The Divine Comedy Songtexte
Perfect Lovesong To the Rescue Norman and Norma Absent Friends Come Home Billy Bird

Office Politics

1. Queuejumper
2. Office Politics
3. Norman and Norma
4. Absolutely Obsolete
5. Infernal Machines
6. You’ll Never Work in This Town Again
7. Psychological Evaluation
8. The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale
9. The Life and Soul of the Party
10. A Feather in Your Cap
11. I’m a Stranger Here
12. Dark Days Are Here Again
13. Philip and Steve’s Furniture Removal Company
14. Opportunity’ Knox
15. After the Lord Mayor’s Show
16. When the Working Day Is Done

Swallows and Amazons – The Original Piano Demos

1. Whistle for a Wind
2. The Swallow
3. The Conquering Heroes
4. Fighting Swallow
5. The Amazon Pirates
6. The Parley
7. Better Drowned Than Duffers
8. Let’s Make the Best of It
9. Navy Stroke
10. Like Robinson Crusoe
11. Titty’s Dream
12. The Conquering Heroes, Victory Chorus
13. The Black Spot
14. The Parley – Flint’s Apology
15. Swallows and Amazons Forever

1. Bath
2. Going Downhill Fast
3. The Booklovers
4. A Seafood Song
5. Geronimo
6. Don't Look Down
7. When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe
8. The Summerhouse
9. Neptune's Daughter
10. A Drinking Song
11. Ten Seconds to Midnight
12. Tonight We Fly
13. Ode to the Man (Unlisted)

1. Timestretched
2. Bad Ambassador
3. Perfect Lovesong
4. Note to Self
5. Lost Property
6. Eye of the Needle
7. Love What You Do
8. Dumb It Down
9. Mastermind
10. Regeneration
11. The Beauty Regime

Juveneilia Disc 1

1. Pie Jesu
2. Who
3. The Missing Link
4. Who’s Afraid
5. The Fools Who Can Only Talk
6. Give It a Chance
7. Power (Is Your Demand)
8. Who Is This Man
9. Loving You (Merciful Release)
10. Sanity
11. A Friend of Mine
12. Neil’s First Amp
13. Completely Barking
14. Nobody Wins
15. Passion Fruit
16. Silent Man
17. October
18. Anonymous
19. Ridgeway Street
20. Suffer in Silence
21. Roselyn
22. Stream of Unconsciousness

Juveneilia Disc 2

1. Fanning Intro
2. Ignorance Is Bliss
3. Indian Rain
4. Bleak Landscape
5. Tailspin
6. The Rise and Fall
7. Logic Vs Emotion
8. Secret Garden
9. Timewatch
10. Jerusalem
11. The Rise and Fall (Timewatch version)
12. Europop
13. New Wave
14. Intifada
15. Monitor
16. Thanks for Listening

Liberation

1. Festive Road
2. Death of a Supernaturalist
3. Bernice Bobs Her Hair
4. I Was Born Yesterday
5. Your Daddy’s Car
6. Europop
7. Timewatching
8. The Pop Singers Fear of the Pollen Count
9. Queen of the South
10. Victoria Falls
11. Three Sisters
12. Europe by Train
13. Lucy

Liberation Leftovers

1. Untitled Melody
2. Your Daddy’s Car (demo)
3. Queen of the South (demo)
4. Europop (live)
5. Little Darlin’
6. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (early idea)
7. Bontempi Beats 1
8. The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count (demo)
9. Europe by Train (live)
10. I Can Think (but I Can’t Feel)
11. Lucy (early version)
12. Festive Road (demo)
13. Three Sisters (live)
14. I Was Born Yesterday (early idea)
15. Bontempi Beats 2
16. Christmas With the Hannons
17. Victoria Falls (demo)
18. Timewatching (demo)
19. Bontempi Beat 3
20. Suzanne (live)

Promenade

1. Bath
2. Going Downhill Fast
3. The Booklovers
4. A Seafood Song
5. Geronimo
6. Don’t Look Down
7. When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe
8. The Summerhouse
9. Neptune’s Daughter
10. A Drinking Song
11. Ten Seconds to Midnight
12. Tonight We Fly
13. Ode to the Man

Apropos of Promenade

1. Ten Seconds to Midnight (alternate version)
2. Assume the Goldsmith
3. When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe (live)
4. Tell Me What’s Wrong
5. Life’s What You Make It
6. Lost Prom Jam
7. Neptune’s Daughter (demo)
8. Going Downhill Fast (instrumental)
9. The Booklovers (demo)
10. The Bright Lights of Ealing
11. Bath (alternate version)
12. The Summerhouse (early idea)
13. The Summerhouse (live)
14. When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe (early idea)
15. A Woman of the World (Promenade‐style demo)
16. Geronimo (live) (von Wez Clarke & Maxine Hardcastle feat. The Lovely Laura on Sax)
17. Don’t Look Down (demo)
18. A Drinking Song (live)
19. Only for Tonight
20. Tonight We Fly (demo)

