• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• I Know A Place - John Hiatt
• Fly Back Home - John Hiatt
• Let It Ride - John Hiatt
• Something Broken - John Hiatt
• Don't Know Much About Love - John Hiatt
• She Loves The Jerk - John Hiatt
• Come Home To You - John Hiatt
• My Dog And Me - John Hiatt
• Circle Back - John Hiatt
• Love In Flames - John Hiatt
• THE WAY WE MAKE A BROKEN HEART - John Hiatt
• John Hiatt - John Hiatt
• Let's Give This Love A Try - John Hiatt
• Sail Away - John Hiatt
• I spy - John Hiatt
• Death By Misadventure - John Hiatt
• You May Already Be A Winner - John Hiatt
• Falling Up - John Hiatt
• My Old Friend - John Hiatt
• Don't Look Any Further - John Hiatt
• Nagging Dark - John Hiatt
• My Baby Blue - John Hiatt
• Love Like Blood - John Hiatt
• Uncommon Connection - John Hiatt
• Girl On A String - John Hiatt
• How Bad's The Coffee - John Hiatt
• The Tiki Bar Is Open - John Hiatt
• Hanging Tree - John Waite
• Sweet Rhode Island Red - John Waite
• Love's Goin' Out Of Style - John Waite
• John Waite - John Waite
• Buster - John Eddie
• Everything - John Eddie
• Stranded - John Eddie
• John Otway - John Otway
• Belaian Jiwa - Innuendo
• Can't Wait (the Proposal) - Innuendo
• If I Could - Innuendo
• Innuendo - Innuendo
• Gravity Slips - Unwound
• Murder Movies - Unwound
• Lowest Common Denominator - Unwound
• Message Received - Unwound
• Lady Elect - Unwound
• Unauthorized Autobiography - Unwound
• Valentine Card - Unwound
• Off This Century - Unwound
• Kantina - Unwound
• Star Spangled Hell - Unwound
• Lucky Acid - Unwound

I know a place
Where the dogs ain't barking
I know a place
Where the sun don't shine
I know a place
Where the ghosts do the talking
In the back of my mind
In the back of my mind
I know a place
Little thirteen year old cousin
Blood running high
Got a knife in his hand
No daddy would do
Those things to his mama
So he opened that blade
And he stuck that man
I know a place
I know a place
I know a place
And it goes no further
Than where you are
When you leave it behind
One piece of advice
From one son to another
Get out of your mind
Get out of your mind
I know a place

Saw a red tailed hawk eatin' road kill
Said, "Man, what happened to your dignity?"
He said, "Subdivisions have taken my home
There's no more pray to eat"
I said, "Where we gonna live?"
He said, "Anywhere you want to, I guess
All you creatures walkin' upright 'round here
Well, you've really made a mess"
I wish we both could fly back home
To the green fields of our youth
Where friends and family set the tone
With the hardcore language of the truth
I know times bent on destruction
The past is over every day
I wish we both could fly back home
But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away
An owl swooped down
As I was drivin' my pickup through the creek
He said, "I was only tryin' to scare ya
But instead you scared the hell right out of me"
With three hundred and forty-five houses
A locking differential and four-wheel drive
I guess you were livin' large there, country boy
I was just tryin' to survive
I wish we both could fly back home
To the green fields of our youth
Where friends and family set the tone
With the hardcore language of the truth
I know times bent on destruction
The past is over every day
I wish we both could fly back home
But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away, fly away
There was a rattlesnake up on the road
I ran him over and over 'til he died
Then his ghost rose up
And curled around this fear I hold inside
And he flew on off to heaven
As I sat there in my instrument of death
I had to think what I was doin'
I had to think just to draw another breath
I wish we both could fly back home
To the green fields of our youth
Where friends and family set the tone
With the hardcore language of the truth
I know times bent on destruction
The past is over every day
I wish we both could fly back home
But we can't, so I guess I'll just fly away
I wish we both could fly back home

You can't sit around waiting for the path to glory
You gotta get movin' to tell your story
The bigger they come, the harder they fall
From the littlest acorns come trees so tall
And where you're comin' from is where you're goin'
Til' you get there you got no way of knowin'
All the love in the world won't find you if you don't let it
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
And every mistake is a break but only if you get it
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
Everyday is a brand new place
Feel the sun upon your face
Try somethin' new, don't regret it
A hole in your shoe but just forget it
Let it ride, oh, you got to let it
Let it ride, let it ride, let it ride
And every mistake is a break but only if you get it

There's something broken in my heart
Oh it was nothing you done
There's something broken in my heart
I guess that's just the way it comes
There's something broken in my heart
Something I just can't fix
There's something broken
Something broken in my heart
I've tried every powder and every pill
To put it back together somehow
Rode high with the fool up on the hill
Come down with the draft horse and the plow
I've been to the land of milk and honey
And honey I'm broke down now
There's something broken
Something broken in my heart
I'm gonna go downtown tonight and find me a woman
Try to keep those jagged edges from my mind
And if I don't start a fight I'll just keep running
'Till I break on through into the morning light
There's something broken in my heart
Oh it was nothing you done
There's something broken in my heart
I know I'm not the only one
There's something broken in my heart
Something I just can't fix
There's something broken

