# Andy Partridge

Andrew John Partridge (born 11 November 1953) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer who founded the rock band XTC.

## Quotes

* 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)

* It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove
** "Spinning Top".

### 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 a lemon and a lime pain and pleasure And the church bells softly chime.
** - On Wikipedia: Senses Working Overtime - On YouTube: Senses Working Overtime (song)
* People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.
** "Snowman"

### 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 sickle Are symbols 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".

## External links

* APE House Records official site
* XTC official site
* Chalkhills: XTC fan site
* Optimisms Flames: another fan site