99c LYRICS
SHOOTING FROM THE HIP
No one noticed you had disappeared
Its been two days no connection
Pile of hardware making hits
If the quality is high
At the party there’s a place for you
On the guest list there’s a place for you
In a somebody’s arms
In the real world, its at your front door
Wanting everything and moving places
Worn to make the mind crash
Snaping into Making sense
Being off schedule with the world
In the cosmopolitan we see jeff koons
Celebrating yummy things, celebrating,
And talking of his…of his suffering
Break through programfor senior executives guide to slow dance Tokyo
unhealthy rise and danger, INB BSE chief impact
officers, who’s helping? fear of regional digital divide,
its mount fuji sitting above the clouds
searching for consensus
master bites the bullet
how clearly do you need?
your customers company economy going public
we have both
Chorus:
it won’t work
it doesn’t make sense
it can’t be done
do it this way
no that way, stop!
it can’t be done
do it this way!
do it this way!
it won’t work
it doesn’t make sense
it can’t be done
do it this way
no that way, stop
imagine a different way
do it this way
tickets unused, toys of the mind
we think improvement, a better feeling
generated, accelerating
that was a strange movie you took me through
he’s a finder of strange things
random, cardboard box
in the closet, left untouched
for a future functions
when the animal comes out
voice of terror
screaming at you
screaming at you
what you think is real
nation in the grip of phone fever
three, the big three
shooting from the hip
this is no way to pick a president
shooting from the hip
cover feature, divided world
shooting from the hip
star bright, survival of the fittest
shooting from the hip
open market economy, Microsoft 8
shooting from the hip
deal in human rights, lost connection
chorus
WE DON’T PLAY GUITARS
We always thought that we were not a rock n roll band but it sure feels
like rock n roll over here tonight
We don’t play guitars x 3
We´re standing on stage with our microphones, but we don’t play guitars
Got the sherman up here with us, no we don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
Can you play guitar?
We don’t play guitars
said can you play guitar?
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
We´re standing on stage with a microphone but we don’t play guitars
Got the Sherman up here with us, no we don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
said can you play guitar?
We can go shopping in the supermarket but we don’t play guitars
We shop more than other people, we don’t play guitars
Can you play guitar?
Can you play guitar?
Were standing in Tobi´s studio but we don’t play guitars
Neither do kiki or Melissa
No we don’t play guitars
We like to use gaffa tape but we don’t play guitars
Give us your gaffa tape, we don’t want your guitars
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
No we don´t play guitars
(Peaches): you may not play guitars but I do!
You know, maybe COS don’t play guitars but
P.E.A.C.H.E.S plays guitar
I play guitar, that’s right
I play guitar
Well you may not play guitar but I play guitar
And I love it!
We like using gaffa tape but we don’t play guitars
Give us your gaffa tape cos we don’t play guitars
Can you play guitar?
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
We don’t play guitars
etc
WORDY RAPPING HOOD (original text from tom tom club tina Weymouth)
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
Words in papers, words in books
Words on TV, words for crooks
Words of comfort, words of peace
Words to make the fighting cease
Words to tell you what to do
Words are working hard for you
Eat your words but don't go hungry
Words have always nearly hung me
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
Words of nuance, words of skill
And words of romance are a thrill
Words are stupid, words are fun
Words can put you on the run
mots pressés, mots sensés,
mots qui disent la vérité
mots maudits, mots mentis,
mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
Its a rap race, with a fast pace
Concrete words, abstract words
Crazy words and lying words
Hazy words and dying words
Words of faith and tell me straight
Rare words and swear words
Good words and bad words
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
Words can make you pay and pay
Four-letter words I cannot say
Panty, toilet, dirty devil
Words are trouble, words are subtle
Words of anger, words of hate
Words over here, words out there
In the air and everywhere
Words of wisdom, words of strife
Words that write the book I like
Words won't find no right solution
To the planet earth's pollution
Say the right word, make a million
Words are like a certain person
Who can't say what they mean
Don't mean what they say
With a rap rap here and a rap rap there
Here a rap, there a rap
Everywhere a rap rap
Rap it up for the common good
Let us enlist the neighbourhood
It's okay, I've overstood
This is a wordy rappinghood, okay, bye.
