After many hours over many years deciphering the Devotisms there appeared a tome with every lyric in it. It is an essential part of the experience and rates well up there with Dylan's similar tome.

I guess we'll just have to wait for him to get "suitably unhappy" again. That's what he claimed was the reason for wanting to get back into music with Luxuria when he was interviewed on the Snub UK TV show in '89. They even made a special promo video for the song Dirty Beating Heart (slightly different from the version which was subsequently issued on the Beast Box album in 1990), which was also shown in connection with the interview, it's kind of funny. Well, both the video and the inteview are, actually!

I wish to thank most warmly the musicians and composers, my partners past and present, for their respective roles in realising these crimes passionnels as songs: Barry Adamson, Robert Dickinson, Steve Diggle, John Doyle, Dave Formula, Martin Jackson, John Maher, Ben Mandelson, John McGeoch, Peter Shelley, Bernard Szajner; and, finally and most of all, Noko for Luxuria right now. HD

Contents

• 1976-77: Time's Up/Spiral Scratch
• You Tear Me Up
• Breakdown
• Friends Of Mine
• Orgasm Addict
• Boredom
• Time's Up
• Lester Sands - Drop In The Ocean
• Love Battery
• Big Dummy
• Don't Mess Me Round
• Peking Hooligan
• 1977-78: Real Life
• Definitive Gaze
• My Tulpa
• Shot By Both Sides
• Recoil
• Burst
• Motorcade
• The Great Beautician In The Sky
• The Light Pours Out Of Me
• Parade
• My Mind Ain't So Open
• Touch And Go
• Give Me Everything
• 1978-79: Secondhand Daylight
• Feed The Enemy
• Rhythm Of Cruelty
• Cut-Out Shapes
• Talk To The Body
• I Wanted Your Heart
• Believe That I Understand
• Back To Nature
• Permafrost
• TV Baby
• 1979-80: The Correct Use Of Soap
• Because Your Frightened
• Model Worker
• I'm A Party
• You Never Knew Me
• Philadelphia
• I Want To Burn Again
• Sweetheart Contract
• Stuck
• Song From Under The Floorboards, A
• Twenty Years Ago
• Book, The
• Upside Down
• 1980-81: Magic, Murder And The Weather
• About The Weather
• So Lucky
• Honeymoon Killers, The
• Vigilance
• Come Alive
• The Great Beautician In The Sky
• This Poison
• Naked Eye
• Suburban Rhonda
• Garden - The
• In The Dark
• Operative, The
• 1982-83: Jerky Versions Of The Dream
• Cold Imagination
• Topless
• Rainy Season
• I Admire You
• Way Out Of Shape
• Some Will Pay For What Others Pay To Avoid
• Waiting For A Train
• Out Of Shape With Me
• Taking Over Heaven
• Seeing Is Believing
• Without Leaving
• Deal Of The Century
• The Convention
• 1986-88: Unanswerable Lust
• Redneck
• flesh
• Public Highway
• Lady 21
• pound
• Celebrity
• Mlle
• Rubbish
• Luxuria
• Sickly Thug & I
• 1988-90: Beast Box
• The Beast Box Is Dreaming
• Stupid Blood
• Against The Past
• Our Curious Leader
• We Keep On Getting There
• Ticket
• Animal In The Mirror
• Dirty Beating Heart
• Smoking Mirror
• I've Been Expecting You
• Karezza
• Beast Box
• Useless Love

Credits

All lyrics © Howard Devoto, except:-

• Orgasm Addict, Time's Up, Breakdown © Howard Devoto / Pete Shelley
• Dirty Beating Heart © Howard Devoto / Jessamy Calkin

All rights in this collection controlled by Black Spring Press Ltd.

All rights in individual lyrics controlled by Virgin Music Publishers and Momentum Music, reproduced by permission.

It Only Looks As If It Hurts
first published by
BLACK SPRING PRESS Ltd.
46 Rodwell Road
London SE22

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Devoto, Howard
 It only looks as if it hurts : complete lyrics 1976-90.
 1. Title
ISBN 0-948238-08-9

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