Number Eleven lyrics

All these things I send out to you

Come bouncing off you, and then right back to me

And this repeats itself so needlessly, oh!

VERSE ONE

I daren't have fights with a brick wall

I take two steps forward

Or I do not move at all

Staying in one place, forever and ever and ever

You're holding me in dirty hands

First I'm in there, but I don't belong at all

I'm back banging my head on that old brick wall

I see signs warning me to read the ways more carefully

For I could keep treading on you, forever, forever

VERSE TWO

At the end of all this

What do I get

Well my nerves start to shake

Cos it ain't started yet

And it comes right back and touched my hands

Time to change my plans

Everyone says, oh, let go, but my fingers are steel

And my hands say no

I can't keep fighting with you, forever, forever

Once in awhile, the sky seems near

And I look up and it all falls down

I can't win fights with a brick wall

I have to break it down or I do not fight at all

Stay in one place forever

And the whole place starts going, aahh!

VERSE THREE

I'm standing here with dirty hands

Something tells me that I don't belong here at all

I'm back banging my head on that old brick wall

At the end of all this, what do I get

Well, I feel so afraid cos it ain't started yet

And it comes right back on dirty hands, oh!

Everyone says, oh, let go, but my fingers are steel

And my hands say no

And I tell you I could keep hanging on here forever

Oh, oh, oh, oh, I, I, I, I, I, I, oh, oh, oh, oh!

• Artist:Pete Burns
• Album:Number Eleven (1981)