Baby can you teach me, how to
Baby can you reach me, I’m calling out for you
Underneath your window in tonight
I know I ain’t no Romeo, so help me get it right
If I could got this message through to your heart
It would be more than I could understand
No beginner ever skipped the start
And I want to learn all that I possibly can
Because I don’t know much
I don’t know much, much about love
Out of touch
I don’t know much, much about love
Baby when you kiss me, will I see
That little wish list you’ve been keeping for me
Rushing like a fool, babe, ’cause I know
They taught you this in school, you must have made the honor roll
If I could got this message through to your heart
It would be more than I could understand
No beginner ever skipped the start
And I want to learn all that I possibly can
Because I don’t know much
I don’t know much, much about love
Out of touch
I don’t know much, much about love
I graduated, yes, I can read
The pages of the heart come difficult for me
I speak my mind girl, everyday
The language of love, well, it's difficult to say
If I could got this message through to your heart
It would be more than I could understand
No beginner ever skipped the start
And I want to learn all that I possibly can
Because I don’t know much
I don’t know much, much about love
Out of touch
I don’t know much, much about love
I don’t know much
I don’t know much, much about love
Out of touch
I don’t know much, much about love
I don’t know much, much about love

We've talked it to death, cryin' on the telephone.
Nights when he drinks at home, she has to whisper throught her tears.
"johnny," she says, "you'd never do these things to me."
But I can never make her see he's wasted such precious years.
Well, "you married the wrong guy" is all I ever say.
Chorus:
He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go
Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
She loves the jerk.
He was the guy always out on the make.
I guess he had what it takes to turn the heads of pretty girls.
She thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down.
But he couldn't stay out of town, not even with this precious pearl
Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises.
Chorus
Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she's in my arms.
What I wouldn't give for just one-tenth of what she gives mister charming.
Chorus
He's a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go.

There's a mad little kid at the top of the stairs
And his eyes they gather no light
And his mom and his dad they're too high to care
As his cries drift off in the night
And I've been that kid yeah it's true
And I've been both of those parents too
I'm ashamed when I've lost my way
But I'd do anything just to come home to you
It's the twilight captures the sorrow of time
In between the life and the lived
I press on through the darkness so thoroughly blind
To a light the new morning gives
And it sparkles like each new tomorrow
I drank up my last yesterday
Tasted sweet joy and bittersweet sorrow
But I'd do anything just to come home to you
There's a meanness inside and it shivers my bones
That's the thing about mercy I guess
There's no man so wicked he cannot come home
Nor so good he passes each test
As the fires of memories burn me
The grace of your love returns me
To this most traveled of highways
Where I'd do anything just to come home to you

She marked our trail up the back bone ridge
How many times can one dog pee
Keeps me high as an eagle when I'm on the skids
I guess you gotta come down eventually
Buddy, I coulda gone that extra mile
For an extra bark or an extra smile
'Cause I never felt so free
It was just my dog and me
Then she gives me that look like she'd lay down her life
No doubt she would in a minute, man
She'd face the bullet, oh, she'd face the knife
Just to keep my butt from the fryin' pan
Now she's runnin' up ahead to chase some deer
Comes back to tell me that coast is clear
It's a different world I see
When it's just my dog and me
And there's a rabbit on the run
Man and beast stand, sky and sun
Who's talking to the birds in the trees
Why it's just my dog and me
Now it looks like we've been makin' tracks
From the crack of dawn to the end of the day
So it's nice and easy down the devil's back
She wouldn't know any other way
Now it's over that ridge for one last mile
'Til we're fast asleep by the fire side
Dreamin' these dreams for free
Yeah, it's just my dog and me
I never felt so free

Ward Bond
Was his sidekick rowdy Yates
Drove that wagon train out west
Right along this interstate
'Cross the high plains of Kansas
To the Colorado line
Spent a lot of sleepless nights 'round the campfire
They had mountains on their minds
Well , those high plains people
They're different somehow
You spent your life leaning into a hard wind
I guess, you're less likely to take a bow
All these stories buried out here
They're calling to me
Like the earthquakes in California
Like the hills back in Tennessee
I gotta circle back and touch something near
Find out which way to go just to get on out of here
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind
Well, it's ninety nine in Topeka
The wind is blowin' hot
Blowin' through my oldest daughter's hair
With everything else I forgot
I drove her out to college
Drove back through an empty space
Thinkin' back to when she was a baby
Tryin' hard to see that face
I gotta circle back and touch something near
Find out which way to go just to get on out of here
Well, I lost my thread and I've lost some time
But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind
Two kids up and at 'em
One more left at home
She's a spark plug, a real fire cracker
And in four years she'll be gone
They just blow through your life
Like the wind on the plains
Like the dust that covers everything
'Til the rivers fill with rain
I gotta circle back and touch something near
Find out which way to go just to get on out of here
Well, I lost my thread and I've lost some time
But it takes a lot of ground for me to change my mind
Ohh, yeah, I got to circle back
I got to circle back, I got to circle back
I got to, got to, got to, got to, got to

One in one and one makes three
Baby, you know that it ain't no big mystery
Just from where you're at
You never had these feelings to burn
You took my love and baby you turned
CHORUS:
Is it all in my mind
Or is it a cruel game
This love in flame
I was up so high
Where eagles fly
I just never looked down
Oh, but you were down there
With the wind in your hair
And your feet on the ground
We might have had the stars in the sky
You never had the courage to try
CHORUS
Love in flames
Love in flames
Is it the same
As passion flooding in the name of love
Or is it fear of pain
When love comes crashing down from above
Tonight I lay me down to sleep
On your side of the bed
I pray so hard for somebody to keep
Keep you out of my head
But it's no use the sheets take your form
Into the dawn the ashes still warm
CHORUS

