All I ever wanted
Was to lose myself in you
All I ever needed
Was you to need me too
You're all I ever think about
I hunger for your touch
And all I ever wanted
Was you, is that too much?
I hate the pain of loving you
It happens all the time
I never needed anything or anybody
Until your eyes met mine
I'm waiting for your answer, babe
What's gonna become of us?
'Cos all I ever wanted
Was you, is that too much?
It is too much to ask
That this man with a past
Could be happy at last
With a future like you
It is too much to ask
Is it too much of a task?
Am I going to fast for you?
Maybe you don't want me
I'm so scared of losing you
I never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity
Watch me screw up this one too
It's so hard to talk about love
I'm leaving now, oh, it's just
And all I ever wanted
Well, it's Tuesday night
How I'd like to be inside at this time
Watchin' T.V. is killin' me
It's such a drag, tonight
I feel like Jason
Just found a rusty fleece
And the Cyclops, all laughin' at me
You can't tame wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Now some cynic from the methadone clinic
He keeps on bothering me
He writes all my lyrics backwards on diapers
And hangs 'em from the local trees
Watch out, white boy
Don't argue with a sawn off piece
I'm a crazy son, mama
I love the grease of Wild East
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Now Jezebel don't feel too well, she talks to Jane
'Bout a one way conversation on a subway train
Hey, they took away her wallet and her valise
Love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
Wild east, wild east
(D. Gibson/Mick Ronson)
(Instrumental)
(Ian Hunter)
Driving off in the rain and snow
Oh the jets ain't jumping cause the clouds too low
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know
The ice on the window the highway the sea
Who do you love is it him or is it me
Hey hey I wanna know
I called Detroit city on the telephone
The man on the line tell me you ain't home
I wanna know
Who's that voice
What's [...?]
There's a deep red glow in the early morning sky
Who do you love better make up your mind
Don't wanna buy love
Don't wanna try love
I just want your love babe
Hey alright!
Well its five in the morning and the place is dead
I'm gonna rest my body on a empty bed
Who do you love
I gotta know
What's his name baby
What's your game
Make up your mind are you his are you mine
When you get back I ask you one more time
Hey hey!
Hey hey!
(Ian Hunter/McNasty)
(Transcribed by Justin Purington)
Little flame tormented soul
tried to get lost in all that rock and roll
Came crashing through here like some hurricane
too much too soon for you little flame
(chorus)
You can't walk on water
you can't walk on water, don't try
like a lamb to the slaughter
oh! but for the grace of God go I
Little flame caught that savage sound
he liked to turn it upside down
well I think I know what you were talking about
I'm just so sorry that your flame went out
Fun with no conscience, tracks with no tears
the rich get richer and the devil's got no fears
Sounds his call, political lies
there ain't no virtue without sacrifice
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on water
You can't walk on
(Ian Hunter)
My tea turned seven shades darker
as I sit 'n' write these words
and London's gettin' paler
in my theatre of the absurd.
You figured for an evening
and you made it all worthwile.
It's seldom people have a job
and even rarer that I smile.
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Teach your children to be them
and never ever ours.
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Someone took the park away
but they left a lonely flower.
And if your songs be classics,
throw them to the hurd.
Truth is where they came from
and not this theatre of the absurd.
Some say you wanted to play for me
but it's only what you've heard
that made you want to capture me
in your theatre of the absurd.
It was not me, I said myself
and you must do so, too.
I hope you have the strength to stay
when I'll be watchin' you.
So baby,
play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Teach your children to be them
and never ever ours.
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Someone took the park away
but they left a lonely flower.
Oh when I got here back home tonight
something within me stirred.
Oh it must have been a different kind of play
that touched my theatre of the absurd.
Now I'll be on my way alone
But an interesting thing occurred
See nobody ever shared too much
in my theatre of the absurd.
And there I was back in London,
thought about history.
It was just like being in school again
but I felt something movin' in me.
Hearin' just a bit of the future,
oh it's comin' and it's still blurred
and that's the only thing worth living for
in my theatre of the absurd.
Come on,
play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Teach your children to be them
and never ever ours.
Oh play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Someone took the park away
but they left a lonely flower.
(Beautiful)
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
(John, come on)
Play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Oh, play me some, (Come on, Eric) play me some,
play me Brixton power.
Oh, play me some, play me some,
play me Brixton power.
...
(Ian Hunter)
Lonely days lonely nights
Hoping thing's gonna turn out right
You had me hanging on a string
For you I did most anything
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Its a blind mans eye baby ain't no youth
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies I got my proof
Put your face up to my window
Ask me baby what did I see
Well I know I know you ain't right
I know you ain't right for me
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
All I want is the truth
All I want is the truth
All I want is
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Blind mans eye baby ain't no use
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies I got nothing to prove
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
Don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
(fade)
(Ian Hunter)
I forgive you when you can't look straight into my eye
I forgive you when you never want to hold my hand
I forgive you 'cause you're all I've got and I love you
But I'll never forgive the other man
I forgive you even though I know the secret you keep
I forgive you even though you don't give a damn
I forgive you 'cause deep inside you're part of me
But I'll never forgive the other man
Somewhere in the night he's calling
And somewhere in your heart you're falling
I'll forgive you when you stay out late and you never phone
I'll forgive you even though I'll never understand
I'll forgive you 'cause you're all I've got and I love you
But I'll never forgive the other man
Somewhere in the night he's calling
And somewhere in your heart you're falling
I'll forgive you when you stay out late and you never phone
I'll forgive you even though I'll never understand
I'll forgive you 'cause you're all I've got and I love you
But I'll never forgive the other man
No, I'll never forgive as long as I live
No, I'll never forgive the other man
I said I'll never never never forgive
No, I'll never forgive the other man
(Ian Hunter)
Way back in the 50's - you never said a wrong word
People were clean - people were mean
Children should be seen, but children should be not heard
You learned to keep your mouth shut - you did what you were told
But then one day the radio played the sound that we'd all been waiting for
The whole of our lives 'n'
I still love Rock 'n' Roll - I play it every day
Hummin' along, singin' the song
It's the only way - I know how to say what's on my mind
I get up in the morning - put the kettle on the stove
Tommy Steele croons a Guy Mitchell tune
I never felt more like singin' the blues - but if I had to choose
You know I still love rock 'n' roll
I still love rock 'n' roll (let me hear ya)
I never been to Lubbock, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee
I never washed dishes in Macon, Georgia
I wasn't half as good and I wasn't half as pretty as you
But I still got the feelings - embedded in my soul
A rebel armada - Kettering, Granada
It ain't my fault that I never grew up - I got bitten by your bug
And I still love rock 'n' roll, I still love rock 'n' roll, I still love rock
I know what you're thinkin' - it's a little bit strange to you
I know what you're thinkin' - 'cos I'm thinkin' the same way too
But oh those two little four letter words - they're all you need to know
'cos when it all comes down to it - I don't like the sound of it
When you mess around with it - I'm still in it for the thrill of it
I know you tried to kill it but
I still love rock 'n' roll - I play it every day
Hummin' along - singin' the songs
It's the only way I know how to say what's on my mind
I get up every morning - I put the coffee on the stove
The computer's gone - the turntable's on
I can't believe it's 2001 - God, I must be knockin' on
But I still love rock 'n' roll, I still love rock 'n' roll,
(Ian Hunter/Darrel Bath/Honest John Plain)
(Transcribed by Adrian Perkins; corrections by Colin Ford)
Bimbo, flirts, sluts in skirts - muscles brightly glisten
Conversation's full of filth - let's all have a listen
Oh dear oh dear we live in fear
Media bulbs a poppin'
If you're bent, they're on your scent
There can be no stoppin'
Peroxide blondes, vagabonds, into 'eavy metal
Your hair looks like its been done by a dyke with a score to settle
Mud needs raking, photos taken of your murky past
Haunts you, taunts you, love it don't you
Hey hey the gang's all here
Pimps 'n' pervs, straights 'n' queers
Enquiring minds want to sneer at the skeletons in your closet
Sunday morning in the park,
Down the pub or in the bath
We'll all have a good old laugh
At the skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
It's bloody marvellous - innit?
It's bloody marvellous - innit?
Juicy bits, saucy snips, there's gold in them there gutters
Blue rinse mob on the job, curtains all a-flutter
It's cheapo culture, bleeding ulcers, burnt out by the score
Lurid tales never fails to shock you to the core
Kinky boots 'n' rubbber suits,
It's all going on next door!
Caught you, taught you, love it don't you
If you've had your face re-done
If you spank your girlfriend's bum
We can all join in the fun
At the skeletons in your closet
What's the world coming to?
Ain't we got nothin' better to do?
To spend all day sifting through
The skeletons in your closet
Hey hey the gang's all here
Pimps 'n' pervs, straights 'n' queers
Enquiring minds want to sneer
At the skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
(Ian Hunter)
The spirit of war is all around us
'N' everybody knows somethin's goin' on
Fasten your seat belts - say goodbye to your mothers
Cos everybody knows somethin's goin' on
Nuclear missiles - cover to cover
Everybody knows somethin's goin' on
The world is a subway - all the leaders are muggers
'N' everybody knows somethin's goin' on
Well I say
Roll up to the party - welcome to the show
We'll make you live in fear - then we'll make you disappear
Somethin's goin' on 'n' everybody knows
What you got - what you got
Everybody knows somethin's goin' on
Most people got nothin' - a few got the lot
'N' everybody knows - it's still goin' on
Well I say
Roll up to the circus - welcome to death row
Just do what we say - then we'll blow you all away
Somethin's goin' on 'n' everybody knows
What about hunger... are they just another number?
We're all an endangered species
'N' everybody knows - it's still goin' on
Well I say
Welcome to Thanksgiving - what we reap is what we sow
We'll watch you die in vain from the safety of our plane
Somethin's goin' on 'n' everybody knows
(Ian Hunter)
Where do you go when you've somewhere to run
But the time isn't right and there's things to be done
And you're trapped half-way up, you don't want to go back
So you keep going on - compromising the lack
And you see the green fields as you travel on by
And you look at the things you'd forgotten to try
And you wish you were young and you wish you were old
For the songs always sung and the stories been told
And you thought you were different but what did it mean
For you tricked yourself trying - life's still unseen
As it is, as it was, as it always will be
Will you find out at all what it is to be free
See it never was easy to live with a head
So I kept to the back room and I live there instead
What comes from the front-room is only for ";Friends";
I have a bay window but that's where it ends
And it's here I see pictures and my madness is clear
And there's no longer logic so therefore no fear
And I'm almost dead with uncontrollable light
Sometimes when I've written a song - it's alright...
(Ian Hunter)
Her life gets smaller in his eyes
And he wonders if he thinks he should cry
Oh mother the colour's gone and left your hair
And he wonders if he thinks he should care
She told him how to play a guitar
She told him how to be a star
But mother were you really there
My friend don't speak he's such a mixed up boy
I wonder if she sold him his toys
A kiss on the cheek a conversation decoy
In his cute little corduroys
Oh she taught him how to win the game
She taught him everything is your name
Oh mother did you have to destroy
Mother if you really cared
You'd talk to him cry for him
All you every did was dream
All you ever said was be cool be cool be cool
And I think you made a mess of his life
And I think he made a mess of your life
And I think it made a mess of my life
Mother if you really cared
You'd talk to him cry for him
All you every did was dream
All you ever said was be cool be cool be cool
And I think you made a mess of her life
And I think she made a mess of your life
And I think it made a mess of my life
I think you made a mess of my life
Well, I still got your blood running through my veins
Yeah, I still got your blood running through my veins
And even though the circumstances change
I know we never got along, the pieces would not fit
And I still got the scars to show for it
Was staring through the window at the rain
Is it me or have all the colors changed?
