SKREWDRIVER "The Early Years"
YOU'RE SO DUMB
I'm just trying to get through to you
I ain't tellin' you what to do
If you don't keep away from the valium
I think you're stupid, you're so dumb
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You're so dumb!
You're so dumb!
Dole queue money's gone right away
Down to the chemist to get some pills
Done all your money on chemicals
Buyin' anesthetic to make you ill
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Hey little brother stop fooling around
Taking this out on me
The last time you took that many
Doctor is in a real rage, he said...
(chorus)
Now that little brother has gone away
They put him in a mental place
Don't give him pills, just beat him up
Bruises all over his face
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GOVERNMENT ACTION
What a drag, what a waste of time
Want more money or a life of crime?
Do as much work as an older man
He gets much more money than I ever can
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Gimme some, government action
Gimme some, gimme satisfaction
Things are changing for the British kids
Gotta be old to get money, yeah
Can't afford a drink so I gotta stay bored
Can't afford a bed, gotta sleep on the floor
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I DON'T LIKE YOU
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - I don't like you!
Get out on the job in the morning
Time is draggin' by real slow
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Boss is keepin' me on the go
Sick of that routine work now
Sorting's drivin' me insane
When I'm done doin' one thing
Boss says do it again
And I said...
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I don't like you
I don't like you
I don't like you anymore
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8!
It's time to get off work now
Kick the boss right in the head
All the people givin' me orders
Tryin' to make me see red
I'm prayin' to break out free now
Playin' in a rock'n'roll band
Playin' that rock'n'roll music
Probably gonna get us banned
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WE DON'T POSE
We got new faces
We got somethin' new
Yeah we're all strangers
And we're playin' for you
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And just 'cos we look different
And we wear different clothes
Just 'cos we look different
We don't, we don't pose
No we ain't bothered
About the critics' wit
Their so funny
Writing shit
(chorus)
You can tell the old set
Too cool to clap
But we're gonna cut through
That posing crap
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I DON'T NEED YOUR LOVE
Well I know what I want
But baby you do too
Well I don't need your love
'Cause baby I need you.
(chorus)
Well love don't shine
through the clouds above
I just want your body
I don't need your love
Well when I get bored
Got nothing to do
I'm gonna dial your number
I'm gonna ask for you.
(chorus)
Love, don't need your love
Love, don't need your love
Love, don't need your love
Love, don't need your love.
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ANTI-SOCIAL
I don't like papers, reading books
Gettin' sick, think it sucks
I don't wanna listen to another word
I'm so bleedin' bored
I'm an-ti-so-ci-al
An-ti-so-ci-al
An-ti-so-ci-al
I hate the world
I don't wanna go to work another day
I wanna be somebody
I don't wanna wear no three piece suit
I don't wanna family
(chorus)
Wanderin' round the streets wondering what to do
Thinking of a job you like
I got no money or a set of wheels
It's a bloody drag
Lookin' at the posers and their flashy cars
I'm just walkin' round
Parents asking for a kid
I ain't gonna settle down
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JAILBAIT
Long blond hair, looks so good
Temptation, think I should
(chorus)
Jailbait, jailbait
My jailbait
No-one knows you're sneaking out
Your old man would scream and shout
(chorus)
Just because you're just fifteen
They can't guess the things you've seen
(chorus)
They don't want you getting pissed
Enjoying things that they have missed
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THE ONLY ONE
Never reckoned much to mixing
People always mess me 'round
Always looking out for favours
Trying to bleed me into the ground
(chorus)
'Cause I'm a, yeah I'm the loner baby,
I'm the only one now,
Right I'm the loner baby,
Yeah, I'm moving on.
People always criticizing
Telling me what I must do
I don't want nobody's advice
I ain't gonna listen to you.
(chorus)
Like it much better when I'm on my own
I'm better prepared when I'm all alone
I don't like nobody ruining my peace
I don't want nobody bugging me
Never trusted anybody
Never let nobody try
When somebody asks me questions
I don't never tell no lies
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GOTTA BE YOUNG
Nothing to do again
Such a boring day
Sweet FA, what a day
It's bugging me
It's the same all the time
I'm just wasting life
Me and you, feel so blue
We gotta get away
(chorus)
I don't wanna be no middle-aged major
I don't wanna be no middle-aged mod
Gotta be young now!
I don't wanna be no middle-aged major
I don't wanna be no middle-aged mod
Gotta be young now!
Tell me it's not real
Change the way I feel
Get away, I wanna stay
It's killing me
(chorus)
Gotta be young!
Yeah, I gotta be young now
Gotta be young!
Gotta be young, alright!
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(TOO MUCH) CONFUSION
All the counselors, in Blackpool
With their poxy cars, can just fuck off
You're much too old, to persecute us
Bet your sick about the local publicity huh? Thank you!
