| 1. The Adverts - No Time To Be 21 |
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Life's short, don't make a mess of it. To the ends of the earth, you'll look for a sense in it. No chances, no plans. I'll smash the windows of...
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| 2. The Adverts - Bombsite Boy |
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Leapfrog over fences. Little time, less senses. Here by this railway cutting. Life goes quick and it goes without warning. That's how life is...
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| 3. The Adverts - Bored Teenagers |
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We're talking into corners. Finding ways to fill the vacuum. And though our mouths are dry. We talk in hope to hit on something new. Tied to...
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| 4. The Adverts - On The Roof |
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Blank-faced, Was this what our elders taught? Dim the lights and live like story book. I can't focus for the pinball. I'm all shook up and I...
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| 5. The Adverts - Great British Mistake |
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The great British mistake was looking for a way out, Was getting complacent, not noticing The pulse was racing. The mistake was fighting. The...
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| 6. The Adverts - Drowning Men |
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Uncharted wrecks of wonder. In deepest gloom down under. The drowning men are drawing near. We're the subterranean vandals, Tying air lines...
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| 7. The Adverts - New Church |
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Maybe - maybe a fool for trusting. Maybe - maybe a fool for following. The God of wisdom not of love. But I'm riding with the new church. I'm...
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| 8. The Adverts - Newboys |
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We're out on a limb. Should we let the newboys in? We think they can't do no harm. Let's humour them. But they need some passion inside. They...
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| 9. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes |
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I'm lying in a hospital, I'm pinned against the bed. A stethoscope upon my heart, A hand against my head. They're peeling off the bandages. ...
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| 10. The Adverts - New Day Dawning |
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We say don't show your guns, if you don't intend to fight We say don't sleep all day, if you can't keep awake at night Don't screw it up. Don't be...
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| 11. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders |
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I wonder what we'll play for you tonight. Something heavy or something light. Something to set your soul alight. I wonder how we'll answer when...
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| 12. The Adverts - Safety In Numbers |
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What are you going to do with your new ways? What are you going to do with your new wave? Maybe it's that you no longer care. Now you're so...
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| 13. The Adverts - Quickstep |
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I knew my youth couldn't last forever. I knew some chords so I got the band together. Sick of sleeping and beating up my mother. Forget those...
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| 14. The Adverts - On Wheels |
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What's left in the wheelchair? Who bothers what's in there? Who worries what life's like on wheels? No body to speak of. No willpower, voice,...
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| 15. The Adverts - We Who Wait |
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Who wait in the cafe and magazine. Who wait for morning or fag machine. Who leave it all unfinalised, And undecided... We who wait. Who wait...
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