Lush's latest release: Topolino is a comtemplation of the other songs on the Lovelife singles, it was somewhat hard for me to find, but it was worth the effort. Unfortunatly, there are two versions (so hard-core fans like me have gotta shell out a few extra bucks to hear every song), both versions are domestics to their countries, making importing a little tougher than normal. The Canadian version has 12 tracks, and the Japanese version has 9 tracks, the japanese comes with a flyer that may include lyrics, but I know absolutely no Japanese whatsoever.
Help me with the ??? Do you know what these words are? I've gotten a little help with lyrics from some people, and tried to figure some out by myself, but as you can see I am far from having all the songs, so if you have any lyrics to any of the other songs e-mail me.
Topolino includes the following tracks on these versions:
Once upon a time I knew how to make you happy or make you blue
Guess I'll be the same again, but it's not that easy to just be a friend
Look at where we are today with our pointless efforts to lay the blame
Maybe things can never work after so much betrayal and so much hurt
We're in the same position but a million miles apart
Maybe things will work eventually, but I just don't know where to start
When love has gone away
Something takes it's place
Does it really have to be hate?
So, what's it gonna be?
It's up to you and me
I just hope it isn't too late
Things you say to me, to love and hate you. (???)
For all the pain, all it does is get us nowhere
Yes, maybe in the end, we can be good friends want to but it isn't easy
Woah! (7x)
So, love has been and gone, how do we go on?
Is there something still worth saving?
Well, what's it gonna be, we can wait and see
Tell me, do you think we'll make it?
Let's stop the silly games, dishing out the blame
I know that we feel the same way
This doesn't have to be such a tragedy
Everything will work out some day
Well, maybe in the end, we can just be friends, I want to but it isn't easy
Yes, maybe in the end, we will be good friends, this is how it really should be
I'd like to walk around in your mind some day
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone
You see the end before the beginning is ever begun
I would disturb your lazy tranquility
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I'd sit there hearing the sound of the things I like about you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
And I'd just wander away trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don't even know that I've been there
Carmen tells me what she's done
Says she's having fun
Wants to be a mom
Copper hair and golden smile
Sparkles all the while
But life can be a trial
Carmen's in a world of pain
Don't cry now for yesterday
Babys' gone but she's okay
Carmen tells me where she's been
Nightmares that she's seen
Makes me want to scream
Hear the things that she's been through
Grey and black and blue
Life can be so cruel
Sit down here and take a drink
Tell me about everything
And he shrugs and then he winks again
Chocolate box and photograph
Life is hard and life is tough
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again
It's time we started heading home now
I've made mistakes along the way
It makes no sense but I'm okay now
Its happened again
I guess I'll live another day
Sit down here and take a drink
Tell me about everything
And he shrugs and then he winks again
Chocolate box and photograph
Life is hard and life is tough
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again
I can't seem to find the time to ponder
I only think when I go for a wander
Life is too short
I feel that I'm caught
I can't go on
Feeling like this
I close my mind to boring stuff that you say
I'm cold and numb to things that you put my way
Its gone on too long
I have to be strong
My interest has gone long ago
I can't bear it when you start to moan
'Cause night and day you're always on the phone
Unaffect my houses not my home
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Life is too short
I feel that I'm caught
I can't go on
Feeling like this
I can't bear it when you start to moan
'Cause night and day you're always on the phone
Unaffect my houses not my home
Why can't you just leave me alone?
I look out the window and I wonder at it all
Starin' at the symbols that decorate the wall
And everybody's callin' to come and join them all
And I can't go with no one 'til I understand the call
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
My electronic shaver won't plug into the wall
Now I can't go to the party the electrician didn't call
And I hear they're counting numbers in a store down in Whitehall
So much information, what can they do with it all?
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Some they can talk of Shiva and some they talk of God
Some talk of politicians and some may talk of love
Demystify the heroes with the chances we could take
I'm not looking for escapism, I just wanna escape
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Everybody knows a woman like me
Insecurity is my philosophy
I see other women as the competition
I'm always nice to men and so they're nice to me
But other girls always seem to be bitchin' about me
I say they must be jealous
I say that its because their boyfriends all fancy me
Close my eyes and fantisize
Of all men envying me
So much fun to be number one
What good are sisters to me?
I just can't relate to some men
Unless I use my sexuality
Normal conversation always leave me insecure
Men are so much more approachable
Clever, kind and intellectual
And I never feel uncomfortable in their company
Male appreciation is my one ambition
Its a competition I must win
When I talk to girls its just monotonous shit
Because I don't want their friendship just their jealousy
Also, "Piledriver" was the only song ever written by the late Chris Acland :( . And, if you were wondering, "topolino" is Italian for "little mouse".
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