Stereophonics
Stereophonics : Just enough education to perform (2001)

1. Vegas two times
So it started with the immigration information bore
You gotta know
Gambling floor, then to the
S T U D I O 54
You gotta go
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
L A S Vegas
So parted at the ground floor, front door, car hire room for four
We gotta go
Rambling slow then to the LA marquis all the imitation folk
We gotta go.
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
L A S Vegas
Leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
Come again we'll make you fly
Vietnam vet taxi ride
Crazy horse too spent us dry
L A S Vegas two times
You gotta know
Gambling floor, then to the
S T U D I O 54
You gotta go
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
L A S Vegas
So parted at the ground floor, front door, car hire room for four
We gotta go
Rambling slow then to the LA marquis all the imitation folk
We gotta go.
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
L A S Vegas
Leave
Leave
Leave
Leave
Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
Come again we'll make you fly
Vietnam vet taxi ride
Crazy horse too spent us dry
L A S Vegas two times
2. Lying in the sun
Wish I could lie in the sun
The same things as anyone
Wish I could lie down there
With my feet, high in the air
I'd have a drink in my hand
Read words from a newspaper stand
Wish I could lie in the sun
Wish I could fly like everyone
Same things as anyone (x 2)
But you burn me up you paint my skin
In bad designs that ain't even in
My skin's crawling up the wall
Into the ocean I'd love to fall
I hear the sounds but they ain't the same
As feeling them with you two feet away
There's always more worse off than me
Suppose I'm lucky I can even see
All the people that I'd like to be
Passing me by everyday in the street
Same things as anyone (x 2)
But you burn me up you paint my skin
In bad designs that ain't even in
I got good lungs, got a good heart
My mind is fit, and my feet can walk
And here I am in the shade on the street
Asking people for money to eat
What did I ever do to deserve this?
Did I kill a child or something worse ?
Same things as anyone
What's the reason maybe make you feel
How much more fortunate you are than me
The same things as anyone
Wish I could lie down there
With my feet, high in the air
I'd have a drink in my hand
Read words from a newspaper stand
Wish I could lie in the sun
Wish I could fly like everyone
Same things as anyone (x 2)
But you burn me up you paint my skin
In bad designs that ain't even in
My skin's crawling up the wall
Into the ocean I'd love to fall
I hear the sounds but they ain't the same
As feeling them with you two feet away
There's always more worse off than me
Suppose I'm lucky I can even see
All the people that I'd like to be
Passing me by everyday in the street
Same things as anyone (x 2)
But you burn me up you paint my skin
In bad designs that ain't even in
I got good lungs, got a good heart
My mind is fit, and my feet can walk
And here I am in the shade on the street
Asking people for money to eat
What did I ever do to deserve this?
Did I kill a child or something worse ?
Same things as anyone
What's the reason maybe make you feel
How much more fortunate you are than me
3. Mr Writer
You line them up
Look at your shoes
You hang names on your wall
Then you shoot them all
You fly around in planes
That bring you down
To meet me who loves you, like
Me crashing to the ground
Are you so lonely?
Don't even know me
But you'd like to stone me
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
Why don't you tell it like it really is?
Before you go on home
I used to treat you right
Give you my time
But when I'd turn my back on you
Then you do what you do
You've just enough, in my own view
Education to perform
I'd like to shoot you all
And then you go home
With you on your own
What do you really know?
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Before you go on home
And then you go home
With you on your own
What do you even know?
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Before you go on home
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it always is ?
Before you go on home
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Why don't you tell it like it always is ?
Before you go on home
Look at your shoes
You hang names on your wall
Then you shoot them all
You fly around in planes
That bring you down
To meet me who loves you, like
Me crashing to the ground
Are you so lonely?
Don't even know me
But you'd like to stone me
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is?
Why don't you tell it like it really is?
Before you go on home
I used to treat you right
Give you my time
But when I'd turn my back on you
Then you do what you do
You've just enough, in my own view
Education to perform
I'd like to shoot you all
And then you go home
With you on your own
What do you really know?
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Before you go on home
And then you go home
With you on your own
What do you even know?
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Before you go on home
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is ?
Why don't you tell it like it always is ?
Before you go on home
Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it really is ?
Why don't you tell it like it always is ?
Before you go on home
4. Step on my old size nines
I'd like to know what it's all about ?
