AMPLIFIER LYRICS

1. Motorhead

I sleep deeply every night
In a world that's better than real life.
I found a hiding place,
Beneath a dirty blanket of distorted bass.

And there's music in my head,
I heard a gasoline voiced mixed with Marlboro reds singing:
"Pick up your head again
If you want to be king, no one must keep you down..."

And yes now I'm back from the dead,
I'm gonna turn it up loud inside your head.
With the sound of many days,
when we could feel the cheap drugs squeezing through our veins.

Like a million girls and boys,
I'm just another grainy brick in a wall of noise.
I really missed you yesterday,
Well and just for a moment something was reeling me in.

Yes, something was reeling me in.
Well someone was breathing me in.
Someone was breathing me in.
Well

Yeah, but I lived in the slip of your frown.
And this place has been getting me down.

Yeah, but you hung out for my suicide.
You were pushing it down the air supply.
But you never did try to find the time
To let us be together in your cage or mine.

And since you never noticed me,
Well how's about you open up your eyes and see me.
Now music fills my empty bones,
Well and some times it seems it's the only place I've left to go.

Ah hey hey hey
Ah hey hey hey
Mhh yeah yeah yeah
Happy Birthday anyway!

2. Airborne

I'd call it a drastic measure,
But I'll open up one eye.
I'm all evolved and fully grown,
With three dimensions of my own.

Hey Mr. Dog
Well I'm just an animal just like you.
In a laser beam and a human being. Yeah.
With more fire than the belly of the sun.
Than the belly of the sun

And inside this business of the gun,
Well I heard the aero-engines whine.
Of a lucky soul and an afterlife
And another chance for a darker life.

And I pray, cause it don't take god long
To bless those feet that you're standing on.
On a one way ride, a heaven vibe,
Upon wishes or demands.
It's time to fly!
It's time to fly!
It's time.
Fly!

And I'm suffering the absolute
Of black-handed days.
Been serving with the boys and girls,
All the secret rulers of the world.

And dark day alive,
Well once again evil on the throne.
Hearts blacker than the setting sun.
I'm hung upon dark feathers.

It's time to fly.
It's time to fly.
It's time to fly.
It's time to fly.

But know that I'm hanging in there
With intentions so high.
That they're purer than air
And what I've got on my mind now.

Is to be cruising on you
To be full-on on you.
To be swooping on you.
To be airborne on you.
Airborne on
To be carried along.
On a current so strong.
I'd be glowing from you.

I'd be glowing from you.
Glowing from you.
Glowing!

I'd be glowing from you.
Glowing from you.
Glowing!

So go on, on,
Go on and prove me wrong!

3. Panzer

Slip coma deep inside an industrialist's mind
Pour yourself into the creased appeal of a financeman's suit
You keep on exchanging handshakes and smiles
With chat show hosts like butterflies
Fly down and hide in the zeros and the ones
And let's all sing

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The missile can fly
Decode the cypher
The cryptic message within a government health warning
And it's the same,
It's the same
Same song everytime
Oh no! Your big mushroom cloud
It's gone and it's fucked up my view

Don't matter which way we're facing
So long as we're rolling forward
It don't matter which way we're facing
So long as we're rolling forward
Here we go, here we go, here we go

Well we could seek a world of jackpots
And corportate value, yeah
And learn to leave our ugly selves behind
You've got to feel the power as it flows
From businessmen and mother lodes
Become a soul of pure caffeine
Live life like a coke machine, yeah

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Praise god for hollywood teeth
Crash your karma into little bits of happiness
Now it's okay,
It's okay
I know a quick and easy way
We ain't divine, we've all got our faults
Seismic minds think seismic sized thoughts

Don't matter which way we're facing
You'd better look out below
Relentless without ever tiring
We're gonna keep rolling forward
Here we go, here we go, here we go

Here we go
Here we go, here we go, here we go

Mister executive man
Pick your way through the debris
Lubricate your gun
Between the devil and the sea
Sleeping solvent and sound
And ethically free
Right upon my back
A panzer running over me
When I had my hands in the air
Invoice me
And then your mother

Don't matter which way we're facing
You'd better look out below
Relentless without ever tiring
We're gonna keep rolling forward
Here we go, here we go, here we go

4. Old Movies

Watching through the dust.
I'm trapped in a theatre of velvet and rust,
With lonely shafts of light.
And other ghosts drinking refreshments that's served up by skeletons.

