Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
One hundred lyrics:
1 A certain
Je ne sais quoi
2 A cloud in a box
3 After the event
4 A red letter day
5 Being boring
6 Bet she’s not your girlfriend
7 Between two islands
8 Birthday boy
9 Call me old-fashioned
10 Can you forgive her?
11 Casanova in hell
12 Decadence
13 Delusions of grandeur
14
Discoteca
15 DJ culture
16 Do I have to?
17 Don Juan
18 Dreaming of the Queen
19 Ego music
20 Electricity
21 Everything means something
22 Flamboyant
23 Friendly fire
24 Fugitive
25 Happiness is an option
26 Hell
27 Hey, headmaster
28 How can you expect to be taken seriously?
29 How I learned to hate rock ’n’ roll
30 I didn’t get where I am today
31 I made my excuses and left
32 I’m with Stupid
33 Indefinite leave to remain
34 Integral
35 In the night
36 Invisible
37 It couldn’t happen here
38 It’s a sin
39 I want a dog
40 I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing
41 Jack the Lad
42 King of Rome
43 King’s Cross
44 Leaving
45 Left to my own devices
46 Legacy
47 London
48 Love is a bourgeois construct
49 Love is a catastrophe
50 Luna Park
51 Memory of the future
52 Miserablism
53 My October symphony
54 Nervously
55 Nothing has been proved
56 Odd man out
57 Only the wind
58 Opportunities (Let’s make lots of money)
59 Rent
60 Requiem in denim and leopardskin
61 Sad robot world
62 Searching for the face of Jesus
63 Sexy Northerner
64 Shameless
65 Silver age
66 Single
67 So hard
68 So sorry, I said
69 Suburbia
70 The calm before the storm
71 The dead can dance
72 The dictator decides
73 The former
enfant terrible
74 The ghost of myself
75 The night I fell in love
76 The Pop Kids
77 The resurrectionist
78 The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
79 The sound of the atom splitting
80 The survivors
81 The theatre
82 The truck-driver and his mate
83 The view from your balcony
84 The white dress
85 This must be the place I waited years to leave
86 This used to be the future
87 To face the truth
88 Too many people
89 To speak is a sin
90 Twentieth century
91 Twenty-something
92 Up against it
93 West End girls
94
Wiedersehen
95 Yesterday, when I was mad
96 You choose
97 Young offender
98 You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
99 Your early stuff
100 Your funny uncle
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