The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death - The Housemartins

I am not waiting I am not late and I am on time here Cry out yo eyes dear Because everybody Yeah they like to lie here You think you're safe But you are not Up in the shock You feel on lock You will be used Fucking abused Your eyes will wander And you'll be afraid Thinking everyone knows What was made Of you and your body And you would be right People see you struggle But They still wanna fight You were attacked You were assaulted Raped but nobody cares And then you were faulted And now you think You should cut off your hair right? Make yourself ugly so They don't care to stare right? Or You think you're flawed And they will take you off into the night Maybe make yourself perfect Hoping they won't have the right Try to escape They won't let you out They look at you different In your own damn house I know they have turned their back on you But trust me, I've seen what you have been through And I'm here for good and I'm here to stay And if you need i'll hold your hand all damn day And I, and I love you and that's the truth Make a name of myself That's why I'm in this booth This path is one that I must choose My alternative led into a damn noose I got some shit on my mind And I just wanna put it behind me You feel gross You feel stared at the most You got dirt under your skin And you can't get it out Spiders walking on your skin Arms are held down They burrow under it You're screaming now Try to thrash around But he's got his hands around Your wrists and you can't move The man you loved Why would he do this to you Is it your fault? And as you give it some thought You're told it is by your trusted few Part of what I'm here to do Is to confirm the victim is you You held no one down You won't burn in hell Did not rape him with no one around Said don't tell Because guess what? That all happened to you You are victim, even you know it's true Your eyes will wander And you'll be afraid Thinking everyone knows What was made Of you and your body And you would be right People see you struggle They still wanna fight You were attacked You were assaulted Raped but nobody cares And then you were faulted I know you feel alone in this mess You try to tell someone you trust Only for them to betray you, but I promise I am here, and whoever you are I am listening, and I care for you

Alone in my sorrow and dead in my sin Lost without hope and no place to begin Your love made a way to let mercy come in When death was arrested and my life began Ash was redeemed, Only beauty remains And my orphan heart was given a name My mourning grew quiet, My feet rose to dance When death was arrested and my life began Oh, Your grace so free Washes over me You have made me new now Life begins with you Released form my chains I'm a prisoner no more My shame was a ransom He faithfully bore He canceled my debt And He called me His friend When death was arrested and my life began Oh, Your grace so free Washes over me You have made me new now Life begins with you It's your endless love Pouring down on us You have made us new now Life begins with you Our savior displayed on a criminal's cross And darkness rejoiced as though heaven had lost But then Jesus arose with our freedom in hand That's when death was arrested and my life began That's when death was arrested and my life began Oh, Your grace so free Washes over me You have made me new now Life begins with you It's your endless love Pouring down on us You have made us new now Life begins with you Oh we're free, free Forever we're free Come join the song Of all the redeemed Yes we're free, free Forever amen When death was arrested And my life began We're free, free Forever we're free Come join the song Of all the redeemed Yes we're free, free Forever amen When death was arrested And my life began When death was arrested and my life began When death was arrested And my life began

Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug On twenty six reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old He looked like sixty five when he died He was a friend of mine Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends and just died G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan Sly in Vietnam, bullet in the head Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed They were two more friends of mine (two more friends that died) Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends and they died Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room Bobby hung himself from a cell in The Tombs Judy jumped in front of a subway train Eddie got slit in the jugular vein And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others And I salute you brother Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof Tony thought that his rage was just some goof But Herbie sure gave Tony some, some bitchen proof Hey, Herbie said, Tony, can you fly? But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends and they died Brian got busted on a narco rap He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers He said, hey, I know it's dangerous But it sure beats Riker's But the next day he got offed By the very same bikers Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug On twenty six reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old He looked like sixty five when he died He was a friend of mine Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten They died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan Sly in Vietnam, took a bullet in the head Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed They were two more friends of mine, I miss 'em, they died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends and they died Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs Judy jumped in front of a subway train Eddie got slit in the jugular vein And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others This song is for you my brother Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died They were all my friends, and they died

I used to think you understood Taught me right and learnt me good Made things simple for my brain Told the truth and made it plain But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} From the front page news to the interviews It's sink the reds and lift the blues They pretend they're differing points of view But it's only different shades of blue But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} (Guitar Solo) So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} F.R.E.E.D.O.M. They locked us up once So they'll do it again C.H.A.I.N.E.D. They locked up my friends Now they're coming for me

Please don't show your soul to me I think I'd see the light shine through And please don't greet me on the street I'd like to see a world without you Please don't change your uniform And start to mourn the thousands dead And please wear what you've always worn And don't be drawn by what I've said 'Cause I've found there's nothing more That I could say to you Nothing I could do to change your mind Change your ways and your tune So please don't feel you have to sway Or move away from how you feel And please say what you mean to say And always stay with a heart of steel

Clambering men in big bad boots Dug up my den, dug up my roots Treated us like plasticine town They build us up and knocked us down From Meccano to Legoland Here they come with a brick in their hand Men with heads filled up with sand It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Whistling men in yellow vans They came and drew us diagrams Showed us how it all worked out And wrote it down, in case of doubt Slow, slow, and quick, quick, quick It's wall to wall and brick to brick They work so fast it makes you sick It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Oh, build It's build It's build Down with sticks and up with bricks In with boots and up with roots It's in with suits and new recruits It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build)