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Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands: the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles. He has also experienced success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B. King and Dan Fogelberg.
A native of Wichita, Kansas, Walsh and his family lived in Columbus, Ohio for a number of years. His mother was a classically trained pianist. When Walsh was twelve years old the family moved to New York City. Later, Walsh moved to Montclair, New Jersey and attended Montclair High School there. While attending Kent State University, he spent time in various bands playing around the Cleveland area, including The Measles. Walsh began a lifelong hobby of amateur ("ham") radio with the callsign WB6ACU while living in New York City.
In January 1968 he replaced Glen Schwartz as lead guitarist for the James Gang, an American power trio. Walsh proved to be the band's star attraction, noted for his innovative rhythm playing and creative guitar riffs. In particular he was known for hot-wiring the pickups on his electric guitars to create his trademark "attack" sound. The James Gang had several minor hits and became an early album-oriented rock staple for the next two years, including James Gang Live at Carnegie Hall. In November, 1971 Walsh left the group and formed the group Barnstorm, although their albums credited Walsh as a solo artist. Walsh and Barnstorm released their debut, the eponymous Barnstorm in 1972. The album was a critical success, but had only moderate sales. The follow-up The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get (1973) was titled under his own name (although officially a Barnstorm album) and was Walsh's commercial breakthrough. The first single "Rocky Mountain Way" received heavy airplay and reached #23 on the US Top 40 chart. In 1974 Barnstorm disbanded and Walsh continued as a solo artist.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio personality, television host, author, actor and photographer best known for his radio show which was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2005. He gained wide recognition in the 1990s where he was labeled a "shock jock" for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style. Stern has been exclusive to Sirius XM Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service, since 2006. The son of a former recording and radio engineer, Stern wished to pursue a career in radio at the age of five. While at Boston University he worked at the campus station WTBU before a brief stint at WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts.
He developed his on-air personality when he landed positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, WCCC in Hartford and WWWW in Detroit. In 1981, he was paired with his current newscaster and co-host Robin Quivers at WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern then moved to WNBC in New York City in 1982 to host afternoons until his firing in 1985. He re-emerged on WXRK that year, and became one of the most popular radio personalities during his 20-year tenure at the station. Stern's show is the most-fined radio program, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines to station licensees for allegedly indecent material that totaled $2.5 million. Stern has won Billboard's Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year award eight times, and is one of the highest-paid figures in radio.
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons (born December 16, 1949) is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar known as Pearly Gates. Gibbons has a bass vocal range, spanning E♭1 to E♭5, one of the widest ranges in rock. He is noted for using an old five peso Mexican coin as a guitar plectrum and use of pinch harmonics in his solos.
Gibbons is a familiar fixture at the Sunset Marquis Hotel, producing studio sessions in the NightBird Recording Studio with actors Billy Bob Thornton and J. P. Shellnutt, along with musicians Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jed Leiber, Joe "Backbeat" Fazzio, and Dwight Yoakam. Gibbons is also well known for his authentic preparations of Texas-style barbecue and Mexican cuisine and is frequently a guest chef around Hollywood, California serving his famous "Renegade Guacamole".
Daryl Hall (born October 11, 1946) is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates (with co-founder/guitarist/songwriter John Oates). Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, and is regarded as one of the best soul singers of his generation. Guitarist Robert Fripp, who collaborated with him in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has written, "Daryl's pipes were a wonder. I have never worked with a more able singer." Since late 2007, he has hosted the web television series, Live From Daryl's House. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004.
Daryl Franklin Hohl was born in Pottstown, a Pennsylvania borough 40 miles from Philadelphia. He started a recording career during and after attending Owen J. Roberts High School, from which he graduated in 1965 and entered Philadelphia's Temple University, majoring in music, while working with Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff as both an artist and session musician. Pursuing his goals in the big city, Hall quickly formed creative affiliations with such artists as Smokey Robinson, the Temptations and many other top soul singers of the 1960s.
We get up early and we work all day
We put our time in 'cause we like to stay up
All night long
All night long
We keep on grinnin' 'til the weekend comes
Just a pinch between your cheek and gums
All night long
All night long
Start in the morning and get the job done
Take care of business and we have some fun
All night long
All night long
We like a long neck and a good old song
Turn it up and then we'll sing along
Sing along
Oh, we're stayin' up
all night long
(instrumental)
All night long
All night long
All night long
Looking at the good things all around me
Smiling at the people that won't believe
My happy ways may raise a question
There is no answer, except in my dreams
There is no way to capture the sunshine
But it is foolish to fill from the night
Perfection, they say, will not last forever
But I can't help feeling someday it might
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
Then something happens, it seems to go bad
Cancel the feeling, and look to the sky
No need to worry about consequences
Give it a giggle, instead of a sigh
Yeah, oh yeah
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
La-la-la-la
Goin' through the motions
Tryin' not to snore
Didn't know the gun was loaded
Goin' through my motion
Caught without an oar
Someone said they all were phony
Time out, save the play
Try to make the lie last
Any old way you can
Signed out all the way
When you speak your mind out
Never say what you plan
I met her in the hallway
Bangin' on the door
Askin' what the funny smell was
Wake you up and tell you
It's OK to sleep some more
By the way, is there any you can sell us?
So your case is gettin' hotter
Hear me tell you, Jack
Stick 'em up, you've just been busted
Your basement's full of water
Got above the tide
Hope to God the pump ain't rusted
Time out, save the play
Trying to make the lie last
Any old way we can
So signed out flown away
When you speak your mind out
You will never see me
Walking around feeling low
You will never hear, there
Goes a man who doesn't know
Too many roads to walk
Too many things to do
Too many words to talk
Moments too few
I don't think you know
Though you've been told a million times
It's not clear to see
Unless you read in between the lines
Look out your window
When did it start?
Nothing's for certain
It's just a part
If you're feeling low, no
And your world comes tumbling down
If you see how time stops
Better take a look around
Good things must end
They never last
Look to tomorrow
There's a feeling I get
When I look to the sky
As if someone is watching
Someone hears every word
We are filled with regrets
It was such a short time
But we told Him we loved you
Hoping somehow He heard
We hoped He heard
You were with us for a while
And He took you
And He made your mama cry
I can see it in her eyes
There's a question as to why?