I was sick with jealousy, I know why you had to split
And you still got the scars to prove it
I can't see them but I can feel them, they're tearing me up inside
I feel them kicking, I feel them sticking like something in me died
And it's all right, I wish you the very best
I just had to get it off my chest
People tell me on the street that you don't give a
I took that kind of hard
It's just another scar I got to show for it
Yeah, it's just another scar I got to show for it
I still got your blood running through my vein
But I still got your blood running through my vein
I still got your blood running through my vein
(Ian Hunter)
In the heat of the Indian summer
Out along the Appalachian Way
You can hear the sound of the Overnight Angels
As they pray
Charged by the light of some mariners lantern
Spitting out a cold but triangular spray
Can't you hear the screams of the Overnight Angels
As they play
Talking to the spirits through a silver curtain
Reaching out beyond the length of the light
You can catch a glimpse of an Overnight Angel
As he shines
Dancing through the toys of the dead and the living
Laughing at the poets changing their rhymes
Can't you feel the pulse of the Overnight Angels
Beating time
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels Angels Angels
Children of the junkies led the revolution
Push yourselves over get yourselves there
Someone throw their arms round the Overnight Angels
Cause they care
Angels don't need no phony religion
Throw them out along with the ethnic nowheres
They will never speak to the Overnight Angels
They can only stare
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels Angels Angels Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels Angels Angels Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels Angels Angels Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels
Can you hear us can you hear us
We're talking 'bout the Overnight Angels Angels Angels Angels
Angels Angels Angels Angels
Angels Angels Angels Angels
Angels Angels Angels Angels
Overnight Angels
Overnight Angels
Talking about
The Overnight Angels
(Ian Hunter)
Beautiful people - got their beautiful lives - got their
Beautiful husbands - got their beautiful wives - got their
Beautiful bankers - got their beautiful lawyers
All things bright and beautiful
The beautiful people are sent to destroy us
Beautiful people - got their beautiful kids - got their
Beautiful schools where the beautiful other half live - got their
Beautiful futures in their beautiful professions
All things bright and beautiful
The beautiful people got the money for the lessons
I'm living in purgatory - I know what purgatory is
This ain't no sanctuary - This ain't no way to live
You gotta have a sense of humour - you gotta know how to laugh at it
Cos, I'm living in Purgatory 'n anything's better than this
Beautiful people got their beautiful clothes - got their
Beautiful mansions - down their beautiful country roads - got their
Beautiful Doctors - in their beautiful surgeries
All things bright and beautiful
The beautiful people like a little privacy
I'm living in purgatory - I know what purgatory is
This ain't no sanctuary - This ain't no way to live
You gotta have a sense of humour - you gotta know how to laugh at it
Cos, I'm living in Purgatory 'n anything's better than this
Beautiful losers on their beautiful estates got their
beautiful job centres on the beautiful welfare wait and wait
Beautiful dreamers - out of their beautiful skulls
All things are bright and beautiful
As long as they're beautiful, people stay beautiful.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
I'm living in purgatory - I know what purgatory is
This ain't no sanctuary - This ain't no way to live
You gotta have a sense of humour - you gotta know how to laugh at it
(Ian Hunter)
I used to come home each night to no one - no one
All by myself, turn out the light - no one - no one
One knife, a fork 'n' a spoon
An empty bed in a cold room
Oooh I needed someone - maybe you could help
I called you up, I said "There's no one, baby there's no one else"
No one ever looked twice at me - no one - no one
Take a look at my life - what do you see - no one - no one
Kinda nervous 'n' jealous too - I lose me if I lose you
Just when I was feeling sorry for myself
She called me back, she said, "There's no one, baby there's no one else"
With no one to call you - with no one rootin' for you
With no one to adore you - you'd be lost and alone
With no one to kiss you - with no one to miss you
And always be with you - you would turn into stone
I've been waiting for the longest time
To hold your hand on Sunday
Oooh I needed someone - I saw you and I fell
I called you up, I said, "There's no one - and I'll never want anyone else"
Baby there's no one else
Baby there's no one else
Baby there's no one else
Baby there's no one else
(Ian Hunter)
How do I begin - where do I start
When did you first scrape the knees of my heart
You said you would never marry a musician
I said that's all right - 'cos I ain't good enough to be one
You dragged this basket case - in out of the dark
And I fell for you - from the knees of my heart
The Registrar's Office was a bold council gray
I slipped the ring on your finger - it's there to this day
Oakington Avenue - corn flakes 'n' jam
I sprayed your Anglia black - but it still looks like a pram
You got the face of an angel - I felt Cupid's dart
All the way down to the knees of my heart
You love me - you hate me
You move me - you irritate me
When I go over the top you always drag me back
You fill in all the cracks - I guess opposite's attract
And I'm glad of that
Down by the river where the humming birds hum
I bought you house with a burglar alarm system
You're honest, you're faithful - you're loyal and true
Where would I be if it was not for you?
For always and ever - ''til death do us part
(Ian Hunter)
I love your sulky eyes,
I love your raven hair.
I often fantasize
a beautiful affair,
a broken paradise
'cause you don't even care.
I love your sultry smile,
I love to see you dance.
Sometimes it drives me wild
to know I've got no chance.
Your boyfriend doesn't see
you're flirting, teasing me.
Why don't you leave me alone,
leave me alone?
Won't you leave me alone,
leave me alone.
Sometimes I'll act OK,
sometimes I'll try and hide.
But when you look at me,
I fall apart inside.
Across a broken sea
you took me for a ride.
Why don't you leave me alone,
leave me alone?
Won't you leave me alone,
leave me alone.
Other lovers go home
and I'm left here alone
with my heart in my hand.
I just can't understand
why you treat me this way.
I just got to say.
Why don't you leave me alone,
leave me alone?
Won't you leave me alone,
leave me alone.
Why don't you leave me alone,
leave me alone?
Won't you leave me alone,
leave me alone.
(Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
why don't you leave me,
Just When I Needed You Most
You packed in the morning
I stared out the window
And I struggled for something to say
You left in the rain without closing the door
I didn't stand in your way
Now I miss you more
Than I missed you before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me
Just when I needed you most
Yes, you left me
Just when I needed you most
Now most every morning
I stare out the window
I think about where you might be
I've written you letters that I'd like to send
If you would just send one to me
'Cause I need you more
Than I needed before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me
Just when I needed you most
Yes, you left me
Just when I needed you most
You packed in the morning
I stared out the window
And I struggled for something to say
You left in the rain without closing the door
I didn't stand in your way
Now I love you more
Than I loved you before
And now where I'll find comfort, God knows
'Cause you left me
Just when I needed you most
You left me
Just when I needed you most
Oh, you left me
Just when I needed you most
Edwinortega_diaz@hotmail.com
(Matheson/Casino Steel)
Give me magic misery
Give me two shots - first one is free
Watch me cover - watch me grin
Jump for the juice in your syringe
You're the poison - you're the pain
You're the needle in my vein
Come on jab it - come go quick
The only habit I can't kick
Junkee see - junkee do
Junkee me - junk is you
Pusher comes to shove
Junkee love
ooh...I've got my trembles - I got the shakes
I'm a slave to my mistakes
Dial doctor on the phone
Get me on methadone
Give me magic misery
Give me two shots - first one is free
Watch me cover - watch me cringe
All from using your syringe
Junkee see - junkee do
Junkee me - junk is you
Pusher comes to shove
Junkee love
(Ian Hunter)
When I was just sixteen - I stood waiting for a dream -
at Barker Street bus station every night
When I tried to get it on - she just looked at me with scorn - my courage
turned to dust and I took flight
For those looks they seemed to say
You ain't nuthin' - Go away
You're just a face in the crowd so I went home and I vowed
I'm gonna be somebody - someday
Her name was Irene Wilde - Oh such beauty for a child
When she started dating boys - I nearly died
For I could not barely stand to see someone hold her hand
I felt I had to crawl away and hide
In my mother's living room I composed so many tunes
All the same - just a frame - for her name, and just to say
Gonna be somebody - someday
Wild as your name I soon left that country town
I been around, seen some fame, seen some ups and seen some downs
Smile through your shock when you hear your name aloud
It's that face in the crowd - didn't dig it - much too proud...
When I was just sixteen I stood waiting for a dream
A Barker Street bus station non affair
At the time it seemed so sad, but it did not turn out bad
If you hadn't messed me up I'd still be there
And I think most folks agree, a little put-down makes them see
They ain't no chain - just a link and that's why you made me think
Gonna be somebody - be somebody - be somebody - someday
(Ian Hunter)
The sun shone through the window as I lay down on your carpet
Staring at the speakers - pretending to be tortured
And I never moved a muscle
No, I never moved a muscle
The sunlight turned to shadows, and the minutes turned to hours
Somebody turned the lights on, there was conversation, laughter
And you know just what I'm after - you know just what I'm after
You will look at me, and your curiosity is gonna get the better of you, will get the better of you
Standing next to me now - she's in the air I breathe
She says, "I'm marrying a rich man but he still thinks I'm a virgin
So I need a little action, I need a little fun
I need a good Samaritan, good Samaritan, good Samaritan, good Samaritan"
We raged around our cages until all the doors lay open
Then we fell upon each other in the fury and the frenzy
And we fought like Gods of Thunder - and we played like fives 'n under
And the only screams that mattered turn to whispers in my ear
You're my good Samaritan, you're my good Samaritan, you're my good Samaritan, you're my good Samaritan
Walking down the street - they make such a lovely couple
And she freezes when she sees me - but she don't have to worry
Cos I needed something deeper - I needed something longer
She said, "People who are weaker, need people who are stronger"
And I don't know what possessed you, was I just a one night stand
(honest john plain)
It's cold outside - it looks like rain
To make matters worse, I missed me last train
Now I was thinking she'd show me a bed
To my surprise got shown the door instead
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
She said she wants a fella with a gti
Always home on time, steak and kidney pie
She made it quite pretty, it was plain to see
There's no place here for a rocker like me
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Girls like peggy-sue, maggie-may and sheena too
Where have all the good girls gone?
Girls like my dear old mum, who never stopped me having fun
Where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Where've they gone?
Where have all the good (3) girls gone? (2)
So she throws me out in the pouring rain
Girls like that give girls a bad name
Why can't I find a girl just like betty d.
With an hourglass figure like norma jean
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
Whoa-oh where have all the good girls gone?
(Darrell Bath/Roig)
He asked me home at a midnight
Hey you'll be lucky if it's daylight
When you saw me down the alley
Yeah I swear's I'm not with Annie, hey Annie, yeah
'Cause everyone's a fool, child
Everyone's wild
I'll say I was your fool, babe
'Cause you know that's a lie
Now everybody gets lonesome
And we all need a friend
So take it easy baby-love
I'm not here to do you in
'Cause everyone's a fool, child
Everyone's wild
I'll say I was your fool, babe
'Cause you know that's a lie
Oooh, once in a while
Any old time
And that's no lie
She'll be showing up at midnight
And everyone wanna taste right
So you better get your do-re-mi all right
Or she won't be getting paid
Everyone's a fool, child
Everyone's wild
Don't say I was your fool, babe
'Cause you know that's a lie
Hey that's all right
Oh, once in a while
It might be any old time
Well, that's ain't no lie
Well, maybe a little one
(Ian Hunter/Mark Clarke)
I used to see you on the avenue
You were the girl that let me follow you
You used to hang out in the alleyway
You sewed a button on my shirt one day
I asked around til I found your name
Then underneath the arches in the pourin' rain
I said you (yeah you)
I want you - every step of the way
Do you wanna, do you wanna, do you wanna dance
Take a chance baby - take a chance
I'll be with you every step of the way
I'll even show you how to strut someday
Ain't got a girl 'n' it's a cryin' shame
I can't figure out who's to blame
I want you (yeah you)
I want you - every step of the way
I know - things gettin' better
I know - it's gonna be O.K.
So don't go - I ain't gonna let ya
I wanna be with you - every step of the way
So take a walk down the avenue
Just you 'n' me baby - me 'n' you
Remember that night in the alleyway
You know something - you still look the same
This world is a mean old world
It don't mean nothin' without you girl
I want you (yeah you)
I want you - every step of the way
(ian hunter)
I have a dream-its only one dream
But I know dreams can come true
And I have a wish-its only one wish
But I know wishes can too
I wanna be-faraway from here
With those honky tonk heroes-burnin' my ears-oh
Love american music-i play it all night long
Just me n' records-n' a vivid imagination
I love to dance in the mirror-i practice every single word
And it seems to me american music-is all I've ever heard
Oh oh oh-oh oh oh it's lonely on the underground
I sit and watch my world go round n' round n' round n' round n' round
I sit and watch the world go round
I hear the sons of memphis-i hear the brothers or harlem
I hear the nashville cats n' the rag time mamas outa new orleans
I hear the windy city-i hear a gospel singers hymn-and it seems to me
American music is all there's ever been
C'mon baby oh oh -oh oh-oo-oo
I love the names of the cities-i hear the echo echoing
(Ian Hunter)
Green lights on Broadway
All the magic seems to say
Come and ride with me baby you know
It's got to be the greatest show on Broadway
Out here on the streets they say
You can see your life in one day
I long I long I long I long I long to hear every single street singer
Oh what a mood that feeling brings
You can capture life in a jar
Chances are that you'll find out on Broadway
Who you really are
Sitting in a lonely room
Staring through the evening gloom
She'll never make the grade on Broadway
She'll never spend exciting nights
Surrounded by a maze of lights
And stars that line the streets on Broadway
Broadway
When the neon lights are shining bright
She knows she's going to make it someday
Broadway
You can hear the music of the night
She knows that she will
Broadway
When the neon lights are shining bright
Oh I know she's going to make it some day
Broadway
You can hear the music of the night
I know that she will
I said
Broadway
Oh how I love you how I love you
Broadway
How I love you how I love you
Broadway
It's your show I know I know
But chances are you'll find out on Broadway
(ian hunter)
Get your son - young 'n' dumb
Give him a gun - make him run
Hot stuff - on a saturday night
Wait a minute - this ain't right
It's that same old story
Talkin' 'bout the death 'n' glory boys
When your head is on the scaffold
'n' your ass is on the line
You gotta give it that old religion
One mo' time
Get the death 'n' glory boys
Midnight - no light
Cool sand - like mud in my hands
Got this feelin' - in my hair
What's that movin' - I ain't a scared
It's that same old story
Freak out with the death 'n' glory boys
When it's down to stealing apples
'n' you been doin' time
They can buy the hero in you
For a dime
You're a death 'n' glory boy
You'd better pack up your troubles
In your old kit bag
Say goodbye to your mother
She's the only friend you have
Long live the leaders
Long may they reign
May they live long enough
To feel every single pain
They don't care about the widows
They don't give no reasons why
They just keep on making medals
You can buy
Now come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home
If I had one wish, I wish I could
Go back to my old neighborhood
Where the good folks, they all love you as their own
Then I'd go over to my neighbor's house
Knock on the door and they'd all sing out
"Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home"
I'd sing their praises long and loud
'Cause they're all my folks and I'm mighty proud
Of the little old town back home where I was born
I wish that I could hear them say
In the good old-fashioned, friendly way
"Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home"
Well, they don't lock their doors at night
'Cause they all know they're a doin' right
And the good Lord's bound to have them for his own
If I'd go back to hear them pray
In the little pine church, they all would say
"Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home"
(Ian Hunter/Darrell Bath/Honest John Plain)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
Oh!!
Well I climbed through the fence, out with the (?), head for the river plate(?).
