Greatest Hits So Far lyrics
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PUBLIC IMAGE
(Public Image Ltd)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd
© 1978 Virgin Records Ltd
Hello, hello, hello…
You never listen to a word that I said
You only seen me
For the clothes that I wear
Or did the interest go so much deeper
It must have been
The colour of my hair
The Public Image
What you wanted was never made clear
Behind the image was ignorance and fear
You hide behind this public machine
Still follow same old scheme
Public Image
Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
I will not be treated as property
Public Image
Two sides to every story
Somebody had to stop me
I'm not the same as when I began
It's not a game of monopoly
Public image
Public image
You got what you wanted
The public image belongs to me
It's my entrance
My own creation
My grand finale
My goodbye
Public image
Goodbye
DEATH DISCO
(Public Image Ltd)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd
© 1979 Virgin Records Ltd
Seeing in your eyes
Words can never say the way
Told me in your eyes
Final in a fade
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Never really know
Never realise
Silence in your eyes
Silence in your eyes
Never really know
Til its gone away
Never realise
The silence in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Seen it in your eyes
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Watch her slowly die
Saw it in her eyes
Choking on a bed
Flowers rotting dead
Seen it in her eyes
Ending in a day
Silence was a way
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
Seeing in your eyes
I'm seeing through my eyes
Words cannot express
Words cannot express
Words cannot express
MEMORIES
(Public Image Ltd)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd
© 1979 Virgin Records Ltd
You make me feel ashamed
At acting attitudes
Remember ridicule
It should be clear by now
Clear by now
Your words are useless
Full of excuses
False confidence
Someone has used you well
Used you well
I could be wrong
It could be hate
As far as I can see
Clinging desperately
Imagining pretending
No personality
Dragging on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on
I think you're slightly late
Slightly late
This person's had enough of useless memories
Always remember
Twisted amenities
Could be wrong
This person's had enough
Of useless memories
Always remember
Twisted amenities
Out of order
Out of order
It could be worse
You're losing all the time
I could be wrong
Could be worse
You're losing all the time
I let you stay too long
I could be wrong
Could be wrong
Whatever past
Could never last
All in your mind
Where it all began
You're doing wrong
It's not the movies
And you're old
CAREERING
(Public Image Ltd)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd
© 1979 Virgin Records Ltd
A face is raining
Across the border
The pride of history
The same as murder
Is this living
He's been careering
The steady hand as planned
Behind the reasoning
No claim for property
Both sides of the river
There is bacteria
Is this living
He's been careering
Trigger machinery
Mangle the military
No one should be there
Is this living
Blown into breeze
Scatter concrete
The jagged metal
Bad life
Manufactured
He's been careering
Is this living
A face is raining
Across the border
The pride of history
The same as murder
Is this living careering
There must be meaning
Behind the moaning
Spreading tales
Like coffin nails
Is this living
He's been careering
It's raining
I need to hide
Trigger machinery
I've been careering
Across the border
Is this living
Both sides of the river
There is bacteria
Armoured machinery mangled
FLOWERS OF ROMANCE
(Lydon/Levene)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd
© 1981 Virgin Records Ltd
Now in the summer
I could be happy or in distress
Depending on the company
On the veranda
Talk of the future or reminisce
Behind the dialogue
We're in a mess
Whatever I intended
I sent you flowers
You wanted chocolates instead
The flowers of romance
The flowers of romance
I've got binoculars
On top of boxhill
I could be Nero
Fly the eagle
Start all over again
I can't depend on these so-called friends
It's a pity you need to bend
I'll take the furniture
Start all over again
THIS IS NOT A LOVE SONG
(Lydon/Levene/Atkins)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / EMI Virgin Music Ltd / Complete
Music
© 1983 Virgin Records Ltd
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
Happy to have
Not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm crossing over into free-enter-prize
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
Not a love song
Not a love song
I'm going over to the other side
I'm happy to have not to have not
Big business is very wise
I'm inside free enterprise
I'm adaptable
I'm adaptable
I'm adaptable
Now I like my new role
I'm getting better and better
I have a new goal
I'm changing my ways
Where money applies
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
