Having been by that old bank tower,
I'm inclined to wonder why you feel so strong.
You can't have really seen the hour
If you think she's trying to do you wrong.
I see you got that lump in your throat
I hear you mumbling, "That's all she wrote."
Love was in the next room drinking antidote.
You ought to know that girl by now.
She'll never settle down anyhow.
You let your heart go too fast.
You let your heart go too fast.
Broken glass turns back to flint and sand.
I only cease to love as love demands.
As you know it takes a while to clap those
fragments from your idle hands.
Couple months could dry a sea of tears,
leave only salt beneath our dried up piers.
We won't believe we cared, I swear, in a couple years.
You ought to know that girl by now.
She'll never settle down anyhow.
You let your heart go too fast.
You let your heart go too fast.
If time heals all wounds, don't you know that
Time also deals them.
The days go by, and everybody feels them.
We stuggle with our fates,
But our action only seals them.
They say that murder ain't the fault of the weapon.
I'm smoking sad to be the gun.
I want to blow you all away, but I don't want to put no
Bullets into anyone.
I see the feathers that enfringe your heart.
I see the blood ooze from around the dart.
Cupid spites the sense that keeps two
Mismatched souls apart.
Well you think there's a problem with your sink
But your baby been lookin' in the pink
I said your drain been clogged for quite a while
But there's something new in your baby's smile
I said piss and moan you know its a bummer
Yo baby's been sleepin with your plumber
Na Na Na Na Na.....
Yeah, you bought a new truck and it goes real fast
Said your baby brought it in for a little bit of new crank shaft
She's been taking it back now every week
She like to hear your shock absorbers moan and squeak
I said everybody's laughing, they think its a panic
Yo baby's been sleepin with your mechanic
Na Na Na Na Na
You took her to a club she said she's never been to
'Cause you thought it might be a nice thing to do
But you saw she was up to the same old game -
When the whole band knew her first, last, and middle name
I said you're pissed off 'cause you didn't see
Yo baby slept with everybody including me
Na Na Na Na Na....
Zephyr through the awning shadow
Star-like glimpse upon the weeping leaves
Rest yourself my weeping widow
With the your news of grave defeat
With the shafts of each fraction
Beneath your head in rays of hair
Fire hand the mango nectar
And the news is good
Sleep oh,
Sleep oh,
Lay down your head and sleep oh, sleep
Lay down your head and
Across these fields of amber grain
Never that we've reached the dawn
You whispered that your vows to him
Were crushed as the shafts we played upon
Then came the news, I knew it'd come
It was a cruel and clever thief
Devised this cunning tragedy
Stole you for me to love sweetpea
Sleep oh,
Sleep oh,
Lay down your head and sleep oh, sleep
Lay down your head and
(repeat above verse and chorus)
Oh, it's you, I love the things you do
To make me blue
Oh, it's true, I love the things you do
To make me blue
To make me blue
Oh, to make me blue
Oh, to make me blue
Oh, to make me blue
Oh, it's me, you love to watch me speed
Across the sea
Oh, I'm free, I love the way it's all
I need to be
Lights on the bridges and a smokestack far away
Smoke turns to indigo in the ending business day
The taxicabs' assault on the potholed asphalt
They parry and lunge 'neath the thin winter sun who's
Painting the bedroom grey
Computer Mage, the plastic age
Someday all this will be a road
"Where will it take us?"
"It's got seventeen lanes."
"Where will it run?"
"It's an interstate parkway."
"Where will it go?"
"It's a boot print of progress."
"Where will it take us?"
"It's gonna be a road, be a road."
"Domesticated primates," the Leary Convict sez
Sewn up together in paper foil like a pack of Pez, of course,
School was a fine bunch of rehashed lines, there was
Nothing really said, I could have stayed home in bed and watched
Reruns of Desi Arnaz
"Time is just a concept," sez Einstein's kid, the dunce.
"People's way of keeping everything from happening at once
Overtake the light, and time is in your sight
And black holes bend the beams so nothing's where it seems and
Finding out the truth could take you months."
Take the lowest common denominator,
The tiniest grain of sand.
Like the first digit of our fingers
Points back to the whole hand.
Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the clifftop
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle
The catalyst or the detonator
The place where it all again
The bottom floor of the elevator,
The grandfather of the middleman.
Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the clifftop
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle
Waxing givers
Slip between the sheets of minds.
Rosetta stone
Like the skeleton
Reassembled bone by bone by bone by bone
Follow the spear flight
Hurled with any lateral
Throw it on the clifftop
Weaves over the battle
Pill of wax descending the candle
Late at night,
You'd feel a rise at this mantle
All the roots in the earth
Are speaking to a heart of stone.
The children can hear it in their bones,
And in this stone is
More than meets the mind.
The particles in the air
Each of each are holding hands.
The music sounding is their dance,
And in this dance is
More than meets the eye.
All our songs are somewhere else being played for us
By glowing hands celestial and not there.
The stars and planets in the sky
Each of each are singing tunes
And listening are all the moons,
And in their tunes are
More the meets the ear.
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again
I asked my uncle
If I could go
Yes, yes, go out and take
Mary Jane to the picture show
But Uncle Bob sighed
He could not answer
He died one second before
In the arms of a go-go dancer
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again
I wanna roll you
Way down in the fields
Where you were born
I wanna roll you
When I'm ragged
And forlorn
You have no friend
You have no pet
If there's anything better than you
You know they haven't found it yet
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
Please don't leave me baby
I'll just find you again
Stoop's so fine on a summer's eve
When you sit outside for a short reprieve
Talk to folks as they come and leave
Jono, Jay, and Crazy Steve.
Night is down but it's bright as day
You haven't been around since you went away
Feels so good so that's what you say
Folks say hi, but you say, "Hey."
Well, that old mad dog, he's barking for the blues bone
Orpheus got a black book and a telephone
Plays that lyre 'cause he doesn't want to be alone;
One look back.......
Buy a beer, find a place to stand
Have a couple laughs and hear the band
Smoke a couple of your favorite brand
Wake up with a stamp on the back of your hand.
Don't blame me, it's all been Laraby's gang, now, now.
Don't blame me for the song that the Nightingale sang, now, now.
Don't blame me 'bout the vanishing waif,
Don't blame me if your safe ain't safe, now, now.
Sun comes up, you're still awake.
There's the sky, still as a lake.
Not even that can drown the ache,
Looks so high, it must be fake.
I'm quite contented to take my chances
Against the Guildensterns & Rosenkrantzes
It's a matter of Cain & Abel
And I can feel your knee underneath the table
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me?
See the pigeons peck & peck to pay the dues
They peck a little extra to resole their shoes
He's with the pigeons pecking crumbs
I'm on my deathbed bleeding with the cherubim
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me?
Ferocious angels send me falling stars
But I know just how dangerous wishes are
Ferocious angels watch me come and go
But I'm not too smart to go barging off of roof tops, though
Sit out September on the window sill
'Cause you can't drink wine from a two dollar bill
Saint Christopher lives on the end of a quill
Leave him a diamond in your last will
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me?
How could you want him when you know you could have me? (x4)
You know how I tend to feel when nothing's happening
Like some big old bird so fat that he just can't fly
Far be it for me to be overreacting
My body hurts like hell and all I can do is wonder why
Like a man in prison, I'm occupied with busting out
I'm in no position said what are these walking blues about?
Hey Mary come play with me please forget your lessons
Pete's off with Captain Hook and with cutlasses they play
I got a feeling you and me get along fine
Down on the beach in the fresh air with a jug of wine
Like a man in prison I抦 occupied with busting out....
