| The Christians to the lions sold out every night. |
The Kinks, |
Give The People What They Want |
| Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. |
The Kinks, |
Live Life |
| You can sell them any old shit, if it's endorsed by a movie star. |
The Kinks, |
It |
| You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose. |
The Kinks, |
Do It Again |
| You say your image is new, but it looks well tested. |
The Kinks, |
Misfits |
| Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world. |
The Kinks, |
Apeman |
| She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades. |
The Kinks, |
Art Lover |
| I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola. |
The Kinks, |
Lola |
| How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident? |
The Kinks, |
Babies |
| Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. |
The Kinks, |
Shepherds Of The Nation |
| Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for? |
The Kinks, |
Trust Your Heart |
| Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues. |
The Kinks, |
Live Life |
| Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere. |
The Kinks, |
Destroyer |
| Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun. |
The Kinks, |
Americana |
| I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land. |
The Kinks, |
Low Budget |
| In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. |
The Kinks, |
When You Were A Child |
| Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away. |
The Kinks, |
Killer's Eyes |
| Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen. |
The Kinks, |
Victoria |
| Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man? |
The Kinks, |
Close To The Wire |
| Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side. |
The Kinks, |
Powerman |
| Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. |
The Kinks, |
Have Another Drink |
| The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats. |
The Kinks, |
Brainwashed |
| We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. |
The Kinks, |
The Village Green Preservation Society |
| Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for. |
The Kinks, |
Destroyer |
| If I told you God was black, what would you think of that? |
The Kinks, |
Black Messiah |