And after all this time
Still I find that I'm without an answer
Goodbye
I'm just an ordinary average guy
My friends are all boring
And so am I
We're just ordinary average guys
We all live ordinary average lives
With average kids
And average wives
We all go bowling at the bowling lanes
Drink a few beers
Bowl a few frames
We're just ordinary average guys
Ordinary average guys
And every Saturday we work in the yard
Pick up the dog do
Hope that it's hard (woof woof)
Take out the garbage and clean out the garage
My friend's got a Chrysler
I've got a Dodge
We're just ordinary average guys
Ordinary average guys
Ordinary average guy
Ordinary average guy
Ordinary average guy
Woke up again this morning
To play another game
It comes without a warning
It's nothing you can name, nothing you can name
It's raining in the meadow
Shepherd's gone to town
Wolf has finished breakfast
No-one else around, no-one else around
And we are feeling fine
Still get lonely, I don't mind
And now we're out of danger
I guess they'll sound, all [Incomprehensible] in the fountain
Would you like to come home with me?
I can think of things to show ya
Thinkin' that I'd like to get to know ya
Mornin' milkman's comin'
Get up, greet my day
Evenin' brings the sun in
Still I find my way
Change of plans, makin' a landin' to see ya
And I do wanna be your man, oh yeah
Sunday, highway drivin'
It all looks about the same
Nowhere, just arrivin'
Still I play the game
I'm home grown, growin' my own and I need ya
Need ya to beg my pardon, to tend my garden
Flowers, she's sittin' for poses
She wants me to sing my song
Hours, she's like a stoned moses
When I became of age my mama sat me down
Said, "Son, you're growin' up, it's time you look around"
So I began to notice some things I hadn't seen before
That's what brought me here knockin' on your back door
Oh, yeah
A closet queen, the bus stop's dream, she wants to shake my hand
I don't want to be there, she decides she can
It's Apple Dan, he's just the man to pick fruit off your branches
I can't sleep, and we can't keep this cattle on my ranches
Oh, yeah
It's too strong, somethings wrong and I guess I lost the feelin'
I don't mind the games you play but I don't like your dealin'
God looked bad, the luck's been had and there's nothin' left to smoke
Sleep all day, out all night
I know where you're goin'
I don't think that's actin' right
You don't think it's showin'
Jumpin' up, fallin' down
Don't misunderstand me
You don't think that I know your plan
What you try'n' to hand me?
Out all night, sleep all day
I know what you're doin'
If you're gonna act that way
I have a mansion, I forget the price
Ain't never been there, they tell me it's nice
I live in hotels, tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
They say I'm crazy but I have a good time
I'm just looking for clues
at the scene of the crime
Life's been good to me so far
My Maserati does 185
I lost my license now I don't drive
I have a limo ride in the back
I lock the doors in case I'm attacked
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait
They write me letters tell me I'm great
So I got me an office gold records on the wall
Just leave a message maybe I'll call
Lucky I'm sane after all I've been through
Everybody says I'm cool (He's cool)
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far
I go to parties sometimes until four
It's hard to leave when you can't find the door
It's tough to handle this fortune and fame
Everybody's so different I haven't changed
They say I'm lazy but it takes all my time
Everybody says Oh yeah (Oh yeah)
I keep on going guess I'll never know why
We were visited last evening
By a servant of the day
He had traveled miles on horseback
To scout his master's way
And he only had a moment
To warm his frozen hands
And though he needed food and rest
He told us of his land
And all too soon he had to leave
Else sleep might block his way
And so he thanked us both and saddled up
And softly rode away
And I caught a glimpse of sun in his eye
And a wheat field in his smile
And I couldn't help but a-thinking
Can't think of any reason
Don't know exactly why
Must be it's out of season
Give it another try
I'm out here in the meadow
Part of an old stone wall
Stand here because you said so
Waitin' around to fall, yeah
Some things are left unspoken
Some things are handed down
The circle stands unbroken
Sending it back around
I've seen you roll in clover
Dressed for a scarecrow ball
Too bad the dance is over
Nothing to show at all
Can't help but feel uncertain
Knowing which way to turn
They want to raise the curtain
And you're holding the words to learn
I'm out here in the meadow
Part of an old stone wall
Stand here because you said so
Comin' down, comin' round to see you
I'm comin' down, comin' round to see you
To see if maybe you know who I am
Comin' down, comin' round to see you
Sometimes I sit and I stare at the rain
Isn't rain filled with sorrow?
Wonder if I'll see my home again
Will it be dry tomorrow?
Time passes softly and I'm a day older
But still I'm living days gone by
Ashes to ashes, the rain's turning colder
Taking the time for dreams
Off to waste the day
Plungin' headlong, yeah
Nothing is what it seems
Only just a word that was said wrong
Takin' the time for dreams, feelin' lazy
And you know there ain't as many
As there was a while ago
I said there isn't any
Goin' down slow
Start to feel the load when they don't care, no
Worry your days away
What's the hurry when you're
Travelin' down a road goin' nowhere
Travelin' down the road
'Cause the woman drives me crazy
And she can't be
Bought with money
Yes, and she's easy on my mind
She thinks my jokes are funny
Makes me feel fine
Yes, she does now
Keeps me in line, just because now
She makes me feel fine
Well if you can
Try to teach them things
That they don't know, yeah
Give 'em a helpin' hand
Make them see
The things there, that don't show
Give 'em a helpin' hand
'Cause we're wastin' time
And no matter what they say now
Well, we don't have very long
Just a dream away
You can come along
Alright, alright now
Doesn't make a difference
I don't care how far
We can go the distance in my car
In my car
Don't bother with directions
Doesn't matter where we are
Cruisin' down the highway
In my car
In my car, I don't need no backseat drivers
Leave 'em all behind
And trouble it can't find me
When I'm in my car
Hey!