Just a one more kiss she'll have to miss
This night with you
Now you're guilty of this secret love
As I am too
You'll get used to telling lies
And feeling sorry when she cries
Now that the strings are attached
She'll catch on
We've done our part
Oh, this is the way we make a broken heart
Lesson number one we've just begun
To hurt her so
And with lesson two she'll long for you
When lights are low
And we get to lesson three
When she gets down on her knees
And begs you to stop at the door
Just before
She comes apart
This is the way we make a broken heart
BRIDGE:
Now we laid a trail of tears
For her to follow
And we've thought of every line
That she might swallow
And with lesson four there'll be no more
For her to bear
And on some dark night we'll dim the lights
On this affair
Then she'll find somebody new
And he'll likely hurt her too
'Cause there must be millions just like you and me
Practiced in the art
This is the way we make a broken heart

Well, I'm from the Midwest
I know enough to cut a path
Around a wood chipper
And be careful
Of any conversation
A man starts by callin' you skipper
'Cause there ain't no ocean 'round here
Though a lotta little lakes where you could disappear
I wonder what the fish are bitin' on today, Jimmy
She told me not
To follow her down here
Said he was crazy about her
I guess I didn't know
What that meant
Just knew I couldn't do without her
Then I seen 'em through the window sash
He had a Forty four pistol and a bag of cash
And she was foldin' some kinda pretty note paper into her breast pocket
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home
Well, I got the picture
A temporary love shack
In the middle of no place
They were plannin'
On usin' that cash
To get away bold-faced
Now how long did they think they could stay
The troopers and the Marshall's surely on their way
I ran through the yard and I banged my knee on his wood chipper
I was screamin' like a baby
She appeared at the window
He opened the door
And when I looked up
He said "Skipper
What're you doin' here for"
One bullet to the head
Before I hit the ground I was dead
I guess I'm tellin' you this before you go fishin' now, Jimmy
What some people won't do, break up a happy home
What some people won't do, break up a happy home
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home
Never found my body
But they killed 'em in a shoot out
Five miles down the road
They found that note paper
In her breast pocket
Thought it was somethin' written in code
But it was part of a letter set
I'd got her for Christmas ten years ago I'd bet
She used to just use the paper for her grocery list
(and it read)
Eggs
Hamburger meat
Bread
Funyuns
Orange drink
Toilet paper
Tidy Bowl
Pickles
Little Debbie Snack Cakes
What some people won't do, break up a happy home
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home
What some people won't do, to break up a happy home

Let's Give This Love A Try
Sometimes I Don't Like Being Where I Am
No Matter What
I'd Rather Be In A Barrel Of Kosher Salt And Pickle Brine
With A Thousand Paper Cuts
I'm Uncomfortable In My Own Skin You Might Say
Feeling My Own Guts
So Tell Me Something About Yourself Sweetheart
Before I Screw This Whole Thing Up
You Say You Feel Like A Phony Romancer
Though You Still Believe In Love
Make You Feel Like A Dancer
Like You Got All The Answers
Leave You Wonderin' What You Were Made Of
You Don't See No Chain Mail Hiding Puppy Dog Tails
I've Been Sufficiently Horrified
I Got Just Enough Left To Wanna See What's Next
Why Don't We Give This Love A Try
Let's Give This Love A Try
All We Can Do Is Cry
Hang Out Your Tears To Dry
Let's Try This Love
Let's Give This Love A Try
The Sun's Setting In Your Eyes
I'm All Out Of When And Why
Let's Try This Love
I Never Met Two People More Likely To Explode
Scattered, Chopped, Screwed, Covered Up And Smothered Into Each Other Arms
Please Forgive Me My Basic Negativity
God Help Us Both If You Find It Even Part Of My Charm
By The Way You Swept Me Off My Feet
With The Gentleness Of An Angel Flying By
I'm A Long Shot Baby, But They Do Come In
Why Don't We Give This Love A Try
Let's Give This Love A Try
All We Can Do Is Cry
Hang Out Your Tears To Dry
Let's Try This Love
Let's Give This Love A Try
The Sun's Setting In Your Eyes
I'm All Out Of When And Why
Let's Try This Love
I'm All Out Of When And Why

So now it's up to you if I should stay or go
Though I've had no thought of leavin'
You ask if it hurts me, honey, I don't know
It's like a dream, a thin machine
A piece of time that we exploded in, oh yes, we did
I'm gonna sail away, I'm gonna sail away
I'm gonna sail away, sail away, goodbye
And now it's up to you to stay inside my soul
Though you had no thoughts of leavin'

I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I got an x-ray camera hidden in your house
That sees what I can't see
And that man you were kissin' last night
Definitely was not me, oh baby
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
Just because he was wearin' shades
You thought he didn't leave a clue
I got his name, I know his game
He's double-0 you know who, oh baby
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I spy for the fbi
(I spy)
I've got the facts in the file
Baby I don't have to guess
I took that agent's fingerprints
Off of your new red dress, oh baby
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
I know when you're out
I know when you're in
I know where you're goin'
'cause I know where you've been
I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
Baby, I spy for the fbi
(I spy for the fbi)
Baby, I spy for the fbi

