 Genius Lyrics
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The Boomtown Rats – I Don't Like Mondays
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On the Monday morning of January 29, 1979, 16 year-old Brenda Spencer opened fire on the elementary school across the street from her family home. Using a .22 caliber rifle, she
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The Boomtown Rats – The Boomtown Rats
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I'm going back / Back to Boomtown / Yeah, that's where I'm at / And when I get to Boomtown / I'm gonna ask those cats / What's happening here in Boomtown? / It's those rats, those
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The Boomtown Rats – Rat Trap
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[Verse 1] / There was a lot of rocking going on that night / Cruising time for the young bright lights / Just down past the gasworks by the meat factory door / The Five Lamp boys
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The Boomtown Rats – House on Fire
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[Verse 1] / I heard Tarzan outside playing on the Jungle Blues / I know 'cause I saw him shimmer in a Kenyan pool / Coming on in the vines with his leopard-skin loincloth cool
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The Boomtown Rats – When the Night Comes
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[Verse 1] / The offices are emptying their / Pale-faced wards into the street / Flickering their strip-light eyes / Shivering they readjust their lives from the air-conditioned
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The Boomtown Rats – Keep It Up
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[Verse 1] / Oh, in her two pound coat, she really thinks she's cloaked in mystery / She's actin' like some character from Agatha Christie / I got a pain in my shoes and all I wanna
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The Boomtown Rats – Drag Me Down
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Drag me down in colors pink and gold / (Like a ship that's going under.. / Bring me home in rain and thunder) / Bless the night before the day grows old / (Like a ship that's going
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The Boomtown Rats – Sleep (Finger's Lullaby)
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[Verse 1] / I'm so wired / Very tired / Why can't I / Close my eyes? / Time's speeding / It's day, it's night, it's night, it's day / And it's time / I went to sleep / [Chorus
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The Boomtown Rats – The Elephant's Graveyard
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Ooh, did you slip the noose when the beast broke loose? / The elephants graveyard ain't the place to be / And white turns black, dies of heart attack / The elephants graveyard
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The Boomtown Rats – Diamond Smiles
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[Verse 1] / Traffic's wild tonight / Diamond smiles her cocktail smile / Tonight, she's in heavy disquise / She looks at her wrist to clock the passing time / Weather's mild
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The Boomtown Rats – She Said No
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Late last night, she called me on the telephone / Late last night, I was watching telly on my own / She said, "We need to talk" / So I put her on the speaker-phone and let her
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The Boomtown Rats – Banana Republic
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Banana Republic / Septic Isle / Screaming in the Suffering sea / It sounds like crying / Everywhere I go / Everywhere I see / The black and blue uniforms / Police and priests / And
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The Boomtown Rats – Looking After Number One
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The world owes me a living / I've waited on this dole queue too long / I've been standing in the rain for fifteen minutes / That's a quarter of an hour too long / I'll take all
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The Boomtown Rats – Like Clockwork
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[Intro] / (Tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock) / (Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock, tick
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The Boomtown Rats – Never in a Million Years
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[Chorus 1] / I'll tear down the sky, don't stop now / No, never in a million years / I'd spit in their eye, don't stop now / But I won't be a volunteer / [Verse] / And now I'm
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The Boomtown Rats – Trash Glam Baby
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Oh no, another shit Saturday night / My jeans don't fit and the money is tight / Adele is working down at the charity shop / They got a pair of boots in / So maybe she'll swap
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The Boomtown Rats – Passing Through
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[Verse 1] / Today in the park / I thought I saw you / That afternoon light / Playin' tricks on you / [Refrain] / I wish that you told me / "I'm only passing through" / Passed
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The Boomtown Rats – Up All Night
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[Chorus] / Up all night, ooh, I was up all night / Up all night, ooh, staying up all night / Up all night, ooh, I was up all night / Up all night, ooh, staying up all night / [
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The Boomtown Rats – A Hold of Me
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One two three four / So what’s the story? So what's the score? / What did we do? What are we guilty of? / When they shoot you down / Bring you to your knees / Until you hit the
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The Boomtown Rats – Living in an Island
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[Verse 1] / Oh, night fell fast, like it did in the past / When the phone rang twice and a voice said "I think I'm alone" / I gave my advice and the voice said "Nice / But suicide
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The Boomtown Rats – Wind Chill Factor (Minus Zero)
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[Intro] / (Hee-hee-hee...) / (Hee-hee-hee-Hee!) / (Hee-hee-hee...) / (Hee-hee-hee-Hee!) / [Verse 1] / I took a tube train through the subway systems / I rode those tunnels like a