In my car
In my car
In my car
In my car
In my car
When somebody
Reaches for your heart
Open up and let it through
'Cause everybody
Needs someone around
When things are comin' down on you
And you discover
When you look around
You don't have to be alone
Just one lover
Is all you need to know
When you're feelin' all alone
You might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
Yea, you might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
(You might need somebody)
If some fire
Is stirrin' in your heart
And you're sure it's warm and bright
Keep it burnin'
Through the cold and dark
'Cause it can warm a lonely night
You might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
Yea, you might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
Yea, you might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
You might need somebody
(You might need somebody)
(You might need somebody)
(You might need somebody, too woo)
Yea, you might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
Yea, you might need somebody
Yea, you might need somebody, too woo
(You might need somebody)
Yea, you might need somebody
(You might need somebody, too woo)
You might need somebody
Yea, you might need somebody
You might need somebody, too woo
Hey barely you might need somebody
(Somebody)
Uh huh
I like big tits
(uh huh uh huh)
You see 'em on the street
left and right
I like big tits (that's right)
I try to look away
but I can't resist
Everytime I try to call it quits
Here come some tits
(that's a big 10-4)
Uh huh
I like big tits (uh huh uh huh)
Tits
Well they come in twos
Hard to choose
your favorite tit
uh huh
I like tits for dinner
Or a noon time snack
I like tits for lunch
a big tit attack
I like tits for breakfast
it's what it is
they're where its at
tits
They give me shivers
when they bounce around
Buckled up or hanging on the ground
I like big tits
uh huh
tits, save it all for me
tits
If I could show you
All of the things, that you'd love to see
And I'd like to start you laughing
All that you want, is my sympathy
Time won't bring back, all the time, going back
So just for the moment
Let your heart, let it fly away
And I'll tell the world about you
If I could show you
All of the things, that you'd love to see
And I'd like to start you laughing
All that you want, is my sympathy
Time won't bring back, all the time, going back
So just for the moment
Let your heart, let it fly away
And I'll tell the world about you
Standin' in the runway wavin' at the plane
There goes everything you own
You called home collect and they didn't know your name
Starin' at the telephone
You thought he was a doctor now he says he's not
But the noises seem to tell for sure
And according to the symptoms it isn't all you got
A shame they haven't found a cure
Didn't know the reason, you start to feel the rub?
You know it isn't easy well, welcome to the club
Well, you thought they'd take it lightly they're actin' kinda rash
Caught you in a loadin' zone
So they smile very politely relieved you of your cash
Suddenly you're all alone
You play the double agent, you bug each other's phone
You got the place surrounded there ain't nobody home
It's gettin' hard to please 'em you start to feel the rub
You know it isn't easy well, welcome to the club
Recorded with The James Gang
Takin' my time
Usin' my line
Tryin' to decide what to do
Looks like my stop
Don't wanna get off
Got myself hung up on you
Seems to me
You don't want to talk about it
Seems to me
You just turn your pretty head
and walk away
Places I've known
Things that I'm growin'
Don't taste the same without you
I got myself in
The worst mess I've been
And I find myself startin'
to doubt you
Seems to me
We talk all night, here comes the morning
Seems to me
You ignore just what was said and
greet the day
(instrumental)
Seems to me
You don't wanna talk about it
Seems to me
You don't wanna talk about it
Seems to me
You just turn your pretty head
and walk away
I've got to cool myself down
Stompin' around
Thinking some words I can't name ya
Meet you halfway
Got nothin' to say
Still I don't 'spose I can blame ya
Seems to me
You don't wanna talk about it
Seems to me
You just turn your pretty head and
Walk away
Hey now, the well run dry
Pages of your book on fire
Read the writing
On the wall
Hoe down, it's a show-down
Ev'rywhere you look, we're fighting
Hear the call
And you know it's gettin' stronger
I can't last very much longer
Turn to stone
Well there's a change in the wind
You know the signs don't lie
Such a strange feelin'
And I don't know why it's takin'
Such a long time
Backyard people
And they work all day
Tired of the speeches and the way
That the reasons keep changin'
Just to make the words rhyme
And you know it's gettin' stronger
Can't make 'em run much longer
If you look at your reflection
in the bottom of a well
What you see is only on the surface
When you try to see the meaning
hidden underneath
The measure of the depth
can be deceiving.
The bottom has a rocky reputation
You can feel it in the distance
the deeper down you stare
From up above it's hard to see
but you know when you're there
On the bottom words are shallow
On the surface talk is cheap
You can only judge the distance
by the company you keep
In the eyes of the confessor
In the eyes of the confessor
There's no place you can hide
You can't hide from the eyes
(of the confessor)
Don't you even try
In the eyes of the Confessor
You can't tell a lie
You cannot tell a lie
(to the confessor)
Strip you down to size
Naked as the day that you were born
Naked as the day that you were born
(instrumental)
Take all the trauma, drama, comments
The guilt and doubt and shame
The what if's and if only's
The shackles and the chains
The violence and aggresion
The pettiness and scorn
The jealousy and hatred
The tempest and discord
Too long on the road, my friend
Too long between rides
Too long between homes again
Too long without someone by my side
And Lord, there's something 'bout a sad song
That helps to ease the pain
Here I am, Lord, just singing up a storm
And I'm all alone again
Too much going down today
Just can't take it in
Too much running 'round today
Can't tell you where I've been
Seems that just like
Singing is the only thing to do
Only thing to help me pass the time
Songs are just like ladies
Can't forget them when you're through
And they're always on your mind
And the rosewood bitters
Help me meet the sunshine in the morning
And the rosewood bitters
Help me through the night when I feel blue
Too few stop to pass the time
Guess, that's how it goes
So sure that there's much more than this
When really no one knows
And easing into midnight
As the bitters pass around
Crying in my beer
Singing someone else's troubles
Help to ease your own
Goodnight, Irene, my dear
And the rosewood bitters
Help me meet the sunshine in the morning
And the rosewood bitters
Spent the last year, Rocky Mountain way
Couldn't get much higher
Out to pasture, think it's safe to say
Time to open fire
And we don't need the ladies cryin'
'Cause the story's sad
'Cause the Rocky Mountain way
Is better than the way we had
Well, he's tellin' us this and he's tellin' us that
Changes it ev'ry day, says, it doesn't matter
Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat
Playin' it play by play, time to change the batter
And we don't need the ladies cryin'
'Cause the story's sad, aha
Rocky Mountain way
Is better than the way we had
Said the mamba snake to the cockatoo
I can't get no sleep like I used to do
All night long, the wild boys run through the streets
They're shootin' up the night, I listen to them fight
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Watch the war babies go hungry and cry
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Everybody's fightin', nobody knows why
Why, why, why?
At dawn the refugees are seekin' shelter
And from the violence of the night they run in fright helter skelter
From the volatile eruption and the wolves of war
Nurse their young famine and destruction
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Watch the war babies go hungry and cry
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Everybody's fightin' nobody knows why
Why, why, why?
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Watch the war babies go hungry and cry
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Everybody's fightin', fightin' know why
No, no, there's is no peace in the jungle
The peace in the jungle when the moon is high
Watch the war babies go hungry and cry
There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is, the moon is high
Everybody's fightin' and don't know why, why?
Mother says, "Be careful
And don't stay out too long
Don't do things you shouldn't
Miss me when I'm gone?
Daddy says, "Not now, son
Well, just do the best you can
And you'll make out somehow, son
Be just like I am, just like I am?
