Empty Lives

Written by：Graham Parker

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire

Another moment that flashes into nowhere

A brand name on a pill that get's you there

Uh uh

I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion

The past ain't even worth livin' in

It's just a nail that keeps being driven in

I'm cold-blooded and completely relaxed

I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts

On the up escalator going down all the cracks

Yeah

Uh uh

You are the dummies of another frightened nation

I am a candidate for elevation

But when I woke up this morning I'd lost sensation

All sensation

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uh uh uh

Can't hear

Your cries

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Empty lives

Your empty lives

Empty lives

I'll be obedient there is no escape

Forms to fill time to kill love death and rape

Sleep baby sleep don't let nothing awaken you

Uh uh

Don't look for tomorrow it's given you the slip

That's all contained on a silicon chip

I'm losing shape for the eighties

Feeling everybody's grip slip

Everybody's grip slip

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uh uh uh

Can't hear

Your cries

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Empty lives

Just there waiting to be filled

With someone else's stronger will

Just can't reason to survive

With empty empty

You got the empty empty

You got the empty empty

Empty lives

Yeah

Bring me water bring me ***

Bring me something lethal

Something that leaves a stain

But please don't make me feel that emptiness again

Feel that emptyness again

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uh uh uh

Get fat it's your size

But don't get me to fill up your empty

Don't get me to fill up your empty

Don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Your empty lives

Your empty lives

Your empty lives

Don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your

Don't get me

To fill up

Don't don't get me

Your empty lives

Don't don't don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

Don't get me

To fill up your empty lives

To fill up your empty lives