Well, Harry had a good job working' for the Secret Service
He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous
He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental
And he had this aching feeling that his life was accidental
So one day he burned his pinstripe suit and his leather shoulder holster
He snapped a Polaroid and made a giant wanted poster
He took it to a print shop and ordered up a thousand flyers
And walked next door to the laundromat and blew his brains out in the drier
And the tag on his toe read: Death by misadventure
Ain't that some way to go? Death by misadventure
Well, Harry's wife Estella took this matter rather lightly
She could have cried and cried but then her looks might come unsightly
She thought about her wardrobe and how much it was outdated
And how this trumped up family thing was vastly overrated
Her kids both turned against her and they took to drugs and stealing
Some junkie killed 'em both for two dime bags they were dealing
And sitting home alone disgusted by it all
She blew the sole survivor off with ninety Nembutals
And the tag on her toe read: Death by misadventure
Ain't that some way to go? Death by misadventure
So be careful how you choose your path and who you pick to go with
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death
Some folks get confused and never quite know how they're going
When you're laid out on that slab we're all the worse for knowing
That the tag on your toe reads: Death by misadventure

Dry your eyes pretty girl
I just got news from the outside world
I don't know how they got our names
But yesterday this letter came:
Mr. and mrs. resident dweller, your lucky number is
You may already be a winner
I've suspected this for years
Still in all it's good to hear
They're pulling for us in the post
To you my dear, I raise this toast
A house of our dreams, an el dorado, a ten-speed blender
You may already be a winner
Now I've never counted my chickens before they're hatched
And I know there is always a catch
But I've felt from the start that our hearts were the perfect match
I know you're tired of the same old dress
I know the car's been repossessed
I know this house is just a shack
But there's this love we cant hold back
Would you like a beer with your tv dinner?

I'm gonna lower my standards and raise my price
I'm gonna take your lunch and your bad advice
Until my worse idea gets the big reward
Until I get out of this raggedy ford
And into a shiny new two seater
Dress my girlfriend up like a cheetah
I'm gonna sign my checks: yours sincerely
For all the money that you hold dearly
When my ego swells and my output dwindles
You can tell the world that youve been swindled
By the man who would have been so bitter
Had he never reconsidered
Falling up
To the top of the junk pile wearing a big smile
Falling up
To the top of the heap with my tongue in cheek
I cant sit down cause I'm falling up
Well I used to think that I had some duty
Now I only want the booty
And unless youve recently been anointed
Then don't tell me you're disappointed
In the man who would have been so bitter
Had he never reconsidered
Now I pay no mind to innovation
Just over and over with the same sensation
Till I'm a short short subject on a long tape loop
That comes and goes like the hula hoop
In one ear and out the other
Nothing there to stop it, brother

I thought we were gonna make that bridge, what did I know?
Me and my expectations was always high
'Like A Rolling Stone' is playing on the radio
It made you cry but we got by
My old friend
You make me feel young again
My old friend
You're just as pretty as you were back then
A Corvair with no floorboards, a Gibson hummingbird
Driving south to the mouth of the riversong
Patchouli oil and motor oil and you knew all the words
Now you're looking fine in a hook-up line
My old friend
You make me feel young again
My old friend
You're just as pretty as you were back then
You've got kids, I've got kids
And they all want to know
Just what is what like
When we were young
I tell them, I'm no different now
Just late for the show
So grab your 'Aqualung'
The loading has begun
My old friend
You make me feel young again
My old friend
You're just as pretty as you were back then
My old friend
My old friend

Someone to count on
In a world ever changin'
Here I am
Stop where your standin'
What you need is a lover
Someone to take over
Oh, girl
Don't look any further
And it's strange
When you think of the chances
That we've both been in a state of mind
Too cool to be careless
Lookin' for the right thing
Oh, baby
Don't look any further
Tonight we're gonna take a trip to paradise
Rockin' all night long
Baby
Daylight, daylight
I'll still be lookin' in your heavenly eyes
And we'll go on and on
Day-o, day-o
Mambu ji ay-o
Don't look any further
Day-o, day-o
Mambu ji ay-o
Don't look any further
Someone to count on
In a world ever changing
Here I am, baby
Stop right where you're standing
What you need is a lover
Someone to take over
Here I am, babe

How fast you gonna run away from this one?
Anywhere but here, you wanna disappear
Into the next daylight, where every thing's right
It's always somewhere else, you're gonna fix yourself
Once shame and guilt had made their mark
Well, you can't run away from the nagging dark
You carry it everywhere in your heart
It finishes everything that you start
And you can't run away from the nagging dark
How much it gonna cost when every thing's lost?
What a price you'd pay just to feel some way
Because your heart has stone, round down to the bone
How your flesh and blood, is just ashes and mud
Feels like your soul's been blown apart
And you can't run away from the nagging dark
You carry it everywhere in your heart
It finishes everything that you start
You can't run away from the nagging dark
How far can you see? Will you ever be free?
Through the blackest night, aw, you still hold on tight
Hope is your finest work, it's your finest work
Hope is your finest work of all
And you can't run away from the nagging dark
You carry it everywhere in your heart
It finishes everything that you start
No, you can't run away from the
Well, you can't run away from the nagging dark
It finishes everything that you start
You carry it everywhere in your heart

Minutes turn to days
Years just melt away
In the park at dawn
Just a flower on
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
We discovered love
In the basements of
Some of my best friends
I've never seen again
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
Oh, so young and oh, so tender
Almost hurts too much to remember
As if the weight of your head on my shoulder
By itself would make us older
If I could time it right
I'd be with you tonight
Out among the stars
Is that where you are?
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you
My baby blue, my baby blue
I keep callin' to you

