• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa
• Word Is - T.S.O.L. (TSOL)
• We Are What You Say - Sufjan Stevens
• Word Is - Tsol
• Worried Eyes - Eagle-Eye Cherry
• We Are What You Say - Dead Sara

Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Ike Willis (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Ray White (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Bob Harris (boy soprano, trumpet)
Steve Vai (guitar)
Tommy Mars (keyboards)
Arthur Barrow (bass)
Ed Mann (percussion)
David Ocker (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Motorhead Sherwood (tenor saxophone, vocals)
Denny Walley (slide guitar, vocals)
David Logeman (drums)
Craig Steward (harmonica)
Jimmy Carl Black (vocals)
Ahmet Zappa (vocals)
Moon Zappa (vocals)
Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis
A foolish young man
From a middle class fam'ly
Started singin' the blues
'Cause he thought it was manly
Now he talks like the Kingfish
("Saffiiiee!")
From Amos 'n Andy
("Holy mack'l dere...Holy mack'l
dere!")
He tells you that chitlins...
Well, they taste just like candy
He thinks that he's got
De whole thang down
From the Nivea Lotion
To de Royal Crown
Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham...)
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis
A foolish young man
Of the Negro Persuasion
Devoted his life
To become a caucasian
He stopped eating pork
He stopped eating greens
He traded his dashiki
("UHURU!")
For some Jordache Jeans
He learned to play golf
An' he got a good score
Now he says to himself
("I AIN'T NO NIGGER NO MORE...HEY! HEY! HEY!")
"I don't understand you..."
BWANA MA-COO-BAH
"Would you please speak more clearly..."
MERCEDES BAINNNNNNNZ
Who is who
(I don't know)
'N what is what
(Somethin' I just don't know...)
'N why is this
(Tell me now...)
Appropriot
(That's a funny pronunciation if'n ever
I heard one...)
If you don't like
(Where'd you get that word?)
What you has got
(Appropriot? The word is not...)
Drop it in the dirt
(Drop it yeah...)
'N let it rot
(I can smell it now...)
Someone else
(Here de come, here de come...)
Will surely come
(I told you they was comin')
'N pick it up
(That's right!)
'Cause he wants some
(An' he wants it for free...)
And when one day
(There will come a day...)
You wonder who
(I wonder too...)
You used to was
(Who I was anyway...)
'N what you do
(I used to work at the post office...)
You'll scratch your head
(But I don't wanna un-do my doo...)
'N look around
(Just to see what's goin' on)
But what you lost
(Can't seem to find it...)
Will not be found
(A Mercedes Benz...)
Do you what you are?
(I know...)
You are what you is
(I'm the kinda guy...)
You is what you am
(That ought to be drivin' a Mercedes Benz...)
A cow don't make a ham
(A four-fifty SLC...)
You ain't what you're not
(A big ol' red one...)
So see what you got
(With some golf clubs stickin' out de trunk...)
You are what you is
(I'm gwine down to de links on Saturday mornin'...)
An' that's all it is
(Gimme a five dollar bill...)
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS
(And an overcoat too...)
AND THAT'S ALL IT IS
(Robbie, take me to Greek Town...)
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS
(I'm harder than yer husband; harder than yer husband...)
AN THAT'S ALL IT IS
(I'm goin' down to White Street, y'all...)
YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS
(Gone down to the Mudd Club, 'n work
the wall...)
AN THAT'S ALL IT IS
('N work the floor 'n work the pipe 'N
work the wall some more...
And here we are at the Mudd Club,
Y'all...
I hope you enjoy yourself, cause the
show's about

I used to love her a long time ago
When things were fine now that's not so
So I'm searching through dark clouds for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
Look to my eyes, tell me what you see
I'm empty inside but a small part of me
It's listening to rumours and believing lies
That parts always searching but it's never finding
Now I've met another and she's just the same
She fools around and she plays her games
I'm so tired of losing the games she is playing
So tired of losing but my heart keeps on playing
She says she loves me but my friends say she don't
I'm so confused don't know which way to go
So I'm back to the dark clouds looking for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
I used to love her a long time ago
When things were fine, but now that's not so
So I'm searching through dark clouds for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
Look to my eyes, tell me what you see
I'm empty inside but a small part of me
It's listening to rumours and believing lies
That parts always searching but it's never finding

We are a servant, we have a song
The side of a beehive, a tabernacle choir
We are the sound working in wars
The bishop is gone to the acolyte shores
We save our Bibles, we pull our sleeves
The word is a guard and the guard is a cleave
We are the right, we are the stay
The accolade's gone, we are what you say
We have no language, we have no chore
The side of a beehive, the bride is a whore
We are a spite, we are at bay
The spirit is life, we are what you say
We have a sermon, we have a song
The bishop is easy, the bishop is wrong
The spirit is right, the spirit will say

I used to love her a long time ago
When things were fine now that's not so
So I'm searching through dark clouds for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
Look to my eyes, tell me what you see
I'm empty inside but a small part of me
It's listening to rumours and believing lies
That parts always searching but it's never finding
Now I've met another and she's just the same
She fools around and she plays her games
I'm so tired of losing the games she is playing
So tired of losing but my heart keeps on playing
She says she loves me but my friends say she don't
I'm so confused don't know which way to go
So I'm back to the dark clouds looking for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
I used to love her a long time ago
When things were fine, but now that's not so
So I'm searching through dark clouds for silver linings
I'm always searching but never finding
Look to my eyes, tell me what you see
I'm empty inside but a small part of me
It's listening to rumours and believing lies

I've tried so hard to remember what it is that I forgot
But I can, but I can believe.....will you now
I've tried, I've tried
I've tried
Cried and kissed goodbye
To something that we both know
Boy you blow my mind
I don't know how I'm going to
Show you what I feel for you
All I know
All I know is I...
Want to be with you
Have you ever tried to be
Have you ever tried to see
Something but you don't really know what it is
Lord but we got to try
CHORUS:
I look at you
I hear your voice
I try to remember.....I try to remember
So don't you look at me with worried eyes
'Cause you know we got to try girl
All I know
All I know is I....
Want to be with you...
Here I am and I believe
Yes I do.....What I do, What I do for you
CHORUS
All I know
All I know is I....

You gotta sink to learn to swim
These are the rules that they teach and they want you to live
Apologies will never do and I know that way too well
Brought down by somebody else's lack of education
Shouldn't be you that it hurts
But I took all the advice that I could take
Before I thought to give up
I bet you thought I'd give up
And this is what they told me...
These are the lies you gotta believe
They'll give you everything to lose if you disagree
Apologies are over used and I'd be cutting the line way too thin
I'm aware of this bitter behavior
I lost myself somewhere I never wanted to be
Now it's time to start all over - we were held to the light
But we never went blind
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back down kid, back down kid
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back out now, back out now
We are what you say
We are not what you think
Too lonely to survive the loss that was staring back with bloodshot eyes
I almost fell below the ground that I was standing on
Oh no, you said it yourself, you're disappointed
And I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that
I was a failure, a failure
But not matter how low
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back down kid... back down kid
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back out now
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back down kid... back down kid
Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh Oh... Oh Oh
You can't back out now... back out now