Artist: The Police Album: Individual Songs

Shut up, shut up
Shut up, you bitch, shut up

When you reach number ten and think the struggle ends
But it ain't the end, it's only a trend
You have to unbend cos it's only a trend
Don't lose all your friends, don't make heroes end

When you reach number eight it ain't no pearly gate
Cos it won't satiate your growing appetite
You can ply your trade and push your crusade
Emancipate or indoctrinate
But the traps are all laid for any honest crusade
Your old values will fade as you struggle to make the grade
As you struggle to make the grade
As you struggle to make the grade
You needn't bother

When you hit number four you're almost through the door
But there's a whole lot more you just can't ignore
The telephone's sure, you know the score
But don't let this uproar dissipate your encore
It's written in the news how you paid your dues
But you've no excuse for the people you abuse

When you reach number one you can beat your drum
Sack your roadies in Birmingham when your record is platinum
You can stick it to the bath, to the wall like you've always planned
It's written in the news how you paid your dues
There's no excuse for the people you abuse

When you reach number ten, people who you abuse
No excuse for the people you abuse
You've got no excuse for the people you abuse

I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number
I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number

The queue gets longer everyday
I just ain't got time to stay
I ain't gonna run away
All I want to do is play

Don't wanna be no teacher
I don't wanna be no slave
I don't wanna work no assembly line
A-like my uncle Dave

The queue gets longer everyday
I just ain't got time to stay
I ain't gonna run away
All I wanna do is play

I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job

I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number
I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number

The queue gets longer everyday
All I wanna do is play
I just ain't got time to stay
But I ain't gonna run away

Don't wanna be no millionaire
Don't wanna own no mint
I don't wanna be no tax exile
And I don't mind being skint

The queue gets longer everyday
I just ain't got time to stay
I just gonna run away
All I want to do is play

Don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
No, no

Don't want no dead end job
Don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job

I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number
I don't want no dead end job
I don't wanna be no number

The queue gets longer everyday
I just ain't got time to stay
I ain't gonna run away
All I want to do is play

Don't wanna be no millionaire
Don't wanna own no mint
I don't wanna be no tax exile
And I don't mind being skint

The queue gets longer everyday
I just ain't got time to stay
All I want to do is play
I ain't gonna run away

Don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
You can stuff your dead end job
Stuff your fucking dead end - cunts
Don't want no dead end job
I'm fucking pissed

I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job
I don't want no dead end job

Young teacher, the subject of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly, knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing, this girl's an open page
Book marking, she's so close now, this girl is half his age

Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me

Her friends are so jealous, you know how bad girls get
Sometimes it's not so easy to be the teacher's pet
Temptation, frustration - so bad it makes him cry
Wet bus stop, she's waiting, his car is warm and dry

Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me

Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me

Loose talk in the classroom, to hurt they try and try
Strong words in the staffroom, the accusations fly
It's no use, he sees her, he starts to shake, he starts to cough
Just like the old man in that famous book by Nabakov

Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so, don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so, don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me
Don't stand so close to me

How can you say that you're not responsible
What does it have to do with me
What is my reaction, what should it be
Confronted by this latest atrocity

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existance is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Cos this is what we've seen

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears

Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do

Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears
Driven to tears, driven to tears, driven to tears


Thank you

I never thought of leading
I got my own machine
And I pay my dues all along
Always set for breaking
When I missed those other people
Cos I knew that I was really alone

Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs
Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs

I saw my education
It was my indoctrination
Just to be another parking machine
All my sense was breaking
When I missed those other people
Cos I knew that I was not very clean

Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs
Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs

Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs
Fallout, fallout with all the leaders and gangs

Fallout

INSTRUMENTAL

I like to eat my friends, make no bones about it
I likes to eat my friends, I couldn't do without it
Ain't a man or poet, friend, I know just how you'll taste
Your limbs go sliding down my throat and never go to waste

Your death, of course, will sadden me, until I grock your essence
I know your life was not in vain when digestion is commencing
Consider this a celebration and the deepest pact of friends
I hope that you will dine on me when I come to an end

Friends, friends, friends

Even friends may come to you with a new found revelation
But think of it as life renewed and not their termination
"To know you is to eat you," should be the code of lovers
Death brings the highest act of love preserved for one another

Friends, friends, friends
Friends, friends, friends

People say that what you are is only what you eat
And my friends become a part of me, well, it's then that life's complete
To know you is to eat you, the act of love supreme
Each one of us inside himself can appetize the dream

Friends, friends, friends
Friends, friends, friends

INSTRUMENTAL

Now that I have found you
In the coolth of your evening smile
Of the shade of your parasol
And your love flows through me
Though I drink at your pool
I burn for you, I burn for

