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CUT Lyrics

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Cut was released in 1979 on Island Records, and shows the Slits at their best. This album is favorite of critics and fans alike, combining punk and dub to create an original raw tribal sound.Two new songs were added to the album when it was re-issued in 2000. One of them being I Heard It Through The Grape Vine, which up till then was only available on singles.

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INSTANT HIT

He is a boy
He's very thin
Until tomorrow
Took heroin
Don't like himself very much
Cuz he has set his self to self destruct
He is
Set to self destruct
He is
Set to self destruct
He is
Set to self destruct
Too good to be true
He is
Too good to be true

(chorus)
Enjoy it (I know you can)
Enjoy it
Destroy it (destroy it)
Enjoy it (enjoy it)
Destroy it (destroy it)
Enjoy it (enjoy it)

He is
Too good to be true
He is
Too good to be true
He is
Too good to be true
He is
Too good to be true
He is
Set to self destruct (set to self detruct)

(chorus)

I could
Hate you anytime
I could
Hate you anytime
I could
Hate you anytime
I could
Give you anything

(chorus)

I forgive you anything
I forgive you anything
I forgive you anything
Hate you anytime
Hate you anytime

(chorus)

He is
Set to self destruct
He is
Set to self destruct
He is
Set to self destruct
Self detruct, self destruct

SO TOUGH

He had fun experiance
Nothing he does ever makes sense
He is only curious
Don't take it serious

So tough
You can't take anymore now you're getting weak
So tough
Don't start playing hide and seek
So hard
Why do you think he got like that?
So hard
Don't think about it much cuz it's just rut

(chorus)
You had fun experiance
(you had fun experiance)
Nothing he does ever makes sense
(nothing he does ever makes sense)
He is only curious
(he is only curious)
Don't take it serious
(don't take it serious, don't take it serious)

So strong
They say you're acting like a star
So strong
They say not everything's wonderbar
Too long
You want money, girls urgently
Too long
Too much, too soon you wait and see
Too much
You hang around her cuz she's a good mate
Too much
Milkshakes and cherry cheesecake
Too fast
They want to stop you having kicks
Slow down
Don't fuck things up by getting sick...again

(chorus)

So tough
You can't take anymore now you're getting weak
So tough
Don't start playing hide and seek
So hard
Why do you think he got like that?
So hard
Don't think about it much cuz it's just a rut

(chorus)

SPEND SPEND SPEND

I am trapped in a flood, but it isn't raining
I have a tendancy to get bored too quickly
Recently my dull life seems to have no meaning
I am stuck with someone we're not communicating

(chorus)

I want to buy
Have you been affected?
I need consoling
You could be addicted

I need something new
Something trivial would do
I want to satisfy this empty feeling

Walking down the street looking in the windows
The t.v., the lights, flickering in other peoples windows
Imagine myself moving in the kitchens
Somehow I don't know it just looks so tempting

(chorus)

I've got a new improved remedy
Two of my lonely fantasies

When I supply myself with something new...

Going home, into bed when I've treated myself
I've been quite hard, after a hard days work
I have found a hundred ways to get rid of all my worries
He's not pilliging, stopping me, commenting the crime

(chorus)

I've got a new improved remedy
Two of my lonely fantasies
I've got a new improved remedy
Two of my lonely fantasies

SHOPLIFTING

Put the chedder in the pocket
Put the rest under the jacket
Talk to the cashier he won't suspect
And if he does
And if he does
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Ten quid for the lot
We pay fuck all
Babajolen won't lose much
And we'll have dinner tonight
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Camera's trying to watch us
Mirrors and t.v.
But they're not gonna catch us
Cuz we're gonna gonna gonna
Run run run
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Do a runner!
Run!
Ten quid for the lot
We pay fuck all
Babajolen won't lose much
And we'll have dinner tonight
Do a runner!
Run!
(I've pissed in my knickers)

FM

I live in a town with a hundred lights around
My head is like a radio set
I'm waiting to hear what program is next
What program is next

(chorus)
Frequent mutilation
Transmits over the air
Serving for the purpose
Of those who want you to fear

They say "it's alright"
But suspician creeps in
My nightmares don't project my dreams
I can't but wonder what's feeding my screen
What's feeding my screen

(chorus)

Thousand nights of confusion wedged in my mind
I'm breaking down another illusion
Todays transmission will give me the solution

(chorus)

NEW TOWN

New town where evryone goes around sniffing telyvisena
Or taking phostcyline
New town(x4)
Uh uh gimmie another fix
Uh uh uh gimmie another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll go sick
I'll be sick
Morning papers will bring you something flash
Make your bones shake
Keep busy your mind
New town(x4)
Uh uh gimmie another fix
I I I need another fix
If not I'll go sick
If not I'll go sick
I'll be sick sick sick sick
Morning in the city, Mr. Simpson is a speedin freak
Taking psincoline
Or sniffing psilcolyna
New town(x4)
Down town
Drop down
Stick around
Feeling down
Might be some coming out
Football colours all around
Dropping pc late at night
Waiting for a fight
A fight
New town
New town where everybody goes around sniffing telavisina
Or taking phostcyline
New town(x4)
Uh uh gimmie another fix
I I I need another fix
If not I'll go sick
I'll be sick
New town....(to fade out)