It's the spaces in the dark,
Where shadows of dead souls dance on the walls.
Where not only were you the star,
But you were the bleak soundtrack to my film noir.
Yeah, well that was you.

That was you.
Yeah that was you.
Mm-mm that was you.
And what if we just plug-in and go?

Uhh hu hu
Uhh hu hu
Uhh hu hu

And it's my job to be,
Embittered and constantly proving a mystery.
And although we're dismal in the roles,
I'm scratchy and mono as Bogart and you are a sepia Monroe

Who's beneath the cobwebs and the chandeliers.
With others who've been dead for years.
Like heroes brought to life again.
Like picture shows and Rocket-men.

And the light that fills the room
Well it's the flicker from a paper moon.
And when the film is run and through.
Well that's when the darkness must win.

Uhh hu hu
Uhh hu hu
Uhh hu hu...

5. Post Acid Youth

Drugged a million words, just like ourselves.
Formed a straight line, plucking at sound-waves.
And oh, for no-one ever.
Darkest singing.
The days of tripping
Upon snakes are over now.

Do you feel empty now?
Do you feel empty now,
Inside?
Do you feel empty now
Inside the fascist city?
Empty now?
Inside...

And I'm thinking of euphoria.
Spiked on golden splinters.
With the church of relativity
All under my fingers.

Head up into the bluest skies.
Stuck in the glue with the dying flies.
Inside the vapour you were grown.
In the LSD of the speaker cone.

Been given the cobwebs to blow away.
Been celebrating each wasted day.
In unconditional luxury.
Comatose, living life in a sugar cube.

Do you feel pleasure now?
Do you feel pleasure now
Inside the fascist body?
Pleaser now
Inside...

Post-acid youth, post-acid youth
Post-acid youth, post-acid youth
Post-acid youth, post-acid youth

Dumb and hooked on fossil fuels.
A gorged generation.
Speckled and smackey.
Singing Prozac is golden.

Escaped the prison they called the head.
And glittered the bones of the young and dead.
On big Imperial chemistry.
Elastic, dumb and vulnerable.

But somewhere down south
You're where the birds are singing.
You'll hear the barbed wire doves
Of a million mothers.

Is there fulfilment now?
Is there fulfilment now
Inside the fascist psyche?
The fascist psyche.
Bring us fulfilment now.
Inside.

Post-acid youth, post-acid youth
Post-acid youth, post-acid youth
Post-acid youth, post-acid youth

6. Neon

My spider sense is tingling.
From the boys and the girls and the vortex sing.
Just a second to hang upon my ears.
Just a second to taste the salty tears.
Judge not least you may be judged.

Judge not least you may be judged.
Judged by me,
Judged by me.
Least you may be
Destroyed by me.

Trouble come down on shoulders quick.
And put a hymn of neon upon my lips.
Now I'm spiralling into the void.
My atoms split as love's reward.
For the ten percent that I can't afford.
Well maybe I'd fly free as a bird.

Judge not least you may be judged.
Judge not least you may be
Judged by me,
Judged by me.
Least you may be
Destroyed by me.

And without sleep, without remorse.
Well, we're stuck on head-collision course.
But my plate's already full,
Of selfish people with selfish desires.
And don't climb so high
That you can't come down.
To tumble now is to surely die.

Judge not least you may be judged.
Least you may be
Judged by me.
Judged by me.
Least you may be
Loved by me, by me.

Judge not least you may be judged.
Judge not least you may be judged.
Least you may be judged.
Least you may be judged.
Least you may be judged.
Least you may be loved.

7. On/Off

Flicker television.
Like something that is breathing.
I'm dead in bubblegum
And wishing you were here.

You're where the rain doesn't pour,
It just floods down.
But in the places where the insects die.
In the blinking of an eye, we'll be.
We'll be.

Switching on and off, on/off.
Switching on and off, on/off.
Switching on and off, on/off.
Switching off, on/off.

Don't you know we'll be.
Don't you know we'll be? Yeah, yeah.

Watching all the ash fall.
It's just like cigarette snow.
And when I'm stoned
I'm missing you my dear.

And then the light,
Yeah, well it's telling me that I'm alive.
It's telling me that I'm alive.
And you know that I'll be.
I'll be with you.
I'll be with you.

