Andy Partridge

Andy Partridge is a founding member, guitarist and chief songwriter of the new wave rock/pop group XTC.

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• I wonder wonder why the wonder falls
  I wonder why the wonder falls on me
  I wonder wonder why the wonder falls
  With everything I touch and hear and see
  • Theme song to Wonderfalls (2004)

White Music (1978)

• I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book
  A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt
  A billion lovers with their cameras
  Snap to look and in my fantasy
  I sail beneath your skirt
  • "Statue of Liberty"

Go 2 (1978)

• Everybody eats something
  But you won't eat me
  You won't get me on your plate
  Or have me over for tea
  Everybody lives somewhere
  Mud hut or igloo
  But what I got is the hottest spot
  And it's away from you
  • "Life is Good in the Greenhouse"

Drums and Wires (1979)

• Now I lay me down to sleep
  Knowing that your lenses peep
  Now I eat my daily bread
  And into the tape spool I'll be fed
  • "Reel By Real"

Black Sea (1980)

• It's in the order of their hedgerows
  It's in the way their curtains open and close
  It's in the look they give you down their nose
  All part of decency's jigsaw I suppose
  Sunday church and they look fetching
  Saturday night saw him retching over our fence
  Bang the wall for me to turn down
  I can see them with their stern frown
  As they dispense the kind of look that says
  they're Perfect.
  • "Respectable Street"

English Settlement (1982)

• And all the world is football shaped,
  It's just for me to kick in space,
  And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste,
  And I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime,
  Trying to take this all in,
  I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime,
  Trying to taste the difference,
  'Tween the lemons and limes,
  The pain and the pleasure,
  And the church bells softly chime.
  • "Sense Working Overtime"

Mummer (1983)

• For a heart without love is a song with no words
  And a tune to which no one is listening
  So your heart must give love and you'll find that
  You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.
  • "Beating of Hearts"

• Other lands became a larder full of all the good things
  All we had to do was go and take
  Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest
  Black the colour icing on our cake
  • "Human Alchemy"

• We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves
  Although we held the whip, you knew we were
  The real slaves
  To alchemy, human alchemy.
  • "Human Alchemy"

• Now that I'm out and I'm shouting in doorways
  Freed from a love more like murder
  I should be singing but in liberation
  Feel like a ship with no rudder.
  • "Me And The Wind"

The Big Express (1984)

• I say I like your coat
  Her thank-you tugs my heart afloat
  I nearly didn't hear for
  Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her
  • "Seagulls screaming kiss her, kiss her"

• Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land
  And how a child to the virgin came?
  Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered
  Everything upon the surface of the world
  Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
  • "This World Over"

• Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders
  Far too many men dressed up as soldiers
  The lamb is brought to the ground
  Under the weight of the Crown
  A crown of thorns and dark deeds
  The swastika and the hammer and symbol
  Are sickles that reap only weeds
  
  • "Reign of Blows"

Skylarking (1986)

• Ballet for a rainy day
  Silent film of melting miracle play
  Dancing out there through my window
  To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
  • "Ballet For A Rainy Day"

• The man who sailed around his soul
  From East to West, from pole to pole
  With ego as his drunken captain
  Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
  • "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul"

• Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but...
  I feel that I should be heard loud and clear.
  We all need a big reduction in amount of tears
  And all the people that you made in your image,
  See them fighting in the street
  'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God,
  I can't believe in you.
  • "Dear God"

Oranges & Lemons (1989)

• Well I don’t know how many pounds make up a ton,
  Of all the nobel prizes that I’ve never won,
  And I may be the mayor of simpleton,
  But I know one thing,
  And that’s I love you.
  • "The Mayor of Simpleton"

Nonsuch (1992)

• I believe the printed word is more than sacred
  Beyond the gauge of good or bad
  The human right to let your soul fly free and naked
  Above the violence of the fearful and sad
  • "Books Are Burning"

Through The Hill (with Harold Budd) (1994)

• Children thrown from heaven
  see the peacock's jealous tremble
  stars congeal into instructions
  showing how the sky is opened
  and spread down like a bedsheet
  
  • "Well for the Sweat of the Moon"

Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)

• I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil
  I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil
  Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play
  I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway
  • "River of Orchids

• I'd smile so much my face would crack in two
  Then you could fix it with your kissing glue
  I'd like that
  Yes, I'd like that
  • "I'd Like That"

• Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes
  Now that I can hear all your poison prose
  Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze
  I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy
  There are no words for me inside your dictionary
  • "Your Dictionary"

Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2) (2000)

• Brain gets bent, heart gets broken
  You can't jump off once the pages turn
  School is out but never over
  That's the only lesson you can learn
  • "Playground"