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words
He'll stop ... Don't stop ... Stop.
COVENTRY
Hanayo lives in Berlin cos she says the rent is cheap
Couldn’t afford that lifestyle, Tokyo´s too fast and steep
Juergen lives in Munich, that cozy comfy town
Got a nice BM that he drives all over town
Mimi lives in Hamburg, that fishy harbour breeze
She says it’s the best place in the world
And then she starts to sneeze
dean lives in London, does the music business thing
He likes to take girls to the park
And do that sweet, sweet thing
People and places, people in different towns
erkki lives in tampere, now where the hell is that?
works the web like no other, gotta put him on the map
Weasel she’s in New York, she got it all set up
she drinks her frappuccio from a glass and not a cup
Jeremy moved to Rome, Italiano style
Gave up all that fashion jazz and says that with a smile
Russell lives in Cov, that a really brutal place
It’s in the middle of England, right into your face
People and places and places and people
People and places, people in different towns
99 CENTS
open your eyes and see my face
slow down for me in this dirty rat race
you could be fat, you could be thin
wake up with me in a in the raddisson
It’s two for one or one for free
get it now cos it’s a freebie
one, two, three, four
I’m the one that you adore
99 cents
I’m not crazy about money, but
I like what it can do
Shopping is a cultural activity
In this worlds nothings for free
Buy a book or buy a car
Look what a stud you are
Its not the what, its more the where,
Who you know and how
99 cents
luxury, the income tax of vanity
supermarket shoppers all over the world
It’s not as cheap as it may look
rob you blind cos I’m a crook
read all about it in john pilgers book
Rattrap, I see a rat trap
but the cheese I want the sleaze, sleaze sleaze so
jimmy up the street singing something great to the beat
goody goody boy, got you back in town
gotta go gotta go
gotta go gotta go
where is what with who and how
you want it fast you want it now
give it to me right now high and low
fun and free got loads of dough
life is fast life is cheap
got nothing to do but hang in the street
where is what with who and how
you want it fast you want it now
99 cents chorus
SELL OUT
Do it!, just do it!
exploit yourself just sellout, cash cards, just sellout
Do it to yourself before its done to you
It’s the euro, dollar, the yen or rubal
Sellout is the aim
On the billboard, in the adverts, this is the big game
Exploit, sellout, poser sellout,
Cos were up for sale
This is steep not cheap and get in now
Before it all goes stale
Take back your Cadillac
Your bike, cab, train or plain
Jet set in poverty
If I walk its just the same
Do it
Adbusters, slashers, snipers
Cultural jammers, hey’all
Paper tiger, this is your call
come with me let’s burn down the mall
the world has gotten just so unbelievably commercial, right?
And people are starting to go a little bit crazy from it!
They’ve completely bought into it
And it’s been a hell of a ride
But now they’re reaching a saturation point
They think, maybe, they’re getting to the end
of this business of glitz and hype and you gotta have it
so we say, in a fact, yeah, your instincts are right
for the first time in forever, marketing isn’t cool
eccess isn’t cool….
we do a trend piece, not a think piece
but more of a package for four or five spreads
we built a package around these people
we turned them into stars
exploit yourself just sellout, cash and cards, just sellout
Do it to yourself before its done to you
For the cash
CULTURE VULTURE
You ask me what I did today but I’m not gonna say
I was watching something in a really really really big way
I’m asking you questions better tell me something good
Fifteen minutes aint fast enough
Culture vulture
Smashing things on the weekends to get my kind of thrills
Smashing things on the weekends to get my thrills
I use sensation to get my stimulation
My stimulation it spells sensation
I need sensation to get my stimulation
My stimulation is spells sensation
More, more, more of what?
I need sensation to get my stimulation
My stimulation is spells sensation
More more, more of what?