The river's not tame, heat in the city meant dogs can't smell the same.
Don't wait up, I'll be home soon, but I can't come now cos I'm
Dancing on the (dancing, dancing) moon, yeah.
(dancing, dancing....)
I crawl like a snake, seen a better daybreak, I sleep when I'm wide awake.
All my body's achin', I know they're tryin' to break me, but that's a chance I
gotta take.
Oh, don't wait up, I'll be home soon, but I can't come now cos I'm
Dancing, dancing, dancing (dancing on the moon) dancing, dancing, dancing on
the moon
All right.
I'm outside a Memphis, My motors little danger(?) she gives me
pharmaceuticals
Knowin' my friends, they help me beat the hangman, they know I'm innocent
Well that's all right, I'll be home soon, but I can't come now cos I'm
Dancing, dancing (dancing, dancing) on the moon
(dancing, dancing on the moon) .
I can see your house in between the trees
I can feel your body shakin' in between my knees.
You know it feels so low, I come so far
I always love to have some fire on me
You're looking so good
Well I got me a room, can't say where it is, you can guess the address
Well I need some money, need it in a special place, not try the weaknesses(?)
Wake up (?) , nursin' my wounds, I told you I was comin, I was comin' home soon. yeah.
(Want you, want you, want you, want you right away, )
((To fade))
(Ian Hunter)
Captain to Candida - we just hit earth
Everyone's strange here - don't know what they're worth
Got this idea - we're gonna be machines
We'll play a part in their imaginary dreams
Say hi - hi - hi
Have you ever stopped to figure out why
We're Captain Void 'n' the Video Jets
Go go get - go go get
Your Captain Void 'n' the Video Jets
We're the original space cadets
Captain to Candida - we're spreading fast
They're watchin' us - watching them throught the glass
We got them hypnotized - under our control
We're nearly ready to put the world on hold
Say hi - hi - hi
Have you ever stopped to figure out why
We're Captain Void 'n' the Video Jets
Place your bets - place your bets
On Captain Void 'n' the Video Jets
We hide inside your T.V. set
We don't hit lovers - we leave them alone
We just hit children who rot in their homes
Something is happening
Now Mr. Jones just touch me (c'mon)
Turn me on!
(Hunter/McNasty)
Life takes a little piece of you away
Most everyday of your life
Oh learn to get wise, you learn to compromise-
You learn to criticise yourself
I guess we all grow up 'cos one day everything-
seems so further from the truth
And you try to find yourself- in this endless youth
I said you try to find yourself-and you
Beg a little love
Fate takes another stab at your face
And you can never cease to resist
And you take it on the chin-that old sucker punch again
Reminds you what you've missed
When the colors blazed and your jealousy raged
You were so sensitive to every touch
And it ain't to forget in this endless youth
So you find a perfect stranger- and you
Beg a little love
What do you get in the end
Did you really need that friend
Your emotions dulled to save your heart
From failing at the hardest part
But you still get down on your knees
I said you get down n your knees
And you beg
Now there's nothing left to laugh at
Nothing left to say-nothing left do
There's nothing left-so there's nothing left to ask for
But you still get down on your knees- and you beg
These words are my sacrificial lamb
Burnin' a hole down my heart
Dancin' down that river of no return
You know you missed that boat- but you still get
down on your knees
Afterall o' those years
Afterall o' those fears
Afterall o' those dreams
Afterall o' those screams
Aferall o' those nights
Afterall o' those fights
When my mind had gone, when both o' my minds had gone
When my minds had gone
I'm still a child
And I get down on my knees and I beg
Beg a little love
(Ian Hunter)
I packed my bags - in the land of rags
'Cos I don't believe in them dimmo drags
Don't wanna vote for the left wing - don't wanna vote for the right
I gotta have both-to make me fly
Just a whitey from Blighty - heading out west
Got my little green card 'n my bulletproof vest
Goin' to old tube city - where the buzz is the best
On down the line (down the line) down the line (down the line)
Well I was born (on the line) 'n I was raised (on the line)
I was schooled (on the line) 'n I was fazed (on the line)
'N I was used (on the line) 'n I was dazed (on the line)
Just had to split (off the line) 'cos I was crazed (off the line)
'N I remember all the good times - me 'n Miller enjoyed
Up and down the M1 in some luminous yo-yo toy
But the future has to change - and to change I've got to destroy
Oh look out Lennon here I come - land ahoy-hoy-hoy
All American Alien Boy All American Alien Boy
Don't look down put your feet on the ground don't drown in the big aquarium
Don't walk slow - put on a big show - shove your meat down vegetarians
Don't get slugged, get mugged, get bugged, or they'll sling you in the jug
Shove you under some rug, give you some drug - pull out the plug and then...
And they're telling me this hamburger's cheaper than the other
'N this television's cheaper than the other
And they're selling me hotdogs cheaper than the other
'N these pizzas cheaper than the other
And I don't understand all this - I'm just an All American Alien Boy
'N they're telling me rifles are shot in Connecticut
They're telling me pistols are shot in Westchester
You can get a Saturday Night Special on Flatbush, on the Bowery, or the Bronx
Or on 42nd Street - And I don't understand all this - being an All American Alien Boy
I've got sodium nitrate rotting in my guts
My head's full of ulcers I got lungs full of butts
My heart wants a transplant - it thinks that I'm nuts
My logic won't open - my eyes won't shut
'N I'm beginning to dig all this - being an All American Alien Boy
And your women are always right (alright)
They always know so much more
'Cos the women came from heaven
'N the men came outta some store
'N they don't know who they are and they don't know what they're for
I'm an All American Alien Boy - look out Mary Tyler Moore - All American
Alien Boy - etc.
CHORUS
Ten Bears, Two Bears, Standing Bear, Plenty Bear,
Old Bear, Brave Bear, Hollow Horn Bear
Silver Knife, Spotted Tail, Yellow Hand, Red Cloud,
Red Fox, Red Horse, Black Kettle,
White Ghost, White Bull, White Thunder, White Hog,
hold on a minute gotta frog in my throat
Cochise, Alchise, Roman Nose, Geronimo - hold on a minute - more to go
Sitting Bull, Tall Bull, Crazy Horse and Short Bull,
Low Dog, Red Dog, Yellow Wolf, Low Wolf
Loco, Victorio, Chato, Little Crow, Dead Eyes, Jak, Taza 'n Colorow
My mouth's exploiting that's enough of this noise
I guess we're all - All American Alien Boys.
(Ian Hunter)
You're breakin' my heart
Stealing my thunder
How much more can I take
You're draggin' me down
Holding me under
How much more can I take
How much more can I take
Won't somebody break
The news to you gently.
You fill my eyes
But you don't fill the hunger
How much more can I take
I see your face
Everywhere, everyplace
How much more can I take
You're here in the night
You're here in the morning sunlight
How much more can I take
How much more can I take
I (wish that I could) make your mind up (for you).
You fill my eyes
But you don't fill the hunger
How much more can I take
How much more can I take
Won't somebody help me
I'm naked as the day I was born
These clothes have a way
of changin' what I'm feelin'
I try and I try but I can't put 'em on
I sit here alone
Wait by the telephone line
How much more can I take
I'm jealous as hell
Mixed up 'n mean as well
How much more can I take
How much more can I take
I know she'd like to break
Those stones over my body.
You fill my eyes
But you don't fill the hunger
How much more can I take
(Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson)
Some folk leave courage,
some folk leave you hope
Why am I out here hangin'
like a fool at the end o' my rope
Some folk leave you wisdom,
some folk leave you signs
You can never be sure
what went on before
Life is just a matter of time
Picture of you,
clouding my view
I'm following in your footsteps,
tryin' to make some sense of it all
Maybe it's a sign of weakness,
but that's where my footsteps fall
I'm following in your footsteps,
tryin' to hang on to your dreams
You never got what you wanted
So I never got what I need
I'm following in your footsteps,
'cos that's where the footsteps lead
Someone must have given me anger,
someone must have given me hate
Or why would I stand here shakin',
when there's so many chances to take
Pictures of you,
climb into view
I'm following in your footsteps,
tryin' to make some sense of it all
Maybe it's a sign of weakness,
but that's where my footsteps fall
I'm following in your footsteps,
watchin' my children grow
They're following in my footsteps
Takin' it on the road
We're following in your footsteps
'cos that's where the footsteps go
We're following in your footsteps, yeah
'cos that's where your footsteps go
(Ian Hunter)
Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo, Ooooo
Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo, Ooooo
Sweet woman what's your name?
You smell as fresh as the rain
Instead of leaving you came
let me feel your hair
A light shines in your eyes
The hungry years are so nice
Shadows shake in the lamplight
No writer could explain
But when the daylight comes
But when the daylight comes
But when the daylight comes
I'll be on my way
Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo, Ooooo
Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo, Ooooo
Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo, Ooooo, yeah!
Please share my bed and I swear
That I won't touch you nowhere
Just need your warmth and your care
Don't wanna mess around
And when the daylight comes
Yeah when the daylight comes
Oh when the daylight comes
I'll be on my way
Yeah when the daylight comes
Yeah when the daylight comes
Yeah when the daylight comes
I'll be on my way
But there's a song in the air
and it knows that you're there
'cause it's making me share
you with my life
I know I know I know that
I want to weave you in words
want to paint you in verse
want to leave you in someone else's dreams
it seems the only way, Hey!
I can thank you, thank you baby
Some people say that we're sinners
Some people say that we're winners
We make good gossip at dinners
They try to pin us down
But when the daylight comes
Yeah when the daylight comes
Oh when the daylight comes
I'll be on my way
Yeah when the daylight comes
Yeah when the daylight comes
Oh when the daylight comes
We'll be on my way
(Repeat and fade)
(ian hunter)
One more town on the merry-go-round
One more room with no view
One more punk eatin' nothing but junk
Trin' to make a phone call to you
Well maybe I'll never, get myself together
But something's in the back of my mid
It only takes one call-you can laugh at 'em all
You're never too small to hit the big time
One more slob feeling sick as a dog
After one more night on the booze
One more dive more dead that alive
Tryin' to get my message through
Now, maybe I'll never get my self together
Maybe it's the end of the line
But I'm having a ball-bouncin' off the walls
You're never too small to hit the big time
You're never too small, you're never too small
You're never to small to hit the big time
They can make you crawl, they can make you fall
But you're never to small to hit the big time
You're never too small, you're never to small
You're never too small to hit the big time
If you're fat, if you're bald it don't matter at all
'cos you're never to small-i said you're never to small
To hit the big time (yes indeed)
(the big time(- limousines)
(the big time)-you can have it all
(the big time)- I say you're never too small
One more crowd shoutin'-turn it up loud
One more rose at my feet
One more ring from that cute little thing
One more reason to cheat
Well, maybe I'll never get myself together
(Ian Hunter)
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death?
Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death?
Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Do you stop take another roller coaster ride
Do I beg, steal, cheat or lie? Oh my is there life after death?
Oh I wish I'd never smoked so much
I wish I'd never felt the Devil's touch
All that passes through my eyes so fast. Oh my.
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death?
Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death?
Do you believe? Oh yeah!
It's such a sad sad song
Mother Nature ain't never wrong
She always tells you when you're getting on
Oh my, is there life after death?
I can hardly wait to see my face
Will I still have one in a different place
Oh you'll forgive me if I hesitate, but oh my
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death? Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Is there life, is there life?
Is there life after death? Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Is it any wonder, I feel just a little bit under
I hear choirs filled with Fenders say return to sender
Jumping information, I've got hyperventilation
Will it help me if I walk the streets
I gotta get down search around here dragged by my feet
Oh no I never knew those (?)
I'm gonna shake it, shake it, shake it, is there life after death
I can't remember when I felt so sick and rough
And now they're gonna legalise the stuff
It sure tells you when you've had enough, off the cuff
Is there life, is there life? Is there life after death? Do you believe? Oh yeah!
Is there life, is there life? Is there life after death? Do you believe,
I've run out of breath.
(corky laing)
You try to love the way that you did before
But he don't be that loved anymore and i'm
I'm coming from the pouring rain
My eyes are red but they still see through
The feeling that's coming over you
And I'd love to come again (come again)
I wanna love you over again
You, you wanna know
You're the best thing that's happening to me
In a long long time
Be wise, open up your eyes
You, you wanna know
You're the best thing that's happening to me
'n I wanna love again.
I try (I try) to put your body right out of my mind
But you keep on coming on and on
I thought it was just for last night
A passing fancy, a bird in flight
But you keep on coming on
So I wanna come again
I wanna love you over again
(I wanna love you over again)
I love to love you over again
You, you, you wanna know
You're the best thing that's happening to me
In a long long time
Be wise, I wanna love again
Come on love again
Come on love again
You, you wanna know
Come on love again
I wanna come again
You, you wanna know
You're the best thing that's happening to me
You, you wanna know
You're the best thing that's happening to me
You, you wanna know
(Ian Hunter)
Sometimes you realize
that there is an end to life.
Yesterday I heard them say
a hero's blown away.
And it's so hard to lose
someone who's close to you.
Oh me, I did not see
the danger every day.
But music's something in the air,
so he can play it anywhere.
Old records never die.
Get you're healing from a song,
just when everything goes wrong.
Play it right
through the night
till morning brings you light.
And if some folk laugh at you
Let 'em all laugh they never knew.
Oh all those scenes, to me it seems
some folk never dream.
??, I feel a force
rebel with some other cause.
Old records never die.
Old records never die.
You can watch the waves roll by.
You can see it in their eyes.
Old records never die.
Old records never die.
You can watch the waves roll by.
??
Old records never die.