Aww yeah, I claim to be infected
Aww yeah point me in the right direction
The situation it's got the best of me
I gotta go on, you know, I gotta be strong
But it's hard to exist......
You said the price was final,
But you're willing to haggle
I fold my arms and wait for you,
But you treat me like the rabble.
'Cause I thought it was love, baby,
When I kissed you in the kitchen,
It wasn't no dove, just a white pigeon.
There's a hole in my pocket,
And there's a brand new ruby charm by your silver locket.
Kicked in the ass and thinking
Just to never do correction,
And when it comes to the gadgets, baby,
I hope I made the right selection.
'Cause I thought it was love, baby,
When I kissed you in the kitchen,
It wasn't no dove, darlin', just a white pigeon.
There's a hole in my pocket,
And there's a brand new ruby charm by your silver locket.
Atlas shrugged here on Planet Claire,
With his lead umbrella for the acid rain.
He put the Earth down, and stuck out his thumb,
And he hitched a ride out on the Freeway of the Plains.
Won't you bury my body
By the broken dam of reason,
And when you chisel my epitaph,
Leave out the part about the treason.
'Cause I thought it was love, baby,
When I kissed you in the kitchen,
It wasn't no dove, just a white pigeon.
There's a hole in my pocket,
And there's a brand new ruby charm by your silver locket.
Let me illuminate my interpretation
Which I will try to serve with an illustration
All the beasts in the woods
Bare their fangs and peddle goods
Let us take the diagram, examine it in detail
Some channels they are wholesale, some are retail
You need only attach the tags
To make merchandise of your rags
Blessings and plagues descend upon the land
Where are the gods to protect us?
Think I see a shining hand
Let us take the masses and use them as our model
The rich and poor in their mansions and their hovels
Will we have the option to thrive?
Will there be a door to survive?
Here he come walking down the street
Got them funky ragged things on his feet
He got half a busted moon in his smile
Now I know he's walked that long and lonely mile
He's got the waistcoat made of sad, sad, sack
He see a red door and he want to paint it black
He's got a vote for you now if you dare
To not pretend that he's not there
Yeah, heÅ coming down on you
Yeah, what'cha you gonna do?
Your the only one walking down the street
He's the only one that you're likely to meet
At this hour baby,
You're so used to living in luxury
Greed's made you blind and you just can't see
So many people in the world today
Who won't ever have things their own way
You live protected, respected, inside the law,
You're sunny-side-up, he's wearing his yolk raw
You say you never took nothing he'd refuse,
He's living off the crap, man, that you can't use
This stupid production is making me think
That history's drawn in invisible ink
Too many graves and not enough houses
Not enough men and too many mouses
We're wearing new rags and we fight over crude
Not enough kind and too many rude
Flashbulbs popping at the Wicked Parade
Don't wake us up till we're all got it made
Smile for the camera and raise your glass
Pull up your socks till they cover your ass
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Damn, the torpedoes and take a bow
It'll always be now
All the children say, wow
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Covers are blown at the masquerade
When the rain starts falling on the Wicked Parade
Tell another lie hope you don't get caught
But you better not cry when your soul's been bought
Lifeboats floating out on the flood
Blood's thicker than water, love's thicker than blood
Another bullet leaves another mother bereft
And the sergeant says, "To the left"
Smile for the camera and raise your glass
Pull up your socks till they cover your ass
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Damn, the torpedoes and take a bow
It'll always be now
All the children say, wow
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
To the left, to the left
To the left, to the left
Smile for the camera and raise your glass
Pull up your socks till they cover your ass
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Damn, the torpedoes and take a bow
It'll always be now
All the children say, wow
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
To the left, to the left
To the left, to the left
To the left, to the left
To the left, to the left
Smile for the camera and raise your glass
Pull up your socks till they cover your ass
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Damn, the torpedoes and take a bow
It'll always be now
All the children say, wow
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Smile for the camera and raise your glass
Pull up your socks till they cover your ass
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Damn, the torpedoes and take a bow
It'll always be now
All the children say, wow
(Say goodbye, say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Wow, all the children say, wow
(Say goodbye)
No more mama's apple pie
Vampires in the sun
The sunset's rag is wringing
The night out of the day
The undercover lovers
Have run out of things to say
The singer's started singing
The strummers start to strum
The night is just beginning
For the vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
The night is always young
The moon's a chunk of silver
The night is like a dress
You can hear the ice cubes jingle
Like a diamond on a breast
The waves make a languid crashing
And lick us like a tongue
And wash the ashen ankles
Of the vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
The night is always young
The evening is undressing
And showing us her stars
The guilty are confessing
To the tenders of the bars
They're knocked out and nocturnal
They stay forever young
The moon, it shines eternal
On the vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
The night is always young
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
The night is always young
The night is always young
The night is always young
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
Vampires in the sun
In an office high above us all
An executive received an important phone call
He said, "Yes sir, I'll do all that I can"
Said, "Goodbye" and hung up with the Man
That's the Man pulling all the strings
That's the Man in charge of everything
And the trumpet sings
I'm tired of working for the Man
For the Man
I'm tired of working for the Man
Get up, get up, get out of bed
Another hopeless dawn dawns on the hopeful people
The bell strikes nine up in the steeple
People work hard, doing all they can
Putting money in the bank account of the Man
That's the Man pulling all the strings
That's the Man when the alarm clock rings
And the trumpet sings
Get up, get up, get out of bed
I'm tired of working for the Man
For the Man
I'm tired of working for the Man
Meanwhile back up in the office
They're making charts to graph the profits
They will work their whole life span
To line the pockets of the Man
That's the Man pulling all the strings
That's the Man in charge of everything
And the trumpet sings
I'm tired of working for the Man
For the Man
I'm tired of working for the Man
Get up, get up
I've been thinking lately, how to get you off my line
Don't seem all that easy but it feels alright
I've gotten rid of expectations that I used to have
And we don't get along, no it really ain't so bad, yes
Somewhere in between the blue and a red
And "This is temporary" is all she said, now
Someday things may be a little better than before
All these mysteries and they're knocking at my door
Alone in my room, I lay awake and dream
Sleeping half awake, I got to try to explain
I don't need your love and it means this much to me
I don't need your love, oh woman, won't you see? Yeah
Somewhere in between the blue and the red
And "This is temporary" is all she said, now
Someday things may be a little better than before
All these mysteries and they're knocking at my door
She must not realize what this means to me
I figured out her disguise, hey Mama, I'm not dreaming
I've been thinking lately, how to get you off my line
Don't seem all that easy but it feels alright
I've gotten rid of expectations that I used to have
And we don't get along, no it really ain't so bad, yes
Somewhere in between the blue and red
And "This is temporary" is all she said, now
Someday things may be a little better than before
Indifferent minds seek nothing
They wait to be told
They never stop talkin'
The way you talk to me
You give me the blues
I feel like walkin'
Expressions that the stories gave
Share your thoughts till they walk away
Revealing tales of kings and pawns
Tall grass, dragons and mountain songs
Break the thread of indifference
They'll suck the wind right from your soul
To never listen to the voice of memory
Is to die waiting for nothing
I'd rather kiss the empty blue
Than to stand here and waiting forever on you
On a trip in this place called time
[Unverified] no one lives, no one to find
Quiet streams of life gone by
Roll down the face of lovers
And in the early morning tears
We cry into each other
Sew the thread of indifference
It rolls on and on and on
Never listen to the voice of memory
CHORUS:
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends
I once knew a girl with a funky doo-wop
Spent all her money just to look like a mop.
