MADNESS lyrics - Inanity Over Christmas

(Thompson)



Hello, everyone out there. This is Carl and the rest of Madness

We'd just like to bring you a bit of Christmas cheer

Please remember to keep a smile on your face till the New Year



Hello, this is Woody. And we've got a little song for you. Merry Christmas

1, 2, 3, 4



Hiya, Merry Christmas everyone, Mark here. I'm going to play a bit of bass for you now.



Hello, this is Chris, Happy Christmas



Hi, Lee Kix here, filling your stocking

I play sax



But also, I sing at the same time

Baffling, eh?



Well, it's jingling bells, it's Christmas time

As Santa fetches his sack

Snowdrop glitter falls from the skies

To settle upon each and everyone's back



Chimney sweeps take to the streets

In the ongoing situation

Pages freeze upon your pension book

And up flies the flag of inflation



But oh this time I'll be waiting up by the chimney stack

On this coldest year since brrrr, up up up above a reindeer's back

Stop off at the Rock of Gibraltar

Tea under the blue lagoons of Malta

Wrap up warmer in Warsaw

Cruise over the flats of Alaska



And all this time I'll be waiting up by the chimney stack

On this coldest year since brrrr, up up up above a reindeer's back



I hope you've enjoyed this song so far.

This is Suggs, and now I am going to take it away

OK, lads, get closer together



And all this time I'll be waiting up by the chimney stack

On this coldest year since brrrr, up up up above a reindeer's back



OK, quiet everybody. You should come on here

Er, hit me with those backing vocals, yeah



Oooh

Oooh



"You'll never take me alive, copper"

"Look, reindeer, don't be silly, just settle down"

"I'm going to get that coney to ma"

"We've got you on six counts of disturbing the peace"

"Shove it, copper, I'll stick a grapefruit in your face"

"we're gonna keep singing "

"You are so..You are so..out of a job! Now come on down here"

"Nothing's going to stop us singing, copper, even if I have gotta come down that chimney myself and stick it in your face"

"I'm going to send in the troops if you don't come down here""

"We're going to keep singing in every home in the nation"

"Do whatever you want to do. Do what you..f@$%! That's it!

"You stupid flatfoot, you'll never take me alive.

I'm on top of the world Ma-

Top of the world Ma-Ma?"



Get those stickers on you know...Chris, quieten down over there, will you, I'm trying to get a message across, you know

I'm going to change the world overnight, yeah

Thank you

Thank you