"Hit The Hi-Tech Groove" lyrics - POP WILL EAT ITSELF

[Intro:]
This is the sound of house music
(Stand and deliver)
(Stand and deliver)
(Stand and deliver)

We've shit for brains, got blinkered vision
We steal our lines from television
Steal some words, steal some tune
Don't be shy, hit the hi-tech groove
We're little boys who tell tall stories
Spice our gossip with jackanories
Tell no secrets, give no clues
It's all here for us to use

Take a beatbox and add a garage racket (Go!)
Box frenzy!
We got lines fly like an eagle
The rhythm it smokes more than a beagle
Floating butterflies, stinging bees
The beats is fresh, the rhymes is free

[Chorus:]
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability

Drop in the groove, circulate
Stake your claim, it's not too late
Sleep all day, fly by night
Lead the pack, take what you like
Go blam-blam, sing love songs
Making up the story as you go along
So let's p-p-party, let's b-b-ball
Argh! Fuck it all!

Take a shitload and ask for more
Roll around the carpet floor
We're no-good thieves, we're no buyers
It's the art of scrounging, base desire
The Brinks-Mat job was a second-rater
Poppie tricks are the number one capers
Jumping bail, skipping trial
We're ha-ha people with half-hour smiles

[Chorus:]
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability

We take, we beg, we steal, we borrow
Here today and gone tomorrow
Take the moment, grab those kicks
We're main pranksters, pardon our tricks
I don't study, don't need a degree
I got advanced criminology
Crime circles wave and ask us by
"Sorry, no speech, we really must fly!"

[Chorus:]
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability
You don't have to have integrity
I said, you don't have to have ability, yeah
So listen, kiddies, it's true what they say
You don't need respectability