This Is Hardcore
Album - 18 marzo 1998 - Debaser id 10283

This is our music from the bachelor's den;
the sound of lonliness turned up to ten;
a horror soundtrack, from a stagnant waterbed
and it sounds just like this

This is the sound of someone losing the plot
making out that they're ok when they're not
You're gonna like it but not a lot
and the chorus goes like this

oh baby here comes the fear again
the end is near again
a monkey's built a house on your back;
you can't get anyone to come in the sack
and here comes another panic attack oh
here we go again

so now you know the words to my song
pretty soon you'll all be singing along
when you're sad when you're lonely and it all turns out wrong
when you've got the fear

and when you're no longer searching for beauty or love
just some kind of life with the edges taken off
when you can't even define what it is that you are frightened of
this song will be here

oh baby here comes the fear again
the end is near again

if you ever get that chimp off your back
if you ever find the thing that you lack
oh you know you're only having a laugh oh
oh here we go again
until the end
until the end

I am not Jesus though I have the same initials -
I am the man who stays home and does the dishes.
And how was your day?
Is that woman still trying to do your head in?
A man told me to beware of 33.
He said,
"It was not an easy time for me"
but I'll get trhough
even though I've got no miracles to show you.

I'd like to make this water wine
but it's impossible.
I've got to get these dishes dry.

I'll read a story if it helps you sleep at night.
I've got some matches if you ever need a light.
Oh I am just a man
but i'm doing what I can to help you.

I'd like to make this water wine
but it's impossible.
I've got to get these dishes dry.

And I'm not worried that I will never touch the stars
cos stars belong up in heaven
and the earth is where we are.
Oh yeah.
And aren't you happy just to be alive?
Anything's possible.
You've got no Cross to bear tonight.
No not tonight.
No not tonight.
I am not Jesus though I have the same initials.

I used to try very hard to make friends with everyone on the planet.
I've seen you havin' it, havin' it yeah
but now you've just had it.
Entertainment can sometimes be hard
when the thing that you love
is the same thing that's holding you down.
This man is dangerous,
he just shed his load on your best party frock.
Before you enter the palace of wisdom you have to decide:
are you ready to rock?
Oh can you party with me?
Can you show me a good time?
Do you even know what one looks like?
And I don't need to hear your stories again -
just get on the floor and show me what you're made of.
Just what exactly are you made of?
Baby, you're driving me crazy.
Baby, you're driving me crazy.
I was having a whale of a time until your uncle Psychosis arrived.
Why do we have to half kill ourselves just to prove we're alive?
I'm here whenever you need me
and whenever you need me
I won't be here.
And have you ever stopped to ask yourself?
if you didn't come to party, then why did you come here?
Baby, you're driving me crazy.
Baby, you're driving me crazy.
And do you really want to know
just how come you turned out so dumb?
When the party's over will you come home with me?
Now the party's over will you come home to me.
Will you come home to me?

Help the aged,
One time they were just like you, drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue.
Help the aged, don't just put them in a home,
Can't have much fun in there all on their own.
Give a hand, if you can, try and help them to unwind.
Give them hope & give them comfort 'cos they're running out of time.
In the meantime we try.
Try to forget that nothing lasts forever.
No big deal so give us all a feel.
Funny how it all falls away.
When did you first realise?
It's time you took an older lover baby.
Teach you stuff although he's looking rough.
Funny how it all falls away.
Help the aged 'cos one day you'll be older too
You might need someone who can pull you through
And if you look very hard behind the lines upon their
Face you may see where you are headed and it's such a lonely place.
In the meantime we try, etc.
You can dye your hair but it's the one thing you can't change.
Can't run away from yourself.
In the meantime we try, etc. Funny how it all falls away.
So help the aged.....

