The Hives - The Black And White Album

The Hives - The Black And White Album lyrics

Tick Tick Boom
Try It Again
You Got It All... Wrong
Well All Right!
Hey Little World
A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors
Won't Be Long
T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.
Return The Favour
Giddy Up
Square One Here I Come
You Dress Up For Armageddon
Puppet On A String
Bigger Hole To Fill

Tick Tick Boom

Alright
Toy green.

Yeah, (Yeah, Yeah)
I was right all along,
Yeah, (Yeah, Yeah)
You come tagging along,
Exhibit A,
On a tray,
What you say,
Ends up thrown in your face,
Exhibit B,
What you see,
Well that's me,
I'll put you back in your place

Yeah I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
So what you waiting for?
Yeah! (Yeah, Yeah)
I was right all along!

[Chorus]
'Cause I have done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut though the door,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it...

Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Boom!

Oh Yeah, (Yeah, Yeah)
I was right you were wrong,
Yeah, (Yeah, Yeah)
Going, going, you're gone!
I saw you hesitating, waiting too much,
Until it slipped through your hands,
And then you stagger to your feet and out the door,
Because there's no second chance!

That's right

[Chorus]

Shake it

And you come crying to me...
But it's too late!
The man you've try hard to be,
But it's too late!
Get your head out the sand,
But it's too late...

It's too late,
Too late
Too late
Too late!

Yea
Oh
Oh

Oh Yeah!
But it's too late!
Yeah!
But it's too late!

You get your head out the sand,
But it's too late!
It's too late, too late,

You know I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut to the door,
You know I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut to the door,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it...

Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick
BOOM!

Try It Again

Doo wacko!

Here is to you honey
But I'm out of your league
Never gonna pass me
'Cause I'm out of your league, your league,
your league

Lookie here baby
Your're coming my way
But I move like a landslide
So get out of my way and stay away

Up from the floor on the count of ten
Oh you get up, you get down and you try it again

Up and down and around again Oh you get up,
you get down and you try it again
Up and down and around again Oh you get up,
you get down and you try it again Oh you get
up, you get down and you try it again
All right! Oh Oh Oh

Time to learn a lesson
Like Pavlov's dog
If same-ing isn't working
Why don't you different instead, instead, instead

Like Samson and Delilah
Attila and the Hunns
You're ready for a new round
Don't it look like it's gonna be fun, be fun

Up from the floor on the count of ten
Oh you get up, you get down and you try it again

They say the definition of madness is doing the
same thing and expecting a different result...

That's right!

Doo wacko! - Up and down
Doo wacko! - Down and up
Doo wacko! - Round for round
Doo wacko! - Hit the ground
Doo wacko! - Up and down
Doo wacko! - Ah you get up, you get down and
you try it again
Down and up - Doo wacko! - Ah you get up, you
get down and you try it again
Round for round - Doo wacko! - Ah you get up,
you get down and you try it again
Hit the ground - Doo wacko!
Ah you get up, you get down and you try it
again (4x)

You Got It All... Wrong

You wanna dance you really wanna let it go
You want it bad but this time they told you to go
You want it

You try it fast when you really should do it slow
You got it bad and it's time I told you no
You're on it

Bad it's true, but I don't wanna know
What you had or you did
So just let it go

Oh no!

You wanna laugh and you really wanna let them know
You're so relaxed and you really gonna let it show
You want it

Do you recall when we were two of a kind
But you chose your way, and I chose mine
You're on it

Bad it's true, but I don't wanna know
What you had or you did
So just let it go

Oh no!
Remote controlled but you got it all
Oh no!
You stand ten feet tall, cause you got it all
Oh no!
Remote controlled but you got it all and you got it all
but you got it all wrong!

We had a laugh, but it turned into a cough
We got along but now I wanna get off
You're on it

I was a kid when I did what you do
I put a lid on and thought that's it, I'm through
You're on it

Bad it's true, but I don't wanna know
What you had or you did
So just let it go

Oh no!
Remote controlled but you got it all
Oh no!
You stand ten feet tall, cause you got it all
Oh no!
Remote controlled but you got it all
Oh no!
You stand ten feet tall, cause you got it all

Oh no!

And when I say you lose it, you don't believe it at all
Oh no!
It's such a long way to fall, the writings on the wall
Oh no!
But when I said you'd lose it, I can't even recall
Oh no!
If it was the best of all your brain a bit too small
because you got it all, you got it all, you got it all
but you got it all wrong!

Well All Right!

Yeah x8

Well All right! I know just what you mean
Well All right! And I know that it might seem
Well All right! I should have better things to do
Well All right! I'm so sick of it, this won't do

First in line but last to know
Move too fast but think too slow
People see me and they go AAAAHHHH!!!!