Take it easy baby
But take as much as you can
Cause I got all the sweet loving
You could possibly stand
I'll take your tears for drinking water
Make your pain sweet company
You can lay all your burdens on my shoulder
Girl you mean that much to me
Chorus 1:
I could climb the highest mountain
To show the world I could survive
But without your lovin' baby
I wouldn't even be alive
Cause your love is like blood
Cause your love is like blood to me
Like a river baby
Your love is running thru me
And with ev'ry beat of our hearts
We're defying gravity
Just a little bit further on up the stream
There's a shady resting place
Where you can lose all your blues and your troubles
With just one sweet embrace
Chorus 2:
Now I could do a million things
Just to prove that I'm a man
But there's only one woman
Who holds my life in her hands
Your love is like blood to me
Your love it's just like blood to me
I don't care what your people say
Over my dead body will they ever take you away
And any man cutting in on me
Well he just better stop cause I can't spare a drop
Your love is like blood to me

Well, I do my best thinking, I'm sitting on my ass
I'm just sittin' here waiting for things to pass
You got places to go and people to see
Well honey, that's you, it ain't me
Shit flying in my head from every direction
Oh, I'm thinking about an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An un
Lot of people in a hurry, and they're goin' nowhere
I can see 'em all, sitting in my easy chair
I can run to the future, I'm running form the past
Well, I thought about it once but it didn't last
Shit flying in my head from every direction
Oh, I'm thinking about an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection
Well, you can say what you want, I'm not getting old
I've slowed down time and nearly stopped it cold
Well, I jogged my memory once, then I shelved my plans
I'm tired of holding on to love's clammy hand
Shit flying in my head from every direction
Oh, I'm thinking about an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, oh
It takes every drop of energy just to run my brains
Took a long time to learn that it's only a waiting game
Some people call it depression, and I call it a song
Don't worry about me, I'm not gonna to be around all that long
Shit flying in my head from every direction
Oh, I'm thinking about an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection
Oh, an uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection
An uncommon connection, an uncommon connection

Well he's got her going up and down like a yo-yo
And she never feels better than ever, just so-so
Like a shrunken head on a rear view mirror
She rides along in his atmosphere
Like furry dice or some voodoo thing
Hes got that girl on a string
Since they tied the knot he keeps her in stitches
And when she ain't banged up, she's sewing his britches
Like a line between the orange juice cans
Shes strung out on his childish demands
To meet him out by the backyard swing
Hes got that girl on a string
Girl on a string, just a little play toy
Girl on a string, for a little bad boy
Girl on a string, he's dragging her around
Girl on a string, he's tying her down
She carries his baby straddled on her hipbone
And theres another on the way, just wait till they get home
The deeper into darkness they get
The more she sees the silhouette
Of a girl who wanted pretty things

How long you been workin' here?
What do you know about that?
Its been thirty years or so
Since I bothered lookin' back
It was right in front of me
But now I'm runnin' behind
To get my butt caught up, well, I need a cup
Of the nastiest shit you can find
So how bad's the coffee, how good's the pie?
If you call me honey, honey, I'm gonna cry
A whole lot of sugar, a little pinch of salt
You cut my bitter with your sweet talk
I don't want no cappuccino
A whole lotta latte won't get me through
I got an iron will and a gut like a still
I could use a stronger brew
One eye doubles my eyesight
So things don't look half bad
Be twice as good, honey if i could
Even make you a little bit mad
So how bad's the coffee, oh, how good's the pie?
If you call me, honey, honey, I'm gonna cry
A whole lot of sugar, a little pinch of salt
You cut my bitter with your sweet talk
I would call you an angel
But honey, you'd know better than that
Just a trucker's dream whit a coconut cream
And a nasty old cup of black
Not a word about faded glory
Not a trace of bitterness
You leave irony to the likes of me
'Cause we don't share your finesse
So how bad's the coffee, oh, how good's the pie?
If you call me, honey, honey, I'm gonna cry
A whole lot of sugar, a little pinch of salt
Oh, you cut my bitter with your sweet talk
Oh, you cut my bitter with your sweet talk
Oh, you cut my blue with your sweet talk

Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Thank God, the tiki torch still shines
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Come on in and open up your mind
I was out on a leave of absence
From any resemblance to reality
I felt like a rocket launched to the great blue yonder
From the boys down at Kennedy
I was driving by his majesty's court hotel
Where the sign said, "Praise his name"
I was tired and alone, I couldn't see too well
But I don't think that he was to blame
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Thank God, the tiki torch still shines
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Come on in and open up your mind
There's a full moon over Daytona beach
There's a full moon in my mind
And my suntan dream is still out of reach
And the strip malls are robbing me blind
Well, his name was Mr. Dale Earnhardt
And he drove the black, number three
Now the king is gone but he'll not be forgotten
Nor his like will we ever see
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Thank God, the tiki torch still shines
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Come on in and open up your mind
I know a drink ain't no solution
I ain't had one in seventeen years
But if that tiki bar was closed tonight
Well, I might just disappear
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Thank God, the tiki torch still shines
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Come on in and open up your mind
Thank God, the tiki bar is open
Thank God, the tiki torch still shines
Thank God, the tiki bar is open

Yeah, I rode with the James Gang
When I was just nineteen
The price on my head was legend
Yeah such was my notoriety
They call me Silver Dollar
Silver Dollar that was me
With those good old boys in the Whisky Jar
Sometimes I’d ride for free
Silver Dollar that was me
Me and Jesus and Columbus
And a good Wells Fargo spy
Doomed and cold we’d dream alone
In a rooming house of lies
And the sermon was a lie
But Judas wore a Levi coat
Had hungry mouths to feed
My spurs and boot heels touched the stars
And once more I was free
My spurs and boot heels touched the stars
And once more I was free
Yeah I rode with the James Gang
When I was just nineteen
Navy coats and compass ponies
Took me straight to the hanging tree