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The Boomtown Rats – Mary of the 4th Form
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Sittin' in the front row / Mary of the fourth form / Turnin' all the boys on / She's turnin' all their heads around / Hitchin' up her short skirt / Stretchin' out her long legs
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The Boomtown Rats – Someone's Looking at You
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[Intro] / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / (Na-na-na-na-na-na-na) / [Verse 1] / On a night like this / I
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The Boomtown Rats – Tonight
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Oh, I don't wanna have to take your arm / But I will, said I will / Don't wanna have to damage anyone / But I'd kill, kiss and kill / I don't intend to take this lying down / With
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The Boomtown Rats – Dave
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Dave'd called me up yesterday / Everything he loved had moved away / I felt despair come crawling through that phone / I know the feeling but don't get me wrong / Dave I've always
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The Boomtown Rats – Joey's on the Street Again
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Sooner or later, when the dawn was breaking / The joint was jumping and the walls were shaking / Joey sneaked in the backdoor way / Pretending he was with the band, he never used
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The Boomtown Rats – Neon Heart
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Life pours down into the neon heart (It's late at night) / Cement City is all a-spark (Yeah, that's right) / The whores are loose and the dames are abroad (My pants are tight) / A
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The Boomtown Rats – Fall Down
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Put your head between your knees and breathe real deep / Let it in / Let it out / Until it's over / I might scribble, I might scrawl / I might claw at the wall / I might storm and
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The Boomtown Rats – Nice 'N' Neat
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[Verse 1] / Through tunnel vision, watch him rant and rave / He says, "There's life beyond the grave" / He wants his slice of the eternal cake / Well, God's in His Heaven and He's
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The Boomtown Rats – K.I.S.S.
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With a kiss / With a kiss / With a gut-wrench flip / It's a hit on the lips / It's a K-I-S-S / With a tongue in my lung / It's fun / Gonna cum and then run / With a K-I-S-S / Soul
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The Boomtown Rats – Lucky
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You're lucky if time remembers you / Lucky if you get a second chance / JFK didn't last so long / The trouble was he stood alone / In triumph or disaster we can push ahead / The
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The Boomtown Rats – Talking in Code
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[Verse 1] / Why are you talking in code? / You talk so loud, sometimes we don't understand / C'mon, give us a sign / Wave me a flag or flash me an eye / [Verse 2] / 'Cause I need
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The Boomtown Rats – Kicks
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I don't get my kicks no more from cake or lemonade / Bud I can't get served no smokes or drinks / They tell me that I'm underage / At sixteen years old I don't stand a chance / But
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The Boomtown Rats – Real Different
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The world at any time might take its own thalidomide / It's just one of those things / You see eternity fell out of love when we invented self-destruct / It was one of those things
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The Boomtown Rats – Go Man Go!
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These are danger days (What sort of days are these?) / These are troubled times (Dy'a know what time it is?) / There it goes again (Another gear being slipped) / I must be near the
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The Boomtown Rats – Hard Times
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Oh hard times, hard times / And these are hard times / They're getting better / I straighten out an' checkin' / Out that drag / You're touch an' go / But i'm touching you / Spare a
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The Boomtown Rats – Walking Downtown
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[Walking downtown] / It's strange here, it's funny in a way / Is it the night air makes it this way / 10,000 streets under an orange sky / And a million stories in a fully clothed
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The Boomtown Rats – She's So Modern
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[Intro] / La-la-la la la / La-la-la la la / La-la-la la-la / La-la-la la-la / [Chorus] / (She's so) 20th century / (She's so) 1970's / (She knows) the right things to say / (She's
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The Boomtown Rats – Hurt Hurts
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I don't want to listen / But I think I see you screaming / And it hurts / Instant Solzhenitsyn / I get salt mines when I hear your voice / It hurts / Kiss the hurt off her Kung Fu
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The Boomtown Rats – Can't Stop
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[Chorus] / Oh, can't stop, I can't stop now / Can't stop, I can't stop now / Can't stop, I can't stop now / Can't stop, I can't stop now / [Verse 1] / Can't stop and face the facts
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The Boomtown Rats – Another Sad Story
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Well it’s a sad, sad story / Johnnie had the right / But he never took the chance / And it’s all a game / So he never showed his hand / Or how he played it, the guessing game
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The Boomtown Rats – Having My Picture Taken
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[Intro] / "Hold it, fellas, watch the beauty." / [Verse 1] / My camera sees things my eyes can't see / I have it focused from here to eternity / Catch the moment, catch the breath
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