I can hear you
and I know why
old records never die.
(corky laing/ian hunter)
Once upon a time
She was the virgin of a million lonely minds
And now it's such a crying shame
She does not even know her name
No-one ever knew
All the heavy changes she's been going through
All the sons and lovers on her mind
Cos easy money's hard to find
I've been searching
All night long
You know, she's been searching all night long
Easy money
She gets down on her knees
She's begging you please
Cos she needs
Easy money
She's out on a run
She needs someone can she please
Nightmare rides
A shadow limps across the great sunrise
And steals the hope that lies behind her eyes
In a sense it's hard to find
I've been searching
All night long
You know, she's been searching all night long
Easy money
She gets down on her knees
She's begging you please
Cos she needs
Easy money
She's out on a run
She's looking for someone to plead
Easy money
Easy money
She ain't no fool
She's breaking her rule
And she knows
Easy money
She's out on a run
She's looking for someone who shows
Easy money
She's out on her own
She's looking for someone to plead
Mooove your body
I go crazy
Thinking about you
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
And every time I walk
And every time I see your face
In the night
I try to be alone
But I can't stop myself today
Think you're mine
Mooove your body
To the end of time
I go crazy
Thinking about you
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
Come on run to me
I need your love
I'm getting higher and higher!
Gonna be so free
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
Come on run to me
I need your love
I'm getting higher and higher!
Gonna be so free
I need to feel your heart
I need to show you I'm the one
For you now
I'm gonna find the way
To tell you what to do my love
Here somehow
Mooove your body
To the end of time
I go crazy
Thinking about you
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
Come on run to me
I need your love
I'm getting higher and higher!
Gonna be so free
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
Come on run to me
I need your love
I'm getting higher and higher!
Gonna be so free
And every time I walk
I try to be alone
Move your body
I go crazy
Thinking about you
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
Come on run to me
I need your love
I'm getting higher and higher!
Gonna be so free
Move your body
I go crazy
Thinking about you
I need your love
'Cause I'm on fire
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
(Ian Hunter)
You used to float just like a boat upon the tide
You used to run when things were done you used to hide
You talk of ships you talk of boats you talk of games
And now you're down you ain't around its such a shame
Cause you got something to give
Something to hold onto
Why don't you live
And you just forget about fixing up fate
Maybe you'd stop pick yourself up
Now its too late Oh
It ain't easy when you fall
It ain't easy when you fall
It ain't easy when you fall
No it ain't no good at all
You didn't know this world ain't slow you gotta move
You made no sound I watched you drown I watched you loose
Your loneliness you knew it best but its a drag
Cause in the end I lost a friend I feel so sad
Cause you had something to give
Something to hold onto
Why did you live
If you just forgot about fixing up fate
You'd be here you'd be near
Now it's too late Oh
It ain't easy when you fall
It ain't easy when you fall
It ain't easy when you fall
No it ain't no good at all
Oh-oh hey
It ain't easy when you fall
(fade)
(Ian Hunter/Earl Slick)
Alice was a drunken Mona Lisa
Arching up some American wall
She said I really want to please you
I said that's easy let yourself fall
All you got to do is go
Ride on down rock and roll
Shine on Miss Silver Dime
Ride on down rock and roll
Blow my sweet mind
Blow my sweet mind
As I was posing down some empty broken street
Said the world is coming to an end
She screamed out loudly
I'm so lonely I'm so lonely
I'm so lonely I'm so lonely
I said on me you can depend
All you got to do is go
Ride on down rock and roll
Shine on Miss Silver Dime
Ride on down rock and roll
Blow my sweet mind
Blow my sweet mind
She sucked so sadly on this feather tail
She got me up when I was down
She plays the music and when the music fades
I want her to get me up I want her to get me up
I want her to get me up I want her to get me up
I want her to get me up get me up
Get me up get me up get me up get me up
Get me up get me up get me up get me up
All you got to do is go
Ride on down rock and roll
Shine on Miss Silver Dime
Ride on down rock and roll
Blow my sweet mind
Blow my sweet mind
Ride on down rock and roll
Shine on Miss Silver Dime
Ride on down rock and roll
Blow my sweet mind
Blow my sweet mind
All you got to do is go
Well, you rang me up you say you wanna get high
Now I'm underpaid and I'm overtired
Riding shotgun 'round the world
I'm too young to die, too old for the girls
You wanna know something, I've had it with you
Another fine mess you got me into
Well, you're always in one hole or another
And I come runnin' just like a brother
When are you ever going to get yourself cleared
You'll keep on running 'til we disappear
I can't believe the things you do
Another mess you got me into
Another fine mess, another fine mess, another fine mess
Well, that's what you get when you settle for less
Another fine mess yeah, another fine mess
Look on the bright side, smile, smile, smile
Relive our childhood just for a little while
Can't you see it's catching it up on you? Hit me, Darrell
Well, that's another mess you got me into
How many more times are you gonna get pissed?
How many more asses have we gotta kiss?
How many more songs have I gotta write?
How many more sessions into the night?
For some dumb fuck who don't got a clue
Another fine mess you got me into
Well you say I'm kicking up too much fuss
Twenty-four hours is too long on the bus
The band's all moan and the driver's slow
There's not enough people, too many shows
Down in the bus with the birthday blues
Another fine mess you got me into
Another fine mess, another fine mess, another fine mess
Well, that's what you get when you settle for less
Another fine mess, another fine mess
Oh, I said another fine mess, another fine mess, ohh
I said another fine mess, another fine mess
Another fine mess, another fine mess
Another fine, another fine, another fine, another fine
(Ian Hunter/Darrel Bath)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
On the Avenue of dead umbrellas
In a place where nothin' sleeps
No one's pickin' up the pieces - no one speaks
Snow falls down - God dusts funky town
For once this place looks pure
Tell that to the people who live in the wind - they ain't so sure
In the middle of a violent night - in the glare of a naked light
In the middle of a nightmare
At the bottom of the deepest well - in the middle of a private hell
Shit scared - out there - nowhere
Then I open my eyes - ice on the window - the sun is tryin' to break through
Then I open my eyes - in the land of the livin' - and it's all right
Seen a man rattle in a battle that no one could win
I had to turn my soul away
Shit's gonna happen - whether you like it or not
S' just the way it is
Then I open my eyes - boats on the river - headin' down the east side
Then I open my eyes - and the trash(?) slips away
Soft and supple - like some alibi
You been walkin in her sleep - there ain't no cure for the secrets you hide
In the middle of my wildest dream - in a place where nothin's what it seems
At the time of a great loss
From the hoods and the broken homes - this danger's got a smell of it's own
In the middle of c-c-chaos
In the valley of the shadow of death - the Bellevue boys out kickin' ass
In the middle of fire
Inside the belly of the beast - in a place where wonders never cease
You go higher, higher, higher
Then I open my eyes - life in a nutshell - it's over 'fore you know it
Then I open my eyes
And the city wakes up - puts coffee in cups - when I open my eyes
And the kids go to school - Imus rules - when I open my eyes
I love you n' you love me
N' it rains so I buy an umbrella from the guy on 23rd and Second Avenue
(Ian Hunter)
He's much the same as anyone - He don't do what he's told
He got hostile on his school report - and he leaves his mother cold
His father owned a bakery - one day they found him hanged
It ain't good to be free in Little Italy - his son's the leader of the gang
CHORUS
RESTLESS YOUTH - RESTLESS YOUTH
RESTLESS YOUTH - RESTLESS YOUTH
He soon found out he could not work - the money was no good
This child of the city hit the welfare kitty - did some runnin' for the hoods
And the logic of the street was such - that everything was bent
There's a lot of white collars - stealing government dollars - wouldn't notice
such a little percent.
CHORUS
Now I went to his graduation - in some Brooklyn overnight jail
He said he was a member of the rock'n roll nation - but his face was drawn 'n pale
They gave him a suspended sentence - 'n he got straight on the phone
Called a big, big, man with a Miami tan 'n said
";Hi I'm Al Capone - the 2nd Restless Youth";
CHORUS
Now his first hit came at seventeen - his second was his last
Some dealer ran screaming from the scene - as the bullets whistled past
'N the cop that killed him shook his head 'n said ";I swear the truth
When I know it was some old, old man 'n not a restless youth.";
CHORUS
Now the moral of this story is that all he saw was greed
Legal, illegalities 'n all them politician thieves
Good people of the U.S.A. if you want your kids to grow
Then check your harvest carefully - Don't reap; before you sow
CHORUS
(Ian Hunter)
God said to me ";Gonna kick your ass - 'cos all you do is ask ask ask
All that energy looking for me when I'm sitting here inside you - plain to see
How I built you cell for cell gave you sights to see - gave you tales to tell
Even let you help yourself for a while - to take some weight off this busy child";
I said to God ";I found you out - I know what this world is all about!";
God said ";Stop - don't scramble your brain - my opponent's been messing you around again
See him and me are enemies and we play little games for galaxies
And he's inside you - 'n I am too - so here we are - just the three of you";
";Oh we made mistakes - too many cards - but making human beings can be hard
A God gets tired of playing so much chess - he wishes his God would get him out of his mess";
I said to God ";What's it like to die"; He said ";It's as plain as the sea and sky
Conception was him and me and you - when your batteries fade we all just move on";
I said to God ";Who's winning this game - is the devil in front"; He said ";Is that his name
You know I've been so busy I never asked - I never looked up from this awesome task";
I said to God ";What's good 'n bad"; He said ";It's just something you've got to have
It don't mean nothing to us up here - but your primitive people - you gotta have fear";
I said to God ";Do I think for myself"; He said I told you once you just help yourself
Don't forget you're composed of three, your thinking comes from him and me";
I said to God ";How big are you, is there a religion - is it true
How big's the universe - is time - the same for you as my life is to mine";
God said ";If all the things that made worlds float - were all to part - then you would note
The size of him and the size of me - and that's how big we both shall be";
He said ";The universe is small - just like some fortune-teller's ball
And we both sit down - and we play the game - when somebody wins it all starts again";
";There's no religion - you did that - it helps to keep your little leaders fat
Like faith 'n superstition stay - to help you pass the time away
But when you talk of time and life - it makes me think of circles, heights
Expansion is the clue - your dreams - are nearer than you've ever been";
";You see my little toy to think - is from two bowls of wine to drink
Don't take too much or you may drown - behave yourself - see you around...";
{Where do you go when you've somewhere to run
But the time isn't right and there's things to be done}
{And you're trapped half-way up, you don't want to go back
So you keep going on - compromising the lack}
{And you see the green fields as you travel on by
And you look at the things you'd forgotten to try
And you wish you were young and you wish you were old
For the songs always sung and the stories been told}
{And you thought you were different but what did it mean
For you tricked yourself trying - life's still unseen
As it is, as it was, as it always will be
Will you find out at all what it is to be free}
{See it never was easy to live with a head
So I kept to the back room and I live there instead
What comes from the front-room is only for friends}
I have a bay window but that's where it ends
And it's here I see pictures and my madness is clear
And there's no longer logic so therefore no fear
And I'm almost dead with uncontrollable light
Doctor, doctor, am I alright?
I keep on stayin' up, all through the night
I'm smokin', drinkin', watchin' TV 'til the light
It's been a long time since I slept
All I seem to think about is what I ain't get
I'm seein' double, I'm seein' double
Doctor, doctor, you know I'm in need
Seems like there's somethin' wrong with me
Underneath this stone lies a different guy
My head says yeah, my body says no
I can't seem to get up, I can't seem to go
Seein' double, I'm seein' double
Ohh, seein' double, I'm seein' double
In the middle of my life
It's just a little strange
All those people they're alright
If they'd stop messin' with my brain, ohh
I remember when the world was new
Doctor, doctor, what would you do?
I'm tired of runnin', give me somethin' slow down
Ain't been to bed in over a week
I can't catch up on sleep, it's playin' hide 'n' seek
I'm seein' double, I'm seein' double
Ohh, I've got trouble
I'm seein' double
Lonely days, lonely nights
Hoping thing's gonna turn out right
You had me hanging on a string
For you I did most anything
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
It's a blind mans eye, baby ain't no youth
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies, I got my proof
Put your face up to my window
Ask me baby, what did I see?
Well I know, I know you ain't right
Well I know, you ain't right for me
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
All I want
Is the truth
All I want
Is the truth
All I want
Is the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Blind mans eye baby, ain't no use
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies, I got nothing to prove
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
Don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya, don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya, don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya, don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya
Don't hurt ya, don't hurt ya
Well, through the haze the mirror cries
Hits you right between the eyes
You don't know but you got the judas in you, babe
You can't trust, ya, you can't deliver
Always whinin' you were sold down the river
I gave you the best years of your miserable life
Where did you go wrong girl?
Where did you go wrong? I say
Where did you go wrong, girl?
Nice try, wrong guy
You're gonna wind up on your ass
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You can't come, you can't hide
But something messed you up inside
Don't blame me, ain't my fault
If you're dazed and confused
You're a lie, you're a television
Tryin' to drag it down into your prison
I had enough o'sleepin' rough
I'm through with you, babe
Where did you go wrong, babe?
Where did you go wrong? I say
Where did you go wrong, girl?
Nice try, goodbye
You're gonna wind up on your ass
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh, oh, oh, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
Yes, we're tarred by the same old feathers
I guess we got to stick together
I'm warning you don't ever invade my destiny
It's bad enough but I ain't normal, but tryin't make myself formal
What I need, what I mean
Don't mean nothing to [Incomprehensible] you
Where did you go wrong, girl?
Where did you go wrong?
Where did you go wrong, girl?