Casanova

1. Something for the Weekend
2. Becoming More Like Alfie
3. Middle‐Class Heroes
4. In & Out of Paris & London
5. Charge
6. Songs of Love
7. The Frog Princess
8. A Woman of the World
9. Through a Long & Sleepless Night
10. Theme From Casanova
11. The Dogs & the Horses

Casanova Behind the Cravat

1. Hannon’s Game
2. Birds of Paradise Farm
3. A Woman of the World (early idea)
4. Motorway to Damascus
5. Crapper’s Delight
6. Songs of Love (demo)
7. Love Is Lighter Than Air
8. Comme beaucoup de messieurs
9. Grinchworm
10. Painting the Forth Bridge
11. Solsbury Eel
12. The Frog Princess (demo)
13. My Lovely Horse (from Father Ted)
14. Father Ted Theme
15. My Lovely Mayo Mammy (from Father Ted)
16. The Miracle Is Mine (from Father Ted)
17. Theme From Casanova (demo)
18. Electro Wurly Groove
19. Something Before the Weekend (early idea)
20. Something for the Weekend (monitor mix)
21. Becoming More Like Alfie (monitor mix)
22. Stereo Laboratory
23. Through a Long and Sleepless Night (early idea)
24. The Dogs and the Horses (live)

A Short Album About Love

1. In Pursuit of Happiness
2. Everybody Knows (Except You)
3. Someone
4. If…
5. If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me)
6. Timewatching
7. I’m All You Need
8. Bath (live)
9. A Short Film About Driving
10. Everybody Knows (Except You) (early idea)
11. Johnny Mathis’ Feet (live)
12. I’m All You Need (demo)
13. A Short Film About Dreams
14. Your Daddy’s Car (live)
15. Teach Us to Love
16. A Short Film About Waiting
17. A Short Film About Chance
18. If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me) (rehearsal version)
19. Make It Easy on Yourself (live)

A Short Film About a Short Album About Love

1. In Pursuit of Happiness
2. Everybody Knows (Except You)
3. Someone
4. Timewatching
5. If…
6. If I Were You (I’d Be Through With Me)
7. I’m All You Need
8. A Drinking Song
9. Something for the Weekend
10. The Dogs and the Horses

Fin de siècle

1. Generation Sex
2. Thrillseeker
3. Commuter Love
4. Sweden
5. Eric the Gardener
6. National Express
7. Life on Earth
8. The Certainty of Chance
9. Here Comes the Flood
10. Sunrise

Le Début de la fin

1. I’ve Been to a Marvellous Party
2. Generation Sex (early idea)
3. Gin Soaked Boy
4. With Whom to Dance
5. Thrillseeker (rehearsal version)
6. Maryland Electric Rainstorm
7. Little Acts of Kindness
8. Life on Earth (early idea)
9. The Dead Only Quickly
10. The Winter Blues
11. London Irish
12. Here Comes the Flood (demo)
13. The Certainty of Chance (demo)
14. Last Stand in Metroland
15. Overstrand
16. Then Four Buses Come Along at Once
17. National Express (rehearsal version)
18. Postcard to Rosie
19. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

Regeneration

1. Timestretched
2. Bad Ambassador
3. Perfect Lovesong
4. Note to Self
5. Lost Property
6. Eye of the Needle
7. Love What You Do
8. Dumb It Down
9. Mastermind
10. Regeneration
11. The Beauty Regime

Regeneration Hesitations, Deviations and Repetitions

1. Get Me to a Monastery
2. Lost Property (early idea)
3. You
4. U.S.E
5. How’s Your Wireless?
6. Thinking the Unthinkable (demo)
7. Garden Cities
8. Timestretched (demo)
9. Note to Self (live)
10. Edward the Confessor
11. Soft Power
12. Born With a Broken Heart
13. Mastermind (rehearsal version)
14. Boy With a Harmonica
15. Soul Trader
16. Perfect Lovesong (early idea)
17. The Night Is Not Enough
18. No Excuses
19. Love What You Do (live)

Absent Friends

1. Absent Friends
2. Sticks & Stones
3. Leaving Today
4. Come Home Billy Bird
5. My Imaginary Friend
6. The Wreck of the Beautiful
7. Our Mutual Friend
8. The Happy Goth
9. Freedom Road
10. Laika’s Theme
11. Charmed Life

Long Lost Friends

1. Absolute Power
2. Our Mutual Friend (early idea)
3. The Bird Evolution
4. Girl Least Likely
5. Mr Right
6. Sticks & Stones (demo)
7. The Dark Horse
8. Idaho
9. All Things (alternate version)
10. Rose for the Lady
11. Smiler
12. Absent Friends (demo)
13. Anthem for Bored Youth (demo)
14. Our Mutual Friend (alternate version)
15. Antidepressant
16. Windy Pop
17. Laika’s Theme (The Promise)
18. Charmed Life (alternate version)

