New Dark Ages
(Roger Taylor)

How do you do - whatdya say
Welcome to - a new dark age
Let's go straight to bed
Love's got outta hand
You must be outta your head

When you feel in the night
This can't happen to you
It's a war that we fight
Yes we do
Yes we do

Welcome to - the new dark ages
Welcome to - the new dark ages

Only love can save us now

Love has become - a four letter word
It's past it's best - and seldom heard
Love's left on the shelf like - cigarettes
It's bad for your health

And you feel in the night
It's a scary thing
You believe in what's right
Take care - stop to think

Welcome to - the new dark ages
Welcome to - the new dark ages

Stop! + Take + Care + Think!
Is - this - real - love?

And you feel in the night
Can this bad dream be true
It's a war that we fight
Don't let it happen to you

Welcome to - the new dark ages
Welcome to - the new dark ages

Ain't Put Nothin' Down
(Clayton Moss)

You know you hide from yourself
You know you're turning away
Sometimes you've got to face the world
Take it day by day
Sometimes you've got to take a look around
Keep your ear to the ground

You ain't put nothin' down
You ain't put nothin' down
Gotta stop this foolin' round
'Cos you ain't put nothin' down

You know you're running away
You've got to win on this race
Give it all that you've got
This human race needs a lot

'Cos you ain't put nothin' down
You ain't put nothin' down
You've got to turn yourself around
You ain't put nothin' down

So many questions - you ask yourself
Better find some answers - don't get
Left on the shelf
This is your - cry for help
Better help yourself

You ain't put nothin' down
You ain't put nothin' down
Better turn yourself around boy
You ain't put nothin' down

You ain't put nothin' down
You ain't put nothin' down
You had to turn yourself around boy
You were lost but now you're found

Put It All Down To Love
(Spike Edney)

Well Looky over here - comin' down the street
It's long face Sally - the saddest girl to meet
She's got all the worlds problems - she carries all of our sins
Oh but wait a minute Sally - you gotta mile wide grin

She's got something to smile about
She found a lover and she wants to shout!!

Put it all down to love
You know you gotta
Put it all down to love
You better
Put it all down to love

Do my eyes deceive? - on the other side
Oh it's my pal Joey - the greatest man alive
He's a clown he's a joker - he'll bring you down to your knees
Ah but wait a minute Joey - what are these tears that I see?

He's gotta reason to cry today
He's had a lover but she's gone away

Put it all down to love
You know you really gotta
Put it all down to love
Put it all down to love

Love's the reason for all the things we do
Love's the reason I'm not over you
I'll be the golden bullet in your genetic gun
So look out baby here I come here I come!
She's got something to smile about
She found a lover and she wants to shout

Put it all down to love
Put it all down to love
Put it all down to love

Heartland
(Peter Noone)

How long can this go on
How long can we see this wrong
And sing the same old song

There's a desert all round me
And the valley of apathy
Far as I could see

I was on the outside
Always looking in
Now I stand, I can't turn and face away

Here I will stay
On my own I will pray
All alone on this stage
In the heartland

When the colour of your skin
Decides where you begin
In analysing things

So if you walk alone
While others cast the stone
Stay on your own

The changing of the new tide
Is something you can't hide
Take your stand, this truth will fade away

Here I will stay
On my own I will pray
All alone on this stage
In the heartland, yeah

I was on the outside
Always looking in
Now, I stand, I can't turn and face away

Here I will stay
On my own I will pray
All alone on this stage
In the heartland

Here I will stay
On my own I will pray
All alone on this stage
In the heartland
The heartland, yeah

Here I will stay
On my own I will pray
I ain't never gonna fade away
Alone on this stage
In the heartland

Dirty Mind
(Spike Edney)

Some people look for love and affection
That was never my scene
I'm looking for a different perfection
I wanna girl that talks mean
Some people go for poets and flowers
Means nothing to me
She's gotta look good in the shower
I'll stay in there for hours and hours
I've been around the world

I wanna lover
I wanna lover
I wanna lover with a dirty mind

Some people look for faith and devotion
They're bringin' me down
Why swim against the tide of emotion?
When you could be tied down
I'm gonna treat romance like a tumour
I'm cuttin' it out
I'm sick to death of heresay and rumour
I need a girl with some sense of humour
I've been around the world

I wanna lover
I wanna lover
I wanna lover with a dirty mind

Every now and then it occurs to me
I'm caught up in the web of morality

Well I've been around the world
And nowhere could I find
I don't care if she's a woman or a girl
I wanna lover with a dirty mind

I wanna lover
I wanna lover
I wanna lover with a dirty mind

The Also Rans
(Roger Taylor)

Fucked - again
I was born on the twenty second floor of a bird cage
I was bound to rock - I was born to rage
When your daddy's get drunk and your ma has no hope
And you're tough and you're young and you got enough rope
And you make a wrong turn and you make some mistakes
You run outta control and you ain't got no brakes
And the country's a wreck and the government's cruel
Then you better check out - if you wanna be cool

It's a hard road - in a world that stinks
God have mercy on a man that thinks
It's a hard road - in a world that sucks
God Don't love you when you're out of luck

So I work real hard and I earn my pay
And I drink all night - it's the only way
To make some fun outta life - just a little bit more
And when I get up my nerve - I'm gonna rob me a store
Or even find me a girl - you never know your luck
And she'll cook and she'll clean - just to make a few bucks
It's a grand old world - going down the pan
And there ain't no cure - for an also ran

Yeah it's a hard road - in a world that stinks
God have mercy on a man that thinks
Yeah it's a hard road - we're goin' down the pan
God have mercy on the also rans

You gotta have mercy on the also rans
If you wanna get out you gotta be desperate Dan

You know what I mean
A hard road

It's a hard road - when you're on your own
It's a hard road - when your skin's the wrong tone
It's a hard road - if your face don't fit
It's a hard road - you gotta take alotta shit

'Cos God don't love you when you got no bucks
It's a hard road
God don't love you when you're outta luck
God have mercy...

Candy and Clare Yates - backing vocals

Hand Of Fools
(Peter Noone, Spike Edney)

Streets echo the last retreat
Dust falls to the ground
A mother cries help

While walking in paradise
Look around and you'll see
We're stripping it bare
Soon there'll be no place to turn

Who plays the hand of fools
With who's God given right
It's out of control
Don't it show

While profit oils the big machine
And we're short changed the facts
Where does it stop
The lifeblood is slipping away everyday

Who plays the hand of fools
With who's God given right
It's out of control
It's out of control

Who plays the hand of fools
In a worn torn and savage place
It's out of control
And it chills to the bone