The Cross Blue Rock 1991 ========= EMI ELECTROLA GMBH CD: 1C 564 - 7 97624 2 MD: 1C 264 - 7 97624 4 LP: 1C 064 - 7 97624 1 "Bad Attitude" (Noone,Moss,Edney,Macrae,Taylor) -------------- You know what I feel - they say I gotta A bad attitude - you wanna buy a picture of your sister in her birthday suit No gratitude - street tough talkin' but you always get screwed You face don't fit burn down the school Only way to stay cool - gotta break some rules Systems made you fools No attitude - you get slow and you slide into decrepitude It's all platitudes - this one way street ends in penal servitude Get out on the street go on and break some rules You know what I feel You know what I feel Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude Bad attitude - you can't think straight when you're raised on junk food No solitude - somebody help me gotta getta grip on my latitude You're just a destitute - your folks don't like it when they see you starrin' on the news You know what I feel You know what I feel Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude You're just destitute - some kinda prostitute Sometimes I just wanna sit back and relax and get me some pulchritude Lets get stewed get crude Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude Rip it up - I gotta bad attitude Tear it down - I gotta bad attitude So don't tell me what I gotta do I'm sick of wise guys feeding me all these verisimilitudes I ain't fool You better watch out honey - I'm one pissed of dude I gotta bad attitude **@@@!$** "New Dark Ages" (Taylor) --------------- How do you do - whatdya say Welcome to - a new dark age Let's go straight to bed Love's got outta hand you must be outta your head When you feel in the night This can't happen to you It's war that we fight Yes we do Yes we do Welcome to - a new dark age Welcome to - a new dark age Only love can save us now Love has become - a four letter word It's past it's best - and seldom heard Love's left on the shelf like- cigarettes It's bad for you health And you feel in the night It's scary thing You believe in in what's right Take care - stop to think Welcome to - a new dark age Welcome to - a new dark age Stop! + Take + Care + Think! Is - this - real - love? And you feel in the night Can't this dream be true It's war that we fight Don't let it happen to you Welcome to - a new dark age Welcome to - a new dark age "Dirty Mind" (Edney) ------------ Some people look for love and affection That was never my scene I'm looking for different perfection I wanna girl that talks mean Some people go for poets and flowers Means nothing to me She's gotta look good in shower I'll stay there in hours and hours I've been around the world I wanna lover I wanna lover I wanna lover with dirty mind Some people look for faith and devotion They're bringin' me down Why swim against the tide of emotion? When you could be tied down I'm gonna treat romance like a tumour I'm cuttin' it out I'm sick to death of heresay and rumour I need a girl with some sense of humour I've been around the world I wanna lover I wanna lover I wanna lover with dirty mind Every now and the it occurs to me I'm caught up in the web of morality Well I've been around the world And nowhere colud I find I don't care is she's a woman or a girl I wanna lover with a dirty mind I wanna lover I wanna lover I wanna lover with dirty mind "Baby It's Alright" (Edney) * ** ------------------- I could be your lover I could be your friend It's one or the other Or is that where it ends 'Cos I never see you And you never call I want to be near you To hold you that's all Be there if you fall Baby it's alright For the first time I could be strong I need you near me tonight Must be the right time How could it be wrong? How could it be wrong? You gave me my heartache You give me my blues I'm here in your doorway I got nothing to love And cryin' nt be wrong? And if you should decide honey You need a love that's good It ain't about pride It ain't about manhood and baby it's alright "Ain't Put Nothin' Down" (Moss) ------------------------ You know you hide from yourself You know you're turning away Sometimes you've got to face the world Take it day by day Sometimes you've got to take a look around Keep your ear to the ground You ain't put nothin' down You ain't put nothin' down Gotta stop foolin' round 'Cos you ain't put nothin' down You know you're running away You've got to win on this race Give it all that you've got This human race needs a lot 'Cos you ain't put nothin' down You ain't put nothin' down You've got to turn yourself around You ain't put nothin' down So many questions - you ask yourself Better find some answers - don't get Left on the shelf This is your - cry for help Better help yourself You ain't put nothin' down You ain't put nothin' down Better turn yourself around boy You ain't put nothin' down You ain't put nothin' down You ain't put nothin' down You had to turn yourself around boy You were lost but now you're found "The Also Runs" (Taylor) ** --------------- Fucked - again I was born on the twenty second floor of a bird cage I was bound to rock - I was born to rage When your daddy's gets drunk and your ma has no hope And you're tough and you're young and you get enough rope And you make a wrong turn and you ain't got no brakes And the country's a wreck and the government's cruel The you