i choose my friends only far too well
i'm up on the pavement, they're all down in the cellar
with their government grants and my i.q.
they brought me down to size, academia blues
louise is a girl, i know her well
she's up on the pavement, yes she's a weather girl
and i'm staying up here so i may be undone
she's inappropriate, but then she's much more fun and
when she smiles my way
my eyes go out in vain
she's got perfect skin
shame on you, you've got no sense of grace, shame on me
ah just in case i might come to a conclusion
other than that which is absolutely necessary
and that's perfect skin
louise is the girl with the perfect skin
she says turn on the light, otherwise it can't be seen
she's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
and she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan and
when she smiles my way
my eyes go out in vain
for her perfect skin
yeah that's perfect skin
she takes me down to the basement to look at her slides
of her family life, pretty weird at times
at the age of ten she looked like greta garbo
and i loved her then, but how was she to know that
when she smiles my way
my eyes go out in vain
she's got perfect skin
up eight flights of stairs to her basement flat
pretty confused huh, being shipped around like that
seems we climbed so high now we're down so low
strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one
you don't need a lover in this climate
you don't need a boyfriend in your bed
these days
pull a blanket round you baby
if you're looking for an early grave
mr. anderton will lead you to it
he says
pull a blanket round you baby
some have said
i`d go now rather than wait
just to sit and watch my days slip away
so surely
you don't need a lover in this climate
you don't need a boyfriend in your bed
these days
pull a blanket round you babe
when am i ever going to kick the curse?
i took my medication i feel worse
swimming is easy when you're stuck in the middle of the mississippi
all you have to do is crawl
15 years a big shot in a one horse town
riding the elevator shafts with your hip flask and your sun bed tan
you were born stupid mister you were born cheap
all you have to do is crawl
when are you ever going to see sense?
i kick it in and you spit it right out again
swimming is easy when you're headed for the deep
all you have to do is
all you have to do is crawl
one for the money baby two for the money
get back in that elevator jack eat up your milk and honey
guess you were born lucky mister ain`t life sweet?
all you have to do is crawl
when are you ever going to see sense?
i kick it in and you just spit it right out again
swimming is easy when you're stuck in the middle of the mississippi
all you have to do is
all you have to do is crawl
Hey rusty
`s a long time
Remember
`s like yesterday
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chased us
Down the boulevards
Then I got a job
White collar
Turn coat
You just spun around and walked
Said we wouldn't meet again
Hey rusty don't hang up
I feel so young
Hey rusty don't hang up
Cause we're still young
I just need one friend
She said hey
Don't take it so bad
She said hey
It wasn't so much
We just ran out of gas
Or something like that
That's when i
I crashed my car
Not by chance
And not out of love
Then I walked out of that job
You should've seen their faces
Hey rusty don't hang up
I just need one friend
And we're not finished yet
No way
Hey rusty
I changed my mind
What d`you say we start again
No I mean it this time
Stealing cigarettes
And laughing as they chase us
they were married in june
she was gone before the leaves were even turning
she said ";well, i knew he was a fool, but i
somehow thought my welfare concerned him";
must the one always have to change
whilst the other must always remain
must the cards all be dealt facing down?
turn away, turn away, turn your blue skies to grey
now, when it comes to september
i`ve got my own unhappy song
october, nowember, december,
and still she is gone;
unhappy song
he was torn between the romance and the mundane
he was torn every morning
he was surprised or was he horrified to find
the mundane the more rewarding
she was upon him before he even knew it
and anyone who had a hat would surely know:
it only rains when you leave it at home,
and all the umbrellas are broke,
oh, save yourself a fiver, you`re already soaking
come on, september
and sing me that old unhappy song
october, nowember, december,
and still she is gone;
unhappy song
well, there was ice beneath the snow
and everywhere else was closed,
but the locks had been changed
sure, the neighbours were the same, they said
yes, you`re taking it badly, i know, i know,
and you feel so alone
and everybody`s got to tell you what you already know
it`s alright, it`s all wrong, it`s alright
there`s a riot going on, maybe i`m going under and
i didn`t know that you cared
";was it love that you had?"; she said
well ";something like that"; and i
i didn`t know that you cared
i really didn`t know that you cared
i really didn`t know
i see photograps strewn on the floor
amidst your blake and your young
are you looking for something that`s already gone?