Whoo Hoo! x8

Everyone's a looser in the modern world
Look at all the sad and gloomy little boys and girls
All of you got troubles all of you got woes
Shake the chips off your shoulders here is how it goes

Juggling chainsaws with just one hand
Falling down the stairs with a marching band
Swim across the ocean in a concrete suit
Trying to grow a beard but still look cute

Whoo Hoo! x8

On and on the world spins round - It is enough to
get you down
But I don't worry cause sometimes you just
have to...
Whoooo Hoooo!

Yeah x8

Well All right! I know just what you mean
Well All right! And I know that it might seem
Well All right! I should have better things to do
Well All right! I'm so sick of it, this won't do

First in line but last to know
Move too fast but think too slow
People see me and they go... scuse me!

Whoo Hoo! x16

Everyone's a looser in the modern world
Look at all the sad and gloomy little boys and girls
I know all you got troubles all you got is woes
Shake the chips off your shoulders here is how it goes...
Whoooo Hoooo!

Hey Little World

It was on a cold dark night, born into this world
they couldn't tell back then, is it a boy or a girl?
has since then been a story, of uncertainty
It was claimed ?a child?, that he would never be free

Hey little world! you know what you're getting
Oh please little world, It's kicking your head in

Whatcha gonna do? Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?
Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?

Grow up advance to nothing
Live in a house of clay
He didn’t know back then
But they liked it that way.
He didn’t do what they told him
He never did what they said
Try to tell him your wrong again and
Is this what you get?

Hey little world! you know what you're getting
Oh please little world, It's kicking your head in

Whatcha gonna do? Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?
Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?

Take it to your mother

Now as the starlets are scraping
Now he’s as wide as the sea
And when you look all around you
He is what you see
All around the bed
He’s gonna make sure you heard

Hey little world! you know what you're getting
Oh please little world, It's kicking your head in

He’s got them all lined up and they’re ready to go
They’re all lined up and that’s what he saw
Hey little world, back in the ocean again

Whatcha gonna do? Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?
Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?
Whatcha gonna do? Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?
Anyone of you? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?

Hey little world, back in the ocean again?
I said hey little world, back in the ocean again?

A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors

Instrumental

Won't Be Long

No bright lights, no big city went to my head
So I won't stick around in this town
No I'm getting out instead

'Cause I can't find a thing here to get it done
to race my heart and ring my ears
So I won't stick around in this town
And that's true ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

'Cause I won't and I can't and I don't understand
You became what you hate or you hate what you become

Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin'
Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin' away

So I make my way through the quagmire
Of boomers glorifying their youth
And all the peacocks in this city
So if I may be excused

'Cause I won't and I can't and I don't understand
You became what you hate or you hate what you become

Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin' [x3]
Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin' away

Well I won't be around for the good times
Won't be around for the bad
And I won't stick around in this town
No I'm getting out instead

I won't
And I can't
And I'll leave
'Cause I can
And I won't be back again!

Well I

Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin' [x3]
Got me a ticket and I won't be long 'cause I can't go on and I gotta get goin' away

And I gotta get gone away
Cuz I gotta get gone away
Gotta get gone away

T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

I know that it has been a long time coming
Your bought your tickets, you waited in line
You were walking and now you find yourself running
To get closer to the giant neon sign

Allow me to
Give you a clue

You're looking at black and white
Seeing our name in lights
Gonna make you feel alright
Cause baby we're here all night

We rule the world,
This is our world

T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

You hold your breath and now it's silent
The humming of the amps is all you hear
Introducing for the fourth time running
Cause if you don't know we'll make it very clear

Ooooooooohhh
You know it's true

You're looking at black and white
Seeing our name in lights
Gonna make you feel alright
Cause baby we're here all night

We rule the world,
This is our world

T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

When you're all ripped up around a quarter to ten
Gonna piece you back together by eleven and then
When you sweated it out and you're all soaking wet
Then we'll do it again

We rule the world,
This is our world

T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S.

Return The Favour

Well we'd talk and talk and talk about it
But talk would do no good
We have little to next to nothing to talk about

And we'd talk and talk and talk around it
But talk would do no good
We have little to next to nothing to talk about

So nothing went from nothing then
And then back to the nothing I expected when
I return the favour
Is it time to go home?

Ooh ooh

Now we can talk and talk and talk about it
Talk until we're blue
It's just a big jug full of stupid passing thru

It's like a boxer's goodbye, I'll see you Cassius Clayter
In French Muhammed ¡ Oui
Yeah we have little to next to nothing to talk about

So nothing went from nothing then
And then back to the nothing I expected when
I return the favour
Is it time to go home?

It's a waste of time and a waste of space
It's just taproom talk through a drunken haze
I return the favour
Guess it's time to go home

Ooh ooh

I got my mind made up and it's getting clear
There's better things to go than staying here
I return the favour
and leave on my own

Ooh ooh