was strong But you are the one And when it comes, you'll feel the weight of it The weight of it And the day and you'll get away from it, Away from it"

"Feel the sunshine on your face It's in a computer now. Gone are the future, way out in space."

"And you've been so busy lately That you haven't found the time To open up your mind And watch the world spinning gently out of time."

"Waiting, I got no town to hide in The country's got a hold of my soul TV's dead and there ain't no war in my head And you seem very beautiful to me"

"God save the Queen. Her fascist regime."

"But I was a rebel in the usual, rather superficial, ways that teenagers in the late 1970s were. I mean, I went fairly quickly from punk rock to Thatcherism. The two had much in common. The urge to challenge the consensus was very powerful in me at the age of 15, 16, 17, and the Sex Pistols and Margaret Thatcher alike were rebarbative and critical of what seemed to me a rather stagnant country."

"Never Mind the Bollocks is the root of everything that goes on at modern-rock radio."

"Don't know what I want but I know how to get it."

"There is no future in England's dreaming."

"We're so pretty, oh so pretty Pretty vacant And we don't care!"

"That's no problem problems, problems the problem is you!"

"Now no one's knocked upon my door For a thousand years or more. All made up and nowhere to go; Welcome to this one man show.Just take a seat they're always free, No surprise no mystery. In this theatre that I call my soul, I always play the starring role."

"I sold my house I sold my motor, too. All I want is to be next to you. I'd rob a bank Maybe steal a plane. You took me over, Think I'm goin' insane."

"You consider me the young apprentice Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis. Hypnotized by you if I should linger, Staring at the ring around your finger.I have only come here seeking knowledge, Things they wouldn't teach me of in college. I can see the destiny you sold Turned into a shining band of gold.I'll be wrapped around your finger. I'll be wrapped around your finger."

"There's a little black spot on the sun today; It's the same old thing as yesterday. There's a black hat caught in a high tree top; There's a flag-pole rag and the wind won't stop.I have stood here before inside the pouring rain With the world turning circles running 'round my brain. I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign, But it's my destiny to be the king of pain."

"Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace. I dream at night I can only see your face. I look around but it's you I can't replace. I feel so cold and I long for your embrace. I keep crying baby, baby please.Oh can't you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take."

"Every breath you take; Every move you make; Every bond you break; Every step you take, I'll be watching you."

"Another working day has ended, Only the rush hour hell to face. Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes, Contestants in a suicidal race. Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance. He knows that something somewhere has to break. He sees the family home now looming in his headlights, The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache."

"Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, But we know all her suicides are fake. Daddy only stares into the distance, There's only so much heartache he can take. Many miles away, Something crawls from the slime At the bottom of a dark Scottish lake."

"You will see light in the darkness; You will make some sense of this. When you've made your secret journey, You will find this love you miss."

"You come to me like a moth to the flame. It's love you need but I don't play that game. 'Cause you could be my greatest fan, But I'm nobody's friend, I'm a demolition man."

"There has to be an invisible sun. It gives its heat to everyone. There has to be an invisible sun. That gives us hope when the whole day's done."

"I resolved to call her up a thousand times a day And ask her if she'll marry me in some old fashioned way. But my silent fears have gripped me Long before I reach the phone, Long before tongue has tripped me, Must I always be alone?Every little thing she does is magic; Everything she do just turns me on. Even though my life before was tragic, Now I know my love for her goes on."

"There is no political solution To our troubled evolution. Have no faith in constitution, There is no bloody revolution.We are spirits in the material world."

"Poets, priests and politicians Have words to thank for their positions. Words that scream for your submission And no one's jamming their transmission. 'Cos when their eloquence escapes you, Their logic ties you up and rapes you."

"Don't think me unkind, Words are hard to find. They're only cheques I've left unsigned From the banks of chaos in my mind. And when their eloquence escapes me, Their logic ties me up and rapes me."

"Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears. Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years. Turn on the stereo, it's played for years and years: An Otis Redding song, it's all I own."

"How can you say that you're not responsible? What does it have to do with me? What is my reaction, what should it be? Confronted by this latest atrocity."