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't no good
Yo mama's a pajama and she ain't got no friends
Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama
I love myself, I think I'm grand.
I like to sit and hold my hand
When I grow up I'll marry me,
And somehow form a little family
CHORUS
Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama
Yo ma, Yo pa, yo greasy grandma,
She got a big behind like frankenstein,
She go beep beep beep down Sesame Street.
CHORUS
Yo mama's a pajama,
Yo mama's a llama
Yo mama's a pajama
Ain't she sweet;
She get on down the street (x4)
CHORUS
I once knew a girl with a funky doo-wop
She spent all her money just to look like a mop.
CHORUS
I ask you very con-fidenti-al-ly
It's a funny way to tell you baby,
What could I do?
I've been talkin to the preacher,
And he sent me to you.
There's a penny on the sidewalk,
But you stepped on a crack
Mama's singing in the kitchen,
But she's clutchin' her back
There's a funny wind a-blowin'
Down the rays you your hair
Everybody doin' cartwheels baby,
But you're still in bed
You can tell me it's your nature, girl
But I don't buy that
I can tell you like to lie
Just by the tilt of your hat
One guy's laughing,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin'
And you lay sleeping
Tell me why you sleeping baby
One guy's laughing, mama,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin' down on the floor, mama
Tell me why you sleeping baby
I've been talking in the kitchen,
And I'm skinning a cat
I know you you wanna see my jackknife,
But I'm using a bat
Put the mutton on the table,
There's a fork by your plate
Someone told me you're starving,
But I know you just ate.
One guy's laughing,
One guy's weeping,
One guy's twitchin'
And you lay sleepin'
I saw you sighing by your window bright,
Touch my heart to be your acolyte
Sip fire-water from the golden cup
Drinks at my bedside, as I'm burning up.
Lady Kerosene, I can see the wreckage now,
Drinking gasoline, you keep on pumpin' it out somehow.
Now I'm at Ashland, baby, far away
I'm just a cinder of a summer's day.
Lady Kerosene, Prometheus' evil daughter;
You know what I mean,
I even asked him for a glass of water.
I always thought it was a gentle notion
I flew across the Atlantic Ocean
Rain is different there across the sea
it hits the Earth a little differently
Windshield wipers keep a steady time
Crosswords among the cliffs of lime
Beyond horizon and the clouds of devotion
Comes sunset's tendons from your crimson sun
Lady Kerosene (repeat 4 times)
Hey now Eddie all covered in confetti
CÅ on over here and gimme some of your spaghetti
Hey now Ed you big biscuit head
Stop cracking your toes and get your pig out my bed
Hey now Mack with your head in a crack
Your body in a bag and your flamingo in a sack
Hey now Chester you big baby bester
Who cuts your clothes the butcher or the jester?
Biscuit head why you have a biscuit head
Biscuit head a noteworthy biscuit head
Hey now Mabel why you looking for a label
I hope that uou donÅ get eaten in the fable
Hey now Nellie with an anchor on your belly
Shall I compare peanut butter to your jelly
Hey now fellow rocker youÅ e such a good talker
CanÅ chew gum and Rockefeller from your locker
Hey now Bill did you get your fill
CÅ on up the stairs come up and sign your will
Biscuit head you got a double decker biscuit head
ItÅ got you all laid up in bed
What time is it
Four-thirty
It's now late, naw, naw...
Just early, early, early
President, he sweat through his talcum
Newspaper man, he watch like a falcon
Ah, look ... daddy-o...sorry, Mr. President...where you been
Use a little English to doctor the spin.
What time is it
Four-thirty
It's now late, naw, naw...
Just early, early, early
Ayatollah, he's hopping mad
gibber about some old jihad
Send me back to old Baghdad
Spin doctor, shucks, it's oh so sad
What time is it
Four-thirty
It's now late, naw, naw...
Just early, early, early
It's my bread and butter
Ain't got no other
It's on the TV
The spins on me
Moonlight through the chickenwire humming window pane
Lukewarm water gasping down a rusty drane
Big towns in need of mending, streetlights shake toothsome beams
Denim shadows shuffle in between the beams
Different strokes for different folks so
Mind your manner and easy on the ethnic jokes
It's a dumbell curve you're trying to tally
All the way down to Shinbone Alley
Streets are metaccarpal and flesh of asphalt calm
Buildings rise like fingers from a concrete palm
Yellow lit apartment trickle through the drapes
Windows frame each history hidden even from the fire escapes
Sullen winter sparrow lands wing to expanse of grey
Six-thirty-two in the morning on Thanksgiving day
And the bums they hit the corners
The thunderkids rub their money
And the crack addicts stare at the snowflakes zig zagging
Down to the greet Jones
Seventy-two on the sour day, your barefeet sweep the parquet
And the light susprey white slanting past the microwave
Knuckles to eyeballs and elbows on the table
Spend the day gazing from your winter gable
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town
Been a whole lot happier without her face around
Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout
Nobody at the back door gonna throw my laundry out
She hold the shotgun while you dote-se-doe
She want one man made of Hercules and Cyrano
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch is gone
Little Miss, Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Ain't no body gonna bow no more when you sound your gong
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Whatcha go'n do to get into another one of these here
rock 'n' roll songs
Other people's thoughts they ain't your hand-me-downs
Would it be so bad to simply turn around
You cook so well, all nice and French
You do your brain surgery too, with a monkey wrench
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Ain't no body gonna bow no more when you sound your gong
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Whatcha go'n do to get into another one of these here
rock 'n' roll songs
I hope them cigarettes are gonna make you cough
Hope you hear this song and it pissed you off
I take that back: hope you're doing fine
And if I had a dollar, I might give you ninety-nine
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Ain't no body gonna bow no more when you sound your gong
Little Miss, Little Miss Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Whatcha go'n do to get into another one of these here
rock 'n' roll songs
I'm quite contented to take my chances
Against the Guildensterns and Rosencrantses
It's a matter of Cain and Abel
And I can feel your knee underneath the table
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me
See the pigeons peck and peck to pay the dues
They peck a little extra to re-sole their shoes
He's with the pigeons pecking crumbs
I'm on my death bed bleeding with the cherubim
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me
Ferocious angels send us falling stars
But I know just how dangerous wishes are
Ferocious angels watch me come and go
But I'm not too smart to go barging off of roof tops thanx
Sit out September on the windowsill
Cause you can't drink wine from a two dollar bill
Saint Christopher lives on the end of the quill
Leave him a diamond in your last will
He doesn't dangle by the seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him so
How could you want him when you know you could have me
Now our skys are falling down
And we have worn out all our frowns
And we have broken all our crowns
And been run out of all our towns
If it's the rod that wasn't spared
Or the ugly stick that you're below
Everybody took a licking and kept on ticking
Well, now still waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Tell me now, exactly how
Your heart was broken long ago?
It was devastating and you're still waiting
You're still waiting for the blow
I have no choice but to hold my voice
Before your sorry tale of woe
It's no surprise, I can empathize
We're all still waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
Tell me, baby, why you're waiting?
I want to know just where you're from
Trip to the floor, you're waiting for
You know the blow may never come
Take your chances, place your bets
'Cause you know, you never know
If it never arrives we waste our lives
We're still waiting for the blow
Waiting for the, waiting for the blow
One, two princes kneel before you
That what I said now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now
This one he got a princely racket
That's what I said now
Got some Big Seal upon his jacket
Ain't in his head now
You marry him, your father will condone you
How 'bout that now
You marry me, your father will disown you
He'll eat his hat, now
Marry him, marry me
I'm the one that loved you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought be
Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you wanted to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
Said one, two princes kneel before you
That what I said now
Princes, princes who adore you
Just go ahead now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one said he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now
Marry him, marry me
I'm the one that loved you baby can't you see?