You won't need a reason
She don't let you choose
And so to make the game easy
Mother makes the rules
We all know how the rules are
Changing from day to day
That's the breaks and I'm sorry
Some of us must be going
Some of us have to stay
Some of us may be showing
Some just fade away
It's sad to say it's the ending
All the feelings gone
If you don't mind pretending
You can come along
And Mother says she's ready
And if you have the time
She'll help us all to get steady
Make us all feel better
Make us all feel fine
Make us all feel better
Making no deposit, no return
Making the same mistakes, we never learn
All of the pain in those faces
Trying not to show concern
Spent and broken
Like a worn out subway
Talking in the city
Hanging in the closet, wait in line
When you go by the laws, you pay the fine
I'm burning the candle at both ends
Twice the light in half the time
Damn the calling, feel like I'm falling
Ooh and as the rain doesn't have to hurry in the city
Falls sadly to the ground
Rain doesn't have to hurry in the city
Only way to fall is down
Falling down
But still you're running in a race that can't be won
Aiming hard to fill the spaces when they're gone
Worn out shoes with no laces
Getting too loose to stay on
Back to crawling, feel like I'm falling
Ooh and as the rain takes its time to fall in the city
Falls sadly to the ground
Rain kinda of says it all in the city
Only way to fall is down
Found an old puzzle somebody had quit
Tried a few pieces and hoped that they fit
But they're going together so slowly
It may take me forever to know
If it's only a puzzle
Parts of the puzzle will never be found
And even the pieces are gone
It's a county fair picture, part of 'em's there
Some of the pieces are still at the fair
Sometimes I can't help the feeling that I'm
living a life of illusion
And oh, why can't we let it be
And see thru the hole in
this wall of confusion
I just can't help the feeling I'm
living a life of illusion
Pow, right between the eyes
Oh, how nature loves her little surprises
Wow, it all seems so logical now
It's just one of her better disguises
And it comes with no warning
nature loves her little surprises
Continual crisis
(instrumental)
Hey, don't you know it's a waste of your day
Caught up in endless solutions
That have no meaning, just another hunch
Based upon jumping conclusions
Caught up in endless solutions
Backed up against a wall of confusion
People, look at us now
In the midst of confusion
We lost sight somehow
How, in the name of the planet
I just don't understand it
Look at us now
People, open your eyes
How can everyone see it
And yet be so blind?
And still, still we go on pretending
Nothing is wrong, we don't have that long
Open your eyes
Children, this is your song
In case someday you need one
Long after I'm gone
Please take care of the planet
Like the way that God planned it
And pass it along
Please, take care of the planet
That's the way that God planned it
Pass it along, to your children
I like to listen to music
I like the way that it sounds
On the radio
I like to sit in a silent place
When no one's around
And listen inside it
Inside the silence is a melody
Voices singing harmony
I close my eyes and listen carefully
The silence starts to get loud
It's like your favorite station
Playing your favorite song
Just like they do on the radio
Like they do on the radio
Inside the silence is a symphony
Every note there is in every key
The music tells me how it wants to be
I help it write itself down
I hear the way that would sound
It's like your favorite station
Playing your favorite song
Just like they do on the radio
Like they do on the radio
But the radio isn't on --
I met my baby in a shopping mall.
In a shopping mall.
I asked my baby for her number,
In case I called her up, in case I called her up.
I called my baby on the telephone,
I said, “Hello” on the telephone.
I took my baby to the movies,
Sat in the front row.
Got her some popcorn, bought her some bon bons.
We sat in the front row.
I took my baby out to dinner,
A table just for two, a table just for two.
I took my baby to Las Vegas,
Chartered a private plane.
We took some naps, we shot some crap,
Chartered a private plane.
I took her shopping, next thing I know,
I took my baby to Aspen,
I broke my leg, she fell in love.
I broke my leg,
I catch your reflection though smoke-filled eyes.
Begin my inspection I watch you.
Your smooth syncopation,
You synthesize the beat and the vibration.
There's something about you, your sultry ways
That gives me a shiver.
Your style's so enticing, you wear it well
Completely inviting I watch you.
Chorus:
If I smiled at you would you walk my way?
Would you have this dance with me?
Slow dancing, slow dancing, just you and me.
Those smooth operators prove their lives in anticipation.
Craft emulator of dark designs in fascination.
Floating on a bubble while the world goes down the drain.
Somebody pulled the plug, the dirty dishes still remain.
And when the bubble bursts that's the worst for those who play dirty games.
While the world goes down the drain, down the drain.
Floating on a bubble, slipping on the soap,
Standing in the tub insane.
While the world goes down the drain.
And that's the rub, reality is so hard to explain.
Meanwhile the world goes down the drain, down the drain.
So I'm floating on a bubble while the world goes down the drain.
Slipping on the soap, running out of rope,
But all and all I can't complain,
And that's the rub according to the rules of the game.
The world's going down the drain,
When the bubble bursts you might as well drink the cork and pop the champagne.
I'm actin' different but I'm acting in the same old way.
I'm actin' different, different, but I have not changed.
What can about bright lights?
Dressing room roses, opening night, butterflies...?
I'm actin' different but I'm acting in the same old way.
(Actin' different, different)
I'm actin' different but I'm acting in the same old way
Like an understudy actor in a closed-off Broadway play.
Nothing to say about brightlights, stagefright,
Dressing room roses, opening night, butterflies and champagne...
I'm actin' different but I have not changed
(Never gonna change, never gonna change (rpt))
Ohhh.I haven't changed
I'm actin' different but I'm acting in the same old way (rpt)
Some friends of mine I never met called me the other day
They was gonna have a party and they called me to say
Hey Joe, how ya doin', how's your album, how's your tour
How's Don Henley, how's Glenn Frey,
and who, what where and when and why
They could not shut up (can't shut up)
They couldn't shut up (can't shut up)
So I hung up (can't shut up)
Well I followed their directions and arrived a little late
I had a couple Chardonnays and started feelin' great
I said I hate to interrupt, I'll be right back I gotta pee
30 people in the bathroom started talkin' to me
They could not shut up (can't shut up)
(can't shut up)
I said HEY... shut up (can't shut up)
They could not shut up
Well, just to get out of the bathroom took the rest of the year,
and then a polyester pantsuit named Mandingo grabbed my ear
said I heard you're rich and famous but I don't know who you are
You gotta sign this for my nephew or he won't believe I met you
She just could not shut up (can't shut up)
No, no she could not shut up (can't shut up)
She couldn't shut up (can't shut up)
I said: "Shut up" (can't shut up)
She could not shut up (can't shut up)
She, she, she, she could not shut up (can't shut up)
No, no, no she could not shut up (can't shut up)
She said: "blah, blah, blah" (can't shut up)
I said: "hahahaha, Shut up"
Early birdcall morning
In a milkweed cloudy sky
Sets me free, without a warning
Wonder why
And if my eyes aren't open
And if I'm too blind to see
Would you show me birdcall morning
Set me free
And if you don't want to
I do, you know I do
Sing the song, sing along
It don't matter if you know the tune
That's the way it goes
I don't know, she makes me think I do
Comin' in, she comes again
She breaks ice, but she don't fall through
To the birdcall morning
And then the storm is upon me
And my ship is blown to sea
Would you show me birdcall morning?