Born in Louisiana in a town called Franklin
I was fully matured by the time I reached the age of ten
A mulatto girl is what they called me
And us mulattos had no trouble at all with men
All men say that I'm as sweet as honey
Cause on 34 38 and 22 at the tonky
They called me Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red
Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red
Sweety is what they said about Sweet Rhode Island Red
Tried to live a life I thought I wanted me to
I went to church, been to school
But there never had to be a White near you
? But on fast uptown I'd need the jobs?
They were just too hard headed to leave me alone
They said that I was sweet as honey
Cause on 34 38 and 22 at the tonky
They called me Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red
Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red
Sweety is what they said about Sweet Rhode Island Red
I was 17 when I moved to New Orleans
'Cos living in the city has always been my dream
People laughed, said it was a shame and a pity
When old mayor Daley gave me the key to the city
He too said that I was as sweet as honey
Cause on 34 38 and 22 at the tonky
They called me Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red
Sweet Rhode Island Red, Sweet Rhode Island Red

I got nothin'
But this early day
Spent all my money
Threw it all away
Time to kill
But she's on my mind
Mister Real Bad Luck
Missed a real good time
So if you see me
Don't say hello
I never put that diamond on...
(Chorus)
'Cause I've got the keys to the highway
Since she saw the light
Now I got nothin' but my freedom
And this beat up heart of mine
I got no regrets, no nothin'
She took me for a ride
And I guess love's goin' out of style
She was a dancer
In a topless place
She came home early
And you shoulda seen her face
Roll and rumble
Feelin' like a crook
Lean back and think about it
Leafin' thru my little black book
So if you see me
Don't say hello
I never put that diamond on
'Cause I've got the keys to the highway
Since she saw the light
I got nothin' but my freedom
And this beat up heart of mine
I got no regrets, no nothin'
She took me for a ride
And I guess love's goin' out of style
(Break)
(Chorus)
Cause I've got the keys to the highway
Since she saw the light
I got nothin' but my freedom
And this beat up heart of mine
I got no regrets, no nothin'
She took me for a ride
And I guess love's goin' out of style...
Yeah... love's goin' out of style
Yeah...

Three years come
I'm still alone and you're so lonely
I look in the mirror
I see those lines on my face
All of my dreams are gone
Flyin' with the starlings
But they were not stolen gems
Colored glass I can replace
You've got a restless heart
Restless change is blowing
through your life
Tears in your eyes
Tears in the books that I've been reading
I don't understand you now
And I never did
But I still love your restless heart
Days into nights
Nights into days
Lights flicker 'round me
And down to the shore I walk
I'm haunted by your face
Ungracious moves I've made
Just like a broken dancer
If I could get you back
They are steps I would retrace
You've got a restless heart
Restless change is blowing through your life
Tears in your eyes
Tears in the books that I've been reading
I don't understand you now
And I never will
But I still love your restless heart
Three years come
You're still alone and I'm so alone
And I would give anything
To feel my heart beat again
I wouldn't say that I've been losin' time
I've been dreaming
And I'd give up anything to keep you as my friend
You've got a restless heart
Restless change is blowing through your life
Tears in your eyes
Tears in the books I've been reading
I don't understand you now
And I never did
But I love you
And I know you've got a restless heart
(Restless heart)
I know you've got a restless heart (in you)
(Restless heart)
I know (in you)
You got a restless heart (heart)
And I know it (in you)
You got a restless heart (heart)
you got a restless heart (in you)
I know it (heart)
But I'm just like you (in you)

Buster, well now I heard the news
You got a rock on your finger
A honeymoon cruise
You changed your name
Damn it babe, it just don't fit
I can't get used to it
And Buster, well now I can't deny
You made me the offer, I passed it by
You made it clear
You wouldn't wait
You set me free Buster
Then you set the date
Well be happy, now be well
Believe me I'll be fine
Buster don't talk bad about
The days that you were mine
Well be happy, now be well
There's a part of me you own
Its in my heart, it keeps me warm
The nights I sleep alone
Well now Buster girl, most nights I sleep alone
Buster, remember our last fight?
To find my way back home
Took me three whole nights
I came home drunk
The place was dark as sin
You wouldn't let me in
And Buster, well lord, I should have tried
I was just a boy full of too much pride
So damn sure and so convinced
That you'd be back to get me
But I haven't seen ya since
Well be happy, now be well
Believe me I'll be fine
Buster don't talk bad about
The days that you were mine
Well be happy, now be well
There's a part of me you own
Its in my heart, it keeps me warm
The nights I sleep alone
Well now Buster girl, most nights I sleep alone
Well Buster, well I can't stay
You know how I get when you look this way
Could you kiss me once
Like your hand was free from gold?
I won't tell a soul
And Buster, I shoulda told you then
You were my lover and my truest friend
And rest assured I won't forget
Till I get the go ahead to take my final breath
Well be happy, be well
Believe me I'll be fine
Buster don't talk bad about
The days that you were mine
Be happy, be well
There's a part of me you own
Its in my heart, it keeps me warm
The nights I sleep alone