You and I are lovers
And nighttime falls around our bed
In peace we sleep entwined
And your love flows through me
Though an ocean soothes my head
I burn for you, I burn for you

Stars will fall from dark skies
As ancient rocks are turning
Quiet fills the room
And your love flows through me
Though I lie here so still
I burn for you, I burn for you, I burn

I don't want to rent your house from you
I don't know how you can expect me to
I ain't moving cos I know my rights
Too many homeless on the streets at night

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
No morality, what do you care
You deal in poverty, you buy despair

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

You go and call yourself a business man
You're just a parasite on Pyllosan
You're just a middle class, middle aged shit
You sold your granny for a fifty bit

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
No morality, what do you care
You deal in poverty, you buy despair

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

You go and call yourself a business man
You're just a parasite on Pyllosan
You're just a middle class, middle aged shit
You sold your granny for a fifty bit

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
No morality, what do you care
You deal in poverty, you buy despair

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
I've got no weapons, gonna get me some

No, oh, no
Landlord, landlord
Oh, landlord

Stay out of your seats, this is called Landlord

One, two, three, four - come on


I don't want to rent your house from you
I don't know how you can expect me to
I ain't moving cos I know my rights
Too many homeless on the streets at night

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
No morality, what do you care
You deal in poverty, you buy despair

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some

You go and call yourself a business man
You're just a parasite on Pyllosan
You're just a middle class, middle aged shit
You sold your granny for a fifty bit

You own a street and a block of flats
You earn your living like the other rats
No morality, what do you care
You deal in poverty, you buy despair

I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I say it

Go back
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some

Here we go
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some
I ain't moving till the bailiff comes
You got no weapons, gonna get me some

Landlord, you're my landlord
You're my land, you're my landlord

Fatal fascination for the seedy part of town
Walk down the street and your head spins round
Don't be seen alone without your friends at night
Take a gun or a knife to the low life

Don't have to be born into this society
Pay for love but the hate comes free
Bring enough money for the rest of your life
Don't bring your wife to the low life

Bringing us there to the degradation
Always keep your back to the wall
No rewards for your infatuation
Low life - no life at all
Yeah, no life, low life

In here too long to be afraid anymore
You can't reach the bed so you sleep on the floor
You get so stoned you think you could fly
But you won't get high on the low life

Low life, low life
Low life, low life, low life, low life

Low life, low life, low life, low life
Low life, low life, low life, low life

Why must I be, why must I be, why must I be


I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it holds my suitcase
It looks likes home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be a man in a suitcase

Another key for my collection
For security I race for my connection
Bird in a flying cage, you'll never get to know me well
The world's my oyster, my hotel room's a prison cell

Why must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be a man in a suitcase

I'd invite you back to my place
It's only mine because it hold my suitcase
It looks like home to me alright
But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night

Why must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man with the stranger's face
Must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man in a suitcase

Must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man in a suitcase
Must I be a man in a suitcase
Is it me, the man in a suitcase


Thank you

This is called Message In A Bottle


Just a castaway, an island lost at sea, oh
Another lonely day, no one here but me, oh
More loneliness than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair, oh

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, whoa
Message in a bottle, yeah
Oh, message in a bottle
Message in a bottle, whoa

A year has passed since I wrote my note
I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life but love can break your heart

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, whoa
Message in a bottle, whoa
Oh, message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle

Walked out this morning, don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone in being alone
A hundred billion castaways looking for a home

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my message in a bottle, whoa
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle
Ooh, message in a bottle

I'm sending out an SOS, I'm sending out an SOS
I'm sending out an SOS, I'm sending out an SOS
I'm sending out an SOS, I'm sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS
Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS


Thank you

I can't stand it for another day
When you live so many miles away
Nothing else is gonna make me stay
You took me over, let me find a way

I sold my house, I sold my motor, too
All I want is to be next to you
I'd rob a bank, maybe steal a plane
You took me over, think I'll go insane

What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you

I've had a thousand girls or maybe more
Although I've never felt like this before
What's just over, what's come over me
You took me over, take a look at me

What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you

I say, good night New York City

I'm so, I used to give a sign
i got this feeling, gonna lose my mind
When all it is is just a love affair
You took me over, baby, take me there

What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is, next to you, next to you, next to you, next to you

On the guitar, Andy Summers
On the drums, Stewart Copeland
Good night from The Police, thank you Bottom Line, thank you

One, two, three, four

What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
What can I do - all I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is to be next to you
All I want is, next to you, next to you, next to you

My daddy's boots don't fit me
Cos I'm bigger than him
He says I make him sick, well
I'm bigger than him
You see, there's nothing worth achieving
All your dreams are just deceiving