it`s alright, it`s all wrong, it`s alright
there`s a riot going on maybe i`m going under and
i didn`t know that you cared, somebody said
";peace is alright, could we give it a try?";, well, i,
i didn`t know that you cared
i got a letter it was asking for money, it said
give what you can
well i don`t know what i got
and i don`t know if i really want to be, so well
yes, i`m falling apart at the seems and i,
i`ve been waiting for years
take a look in my eyes, do you see any tears?
it`s alright, it`s all wrong, it`s alright
there`s a riot going on, we`re lions in slumber and,
i didn`t know that you cared
and if i gave you some petrol, would you make yourself useful?
well i didn`t know that you cared
i really didn`t know that you cared
didn`t even know you were there no
i didn`t know that you cared
wasting my time
a shadow on the riverbank
watching my reflection go to sea
wind in my hair
i could be most anywhere
but i do not care to know
not where i stand
baby, i`ve been lost without you
since i don`t have a place to call my home
oh, my sweet baby, must i empty my heart?
must i take what i can get and make it my own?
as long as i love my baby
i`m only lonely
she said not to call
said it would be best for all concerned
if i just all but disappear
she loves you best
and i love her nonetheless
so i just listen to the voice on the machine, singing
baby, i`ve been lost without you
since i don`t have a place to call my home
oh, my sweet baby, must i empty my heart?
must i take what i can get and call it my own?
as long as i love my baby
i`m only lonely
maybe one day she`ll call me up and say
";god damn you your baby`s crying
and i`m lonely, come home";
maybe i`ll find some guts someplace and drive up
and you`ll be there playing on the porch and she`ll
just say
";baby, where you been?";
and ";ain`t your little man growing?";
a pain in my mind
a shadow on the riverbank
watching my reflection go to sea
baby, i`ve been lost without you
since i don`t have a place to call my home
oh, my sweet baby, must i empty my heart?
must i take what i can get and make it my home?
as long as i love my baby
i got your letter baby the one that said
you been loving me too long maybe we should kick it in the head
right on
well i guess you've really got some kind of way with words
maybe you could be a writer
you could do worse
'cause when i saw you i just knew
i always would belong to you
goodbye baby, well you'll never see my smiling face
sweetheart, sweet jane
guess you'll find some other killing to take my place
ha ha, all right
i want my photographs back and my barcelino
keep the cartier babe i wouldn't give you the time of day
born a lady to the last perfumed stationery
does it make you feel good to make me feel ordinary?
'cause when i saw you i just knew
i always would belong to you
goodbye baby, well you'll never see my smiling face
sweetheart, my complete heart's
trashed and bleeding with the sordid details in my suitcase
you wanna leave me baby be my guest
all i'm gonna do is cry
and then i'm gonna find there's someone else
and tear the stars out of the sky
looking for something when there's nothing there to be found
make it easy on yourself
go out and find your body someone else
and tear the stars out of the sky
baby you're too well-read
baby you're too well-spoken
baby you're too pristine
when i cry, do you feel anything?
baby you're too well-read
you wanna leave me baby be my guest
all i'm gonna do is cry
and then i'm gonna find there's someone else
and tear the stars out of the sky
baby you're too well-read
baby you're too well-spoken
baby you're far too clean
when i cry, do you feel anything?
baby you're too well-read
baby you're too well-read
you don't need me anymore
you don't need me anymore
they say storms are right for summertime
well baby i'm long gone
whatcha gonna do when you open your eyes
it's a brand new day and baby
no blue skies
baby you're too well-read
baby you're too well-spoken
baby you're too pristine
when i cry, do you feel anything?