Dumb moves, no class
You're gonna wind up on your ass
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
You should have listened to your women's intuition, oh
We walked to the sea, just my father and me
And the dogs played around on the sand
Winter cold cut the air, hanging still everywhere
Dressed in gray did he say hold my hand?
I said love's easier when it's far away
We sat and watched the distant lights
We're two ships that pass in the night
And we smile when we say it's alright
We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night, yeah
There's a boat on the line where the sea meets the sky
There's another that rides far behind
And it seems, you and I are like strangers
Wide ways apart as we drift on through time
He said it's harder now, you're far away
We only read you when you write
We're two ships that pass in the night
We both smile when we say it's alright
We're still here, oh, it's just that we're out of sight
Like those ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
We're just two ships that pass in the night
Ships that pass in the night
How ya doin', all right?
I-I-I spy with my little eye
Something beginning with you
Drool, drool, drool, nearly fell off me stool
I hope you fancy me too
Now I don't wanna set the world on fire
Any old iron, any old iron will do
(All right)
Smirk, smirk, smirk the G and T's work
She can knock 'em back like a fish
Smarm, smarm, smarm, I turned up me charm
I think I'm on a promise
(He thinks he's on a promise)
Some say yes and some say no
And my old man says "Mind, how you go"
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
If you can't take a joke, well, sod ya
(Oh)
I'm a dysfunctional chap
And they call me the Artful Dodger
Chat, chat, chat, it's back to the flat
I strum my little Spanish guitar
Gloat, gloat, gloat, she said and I'll quote
"You can take down my particulars"
(Take down her particulars)
It's a funny old life if you weaken, innit?
You gonna have a laugh, yeah, you've gotta give it
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Look out for PC Plodger
If a job's worth doin', it's worth doin' well
And they call me the Artful Dodger
(Get on your bike)
I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
If you can't take a joke well, sod ya
(Oh)
I'm a bit of a lad and they call me the Artful Dodger
(Now)
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Hoist up the Jolly Roger
That's the way to do it, call me the Artful Dodger
And I'm doin' all right
Yes, I'm doin' all right
Yes, I'm doin' all right
Yes I'm doing very well, thank you
How ya doin'? All right
(We're doin' all right)
How ya doin'? All right
(We're doin' all right)
How ya doin'? All right
(Yeah, we're doin' all right)
How ya doin'? All right
(We're doin' all right)
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They call me the Artful Dodger
They say that some people never grow up
Lost in time, shackled to the past for ever, stung by love
Still weaving, still believing yesterday's dreams
If life is real then so is my imagination
All I feel is who I am? Who I am? Who I am?
And if I wished so hard I bled, would you come true?
All I need's a bottle and the memories come flooding back
And I see you though the rain, through the rain, through the rain
They say you can never go back
What if my love's still the same?
Still the same, still the same, still the same
Still the same, still the same
When love goes right, it's the ultimate high you can be on
Oh, baby, I've lost count of the times when things went wrong
Bit I pick myself up and I carry on, on, and on, and on, and on
And on, and on it goes
I can't pretend imaginary friends are better
All I know is people change, people change, people change
They say I'm supposed to forget and go on
What if my love's still the same? Still the same
Still the same, still the same, still the same
Still the same, still the same, still the same
Still the same, still the same, still the same
(Oh, baby, now)
What if your love, what if your love is still the same
What if your love, what if your love is still the same
What if your love, what if your love is still the same
What if your love, what if your love is still the same
Every time I watch you
Gotta switch you off, you surely can't be serious
Every time I see you
I just can't believe you go below ridiculous
All those days I spent starin' at your wilderness
All those ways you got to me
Through me, you, you leave me speechless
You, you make me scared of you
You make me scared of losing concentration
You make me afraid of you
Make me afraid of losing conver, conver, conver, conver, conversation
All my friends say that you're forbidden, fruitless
I hide away with you, I'm guilty, I'm guilty
You found my only weakness
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
I say you, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
I say you, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
Speechless, speechless
Speechless, speechless
Entertainment came and went
Why can't you be more curious
Adventurous, mysterious, sensuous?
You leave me speechless
Still leave me speechless
You leave me speechless
You leave me speechless
You leave me speechless
Still leave me speechless
You leave me speechless
You leave me speechless
Your remote control
Is sending out patrols
I've go consumer sadness
Spray me, camouflage me, blind me
So I can't see, help me through this madness
All those years I spent
Clingin' to your warm breast
All those words mean less
I don't think I guess
Gotta get you off my chest, you pest
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
I say you, you leave me speechless
You, you leave me speechless
Speechless, speechless
Speechless, speechless
You leave me, you leave me, you leave me speechless
I say you leave me, you leave me, you leave me speechless
I say you leave me, you leave me, you leave me speechless
Well, I lay underneath an ageless sky
I watched the universe breathing
There's more going on up there than meets the eye
Give me something to believe in
Which way's in and which way's out
Every step is misleading
Well, which way is up which way is down?
You gotta have something to believe in
Oh, let me dream, let me dream
I spend my whole life dreaming
I've been lucky but I'm still mean
You gotta have something to believe in
I didn't mean to hurt the people I hurt
I was full of fear and loathing
I wasn't up to much but I was all I had to go on
Couldn't find nothing to believe in
I don't like all them man made religions
They all need a little spiritual healing
They don't cut across race, they don't cut across culture
But we all need something to believe in
So you believe what you want to believe
Just stay true to your feelings
'Cause one man's god's just as good as another now
Gotta have something to believe in
Well, I lay underneath a royal throne
The gaudy paint was peeling
Half an inch deep and twice as cheap
Oh, give me something to believe in
Fat Fred always packing lead
On the corner dealing
Makes more in a night than I can make in forty days
Give me something to believe in
Now people worship what they see
Looks can be deceiving
Violence rages in abandoned hearts
'Cause they ain't got nothing to believe in
The chill chill is a bitter pill
When it comes to leaving
'Cause there ain't no easy way outta here
When you ain't got nothing to believe in
Just woke up in Sarajevo city
I watched all those mothers screaming
Kids getting shot and for what and for what?
Give me something to believe in
Now there's fire outside, mud that slides
Earthquakes shake the region
Willy and the Poorboys lost in America
They ain't got nothing to believe in
For every seed of knowledge found
For every grain of reason
For every shred of decency
There's something to believe in
Now I lay me down to rest
In the silence of the evening
And the moon road shines from here to eternity
I've got something to believe in
You believe what you want to believe
Just stay true to your feelings
'Cause one man's god's just as good as another
Poor Britannia, drowning in your waves
With the body of the unknown soldier and the best of the brave
I have known you ever since I was a child
How come you don't salute me now when I smile?
You was always so young and on all o' that money
How come these mourners pass you by and think it's so funny?
I'd be there with you but I'm chained unto this stake
For I am loyalty but my mast I cannot forsake
I looked down on a bunch of amusements, I looked down walls
I've looked on hangings 'n parades 'n city halls
And I've seen love in so many living rooms
And I've seen rich men slowly die inside their tombs
I know we're just two charms but it's heavy on my mind
Faith in me I said, now, look at time
I know you're just a victim of your history
Trust in me, I said and you would be free
You pull me up and you pull me down
And when the Queen's in residence, I hang around
I don't wave madly 'cos the climate's civilized
Just flutter sadly 'cos I'm old 'n I'm wise
And you been up, and you, you been down
You been through many things I know, you been around
I have fought armies for you in the conflicts of the past
Red letter day
Red letter day
Red letter day
Late at night, I drift away somewhere
I'm walking on the moon, talking to you there
I miss you babe, oh, I miss you
In my empty room on a crowded avenue
Oh, I've been rolling down the river, girl and I bump into you
I miss you babe, oh, I miss you
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
'Cause deep in my heart, the loving never went away
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
It's gonna be a red letter day
It's gonna be a red letter day
It's gonna be a red letter day, oh
Why, oh why, oh why can't we see eye to eye
All we do is argue and the years go rolling by
How on earth could it be worth such a sacrifice
All we got's each other and I'm lonely in this life
'Cause I miss you girl, oh, I miss you
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
'Cause deep in my heart, it never really went away
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
It's gonna be a red letter day
It's gonna be a red letter day
It's gonna be a red letter day, oh
It's gonna be a red letter day
It's gonna be a red letter day
Gonna be a red letter day, oh
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
'Cause deep in my heart, the loving never went away
When I come home, the love is gonna last forever
It's gonna be a red letter day
A red letter day, a red letter day, a red letter day
A red letter day, a red letter day, a red letter day, a red letter day
The love is gonna last forever
'Cause deep in my heart, the loving never went away
When I come home
Oh, leave your light on 'cause I've waited so long
Why don't you leave your light on 'cause I've waited so long
You better leave your light on
When I come home the love is gonna last forever
Well the times gettin' hard for you little girl
I'm a hummin' and a strummin' all over God's world
You don't remember when you got your last meal
And you forgot just how a woman feels
You didn't know what Rock 'n' Roll was
Until you met a drummer on a Greyhound bus
I got there in the nick of time
Before he got his hands across your state line
Well in the middle of the night, on the open road
And the heater don't work and it's oh-so cold
You're gettin' tired, baby you're lookin' kinda beat
The music of the street, drive you off your feet
You didn't know how Rock n' Roll looked
Until you caught your sister with a guy from the group
Half-way home in the parking lot
By the look in her eyes she was givin' what she got
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Woman you're a mess gonna die in your sleep
All the blood on my hand and my Les Paul heat
I can't leave you home 'cos you're runnin' around
My best friend told me you're the best trick in town
You didn't know that Rock n' Roll burned
So you bought a candle and you loved and you learned
You got the rhythm, you got the speed
Mamma's little baby likes it short and sweet
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
I didn't know ya got a Rock n' Roll record
Until I saw your picture on another guy's jacket
You told me I was the only one
And look at you now, well it's dark as it's dumb
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
Once bitten twice shy, babe
One, two, three
Well, I woke up this morning here's a girl in my bed
How did she get there? Was it something I said?
I don't understand it but somehow it seems
She visits me in invisible dreams
Over and over I try to explain
How did that girl get into my veins?
Did somebody send her? Was it my velvet wings?
And how does she touch my invisible strings?
Invisible strings, invisible strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Now it's all over when the fat lady sings
I'll still be playing my invisible strings
Well, maybe she don't have a world of her own
Maybe she's using me just like a phone
And sometimes she's cool and sometimes she stings
And I'm all tangled up in invisible strings
Invisible strings, invisible strings
These are a few of my favorite things
When you're wearing black and I'm wearing wings
We'll still be playing those invisible strings
Well, she never leaves, I'm never alone
I ain't in the book but she's still calling home
I tried to lose her watch the TV
But that woman's always picking on me
Well, there's strings round my body, strings round my heart
I'd like to know where the string pulling starts
I'd give anything to meet the angel who sends
Invisible ink to my invisible pen
Give me once again
Invisible strings, invisible strings
These are a few of my favorite things
When you're wearing black and I'm wearing wings
We'll still be playing our invisible strings, oh yeah
Invisible strings, invisible strings
Well, these are a few of my favorite things
Now it's all over when the fat lady sings
We'll still be playing our invisible strings, oh oh oh yeah
Invisible strings, invisible strings
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
Lost in the middle of nowhere
As cold as a stone in the sky
Regretting the mistakes that I made
When I was a young boy
Looking for a guiding light
Looking for a guiding light
Looking for a guiding light
Looking for a guiding light
Lookin' for an answer that I ain't found yet
A twinkle in a blind's man eye
Lookin' for the light at the end of the tunnel
Looking for a reason why
You're my guiding light
You're my guiding light
Where's my guiding light
Where's my guiding light
I know you're out there
I know you're out there
I know you're out there
Somewhere in the darkest night
I swear on the cover of the King James Bible
I'm never gonna let you go
You're my idol, you're my survival
I just want you to know
You're my guiding light
You're my guiding light
You're my guiding light
You're my guiding light
I been searchin'
I been searchin'
I been searchin'
One day I will find my guiding light
And we'll shoot for the moon together
We'll shoot for the moon together, babe
We'll shoot for the moon together, babe
All this energy callin' me back where it comes from
It's such a crude attitude, it's back where it belongs
All the little kids goin' up on the skids go
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Jumpin' Jane Jean and moonin' James Dean go
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Momma knows but she don't care, she's got her worries too
Seven kids and a phony affair and the rent is due
All the little chicks with the crimson tits go
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Livin' in sin with a safety pin goin'
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
I got some records from World War II
I play 'em just like me grand dad do
He was a rocker and I am too
Now Cleveland rocks, now Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
Cleveland rocks, Cleveland rocks
You might be a celebrity, everybody sits up and begs
You might be the sexiest thing since God invented legs
You might be a dictator, a dealer or a saint
Cool is here to tell you when you're cool and when you ain't
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool, if your cool don't work
If your cool gone fishin' you ain't nothing but a cool jerk
Now you might be a Nazi, lookin' for a friend
You might be a beginning, looking for an end
Some folks go for the ice and snow, some like it Florida hot
Cool is here to tell you what is cool and what is not
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool, if your cool don't work
If your cool gone fishin' you ain't nothing but a cool jerk
Or you can write a book about the money you took
You can pose on the cover nude
You can only flip on an ego trip, time'll do the cover on you
But don't you ever cross me, dude
'Cos that ain't cool, that's an attitude
I'm so cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool
I'm so cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool
I'm so cool, I'm so cool, cool
I'm so cool, cool, I'm so cool, cool
I ain't nobody [Incomprehensible]
You might be a macho man, 50 million sit-ups a day
Or you might be an expert with something important to say
You might be an evangelist, livin' on the wages of sin
Cool is here to tell you what is out and what is in
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool, if your cool don't work
If your cool gone fishin' you ain't nothing but a cool jerk
Well, if you lose your cool, if you lose your cool
You ain't nothing but a cool jerk
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool
You ain't nothing but a cool jerk
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool
You ain't nothing but a cool jerk
If you lose your cool, if you lose your cool
You ain't nothing but a
I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool
one, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four
Silently spoken, days of our lives
Rooms that are broken inside
I need your violence
Songs in the air
Call me 'til I don't care
You're a sight for sore eyes
Colwater High, remember me
I'm the one who'll always be around
To pick up your lies
Colwater High, remember me
I will be your slave forever
Millions of daydreams, lost in your hair
You call me but I'm never there
Crowded arenas, screaming for you
But there's only one dream
You're a sight for sore eyes
Colwater High, remember me
I'm the one who'll always be around
To pick up your lies
Colwater High, remember me
I will be your slave forever
Until the day my heart breaks down
'til the roof is caving in
And my ego hits the ground
And you're my ologist(?)