You don't understand it
All of a sudden something's wrong
You take it for granted
All of a sudden time is gone
You put a little distance in between it
Hope it makes sense later on
You don't know what happened
Dreams never turn out like you planned
The next moment you wake up
Stranded in a one night stand
You put a little distance in between it
Until you seen it hope that later on
I know it's hard to wait that long
But right now baby
We both agree, something's wrong
Something's wrong
All of a sudden
May be weak and try again
But baby, baby, baby I don't know when
Until then
You put a little distance in between it
Until we seen it
Maybe later on
I know it's hard it seems so long
We both agree, oh baby
I was standin' at the station
Out at the end of the line
Feelin' mad, just a bit impatient
And I wish that you would make up my mind
Yes I was out there on the platform
Pay phone keeps eatin' my dimes
And I still don't have an answer
And the train's leavin' right on time
I'm fallin' down
I'm fallin' down
Standin' at the station
Won the battle
Here I am, standin' at the station
Like a gen'ral just relieved of command
I'm fallin' down
I see the sun rise
Here comes the day
Where sunrise comes from
I am not knowing
I see with stained eyes
Help find my way
It all surrounds me
It is all knowing, flowing
Here we go
I hear a calling
Each one by name
And so many don't hear
They think it's the same old thing
I feel us falling
Back where we came
It all astounds me
Is it a sad thing, bad thing
I don't know
I've got a driver, you've got a car
Maybe we could go out for a ride
Pass by the schoolyard, take a look around
Stop and get uptight
If you're going to cry
I can remember all the good times
Put 'em in a book of memories
Hoping that our book will never ruin
Hoping that our book will never end
You picked a flower, some time ago
Put it on my desk
At school that day
Thought I would write you
A small love poem
Though I got it from a book, you see
I can remember all the good times
Put 'em in a book of memories
Hoping that our book will never ruin
Well I don't know, but I've been told
Two sides to every story
The one is right and the other is wrong
Guess it depends which side your on
'Cause one man's blessing is another man's curse
One man's drink is another man's thirst
One man's pleasure is another man's pain
One man's loss is another man's gain
One man's lie is another man's truth
There's two sides to every story
Well, good guys, bad guys all the same
Good guys win, bad guys get blamed
I don't care what side you're on
You might be right, you might be wrong
And one man's freedom is another man's prison
One man's honor is another man's shame
One man's guilty, one man isn't
There's two sides to every story
One man's heaven is another man's hell
One man's buy is another man's sell
One man's day is another man's night
One man's peace is another one's fight
One man's loss is another one's glory (glory)
There's two sides to every story
There's two sides to every story
Somewhere along the way I found the meaning,
woke up dreamin' along the way.
Never quite seems the same when you awakin',
and makin' up for the time you've such a price to pay,
and then they take the dream away, and it just ain't fair.
Help me thru the night Mama, help me to ease the pain.
Tell me it's alright, help me thru the night once again.
That's the danger in petending,
trying to defend yourself from someone else's war,
don't know what they're fighting for,
and they just don't care.
(Guitar Solo)
So help me see the light mama, open my eyes again.
Tell me it's alright, help me thru the night once again
(Ooos and Aaahs)
Would ya help me,
I like to take things one step at a time
One foot in front of the other
I like to think things will all work out fine
And follow along behind those
One act play-things can give you a thrill
Guess it depends on the actor
Dreams can come true, but some things never will
As a matter of fact, those things are driving me crazy
Those things are keeping me sane
I like to take things and make a design
Keep a low profile. Oh and
I like to take things and put them to rhyme
Like those things that are confusing
And the things that seem so clear
And the things that seem so far away
And yet they seem so near
There are some things I have lost
And a few things I have found
Weel it's so hard to keep track of things
There's so many around
There's so many around
And there's things we have to look for
And a few we never find
And we all have things in common
You got your thing, I've got mine
And some things they just happen
And some things you can plan
And some of those things you just can't help
But some of them you can
Oh, some of them you can
As a matter of fact, those things
Are driving me crazy
Those things are keeping me sane
Some things turn out all wrong
And some things turn out all right
Some things don't turn out at all
But then again they might
There are things that come too soon
And some things that come too late
It's the best thing to come too early
So you have some time to wait
Oh, have some time to wait
Well it's hard to talk with words
There's some things you just can't say
And it's best to leave some things alone
In case they go away
You can share some things with friends
There's some things we've all been thru'
Well it's things like this and things like that
And how are things with you?
Oh, how do you do?
You can hang things on your wall
You can leave your things around
You can mark some things 2001, and put them in the ground
And maybe later on, they will dig them up some day
And ooh and ahh, and 'how 'bout that?'
Lady luck just let you down, she's just another girl
Grins and snickers all around
Imitation pearl, bones
Mass inflation, welfare line... gross economy
Trade it all for what's behind
Curtain number three
Gourmet restaurant, best in town
Don't know what you ate
Fresh last week is still around
Sodium phosphate, bones
Hi-class, jet-set, bourgeois scene
European style
Think they know the way to be
Springtime comes and brings the flowers, oh how new love burns
You and I, we spent the hours, lost to all concern
And now I know where I belong
I'm sorry baby, I was wrong
Autumn came and took the flowers, never to return - good-bye
Took away this love of ours; will we ever learn? Oh-
And now I know where I belong
Stayed up all night waiting, thought that you might call
Half the night debating, seems like after all
You made your mind up
Oh, I guess you made your mind up
Damn these strained relations, makes me want to crawl
Top negotiations, feeling two foot small
Guess you made your mind up
Oh, such a shame to wind up
Staring at the ceiling, bouncing off the wall
But I guess you made your mind up
You and me forever, guess I should have known
Thought we'd be together, wound up all alone
Guess you made your mind up
Oh, such a shame to wind up
Staring at the ceiling, bouncing off the wall
Kind of had a feeling, thought that you might call
But I guess you made your mind up
You made your mind up
You made your mind up
We have just begun
We should feel a part of us that we're leaving
Back home
We have just begun
On the deed that's done to us
All the favours
To be grown
Waiting in a line
Not thinking of the time
We must go out and find
Whatever did we leave behind?