baby you're too well-read
baby you're too well-spoken
baby you're far too clean
when i cry, do you feel anything?
baby you're too well-read
loveless
you lie in the heat of a summer haze
and turn it into a winter's tale
you pull down the blinds and shut out the sky
and do what you can to turn the whole thing grey
you're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with
and you're everything that i'll ever need
so why do you say you love me when you don't?
you fall back into the english way
of feeling only guilt 'cause you feel no pain
you sit and you stare at the empty page
and then you fill it with verse, make the whole thing worse
you lie and you cheat your own mind to believing
that you don't need anything or anyone
so why do you say you love me when you don't?
and why should i feel blue when i do?
why?
you lie in the heat of a summer haze
and turn it into a winter's tale
you fall back into the english way
of feeling only guilt 'cause you feel no pain
you're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with
and you're everything that i'll ever need
so why do you say you love me when you don't?
why should i feel...
and who's gonna love the loveless if not you?
why?
You lie in the heat of a summer haze
And turn it into a winter's tale
You pull down the blinds and shut out the sky
And do what you can to turn the whole thing grey
You're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with
And you're everything that I'll ever need
So why do you say you love me when you don't?
You fall back into the english way
Of feeling only guilt 'cause you feel no pain
You sit and you stare at the empty page
And then you fill it with verse, make the whole thing worse
You lie and you cheat your own mind to believing
That you don't need anything or anyone
So why do you say you love me when you don't?
And why should I feel blue when I do?
Why?
You lie in the heat of a summer haze
And turn it into a winter's tale
You fall back into the english way
Of feeling only guilt 'cause you feel no pain
You're crying and pleading and you're hell just to be with
And you're everything that I'll ever need
So why do you say you love me when you don't?
Why should I feel...
And who's gonna love the loveless if not you?
Why?
i want to take you down to the side of the city
where the sun doesn't shine and the moon isn't pretty
the slow train crawls in the nights and the days
are as warm as the smoke and the heat haze
yes and neon here twenty-four hours of the day
and you're sure looking pretty when it's hitting on your face
looker on the corner take that dog for a donor
well she's only doing what her mother told her
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
i wanna take you right down
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
i wanna take you right down
i want to see a touch of evil in your eye
but all that i'm getting babe is sweetness and lies
i want to see something that i might desire
i want to take you down babe into the mire
deals going down no chance no masking
one thing's for sure never get what you're asking
they're coming with johnsons, they're coming with knives
they're robbing your boots when they give you a shoe shine
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
i wanna take you right down
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
i wanna take you right downtown
slow train down, babe, try twenty-nine
there's no looking back when there's no sense of time
'cause it's neon here twenty-four hours of the day
and you're sure looking pretty when it's hitting on your face
with a touch of evil in your eye
with a touch of evil in your eye
i want to take you down to the side of the city
i want to take you down to the blur of the city
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
i wanna take you right down
i...i wanna take you down
i wanna take you down
yes i wanna take you right down
i...i...i...i wanna take you
i...i...i...i wanna take you
Jane is fine always fine
We're unhappy most of the time
We don't talk we don't fight
I'm just tired she's way past caring
But she says she is fine
She tells lies most of the time
What she needs I don't have
That's not in the hand that I'm holding
So we drink spanish wine
She plays country records until the morning
This is mine all of mine
She is not she is not mine
And I feel fine only when I'm sleeping
Only with the t.v. on
She and I and empty wine and whisky bottles
And she write beneath crumpled sheets
She is everything I need
But she would rather be any place but here
Jane is fine always fine
We're unhappy most of the time
We don't talk we don't fight I'm just tired
She's way past caring
So we drink spanish wine we tell lies
We're killing and we feel fine
Once you were an angel
Jesse honey is it hard to take
Does it feel so bad to be 28 you were 23
And you could do anything now you open your mouth