You're a sight for sore eyes
Colwater High, remember me
I'm the one who'll always be around
To pick up your lies
Colwater High, remember me
I will be your slave forever
You're a sight for sore eyes
Colwater High, remember me
I'm the one who'll always be around
To pick up your lies
Colwater High, remember me
Alright
Neon lights in the pouring rain
It's just another Saturday
Avoid the bomber boys comin' out the Indian
Looking for a [Incomprehensible]
I left home on the 4th of July
In nineteen hundred and seventy five
I'm just a pirate with a patch over one eye
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
I spent fourteen years on the factory floor
I never took a day off sick
I was workin' away all day on the Center Lathe
Tryin' to get it done quick
I was always in the red, never in the black
You make a little money and they take it all back
This ain't the way to spend the rest of my life
Wanna buy a drink for an American?
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Honey, you wanna buy a drink for an?
Englishmen don't commit suicide
They move to the USA
They got big back yards and Platinum cards
And everyday's a holiday
Seedy little snobs, I don't wanna know 'em
I don't trust them fuckers as far as I can throw 'em
Cast your fate to the winds say I
Wanna buy a drink for an American?
Wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Don't ask me sounded like a plan
Go west, go west, go west young man
I've had enough of that old school tie
Wanna buy a drink for an American?
You wanna buy a drink for an American?
(Spy)
You wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
You wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
You wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
You wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Honey, you wanna buy a drink for an American
(Spy)
Do you wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Do you wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
Do you wanna buy a drink for an American spy?
(Ian Hunter)
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Oh! I'd never known what it was like to free
I always thought it was never true
I got a feeling I was lost in space
Did not like my face
Just wanted to be
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like a hurricane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Oh insanity's so insane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
I ain't got no got no got no name
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Don't want no ball and chain
Damn people telling me that I was thinking bad
Had me believing they was right
All they wanted was another slob
In some stinking job
That just ain't me I just want to be
w w w Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like a hurricane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Oh insanity's so in so insane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
I ain't got no name
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
I don't I don't want to know a ball and chain
Just then I found out I was too broke to get out
So I took to the road no one was having me
I said don't want no handouts
Cause I'm making out
You ain't like me I just want to be
uh uh uh Wild 'N Free
I tried to tell you babe but you never understood
I always tried to make you see
But you believed just what your old man said
He had you chained to his head
And its on TV TV TV TV
Want to be want to be want to be
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like a hurricane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Oh insanity's so insane
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
I ain't got no got no got no name
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Don't want no ball and chain
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Just like a ball a ball a ball of fire
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like it high its getting higher
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like some bolt from out the sky
Wild 'N Free Wild 'N Free
Like some bullett
Mother I,m a stranger in a strange land
I feel like an alien
Like I'm on the outside looking in
I don't seem to fit in
Maybe I'm Aladdin with a rusty lamp
A Genie never stood a chance
To make all my wishes come true
But here’s what I want to do
I'm gonna lean on the 1%
When I'm President
I want a 20th Amendment
When I'm President
They're like thieves on a Holy Host
Digging up the mother lode
Like Pirates on the open sea
Like highway robbery
Still whining about your bonus
Man up, you’re ridiculous
Hell you can't take it with ya
So, give a little extra
I'm gonna lean on the 1%
When I’m President
No more bargains - in the basement
When I'm President
Washington - Jefferson
Watch out baby cause here I come
Abraham - Theodore
You know you'll see my ugly mug
Up on MOUNT RUSHMORE - YEAH
------
You go in with the right intent
When you become President
You hold those truths to be self-evident
When you become president
Cause somethin’ happens to you up on the hill
It's business as usual
How do you want to buck the system?
Welcome to the Pit and the Pendulum
I'm gonna lean on the 1%
When I'm President
No more 20th amendment
When I'm President
No more bargains in the basement
When I'm President
Everything's gonna be different
When I'm President
Veto this YEAH
Veto that YEAH
When I'm President
I'll stick it to the first class
Cross my heart
Hope to die
When I'm President
Pigs are gonna fly
(Ian Hunter)
To love a woman
Lost and lonely through the night
My baby doesn't hear me right
Cross my heart and hope to die
The words won't come although I try
It's there beneath me deep and strong
And when I speak it sounds so wrong
Oh cross my heart and hope to die
I'll never know the reason why
You and I were so in love
And if the sun won't shine
I'll be warm enough for the both of us
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
Sometimes when I'm away from you
I love you more you know its true
Oh cross my heart and hope to die
This loneliness is good sometimes
And you'll return smile over me
And I still can't say what's plain to see
But cross my heart and hope to die
You'll never know how hard I try
You and I we fell in love
And if the sun won't shine
I'll be warm enough for the both of us
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
Loving a woman like you ain't hard to do
You know it happens all the time
To love a woman another woman
To love a woman ain't never been hard
(Cross my heart and hope to die)
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
So I'll go on through this night
Wishing the words to come out right
Cross my heart and hope to die
This stubborn tongue's gonna make me cry
Just accept me as I am
Understand I'm a quiet man
Cross my heart and hope to die
I dread the day you say goodbye
You and I we fell in love
And if the sun won't shine
I'll be warm enough for the both of us
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
To love a woman
Well, I was born on the 3rd of June
Hard labor, Gemini moon
I was raised in a country town
The livin' dead were all puttin' me down
And my flesh and blood
My flesh and blood, they kicked me out
They never understood
That it's alright, it's alright, it's alright to be a loner now
It's alright, I say it's alright, it's alright to be a loner
It's alright, you know it's alright, oh babe, I'm a loner now
Skin and bone, skin and bone
Lean lookin' won't you let me take you home?
How about it, girl?
How about ooh, little love 'til the money runs out?
How I say, we'll give 'em hell, girl, we'll give 'em hell
I ain't the kind that's gonna kiss and tell
I'm alright, I said I'm alright
No, no, I'm a loner now
It's alright, it's alright
Oh, babe, listen to me all about
(Turn out the lights)
Bring on the
(Bring on the night)
Ooh, I'm a loner, yeah
I got my bags, I got my boots
I got ma wits about me, I got my roots
I gotta guitar 40 years old
I'm gonna play it 'til the story's been told
You know we'll, we'll knock 'em dead girl, we'll knock 'em dead
So when you think o' me remember what I said
It's alright, girl, it's alright, girl
It's alright to be a loner now
It's alright, you know it's alright
Come on, come on, come on, come on, listen to the loner, babe
(Tonight's the night I'm gonna strap you in tight)
Ooh, I'm the loner yeah
Yeah
It's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright
(It's alright, ah, ah, ah listen to the loner)
It's alright, it's alright
(You know It's alright, no way I'm a loner, love me)
It's alright, it's alright
It's alright, it's alright
(Oh yeah)
(Ian Hunter)
You don't look a day over ten so why be
Do you have to pretend to be older than you are
Beads and mirrors by your body
And in some roadside bar you feel the pain
Little Star
Lost on a merrygo round, on the game
You can never be found cause you don't know who you are
The reservation killed your nation
And in some tourists car you feel the pain
Little Star
You know you know
We grow and grow
We never slow
We always win
And you feel lost
And you feel crossed
And you feel tossed
Just like the wind
Your father will have told you of the wind
Bowed those fine heads that, once proud, roamed the plains
They sought nothing to gain 'til our fathers civilised
And broken hearted arrows roamed the skies
Then you were born to feel the pain
Little Star
You know you know
We grow and grow
We never slow
We always win
And you feel lost
And you feel crossed
And you feel tossed
Just like the wind
You know you know
We grow and grow
We never slow
We always win
And you feel lost
And you feel crossed
And you feel tossed
Just like the wind
Bimbo, flirts, sluts in skirts
Muscles brightly glisten
Conversation's full of filth
Let's all have a listen
Oh dear, oh dear, we live in fear
Media bulbs a poppin'
If you're bent, they're on your scent
There can be no stoppin'
Peroxide blondes, vagabonds
Into 'eavy metal
Your hair looks like its been done
By a dyke with a score to settle
Mud needs raking
Photos taken of your murky past
Haunts you, taunts you
Love it don't you
Hey, hey, the gang's all here
Pimps 'n' pervs, straights 'n' queers
Enquiring minds want to sneer
At the skeletons in your closet
Sunday morning in the park
Down the pub or in the bath
We'll all have a good old laugh
At the skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
It's bloody marvelous, innit?
It's bloody marvelous, innit?
Juicy bits, saucy snips
There's gold in them, there gutters
Blue rinse mob on the job
Curtains all a-flutter
It's cheapo culture, bleeding ulcers
Burnt out by the score
Lurid tales never fails
To shock you to the core
Kinky boots 'n' rubber suits
It's all going on next door
Caught you, taught you
Love it don't you
If you've had your face re done
If you spank your girlfriend's bum
We can all join in the fun
At the skeletons in your closet
What's the world coming to?
Ain't we got nothin' better to do?
To spend all day sifting through
The skeletons in your closet
Hey, hey, the gang's all here
Pimps 'n' pervs, straights 'n' queers
Enquiring minds want to sneer
At the skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Skeletons in your, skeletons in your, skeletons in your closet
Waiting on an elevator - in a hotel out in California
Smog clouds up in the windows - but there is a plaque up on the wall
That tells of the Agoras - people who were here long before us
Before the covered wagons - before they lost it all
They were hunters - they were fishermen und they often fought each other
But one small tribe was different - their leader was a peaceful man
They were weavers - they were painters - trading pelts for pretty colours
Protected by the warriors for the beauty in their hands
Roll back the years - roll back the years - to the river of tears
The chief he had a daughter - she was young and she was beautiful
He said, "Go into the forest - get some berries for the dye
But make your way back quickly - for the old bear's getting hungry
I don't want you out there - when the sun falls from the sky"
Her basket filled with berries - she headed back toward the village
When a mighty roar erupted - she ran und hid inside a hollow tree
Shadows were getting longer - the forest was getting colder
And the chief began to panic - where could his daughter be?
Lost in the years - lost in the years - on the river of tears
In the camp the fires were dying when the old chief started crying
Soon all the tribe were crying - the ground grew wet beneath their feet
And the tears they turned to water and the water became a river
And the river flowed like an arrow - to the foot of a hollow tree
And the girl looked out in wonder - as she saw the water falling
She knew it was her father and she swam to his canoe
And all the tribe stopped crying - and the river started subsiding
Into the hill of the Agoras - and so the legend grew
Roll back the years - roll back the years
Roll back the years - to the river of tears
Well, I picked her up on a Saturday night
[Incomprehensible] poison but she felt alright
Oh dear, what a sight, when I saw her in the light of day
She was a speakeasy sleazer of the highest degree
Oh, you should hear the stories, she was laying on me
We really got it on as she held my point of view, oh oh
Oh, she's a lounge lizard
Coming on strong
Who you fooling
It's me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on, come on
You got to be joking
Give give give, yeah
Well, I don't care if your sisters [Incomprehensible]
I don't mind where your Momma come for
Just give it to me, just pull it through me, alright
Golly is a dolly, got makeup on
I don't mind, just keep your raincoat on
No hesitation, no reputations to scale us
Oh, she's a lounge lizard
Coming on strong
Who you fooling
It's me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on, come on
You got to be joking
Give give give
Hey hey hey
Oh, she's a lounge lizard
Coming on strong
Who you fooling
It's me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on, come on
You got to be joking
Just give give give
Oh, she's a lounge lizard
Come on, come on
Who you fooling
It's me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on, come on
You got to be joking
Give give give
I said, give give give
Give give give
Give give give
Give give give
In 1935, I was living in paradise, I had a friend up in Cicero
We used to go out to the track, we'd knock a few whiskeys back
I'd lose my shirt and then I would lose my way home
I was driving my Stutz Black Hawk through Justice in the dark
When suddenly the blood froze in my veins
She was standing by the road in an incandescent glow
My heart stood still, my foot slammed on the brakes
She said, "Please, please would you dignify my wish?
I'm trying to get to Heaven, could you tell me where that is?"
On a wild Chicago night, with a wind howling white
I caught my first sign of Resurrection Mary
I was trembling like a leaf, I was scared beyond belief
After all my conscience ain't that clear
I used to work for Mickey Finn, I did the numbers for Big Jim
Perhaps my day of reckoning lies here
I said, "Please, please, I would dignify your wish
But when it comes to Heaven, I'm just a little bit amateurish
On a wild Chicago night, with a wind howling white
I cheated time with Resurrection Mary
And I felt tears form in my eyes for the first time, I felt something
Deep inside and the first time I saw angels high in the air
For the first time in my life, and I said, "Mary, go to the light
It's gonna be alright"
I got down on my knees, I said, "Sweet Mary, please dignify
These wishes before you run", will you tell him I've reformed?
