Well you think you had a good time
With the boy that you just met
Kicking sand from beach to beach
Your clothes all soaking wet
But if you look around and see
A shadow on the run
Don't be too surprised if its just a paper sun

Aah, paper sun, aah, paper sun

In the room where you've been sleeping
All your clothes all thrown about
Cigarettes burn window sills 
Your meter's all run out
But then again its nothing
You just split when day is done
Hitching lifts to nowhere, hung up on the paper sun

Standing in the cool of my room
Fresh cut flowers give me sweet perfume
Too much sun will burn!

When you're feeling tired and lonely
You see people going home
You can't make the train fare
Or the six pence for the phone
And icicles your crying 
From your cheek have just begun
Dont be sad, good times are had
Beneath the paper sun

Daylight breaks while you sleep on the sand
A seagull is stealing the ring from your hand
The boy who had given you so much fun
Has left you so cold in the paper sun

You ride on the swing in and out of the bars
Capturing moments of life in a jar
Playing with children, acting as stars
Guiding your visions to heaven and heaven is in your mind
Take extra care not to lose what up feel
The apple you're eating is simple and real
Water the flowers that grow at you heel
guiding your visions to heaven and heaven is in your mind

I'm looking for a girl who has no face
She has no name, or number
And so I search within his lonely place
Knowing that I won't find her
Well, I can't stop this feeling deep in inside me
Ruling my mind

I feel no sound
Don't know where I'm bound

The scenery is all the same to me
Nothing has changed or faded
I'm a part of it, some part of me
Painted cool green, and shaded
So, try to find myself must be the only way
To feel free

Yesterday I was a young boy 
Searching for my way 
Not knowing what I wanted 
Living life from day to day 
Till you came along 
There was nothing but an empty space and a pain 

Feels like coloured rain
Tastes like coloured rain
Bring on coloured rain, yeah

I can see a sail of changing 
Filling with surprise 
United with a feeling 
Bringing love into my eyes 
Till you came along 
There was nothing but an empty space and a pain

Do yourself a favor
Wake up to your mind
Life is what you make it
You see but still your blind
Get yourself together, give before you take
You'll find out the hard way
Soon you're going to break

Smiling Phases, going places
Even when they bust you
Keep on smiling through and through
And you'll be amazed at the gaze on their faces
As they sentence you

You don't need a lawyer
When you're in a fix
Someone gets the pay off
You're friends are full of tricks
How could you love something
That you just can't buy
Own up to the truth girl
Your mother's gone on by

Your companion, brings you flowers
You just hang him up
And keep him waiting there for hours
And you should just see the look on his face 
As you slide down the rail

I looked to the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water - letting in water

I walked through a field 
That just wasnt real
Where 100 tin soldiers
Would shoot at my shoulder
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water - letting in water

I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
Where music played ever so loudly

I started to fall 
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
It stuck to my coat
And all that I knew
The hole in my shoe
Was letting in water - letting in water

Pretty Polly Possum
What's wrong with you
Your body's kinda weak
And you think there's nothing we can do
Good golly, Polly
Shame on you
Cos Molly made a stew that'll make a new girl out of you

Follow me, it's good for you
That good old fashioned medicated goo
Ooo, ain't it good for you
My own home-grown recipe'll see you through

Freaky Freddy Frolic
Had some I know
He was last seen picking green
Flowers in a filed of snow
Get ready, Freddy
They're sure to grow
Mother Nature just blew it
And there's nothing really to it
I know

Follow me, it's good for you
That good old fashioned medicated goo
Ooo, ain't it good for you
My own home-grown recipe'll see you through

Aunty Franny Prickett and Uncle Lou
They made some goo
Now they really sock it to their friends
Frantic friends and neighbours
Charge the door
They caught a little whiff
Now they're digging it and seeking more

Follow me, it's good for you
That good old fashioned medicated goo
Ooo, ain't it good for you
My own home-grown recipe'll see you through

Forty thousand headmen couldn't make me change my mind
If I had to take the choice between the deafman and the blind
I know just where my feet should go and that's enough for me
I turned around and knocked them down and walked across the sea

Hadn't traveled very far when suddenly I saw
Three small ships a-sailing out towards a distant shore
So lighting up a cigarette I followed in pursuit
And found a secret cave where they obviously stashed their loot

Filling up my pockets, even stuffed it up my nose
I must have weighed a hundred tons between my head and toes
I ventured forth before the dawn had time to change its mind
And soaring high above the clouds I found a golden shrine

Laying down my treasure before the iron gate
Quickly rang the bell hoping I hadn't come too late
But someone came along and told me not to waste my time
And when I asked him who he was he said, 'Just look behind'

So I turned around and forty thousand headmen bit the dirt
Firing twenty shotguns each and man, it really hurt
But luckily for me they had to stop and then reload
And by the time they'd done that I was heading down the road

Seems I've got to have a change of scene 
'Cause every night I have the strangest dreams
Imprisoned by the way it could have been 
Left here on my own or so it seems
I've got to leave before I start to scream
But someone's locked the door and took the key

You feelin' alright - I'm not feelin' too good myself
Well, you feelin' alright - I'm not feelin' too good myself

Well, say, you sure took me for one big ride 
And even now I sit and wonder why
That when I think of you I start to cry
I just can't waste my time, I must keep dry
Gotta stop believin' in all you lies 
Cos there's too much to do before I die

Don't get too lost in all I say 
Though at the time I really felt that way
But that was then, now it's today; 
I can't get off so I'm here to stay
Till someone comes along and takes my place 
With a different name and, yes, a different face

Shanghai Noodle Factory
The place where I once used to be
Nowhere
Doing nothing
The people there were made of steel
Tiny cage in one big wheel
Turning
Never learning

I had to make a break
I know I couldn't fake it any longer
Everything at stake
Soon I'd have to wake up feeling stronger
Feeling stronger
In my island of dreams
With impossible schemes

Shanghai Noodle Factory
Place where I once used to be
Nowhere at all

In a Shanghai Noodle Factory
Place where I once used to be
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere doing nothing
Nowhere
Doing nothing
Nowhere

Everything just aches
I had to make a break
Knew I couldn't fake it any longer 
Everything at stake
Soon I had to wake up feeling stronger
Feeling stronger
In my island of dreams
With these impossible schemes

Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune 
Something to make us all happy 
Do anything take us out of this gloom 
Sing a song, play guitar 
Make it snappy 
You are the one who can make us all laugh 
But doing that you break out in tears 
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had 
We wouldn't have known you all these years