Switching on and off, on/off.
Switching on and off, on yeah
Switching on and off, on/off.
Yes I'll be.
Switching on and off, on/off.
You know we'll be.
Switching on and off, on/off.
You know we'll be, be, be, be

Don't you know, we'll be.
You know that we'll be. Oh oh oh.
Don't you know we'll be? Oh oh oh.
You know that we'll be! Oh oh oh...

8. The Consultancy

Me and monster man come crashing on down.
Like an avalanche caused by a tiny sound.
And we've been stuck in here for what seems an age.
There's too many rhinos for just one cage.
So wash me away.

I feel a ride coming on like a car crash.
I feel a ride coming on, coming on.

A consultancy with me here
And I'll listen to what they recommend.
Taken away on a holiday,
Where everyday is like a weekend.

There's a means to whatever the situation.
A bullet to trigger my imagination.
In concentration, or toxification.
A mountain of juggernaut,
Would come tumbling down.

Do you feel the ride coming on like a car crash?
Do you feel the ride coming on, carrying you away?
Do you feel the ride coming on like a car crash?

And now step into the unknown.
Here for just one second...
And then gone!

Me and my friends been singing this song.
So we're all gonna burn when the devil get home.
Just give us the means to bring it on.
And if you lift up your head, well what would you see?
Maybe the glint of the sun in an approaching tsunami.
In elevation, or consultation.
A mountain of juggernaut,
Would come tumbling down.

Come tumbling down.
Come tumbling down.
It's a mountain of juggernaut.
Would come tumbling down.
It's a mountain of juggernaut.
We'll we all come tumbling down.
We all come tumbling down... down.

9. One Great Summer

Drained again by you and the summer
I'm shadows of monsters
Showrooms of glistening glass
With amphetamine comedowns
Spinning and turning
Alone on St. Valentine's

But I think that I hear celestial angels
They ricochet sounds of moments of glory that passed
Now my pipe dreams are calling
They sing to me sweetly of soul and sincerity

Let's reset our instrument dials
Cause somewhere the moment will come
When we crash through the heart of the summer
Cause we are unstoppable now
Yes somewhere the night will explode
On the back of this wave that we rode
Cause we are unbreakable now
Yes we are unbreakable now

Just how well do you know me?
I'm countless calamaties
A malleable creature who speaks a laudanum tongue
And I promise you deeply
The righteous will triumph over all adversity

Cause sometimes the melodies come
Leaving trails like the stars as they fall
And sometimes I have to hold on
Cause I'm overwhelmed by this all

So reset your instrument dials
Cause somewhere the spirits will soar
As the audience started to roar
We are unswayable now
Can you feel the air under your wings
As a thousand throats started to sing

We are unbeatable now
Yes we are unbeatable now
We are unbeatable now
We are unbeatable now

Well my head is a box whose secrets are open
We're candy-floss children who live in the city of clouds
With the ghosts of dead robots
Where fiction and fantasy roll like a cannonball

So won't you reset your instrument dials
On moments when planets collide
Emerald city doors swing open wide
Cause we are unstoppable now
Hold your breath and the music will play
And we'll prefer to just blow em away
Cause we are unbreakable now

Somewhere the moment will finally land
Oh, as I pick the crowd up in my hand
To hear the roar echo away
To hear the roar echo away
Yes we'll hear the roar echo away
You know we'll hear the roar echo away
Echo away...

10. UFOs

Well haven't you heard the news from outer space?
It seems that somewhere in the ancient dunes.
Of silver moons, like giant spoons lie dusty tombs.
Of Martian men in U-boat pens...
And they will come to kill us all.

'Cause our plastic factories and our catastrophic theories.
Are all we have, we live our lives from paper bags.
And I know better than you know
I'll kill you 'cause you drive too slow!
Aggressive instincts will do us in, yeah...
Just give us the chance for us to prove it ourselves.

Don't you know that all machines sink?
Do you know they sing as they think?
Although their bodies are electric...
Don't you know that all machines sink?

Don't you know that all machines sink?
Do you know they sing as they think?
Although their bodies are electric...
Don't you know that all machines sink? Yeah...

We are waiting for you here...
We are waiting for you here...
We are waiting for you here...

So we laid back and we watched space revolve.
The bodies of astronauts long cold.
Blinking like lonely satellites
Where we left vapour trails through cotton skies
Come on, let's scratch the heavens one last time!