Ain't got no future or family tree
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be
I know what a prince and lover ought be
Said if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you wanted to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
And if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
And if you like to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
If you want to call me baby
Just go ahead now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead now
If you want to buy me flowers
Just go ahead now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead now
Oh Baby!
Just go ahead now
Just just go ahead now
Oh, your majesty!
Just go ahead now
Come on forget the King who... marry me!
Just go ahead now
Come on, come on, come on
Just go ahead now
Go ahead now
[Note: cover of K.C. & The Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like It)" with changes]
[Biz beatboxes for a couple of seconds before beat begins]
[Biz]
Here we go
Here we go
Oooooooooooooh
[Chorus: Biz Markie singing (Spin Doctors)]
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
[Chris Barron of Spin Doctors]
When you take me, by the hand
Tell me I'm, your lovin' man, OH!
[Biz Markie]
When you give me, all your love
And do the best, the very best you can (the very best you can)
[Chorus: Biz Markie w/ Chris Barron singing (Spin Doctors)]
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
Oooooh, that's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, yeaaaaaah (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
[Biz Markie and Chris Barron overlaps]
When I give you me, in your home
When we're all, all alooooooone
When you whisper, sweet in my ear
When you turn, oh, you turn me on
[Chorus: Biz Markie w/ Chris Barron singing (Spin Doctors)]
Ohhhhhh, that's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
Oooooh, that's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like it, yeaaaaaah (uh-huh, uh-huh)
That's the way, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
I like iiiiiiiiiit, (uh-huh, uh-huh)
[horn solo]
[Biz]
AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUU!!!!!! Funky!
YAUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!
AAAAARF!!!
AAARRRF!!!!
Come-come-come-come-come-come-come to me baby
Camma-camma-camma-gaffa baby
One two AHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Baby, oh baby!
Baby, WOOOOOO, baby!
Baaaaaa-by, oh baby!
Baby, break it down, AAUUUUUUUUUUUUWW!!!!!!!
[Biz Markie and Chris Barron overlaps]
When you take me, by the hand
Tell me I'm your, lovin' maaaaaan
When you give me all your love
And do the best, do it the best you can (the very best you can)
[Chorus]
What you don't got, I can't give to you
You got calamities to go live through
Just when the nickels come a jingling down
You've got to use them all to get out of town
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
Hey sissy baby, why you all alone?
You got both your hands upon your big old stone
Hey sissy baby, push that stone towards the sky
Hey sissy baby, why you curtsy so high?
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
You're the kingpin in your end of town
My kid sister come and take you crown
Just when you think you got your system down
What you got going up and come around
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah, yeah
That's my kid sister, Sisyphus, oh
That's the queen you been dancing with
That's the queen you been dancing with, yeah
Far and away where the waves unwind
And the toothy rock crashes
Wet ankled women with splashed salty hems
Clear their throats and bat eyelashes
They're the sirens and their silver breath
Makes the sailor's favorite sound
But if you hear that siren song
My friend you're sure to drown
Drive them sailors crazy
(Ooh la la)
And leave them wanting more
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
(Draw you)
Far and away where the neon light
Lays languid on the bar room floor
Bright sashed sirens with their second guesses
Have a bite worse than their roar
They drive them sailors crazy
(Ooh la la)
And leave them wanting more
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
(Draw you)
They drive them sailors crazy
And leave them wanting more
(Ooh la la)
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
(Draw you)
If you go down to the ocean
Put your money in your sock
'Cause those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
Wreck a man upon the rocks
If you go down to the ocean
If you go down to the sea
Find a red lipped lady in a siren dress
And bring her back for me
They drive them sailors crazy
(Ooh la la)
And leave them wanting more
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
(Draw you)
They drive them sailors crazy
(Ooh la la)
And leave them wanting more
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
(Draw you, oh yeah)
They drive them sailors crazy
(Ooh la la)
And leave them wanting more
Those red lipped ladies in their siren dresses
They draw you through the door
Moonlight through the chicken wire, humming window pane
Lukewarm water gasping down a rusty drain
Big town's in need of mending, street lights make tooth some seams
Denim shadows shuffle in between the beams
Different strokes for different folks so
Mind your manner and easy on the ethnic jokes
It's a dumbbell curve, you're trying to tally
All the way down to shin bone alley
Streets are metacarpal and flesh of asphalt calm
Buildings rise like fingers from a concrete palm
Yellow lit apartment trickle through the drapes
Windows frame each history hidden even from the fire escapes
Sullen winter sparrow lends wing to expanse of grey
Six-thirty-two in the morning on Thanksgiving day and the bums
They hit their corners, the thunder bird rubs their bones and the crack
Addicts stare at the snowflakes zigzagging down to greet Jones
Different strokes for different folks so
Seven-thirty-two on the same day, your bare feet on the parquet
And the light so papery white shining past the microwave
Knuckles to eyeballs and elbows on the table
Your heart is a refrigerator car
It's cold and it never waits
Frozen breath and frostbite
Stacked, unopen crates
You never loved your frozen freight
Perishables and bloodless meat
You rolling snowball soul of sleet
You never wait
You roll across the desert
And clack across the sand
Though snakes may fry outside
Flowers crumble petrified in your hand
Your heart's a paid off porter
You lied to spare your soul
With one are you blow your brains out
And with the other you dig the hole
You never loved your frozen freight
Perishables and bloodless meat
You rolling snowball soul of sleet
You never wait
Grey ice in your hinges
Sliding doors shut frozen locked
Airtight every tiny hole
With hard white putty blocked
You never loved your frozen freight
Perishables and bloodless meat
You rolling snowball soul of sleet
I know she's got everything she wants
I know she's got everything she needs
I know she needs that more than she knows
I know she's got everything she wants
I know she's got everything she needs
I know she needs that more than she knows
She come on so sweet and kind
I wonder if I'm on her mind
She always turns away
I know I'll get her, one of these days
I know she's got everything she wants
I know she's got everything she needs
I know she needs that more than she wants, hey
I know she's got everything she wants
I know she's got everything she needs
I know she needs that more than she knows
Has more than she knows wants, yeah
More than she knows wants
More than she knows wants, yeah
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town
Been a whole lot happier without her face around
Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout,
Nobody at the back door gonna throw my laundry out
She hold the shotgun while you do-si-do
She want one man made of Hercules and Cyrano
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch is gone
Little miss, little miss can't be wrong
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
Ain't nobody gonna bow no more when you sound your gong.
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong
What'cha gonna do to get into another one of these Rock 'n' roll songs?
Other peoples' thoughts they ain't your hand-me-downs
Would it be so bad to simply turn around
You cook so well, all nice and French
You do you brain surgery too, with a monkey wrench
Little miss, little miss, little miss can't be wrong...
