This page is presented as a service to the internet; no one's bothered to put up the lyrics to any of this album (save the New Order cover) so I thought I might as well. Words that I'm not sure about are marked with a ?; any suggestions are appreciated. Tell me what you think they should be and why by sending me an email.

Additionally, I've transcribed here what Joe actually sings; perhaps he fluffs a line somewhere, but what's written here is what comes out of his mouth.

Thanks to Louise Greenfield for her suggestions and corrections.

…of course, by now (2011) every two-bit hack of a lyrics website has sucked my painstakingly-transcribed text and plastered it all over the web.

Track 1 - Everyone Else Is Evolving

I hate my life
So many compromises
?Tell them educate yourself to find
I hate my life
Don't be alarmed if
Someday soon you hear
I've gone away

Though you were kind
The way you smile
Can break your back
?But educate yourself to find
But I hate my life
Please don't be scared when
someday soon you hear
I've gone away
I've gone away

I've gone away
I've gone away

I hate my life...

Track 2 - Solitary Swedish Houses

Past the frozen mud
And the field of snow
And the ?ironed white sky
Pushing down like the life you gave me

Never say too much
Never speak my mind
Haven't got the words

How the feeling's gone
And the rush don't come like a day coming on
My fear she flies so high

Under your pale eyes
Under your pale eyes

Never say too much
Never speak my mind
Haven't got the words
?Float like paper birds in the sky

How the feeling's gone
And the rush don't come like a day coming on
My fear she flies so high

Under your pale eyes
Under your pale eyes
Under your pale eyes
Under your pale eyes

Track 3 - Courage Up

Some make it
Some never make up their minds

When I saw you
I thought I'd make your life alright
It's never gonna be the way you want
Never gonna be the one you sing to sometimes
When you get the courage up

Finally somebody you ?can't ?be ?so
Strung along string on ?you
finger tied so tight
It's never gonna be the way you want
Never gonna be the one you sing to sometimes
When you ge the courage up

And could you once see your way clear
To gather up your shitty ?faith that you were ?really here

Never gonna be the way you want
Never gonna be the one you sing to sometimes
When you get the courage up
When you get the courage up
When you get the courage up

Track 4 - The Two Of You Sleep

As the light broke over the party
I saw the two of you sleep
With your clothes rolled up on the floor
I saw the two of you sleep

I could hear you fight to breathe
I broke my heart to know
I will always be someone
Who's seen the two of you sleep

I could hear you fight to breathe
I broke my heart to know
I will always be someone
Who's seen the two of you sleep
The two of you sleep

Track 5 - Breakneck Speed

From the mouth of a baby came a ?lie
?Most stupid can bury himself
Don't bring a whole crashing down
I could be that simple man
If that's how you want it to be
If you need it darling repeat it
Don't bring a whole crashing down
I would cry for you anyhow
Take all you want as you need
At breakneck speed
Breakneck speed

How the light in your eyes seem(s) to fade away
One day my love is only gonna bring ?you rain

How the light in your eyes seem(s) to fade away
One day my love is only gonna
One day my love is only gonna
One day my love is gonna bring ?you rain

Track 6 - Theme To An Endless Bummer

So(w) what you rise
To save your life I won't negotiate that ?took
There's a ?salient point that you never learned
And it's gonna be some time before I feel fine

Hung out to dry
To change your mind I won't negotiate that ?curve
There's a ?salient point that you never heard
And it's gonna be some time before I feel fine

But given what you've heard
And given that's the only word
I'm giving you away

Track 7 - Up In Michigan

By the burned down ?jack ?pine field you came
In your dirty frock and yellow rose
If you could hear me laughing
I'm gonna break your spirit
I'm gonna break you down

But you look so tired in your clothes
I hold you like you were a diamond
If you could hear me laughing
I'm gonna break your spirit down
I'm gonna break you down
Where the ?same that's floating
Down where the ?sink line's diving
Down when your white light shows

Track 8 - Hundred Dollar Pocket

Happens every time I look into ?a hand
I see your fingers and how we came undone
Can restless sleep still wrap your hair into a rope
And does that evening light still powder on your door
Do you ever wonder where I am right now
Do you think we might have made it up somehow

Reaching in I slide my finger in the hole
but I don't feel it I don't feel one thing
And restless sleep don't wrap her hair into a rope
And how that evening light don't powder on her door
Do you ever wonder where I am right now
Do you think we might have made it up somehow

I know there's nothing I can do
Somebody else is loving you

And it won't be long 'till you can see the end
And we watch our faces peeling off the wall
And I can't say that you ever were my friend
But I loved you as hard as I could fall
Do you ever wonder where I am right now
Do you think we might have made it up somehow

I know there's nothing I can do
Somebody else is loving you
Somebody else is loving you

Track 9 - Nobody's Watching

Undo your clothes
In the windowshade-less night
And if you can see me watching you
Please let them go

Mary full of grace
Can I make it right tonight
In my broken coat these frozen hands
This hiding place

I swear this street looks most dangerous to me
When there's nobody watching you

Oh I swear this street looks most dangerous to me
When there's nobody watching you
When there's nobody watching you
And there's no...

Track 10 - Knights of the Night Vol. 1

When he held me I knew I was alive
And a million stars kissed the sky
When he held me

Now it seems that I don't even know my own name
And these empty hours they pierce my side again
Not when he held me

When he held me I knew who I was
And all my cruelty disappeared
When he held me

Now it seems that I don't recognise my own hand
And these empty hours they slap my face again
Not when he held me
He held me

Track 11 - Leave Me Alone

On a thousands islands in the sea
See a thousand people just like me
A hundred unions in the snow
?I watch them walking filing in a row
Feel it always on the ground
It's gonna be so quiet here tonight
A thousand islands on the sea
It's a shame

A hundred years ago a sailor
Trod this ground I stood upon
Take me away everyone
When he looks down

From my head to my toes
From the words in this book
See a vision that would bring me luck
From my head to my toes
Through my teeth through my nose
You get these words wrong
You get these words wrong
Every time
You get these words wrong
I just smile

From my head to my toes
From my knees to my eyes
Every time I watch the sky
But for these last few days leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
Leave me alone

Track 12 - Kidney Shaped Pool

Because we nearly made it
I thought I would feel safer
Tell me you won't lead me on that way

'Cause death or sleep won't claim me
I blame the way my heart beats
Tell me you won't let me go that way

Only serious people need respond
('Cause I) I'm on the outside looking in
Don't care if I belong

If you should ever leave me
My life will go on believe me
Tell me you won't lead me on that way

Only serious people need respond
('Cause I) I'm on the outside looking in
Don't care if I belong
Tell me you won't lead me on

Tell me you won't lead me on
Tell me you won't lead me on
The way I've lead her on so long
Tell me you won't lead me on that way