And spit the gutter out
I was walking down by the river thames
I decided that I should throw me in
Because you broke my heart and you made me weep
In the name of your sensitivity
Still once you were an angel
Did nobody tell you jesse honey oh you look so pale
And old and so very I'll at ease these days
So you tell yourself that you'll never win
And you drown your sins in amphetamine
Do you weary so of that bitter taste
So you spit in my face just to keep you entertained
Still I can only love you I have no option but to
Is hard to take is it is it hard to swallow
Is it is it hard to take from grace
Once you were an angel
Did nobody tell you jesse honey is it hard to take
Does it feel so bad to be 28 you were 23
And you could do anything
Now you open your mouth and you spit the gutter out
Out in the summer rain
You will begin again
Out in the summer rain
i lost my girl on monday
looking for some sympathy
i went to church directly
the lord was not there for me
didn't go to work on tuesday
got to drinking around noon
i lost my heart to a mean bartender
she knocked me off my stool
now the world's spinning round too fast lord
won't you let me off on the corner
you know a man could take to sinning
all he needs's a little push in that direction
i lost my job on friday
said a lack of discipline
i went to church directly
peter said he was not in
i hit the bar on sunday
looking for some discipline
i sold my soul to the mean bartender
she said i'm born again
now the world's spinning round too fast lord
won't you let me off on the corner
you know a man could take to sinning
all he needs's a little pushing
you time it just right
she said she didn't understand and so she guessed he was deep
he swore he'd never been to college and was too tall to be
so as she led him to the slaughter thinking she'd be laughing last
now the lady in the question is his better half
she's gotta be the stupidest girl i've ever seen
she don't care who, why, where i've been
she's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me
but she doesn't wanna understand that she's a girl and i'm a man
he thought that women and drink would make a man out of him
but the extent of his studies left a jaded man
so as she led him to the altar he was easily led
and when they asked him if he did, well then this is what he said
she's gotta be the stupidest girl i've ever seen
she don't care who, why, where i've been
she's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me
but she doesn't wanna understand that she's a girl and i'm a man
well she's a girl and i'm a man
she's a girl and i'm a man
she's a girl and i'm a man
she's a girl and i'm a man
she's a girl and i'm a man
she's a girl
she's gotta be the stupidest girl i've ever seen
she don't care who, why, where i've been
she's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me
but she doesn't wanna understand that she's a girl and i'm her man
every time she's near me
she gives me any reason to be alive
try to get right
yeah she looks right through me
she says you're not cool, you're just like me
you're a stupid man
get over here, hold my stupid hand
she's all right, yeah...
you wouldn't understand, sister is a man fan
she's gotta be the stupidest girl i've ever seen
she don't care who, why, where i've been
she's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me
you up and leave me cold turkey
when you know i could not tie my own shoe
this does not please me, no not exactly
guess you do not give a damn for my love
everybody knows that she's worse than religion
no you do not cross a woman in love
everybody knows that the turn of the season
paris in the spring doesn't mean a damn thing to my baby
no, no no, no
you beat me up, you put me down
you're slamming my name all over town
guess i'm big enough to roll with the punches
but you bruise me, you abuse me damn good
everybody knows that she's worse than religion
no you do not cross a woman in love
everybody knows that the turn of the season
paris in the spring doesn't do a damn thing
i love you so, so much
you love me so, so what
i love you so, so much
you love me so, so what
la la la la la, la la la la
la la la la la, la la la la
la la la la la, la la la la
Did you get all that you wanted?
Then did you give it all away?
Did we take it all for granted?
We'd really love for you to stay
Yes, we would
Now the world is very old
And the sky is very high
And we're just traffic in between
You and I and if I knew my way
Well, I'd be there
Now, wouldn't I?
Don't you know it only gets louder
When you cut off your ear
Do you know how good it gets?
Are revelations all you need
Did you smash your brand new bird land?
Was it too much speed?
Now the world is very old
And the sky is very high
And we're just traffic in between
You and I and if I knew my way
Well, I'd be there
Now wouldn't I?