PING PONG AFFAIR

I knew when you were sitting in your room all alone
I knew I was the only girl for you
You have told me
But somehow it slipped my mind
Whislt walking home
Whislt you were sulking I could have been raped
In Lad Poors Grove
Well you can take your records back
And take your comics too
I'm going to have some fun tonight
With or without you

(chorus)
So I spend an evening
Without getting my face cut
And another evening
Without getting run over
Again another evening without falling in love

So listen to the radio
Smoke a cigarette
Same old thing, yeah I know, everybody does it

Six months of time
Has come and passed between us
I never missed you only sometimes
Dreaming on a bus
There is absolutley no doubt in my mind
That you and I have grown apart
For the first time
Well seeing you with other girls
Sometimes bothers me
But I don't want to play those games
They're just not interesting

(chorus)

So listen to the radio
Smoke a cigarette
Same old thing, yeah I know, everybody does it

Since yesterday, like I heard your voice behind me
I froze on the spot did not turn around
Incase you'd find me
I think you lied or you can't tell
Tell the truth
You didn't want me you wanted someone else
Who'd give you proof
But I can't trust the feelings rushing through my head
I'd wait for you to call me nights
And comes to me instead

(chorus)

So listen to the radio
Smoke a cigeratte
Same old thing, yeah you know, eveybody does it

LOVE UND ROMANCE

Bobby don't love us...oh Bobby don't love us
Oh oh oh sweet love und romance
Ain't it something?
Man let's dance
Want you with me all the time
Promise angel that you're mine
I own you!
See you later alligator (you're mine)
In awhile crocodile
I'm so happy
You're so nice
Kiss kiss kiss
Fun fun...life!
I'm so glad that you belong to me
Oh my darling who wants to be free?
Together we can reach the stars
Oh yeah baby we'll go far
Spread your wings and let me come inside
In awhile crocodile
I'm so happy
You're so nice
Kiss kiss kiss
Fun fun...life!
Oh oh oh sweet love und romance
I'm so glad we met by chance
Call you everyday on the telephone
Break your neck if you ain't home
We can get married and have a house in the country
Love's a feeling...and so is stealing
Do ya hear me?
I hear ya!
I'm so happy
You're so nice
Kiss kiss kiss
Fun fun...life!
Fun fun fun I'm having fun
Hee hee hee
It's such a love
Hee hee hee
Now we're one!
Life's a gas all the time
You're so lovely, you're so...fine!
Are ya ready for this?
Are ya ready for this?
Gimmie a great big kiss
Oh I'm so happy
You're so nice
Kiss kiss kiss
Fun fun...life!
Life!Life!Life!

TYPICAL GIRLS

Don't create...
Don't rebel...

Typical girls get upset to quickly
Typical girls can't control themselves
Typical girls are so confusing
Typical girls you can always tell
Typical girls don't think too clearly
Typical girls are unpredictable

(chorus)
Typical girls try to be
Typical girls very well
Typical girls try to be
Typical girls very well

Typical girls are looking for something
Typical girls fall under spells
Typical girls buy magazines
Typical girls feel like hell
Typical girls worry about spots, fat...natural smells
Taking fake smells

(chorus)

Don't create...
Don't rebel...

Can't decide what clothes to wear
Are sensitive
Typical girls are emotional
Typical girls are cruel and bewitching
Oh she's a femme fatale
Typical girls stand by their man
Typical girls are really swell
Typical girls learn how to act shocked
Typical girls...don't rebel

Who invented the typical girl?
Who's bringing out the new improved one?
And there's another marketing ploy
Typical girl gets the typical boy

Typical boy gets the typical girl
The typical girl gets the typical boy
Typical boy gets the typical girl
The typical girl gets the typical boy
Are emotional

ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME

Don't take it personal
I choose my own fate
I follow love
I follow hate

(chorus)
Don't take it personal
I choose my own fate
I follow love
I follow hate

Passion that shouts
And red with anger
I lost myself
Through allies of mystery
I went up and down
Like a demented train

(chorus)

Searching for something
That makes hearts move
I found myself
But my best possession
Walked into the shade
And threaten to drift away

Searching for something
That makes hearts move
Left you behind as if I could
Posses by Quixote's dream
went to fight dragons in the land of concrete

(chorus)

Rolling in pain
Discovered what hurts
And tasted hell
Infatuated by madness
I danced in flames
And drunk in the depth of love

(chorus)

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

I bet I bet I bet
I bet you're wondering how I knew
About your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
We're two of kind you know I love you more
Took me by suprise I must say
When I found out yesterday

Oh heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer will you be mine
I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind honey honey
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer will you be mine baby

Oh I know a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't hold inside
Losing you would end my life you see
Cuz you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself that you loved...

Heard it through the grace line
Not much longer will you be mine
I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind honey honey
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer will you be mine baby

People say believe half of what you see
Son, and none of what you hear
But I can't help being confused
If it's true please tell me dear
Do you plan to let me go
For this other you knew before

Oh heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer will you be mine
I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind honey honey
I heard it through the garpevine
Not much longer will you be mine baby
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer will you be mine baby

Betcha wondering how I knew
About your plans to make me blue
With some other guy you knew before
We're two of kind you know I love you more
Do you plan to let me go
For this other you knew before
And I'm just about to lose my mind
And I'm just about to lose my mind
And I'm just about to lose my mind
And I'm just about to lose my mind

Liebe and Romanze (slow version)

(instrumental)

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All songs written by Albertine/Forester/Romero/Pollit except 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'