B' sides themselves

I. Heorot's plea and Grendel's awakening 

Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dusk

Mountain echo, curfews bell, signal ending tasks 

They place their faith in oaken doors, cower in candlelight 

The panic seeps through bloodstained floors as Grendel stalks the night 



Earth rim walker seeks his meals 

Prepare the funeral pyres 

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear 

Within their eyes, their eyes



Wooden figures, pagan gods, stare blindly cross the sea

Appeal for help from ocean fogs, for saviour born of dreams

They know their lives are forfeit now, priestly head they bow in shame 

They cannot face the trembling crowd that flinch in Grendel's name 



Earth rim walker seeks his meals 

Prepare the funeral pyres 

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear 

Within their eyes, their eyes



As Grendel leaves his mossy home beneath the stagnant mere 

Along the forest path he roams to Hrothgar's hall so clear 

He knows that victory is secured, his charm will testify 

His claws will drip with mortal blood as moonbeams haunt the sky



Earth rim walker seeks his meals 

Prepare the funeral pyres 

The shaper's songs no longer heal the fear 

Within their eyes, their eyes



II. Grendel's Journey



Silken membranes span his path, fingerprints in dew 

Denizens of twilight lands humbly beg him through 

Mother nature's bastard child shunned by leaf and stream 

An alien in an alien land seeks solace within dreams 

The shaper's lies his poisoned tongue malign with mocking harp 

Beguiling queen her innocence offends his icy heart 



III. Lurker at the Threshold



Hounds freeze in silence bewitched by the reptile spell 

Sulphurous essence pervades round the grassy dell 

Heorot awaits him like lamb to the butcher's knife 

Stellular heavens ignore even children's cries 



Screams are his music, lightning his guide 

Raping the darkness, death by his side 



Chants rise in terror, free round the oaken beams

Flickering firelight portraying the grisly scene 

Warriors advance, prepare for the nightmare foe

Futile their sacrifice as even their hearts must know 



Heroes delusion, with feet in the grave 

Lurker at the threshold, he cares not for the brave, he cares not for the brave 



So you thought that your bolts and your locks would keep me out 

You should have known better after all this time 

You're gonna pay in blood for all your vicious slander 

With your ugly pale skins and your putrid blue eyes 

Why should I feel pity when you kill your own and feel no shame

God's on my side, sure as hell, I'm gonna take no blame 

I'm gonna take no blame, I'm gonna take no blame 



So you say you believe in all of Mother Nature's laws 

You lust for gold with your sharpened knives 

Oh when your hoards are gathered and your enemies left to rot 

You pray with your bloodstained hands at the feet of your pagan gods 



Then you try to place the killer's blade in my hand 

You call for justice and distort the truth 

Well I've had enough of all your pretty pretty speeches 

Receive your punishment, Expose your throats to my righteous claws 

And let the blood flow, and let the blood flow, flow, flow, flow.

Yeah! 

Slow French kissing with the Dauphin's daughter 

If I fall in love now I'll be floating in Seine 

Plastered in Paris I've had an Eiffel 

Gonna make my escape on the midnight train 

Choo, choo to you - Choo, choo to you - Charting the single 

Schnapping my fingers on an alcoholiday 

Sniff round a Fraulein when I'm scent to Cologne 

All night hotel Liebling make your mark 

Let sugar daddy melt in his home sweet home 

Home is where the heart lies, but if the heart lies

Where is home, is where the heart lies, but where is home?



Get a pizza the action when I Romeo again 

Chianti see you with me, so just let him wine 

Juliet on the balcony, it's pasta serenade 

Wedding rings, I know when Venice time, Venice time 

To chart the single, to chart the single 



Charting the single, charting the single 



The chicks are getting cheaper on the not so common market 

Stockpile experience before the blond hairs turn to grey

Before the blond hairs turn to grey 

I like to train, express myself in the universal language 

Ego on my face in the nicest possible way

It's absolutely the nicest possible way 



Charting the single 



I got no clause in my contract, got no shares in my name

I'm just charting the single in a bachelor's game

Charting the single 

It's a solo performance on a one way street 

You'll never have the chance again and never again we'll meet 

Charting, charting, charting, charting the single

 found smog at the end of my rainbow

I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase 

Declared the constitution of the walkway 

I realise it's time to plan the day 

I'm a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop

Cause I'm a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse

Are you following me, are you following me?

