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Your Dictionary

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Your Dictionary was released on February 17, 1999 by Ape House as a part of the album Apple Venus, Vol. 1

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OVERVIEW

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Music Video

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

XTC

Performer

Andy Partridge

Vocals

Dave Gregory

Piano

Colin Moulding

Bass Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Andy Partridge

Songwriter

Lyrics

H-A-T-E

Is that how you spell love

In your dictionary

K-I-C-K

Pronounced as kind

F-U-C-K

Is that how you spell friend

In your dictionary

Black on black

A guidebook for the blind

Well now that I can see

My eyes won't weep

Now that I can hear

Your song sounds cheap

Now that I can talk

All your corn I'll reap

I'm not so sure that Joey

Wed a Virgin Mary

There are no words for me

Inside your dictionary S-L-A-P

Is that how you spell kiss

In your dictionary

C-O-L-D

Pronounced as care

S-H-I-T

Is that how you spelt me

In your dictionary

Four-eyed fool

You led 'round everywhere

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 Now your

laughter has a hollow ring

But the hollow ring

Has no finger in

So let's close the book

And let the day begin

And our marriage be undone

Written by: Andy Partridge

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