 Genius Lyrics
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The Stranglers – Breathe
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She's a girl who let's you see she's there / And the one you want to know / There's a braid of jasmine in her hair / Her skin just seems to glow / If she looks at me my heart will
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The Stranglers – Golden Brown
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Lyrically, all of “Golden Brown” works on two levels, and was deliberately written to be ambiguous so that the darker meaning would get past censors. Singer and lyricist Hugh
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The Stranglers – White Stallion
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The white stallion's rule is over / The pain is all in the past / We'll walk hand in hand together / For now no questions asked / For now no questions asked / Old sores will be
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The Stranglers – Peaches
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[Verse 1: Hugh Cornwell and all] / Strolling along minding my own business / Well, there goes a girl and a half / She's got me going up and down / She's got me going up and down
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The Stranglers – No More Heroes
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The album’s eponymous track and one of The Strangler’s better known tunes, No More Heroes is a musing on the state of the world and its leaders. Various figures in world history
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The Stranglers – Ugly
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I could have read / A poem called / Ozymandias / To her instead / I lived for the moment / It was a futile / Gesture anyway / I was here / And she was here / And being broad / Of
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The Stranglers – 15 Steps
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In a house on a hill you can hear it still, contemplation / There's a table, a chair and a room that is spare, isolation / The topics discussed include dust to the state of the
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The Stranglers – Down
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Here we are again / Celebrating what we had / When times were bad we knew / We wouldn't always be so sad / Like the sun coming out / From behind the clouds / You appeared and never
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The Stranglers – Payday
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Socrates was made to pay for all his deeds / He had to drink the bottle / It brought him down on his knees / Payday / It's mayday / I just pray you'll go away / Payday / It's
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The Stranglers – Always the Sun
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How many times have you woken up and prayed for the rain? / How many times have you seen the papers apportion the blame? / Who gets to say? Who gets to work and who gets to play
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The Stranglers – Giants
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Once there were giants walking amongst us / Now I have to deal with little men with little hearts / I'm glad my father's not here to see / What happened to men like him / They
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The Stranglers – The Last Men on the Moon
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Amongst the comets and the dust / Galaxies collide and combust / There's so much junk up there / We're getting short on room / Imagine when they colonise the moon / Of all the
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The Stranglers – Time to Die
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My eyes have gazed upon things / You couldn't even imagine / Neon storms on the airstrips at Sales Marsh / I saw hope in King Gomez Cape of eyes / Before the Ten Year Fog / Alas
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The Stranglers – Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)
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Let me tell you about Sweden / Only country where the clouds are interesting / Big brother says it's the place to go / Too much time to think, too little to do / Too much time to
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The Stranglers – I Hate You
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I hate you now, I always will / And when you're dead I'll hate you still / I'll have my way, I'll make you pay / And I don't care if you suffer 'cos I know that it will surely make
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The Stranglers – Hanging Around
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[Verse 1] / Big girl in the red dress / She's just trying to impress us / And she's got the barley fever / But she doesn't make a sound / She's just hanging around / She's just
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The Stranglers – Hanging Around
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[Verse 1] / Big girl in the red dress / She's just trying to impress us / And she's got the barley fever / But she doesn't make a sound / She's just hanging around / She's just
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The Stranglers – (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)
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[Verse 1] / Didn't have the money round to buy a Morry Thou / Been around and seen a lot to shake me anyhow / Begged and borrowed sometimes, I admit I even stole / The worse crime
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The Stranglers – Water
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The crescent moon was aflame / Innocent people were slain / They disagreed with their masters / Who shot them down in cold blood / It''s spring and there’s change / People we
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The Stranglers – Mercury Rising
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It was dark and it wasn't just the nighttime / The crowd was silent but their eyes were on dead time / The air was laden down with malice and silence / A recipe with just a
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The Stranglers – Genetix