Well suffer my pretty warriors and follow me



I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm 

I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people 

I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates 

Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples 



Cause I'm a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop

Cause I'm a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse

Are you following me, are you following me? 

Well suffer my pretty children and follow me, follow me



I am your Antichrist show me allegiance, Are you following me?

I am your Antichrist pledge to me defiance, Are you following me?

Suffer my pretty warriors, Suffer my fallen child, Are you following me?

The time has come to conquer and I'll provide your end

We march



I give peace signs when I wage war in the disco 

I'm the warrior in the ultra violet haze 

Armed with antisocial insecurity 

I plan the path of destiny from this maze



Cause I'm a Market Square hero gathering the storms to troop

Cause I'm a Market Square hero speeding the beat of the street pulse 

Are you following me, are you following me? 

Well suffer my fallen angels and follow me 

I'm the Market Square hero, I'm the Market Square hero 

We are Market Square Heroes, to be Market Square Heroes

Three boats down from the candy, vacant deck chairs on a floodlit beach 

Three boats down from the candy, rollers coast invade the deepest sleep 

Three boats down from the candy, carnal dancer let their senses preach 

It's a social disease, it's the new moral cancer 

Don't think crying wolf will give you the answer 



You ask for my love on the strength of a kiss 

But can't you just play for experience? 

I'm a poet, I'm a poet, I'm a minstrel, I'm a minstrel, I don't need your chains 

Romance lies in ruin let debauchery reign, let it rain



Wipe the tears from your eyes, wipe the sweat from your thighs 

Don't crawl to me with sentiment, my laughter drowns your cries 

You're a memory trapped on Polaroid, a puppet drawn on celluloid 

So drink the wine, confess your sin, just flotsam in a silent void 



Three boats down from the candy, I'll remember you

Three boats down from the candy, much to much to lose 

Three boats down from the candy, those words were never true 

Three boats down from the candy, I'll remember you

I'll remember you, I'll remember you

On the rebound, fumbling all the lines

The light at the end of the bottle - alcoholic alphabet

Through the looking glass the proof in my own reflection 

Five senses down and reeling on the Cinderella search 

On the rebound, fumbling all the lines 

Decay on the vertical hold with a horizontal aim 

Conversation needs translation

Three dimensions down dissolving on the Cinderella search, Cinderella search



On the rebound, fumbling all the lines

Dreaming bartenders, bourbon and saxophone

Out of luck, out of charm, out the game of rejections in a cigarette city 

Only courting the homing of direction on the Cinderella search, Cinderella search 



But the Samaritan of the heartbroken, heartbroken

Swam through the nicotine seize, and we exchanged the kiss of life 

Resurrection in a trance, the model, the Grail, in a Marquee of promises 

I touched the dream, I hold the dream, I have the dream 

To end the Cinderella search, Cinderella search, oh no more, no more!



Exposing bedside manners on a work extension 

Awaiting development with paranoid Polaroid eyes, Polaroid eyes 



The footman memorised the number

But the prince still holds both the slippers 

And would you leave a palace for a bedsit 

And Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales? 



Maybe it was infatuation or the thrill of the chase 

Maybe you were always beyond my reach and my heart was playing safe 

But was that love in your eye I saw or the reflection of mine?

I'll never really know for sure, you never really gave me time 

Give me time, won't you give me that time! 



Welcome back to the circus 

Welcome back to the circus

Welcome back to the circus 



I always use the cue sheets but never the nets 

Always the cue sheets but never the nets

Never the nets, never the nets

Nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless, nevertheless



Welcome back to the circus!