You've locked the doors on your good living
And you told me to wait
You've got me backed into a corner
You're making me hate
I say there's nothing worth achieving
All your dreams are just deceiving

They say there's nothing worth achieving
All your dreams are just deceiving

Throwing stones that are reeling
From a reasonable light
We muscle in where we're not wanted
Ready to fight
I say there's nothing worth achieving
All your dreams are just deceiving

Nothing, nothing, nothing

Once upon a daydream I fell in love with you
Once upon a moonbeam I gave that love to you
Once upon a lifetime, I know it must be true
When the months had turned us I'd have to marry you

Once upon a daydream doesn't happen anymore
Once upon a moonbeam, this is no place for tenderness

Once her daddy found out he threw her to the floor
He killed her unborn baby and kicked me from the door
Once upon a nightmare I bought myself a gun
I blew her daddy's brains out, now hell has just begun

Once upon a daydream doesn't happen anymore
Once upon a moonbeam, this is no place for sentiment

Once upon a lifetime, a lifetime filled with tears
A boy would pay for his crime with all his natural years
Once upon a daydream he'd make you his someday
And once upon a moonbeam he'd dream his life away

Once upon a daydream doesn't happen anymore
Once upon a moonbeam, this is no place for miracles

Once upon a daydream, once upon a daydream
Once upon a daydream, once upon a daydream

INSTRUMENTAL

Though it's me that's on fire, not this cigarette
I was stabbed in the back by that young Suffragette
And what do I care if she leaves me alone
If I need somebody I'll pick up the phone
I'll put on my good face, clean up the flat
I'm starting all over, goodbye to all that
Put on some music and pour out a drink
I'll go back to bed and I'll try not to think

Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to

She was a person I just couldn't see
And I tried to make her what she couldn't be
I tried and I tried, but of course in the end
I drove her crazy and right round the bend
Now it's too much to just sit here and cry
I can't be seen with a tear in my eye
Why am I standing right next to the phone
When I kept on saying I must be alone

Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to

Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to

I love you, why didn't I say that before
Guess that it's safe, now, she's walked through the door
It's hard when you know that you've got to go on
Feeling so weak and pretending your strong
I didn't see her, I only felt me
One day I'll learn just which part of me bleeds
Now that she's gone I know she was great
But I fucked it up and now it's too late

Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to
Someone to talk to, someone to talk to

My sisters and I
Have one wish before we die
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why
Beneath the sheltering sky
We have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you

The young man agreed
He would satisfy their need
So they danced for his pleasure
With a joy you could not measure
They'd wait for him here
The same place every year
Beneath the sheltering sky
Across the desert he would fly

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you, oh

The sky turned to black
Would he ever come back
They would climb a high dune
They would pray to the moon
But he'd never return
So the sisters would burn
As their eyes searched the land
With their cups still full of sand

Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you
Tea in the Sahara with you


Thank you
God, it's hot in here, really hot
Is it hot

The bed's too big without you
A cold wind blows right through that open door
I can't sleep with your memory
Dreaming dreams of what used to be

When she left I was cold inside
That look on my face was just pride, yeah
No regrets, no love, no tears
Living on my own, the least of my fears

The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
Without you, without you, without you

The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
Without you, without you, without you

Since that day when you'd gone
I just had to carry on, oh yeah
I get through day but late at night
Love to my pillow but it didn't seem right

Every day, just the same
Old rules for the same old game
All I gained was heartache
All I made, one mistake, oh yeah

The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
The bed's too big without you
Without you, without you, without you

One, two, three
I mean it


Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold

Take a look at my new toy
Blow your head in two, oh boy
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone

I thought about it and my dream was broken
I clutch at images like dying breath
And I don't want to make a fuss about it
The only certain thing in life is death

Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy
Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, yeah

Where you want to be
Won't you ever see

Truth hits everybody, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, whoa, oh
Truth hits everybody, whoa, oh, truth hits everyone, yeah, now

Gazed into the visions of the night
Seen the darkness fall
I've heard a mountain fall away from sight
Heard the thunder call

Seen the beast I call my father
Creature of the night
I feel the creeping darkness close
I eat electric light

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
How long will you keep it
They sow a harvest but what's it worth
There's no one left to reap it

Gazed into the visions of the night
Seen the darkness fall
Heard a mountain fall away from sight
Heard the thunder call

Seen the beast I call my father
Creature of the night
Feel the creeping darkness close
I eat electric light

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
How long will you keep it
They sow a harvest but what's it worth
There's no one left to reap it

Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night

They say the meek shall inherit the earth
How long will you keep it
They sow a harvest but what's it worth
There's no one left to reap it

Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night, yeah

I have gazed into the visions of the night
I have gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night
Gazed into the visions of the night