This is not a love song
Not a love song
Now are you ready
To grab the candle
That tunnel vision
Not television
Behind the curtain
Out of the cupboard
You take the first train
Into the big world
Now will I find you
Now will you be there
Not a love song (echo)
Not a love song
Not a love song (repeat)
Happiness and sunshine
Not a love song
Oh no
Not a love song
Oh no
Not a love song
Oh no (repeat)
RISE
(Lydon/Laswell)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / MCA Music Ltd
© 1986 Virgin Records Ltd
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be black
I could be white
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be white
I could be black
Your time has come
Your second skin
The cost so high
The gain so low
Walk through the valley
The written word is a lie
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
II could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
could be black
I could be white
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be black
I could be white
They put a hot wire to my head
Cos of the things I did and said
They made these feelings go away
Model citizen in every way
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be black
I could be white
I could be right
I could be wrong
I could be black
I could be white
Your time has come your second skin
Cost so high the gain so low
Walk through the valley
The written word is a lie
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
I could be wrong
I could be right
I could be wrong
They put a hot wire to my head
Cos of the things I did and said
They made these feelings go away
A model citizen in every way
Your time has come your second skin
Cost so high the gain so low
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
May the road rise with you
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy
Anger is an energy (repeat)
HOME
(Lydon/Laswell)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / MCA Music Ltd
© 1986 Virgin Records Ltd
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Now
What does this mean
It means
We get the best scene
When politics talk
The ends of power meet
Nice to be wanted
Safe and protected
The ends of power
When politics talk
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Home sweet home
Home, home
Now
Let's talk politics
Every dog has its day
For me
(for me)
I don't believe
(I don't believe in anything)
Better days ahead
(one more war)
Will never be
(I do believe no more)
I don't believe in
(no long goodbye)
Anything
(nuclear day)
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Better days will never be
Spare no man
Match bomb for bomb
War
All is fair in war
When the ground is soft
With hot blood
Spare no man
Better days will never be
(match bomb for bomb)
A scorched earth
(flatten the earth, this home sweet home)
No charity
(burn everything, from lust to dust)
No weak pity
(no charity, no weak pity)
From lust to dust
(all is fair in war)
Home sweet home
Home sweet home
Home sweet home
SEATTLE
(Dias/Edmonds/Lydon/McGeoch/Smith)
Published by EMI 10 Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1987
Don't like the look of this old town
What goes up must come down
Character is lost and found
On unfamiliar playing ground
Get out of my world
What in the world
Shoeboxed around the rifle range
Have all your functions rearranged
Your mind and body gagged and bound
On a new familiar playing ground
The ordinary will ignore
Whatever they cannot explain
As if nothing ever happened
And everything remained the same again
What in the world
What in the world
What in the world
Get out of my world
Get out of my world
Get out of my world
Get up, get out
Get out of my world (repeat)
Open your mouth now
Secret signs and knowing looks
These sunny days will cook the books
Happy to take the misery
This mortal life can bring to me
Don't like the looks of this ole town
What goes up must come down
Character is lost and found
On unfamiliar playing ground
What in the world
What in the world
What in the world
What in, get out, get out, get out of my world
What in the world
Palaces, barricades, threats meet promises (repeat)
THE BODY
(Dias/Edmonds/Lydon/McGeoch/Smith)
Published by EMI 10 Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1987
When you run about
Without precautions
You'll get diseased
And need abortions
And up till now
No vaccination
Can give you back your reputation
We want
We want your body
We want
We want your body
We want
We want your body (repeat)
Cathy go home
Without your daughter
In a welfare state
She'll be well looked after
And it's easy now
This other person
Is off your back not a burden
We want
We want your body
We want
We want your body
We want
We want your body (repeat)
Body
RULES AND REGULATIONS
(Dias/Edmonds/Lydon/McGeoch/Smith)
Published by EMI 10 Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1987
You'll wonder should you risk it
A pocket full of mischief
An idiotic rain dance
Relying on a romance
Another frame beginning
Now's the time for singing a-ha!
