The Modern World .......... The Jam

Legal Age Life at Variety Store .......... the Rheostatics

Bed, Bath & Bullshit .......... Billy Bragg

Art School .......... The Jam

Ready Steady Go .......... Generation X

Low Life .......... The Scanners

Hands Off She's Mine .......... The English Beat

Old-Fashioned Girl .......... Billy Bragg

But I'm Different Now .......... The Jam

Then I Met You .......... The Proclaimers

Dad's Funeral / Jeanpaul .......... Mark Mothersbaugh

In The Desert .......... Mark Mothersbaugh

What's Important To You .......... Mark Mothersbaugh

This is a modern world - this is the modern world
What kind of a fool do you think I am?
You think I know nothing of the modern world
All my life has been the same
Ive learned to live by hate and pain
Its my inspiration drive -
Ive learned more than youll ever know
Even at school I felt quite sure
That one day I would be on top
And Id look down upon the map
The teachers who said Id be nothing -
This is the modern world that Ive learnt about
This is the modern world, we dont need no one
To tell us whats right or wrong -
Say what you like cause I dont care
I know where I am and going too
Its somewhere I wont preview
Dont have to explain myself to you
I dont give two fucks about your review

by Dave Bidini

Well, legal age life at variety store,
Dealing in dope by the Exit door.
Waiting to work like a worm at the core.
Standing so long in the snow I'm sore.
I'm the king I am therefore
What kind of a fool am I?

Well, legal age life at variety store,
These are the things that make me roar:
Disco sux and so does war,
The meek shall inherit the Earth no more.
I'm the king I am therefore
What kind of a fool am I?

And each time I wake up I try to speak.
Well, I felt a cold river of tears upon my cheek.
And each time I wake up I feel so weak.
Dumbfounded.

Ah, legal age life at variety store,
Sticking my head through the passenger door.

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Anything that you wanna do, anyplace that you wanna go
Don't need permission for everything that you want
Any taste that you feel is right
Wear any clothes just as long as they're bright
Say what you want, 'cos this is a new art school
Do what you want if it takes your mind
Better do it now, 'cos you won't have time
And never worry if people laugh at you
The fools only laugh 'cos they envy you
Time is motion and the hands are fast
Young words are mumbled, they don't always last
It's up to us to be sure they understand
Who makes the rules that make people select
Who is to judge that your ways are correct
The media as watchdog is absolute shit
The TV telling you what to think
Anything that you wanna do, anyplace that you wanna go
Don't need permission for everything that you want
Any taste that you feel is right
Wear any clothes just as long as they're brightSay what you want,
'cos this is a new art school
Do what you want, 'cos this is the new art school

Ready, Steady, Go
I'm not in love with television
I'm not in love with the radio
I'm not in love with the Kings Road
Because I'm in love with Cathy McGowan - she said

Ready steady go - all things she said
Ready steady go - wasn't it fabulous
Ready (ready) steady (steady) go

I'm not in love with Juke Box Jury
I'm not in love with thank you Jucky stars
I'm not in love with T'T'T'Twiggy
Because I'm in love with Cathy McGowan - she said

Ready steady go - all things she said
Ready steady go - wasn't it fabulous
Ready (ready) steady (steady) go

I'm still in love with the Beatles
I was in love with the Stones, no satisfaction
I was in love with Bobby Dylan
Because I'm in love with Rock'n'Roll

Ready steady go - all things she said
Ready steady go - wasn't it fabulous
Ready (ready) steady (steady) go

Ready steady go!
Go! Go! Go!
Ready steady go!
Ready steady Who
Ready steady Stone
Go! Go Go Go

I know your not ready to live
Are you ready to die
Under your skin under your skin under skin
Is a regular guy

You lost your hold
You didn't know
This is a low

Everything that was important to me
Didn't matter to you
And you didn't try didn't try to get in bed with me
When I turn my back you were with someone new

You lost your soul
You didn't know
This is a low, this is a low

This is low this is low life
A world where people walk by night
So by day an average man
But night time brings the creature from the can
Sometimes you scream out loud
But there's always safety from the crowd
You're not alone you're not alone you know

This is a low, this is a low, this is a lonely time a lonely time

Its like my skin, turned inside out
And there's no silver here in this cloud
It's like a love that's turning sour
Its letting go
This is a low

I told my friend I'd check for you
He told me that he liked you too
But then I saw him kissing you
I could've died when he said, hands off she's mine
Said hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine, I want her all the time
Hands off she's mine, hands off she's mine.

I knew that this was real although
It usually comes mixed up with fear.
I knew that I could wait
Although it just might take a thousand years.
Said hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine, until the end of time
Hands off she's mine, hands off she's mine.

La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la.

Now we're going steady, been together several weeks
I check out all the other guys who we see on the streets
When I say, hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine
Hands off she's mine, it takes up all my time
Hands off she's mine, hands off she's mine.

I said hands off me DAUGHTER
I tell ya get yer hands off me DAUGHTER
C'mon mek me said don't mess around on ya,
C'mek mek me tell ya don't want ta get ya.

La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la,
La, la, la, la.

Funny how the best things never last for every day
I thought she was my girlfriend
'Till I heard that someone else was saying,
Hands off she's mine. Hands off she's mine.
Hands off she's mine. Hands off she's mine.
Hands off she's mine. Hands off she's mine.
Hands off she's mine. Hands off she's mine.
Hands off she's mine. Hands off she's mine.
Hands off she's mine.

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Picked you up and let you down and
I never said a word -
But I'm different now and I'm glad that you're my girl
Mess you 'round and upset you I
hurt you most of all -
But I'm different now and I'm glad that you're my girl

Fun lasts for seconds, love lasts for days but
But you can't have both -
And I'm different now but I'm glad that you're my girl

Because I know I done some things
That I should never have done
But I'm different now and I'm glad that you're my girl

Then I met you

Thought that I'd be happy
Going to be so happy
Living life alone and never sharing anything

Thought that I was finished
Thought that I was complete
Thought that I was whole instead of being half of something

Thought that I was growing
Growing older, wiser
Understanding why this world held nothing for my spirit

Thought that I was destined
Destined to be nothing
Destined to be nothing in this world and then I met you.

I met you

Thought that God had failed me
Thought my prayers were useless
Thought that he would never give the chance for me to praise him

Thought the book was written
Thought the game had ended
Thought the song was sung and I could never sing another

Thought my faith was misplaced
Thought my back was broken
Broken by a weight that I was never fit to carry

Thought I knew this city
Thought I knew all about it
And then one night I went to morningside and you were waiting

I met you

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