Manners & Physique
Album - 1989 - Debaser id 37974

Once is never enough
Never is never was
Here and now is all that counts
Here and now in large amounts
Be beautiful but shut up
The going can be real tough

You can keep your fancy bars
Clubby friends and fast cars
And when the going gets hard
You can eat your credit cards
I really tried to fight it
But what the hell I like it

There is always room at the top
Don't let them tell you there is not
Made in England born and bred
An eighteenth century brain
In a twenty-first century head

Room at the top - so eighteenth century
Room at the top - so eighteenth century
Room at the top
There's always room

If some of this fits you
Or like the things that you might do
It's the pleasure and the pain
That makes us do it all again
They say
Be beautiful and shut up
The going can be real tough

There they go the buccaneers
Tand in hand in leather glove
So fast so crazy
With a creepy kind of love

Bright lights, black leather
Bright lights, black leather (black leather)

Some towns make me anxious
Others sane but sad
But West Berlin's by far the strangest time
I ever had

There they go the buccaneers
Hand in hand in leather glove
So fast so crazy
With a creepy kind of love

Bright lights, black leather
Bright lights, black leather (black leather)

All night town of punks and art
All saying look at me
Never seen so much black leather
Even on car hoods
Surrounded by East Germany
So

There they go the buccaneers
Hand in hand in leather glove
So fast so crazy
With a creepy kind of love

Bright lights, black leather
Bright lights, black leather (black leather)

They want to know just who you are
Or how they can amuse you (sum it up, sum it up)
Squatters, freaks, (go alive) Mohicans
Or even a wall of voodoo

There they go the buccaneers
Hand in hand in leather glove
So fast so crazy
With a creepy kind of love

Bright lights, black leather
Bright lights, black leather (black leather)

If I had to sum it up
Without sounding too clever
I'd have to say my life has been
A case of bright lights
Black leather

Bright lights, black leather
Bright lights, black leather (black leather)

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