Soon we shall look back
On the past experience I'll remember
That dream
Soon we shall look back
One by one we're finding out all the answers
About home
Waiting on a ???
That we had
Wiping your brow again
Clock keeps twenty past ten
And we're thinking of time going
Wait till tomorrow
Think of today
Think of the days gone by
Bye-bye is too late
Cry, cry is heartache
Bye-bye, the days gone by
In the end we'll see
How much of the party we've missed already
Please tell me
In the end we'll see
Hoping for another chance to hold onto
Forever
Waiting in a line
Not thinking of the time
You must go out and find
Whatever did we leave behind?
And we're thinking of time
Going by
And we're thinking of time
You say it's time to go
But you don't want to leave
Fooling with the keys
I'd like to see the show
But I just don't think it's that easy
But if it's everywhere you look
If it's easy to see
We'll all be floating on a breeze
Bishop takes a rook
It looks like the way back
Is moving the stone
And I was playing out the role of pretender
Trying to get them straight into line
She said she needed me to defend her
Home, home ...
You say you're sitting at the bus stop
Waiting at the gate
Got the ticket in your hand
I'm getting kind of hot
I don't seem to have got what you paid for
And it isn't worth the fuss
But it's looking in the way
You know he doesn't understand
It's not the way you planned out the handout
To pay the band
I was standing in the line with the crazies
Smoking half and drinking the rest
Feeling fine and kind of lazy
Hoping I was passing the test
There's a master plan, or so they say
I'm a patient man. s'il vous plait
And if what you earn, and what you deserve
Isn't worth the price you pay
Save it for a rainy day
I'm a patient man
So you made a wish, on a falling star
That's what you got, Oh
And here you are, like it or not
And the truth is - everyone else
Shares the same cloudy sky
It's so useless, blaming yourself
Heaven knows you try
And if it takes until the rivers run dry
Til the rivers run dry
If it takes until the rest of my life to see why
I'm going to wait until the rivers run dry
Til the rivers run
Save 'em for a rainy day
And if it takes until the rivers run dry
Til the rivers run dry
If it takes until the rest of my life to see why
I'm going to wait until the rivers run dry
Til the rivers run dry
I used to play that pinball, I used to go outside
I had to spend my money, get on your bus and ride
I used to go out dancing, put on my high-heeled shoes
Get in my short black chevy, go on a downtown cruise
I feel a little bit mixed up, maybe I'm obsolete
All us pinball pool sharks, we just can't compete
Space age whiz kids kids
Leaders in the field
Pioneers of research
Space age whiz kids
Arcade mothership monsters, laserbeam blastshield eyes
Full on space age madness, make-believe satellite skies
Alien ships approaching, there's trouble in sector five
Left hand on the joystick, right hand hyperspace drive
Space age whiz kids kids, Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids kids, Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids
They got nothing to do, put another quarter in
Pay those space age dues
Donkey Kong high score, Pac Man's on a roll
Klingons on the warpath, whiz kids on patrol
Space age whiz kids, Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids, Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids, Space age whiz kids
Space age whiz kids, Space age whiz kids
I like space age whiz kids
I like...I need...I need quarters...quarters!
Secrets always travel farther than they should
And loose translations
Float around the neighbourhood
And rumours don't do anyone a bit of good
They just get started, funny you never know
The first-amendment vigilante attitude
The gospel truth according to the book of
Someone said so
The Front-Line grapevine jury's in a nasty mood
You might be guilty, honey you'll never know
Did you hear about the gossip-column
Senate subcommitte probe
The allegations put the neck around your rope
The nominations droolin' on the envelope
A likely story, funny you'll never know
A woman was by to see you
She didn't leave a name
She told me that she loved you
And she said, "It's all the same"
She said, she'd just been raining
In meadows where you've been
She said, she was a mirror for you
And she wishes, you'd look in
Though she didn't stay too long
Well, I didn't catch her name
She told me that she loved you
She said, "It's all the same"
Moma's in the kitchen
Cooking up a storm
I ain't tasted nothing better
Daddy's in the bedroom
Keeping us all warm
Pretty soon we'll get up for school
I wish they were here again
Tell me what to do
I still miss them now and then
Out in the middle of nowhere
Gathered around in the barn
Animals all in agreement, they was down on the farm
There was talk of all the boring hours
Standin' around with nothin' to do
It was just another boring evening
With a pail of boring things to chew
There was cows and horses and sheeps and pigs
They was tired of the daily routine
They was plannin' on havin' themselves a bash
Gonna throw a great big wing-ding
So they said 'let's do it, play some rock and roll'
And they got all loose and had a few
And before they knew it, they was out of control
Turned into a regular zoo...
They was tired of the daily routine
Havin' themselves a great big bash
And they was gathering steam
And the pig grabbed a chicken, said
Come on over, let's do-si-do a few
And the chick said 'no, you're covered with mud'
Called him a pig and it was true
And every gol' dang one o'their tails was a waggin'
Under the old horse-shoe
That night the animals fell off the wagon
And a tractor or two
Well they was out in the middle of nowhere
They was rockin' out in the barn
They was tearin' it up in the hayloft
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
It'll get ya!
Private gates
Prime rates
Unreal estates
How do you do?
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
It'll get ya!
Yacht clubs
Hot tubs
Back rubs
How do you do?
Mud slides
High tides
Free rides
You're never through --
In Malibu
Bridges get burned
Lessons get learned
No one's concerned
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
Malibu will get ya
Malibu
It'll get ya!
Three piece suits
Cowboy boots
Dress designer jeans
Gucci-goo
High style
Everybody else looks just like you
In Malibu
How do you do?
Bridges get burned
Lessons get learned
No one's concerned
In beautiful downtown Malibu
Malibu
It'll get ya
Malibu
Joe Walsh)
Sometimes I dream of the future
And sometimes I travel down Memory Lane
With the Yesterday Daily Review
Memories carefully kept in a pile
Like newspapers stacked in the corner
To relive my yesterdays once in a while
Although they are faded and worn
They remind me
Once in a while
Of far away places and long ago names
Yesterdays back down the road that you came
Somewhere behind you down Memory Lane
Memory Lane -- down Memory Lane
And when my luck comes to the end of the line
Like old men you see in the subway
I'll thumb through the pages and take my last ride
With the Yesterday Daily Review
Right there beside me
To remind me
Once in a while
Of far away places and long ago names
Yesterdays back down the road that you came
Somewhere behind you down Memory Lane
Down Memory Lane -- down Memory Lane
I'm gonna have my own private party
Gonna invite everyone I know
We'll all have our own personal celebration
I'm gonna send out invitations
To all my friends -- your friends -- and their friends too
We'll all go on a permanent paid vacation
Wouldn't that be fun?