I hope those cigarettes gonna make you cough
Hope you hear this song and it pissed you off
I take that back I hope your doing fine
And if I had a dollar I might give you ninety-nine
Now I know you're only heavy with your gold
Drag your feet so slowly like you hate to go
Oh, the more I walk on eggshells, the more I step on nails
I got a million plans but each one fails
I'd rather you treat me like I treat you, I treat you
Me treat you the way you tend to do
'Cause I love the way you like me, I'd like you to love me so
I can see your heart is hunting for a place to go
The more I learn to hover, the less I learn to fly
The bigger I laugh, harder I cry
I'd rather you treat me like I treat you, I treat you
Me treat you the way you tend to do
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Oh, the bigger I laugh, yeah, harder I cry
Now I know you're lonely, your picture tells me so
You drag your feet so slowly like you hate, hate to go
The more I learn to live, the more I hate to die
The bigger I laugh, harder I cry
I'd rather you treat me like I treat you, I treat you
Me treat you the way you tend to do
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Oh, the bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Oh, the bigger I laugh, harder I cry
Bigger I laugh, harder I cry
I don't think I can handle this
A cloudy day in metropolis
Well I think I'll talk to my analyst
I got it so bad for this little journalist
Drive me up the wall and through the roof
Lois and Clark in a telephone booth
I think I'm going out of my brain
I got it so bad for little Miss Lois Lane
Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no super man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
He's leaping buildings in a single bound
And I'm reading Shakespeare at my place downtown
Come on downtown and make love to me
I'm Jimmy Olsen not a titan, you see
He's faster than a bullet, stronger than a train
He's the one who got lucky got his cape around Miss. Lois Lane
I can't believe my dilemma is real
I'm competing with the man of steel
Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no super man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
Oh Miss Lois Lane, got a pocket full of
I don't think I can handle this
A cloudy day in metropolis
Well I think I'll talk to my analyst
I got it so bad for this little journalist
Lois Lane please put me in your plan
Yeah, Lois Lane you don't need no super man
Come on downtown and stay with me tonight
I, I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I, I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I, I got a pocket full of Kryptonite
I'm quite contented to take my chances
Against the Guildensterns and Rosenkrantzes
It's a matter of Cain and Abel
And I can feel your knee underneath the table
He doesn't dangle by the Seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him
So how could you want him
When you know you could have me?
See the pigeons peck and peck to pay the dues
But they peck a little extra to resole their shoes
He's with the pigeons, pecking crumbs
I'm on my deathbed bleeding with the Cherubims
He doesn't dangle by the Seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him
So how could you want him
When you know you could have me?
Ferocious angels send me falling stars
But I know just how dangerous wishes are
Ferocious angels watch me come and go
But I'm not too smart
To go barging off of roof tops though, no
Sit out September on a window sill
'Cause you can't drink wine from a two dollar bill
Saint Christopher lives on the end of a quill
Leave him a diamond in your last will
He doesn't dangle by the Seraphim
He only wants a pretty face by him
So how could you want him
When you know you could have me?
How could you want him
When you know you could have me?
How could you want him
When you know you could have me?
How could you want him
When you know you could have me?
How could you want him
When you know you could have me?
You could have me
You could have me
This is my house where I hang around
As soon as I get up, I start to get down
You don't need a place to stay
Our house is any old place we play
This is my house if you don't like it
Just get outta
Get outta
Get outta
Came up so fast, gave me the bends
Now I'm staring into a camera lens
From rags to riches and back again
But this is my house and I say when
This is my house
This is my house, you know that's final
It's made of plastic, magnetic tape and vinyl
This is my house, now doncha know
We move in every time you turn on your radio
Here she comes on down the aisle
Behind her veil she wears a smile
In her hands the bright bouquet
Daddy's here to give the bride away
Best man fumbles for the band
Groom puts it on her trembling hand
Almost before the vows are through
In her calmest voice she says, "I do"
(Here comes the bride)
Something old
(Here comes the bride)
Something new
(Here comes the bride)
Something borrowed and something blue
(Here comes the bride)
She hears the sound of little feet
But first there's a wedding cake to eat
Guests line up to kiss the bride
The groom feels like a lucky guy
Up above the church bells ring
Preacher says which Psalm to sing
There was silence 'til a bride's maid sighed
And someone said, "Here comes the bride"
(Here comes the bride)
Something old
(Here comes the bride)
Something new
(Here comes the bride)
Something borrowed and something blue
(Here comes the bride)
{You may now kiss the bride, kiss the bride
You may now, you may now kiss the bride}
The veil goes back revealing bliss
The groom leans in to take his kiss
(Here comes the bride)
Something old
(Here comes the bride)
Something new
(Here comes the bride)
Something borrowed and something blue
(Here comes the bride)
(Here comes the bride)
Something old
(Here comes the bride)
Something new
(Here comes the bride)
Something borrowed and something blue
(Here comes the bride)
Here comes the bride
Here comes the bride
Here comes the bride
Here comes the bride
Yeah, call him a monkey, call him dumb
He was first in line for an opposable thumb
Yeah, see him boppin' on down the street
He got opposable thumbs down on his feet
Gorilla girls sing, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Yeah, see him swinging on through the trees
I say, he knew Tarzan personally
Oh, Tarzan thinks he's a little vain
But he doesn't know what's gotten into Jane
I gotta tell you, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Well, he loved Gorilla girl and his love was so strong
They'd do the double date with old King Kong
And he loved Gorilla girl and his love was so strong
She'd get Chiquita Banana in, all night long
Gorilla girls sing, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla boy, ooh, get on me
Gorilla boy, yeah, yeah, yeah
Get on me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla girls sing, get on me, get on me, get on me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla girls sing, get on me, get on me, get on me
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla girls sing, gorilla girls sing, gorilla girls sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Gorilla girls sing, gorilla girls sing, gorilla girls sing
Yeah, yeah, yeah, get on me
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Another young man murdered on the TV there
It seems so far from my comfy chair
The world isn't good, the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy and the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
The thing about the world is it's gone mad
The only world that we've ever had
The only world that we can use
It's big and round and it's got the blues
The thing about the world is
The world isn't good, the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy, the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
In a world gone mad, in a world gone mad
In a world gone mad, in a world gone mad
In a world gone mad
Business man sittin' on a big empire
Only took one day to set a Rome on fire
Food on the table in the lucky cases
Sweet expressions on the children's faces
The thing about the world is
The world isn't good the world ain't bad
The world ain't happy and the world ain't sad
The thing about the world is it's gone mad, it's gone mad
The thing about the world is
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
How could they all be wrong?
I get the feeling it was different here
Before we came along
Everybody's talking 'bout the good old days
Forty or fifty horses lying in a lot
Red raincoats and rifles, an epidemic has been stopped
Scientist speaks, "What are you wondering about?"
He got where he is by turning lab mice inside out
Things we do and have to do
And the things I do for you
And what you do for me too
The 'Yea, but I' and any other excuse
And if take it forgiven then what's the use?
