IQ LYRICS

1. The Universal Scam

[Cook-Holmes-Jowitt-Nicholls-Orford]

Either talk or listen
Don't entertain nobody else
Now that the lines are positive
Someone save me from myself

Unthinkable, unbelievable
There's no way out

Unconvincing hypocrites
Are you putting sense aside?
All you sarcastic sycophants
You pussyfoot in, santified

As he's cornering individuals
He contrives a role reversal
A universal scam saved in ignorance
Surely taking you down
I must confess I feel second blessed

A voice I can't forget reverberates inside my head:
"You're all you'll ever be
Your soul is stained, give in to me
By these almighty hands
The purifying flames are fanned
The hours left to us fade so fast
The first shall be the last to know"

Unthinkable, unbelievable

2. Wintertell

[Nicholls-Holmes]

The eyes that watch her weeping
As she turns to leave
Surrender to another tear
Uncertain of this new decision we have made
Too empty, though, to say for sure
And she and I no longer know the reason
It's all I can do to bury my fear
I wanted so much to always be here

Wherever she goes, whatever she does
How can I let go?
When all that I know, in all that I see
I know in my heart reminders will come

Both out of words and out of hope
Another day exactly like I've come to know
So nervously I close my eyes
In hoping, when I open them, that she'll be gone
For well she knows I can't give in to sorrow
I wait for a chance to be letting her know
I love her enough to be letting her go

I know it's everything we said
But I must not trust
It's too late, too late to trust
And I must not trust
It's too late, too late to trust

3. The Last Human Gateway (Middle Section)

As the mirror to the sun,
The colour of the evening, never let go,
Hold my stomach, keep it tight,
They're pulling out the breathing, let it go;
If you ever change your mind,
Don't be caught alone, no, it's only me,
With all the hopes and fears combined,
It's hard to care for living anymore,
I wouldn't let you down again.

Inspired by hunger, fired by lust,
I sold the children's faces, painted gold,
Something moving taking hold,
Is gathering but never growing old,
I did everything I could just to say,
Believe me, you're not alone,
But with the winter in my bones,
Oh what else can I do now?
It's only me,
I wouldn't let you down again.

4. Hollow Afternoon (1999 Recording)

[Orford-Nicholls]

One mistake and all the hopes are dashed
Before the chance is given
I want to hide in driven snow
Until the chill is deep inside me
On this hollow afternoon
It can't be long if I'm immune
To falling without the warmth of surrender

Feel the memories fade away
And I'm here where I was yesterday
And I need to search my mind
But I'm scared of things that I might find

A fear too strong to tame
One day is much the same as another
Lonely dreams I've smothered in silence
I'm positive they've been before
Winding down, I'm finding different ways
To keep what's still ahead
Behind me where they come back together

Feel the memories fade away
And I'm here where I was yesterday
And I can't escape the sensation
That it's bound to end this way

Feel the memories fade away
And I'm here where I was yesterday
And I need to search my mind
But I'm scared of things that I might find

5. Apathetic And Here, I...

[Mann, additional material Holmes]

Apathetic and here, I...
Watch myself glide from the sky, losing height
And end up as something gone bump in the light
Which doesn't desire to be dragged from the night
But change is the heartbeat of life into life
Which, trembling, approaches the knife

Redemption is costly, there's blood on the land
And all of us till it, it sticks to our hands
It seems to be bound up in our very glands
It sucks all our wagon wheels into its slush
And falsifies our every blush

The heart's a thermometer, readings are odd
We're from lukewarmer regions where Cain gives the nod
And we tread upon roads where our fathers have trod
We are mapless and hapless and blown by the breeze
And we chatter of being at ease
Dreary me, we chatter of being at ease

6. N.T.O.C. (Resistance)

[Cook-Holmes-Jowitt-Nicholls-Orford]

It's over, I'm older, the fire is burning cold
And I will any day now release this heart and soul
There is no reason now nor rhyme
Within the heavy head of mine

Unbroken emotion, this is the hurting time
I hang on every word
There's nothing wrong but it's not right
It feels like I will always stay
If only moving over now
The eyeless and unhearing retreat into their circles
When everything is shifting, I'm breaking direction

Imagine, remember the rattle of the day
Be here and let it not be that I feel you slip away
There is no reason now nor rhyme
Within the heavy head of mine

The silence I've been hearing
Enough to steal my thunder
Illusions I've been under are breaking direction