And if anyone asks you I like having fun
I like having fun
Here we go now
Well if I was king I'd sign a proclamation
And if I was president I'd pass a law
And I'd call for a full-blown Senate investigation
Of everyone who wasn't having fun
If something ain't fun why do it?
I'd rather have fun
They say it's gonna get cloudy and storm
And then the weather is fine
And they say it's gonna be partly sunny and warm
And partly cloudy half of the time
And there's all of these rules
Based on all these predictions
Makes it so hard to define
Where do you draw the line?
Seems like fifty percent's about the best you can do
Based on latest projections
Oh, 'cause there's all these laws -- all these rules
But then again there's always exceptions --
To the rules
Amidst all this confusion
Where do you draw the line
Half of the time you are right
You are wrong -- half of the time
You are off -- you are on
Half of the time you are here right now
Half of the time you are gone --
Half of the time
Cause it never ends
It all depends on
Where you draw the line
When half of the time you are right
You are wrong -- half of the time
You are weak -- you are strong
Half of the time you're alone
Half of the time you belong
Half of the time you are here right now
Half of the time you are gone --
Fifteen years of rock and roll,
Fifteen years on the road.
(Can you turn up my guitar a little bit)
Fifteen years my guitar and me,
Played every song we know.
Fifteen years in a row.
I was a young man I used to be but I still can rock and roll.
Fifteen years been good to me,
Fifteen in a row.
Look through the crowd for the folks I know,
Fifteen years on the road.
Fifteen years they have stood by me,
Fifteen in a row.
If it's a show they want, it's a show they'll see here we go.
Fifteen books, fifteen years of old,
Then I hit some luck,
Spent it all on rock and roll, booze, sex, and drugs.
I started out to write you this letter,
But it ended up another song.
I am sorry that the news can't be better, dear John.
When we started out I thought we were different,
We ended up exactly the same.
So in order to protect the innocent,
The names have been changed.
I just got to get back to my music, to my music.
And I know that we both promised forever,
Forever didn't last that long.
Maybe someday I will write you a letter,
Until then at least I wrote you this song, dear John.
I just got to get back my music, and all the things that go along with the job.
And lying in bed with the room spinning round,
It's the price that you pay when you're on the way down,
It's the price that you pay.
Hey now, did you make a problem?
Didn't want to solve.
Until you do you do, that's the thing about them,
Still got them, problems.
Seems so small, they can tower over you.
Pile up, build a wall,
Around you, surround you, oh and how.
When you finally think they're through,
So they follow, follow?
I wonder who can solve my problem.
Oh how about them?
Problems can wait,
Problems get solved
Problems relate,
Problems revolve around tense situations,
Tense situations left unresolved.
Something comes up, you get involved.
In justifications of foreign relations that have nothing to do,
No nothing at all with the problem.
Hey now did you ever have one,
Have a problem?
That you could not solve.
What did you do about them?
What did you do?
Did you try and close your eyes?
Put the blame on someone else?
But the problem follows you around and round,
Up and down until it takes up all your time.
Til it starts to bother you, til you start to lose your mind.
Your problems, they love it when you do they do too.
Problems that wait, never get solved.
Problems relate to and problems revolve around tense situations,
Tense situations, left unresolved.
When something comes up and got you involved with contradiction,
Fictional frictions that have nothing to do, no nothing at all with the problem.
Hey now, did you ever have one? Have a problem that you could not solve?
I've got a driver, you've got a car
Maybe we could go out for a ride
Pass by the schoolyard, take a look around
Stop and get uptight
If you're going to cry
I can remember all the good times
Put 'em in a book of memories
Hoping that our book will never ruin
Hoping that our book will never end
You picked a flower, some time ago
Put it on my desk
At school that day
Thought I would write you
A small love poem
Though I got it from a book, you see
I can remember all the good times
Put 'em in a book of memories
Hoping that our book will never ruin
I'm the midnight man
I do what I can
To make sure that I am
The midnight man
Midnight man's on time
Everthing is fine
All the words in rhyme
With everything
solo
Midnight man, you're pretty
Midnight man, you're fine
Midnight man, be careful
Midnight man
Well that disco thing can sure get funky
All them pretty songs seem too slow
I like to sit and pick with them good ol' boys
Maybe new wave's in, I just don't know
When the critics try to analyse the current trend
I just sit back and watch 'em come and go
Cause I can play that rock and roll
Oh, now I can play that rock and roll
Hey, now I can play that rocking rock and roll
If you, if you wanna party at the next election
Only one way to go
Put on a rocking rock and roll selection
Turn up and vote
And you can check out anytime you want
Just call me Joe
And I can play that rock and roll for ya
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can play that rock and roll
Yeah, now, now, I, I, I, well, I can play that rock and roll
Well, I can play that rock and roll
I grew up in a little town world
Wasn't a lot there to see
Where I was born when a little town girl
Married my dad and had me
We lived in a neighborhood,
In a neighborhood.
And my whole world
Was just three square blocks round,
And the top of the world
Was up in my favorite tree.
Someday I knew,
I would go back there to see
You lost your color when you painted the town
Paintin' by the numbers
You headed for the lobby, but you never came down
Is it any wonder?
You wind up sittin' in a second hand store
On display in a window
Wind up sittin' in the bottom of a drawer
Any way the wind blows
So you burned your bridges and headed downstream
Never know until you try
Spent your fortune on a river boat queen
Then the river ran dry
You end up sittin' on a sand bar
Down to a handful of treasures
'Nother shot of gold won't get you very far
When you got forever
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind ...
So you keep on following directions until
Pretty soon you're past it
Guess you shoulda known better, and still
It was fun while it lasted
You end up sittin' in a second hand store
On display in a window
Wind up sittin' in the bottom of a drawer
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Any way the wind blows
Tomorrow, makin' a list of things to do
And when I wake up, uh uh uh oh
Gonna cross off a few
There must be millions of reasons
To try and explain, you're never through
When they give you twenty-four hours
Only so much a man can do
Tomorrow, made up my mind
Gonna get busy, come from behind
Today I'm staying right where I am
Break a few rules, make a few plans
There's thousand of things
To keep you from doing what you wanna do
And if it isn't this then it's that
Back where it's at, and you're never through
There must be millions of reasons
Thousands of things, just to name a few
I'm gonna spend the rest of today
Makin' a list of things to do
But I'll do 'em all tomorrow, uh uh uh oh
Tomorrow, uh uh uh oh
Well a good man's getting hard to find these days but there still a few around.