better check out - if you wanna be cool It's hard road - in a world that stinks God have mercy on a man that thinks It's hard road - in a world that sucks God Don't love you when you're out of luck So I work real hard and earn my pay And drink all night - it's the only way To make some fun outta life - just a little bit more and when I get up my nerve - I'm gonna rob me a store Or even find me a girl - you never know your luck And she'll cook and she'll clean - just to make few bucks It's grand old world - going down the pan And there ain't no cure - for an also ran Yeah it's hard road - in a world that stinks God have mercy on man that thinks Yeah it's hard road - we're going down the pan God have mercy on the also runs You gotta have mercy on the also rans if you wanna get out gotta be desperate Dan You know what I mean A hard road It's a hard road - when you're on your own It's a hard road - when your skin's the wrong tone It's a hard road - if your face don't fit It's a hard road - you gotta take alotta shit 'Cos God don't love you when you got no bucks It's hard road God don't love you when you're outta luck God have mercy ... "Millionaire" (Moss,Edney,Noone,Macrae) ------------- Trash my guitar - got a lot to spare Well I can do what I want - it just don't seem fair Let your fingers do the walking What you hear is - money talking So love me now Love me here Love me good honey I'm a millionaire I got swimming pool You know it keeps me cool Got a car that's flash I gotta rash from cash Let your fingers do the walking What you hear is - money talking So love me now Love me here Love me good honey I'm a millionaire "I think I can safely say I'm on my way to my first million" "I say" Hey I'm famous dude and I just exude I gotta Cadillac - a bowling alley in the back Weren't you thrilled to bits with my Greatest Hits Ain't I a loveable guy So love me now Love me here Love me good honey I'm a millionaire "I'm rich - I am stinking ruddy well rich!" He's lovely geezer na na na na na "I've no small change" "Well you'd better go and get some hadn't you? old garcon" He's got lots of money na na na na na Have to stop now guys! You can't afford me anymore "Put It All Down To Love" (Edney) ------------------------- Well Looky over here - coming down the street It's long face Sally - the saddest girl to meet She's got all the worlds problems - she carries all our sins Oh but wait a minute Sally - you gotta mile otta Put it all down to love You better Put it all down to love Do my eyes deceive? - on the other side Oh it's my pal Joey - the greatest man alive He's clown he's a joker - he'll bring you down to your knees Ah but wait a minute Joey - what are these tears I see? He gotta reason to cry today He had lover but she's gone away Put it all down to love You know you really gotta Put it all down to love Put it all down to love Love's the reason for all things we do Love's the reason I'm not over you I'll be the golden bullet in your genetic gun So look out baby here I come here I come! She's got something to smile about She found a lover and wants to shout Put it all down to love Put it all down to love Put it all down to love "Hand Of Fools" (Noone,Edney) --------------- Streets echo the last retreat Dust falls to the ground A mother cries help While walking in paradise Look around and you'll see We're stripping it bare Soon there'll be no place to turn Who plays the hand of fools With who's God given right It's out of control Don't it show While profit oils the big machine And we're short changed the facts Where does it stop The lifeblood is slipping away everyday Who plays the hand of fools With who's God given right It's out of control It's out of control Who plays the hand of fools In worn torn and savage place It's out of control And it chills to the bone "Life Changes" (Moss,Noone,Edney,Macrae) * -------------- Here come the sharpshooters And teenage looter's today Gotta pistol in their pocket Gonna blow all your dreams away They rip through your life Like a hurricane blowing Time is the healer alone And you know it Here comes the dream weaver You better believe her today Life changes around Don't ask me why I don't know Love can always be found Don't ask me why that's how it is Here come the abusers To tempt you and lead you astray In this outlaw ghetto Your soul is the price that you pay But out of the darkness There'll soon come a light To take you and lead you Through this endless night She'll love you and hold you To keep you from slipping away Life changes around Don't ask me why I don't know Love can always be found Don't ask me why that's how it is And I believe in my love for you How does t feel? Would you feel? Life changes around Don't ask me how I know but Love can always be found Don't ask me why that's how it is repeat Roger Taylor - lead vocals Clayton Moss - guitars Peter Noone - bass Spike Edney - keyboards Josh Macrae - drums Management: Jim Beach and Gerry Stickells Produced and engineered by Mark Wallis Assistant engineers Chris Lawson (the floater) and Simon Van Zwanenberg Band co-ordinator: Martin groves Recorded at Real World studios Mixed at Roundhouse studios Mastered at studios by Barry Woodward Cut by Kevin Metcalfe Additional musicians: Geoffrey Richardson - violin/viola * Helen Liebman - cello * Candy and Clare yates - backing vocals **