PSYCLE SLUTS (PARTS 1 & 2)


      part one...

      this disc concerns those those pouting prima-donnas
      found within the swelling j. arthur ranks of the sexational psycle sluts
      those nubile nihilists of the north circular
      the lean leonine leatherette lovelies of the leeds intersection
      luftwaffe angels locked in a pagan paradise

      no cash
      a passion for trash
      the tough madonna whose cro-magnon face and crab nebular curves haunt the highways of the UK, whose harsh credo captures the collective libido like lariats
      their lips pushed in a neon-arc of dodgems
      delightfully disciplined, dumb but deluxe
      deliciously deliciously deranged

      twin-wheeled existentialists steeped in the sterile excrements of a doomed democracy, whose post-nietzschean sensibilities reject the bovine gregariousness of a senile oligarchy
      whose god is below zero, whose hero is a dead boy
      condemned to drift like forgotten sputniks in the fool's orbit bound for a victim's future
      in the pleasure dromes and ersatz bodega bars of the free world the mechanics of love grind like organs of iron to a standstill

      hands behind your backs
      in a noxious gas of cheek to cheek totalitarianism
      hail the psycle sluts

      go go the gland gringos
      for the gonad a-go-go age of compulsory cunnilingusa


      part two...

      the dirty thirty
      the naughty forty
      the shifty fifty
      the filthy five
      zips, clips, whips and chains
      wait for you to arrive
      hell's angels by the busload
      stoned stupid, how they strut
      smoked woodbines till they're banjoed
      and smirk at the swedish smut

      life on the straight and narrow path
      drives you off your nut
      by day you are psycopath
      by night you're a psycle slut

      on a bsa with two bald tires
      you drove a million miles
      you cut your hair with rusty pliers
      and you suffer with the pillion piles
      you got built in obsolescence
      oh you got guts
      but you don't reach adolescence
      slow down psycle sluts

      motor cycle michael
      wants to buy a tank
      only twenty-nine years old
      and he's learning how to wank
      yesterday he was in the groove
      today he's in a rut
      my how the moments move
      brut fun psycle sluts

      he cacks on your originals
      he peepees on his boots
      he makes love like a footballer
      he dribbles before he shoots
      the goings on at the gang-bang ball
      made the citizen's tut-tut-tut
      but, what do you care, piss all
      you tell 'em psycle sluts

      now your boyfriend burned his jacket
      ticket expired
      tyres are knackered
      knackers are tired

      you can tell your tale to the gutter press
      get paid to peddle smut
      now you've ridden the road of excess
      that leads to the psycle sluts

      or you can dine and whine on stuff that's bound to give you boils
      hot dogs direct from cruft's
      done in diesel oil
      or the burger joint around the bend
      where the meals thank christ are skimpy
      for you that's how the world could end
      not with a bang but a wimpy.



      LYRICS © JOHN COOPER CLARKE


        Note: This version is the one from Disguise in love, and is somewhat different to the version in the book and the first single.