Victory for the Comic Muse

1. To Die a Virgin
2. Mother Dear
3. Diva Lady
4. A Lady of a Certain Age
5. The Light of Day
6. Threesome
7. Party Fears Two
8. Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World
9. The Plough
10. Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont
11. Snowball in Negative

Victory for the Comic Muse Additional Musings

1. Births, Deaths and Marriages (monitor mix)
2. Diva Lady (acoustic version)
3. Home (demo)
4. Pamplemousse
5. Lili Marlene
6. Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont (early idea)
7. Count Grassi’s Passage Over Piedmont (intrumental)
8. Trafalgar
9. Love/Hate Relationship
10. Miss Sharapova
11. Don’t Blame the Young
12. Guantanamo
13. Long Slow Suicide
14. To Die a Virgin (early idea)
15. A Little Bit of Love (Goes a Long Long Way)
16. Elaine (alternate version)
17. A Lady of a Certain Age (instrumental)
18. Premonition of Love

Bang Goes the Knighthood

1. Down in the Street Below
2. The Complete Banker
3. Neapolitan Girl
4. Bang Goes the Knighthood
5. At the Indie Disco
6. Have You Ever Been in Love
7. Assume the Perpendicular
8. The Lost Art of Conversation
9. Island Life
10. When a Man Cries
11. Can You Stand Upon One Leg
12. I Like

Bang Goes the Knighthood More Sordid Details

1. Assume the Perpendicular (alternate version)
2. On the Barge (demo)
3. At the Indie Disco (demo 1)
4. Girl Overboard
5. Bang Goes the Knighthood (alternate version)
6. Beside the Railway Tracks
7. Have You Ever Been in Love (alternate version)
8. Oh Christina
9. Ya Sumeera
10. Down in the Street Below (demo)
11. Island Life (demo)
12. The Bitter End
13. When a Man Cries (demo)
14. The Loneliest Man in the World
15. The Circular Firing Squad
16. At the Indie Disco (demo 2)
17. What’s Wrong With You (alternate The Lost Art of Conversation)
18. Wide Open Spaces (demo)
19. I Like (alternate version)

Foreverland

1. Napoleon Complex
2. Foreverland
3. Catherine the Great
4. Funny Peculiar
5. The Pact
6. To the Rescue
7. How Can You Leave Me on My Own
8. I Joined the Foreign Legion (to Forget)
9. My Happy Place
10. A Desperate Man
11. Other People
12. The One Who Loves You

Foreverland Plan of Attack

1. Napoleon Complex (alternate version)
2. How Can You Leave Me on My Own (alternate version)
3. Them Chattering Teeth
4. The Pact (demo)
5. Desperate Man (demo)
6. Your Lucky Day
7. I Joined the Foreign Legion (early idea)
8. Breakfast (To Our Fathers in Distress demo)
9. Reconnecting (To the Rescue early idea)
10. To the Rescue (demo)
11. One Ear Up, One Ear Down (demo)
12. Catherine the Great (demo)
13. Pictures (alternate Foreverland)
14. ARP Break
15. My Happy Place (demo)
16. Just Can’t Get Enough
17. The One Who Loves You (demo)
18. C’est si bon
19. I Joined the Foreign Legion (alternate version)
20. Who Were We (demo)

Office Politics

1. Queuejumper
2. Office Politics
3. Norman and Norma
4. Absolutely Obsolete
5. Infernal Machines
6. You’ll Never Work in This Town Again
7. Psychological Evaluation
8. The Synthesiser Service Centre Super Summer Sale
9. The Life and Soul of the Party
10. A Feather in Your Cap
11. I’m a Stranger Here
12. Dark Days Are Here Again
13. Philip and Steve’s Furniture Removal Company
14. ‘Opportunity’ Knox
15. After the Lord Mayor’s Show
16. When the Working Day Is Done

Office Politics Overtime

1. The Divine Comedy Ltd.
2. Where Have All the Milkmen Gone
3. Take Your Drum
4. After the Lord Mayor’s Show (alternate version)
5. Olivia, New Tron Song
6. The Life and Soul of the Party (alternate version 1)
7. You’ll Never Work in This Town Again / Office Politics (alternate version)
8. The Erotic Dreams of Andrea Palladio
9. Absolutely Obsolete (demo)
10. Death and the Mellotron
11. Dark Days Are Here Again (early version)
12. The Berlin Airlift
13. Queuejumper (early version)
14. Pop Muzik
15. Large Mellotron Collider
16. The Life and Soul of the Party (alternate version 2)
17. Infernal Machines (early version)
18. Turning Japanese
19. Norman and Norma (demo)
20. Nordyland 83
21. Philip and Steve’s Furniture Removal Company (alternate version)