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Au Pairs
Primary
members: Lesley Woods, Paul Foad, Jane Munro, Pete Hammond
Band
Biography
Albums of focus: Playing with a Different Sex (1981)
Songs for study:
Spending time nowadays
Nowadays it’s nice
It’s paradise
Equal time
Equal spending
Yes it’s nice
It’s paradise
Nowadays you cook eggs
Equal breakfast
And again and
Bet it’s nice
You’re equal but different
It’s obvious
Spending time nowadays
By my side
That’s oh so nice
And again with you
It’s equal nice
It’s paradise |
Nowadays you wash sheets
Send a buck
Scrub my back for me
That’s paradise
You’re equal but different
It’s obvious
Spending time nowadays
By my side
That’s oh so nice
And again with you
It’s equal nice
It’s paradise
Nowadays you wash sheets
Send a buck
Scrub my back for me
That’s paradise
You’re equal
But different
You’re equal but different
It’s obvious
So obvious
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A touch, a glance
It's a slow dance
It's a classified romance
Purpose, lust and charm, dance to an old refrain:
(I love you)
Dance to an old refrain:
(I love you)
I love you...
Mutual attachment,
Semi-detachment
Rinse out the dream
(in the washing machine)
Rinse out the dream
(in the washing machine)
In the washing machine?
(in the washing machine)
In the washing machine?
In the washing machine! |
Take out the ring
Two fates sealed
Negotiated a business deal
Is this true romance?
Champagne bubbles
(Going flat)
Champagne bubbles
(Going flat)
They're going flat
(Going flat)
Going flat
Gone
flat!
Will you dine with me tonight?
Will you dance and hold me tight?
Send me an orchid on Valentine's day
What more need you to say
Will you be my wife?
(Be mine)
Honor and obey?
(Be mine)
Drink some more white wine,
(Be mine)
Think it over one day,
(Be mine)
Touch glance, it's a romance
(I love you)
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Johnny is a man
And he’s bigger than you
But his overheads are high
And he looks straight through you when you ask him how the kids are
He’ll get home around 7
Cause the car is real old
And he could have a Cadillac
If the school had taught him right
And he could have married Anne in a blue silk blouse (repeat)
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And the food is on the table
But the food is cold
(Don’t hit her)
"Oh, can’t you even cook?"
What’s the good of him working if you can’t damn cook?
Well, Johnny is a man
And he’s bigger than her
I guess the bruises won’t show
If she wears long sleeves
But the space in her eyes shows through
It shows through
Could have married Anne in a blue silk blouse (repeat)
It shows through (repeat) |
You're one of those who changed the game
You brought in new rules, which you obey
And coping, coping, coping--or nearly anyway
You musn't do this
It may offend her
You must give more
than you take away
But is it real?
Are you feeling it?
You behave like a model
for others to follow
Are you feeling it?
Ah, equal shares, equal shares
It's frustrating,
aggravating,
so annoying!
Pretend you're enjoying it!
Am I doing it right?
Am I doing it right?
(Does it feel all right? I think it's all right?)
Oh, it's your turn now
But do you want to?
I don't know if you want to
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It's inhibiting
restricting
so confusing
now I'm losing count
Can't concentrate, it's another way to be
Mustn't think about it
Free and at ease
You're not selfish
You're trying hard to please me -
Do you like it like this?
Do you like it like this?
(please, please me)
Is your finger aching?
I can feel you hesitating
Is your finger aching!?!
Yes, thank you, I got one
Yes, it was nice
Yes, we should go to sleep now
Yes, yes it was fine
We must, we must do it again sometime
(We must, we must do it again sometime)
Should we do it again?
Cum again, wot? -
But not tonight--I'm too tired.
Oh shit, I forgot to put my cap in |
"Set Up" - Live, Old Grey Whistle Test (1981) |
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Playing your game
your mother substitute
She is she that you never screwed
Playing your game
Her life revolves around and round you
A total investment you can't afford to lose
You're the prize for her sacrifice
A kiss in the morning,
A kiss late at night
She's closing her eyes
To those possible lies
Keeping the doubts
Locked tight up inside
Playing your game
She taking care of your head
When you're sick
She puts you to bed,
She props you up,
nurses you through
She's here to look after you
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She's closing her eyes
To those possible lies
Keeping the doubts
Locked tight up inside
She's closing her eyes...
Playing your game
with the rules that you've set
We're on either side
Am I such a threat?
Playing your game (repeat 4x)
Playing your game
She's taking care of your needs
She is your security
I may remark on your insensitivity
But, you know, she wouldn't listen to me
She's closing her eyes
To those possible lies
Keeping the doubts
Locked tight up inside
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"Diet" - from Playing with a Different Sex (1981) |
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He works the car
She the sink
She's not here
To think
Sits with the paper
Discuss the news
She doesn't have
Political views
Little one
Can't get to sleep
"Mama, my nightdress
It's hurting me."
Falls on her knees
What has she done
"I forgot the comfort
O little one."
Press the button
On the tumble-drier
Nothing
Can send her higher
Than his shirts
Whiter than white
Gleaming
Ultrabright |
Muddy floors
She cleans with flash
Scrub the bath
It doesn't scratch
Has a dance
With Mr. Sheen
See the sideboard
Sparkling clean
A woman's own diet
Keeps her figure trim
Has a headache
Takes Anadin
There's a constant pain
Behind her eyes
She needs to be tranquillised (repeat)
He works the car
She the sink
She's not here
To think
Sits with the paper
Discuss the news
She doesn't have political views (repeat)
She doesn't have any views
She doesn't have any views
She doesn't have any views
She doesn't have any views
She doesn't have any views |
You're one of those who changed the game
You brought in new rules, which you obey
And coping, coping, coping--or nearly anyway
You musn't do this
It may offend her
You must give more
than you take away
But is it real?
Are you feeling it?
You behave like a model
for others to follow
Are you feeling it?
Ah, equal shares, equal shares
It's frustrating,
aggravating,
so annoying!
Pretend you're enjoying it!
Am I doing it right?
Am I doing it right?
(Does it feel all right? I think it's all right?)
Oh, it's your turn now
But do you want to?
I don't know if you want to
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It's inhibiting
restricting
so confusing
now I'm losing count
Can't concentrate, it's another way to be
Mustn't think about it
Free and at ease
You're not selfish
You're trying hard to please me -
Do you like it like this?
Do you like it like this?
(please, please me)
Is your finger aching?
I can feel you hesitating
Is your finger aching!?!
Yes, thank you, I got one
Yes, it was nice
Yes, we should go to sleep now
Yes, yes it was fine
We must, we must do it again sometime
(We must, we must do it again sometime)
Should we do it again?
Cum again, wot? -
But not tonight--I'm too tired.
Oh shit, I forgot to put my cap in |
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