di G. Stefani, E. Stefani

NO DOUBT

… You and me, we used to be together
Every day together, always
I really feel that I’m losin’ my best friend
I can’t believe this could be the end
It looks as though you’re lettin’ go
And if it’s real, well, I don’t want to know

… Don’t speak, I know just what you’re sayin’
So please stop explainin’
Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts
Don’t speak, I know what you’re thinkin’
I don’t need your reasons
Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts

… Our memories, well, they can be inviting
But some are altogether mighty frightening
As we die, both you and I
With my head in my hands, I sit and cry

… Don’t speak, I know just what you’re sayin’
So please stop explainin’
Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts, no, no, no
Don’t speak, I know what you’re thinkin’
And I don’t need your reasons
Don’t tell me ‘cause it hurts

… It’s all ending
We gotta stop pretending
Who we are

… You and me
I can see us dyin’
Aren’t we?…

di Squier

BILLY SQUIER

Lonely is the night
When you find yourself alone
Your demons come to light
And your mind is not your own
Lonely is the night
When there’s no one left to call
You feel the time is right
Say the writin’s on the wall, yeah

It’s a high time to fight
When the walls are closin’ in
Call it what you like
This time you got to win

Lonely, lonely, lonely
Your spirit’s sinkin’ down
You find you’re not the only stranger in this town

Red lights, green lights, stop ‘n go jive
Headlines, deadlines jammin’ your mind
You been stealin’ shots from the side
Let your feelin’ go for a ride

There’s danger out tonight
The man is on the prowl
Get the dynamite
The boys are set to prowl
Lonely is the night
When you hear the voices call
Are you ready for a fight?
Do you wanna take it all?

…

di O’Donnell, Williams, Gallup, Smith, Tolhurst, Thompson

CURE

On candystripe legs the spiderman comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
Suddenly!
A movement in the corner of the room!
And there is nothing I can do
When I realise with fright
That the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now
Closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
“Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
Don’t struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it’s much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spiderman is having you for dinner tonight”

…