All his possessions around him in his house
Lying beside him his companion and his spouse
And in the morning he dress and go to hell
All activated by a little timer bell
Things we do and have to do
And the things I do for you
And what you do for me too
The 'Yea, but I' and any other excuse
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
Love is a super power like an endless sea
I will swim to you if you will swim to me
I can drink your song, I'm drunken from your sound
If this is love then let me drown in it, let me drown
What a perfect night to forget your pain
And finally see the lights after forty nights of rain
Little boy blue, come blow your horn
A melody yet to be born
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight, the fisherman's delight
Once I was on the hill, now I am in the hole
But there's a hope that prances
In the footlights of my soul, in a sea of sadness
Find me drop of gladness just to fill my bowl
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight, the fisherman's delight
Keep it real with me
Keep a deal with me
Come on
Lovers fill the streets and drag their leaden feet
Somehow they always seem to cry
Bombs and blessings, everybody's guessing
What will next fall from the sky
I will lay before you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
I will lay beside you on this long and lonely night
'Cause the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
The flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight
Said, the flood that drowns the sailor
Is the fisherman's delight, the fisherman's delight
Keep it real with me
Keep a deal with me
Your voice was frightened and kind of dreamy
You said you simply had to see me
And there you were with your martini
Your diamonds were large and your dress was teeny
Dodging assassins two by two
They want your ruby slippers and your little dog, too
Your words had me shaken
Your dress had me stirred
I guess I didn't answer
'Cause you asked if I had heard
In your face I watched the lines
The growing lines of anguish
In the air I watched the smoke
From your cigarette languish
There in your face I saw the light
Like you, a fugitive of the night
I took a shot and I said that I might
Help you to dodge your assassins
Dodging assassins two by two
They want your ruby slippers and your little dog, too
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Little dog and all
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Little dog and all
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Like Dorathy I fall
Little dog and all
There's vampires in the sun
My dear one, they want a piece of you
They want your ruby slippers, baby
And I know they want your little dog, too
Dodging assassins two by two
They want your ruby slippers and your little dog, too
Dodging assassins two by two
They want your ruby slippers and your little dog, too
I don't know why they want you dead
But now that I've helped you, I think they also want my head
I don't know why they want a piece of you
You know my boat has holes
I see you brought your gales
I see you brought you souls
To leave inside my sails
And oh I love you all
Others more than some
You dear best of all
Know where my boat is from
Oh I love you all
Others more than some
Dear you best of all
Know where my boat is from
She had eyes all wild and free
All she had the soul of a guitar
Like a diamond on the sea
Like a stolen burning star
There was no playing lame
There was no playing dumb
You know she knew my name
And where my boat is from
All my rights and wrongs
You know she knew the sum
You know she knew my song
And where my boat is from
Oh I love you all
Others more than some
Dear you best of all
Know where my boat is from
You know where my boat is from
My boat is from
Diamonds brightly burn
Inside my broken heart
We never did return
We never can depart
Don't know where I've been
I don't know where to come
And I've had to swim
To where my boat is from
Oh I love you all
Others more than some
Dear you best of all
Know where my boat is from
You know where my boat is from
My boat is from, my boat is from
Cleopatra's favorite cat
Got his hands on Caesar's spats
The heat was on as you could see
So he front 'em to Mark Antony
Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me."
Caesar had an eye for clothes
He saw them spats and said, "I like those."
Caesar had no thing to say, except
"Jesu Christi Domine
Et tu, Brute
Jesu Christi Domine
Et tu, Brute."
The senate tried to sympathize
It was the cat they should despise
Informant told his whereabouts
Centurions to seek him out
Centurions! There go the centurions
Brutus had to turn his head
When this cat done went and said
"If he's got this thing for shoes
He just might be ambitious, too
They got holidays all in his name
And all a tyrant needs is fame
Those fascists don't play pretty games
Egypt is the place to be
But Rome is a democracy
Rome!"
Caesar never got them back
'Cause they killed his ass in the second act
Brutus spoke, then Antony
Said, "My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me
Friends, Romans, can't you see
My girlfriend's cat is smarter than me
Egypt's biggest rivalry
My baby's nice, she's so polite
Said, "Please" when she ask me stay the night
She's around the house and she love me so real
She pickin' up a little bit of my rising, rising dough
Good lordy, God, my gosh, almighty
Her booty fine and it's trimmed so tidy
Horseradish, mama, just a smidgen
Spend a whole lotta time peekin' into
Your big old kitchen fridge
Gotta love it, that's my duty
She gotta big, fat, funky booty
Not above it, makes me moody
Whole mess of big, fat, funky booty
Waoh, sweet sugar plum
I'm crippled, blind, a little deaf and dumb
It's wonderful, could I get a little more?
'Cause it's about as wide as my big old garage door when
We're in bed and it's late at night, oh
She put her arms around me and she hold me tight
And I say, "No baby, no baby, no"
But I sure could use a lil' bit of your booty though
Gotta love it, it's my duty
She gotta big fat funky booty
Not above it, makes me moody
Whole mess of big fat funky booty
My baby's nice, she's so polite
Said, "Please" when she ask me stay the night
She's around the house, she love me so
She pickin' up a little bit of my rising dough
Good lordy, God, my gosh, almighty
Her booty fine and it's trimmed so tidy
Horseradish, mama, just a smidge
Spend a whole lotta time peekin' into
Your big old kitchen fridge
Gotta love it, it's my duty
She gotta big, fat, funky booty
Not above it, makes me moody
Whole mess of big, fat, funky booty
Gotta love it, it's my duty
She gotta big, fat, funky booty
Not above it, makes me moody
Whole mess of big, fat, funky booty, yeah
The more things change, the more they stay the same
And the more it rains, the less I know
Why do these foreign skies change the way home?
Why do these hotel walls hang their strangeness on my own?
Oh mama, I'm gonna roll with a truckload of hurt
These wheels have rolled across I don't know how many bags of dirt
Barefoot in the back of the van
Tossing an arcing empty soda can
Long ways, long days, waitresses frayed
And underpaid we were harried and waylaid
We arrived that evening and not a moment too soon
Finding a place it was, you may say, cool
Oh mama, I'm gonna roll with a truckload of hurt
These wheels have rolled across I don't know how many bags of dirt
These sketches of an infinite architecture
Are ink and unconfirmed conjecture
A dream glimpse of the puppeteer's knuckle
A fragment of a fraction of a gesture
And when the ghost whispers, I'll set down all I hear
A garbled, shorthand outline by a marionette in fear
Oh mama, I'm gonna roll with a truckload of hurt
These wheels have rolled across I don't know how many bags of dirt
Oh mama, I'm gonna roll with a truckload of hurt
When I hear that train a-coming from the junction
Troublin' my mind is it's favorite function
It makes that crying on that old air horn
Middle of the night, I can hear it mourn
The world is a stone, hanging in the night
The train's a woman and she leaves behind a light
Love is gone, I mean washed out in the rain
Leaving town and mumbling something 'bout a train
Oh, 'bout a train
My head is full of sky and my boots are full of ocean
And stolen designs for perpetual motion
Love scarred and shattered, tattered and unfolding
Silent man, he won't tell me, he won't tell me what it is
What it is he's holding
World is a stone it's hanging in the night
Train's a woman and she leaves behind a light
Love is gone, I mean washed out in the rain
Leaving town and mumbling something 'bout a train
Oh, 'bout a train
My heart is a stone and my head is a canyon
Far off lonely home is my only companion
Love is gone, I mean washed out in the rain
Leaving town, mumbling something 'bout a train
Oh, 'bout a train
Oh, 'bout a train
'Bout a train
'Bout a train
There she goes, on down the beach
Just like the moon, she's out of reach
Losing my mind, already lost my girl
Blew the top right off my pretty world
CHORUS
Oh, she used to be mine
She used to be mine
She used to be mine
She used to be mine
'Til I saw her with another man ('nother man)
'Til I saw her with another man (hand in hand)
'Til I saw her with another man ('nother man)
'Til I saw her with another man (hand in hand)
Oh, there she goes, on out of my life
She's my ex, thought she'd be my wife
Kept my ring, my wedding band
Keeps it on the same finger but on the other hand
CHORUS
I can taste her mouth
Taste her tears
I can hear what she used to say
She'd be looking up from her coffee cup
And through the steam I can see her glance away
I miss her hand on my hip
Tongue on my lips
Lips on my cup of tea
I miss the way she'd lie
And the way she'd sigh
When she'd lie right down
Just next to me
CHORUS
She used to be mine (x8)
She used to be mine
Oh, oh she used to be mine
Ooh, oh oh, yeah-eah
Saw her with another man, saw her with another man
Saw her with another man, saw her with another man
Saw her with another man, saw, till I saw her with a
The ruthless turbaned bandit
Turns his back upon the cradle
As angry as you ever can recall
And even though it's raining
You're yet to join the flowers on the wall
I've waited for a chance
To paint your blue town red
Slept where monsters dance
On the flowers in your hand
Fools go rushing in
Where angels fear to tread
The late night contingent
Has a question that it poses
And they're smoking all
The flowers you've arranged
And the blind poet enters
Beheading all you roses
To make up for the beauty
You've regained
I've waited for a chance...