What's out there ?
Am I gonna get old and laugh ?
About something
Will I get me a boy or a girl ?
Or not either ?
Will I get what I want from this world ?
I'm a day dreamer
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
I'd like to know what you're all about ?
What's up there ?
Are you gonna get old and laugh ?
Without a care
Will you get you a boy or a girl
Or not either ?
Will you get what you want from this world ?
A day dreamer ?
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
I'd love to know what we're all about
We all have done
Am I gonna get old and laugh ?
With someone ?
Think I'll get me a boy and a girl
Or not either ?
Will I get what I want from this world ?
I'm a daydreamer
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
What's out there ?
Am I gonna get old and laugh ?
About something
Will I get me a boy or a girl ?
Or not either ?
Will I get what I want from this world ?
I'm a day dreamer
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
I'd like to know what you're all about ?
What's up there ?
Are you gonna get old and laugh ?
Without a care
Will you get you a boy or a girl
Or not either ?
Will you get what you want from this world ?
A day dreamer ?
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
I'd love to know what we're all about
We all have done
Am I gonna get old and laugh ?
With someone ?
Think I'll get me a boy and a girl
Or not either ?
Will I get what I want from this world ?
I'm a daydreamer
Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round
5. Have a nice day
San Francisco Bay
Past pier thirty nine
Early p.m.
Can't remember what time
Got the waiting cab
Stopped at the red light
Address, unsure of
But it turned out just right
It started straight off
"Coming here is hell"
That's his first words
We asked what he meant
He said " where ya' from?"
We told him our lot
"When ya' take a holiday
Is this what you want?"
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Lie around all day
Have a drink to chase
"Yourself and tourists, yeah
That's what I hate"
He said "We're going wrong
We've all become the same
We dress the same ways
Only our accents change
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Swim in the ocean
That be my dish
I drive around all day
And kill processed fish
It's all money gum
No artists anymore
You're only in it now
To make more, more, more
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Have a nice day (x 4)
Past pier thirty nine
Early p.m.
Can't remember what time
Got the waiting cab
Stopped at the red light
Address, unsure of
But it turned out just right
It started straight off
"Coming here is hell"
That's his first words
We asked what he meant
He said " where ya' from?"
We told him our lot
"When ya' take a holiday
Is this what you want?"
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Lie around all day
Have a drink to chase
"Yourself and tourists, yeah
That's what I hate"
He said "We're going wrong
We've all become the same
We dress the same ways
Only our accents change
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Swim in the ocean
That be my dish
I drive around all day
And kill processed fish
It's all money gum
No artists anymore
You're only in it now
To make more, more, more
So have a nice day
Have a nice day (x 3)
Have a nice day (x 4)
6. Nice to be out
You asked me so where have you been
Let me think now let me see
I stood once where Hitlers feet
Had stood when he made his speech
In Nuremburg in thirty eight
When he tried to build the perfect race
He said black man ain't gonna run
Alongside our perfect sons
There was Dallas too, the library
The place they ended Kennedy
We stood where Oswald took his shot
In my opinion there's a bigger plot
Costners back and to the left
The picket fence the better bet
Paris came and summer went
The tunnel's now a flower bed
The famous turf that made Jeff Hurst
The vodka stops to quench my thirst
The Golden Gate stroke Alcatraz
And the fat man failed to get us passes
Jimmys corner in Raging Bull
De Niros jokes and bottled pills
Elvis tales from Mr Woodward
Any Richard Burton if you could
Tourists stare at tourist stops
One more picture one more God
Another top up for a change
It makes you think, it makes you sane
Talking more about yourself
There's a mirror too, have a check
Cheques are always passing through
Some depart but a lot come too
Restaurant talk or pick your teeth
You bite your tongue or chew your meat
Sleep or drink or drink to sleep
And one more week and we will meet
We'll talk of what we haven't done
Since we departed back a month
We argue why we have to shout
All in all it's nice to be out
Let me think now let me see
I stood once where Hitlers feet
Had stood when he made his speech
In Nuremburg in thirty eight
