I have found the lyrics for all the songs on Spellbound on various web sites, but I can't find Semi-Detached anywhere. Can anyone help me?

I think it highly appropriate that I assist you!

SEMI-DETACHED
Written by Tim Finn in England, 1978

I wanna leave here
I wanna get to hell away
My body's frozen
And in my head the pain is here to stay
Panic seems too close for comfort, save me

I gotta get going
Before I cause an accident
A wind is blowing
The summer's gone
And I can't pay the rent
Debt collectors, slap-dash noisy children

CHORUS
Who's gonna be there when the going gets rough?
Ooh I wonder
We're semi-detached and we'll burn like matchsticks
We'll be wonderful, oh

I want a fire, I want a brimstone baptism
Got no illusion, friction or fusion
Time has come
In my garden cats entreat me "Spare us"

And as for people
They're semi-detached, aren't they?
So I can't be sure
I think I heard a neighbour say,
"He'll amount to nothing, he's pathetic"

[REPEAT CHORUS TWICE]

[AWESOME ELECTRIC GUITAR SOLO WITH VOCAL AD-LIBS]

Who's gonna be there when the going gets rough?
Ooh I wonder
Semi-detached and we'll burn like matchsticks
We'll be wonderful, oh
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
Mmm mmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Thanks very much Gav,
I had a feeling the answer to my question might come from you!
Thanks again, Margaret

Hey Semi - can you go one better and point us to the lyrics for all the released Luton tracks

No problemo, Mag! My (nick)namesake is arguably the most emotional Enz song ever!

Hey DG...you might struggle with accurate lyrics for the likes of 'Message Boy', 'Hypnotised' and 'Next Exit' (after all they are raw demos and some words are hard to interpret), but the rest are easily available online.

Despite what the lyric sheet says on Enzso 2, I'd bet my bottom dollar that the line is,

"Though I can't be sure,
I think I heard a neighbour say..."

I heard a live track bootleg tape from God knows when and God knows where. On it, Tim sings "can't" with the Aust/English accent (carnt) instead of the American accent on the record (caant).

Makes much more sense.

The lyric sheet for the Canadian Frenzy LP has "So I can't be sure."

Aah yes John, but said lyric sheet also has "I wanna get the hell away", when Tim's original clearly says "to".