Another necessity left here on the shelf
Do it fast or just tag along
Another necessity left here on the shelf
Do it fast or just tag along
In the evening when I come home
You ask me what? What did I say?
Well, I’m not gonna say
Anno dommini but add another d
Attention deficiency, that’s me
I’m the disease of the century but I don’t care
Anno dommini but add another d
Attention deficiency, that’s me
I’m the disease of the century but I don’t care
Stop flicking my channels with your remote control
Stop flicking my channels with your remote control
Stop flicking my channels with your remote control
Defining the world through regurgitated, updated, mediocre, mainstream
media information
that smacks of sensation
You ask me what I did today but I’m not gonna say
I was watching something in a really really really big way
Culture vulture
Hey you culture vultures
You ask me what I did today but I’m not gonna say
I was watching something in a really really really big way
Culture vulture
Hey you culture vultures
You ask me what I did today but I’m not gonna say
I was watching something in a really really really big way
Culture vulture
Hey you culture vultures
UNIVERSAL PUSSY
My my my my
Pink, yellow, blue
Sealed it in a bag
And sold it back to you
Put it on a shelf
Filed it under p
It’s a universal pussy
No longer me
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
See it up high
You can see it down low
See it on times square
I don´t own it no more
We see it on the billboard
On you’re your bedroom floor
my universal pussy
Comin´ through your door
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
Died it died it, I got it die, its dead it’s died its now its yours
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
my universal pussy and a superstar
LOVE LIFE
No reference no consequence
I think of you, I think of you
No commitment, nonexistent
Lovely you, I think of you
Living the high life, as the girlfriend of a star
A circle of friends who were girlfriends of stars
She’s in no good mood, he orders the car
She tells the driver to drive really far
Are you happy now?
Are you happy now?
No reference no consequence
I think of you, I think of you
No commitment, nonexistent
Lovely you, I think of you
A stylist takes a cab uptown Bergdorf Goodman’s
She takes back the belts she used for a test shoot
On her credit card
Living in a box outside its fancy free
Lying that she lost her job while hunting the boutiques
Are you happy now?
Are you happy now?
No reference no consequence
I think of you, I think of you
No commitment, nonexistent
Lovely you, I think of you
At the end there is a house by the sea like a perfect end of a movie
From in here there´s s just these gray walls around you
No reference no consequence
I think of you, I think of you
No commitment, nonexistent
Lovely you, I think of you
SHICK SHAVING
Well you know,
Id love to be a shick on speed
Running every morning
Over blonde German faces
And shave, just shave
If I was a shick on pills
Id go in a discotheque
Run over dancefloor maces
And shave, shave again
Nice to be a shick on stick
Laying every morning
On the patchwork blanket on my bed
And shave and shave and shave
Now I am a shick on spleen
Cutting every morning
All my legs, all my head
Born to shave, only shave
FASHION RULES
you fashion people in your camouflage wear
you think you're really quite up there
but the fashions you wear aren't so cool
you really should go back, you're old school
and martin hides behind our stripes
the t-shirts yeah! that's what she likes
nicking off with logos at cartier
the grand mister d, or charly, some say
fashion is for fashion people
it's hard to be cool if you don't follow these rules
fashion is for fashion people
get out there now and break the rules
dress-up dummies for a little while
crashed the crash party in real chicks style
karl and his lens they like to watch
king of the thing
but we dont give a…….
gucci's got the monopoly
fifty handbags - thats victim's luxury
voguefied in 01, enough of that fake, it's said and done
fashion is for fashion people
it's hard to be cool if you don't follow these rules
fashion is for fashion people
get out there now and break the rules
bless your dress, you're out of style
you're a brainwash victim for a while
off with their heads is what we say
after marie antoinette it's the only way
you're a model and you walk the beat
they even told you what to eat
bacteria inbred in fashion schools
get out there now and break the rules
fashion is for fashion people
it's hard to be cool if you don't follow these rules
fashion is for fashion people
get out there now and break the rules
fashion……fashion……
its hard
ahhhhhhhhh
CoS lyrics