(chorus)
Too much confusion
Too much confusion
Too much confusion, out there
Well can you hear those lying rats, spouting shit
Well you ain't too convincing
You know you can't fool everybody
All the violence, all the reporters sniffing around
Tomorrow's headlines, we all know who's gonna get the blame, don't we huh?
(chorus)
There's so many people, condemning me
They're just trying to dictate, tell me what to think
Well I don't need your prayers, I don't need your write-ups
And I don't need your putdowns, so just go and mess with someone else's life will ya?
(chorus)
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STREETFIGHT ('77)
Waiting for a Saturday, Saturday afternoon, yeah
Law gonna lose their power, kids gonna call the tune
Pushing through the turnstiles, feeling pretty good
Got the power of numbers, let's go for someone's blood
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All that pent-up anger that goes pouring through your head
Streetfight, in the city, someone's gonna end up dead
Saturday's coming, the tension starts to build
Rival teams are playing, the football fields are filled
Keeper's pretty worried about the kids behind the goal
Got to keep on diving from the things that they're gonna throw
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instrumental break
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BETTER OFF CRAZY
I don't wanna be no office boy
I wanna hold my head up high
And if I want to fight somebody
I don't wanna be asked why
(chorus)
My friends tell me, I'm better off crazy
My friends tell me, they tell me that I'm better off crazy
I ain't like more money to get me by
I just wanna have some fun
I don't want no grey-haired judges
Asking me what I've done.
(chorus)
I don't have to give no reasons
I don't have to give, no one my name
I'm gonna steal me a fast car, hit a Highway 49
Pick me up some fair-haired woman, have us a real-good time
I don't care how much it costs
Ain't coming back this way
Gonna give no shit about tomorrow, baby
All I care about is today
(chorus)
I don't have to give no reasons
I don't have to care, no one but me
Because I'm crazy
Yeah, yeah, I'm crazy!
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19th NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
(adapted from The Rolling Stones)
You're the kind of person
You meet at certain
Dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd.
Talkin' much too loud.
Runnin' up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen
Too much in too few years
And though you try, you just can't hide
Your eyes are edged with tears.
(chrous)
Your better stop.
And look around.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown.
When you were a child.
You were treated kind,
But never brought up right.
You were always spoiled
With a thousand toys,
But still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you
Owes a million dollars tax
And your father's still perfecting ways
Of makin' ceiling wax.
(chorus)
Oh, who's to blame?
That girl's just insane.
Well, nothin' I do don't seem to work.
It only seems to make matters worse.
Oh, ple-e-e-ease.
Such a breakdown
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WHERE'S IT GONNA END?
Ain't got much money, ain't got no car
I don't need transport, don't travel far
I don't need friendships, I don't need foes
It's just the thing now, the way it goes
(chorus)
But the thing that I love is to play on the stage every night
From the fade in the day 'til the black and the gray of the night
I don't need stardom, I don't need fame
I make a living, it's just the same
Got no more money, ??????????
My life's ??????????????????
(chorus)
I'd like to know where it's gonna end
Push me one way, and I won't bend
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instrumental break
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WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN
(adapted from The Who)
We'll be fighting in the streets, with our children at our feet
And the morals that they worshipped will be gone
And the men who spurred us on, sit in judgement of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
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I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smilin' free at the changes all around
Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday
When I get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Move myself and my family aside, should we happen to get left out of line
Smiling faces smile at the sky, I know that the hypnotized never lie
The change it had to come, we knew it all along
We were liberated from the foe's old song
Now a pardon on the left, now a pardon on the right
And the hell it grows shorter overnight
(chorus)
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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UNBELIEVER
(lyrics not found sorry)
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9 TILL 5
Another Monday morning, another day
Come Friday evening, when you collect your pay
(chorus)
Like working from nine till five
Making a mess of my mind
I'm filing papers, in long gray drawers
And my brain's disintegrating, what a bore
(chorus)
Well I do think civil servants and bankers are real wankers
Well the boss is knockin' me, he said come on quick
Well my temper's rising, I said you make me sick
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If you don't get out of that, you need your head examined
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BACKSTREET KIDS
Backstreet kids, no future in sight
Backstreet kids, can't see no light
Backstreet kids, no money too
Backstreet kids, well what you gonna do?
(chorus)
'Cos you're the backstreet kids
Street rats, alright!
Backstreet kids, they got no aid
Backstreet kids, they got no say
Backstreet kids, don't want to be
Backstreet kids, be in anarchy
(chorus)
Backstreet kids, got nothin' to do
Backstreet kids, got nothin' new
Backstreet kids, just drink and fight
Backstreet kids, well that's alright
(chorus)
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