When he tried to build the perfect race
He said black man ain't gonna run
Alongside our perfect sons
There was Dallas too, the library
The place they ended Kennedy
We stood where Oswald took his shot
In my opinion there's a bigger plot
Costners back and to the left
The picket fence the better bet
Paris came and summer went
The tunnel's now a flower bed
The famous turf that made Jeff Hurst
The vodka stops to quench my thirst
The Golden Gate stroke Alcatraz
And the fat man failed to get us passes
Jimmys corner in Raging Bull
De Niros jokes and bottled pills
Elvis tales from Mr Woodward
Any Richard Burton if you could
Tourists stare at tourist stops
One more picture one more God
Another top up for a change
It makes you think, it makes you sane
Talking more about yourself
There's a mirror too, have a check
Cheques are always passing through
Some depart but a lot come too
Restaurant talk or pick your teeth
You bite your tongue or chew your meat
Sleep or drink or drink to sleep
And one more week and we will meet
We'll talk of what we haven't done
Since we departed back a month
We argue why we have to shout
All in all it's nice to be out
7. Watch them fly sundays
I'd just like to say
I remember the day
I first woke with you
Some days I have to admit
The way we happened to meet
Was strange 'cos it was new
Not drinking no more
Not drinking no less
Not sleeping at all
Never in the same bed
Undressed at the bar
Engraved bench in the park
We'd watch them fly Sundays
Fly birds round my head again
Laughed at the words you said
I pushed the boat back to you
I flew from the rain again
Killed you with what I said
You already knew
Not thinking no more
Not drinking no less
Not sleeping at all
Never in the same bed
Undressed at the bar
Engraved bench in the park
We'd watch them fly Sundays
They say if something
Should fly away
And it fly's back to you again
Then it is yours
I remember the day
I first woke with you
Some days I have to admit
The way we happened to meet
Was strange 'cos it was new
Not drinking no more
Not drinking no less
Not sleeping at all
Never in the same bed
Undressed at the bar
Engraved bench in the park
We'd watch them fly Sundays
Fly birds round my head again
Laughed at the words you said
I pushed the boat back to you
I flew from the rain again
Killed you with what I said
You already knew
Not thinking no more
Not drinking no less
Not sleeping at all
Never in the same bed
Undressed at the bar
Engraved bench in the park
We'd watch them fly Sundays
They say if something
Should fly away
And it fly's back to you again
Then it is yours
8. Everyday I think of money
I drive a truck, it carries money
And everyday, I dream up my fantasies
Yesterday, I bought my beach house
A little place just off the coast of France
Everyday, I think of money
Everyday, I think of running
I love my truck, I love my family
Stacked in the back, the good life surrounds me
Could tie my right hand man
And put him some place
Then I'd ditch the truck
And buy a new face
Everyday, I think of money
Everyday, I think of someway
It can't buy you love
It can't give you a soul
Can pick you up
Can down you low
Can drag you out, of the hole
You dug
Yourself
Out of... again
Sat in a truck, it carries convicts
My hands are bound, to the seat by handcuffs
Tomorrow, I'll maybe walk around the yard
Or paint in my cell, and hate imprisonment
Everyday I think of money
Everyday I miss my family
And everyday, I dream up my fantasies
Yesterday, I bought my beach house
A little place just off the coast of France
Everyday, I think of money
Everyday, I think of running
I love my truck, I love my family
Stacked in the back, the good life surrounds me
Could tie my right hand man
And put him some place
Then I'd ditch the truck
And buy a new face
Everyday, I think of money
Everyday, I think of someway
It can't buy you love
It can't give you a soul
Can pick you up
Can down you low
Can drag you out, of the hole
You dug
Yourself
Out of... again
Sat in a truck, it carries convicts
My hands are bound, to the seat by handcuffs
Tomorrow, I'll maybe walk around the yard
Or paint in my cell, and hate imprisonment
Everyday I think of money
Everyday I miss my family
9. Maybe
Maybe one thing
Maybe something
Maybe nothing
All I know is friend
It's nothing new
Maybe it's me
What is to be ?
Maybe lucky
All I ask is where
We're s'posed to be
I give a lot
I take a lot
It's nothing new to me
Maybe you've grown
Am I so wrong
How long's too long
All I want is us to be happy
Maybe moving
Always proving
Am I losing
All that's meant to be ?
That's meant to be ?
Ya hear a lot
Ya told a lot
It's nothing new to me
Maybe laughing
Something lacking
Always sometimes
All I hear is how, it's meant to be
Maybe learning
Always searching
Am I asking
Things I'll know too soon ?
