XTC - Drums And Wires

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Release date: 03 March 2003

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XTC - Drums And Wires: Wikipedia Album Entry

XTC's third album, Originally released in1979 after Barry Andrews left the band. This is Dave Gregory's first record with XTC.

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XTC - Drums And Wires Lyrics

XTC - Chain Of Command Lyrics

How bright are the fires of thought
In a chain of command?
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
How bright is the medical torch

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XTC - Scissor Man Lyrics

Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Putting end to evil doers games
Snipping, snipping, snipping goes the scissor man
Maybe you are in his book of names

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XTC - Outside World Lyrics

She has six swans singing in her sauna

So she can't hear what's going on

No she can't hear what's going on

In the outside world

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XTC - Making Plans for Nigel Lyrics

We're only making plans for Nigel
We only want what's best for him
We're only making plans for Nigel
Nigel just needs that helping hand

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XTC - Limelight Lyrics

I'm in the limelight, no time for sun ray
We are the happening, this day is our day

I'm in the limelight, big on my block now

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XTC - Helicopter Lyrics

Oh heli, oh heli

I'm crouching you with a telescope in hand
Looking out across our Lego land

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XTC - When You're Near Me I Have Difficulty Lyrics

When you're near me, I have difficulty respirating
When you're near me, I have difficulty concentrating
When you're near me, I have difficulty standing upright
When you're near me, I have difficulty sleeping at night

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XTC - That Is The Way Lyrics

Do this, do that, do this, do that

Go and speak
(Do this)

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XTC - Ten Feet Tall Lyrics

Happy I'm floating
Around on my feet now
You make me go dizzy
I'm weak at the knees

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XTC - Roads Girdle The Globe Lyrics

Am I asleep or am I fast
Your every race
You first, you last

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XTC - Millions Lyrics

We smelled your soup on the fire cooking
We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright
So bright and yet they come from, oh, so far away

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XTC - Life Begins At The Hop Lyrics

I have learnt there's a magical spot at the hop
Come with me to the church on the corner, the hop
There's nuts and crisps and there's c-c-cola on tap
A good time had by those boys and those girls at the hop

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XTC - Day In Day Out Lyrics

Clock in my head
Clock on the wall
And the two of them
Don't agree at all

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XTC - Complicated Game Lyrics

I ask myself should I put my finger to the left, no
I ask myself should I put my finger to the right, no

It doesn't really matter where I put my finger

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XTC - Real By Reel Lyrics

In this secret time, invading on our privacy
Unknowing we mime, we play for the ministry
They can film you in bed or when you take a bath
They can tape every cry, they can tape every laugh

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