You pick out your credit cards and check into the night 

A dozen tequilas and you're feeling all right 

So you swim to the disco, out of your depth jaded gigolo 

Your lucky charms are tarnished so you leave alone 

But there's one place left to go before the taxi home

After all you've made your marks 

One night you'll play Elizabeth Taylor

The next night you're Marilyn Monroe

Forever kissing frogs that think they're princes 

Oh, Lady Nina, where did all the romance go? 



Your little sister baby-sits, your husband picks you up at six

The make-up hides the bruises and the tears so they never show

'Cos your beauty is the only thing you've ever owned

It's the only way you've ever known to make your marks

You made your marks, you made your marks 

We believe it's for real 



Ich liebe dich, liebst du mich 



Lady Nina, I'd love to take you home with me 

But I love my wife and I love my family

I've got a good job, responsibilities 

And I need to keep respect from society

I know you'll never act with me

I know that you're in love with me 

So how do I compare to the sailors of the ships of the night?

Was I all right? Did you come tonight, Lady Nina? 



You made your marks, you made your marks 

Ebony flowers pinned to a velvet cushion in a red light 

And Edith Piaf sings a lullaby for the night

Just making marks, just making marks 

Just making marks, just making marks 

You made your marks

Have you ever met a lady, screaming angst potential?

Have you ever dreamed of romance, no matter how experimental?

Have you ever felt an alien drifting back into your hometown?

Did you think you were buying safety when you bought that piece of ground? 

She said all the best freaks are here 

She said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me

So I said all the best freaks are here 

All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me 



Have you ever woke up, sweating in the middle of the night? 

You search the darkness and you're scrambling for the light 

Have you ever walked down the street, heard bootsteps following you? 

Don't worry my son, you've got the spook squad looking after you



He said all the best freaks are here

He said all the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me

So I said all the best freaks are here 

All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me

Stop staring at me 



Airport terminal, patiently waiting on the last call 

You feel the eyes burn the back of your head 

Sign the autograph, get out of the picture, gonna have the last laugh

Feel the whispers as you head for the plane

Stop staring at me



Love and linen sheets seem so very far away 

You save your pennies and you buy another day

But after all it's only hide and seek, just another game 

There's so much fun to be had when you're living with a name



All the best freaks are here, all the best freaks are here

Please stop staring at me

All the best freaks are here, all the best freaks are here

Please stop staring at me

They said all the best freaks are here 

All the best freaks are here, please stop staring at me

Tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on 

He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night 

The match was rained off Saturday but the panel came in bright 

And on Sunday your mates were toasting you with champagne down the pub

And on Monday you went to London 

To pick the cheque up with your mum 



You had a tux on, you had a tux on 

The first time you had a tux on, lucky man



There's a photo on the mantelpiece, when you bought your first guitar 

And your girlfriend came to see you when you were the rising star 

You knew your luck was holding when you filled the local hall 

The first time and the last time that you thought you had control 



You had a tux on, lucky man, you had a tux on 

You got a tux on, tux on 



Now you're touring stadiums, you've let it go too far 

Standing with your manager, your back to every bar 

Burning all your credit cards, chopping out the pain 

Crowding into toilets with a host of your new-found friends 



You got a tux on, nothing's changed, you got a tux on 

Lucky man with a tux on, you're still the same with a tux on 



It was eyes down in the parlour, they prayed it wouldn't rain 

A brother pulled his cuffs down to hide the blue-black vein

His razor'd more than lines out, they found him just too late 

The final performance, the main man lies in state 



With a tux on, look at him now with a tux on 

The last time with a tux on, take him away with a tux on 



Somewhere in a tenement, in a well-thumbed magazine 

Someone finds a photograph that triggers of a dream 

The uniform that symbolises the comfortable life 

He's always known his luck's in but now he's found the drive 



He's got a tux on, look at him now with a tux on 

He's gonna get one with a tux on, free admission with a tux on 

Get it anyway with a tux on 

He's got a tux on the easy way with a tux on, tux on