Will you tell him I'm reborn? She closed her eyes
And then she spoke in tongues
I said, "Please, please, tell me what he said", she said
"You must die the day before the devil knows you're dead"
On a wild Chicago night with a wind howling white
I am singin' in a rain
I am singin' in a rain
What a glorious feelin'
And I am happy again
Well, he searched through his love like a thief on the run
He searched through his face to see the guilt water run
But he's fresh out of tears and nobody has come
And justice has got to be done
Oh moon in the city stay open and clear
For his vision ain't good and his mind's disappeared
Get along mother nature, they spat at your son
So justice has got to be done
And beauty is lying alone in the park
The friend has gone bowling in the alleys so dark
Where's her knight in white Armour who rides a chrome Ford
Justice would seem to be bored
Justice would seem to be bored
A knife full of life penetrated the bait
While he thinks 'o the sister and the mother that he hates
And he thinks he'll get off 'cos he's sick, rich, and stoned
Justice was made to be honed
And justice was made to be honed
And his lawyer is smiling one hell of a smile
'N he's lying all the lies of the lies in exile
While she's dying of grief, he's defending his brief
And justice would seem to be cheap
And justice would seem to be cheap
Well I've searched through the falling and I searched through the failed
I've searched through the jury, the judge and the jailed
Sleeping beauty is dead, no use pricking her thumb
Justice has got to be done
Yeah, justice has got to be done
Justice, just is
Justice, just is
Justice, just is
Well, I believe in magic
Ain't it kinda tragic
When you find out
Angels can be devils
You were never on the level
With me, babe, at all
Pain, pain, pain
I got this pain, pain
Sittin' on a midnight train
Well now, winners can be losers
Beggars can be choosers
I'll get over you somehow
It's gonna take a little time
To put you to the back
Of my mind forever
Pain, pain
Shootin' down the length of my brain
I got this pain
Nothin' is the same, yeah
Love is a victim
Love is a victim of pain
Ain't no doubt about it, girl
Love is a victim of pain
I'm lonely, I don't know what to do
About you, babe
I'm lonely and I don't know what to
I don't know what to do
About you, babe
Loneliness is such a drag
[Incomprehensible]
Pain, pain
Shootin' down the length of my brain
I got this pain
No one is to blame
Love is a victim
Love is a victim of pain
Ain't no doubt about it
Love is a victim
Again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
And again and again and again and again
Ain't no doubt about it
Pain, pain, pain
(Love is a victim of pain)
Pain, pain, pain
(Love is a victim of pain)
Pain, pain, pain
Pain, pain, pain
(Love is a victim, love is a victim of pain)
Pain, pain, pain
Pain, pain, pain
(Darrell bath)
(Transcribed by colin ford)
(Updated by Johnny Godwin)
Take a thousand pin-up girls to stepney to bombay
Take me to fancy restaurants to be amongst the whole milay
And all the blue-eyed gals of 6 foot 3
Are gonna leave you broken down on your knees
Cause in the golden locks and their fluttering lashes
You say, "I told you", all day long
Never (never) trust a blonde
Yeah, never (never) trust a blonde
Just when you thought it was safe to get it on
Watch out for their teeth boys you never trust a blonde
I been dreaming of clinches
With scene stealing wenches
And stars of hollywood and Vine
Too many goofs and ham-fisted moves and blaming it on the wine
Now your best bet's, a hung lovin' brunette
Make it quick boys cause I ain't got long
And turn your back on the girl in black
You never trust a blonde
Never (never) trust a blonde
Yeah, never (never) trust a blonde
Forget all that stuff about ad-men, like my own father
My daddy said, "rocky, don't even trust your mom"!
They all queue in line, they wanna see me hung, drawn and quartered
Sure as anight on the moon shine, a recipe for leaving me slaughtered
So beware of the smell and the lies they all tell
One line from a fair blues song
I'm telling you mate, when the hour gets late
You cannot trust a blonde
Never (never) trust a blonde
Yeah, never (never) trust a blonde
You think you can hide behind peroxide, then you got it wrong, so wrong
Watch out for their teeth boys, never trust a blonde
Here comes another, never trust a blonde
She could be a mother, never trust a blonde
Even in China, they never trust a blonde
She minght be a blinder, never trust a blonde
Never, ever rush 'em, never trust a blonde
It's best if I crush 'em, never trust a blonde
One more for good luck, never trust a blonde
You were just a twinkle in your teenage mother's eyes
I was squeezing brylcreem on my hair
No one taught us how to be politically correct
And no one told our winkles what to wear
I've been there, I've done it
I've seen it all
That was my contribution oh, oh
So much for the revolution
When someone said, "Let's go to bed" nobody was scared
We were up to no good all the time
(We were up to no good all the time)
Judging by those freckles and the shades upon your nose
It's possible you could be one of mine
(Possible you could be one of mine)
Yeah
I've been there, I've done it
I've seen it all
That was my revolution
On the road again, back at number ten
Underneath the lights a thousand and one nights
A revolution for fun
Oh, you better lock up your mum
I've been there, I've done it
Well, I've seen them come and go
That's for you to guess
And that's for me to know, oh baby
And that's for you to guess and that's for me to know
Ah, so much for revolution, ah so much for revolution
And that was my revolution, oh revolution
Once upon a time
Somewhere in the back of my mind
I fell in love with you
But then
Everything went wrong
I couldn't even write a song
There was nothing to look forward to
I don't go out very much
I'm always home on my own
Baby, I was just too blind to see
I wanted to conquer the world
But the world had a mind of its own
Maybe I tried a little too hard
Maybe I pushed you away too far
Got a room in your heart for a lonely heart
Got a room in your heart for two
It might be nice
Living in a heart with you
So sing and all the world will shine
Somewhere in this nursery rhyme
A happy ending lies
For all the lovers with the lonely eyes
Easy come, easy go
This is just to let you know
Baby, I apologize
How could I turn away love?
How could I turn into stone?
How could I turn my back on you?
I wanted to be a success
But success ever leaves you alone
Maybe I tried a little too hard
Maybe I pushed you way too far
Got a room in your heart for a lonely heart
Got a room in your heart for two
It might be nice
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
Living in a heart with you
Living in a heart
Living in a heart
(Ian Hunter)
Its such a terrible shame it was only a game
Then her brothers found out seven Johnny be Goode's
We was only pretending at mummys and daddys
They totally misunderstood
Oh what a terrible plight what a terrible fight
It was too much to bear her father said 'ere
I think you better sign it's a letter designed
To have you married by the first of the year
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
Oh Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
If you want to play with fire
You'll get yourself burned
I was messing with the ashes
But look at how it turned out
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
Oh what a terrible waste such a shocking disgrace
To give me away I'm too young to die
A shotgun wedding heading straight for the sky
And I'm shy Mary Ellen I'm shy y y y
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
Come On!
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
When your chips go down
You came on the dice
Forget the Mississippi
Take some friendly advice
Get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
(Give it to me old chum)
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice of the Peace
Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
If you want to play with fire
You'll get yourself burned
And I was messing with the ashes
And look at how it turned out
I'll Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice I'll get the Justice of the Peace
I'll Get the Justice get the Justice of the Peace
I hear a thousand drums a million miles away
I feel the Wembley rock I get a buzz off a big parade
I get the music
Everywhere
Get off on the music
If this is the end there I don't care
I get
So excited
So excited
Call me a fan that's just what I am
I said, "I, I, I, I, I get
So excited
So excited"
My nerves are alive
I feel like a knife
I said I get so excited
I hear a choir singin' way up above the sea
I feel the sound a-changin' as the night rocks a spell on me
I get the music
Everywhere
Get off on the music
If this is the end there I don't care
I get
So excited
So excited
I'll throw you a line come far behind
I said, "I, I, I, I, I get
So excited
So excited"
It's happening so fast
And the drummers a blast
I get so excited
By your mind oh yeah, oh yeah
Excited by your warmth oh yeah, oh yeah
Excited by your body oh yeah, oh yeah
Excited by your
Ha, ha, ha
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah right
I get
So excited
So excited
Band on the run just for the fun
I said, "I, I, I, I, I get
So excited
So excited"
It lasts and it lasts
Get up off your past
I said, "I, I, I, I, I, I, I get
So excited
So excited"
Call me a fan that's just what I am
I said, "I, I, I, I, I, I, I get
So excited
So excited"
My nerves are alive
I feel like a knife
I said, I, I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I
I, I, I
The kids are okay they're telling you now
But you're letting them down
'Cause you just don't know how
And it's a golden opportunity
I'm spinning in space
I'm laughing away your so pathetic
I can just hear them say
It's like a golden opportunity
You better hear it, see hear it
It's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, get near it
It's a golden opportunity
We reckon they're rats
Now see how they run my house is so common
And we're dumb we're so dumb
And it's a golden opportunity
Scream all you suckers
Scream all you can, I'm losing my bluff
It's a scam its a scam
And it's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it hear it
It's like a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it hear it
It's like a golden opportunity
Alright
You better hear it hear it, hear it hear it
It's a golden opportunity
Hear it, hear it
It's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it
It's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it
It's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it
It's a golden opportunity
You better hear it, you better hear it
I was having a drink with Prince Charles and the Queen
When Winston Churchill stepped into my dream
His head it was heavy, his voice was shakin'
He said, "Look what they've done, it's the death of a Nation"
I followed his shadow right out of the bar
And we talked all night 'neath the light of the stars
He said, "This used to be a cradle of civilization
And now look what they've done, it's the death of a Nation"
Every thing's illusion now, nothing's what it seems
Money isn't everything, when you're turning your back on a dream
I held you together when you were breakin'
You can pull down the flags, it's the death of a Nation
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N we'll never die, no we'll never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N we'll never die, no we will never die
From the bottom of this ancient heart
I hate to see you falling apart
'Cos I love you still, I love you still, I love you still
You've been getting away with it far too long
Your promises ain't worth the paper they're printed on
I had a love, but that love's been forsaken
Look what they've done, it's the death of a Nation
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N we'll never die, no we'll never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N we'll never die, no we will never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N I'll never die, no I will never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N I'll never die, no I will never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
'N I'll never die, no I will never die
Don't say goodbye, don't say goodbye
Genocidal tendencies are silly to extreme
After all you're still quite small
You don't know where you've been
You was only swearing yesterday
Oh you want to win the world away
But now you got nothing to say
Boy you're getting out of hand
You've got to make a stand
So put the coke away
Boy you got the do the show
Got to let the people know
You got the strength to stay
I can see you run, I can see you hide
Oh your heart is aching
Lost in a dream of what might have been
You're the guide, you're the number one
And your knees are shakin'
Stand and deliver in an endless dream
Schizophrenic, photogenic, aggravates me so
Only yes men have a guess man
Watch the spirit go
Batman zips the monster as he bleeds
And gets up on the buzz he needs
And a kid on the street just reads
And reads and reads and reads
And reads and reads and reads
Boy it's them hard case city blues
Cagney is the news
Does the giant ring a bell?
Boy it's the Hudson east river cruise
It's the Empire State buffoons
Oh you know the story well
Do you have to run, do you have to hide?
There's a new tomorrow
Yes, you're a mess but you're more than less
When this battles won you can look inside
Oh you did not borrow
Yes you're the best but you still can't rest
You know, you know the carnival is closed
Your street's alive with ghosts
But a friend says, "Don't look back"
Don't look back, don't look 'round
Your vision is your fate
Through long electric nights
When a woman helps you write
Cheer up mate put the dramas in the past
See you did not have to fast
Euphemism lasts and lasts and lasts
And lasts and lasts and lasts
And lasts and lasts
Boy if you've got an axe to grind
Be thankful for this time
For it gives you what you need
Boy you've got an eighty eight to play
It'll tell you what to say
It'll tell you when to breathe
Boy take a turnpike heading west
Turn the people on to beau geste
'Cause that's what you did the best
Boy play the pipes till they're old and worn
Sing the words till they fall forlorn
Like the pieces of a jigsaw jet
Boy shoot a rocket clean out of your brain
No these people ain't the same
You can hear another call
They don't show us how to grow
They only show us how to win
And boy the secret's in the bicycle shed
Ain't no answers now they're dead
I'm standin' on the edge of Vesuvius
My mouth is runnin' dry
Drunk on wine and wisdom
Giving it all away
Old enough to hate tomorrow
Young enough not to know where to run
Oh there ain't no rock 'n' roll no more
Just the music of the young
And it's apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
'N' apathy for the son
The moon shines brightly on some summer lawn
And envy caught like a leaf
Comes floating down upon this frozen desert sand
Spitting bullets through the night
The siren wails on the ambulance
Compassion touches my head 'n' it bleeds
There ain't no rock 'n' roll no more
Just the sickly sound of greed
And it's apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
'N' apathy for the creed
No more gardens for the gardenless
No more havens for the havenless
No more helpers for the helplessness
No more somethings for a less
For the law is now the lawless
'N' the flaw is now the flawless
'N' the crime is now accepted
'N' the criminal respected
'N' now evil gets elected
'N' now sinful get selected
Heed a president proven rotten
And now officially forgotten
Was it your General Sheridan who once said
"The only good, good man is a dead good man", it was not me babe
I just said keep your head 'n your bread
Well down under them floorboards
You, you look like you gone with the wind
Running naked through the streets
Wired out, tired out, transcendental mental
Only laughing in your sleep
Nostalgia is starting to focus too late
Imagination is starting to itch
There ain't no rock 'n' roll no more
Just the music of the rich
'N' it's apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
Apathy for the devil
Fare thee well, gentle maid
I'll see you on your way
And the sun will rise tomorrow
And wash my sins away
For I know that I've abused you
But I only had a day
And I know that's why you left me
In your own sad little way
I am gone, disappeared
But I hear a young dove crying
Three thousand miles from here
Some would say you were a loser
'Cause you play a loser's game
But then if I am a winner
Why then am I so ashamed?