Far from nowhere, somehow here
I know that blue heart's in those skies
And no resistance, no more pain now
I have seen the fading in your eyes

It feels like I will always stay
If only moving over now
The eyeless and unhearing retreat into their circles
When everything is shifting, I'm breaking direction
The silence I've been hearing
Enough to steal my thunder
Illusions I've been under are breaking direction

7. Eyes Of The Blind

[Nicholls-Orford-Holmes]

Once I was down, nowhere to climb
What lay ahead unclearly defined
I could have done more than I did
I was so young, easily led
When I was a boy out of time

Give me a place where I can hide
None can erase one who has died
I want to belong, I long to believe
Words that were sent, never received
With eyes of the blind, we collide

8. Barbell Is In (12 Inch Lizard Mix)

9. The Bold Grenadier

As I was a walking one morning in May
I spied a young couple a makin' of hay.
O one was a fair maid and her beauty showed clear
and the other was a soldier, a bold grenadier.

Good morning, good morning, good morning said he
O where are you going my pretty lady?
I'm a going a walking by the clear crystal stream
to see cool water glide and hear nightingales sing.

O soldier, o soldier, will you marry me?
O no, my sweet lady that never can be.
For I've got a wife at home in my own country,
Two wives and the army's too many for me.

10. My Legs

[Holmes]

[Prince Charles:] And now, the British premier of 'My Legs' by Ken and Ron Sex Bachelor.

[Narrator:]
Mice. The hall was dark and rubbery,
Fezzit is waiting for a likely young chicken to drop in a lake.
But Bernie doesn't believe this and quickly woofs.
Meanwhile, Shelat and Target are destined by a huge cat.

[Bernie:] Crikey, you lot, am I all?

[Derek Guyler:] The gun is above me head

[Narrator:] Then Berny rushes naked into the pre-heated oven.

[Target:] There's a false lady outside selling pyjamas. What shall I tell her?

[Olive out of On The Buses:] Please will you coat my legs?

[Target:] Lock me up, baby.

[Johnny McDozenlegs:] Ask if she's tepid, do.

[Bernie:] Yes, do.

[Richard Wattis:] Yes, do.

[Dr Wizzy:] Yes, do.

[Sid James:] Yes, do.

[Monica Rose:] Yes, do.

[Esma Cannon:] Yes, do.

[Joyce Grenfell:] Yes, do! Yes,yes, do!

[Peggy Mount:] Am I shiny enough yet?

[Shelat:] Is there a long pipe in the house?

[Narrator:] For a while, all was silent. Until...

[Anne Aston:] Oh, look! I whopped my big kidneys out for all to see.

[All:] Ooooh...

[Bernie (the bolt):] Do not say "Oooh."

[All:] No, we shall not say "Oooh."

[Bernie:] No! Never say "Oooh!"

[Dr Wizzy:] If only Lieutenant Uhuhu was here. She wouldn't say "Oooh."

[Charles Hawtrey:] Love. Love my dire native.

[Karen Carpenter:] Carry me to Zimbabwe, me lovely fishes.

[Susan Dropweewee:] Soon me cannelloni is 'tween me legs.

[All (singing):] "Cause we couldn't

11. Fascination

I was waiting for the change
To come from underneath the ground
Caught in half-light, there she stood
But I had given all I could
Upside down the shape looked normal
In its magic uniform
I can't remember getting older
I can't get it off my mind

It's only fascination diving
Keeps my spirits half-alive
My infatuation driving my incentive to survive

Does it suffocate the daughters
Or does torture sink a thrill?
Still obsessed with time will time
It's now and never, watch it swell

It's only fascination diving
Keeps my spirits half-alive
My infatuation driving my incentive to survive

It may be far away but it's here to stay
New reminders sway into yesterday
She walks towards me now
She lives, I don't know how
I can hardly move, I can hardly breathe

Roses, I am chrome
No, she's not at home
Shot down to the bone
Sitting here alone
She walks towards me now
She lives, I don't know how
I can hardly move
I can hardly believe in even nothing
I hide you in bullets, I had it all
Still dragged from shock to shock
One drink to let me sink
If I never see you again
If I'm jaded, stretched or cleaned
Don't tell me, I guessed
While you bled for me less
I love what you used to be

12. Hollow Afternoon

13. Awake And Nervous (Radio Sessions)

14. Just Changing Hands (Radio Session)

15. Widow's Peak (Radio Session)

IQ LYRICS