A whole world looks up to a good man, It's hard to keep him down.
So if you're going out looking for a good, good time,
But the boys all turn into clowns,
Focus your attention, don't forget to mention,
No don't forget to mention that the boys just love it when you dish it out.
Easy with the ones you've found.
And your wind up toys keep you busy for awhile until a good man comes around.
Well you can yell and scream, treat them mean, beat them up with words,
Throw them in the face you say. Do this, do that what it is, where it's at, anything to get you your way.
And you change your mood, cop an attitude, take them to the cleaners.
Just because you're steaming, just because you're hot,
Just because all the boys stop talking when you raise your voice.
Your temper ends up on the ground, you don't mean nothing to a good man.
It's hard to keep a good man down, down, down, down.
Well it's hard to keep a good man down.
Go to war, slam doors, have a fit, throw shit, use every little trick you've found.
It don't mean nothing to a good man,
Just because all the boys start shaking when the dishes fly,
Tremble as they crawl on the ground.
Well it's hard to keep a good,
Hard to keep a good man down.
Mangiangli
Heyhey! I certainly do think it's about time I told you about the Gamma Goochee!
Eenie-meanie (eenie-meanie)
What a meanie (what a meanie)
That's a meanie (that's a meanie)
That IS a meanie (that IS a meanie)
Salimeanie (salimeanie!)
Hey, hey meanie (Hey-hey-meanie!)
Ooh-ah (ooh-ah)
Ooh-ah (ooh-ah)
Rikilikicukoo
Daddy had a mumu
Abbadayugoochee
Do the gamma goochee
Lots of sheep feel sorry
Phoneyboneyloney
Ramalamadingdong
North Ohio bing-bong
Watching Chuckee-Cheezy
Waki-saki-sushi
Do the Gamma Goochee
Brothers and sisters, we are gathered here to do the Gamma Goochee, are you with me so far?
Let's do it again!
Eenie-meanie (eenie-meanie)
What a meanie (what a meanie)
Now that's a meanie (that's a meanie)
Have you seen a meanie? (hey)
That IS a meanie (that IS a meanie)
Halloweenie (halloweenie)
Ooh-ah! (ooh-ah!)
Ooh-ah! (ooh-ah?)
Rikilikicukoo
Daddy had a mumu
Abbadayugoochee
Do the gamma goochee
Lots of sheep feel sorry
Phoneyboneyloney
Ramalamadingdong
North Ohio bing-bong
Watching Chuckee-Cheezy
Waki-saki-sushi
Do the Gamma Goochee
Gamma gamma goochee
Joe Walsh)
It's time
It's about time we talked
We should -- that would be good
And in time
Maybe in time we'll learn -- to listen
Maybe in time we'll learn to talk
One at a time
When I was younger
The hurry up hunger -- of growin' up
Took up all of our time
And time and time again -- I find
That when everyone talks at the same time
Nothing gets done
In time
I hope that we learn in time
If only we could
That would be good
I'm concerned
One thing I've learned
Now that I'm older
Lookin' over my shoulder
As time goes on and on
When all your time is gone
Oh, all your time is gone
And it's about time we talk
Before we run out of time
Minutes turn to hours, counting seconds tick away.
Another day tomorrow, tomorrow's just another day.
Days turn into years, and time goes by, over and over,
Again and again, and then, years turn into decades.
Decades. Start another decade, times ten.
Ten decades, one hundred years.
Ten decades. And the first ten started going so much faster,
Than the whole one hundred years before.
And the second ten we started fighting.
We fought the war to end all wars.
So somebody named the twenties roaring,
And in the thirties we fought some more.
And the fighting went on and on (and on);
Nobody could stop it (stop it, stop it)
So somebody built a bomb (bomb);
All you had to do was drop it (drop it), right or wrong.
They dropped it; they dropped it.
And toward the end of the forties, after the storm, I was born.
I am calling, across a field, from far away, far away.
This is my calling song; I am worried, I am concerned.
There are reasons, can't be explained.
And there are questions, that have no answers.
That's the reason I want to know: how long, how long, can this go on?
I want to know how long, how long,
When so many things happen, nothing gets done.
So many wars, no one ever won one, and no one ever will,
No one ever will.
I am calling, this is my calling song.
And the fifties were the best I guess, except for the fighting
And the sixties were unrest, oh yes, we went to the moon.
We had hopes, we had dreams,
And sometimes late at night it still seems like, Camelot.
And the seventies lasted 'til May.
And on the hill, that day, I gave up and started writing Decades.
And the eighties were a waste of time, and here we are, in the nineties!
Nine in a row, one more to go, oh! Over and over, again and again.
One hundred years; ten years times ten.
So many things happened, nothing got done.
So many wars, no one ever won one.
Take you to the cinema
and leave you in a Wimpy Bar -
you tell me that we've gone too far -
come running up to me.
Make the scene at Cousin Jack's -
leave him to put the bottles back -
mends his glasses that I cracked -
Well that's one up to me.
Buy a silver cloud to ride -
pack the tennis club inside -
trouser cuffs hung far too wide -
well it was up to me.
Tyres down on your bicycle -
your nose feels feels like an icicle -
the yellow fingered smoky girl
is looking up to me.
Well I'm a common working man
with a half of bitter - bread and jam
and if it pleases me I'll put one on you man -
when the copper fades away.
The rainy season comes to pass -
the day-glo pirate sinks at last -
and if I laughed a bit too fast.
Is anyone out there?
Does anybody listen or care anymore?
We are living on a dying planet,
We're killing everything that's alive,
And anyone who tries to deny it
Wears a tie
And gets paid to lie
So I wrote these songs for a dying planet,
I'm sorry but I'm telling the truth,
And for everybody trying to save it
These songs are for you, too.
Somewhere out on that horizon
Out beyond the neon lights
I know there must be somethin' better
But there's nowhere else in sight
It's survival in the city
When you live from day to day
City streets don't have much pity
When you're down, that's where you'll stay
In the city, oh, oh.
In the city
I was born here in the city
With my back against the wall
Nothing grows and life ain't very pretty
No one's there to catch you when you fall
Somewhere out on that horizon
Far away from the neon sky
I know there must be somethin' better
And I can't stay another night
In the city, oh, oh.