A heart may break in a twist of fate
And be thrown upon the pile
My bed still whirls though I see other girls
When I stare a thousand miles
A heart may break in a certain time and place
But a friend still knows
If it's her kiss on your smile
Your yellow dressed Athena
Assaults your very windows
And troubles all the clouds
Around your bed
And in the nearby land of the lovers
The one-eyed man is crazy
'Cause lovers are too blind
To hear a word that the fool has said
The streets are lined with gold
The cheese is full of mold
Oh, come into the fold with me
Global domination
While it sparks my imagination
It kills the vegetation
Ant it's not my cup of tea
The stairs are high and winding
My brother is divining
The empire is declining
But the wine is old
It's never sweet enough
And a little too tough
And they play a bit too rough
And they talk a little bit too cold
Say there's another color
Just say it on a bet
You know it's true
Though you haven't heard it yet
They're playing it for keeps
Like pieces on a board
You know it's true
Though you haven't heard before
Welcome to the decline
It's going just fine
It's good for the wine
And it's good for the forces
You can run but you can't hide
And beggars would ride
If they had the horses
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Beggars would ride
If wishes were horses
Oh, beggars would ride
Beggars would ride
The carousel is burning
The model's eyes are yearning
The tables aren't turning
But the lunch is free
And it's never cheap enough
And it's always the same stuff
And they forever call your bluff
And forever get their fee
Say there's another color...
There is no limitation
Set upon this nation
What is our station
And relationship?
What about the pollution
And the constitution?
What is the purpose
Of this burning branch I grip?
If wishes were horses
You've got to believe in something
It's a lonely universe
Be careful what you wish for
Cause your improvement might be worse
Birth is a missing persons file
It's a case of role reversal
Life is a play...
Sometimes I can remember the rehearsal
You've got to believe in nothing
There's an awful lot out there
There's an awful lot in make up
Some in every perfect hair
You know I lose a lot of sleep
Wondering if nothing would ever desert us
But I know they don't know nothing
And what they don't know can't hurt us
I want to tell you
This guy wants to charge you a nickel
I want to tell you
This guy wants to charge you a dime
I want to tell you
I'm 'o' charge you a five dollar bill
And show you a real fine time
real fine time
There's a candy coated iguana
Behind curtain number one
And a sixteen dollar bill
For every pregnant flying nun
They got a soda-pop that'll save the wold
It's a tonic and an elixir
It's a get-you-laid
Better-paid
Guaranteed all-round life-fixer
I want to tell you
This guy wants you to change a twenty
I want to tell you
This guy wants you to change a ten
I want to tell you
This guy knows you already did it
But he wants you to do it again
Do it again
You've got to believe in something
It's a lonely universe
Be careful what you wish for
Cause your improvement might be worse
Birth is a missing persons file
It's a case of role reversal
Life is a play, they say
Sometimes I can remember the rehearsal
I want to tell you
Some say life is a blessing
I want to tell you
Some say life is a curse
I want to tell you
Some say life is a play
But you get no time to rehearse
And you got to believe in something
Cause it's a lonely universe
We were on a vacation
In a turbulent nation
Guess it's part my fault
For not hauling you down
To the train station
There's no ring on your finger
Fly away don't you linger
It's simply absurd
To think she's a bird
Just because she's a singer
Don't you bring her round
Don't you bring her round
Don't you bring her round
Don't you bring her round
Does it make you wonder
Why the innocent blunder?
When you sit in the sun
You should just have fun
Not summon the thunder
She's just like the mama
Generating a trauma
And I don't see why
You're still willing to try
When it's all just a drama
Don't you bring her round...
She's a taker, not a giver
And I can't believe you're still with her
She would've sold you down the river
And I can't believe you're still with her
We were on a vacation
In an idyllic nation
Guess it's part my fault
For not pouring the salt
On your frustration
You're afraid to be lonely
Well you're not the only
Better to feel the pain
And to run through the rain
Than to live like a phoney
Riches and roads bring brigands hither
Riches and roads bring brigands bold
Brigands deck their ears with hoops of silver
Brigands diz' their ears with hoops of gold
Threshes make a broom to sweep up threshes
Straws can make a broom to sweep up straw
Spilt milk makes a pool for drowning fishes
Lovers make a virtue of a flaw
Angels above, devils below
Flies on honey
Dogs on a doe
Dogs on a doe
South wind sues the seer with songs of mildness
North wind sues the seer with songs of ice
Kings can make a war to sue for sugar
Queens can make a war to sue for spite
Angels above, devils below
Flies on honey
Dogs on a doe
Dogs on a doe
Riches and roads bring brigands hither
Riches and roads bring brigands bold
Brigands deck their ears with hoops of silver
Brigands diz' their ears with hoops of gold
Threshes make a broom to sweep up threshes
Straws can make a broom to sweep up straw
Spilt milk makes a pool for drowning fishes
Lovers make a virtue of a flaw
Angels above, devils below
Flies on honey
Angels above, devils below
Flies on honey
Dogs on a doe
Dogs on a doe
Dogs on a doe
I've held your hand and sunk your ships
And I can read our future in the whiskey on your lips
Watch this ice a-melting; cool glass magnify my palms
And from the church on Sunday evening comes the sifted sound of psalms
Things they go and then come around to stops
Now my baby? just a breeze through the treetops
Glass in my hand, my back to the door
My one consolation is I ain? your man anymore
The Drop
Oh, I worry just about the drop
Oh, I worry just about the drop
'Cause it's not the fall that kills you,
But, the sudden stop
Machiavelli on the door
The shogun dropped his chopsticks in the bowl
Oh, you might be a pastor, but you never pay the toll
I'm flippin' from left to right
Oh, I'm flippin' like a moth tonight
I could never ask your baby,
I'll wish for you tonight
I'll wish for you
I worry just about the drop
I worry about the drop
'Cause it's not the fall that kills you,
It's that sudden stop
That sudden stop, now
Is she alligator
Yeah, she's a crocodile
She got that ancient?