You are hardcore, you make me hard.
You name the drama and I'll play the part.
It seems I saw you in some teenage wet dream.
I like your get-up if you know what I mean.
I want it bad.
I want it now.
Oh can't you see I'm ready now.
I've seen all the pictures, I've studied them forever.
I wanna make a movie so let's star in it together.
Don't make a move 'til I say "Action."
Oh here comes the Hardcore life.
Put your money where your mouth is tonight.
Leave your make-up on and I'll leave on the light.
Come over here babe and talk in the mic.
Oh yeah I hear you now.
It's gonna be one hell of a night.
You can't be a spectator. Oh no.
You got to take these dreams and make them whole
Oh this is Hardcore -
there is no way back for you.
Oh this is Hardcore -
this is me on top of you
and I can't believe it took me this long.
That it took me this long.
This is the eye of the storm.
It's what men in stained raincoats pay for
but in here it is pure. Yeah.
This is the end of the line.
I've seen the storyline played out so many times before.
Oh that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
And then it's over.
Oh, what a hell of a show
but what I want to know:
what exactly do you do for an encore?
Cos this is Hardcore.

Without you my life has become a hangover without end.
A movie made for TV: bad dialogue,
bad acting, no interest.
Too long with no story & no sex.
Is it a kind of weakness
to miss someone so much?
To wish the day would go away?
Like you did yesterday.
Just like you did yesterday.

& I can't think of a way to get through this pain:
To be happy again to make it all alright & I know it must be bad
'cos sitting here right now,
all I know is I can't even think,
I can't even think of anything clever to
say, to say
So I say why pretend any longer?
'Cos I need you here with me.
It's obvious that I miss you so much
so please say you're gonna stay.
So please say you're gonna stay.
So please say you're gonna stay.

The night is getting darker
now and there's nothing on TV
but I'll sit tight 'til morning light.
Yeah, I'll wait until the day.
Until the day that you say you're gonna stay.

Hey man,
how come you treat your woman so bad?
That's not the way you do it. No, no, no..
you shouldn't do it like that.
I could show you how to do it right.
I used to practice every night on my wife now she's gone. Yeah, she's gone.

You see your mother and me
we never got along that way you see.
I'd love to help you but everybody's telling me you look like me
but please don't turn out like me.
You look like me
but you're not like me I know.
I had one, two, three, four shots of happiness.
I look like a big man but I've only got a little soul.
I only got a little soul.

Yeah, I wish I could be an example.
Wish I could say I stood up for you and
fought for what was right. But I never did.
I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night.
You think I'm joking? Well, try me. Yeah, try me. Yeah come on, try me tonight.
I did what was wrong though I knew what was right.
I've got no wisdom that I want to pass on. Just don't hang 'round here, no,
I'm telling you son. You don't wanna know me.
Oh, that's just what everybody's telling me.

& everybody's telling me you look like me but please don't turn into me.
You look like me but you're not like me I hope.
I have run away from the one thing that I ever made.
Now I only wish that I could show you - wish I could show a little soul.
Wish I could show a little soul. [x3]

Laid here.
With the advertising sliding past my eyes.
Like cartoons.
From other proples lives.
I sart to wonder.
What It takes to be a man.
Well I've learned to drink
And I've learned to smoke.
And I've learned to tell a Dirty joke.
Oh If thats all there is then theres no point for me.

So please can I ask just why we're alive.
When all that you do seems such a waste of time.
And if you hang around too long you'll be a man.
Tell me about it.
Your car can do up to one hundred and ten.
You've nowhere to go but you'll go there again.
And nothing makes a difference to a man.

Saw you stumbling in to town with your stomach in.
To show them what you've got though they've seen everything.
Yeah you're a beauty but they've seen it all before.
You've got the lead.
But still you want.
To go and book at restaurants.
Well I'm a fool.
And then you just fly away.

So please can I ask just why we're alive.
When all that you do seems such a waste of time.
And if you hang around too long you'll be a man.
Tell me about it.
Your car can do up to one hundred and ten.
You've nowhere to go but you'll go there again.
And nothing makes a difference to a man.

Tell me about it.
please can I ask just why we're alive.
When all that you do seems such a waste of time.
And if you hang around too long you'll be a man.
Tell me about it.
Your car can do up to one hundred and ten.
You've nowhere to go but you'll go there again.
And nothing makes a difference to a man.