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See the little nuclei / Bursting full of information / There's a need to regulate / Bring it down to cells and plasma / Tell you what they're gonna do / Started doing it already
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The Stranglers – Non Stop
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Dedicated emancipated / Claims she waited her life for her man / Loves to pray every day / Says she's not frustrated in any way / Dressed in a black cotton sack / Pledges herself
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The Stranglers – No Man's Land
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Welcome aboard / We'd like to make sure that you're sat comfortably / In the event that we go down / There's no access to a parachute / It's all for one and none for all / Life's
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The Stranglers – The Raven
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Fly straight with perfection / Find me a new direction / You never realized the things they said / We'll never realize until we're dead / The fires they burned along the coast of
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The Stranglers – Let Me Down Easy
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Let me down easy / Let me down easy / Let me down easy / Let me down easy / When I rest my weary head / After all my words are said / When my eyelids close with the weight of a
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The Stranglers – Skin Deep
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Many people tell you that they're your friend / You believe them, you need them for what's round the river bend / Make sure that you're receiving the signals they send / 'Cos
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The Stranglers – Spectre of Love
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I never knew what made me do it / I just remember it was wrong / I've questioned why I put you through it / Who would have thought you'd be so strong / I should have wrapped you up
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The Stranglers – Tucker's Grave
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Committed a crime that no longer exists / Was left at the crossroads at a place that is jinxed / Committed a crime against god and his king / All that's left is a cider drinking
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The Stranglers – Waiting for the Meninblack
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I'm waiting every day I've been watching from my chimney stack / I'm waiting every week I've been hoping that they're coming back / I'm seeing all the signs and I'm learning how to
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The Stranglers – Ice
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Die like cherry blossom / Hagakure with perfume / Deadly with make up on / But it just won't do / I have ice instead of heartburn / She has ice on her fingers / We have ice in the
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The Stranglers – 96 Tears
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Too many teardrops for one heart to be crying / Too many teardrops for one heart to carry on / You're way on top now since you left me / You're always laughing way down at me / But
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The Stranglers – ¡Viva Vlad!
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Vladimir's own cruel hand had delivered a blow to himself all right / The Police laughed at his fantastic tale of misguided love in a tempting night / For fun, he was bound and
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The Stranglers – Walk On By
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[Verse 1] / If you see me walking down the streets / And I start to cry each time we meet / Walk on by / Ah, walk on by / [Chorus] / And make believe that I can't see the tears
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The Stranglers – Dreamtime
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The only way for us to be alone / Into the earth and in the stone / When you wanna be on your own, is dreamtime / I am there in the rock / From the start of the total clock / All
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The Stranglers – Relentless
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The ending of the day / Brings the calm that you've been waiting for / You can't wait to close your eyes / Fall into the black and disappear / Me I've always found it hard
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The Stranglers – Retro Rockets
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Remember when you could hear the sound of your life on the radio / Tiny little speakers filled the room, and your head, and you let it go / Nobody ever plays the songs anymore
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The Stranglers – Shut Up
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You've been nashing all through the night / I didn't wanna listen anyway / Conversation ain't that right / I know what your about to say / I said shut up / Shut up shut up / Shut
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The Stranglers – Tits
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She's got 36-24-36 hips / She's got 36-24-36 hips / She's got 36-24-36 hips / She's got 36-24-36 hips / She's got 36-24-36 hips / That was the size of her tits / Well, this is sort
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The Stranglers – See Me Coming
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I'm not the man I used to be / And what you see is not what it seems / I travelled through space to be with you here / And what you don't know you shouldn't fear / You don't see me
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The Stranglers – No Mercy
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Every day you're working like a slave / Sweating buckets hoping that you get it right / Will it be as tough tomorrow / Have to wait and see / Life shows no mercy / Every day your
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The Stranglers – Tomorrow Was the Hereafter
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Can't you see / Can't you see / That you're rocking the boat / Can't you see / Can't you see / That there isn't any hope / Can't you see / Can't you see / That our time is growing
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