If you hear a young dove crying
You'll know it's me to blame
For I never got her number
I never knew her name
Now she's gone, disappeared
But I hear a young dove crying
Wrote this poem called, 'The Floods Roll On'
He said, this ain?t yours
Where?d you get it from?
You must have stole it from a book, oh yeah
You must have stole it from a book.
?Cause you ain?t frail
You ain?t beautiful
And I don?t fancy you at all
You?d be a ruin
If looks could kill
23A, Swan Hill
Stiff with rage, screaming at the sky
Innocence breaks
Says she wants to die
I?m assuming I?m alive, oh yeah
I?m assuming I?m alive
She pushes and she pulls
My legs go weak
In fascinating terror
The whole world moves
And I?m standing still
In 23A Swan Hill
And it?s always raining
And you never ask why
You never give yourself a shot
You just sit and watch your life go by
Kicking stones at a still life
Want to pull it down, slash it, slash it
There must be some way out here
There must be some way out here
This ain?t right, there must be more to life
Than breaking and entering
Doing people?s heads in alcohol, nicotine
Thinking what I might have been
You would be a ruin
If looks could kill
23A, Swan Hill
And the whole world moves
And I?m standing still
In 23A, Swan Hill
And I will
And I will
And I will
And I will
In 23A, Swan Hill
And I will
And I will
And I will
And I will
In 23A, Swan Hill
And I will
And I will
And I will
And I will
Verse 1:
Long haired young girl, here beside me
Fit my body, warm my mind
Sleeping quiet, never knowing
By tomorrow she'll be one more thing I'm gonna leave behind
Verse 2:
Like them big wheels, I'll be rolling
Like them rivers, gonna flow to sea
Cause I'd rather leave here knowing
That I made a fool of love before it made a fool of me
Chorus:
Low down freedom, you've done cost me
Everything I'll ever lose
Your as empty as my pockets
From the top of where you start down to the bottom of my shoes
Verse 3:
Open highway lonesome wind blow
Tell me something I don't know
Wrap them warm arms around me
Tell me why I'm gonna leave when I don't really want to go
Well Billy rapped all night about his suicide
How he'd kick it in the head when he was twenty-five
Speed jive don? t wanna stay alive when you? re twenty-five
And Wendy? s stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks
And Freedy? s got spots from ripping off the stars
From his face, funky little boat race
The television man is crazy saying we? re juvenile delinquent wrecks
Oh man I need TV when I got T-Rex
Oh brother you guessed, I? m a dude dad
All the young dudes
(Hey dudes!)
Carry the news
(Where are ya?)
Boogaloo dudes
(Stand up, come on)
Carry the news
All the young dudes
(I wanna hear you)
Carry the news
(I wanna see you)
Boogaloo dudes
(And I wanna talk to you, all of you)
Carry the news
Now Lucy looking sweet 'cause he dresses like a queen
But he can kick like a mule, it? s a real mean team
But we can love, oh yes we can love
And my brother? s back at home with his Beatles and his Stones
We never got it off on that Revolution stuff
What a drag, too many snags
Now I drunk a lot of wine and I? m feeling fine
Gotta race some cat to bed
Oh is there concrete all around or is it in my head?
Yeah, I? m a dude dad
All the young dudes
(Hey dudes!)
Carry the news
(Where are ya?)
Boogaloo dudes
(Stand up)
Carry the news
All the young dudes
(I wanna hear ya)
Carry the news
(I wanna see you)
Boogaloo dudes
(And I wanna relate to you)
Carry the news
All the young dudes
(What dudes?)
Carry the news
(Let? s hear the news, come on)
Boogaloo dudes
(I wanna kick you)
Carry the news
(Hey you there, with the glasses)
All the young dudes
Carry the news
(I want you)
Boogaloo dudes
(I want you at the front)
Carry the news
(Now you, all his friends)
All the young dudes
(Now you bring him down 'cause I want him)
Carry the news
Boogaloo dudes
(I want him right here, bring him, come on)
Carry the news
(Bring him, ha ha, here you go)
All the young dudes
(I? ve wanted to do this for years, ha ha ha)
Carry the news
(There you go!)
Boogaloo dudes
(How do you feel?)
(ian hunter)
God said to me "gonna kick your ass - 'cos all you do is ask ask ask
All that energy looking for me when I'm sitting here inside you - plain to see
How I built you cell for cell gave you sights to see - gave you tales to tell
Even let you help yourself for a while - to take some weight off this busy child"
I said to God "i found you out - I know what this world is all about!"
God said "stop - don't scramble your brain - my opponent's been messing you around again
See him and me are enemies and we play little games for galaxies
And he's inside you - 'n I am too - so here we are - just the three of you"
"oh we made mistakes - too many cards - but making human beings can be hard
A God gets tired of playing so much chess - he wishes his God would get him out of his mess"
I said to God "what's it like to die" he said "it's as plain as the sea and sky
Conception was him and me and you - when your batteries fade we all just move on"
I said to God "who's winning this game - is the devil in front" he said "is that his name
You know I've been so busy I never asked - I never looked up from this awesome task"
I said to God "what's good 'n bad" he said "it's just something you've got to have
It don't mean nothing to us up here - but your primitive people - you gotta have fear"
I said to God "do I think for myself" he said I told you once you just help yourself
Don't forget you're composed of three, your thinking comes from him and me"
I said to God "how big are you, is there a religion - is it true
How big's the universe - is time - the same for you as my life is to mine"
God said "if all the things that made worlds float - were all to part - then you would note
The size of him and the size of me - and that's how big we both shall be"
He said "the universe is small - just like some fortune-teller's ball
And we both sit down - and we play the game - when somebody wins it all starts again"
"there's no religion - you did that - it helps to keep your little leaders fat
Like faith 'n superstition stay - to help you pass the time away
But when you talk of time and life - it makes me think of circles, heights
Expansion is the clue - your dreams - are nearer than you've ever been"
"you see my little toy to think - is from two bowls of wine to drink
Hunter
(Strtch)
Abandoned by, abandoned by, abandoned by your Mother
Stranded in a boys' home, stranded in a boys' home and never really recovered
Drain that poison from your mind
Or it's gonna take you down.
Stretch
Stretch, fish outta water, yah swim against the tide
Ain't no takin' sense to ya
Jekyll and Jekyll and Jekyll and Hide.
Oblivious to, oblivious to, oblivious to the danger
I tried, but I could never, I tried but I could never, I tried, but I could never change ya
You went your way, I went mine, there was nothing I could do
You wouldn't listen, no you wouldn't listen to me.
Stretch
Stretch, always something' eatin' at ya, never towed the line
Mixed up and dangerous, most of the, most of the, most of the time.
I can still see you walkin' down the street
I can still see the placed we'd meet
I can hear the voices in my head
One of them yours, even though you're dead.
Attracted by, attracted by, attracted to the lifestyle
I could never go the, I could never go the, I could never go the last mile
The pirate with the silver tongue among my souvenirs
You wouldn't listen, ah you wouldn't listen to me.
Stretch
Pride of the army, hero of the corps
You hated every minute of it, they gave you two years, you made it four.
I gotta stop hangin' out with ya, perhaps it's just as well
Now we're both doing stretches, I'm in a limo and you're in a cell.
I loved you like a brother, deep down sad
Hunter
I scream at you for sharing
And I curse you just for caring
I hate the clothes you're wearing, they're so pretty.
And I tell you not to see me
And I tell you not to feel me
And I make your life a drag, it's such a pity.
And I watch your warm glow palin'
And I watch your sparkle fadin'
As you realise you're failin', 'cause you're so good.
Now I don't mean to upset you
But there's so much crime to get through
If only I could make it easier, then I would.
Oh I wish I was your mother
I wish I'd been your father
And then I would have seen you, would have been you as a child.
Played houses with your sisters
And wrestled with all your brothers
And then who knows, I might have felt a family for a while.
It's no use me pretendin'
You give and I do the spendin'
Is there a happy ending? I don't think so.
'Cause even if we make it
I'll be too far out to take it
You'll have to try and shake it from my head.
Oh I wish I was your mother
I wish I'd been your father
And then I would have seen you, would have been you as a child.
Played houses with your sisters
And wrestled with all your brothers
Hunter
Alright!
Well, can anybody help me?
Can anybody help, yeah?
Can anybody help me?
Can anybody help?
Crept across the border, got a mobile home
Hurricane Katrina sunk me like a stone, yeah
Now I'm runnin' outta water, there's nothing left to eat
The kitchen's in the car and it's floating down the street.
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
Alright!
Well, can anybody help me?
Can anybody help, yeah?
Can anybody help me?
I said, can anybody help?
Now the reason I believe in the good book still
If FEMA won't help me, I know the good book will
So if anybody asks you, how's your Mom and them?
Just tell 'em I was asking, where are you when you need 'em?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
How's your house? How's your house?
Hunter
Well, there ain't nothin' I can do
To take the pain away from you
Another one lost on the battlefield
of twisted steel, twisted steel
There ain't nothin' I can say
To help you take the (pain) away
I can't believe that this is real
Twisted steel, twisted steel
And if I cry, it makes no difference
And if I don't, I lose my innocence
I can't imagine how a mother must feel
(With) twisted steel, twisted steel
Can you hear your mother callin'?
Can you hear your mother callin'?
Can you hear your mother ca-- she kneels
Twisted steel, twisted steel
This wasn't sacred, this was profane
You took off and you took aim
I saw you laughin' on the newsreel
Twisted steel, twisted steel
Can you hear your mother callin'?
Can you hear your mother callin'?
Can you hear your mother, she kneels
Oh, twisted steel, twisted steel
Twisted steel, twisted steel
Twisted steel, twisted steel
Twisted steel, twisted steel
Twisted people, twisted minds
Twisted logic, twisted times
I can't imagine how a mother must feel
(Ian Hunter)
See lonely shadows - silver needles
Abandoned in the evening war
Lost children of the night - come catch the candle bright
I hear a hollow sound - falling to the ground - she's lost before she's found
Sad broken angels takin' rainbows
Out on the street for all to see
If we are the chosen few - what ever happened to
All those things we knew, if this is being free -
I'd rather search for me
CHORUS
You nearly did, you nearly did, you nearly did
You nearly did me in, you nearly did me in
And I need some place to hide - my weary anger down
Out on some misty distant highway
Feel like I though a million miles
Is my search nearly done - I think I see someone
I get the urge to run on blindly through the rain,
and I fool myself again
CHORUS
What ever happened to dignity
What ever happened to integrity
What ever happened to honesty
Well I'll tell you something baby - I feel the pain just like the sea
(ian hunter)
She dresses in leather
She isn't too together
She looks then she lowers her eyes at me
She smokes cigarettes
She likes to get wet
And she's about a woman as a woman can be I said
That girl is rock 'n' roll
She got the cutest figure
I think it's gettin' bigger
She's about, hangin' out, over me
She feels just right
In the middle of the night
'n' she's about a woman as a woman can be I said
(Ian Hunter)
(Transcribed by Colin Ford)
That's it baby, take one last look
We gotta go catch a plane
Then you won't die, and I won't die
But we won't ever be the same
Oh I can feel a mood coming down on me
Such a good thing disappears
I can sense the loss creeping up on us
And it's deeper than any tears I've known
You stepped into my dreams
You opened up the door
You stepped into my dreams
I want you back for more
You stepped into my dreams tonight
In the shadows of the night you're sorry
In the morning we was gone
Won't you blow a kiss to me baby
We both gotta be moving on
Sometimes you see a lover and she's made for love
But you let that lover slip by
You believe and yet she's so hard to get
And you never know the reasons why
She stepped into your dreams
She opened up your door
She stepped into your dreams
You want her so much more
She stepped into your dreams tonight yeah
Oh when you're doing what you're doing
What do you think of me babe
There ain't much else to say
In another time, in another place
Things might have turned out okay
I can feel a darkness I can never conceal
Sometimes I get just a little insane
I can feel emotions like the mighty oceans
They're driving me again, and I know
You stepped into my dreams
You opened up the door
You stepped into my dreams
I want you back for more
You stepped into my dreams
And I don't know what to do
I said, "Girl, I'm living in the middle of a mystery"
"Girl, things ain't been goin' too good for me
You're the only one that can turn me on
An' now that you're gone", I said
Girl, I'm livin' in the middle of your memory
I said, "Girl, you're still the figure in my favorite fantasy"
"I know you know but that's the way it goes
And still my love grows", I said
All o' the good
All o' the good ones are taken
All o' the good
All o' the good ones are taken
I'm hangin' around with my head in the air
Watchin' the lovers go by
I had a lover but she never cared
All you could say was goodbye
Maybe I was mistaken
Maybe I've got it wrong
But all of the good ones are taken
From now on
An' girl, I'm livin' in the middle of a broken dream
I said, "Girl, all this fallin' in love ain't what it seems
Out in the rain can't you feel my pain
Again an' again an' again an' again an' again
I said, "All of the good
All o' the good ones are taken"
Maybe I was mistaken
Maybe I've got it wrong
But all of the good ones are taken
In my song
I said, "All of the good
All o' the good ones are taken"
I said, "All of the good
All o' the good ones are taken"
All of the good
All o' the good ones are taken
All of the good