That's just hanging out of her smile
When she called you at the keyhole, brother
She knew it all the while
Oh, I worry just about the drop
Oh, I worry (I'm so worried, mama) about the drop
'Cause it's not the fall that kills you,
Here she comes
Words cannot describe what just befilled my eyes
I never saw a vision so beautified
I almost turned away to take the bad bouquet
And to a country raised her fingertips and tear filled eyes
She walked across the floor, the crowd called out for more
Flash boots froze their expressions in the limousine
Though I've been 'lone, I know I can subsist
Eh, it give me comfort just to realize that she exists
Oh, Miss America, look on me
I'm not the most handsome one you'll ever see
Oh Miss America, I love you
Though we may never meet my name's America
My name's America too, my name's America too
She be putting lullabies on your lips
Oh, you saw enough to launch a thousand ships
You kicked her off to put your hands upon your hips
Let lonely take her to the places where the honey drips, yeah
Oh, Miss America, look on me
I'm not the most handsome one you'll ever see
Oh Miss America, I love you
Though we may never meet my name's America
My name's America too, my name's America too
Here she comes, Miss America
Here she comes, Miss America
Here she comes, Miss America
Here she comes, here she comes
Oh, Miss America, look on me
I'm not the most handsome one you'll ever see
Oh Miss America, I love you
Though we may never meet my name's America
My name's America too, my name's America too
Here she comes, Miss America
Here she comes, Miss America
Here she comes, Miss America
[Spoken:]
Not in this lifetime,
Or even, even in the next
I could go a million places,
Meet a million girls
But none... none would compare to you (none)
For example...
It was pure coincidence
I met her on the block when
She was from the land of Venus
Her voice was like the perfect song
Brown eyes, hair long
Chemistry was good between us
Met another on a charter plane,
On my way back from Spain
Her name was Maria
(Maria)
But I don't really need her
(I don't need her)
'Cause the fact of the matter is
[Chorus:]
Even if I took her number to call her
(She's not you)
If we laid down there'd be no love involved
(She won't do)
Ooo she can't do me like you can 'cause, no
(She's not you)
See my mind is made up
I don't wanna wake up
I don't wake up and roll over if
(She's not you no)
Lips full hips wide
Dancer at 55
Make you wish you was her pole
Drinks done, last call (where)
Gotta go we can never be involved
Had a video shoot
Real petite, pretty cute
Met a girl by the name of Suzanne
(Suzanne)
Just like Maria
(Maria)
I don't need her
(I don't need her)
Cause the fact of the matter is
[Chorus:]
Even if I took the 7 digits tryna be slick
(She's not you)
If I cross the line laid with her one time, ooo
(She won't do)
She won't do, do do do do do like you do no no
(She's no you)
Plus my mind is made up
I don't wanna wake up
Don't wanna wake up and roll over if
(She's not you no)
She don't compare to you baby
Mm mmm mmm mm
She,
She don't cook like you baby
Mm mmm mmm mm
And if she did,
Probably wouldn't be good as yours
Forever and ever and ever,
Forever and ever and ever
So...
You belong to me
[Chorus:]
Even if I took her number hey hey yea
(She's not you)
And I called her 1 time trying to be slick 1 time and lay with her
(she won't do)
She won't do, do me like you do, no no
(She's not you)
Plus my mind is made up,
I don't wanna wake up
Don't wanna roll over and over if she's not you
I don't want no breakfast from her in the morning
(She's not you)
365 days of the year, all I want is you
(She won't do)
Even if I tried to be slick, cross the line, lay with her one time
(She's not you)
See my mind is made up
I don't wanna wake up
I don't wanna wake up to no one, no no
(She's not you)
The prophet said to David
"Someday you'll be King
So go on down to King Saul's house
And let him hear you sing
Don't worry what you hear
Don't worry what you see
Don't you worry 'bout his spear
Because my David you got the Key"
You got the Key to the Kingdom...
Jesse said to David
"Goliath's in the vale
What makes you think you'll bring him low
When all our best have failed?"
David said to Jesse
"Just go tell the King for me
I can beat Goliath
'cause I got the Key"
I got the Key to the Kingdom
(If your heart is bold then the Key is gold)
I got the Key to the Kingdom
(If your heart is kind then the Key you'll find)...
David said to Solomon
When he was about to die
"You're gonna build my temple
When I'm by the good, The Good Lord's Side
Don't you worry Son
Able you will be
You can do anything
'cause my Son, you got the Key"
You got the Key to the Kingdom
(If your heart is bold then the Key is gold)
You got the Key to the Kingdom
(If your heart is kind then the Key you'll find)...
Graphite skies of Brooklyn calmly drape Fourth Avenue
Fifteen-year-old gangsters have a honey-dipped or two
In Arabic, some patrons shoot the breeze
Jeez, Louise
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
Hungry Hamed's, baby, just three blocks from Bergen Street
Well, you can have a little cry, baby, you can even beg
Only reason I go back is that you can't screw up an egg
Sometimes they treat you worse when you say please
They forget the ham or cheese
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
Hungry Hamed's, baby, just three blocks from Bergen Street
I'm beige and funky, like a rubber band
I'm a lapis-eyed devil with my pen in hand
It takes flour and chocolate for an angel cake
Say now, Hamed, whatcha do with all them donuts that you bake.
My roommates won't go with me, though it's only blocks away.
Chandler holds a grudge from about five years ago today.
Some sign about free soda was a scam.
Well, that's Chan.
Hungry Hamed's, baby, count your change
Said the food's a little funky and the atmosphere is mange
Sam's upset at Hamed and Hamed's on his feet
The preacher said, "richer or poorer",
My mama said, "thick or thin",
You can kiss me, baby
When it's time to get thick again
And, baby, you know it's simple
It's just a matter of common sense
I want you to love me, baby,
'til tomorrow can pay the rent
Tomorrow can pay the rent
My friends all think I'm crazy
But my angel knows I'm okay
Forget about tomorrow
We got our hands full with today
And, baby, you know it's simple
It's just a matter of common sense
I want you to love me, baby,
'til tomorrow can pay the rent
Tomorrow can pay the rent
When I wake up in the morning
And see you in the light
You can love me, baby, love me with all your might
When I lay down in the evening
And see you in the shade
I feel your touch and I know I've got it made
Got it made
I'm gonna listen for your laughter
I'm gonna kiss you into next year
I got my blue bandana
In case I need to dry your tears
And, baby, you know it's simple
It's just a matter of common sense
I want you to love me, baby,
'til tomorrow can pay the rent
Tomorrow can pay the rent
Woke up this morning
The vision in my head
Looks so good
I flipped right back to bed
Stream run to the ocean
Ocean run down to the sea
If the river was whiskey
You'd have no trouble drowning me
Haven't felt this good
Since I don't know when
Whatever bit ends up dead
Wanna do it all again
Stream run to the ocean
Ocean run down to the sea
If the river was whiskey
You'd have no trouble drowning me
Dollar in my pocket
Good girl on my arm
Nothing gonna stop me short
Of an atomic bomb
Stream run to the ocean
Ocean run down to the sea
If the river was whiskey
You'd have no trouble drowning me
I feel so fine
Mama, please don't make me blue
If you ever leave me
I'm gonna come with you
Stream run to the ocean
Ocean run down to the sea
And if the river was whiskey
You'd have no trouble drowning me
And if the river was whiskey
The coffee at the hospital
Was a low-down nasty sludge
I got 19 compound fractures and
I'm talking to the judge
And if that judge don't bust you,
I'll take you to the one that will
'cause I would not be in traction if I did not fall in love
Call me a dumbell, call me a spoiled slug,
I tumbled down your staircase,
And I'm taking you to court.
If that court don't bust you, mama,
I'll take you to the one that will
'cause I would not be in traction if I did not fall in love
(oh no!)
I would not be on my feet,
I swear by God above.
My arm and first 3 fingers
Are in a plaster glove
I would not be in traction if I did not fall in love
If that cop don't bust you baby,
I'll take you to the one that will.
'cause I would not be in traction if I did not fall in love
The coffee at the hospital
Was a low-down nasty sludge
I got 19 compound fractures, baby
Talkin' to the judge
If that judge don't bust you, mama
I'll take you to the one that will