You Left Some Letters in The Upstairs Room. I Can't Read Them Now It's Been To Soon.
You Left Some Books and Some Old Dress. I'm The Only Other Thing You Left
and You Won't Be Back For Me Pour Some Truth on A Cut That Stings.
Ya You Won't Be Back For Me. I Guess That's Everything.
I Think You Got It All. I Guess That's Everything.
Thar's No More Tears To Fall. Thar's Only Moving On.
the Good and Bad That Brings.
I Guess That's Everything, Everything.
You Needed Time To Think Things Through
You Needed Space Between Me and You.
You Took A Drive, needed Time Alone.
You Took a Wrong Turn on Your Way Home.
You Left Me Standing In The Dark. Wondering What The Future Brings.
All You Left Where Question Marks. All You Took Was Everything.
I Think You Got It All. I Guess That's Everything. Thar's No More Tears To Fall.
Thar's Only Moving On.
The Good and Bad That Brings.
I Guess That's Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything.
There Was Nothing Standing In Your Way. Nothing I Could Say To You.
Now Thar's Nothing Left For Me Today to Come Home To.
I Once Had Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything, Everything.

Well you're still pretty
And now I'm sorry
That I don't say it
Well darling if we had a prayer
Well girl I swear, what you got I'm praying
Oh and you don't kiss the sweat away
When I walk through that door
Now I hate to see you not even be you
I look at snapshots trying to find clues
I've got to see oh just how we got stranded
Lord we're stranded
Now we're stranded in a place we can't call home
Yeah we're stranded, its better than being alone
Well you talk sad words
And now your eyes cry pretty black
Well you gave up dreams
And now you're mad well you want them back
Oh but even in your heart girl
Would you walk away from me?
Well sometimes you hold tight, when it's a cold night
You push up hard girl, hoping that you might find
Some escape from the hate that we call
Stranded, stranded
Now we're stranded in a place we can't call home
Yeah we're stranded
Its better than being alone
Well now the time was once where the boys made eyes
You walked away, you didn't need them
Well lately guys been comin around, what's going down?
Its all over town, now the word's comin round
Baby stranded, yeah baby stranded
Well baby stranded in a place we can't call home
Yeah we're stranded
Its better than being alone
Don't wanna be alone
Don't wanna be alone
No no no not anymore
Yeah we're stranded

Geneve, take her to yourself
and watch her while she rests
she talks of you as home
I'll try to get to her somehow
while in your arms she lies
I hope she will not feel alone
and I, for the many things I've done
carry on and play the same songs
'cause I never knew, a better way of loving,
do you?
For she is so young, and my dreams
will see me playing for the screaming ladies of Los
Angeles
and when I decided that would be my stage
I was her age, I remember that was a tender time for me
Geneve, Easter's been and gone
and fate has played its hand
and I am on my own
but warm, is the hand that holds my arm
and always leads me on
so I never can stay long
so smile, and I'll see you in a while
as a tourist and a child, but not a loser
for you know love, is a very much harder thing to have
For I am still young, and it's true
that I don't forget her, and I don't regret and I'm not
going to
and as I wipe away, all the traces of Lisa blues
it is my shoes, that walk across the stage for the
applause
Geneve, take her to yourself
and watch her while she rests

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Sayang kau hilang
Menanti biar sampai akhir hayat ku di dunia ini
Kau tahu bertapa ku sayang padamu
Hanya bidadari sebagai ganti
Hanya takdir menentukan ia
Oh belaian jiwa
Oh angin, sampaikan lagu ku padanya
yang sedih pilu
Terimalah lagu ku jadi teman hidup mu
Untuk selamanya
Kau tahu bertapa ku sayang padamu
Hanya bidadari sebagai ganti
Hanya takdir
Menentukan ia

hey lovely lady
what's on your mind
I've been trying to figure it out
all through the night
if it is about us
I guess I know just what to say
'cos I've been waiting for all my life
for this particular day
now that we are all alone
I want you to know
baby throw your rears away
I just have to say
Bridge;
I can't wait another day without you
every single minute seems so long
I can't imagine no one else beside me
you're the one I always want
to come home to
my only woman
don't you be afraid
I could never lay a hand
on your pretty face
don't you ever think
that I could be untrue
as far as I'm concern baby
the future is you
Chorus;
I wanna hold you , all through the night
I wanna please you , hold me tight
I need you to be in my life
just say you want me to be your man
so won't you come with , take my hand
'cos I want you to be my wife

girl I wished I'd never known you
and I wished I'd never loved you
should've never ever held you
let along keep thinking of you
the smell of your perfume
still lingers in my room
I can never forget
why figure on that side of bed
how I wish
you'd never ever leave me
I can resist but reminisce
I'll cease to exist
baby please
make room to forgive me
I can't replace that pretty face
I can never love again
Bridge;
if I could I would've brought you here
and turn back the time
when you were mine and we would vow
this love will never die
if I could I'd never say those words
that hurts you so bad
so baby please..I'm on my knees
gotta come back
if I could I would've told you
that I'm over you
would've never ever let you
see me crying for you
but everytime I go to sleep
thoughts of you keep haunting me
how the heck can I bear
your sweet laughter's in the air
how I wish
you'd tell me I am dreaming
I have no choice.., I miss your voice
girl you have to make it ring
baby please
I can't go through another day
I can't go back, I can't live baby
so tell me what I have to do
Chorus;
oh baby
tell me what I have to do
I've been losing sleep and I just can eat
without you, no one will do
baby please , sugar please
you never can deny
what we had was good , and it's so good
take my hand , come home
so whenever you need me just come home
if you're willing to forgive me , come home
you'll know I'll be around , come home