'Cause we're all sinking in the sunshine,
Though you'd love to stay.
Well, you said you must be on your way
To where the rainbows and UFOs.
Fall ten at a time.
In a shower of glitter and gold
We'll all be waiting for you here

11. Boomtime

[Bonus EP Track]

Boomtime coming. Man the monkey. In the cradle.
In the graveyard. Sky is soaring. Lungs are burning.
Roller-coaster. Rolls forever.

A high time rolling, like the ocean.
Hands more loving, than a plastic surgeon.
Young and scrawny. In the fun house.
And lord almighty. Devil knows just what I've been doing.

And there's a chance, that it could all come down.
And there's a chance, there's a chance. Leave me reaching for the sun.
Leave me reaching for the sun. And this could be the perfect one.
And this could be the perfect one. And this could be the perfect one.
And this could be the perfect one.

When tenderness is far away. Keep me safe for another day.

I've been under. Heavy weather. I'll be armed and ready.
In the future. Boomtime coming. Now I'm up and running.
No-one's gonna live forever.

And there's a chance, that it could all come down.
And there's a chance, there's a chance. Leave me reaching for the sun.
Leave me reaching for the sun. And this could be the perfect one.
And this could be the perfect one. And this could be the perfect one.
And this could be the perfect one. And this could be the perfect one.
And this could be the perfect one. And this could be the perfect one.

12. Half Life

[Bonus EP Track]

Woke up with a hard-on
Head full of distortion
Condition returning
Verdict never learning

Is it late in the evening?
Or early in the morning?
Is it late in the evening?
Or early in the morning, morning?

Disorientation
Like the sound of a gunshot
New modifications
To the buzzing of a chainsaw

Sleeping through the daytime
Working through the night time
Sleeping through the daytime
Working through the night time, night time

Laces tied
Wings pumped up with blood
But who keeps bleeding me dry?
Each and everyday
Face the world or take the asp

Been living upon a dirty guitar
Can't you taste my incoherence?
Today is not the same as yesterday -
And I've been on the trail
Been on that trail

Been on that trail
For months and months now
For months and months now
For months and months now

Each moment a crossroads
You'd better be careful
To the left is Jesus
To the right The Devil singing:

Half a life to enjoy it
Half a life to regret it
Half a life to enjoy it
Half a life to regret it, gret it

13. Throwaway

[Bonus EP Track]

Disposable - A users guide. Easy pre-packed suicide. Yeah.
Read the sign above the noose; Please dispose of after using.

Throw me away! Throw me away! Throw me away! Throw me away!
Throw me away...

All you young and pretty things. Kings and queens of packaging. Yeah.
Time will steal your souls away. Disposable. You'll be replaced again.

Replaced again. Replaced again. Replaced again. Replaced again.
Replaced again. Replaced again. Replaced again. Replaced again...

14. Glory Electricity

[Bonus EP Track]

Beneath the electrically empowered sun.
Well I've been rolling down the assembly line.
And I've been stuck in flesh for far too long.
And flowing free's been on my mind.
Just like an electric shock. Just like an electric shock.
Shock, shock, shock, shock, shock.

Become a rainbow one hundred foot tall.
Just flick a switch to turn it on.
Be my metallic and conductive girl.
And we'd be like colours that the heavens spun.
As we sang along. As we sang along. 'Cause you've got me.

Glory! Glory! Glory!
Glory! Glory!

And you're so uplifting. This feeling that you're giving me.
Is pure acceleration. Some kind of chemistry.
Whatever's washing over me, is pure intoxication.
And you're pure acceleration. So let's raise hands and rejoice!
Like electricity, you are my remedy. You are my remedy.

Now that I'm polarised - 240 Volts.
Yes I'm black and white on a cinema screen.
I'm so energised I'm gonna burst.
But you've gotta charge me first.
You've gotta charge me first.

Well... Glory electricity the way you shower me. The way you shower me.
Well... Glory electricity the way you power me. The way you power me.

Glory! Glory!
Glory! Glory! Glory!
Yes you've got me!

And you're so uplifting. This feeling that you're giving me.
Is pure acceleration. Some kind of chemistry.
Whatever's washing over me, is pure intoxication.
And you're pure acceleration. So let's raise hands and rejoice!
Like electricity, you are my remedy. You are my remedy.
You are my remedy. You are my remedy.

Some pure interpretation. Some pure detonation.





AMPLIFIER LYRICS