I'll know too soon
We talk a lot
Don't do a lot
It's nothing new to me
I give a lot (x 2)
It's nothing new to me (x 3)
Maybe something
Maybe nothing
All I know is friend
It's nothing new
Maybe it's me
What is to be ?
Maybe lucky
All I ask is where
We're s'posed to be
I give a lot
I take a lot
It's nothing new to me
Maybe you've grown
Am I so wrong
How long's too long
All I want is us to be happy
Maybe moving
Always proving
Am I losing
All that's meant to be ?
That's meant to be ?
Ya hear a lot
Ya told a lot
It's nothing new to me
Maybe laughing
Something lacking
Always sometimes
All I hear is how, it's meant to be
Maybe learning
Always searching
Am I asking
Things I'll know too soon ?
I'll know too soon
We talk a lot
Don't do a lot
It's nothing new to me
I give a lot (x 2)
It's nothing new to me (x 3)
10. Caravan holiday
Seven day holiday in the rain, it's June
At the time we were plain old me and you
It didn't matter that the sky came down
I never really felt like going out
Seven days watching rain inside with you
Saturday watched the game you fried our food
Nothing busy nothing easy but something you
It didn't matter that we couldn't eat out
My ship sank and my shoes were damp
Seven days hearing rain inside with you
There's always time to complain about the weather
Seasons change in a day just like each other
But we wait for summer
Seven day holiday in the rain with you
Lie awake drinking late is all that's left to do
Not a sound but the rain on the pale blue roof
It didn't matter that we couldn't sleep out
I never really felt like sleeping rough
Seven day holiday drinking dry with you
There's always time to complain about the weather
Seasons change in a day just like each other
But we wait for summer
Seven day holiday in the rain with you (x 2)
At the time we were plain old me and you
It didn't matter that the sky came down
I never really felt like going out
Seven days watching rain inside with you
Saturday watched the game you fried our food
Nothing busy nothing easy but something you
It didn't matter that we couldn't eat out
My ship sank and my shoes were damp
Seven days hearing rain inside with you
There's always time to complain about the weather
Seasons change in a day just like each other
But we wait for summer
Seven day holiday in the rain with you
Lie awake drinking late is all that's left to do
Not a sound but the rain on the pale blue roof
It didn't matter that we couldn't sleep out
I never really felt like sleeping rough
Seven day holiday drinking dry with you
There's always time to complain about the weather
Seasons change in a day just like each other
But we wait for summer
Seven day holiday in the rain with you (x 2)
11. Rooftop
Standing on a rooftop
Trying to clear my mind
I only came up to look
But now there's such a crowd
I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
And they cry out
They say jump and I say how high?
I feel my body blowing
From every side to side
My mind can't help but knowing...
What it feels like to fly
I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
But they cry out
They say jump and I say how high?
They say jump and I say I might
And they cry out (x 2)
Say jump and I say I might
Say jump and I say I'll try
Say jump and I say I'll say goodbye
Say jump and I say how high
High, High, Fly, Fly
I'm just standing on the edge of
Something I should try to hide from
I don't know much but I know something
I need to try and find me a way
Try I always come out fighting
I don't feel I should deny me
Can't help knowing what is down there
Feels like I should fly now for them
I'm fascinated, mis-educated, It's reincarnation
Of my imagination
I'm far away, from here today
It's where I'll stay if I get my way
It's lying awake, that makes me sane
But it makes me sick but I can't change again
Trying to clear my mind
I only came up to look
But now there's such a crowd
I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
And they cry out
They say jump and I say how high?
I feel my body blowing
From every side to side
My mind can't help but knowing...
What it feels like to fly
I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
But they cry out
They say jump and I say how high?
They say jump and I say I might
And they cry out (x 2)
Say jump and I say I might
Say jump and I say I'll try
Say jump and I say I'll say goodbye
Say jump and I say how high
High, High, Fly, Fly
I'm just standing on the edge of
Something I should try to hide from
I don't know much but I know something
I need to try and find me a way
Try I always come out fighting
I don't feel I should deny me
Can't help knowing what is down there
Feels like I should fly now for them
I'm fascinated, mis-educated, It's reincarnation
Of my imagination
I'm far away, from here today
It's where I'll stay if I get my way
It's lying awake, that makes me sane
But it makes me sick but I can't change again