*****Erasure Lyrics*****

*****Version 1.0*****

Albums and B-Sides



-Painstakingly compiled and transcribed by John Setlik

(mg498a03@canisius.bitnet) with much help from Vidar Hanssen and Wes Hsu

-Source of lyrics indicated for each album or song

-Please do not re-distribute for commercial purposes





-Runaround On The Underground- (from my own listening)



I'm waiting at the bus stop

For a double decker ride

Supermarket checkout boy

Finds his way inside

A shady looking character

His beady eyes on me

I slide into a window seat

And then pretend to read



It's a wild, it's a wild

Wild, wild world

The hardest thing is holding on

Holding on and take the strain



They're coming at me

At angles that I never knew existed

They ain't gonna get me

I'm building up my colors of resistance

It's a runaround on the underground



A cybermatic shopper

With a slight sadistic grin

Pulls a zipper on her sleeping bag

Shuts herself within

A triple quilted chrysalis

Waiting for the sales

A bargain basement butterfly

Going off the rails



It's a wild, it's a wild

Wild, wild world

The hardest thing is holding on

Holding on and take the strain (take the strain)



They're coming at me

At angles that I never knew existed

They ain't gonna get me

I'm building up my colors of resistance

(The hardest thing is holding on

Holding on and take the strain