hey lovely lady
what's on your mind
I've been trying to figure it out
all through the night
if it is about us
I guess I know just what to say
'cos I've been waiting for all my life
for this particular day
now that we are all alone
I want you to know
baby throw your rears away
I just have to say
Bridge;
I can't wait another day without you
every single minute seems so long
I can't imagine no one else beside me
you're the one I always want
to come home to
my only woman
don't you be afraid
I could never lay a hand
on your pretty face
don't you ever think
that I could be untrue
as far as I'm concern baby
the future is you
Chorus;
I wanna hold you, all through the night
I wanna please you, hold me tight
I need you to be in my life
just say you want me to be your man
so won't you come with, take my hand
'cos I want you to be my wife

i'm not the only fool who sees the other day, i'm not the only tool that breathes lost gravity
falling down the stairs, cannot breathe light air, lack of oxygen, gravity nowhere
and now i fall down, where i don't know, it seems invisible, hell's no place to go, ahhh! squeal!
and when i look around i might just see the face that looks right down on me to mark the end of day
it always ends this way, it always ends this way, cause it always ends this way, it always ends this way.

pretty sure that you'd agree we only knew the first degree.
o.k., what part is next? o.k., what part is next?
meeting was the pleasure, knowing was the danger.
dreaming all the time, dreaming all the time.
murder movies murder movies murder movies murder movies.
always talked about your friends appearing in your movies.
o.k., what part is next? o.k., what part is next?
i'd like to star as an alien, killing all the humans.
remember what you said remember what you said.
murder movies, murder movies, murder movies, murder movies.
my idea my idea my idea of you.
my idea my idea my idea of you.

I'm working on a reduction plan.
It's something i just don't understand.
Puzzled by the math of it, adding and subtracting me.
I know exactly what i'm trying to do
But explanation makes me a fool.
Not afraid to be absurd; i'm just not sure what it's worth.
Examination will make it clear
These problems will only reappear.
Making science out of it, it's just lacking evidence.

Logic signal gone complete
It's an invitation to an infiltration, message received from the enemy.
Remote planet fell nowhere
It's an invitation to an infiltration, message received from the enemy.
Present chaos does not compute

goodbye to all the ones who left you to yourself to be invisible and seem impossible.
don't want to know, don't want to know, don't want to know.
leave it to yourself to find it somewhere else.
safe outside of time. martyr of a kind.
don't want to know, don't want to know,
they asked me why you died. i knew the reason why; instead i gave a lie. just came to say goodbye.
don't want to know, don't want to know, don't want to know.
leave it to yourself to find it somewhere else.

Journal entry number twenty, getting older, feeling meaner, thinking faster, getting even, making standards, faking answers,
Can you rewrite history?
A conversation with myself, turning into something else, risking my security, losing my obscurity.
Bored with my life, repetition, waiting for the situation, select problems impair decision, fearful living, nothing given,
Can you rewrite history?
A conversation with myself, turning into something else, risking my security, losing my obscurity.

i know, i know, i know you see stars in my eyes.
my heart, my heart, my heart means the world to me.
i can't, i can't, i can't seem to break it apart
(unclear), don't think I could ever send it to you.
i know, i know, i know (unclear)
i know, i know, i know (unclear)
just a chance, just a chance, just a chance (unclear)
valentine, valentine, valentine will you always be mine?
i know, i know, i know it seems so long ago
to be so stuck on a face that won't go away.
i can't, i can't, i can't seem to wait for the day.
i know, i know, i know it don't matter anyway.
i know, i know, i know (unclear)
i know, i know, i know (unclear)
just a chance, just a chance, just a chance (unclear)
valentine, valentine, valentine will you always be mine?

The future was invented back when you thought you were human
Now it's only getting better every day that we forget
Everything is a commercial. we advertise our memories
We leave our shit on silver platters and then we buy Whatever's left
(empty life? fine?)
It's every bastard for himself
the last century hasn't ended yet
bring us the head of the king
the last century hasn't ended yet
It's every bastard for himself
the last century hasn't ended yet
bring us the head of the king
the last century hasn't ended yet
The future was invented and you might be next
LIFE© is like Monopoly©;
You are not old, You are obsolete

resigned to sit behind the others, smile it's not so
bad to be the only one
wait, wait, wait, wait don't go!
stay, please, stay, please!
wait, wait, wait, wait don't go!
stay, stay!
until I find, until i find, until i find,
another one, another one.
resigned, the sunrise was a lie, was a dream, it's too
dark outside to be alive
wait, wait, wait, wait don't go!
stay, stay!
wait, wait, wait, wait don't go!
stay, stay!
until i find, until i find, until i find,
another one, another one.
resigned to fade to what was joy is pain, it's not so

you might feel like ten feet tall
in reality, you're nothing at all.
go tell mothers i dont feel so well
is of the essence in star spangled hell.
(whispered)
why (unclear)
i (unclear)
(unclear) take control
in reality, nothing at all
tell, i wanna tell, i don't feel so well

This is the mystery
The final count me out
The end of misery and mind me
No fallout
Death is of no concern
He's on an acid trip
This is the twenty-third
This is the lucky one
And why I kill myself?
And when I kill myself, is not of relevance
Because I will be god and it will never come
And it will not work out
And it will never count
And it will never count
This is the mystery
The final count me out
The end of misery and mind me
No fallout
Death is of no concern
He's on an acid trip
This is the twenty-third
This is the lucky one
This is the lucky one
This is the lucky one
This is the lucky one