Party Fears Two

Album: Sulk (1982)
Charted: 9
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  • I'll have a shower
    And then phone my brother up
    Within the hour
    I'll smash another cup

    Please don't start saying that
    Or I'll start believing you
    If I start believing you
    I'll know that this party fears two

    And what if this party fears two?
    The alcohol loves you while turning you blue
    View it from here
    From closer to near, awake me

    Don't turn around
    I won't have to look at you
    And what's not found
    Is all that I see in you

    My manners are failing me
    I'm left feeling ugly
    And you say it's wonderful
    To live with I never will

    So what if this party fears two?
    The alcohol loves you while turning you blue
    View it from here
    From closer to near, awake me

    I'm standing still
    And you say I dress too well
    Still standing still
    I might but it's hard to tell

    Even a slight remark
    Makes nonsense and turns to shark
    Have I done something wrong?
    What's wrong's the wrong that's always in wrong

    I'll have a shower
    And then phone my brother up
    Within the hour
    I'll smash another cup

    Writer/s: ALAN PETER RANKINE, BILLY MACKENZIE
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

  • Jo from BegInteresting facts! I am curious how they made singing arrangment and decided to be form of new art pop operetta or whatever!? Totally unique and on first time listening I tought that they are some of Germans electro pop band as they had similar style.
  • Dave from Gillingham, Uk@Blackadder - definitely "shark", not "shock" (which generally has a shorter "o" sound in British English than it does in most US English accents).
  • Blackadder from Ohio Usa"Makes nonsense and turns to shark" should read "Makes no sense and turns to shock"!
  • Rod from Gainesville, FlTHis song seems realy familiar Was it used as a theme song in some show?
  • Kenny from Clydebank, ScotlandDefinitely one of the best scottish pop songs of all time, Lulu's To Sir With Love, Gallagher and Lyle's, Breakaway, being other strong contenders.
    What a great performance on TOTP's. Pity Billy didn't live longer to give us a few classics.
    Did Scotland proud so he did.
  • Jeff from Liverpool, Englandthis song was voted #1 song by a scottish group in a radio poll in early 2007 also billy mackenzie was the alledged subject of the smiths song william it was really nothing in 1984 also billy mackenzie died on 22 jan 1997 two months shy of his 40th birthday
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