Prayer has conceded
Successfully succeeded
Rules and regulations
Rules and regulations
Howling at the moonshine
Barking up the wrong tree
A sacrificial slaughter
Took you from the altar
Rules and regulations
Rules and regulations
Have no fear of laughter
Wait for comes after
Excusing no excuses
The hangmen and his nooses
Busy executing
The bloody and blaspheming
Rules and regulations
Rules and regulations
The Spanish inquisition
no one above suspicion
crying out for reason
might as well be treason
Rules and regulations
Rules and regulations
Have no fear of laughter
Wait for what comes after
It's you they're looking out for
It's you they're coming after
Innocent not guilty
Not to this committee
DISAPPOINTED
(Dias/Edmonds/Lydon/McGeoch/Smith/Hague)
Published by EMI 10 Music Ltd / MCA Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1989
Disappointed
Promises
Promises
Old tired
Worn out second hand sentences
One thing
With you is certain
You're a really sad person
So sad
Disappointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Disappointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for
What are friends for
You
You're just a really bad person
Who won't
You won't listen to anyone
No not you
With those half moon eyelids
Just babbling on
Your useless defences
So sad
Disappointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Disappointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for
What are friends for
This erratic haphazard
Fluttering
This to-ing and fro-ing
Like a confused moth
The collusion
Illusion
And it's all ad infinitum
You're a really sad person
You're really so sad
Disappointed a few people
When friendship reared its ugly head
Disappointed a few people
Well, isn't that what friends are for
What are friends for
Fools and horses
Running their courses
And brow beaten down
Like dust on the ground
You cheat easily
Like sweet charity
And all of the bastards
The world despises
Springing surprises
In newer disguises
You cheat easily
Like all charity
WARRIOR
(Dias/Edmonds/Lydon/McGeoch/Smith)
Published by EMI 10 Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1989
Fields they have eyes
Woods they have ears
Fish always sink
Head first downward
I'll never dismount
I ride the tiger
Crosses are ladders
Leading to heaven
Keep the candle burning
Bright in the window
It's the only light
I'll see tonight
Beggars can't be choosers
Shrouds have no pockets
Some of us wake up
Others roll over
Hear the dog bark
Watch the trees sway
Keep the candle burning
Both night and day
Many invade
I take no quarter
This is my land
I'll never surrender
DON'T ASK ME
(Dias/ Lydon/ McGeoch)
Published by Warner Chappell Music Ltd / Chrysalis Music Ltd
© Virgin Records 1990
What you gonna do
When the river runs dry
Put your drills in the mud
Death up in the sky
Should have saved those bottles
Should have saved those cans
Should have ought to listened to that plastic man
No more toilet paper
It's gone to save the trees
Do you like the taste of honey
Isn't it best without the bees
Be careful what you're doing
You're messing up my life
And if all this was a cake
Then you took too big a slice
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Don't ask me
Cause I don't know
I don’t know
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Don't blame me
I told you so
You read it in the papers
You hear it on the news
Very few listen
A spew without a view
And is it really worth it
Your choking on remote
I see the red tide coming
But we don't even vote
Infection in the greenhouse
Dizzy in the clouds
Oily as an ocean
Heaven disembowelled
Planning on a future
Well lucky for some
Develop your body
But your mind is still a slum
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Don't ask me
Cause I don't know
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Well don’t ask me
Don’t blame me
I told you so
We need light
Wrapped up in this packaging
Of multi-layered gram 150 layers of bacteria
To cover up this sham
Protecting my planet
You wrap it in plastic
The package is product
Perfected eternal
A crap in a cling wrap
I never met yet a prime minister or president
Who told the truth yet
Swimming in this slurry
Burning under heat
Windblown is this weather
I eat what you secrete
I climb this highest derrick
This circus has no prayer
No UFO to save us
And do we really care
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Do we really care
Don't ask me
Cause I don't know
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Well don’t blame me
I told you so
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Don't ask me
Cause I don't know
No UFO to save us
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Well don’t blame me
I told you so
What's it all about
They scream and then they shout
Don't ask me
Cause I don't know
Climb this highest derrick
Kiss goodbye to the earth, the sun, the moon
It's easy to deceive the child