To a man
To a man

To a man

Here in the night, love takes control,making me high,making me whole
I don't know
Oh no no no
No I don't know
No no no
No I don't know
When I close my eyes I can see you lowering yourself to my level
I don't know where you got those clothes
But you can take them off if it makes you feel better
Don't stop it now
Now is so right
Now as the day
Slips away
And we slid into night
I don't know
Oh no no no
No I don't know
No no no
No I don't know
I open my eyes & you're there
Even better in the flesh it would seem
I'm so ready and willing and able it's untrue
To act out this love scene and make my dreams come true
And how many others have touched themselves whilst looking at pictures of you?
How many others could handle it if all their dreams came true?
I don't expect you to answer straight away
Maybe you're just having an off day
But I need to believe in you
Yes I do, Yes I do
I need to beleive in you
Oh I want you here in my heart
Here in my head
Live all your dreams for tonight here in your bed
I don't know
Oh no no no
No I don't know
No no no
No I don't know
So roll the soundtrack and dim the lights 'cos I'm not going home tonight
This love scene has begun
There's nothing left for us to do but get it on
Lets make this the greatest love scene from a play no one's thought up yet
I know you're feeling the same as me but what you gonna do about it?
Now here's an exclusive
I've wanted you for years I only needed the balls to admit it
When the unbelievable object meets the unstoppable force
There's nothing you can do about it
No
I will light your cigarette with a star that has fallen from the sky
Breath in breath out
I love the way you move
Don't let anyone tell you any different tonight
You are beauty you are class
You showed it all
But you still kept a little piece back just for me
A little piece back just for me
Just for me (just for me)
I don't know how you do it
But I love the way you do it when your doing it to me
And if this is a dream then I'm gonna sleep for the rest of my life
For the rest of my life

You look just like Sylvia:
Well you look like her to me -
the way she wore her hair then.
Oh, he way she used to be.
I've not seen her for a long time
though I've heard she's still around.
Her father's living with some girl
who's a year younger than her.
She's living in the country now yeah.
Oh, she's trying to get better.
Her beauty was her only crime.
Yeah, I remember Sylvia.

So keep believing
and do what you do,
I can't help you but I know things are gonna get better.
And please stop asking what it's got to do with you.
Oh, keep believing cos you know that you deserve better.

Who's this man you're talking to?
Can't you see what he wants to do?
He thinks if he stands near enough then he will look as good as you.
Oh, he don't care about your problems.
He just wants to show his friends.
I guess I'm just the same as him -
I just didn't know it then.
I never understood you really
and I know it's too late now.
You didn't ask to be that way.
oh, I'm sorry Sylvia.

So keep believing
and do what you do,
I can't help you but I know things are gonna get better.
And please stop asking what it's got to do with you.
Oh, keep believing cos you know that you deserve better.
Yeah you know that you deserve better.
Oh Sylvia.

The dust has settled, replace the bulbs in all the lights
I guess I'll get no sleep tonight
A revoltion happened
Oh sorry, you haven't heard?
We are the children of the new world

If you're quiet you can watch if you like
They say the future's beginning tonight
Whole empires will crumble
Civilizations will fall
Lie on the bed, hear the sound of it all
No anger, no guilt and no sorrow, it sounds unlikely
I know but tomorrow you will wake up and see
That your whole life has changed
Although nothing looks different a revolutions took place

I love the way you do it
I love the way you put them on
You know the answers but you get them wrong
(Just to confuse things)

Why did it seem so difficult to realise a simple truth?
The revolution begins and ends with you

Now all the breakdowns and nightmares look small
Now we decided not to die after all
Because the meek shall inherit absolutely nothing at all
If you stopped being so feeble, you could have so much more

The answer was here all the time, you see
Just how I missed it is a mystery to me
I have waited and waited for this day to arrive
The revolution was televised
Now it's over, bye bye.
It's over, bye bye.

Yeah, we made it.
Just by the skin of our teeth.
Perfection is over
(The Rave is over)
Sheffield is over.
The Fear is over.
Guilt is over
(Please leave the building quietly)
Bergerac is over.
The hangover is over
Men are over
Women are over.
Cholesterol is over.
Tapers are over.
Irony is over.
Bye Bye
Bye Bye