And if I knew my way
Well, I'd be there
Now wouldn't I?
And if I knew my way
Well, I'd be there
Now wouldn't I?
you will never be no good
no you will never be no good
d`you know what i`d do if i could
chop you up into firewood
because you have sinned far too many times
you have sinned far too many times
and you will pay for all your crimes
you will never be no good
not not ever no good
you know it`s hard to sympathise
you know it`s hard to sympathise
when you never tell nothing but lies
and it`s hard to sympathise
you say you`re born in the barrel of a gun
some say you`re born in the barrel of a gun
you were your mother`s seventh son
and no excuse could be a good enough one
and don`t you love her madly
you want to be her daddy
well that won`t do you no good
you might just slip into the priesthood
you will never be no good
no you will never be no good
d`you know what i`d do if i could
and then we`d all receive a knighthood
I love your head
I love the way you hold your head
Because you're young
And you know
Because you're young
There ain't nothin' you can't do
Because you know
There ain't nothin' you can't do
I love your head
I love the way you hold your head
Because you know
There is no connection between old
What's new?
And there ain't nothin' you can't do
Oh, nothin' at all
And you know that gun is loaded
Sure you do
Summertime blue, summertime blue
Yes, you know that gun is loaded
Sure you do if not for you
The way you walk
I love the way you wear contempt
For my sort
Oh, should I give you my money?
A steady hand
A little trigger happy angry little man
Oh, pull the trigger take it all
Oh, you take it all
But you know that gun is loaded
Sure you do
Summertime blue, summertime blue
And you know that gun is loaded
Sure you do
I love your head
I love the way you hold your head
Because you're young
And you know it
A steady hand, a little trigger happy
And we'll tell you how to live
Then we'll take away the reason
And we wonder why we wonder
How you're not the way that we were?
And we'll tell you how to live
Then we'll take away the reason
And we wonder why we wonder
How you're not the way that we were?
And we'll tell you how to live
Then we'll take away the reason
And we wonder why we wonder
The more I learn the less I know
Could you make mine straight absolute?
The more I fail the less I try
Ask not of me the reason why
Oh, my Sentimental Fool
have I got a tale for you
Oh, my Sentimental Fool
The woman I love is not content
The life I made - it ain't what I meant
The space I'm in is filled with love
The state I'm in is pitiful
Oh, my Sentimental Fool
have I got a tale for you
Oh, my Sentimental Fool
have I got a tale for you...
But, when she calls my name
we're almost happy - she's almost like you
yes, when she calls my name
we're almost there, man - she's almost like you
The longer I live the less I believe
and all I lost is all I need
The life I made is filled with regret
and I can't tell the half of it
The woman I love has lost her faith
and I just watch as she fades away
The space I'm in is filled with love
The shape I'm in ain't beautiful
Oh, my Sentimental Fool
have I got a tale for you...
i`m draining the glass for you
Do you see my girl?
Hey I was walking my bag
Through a 20 storey non stop snow storm
Pirrelli calender girls wrestling in body lotion
My head's swimming with poetry and prose
Excuse me one moment whilst I powder my nose
Me and my good thing are just about as close as can be
We gave up sleep at the age of 17
My world's getting bigger as my eyesight gets worse
I can't see the lines on my idiot board
What about love?
I don't let that stuff in my house
This is the glamorous life there's no time for fooling around
Lord have mercy I know what I'm doing
I don't need an alibi I need a fire escape and an open window
It's my problem it's nothing I can't deal with
I'm not chasing anything just jogging baby
What's your bag?
Hundred million dollar jam
Got some traffic yessir in my nose
Motorcycle speed cops burning up my dust roads
My baby left me heck ain`t that a shame
She's over in the corner with my new best friend
I'm doing fine with my whisky and wine
And meet me in the john john meet me in the john john
Lord have mercy
...what's your bag?
Spin spin whisky and gin I suffer for my art
Bartender I got wild mushrooms growing in my yard
Fix me a quart of petrol clams on the half shell
Feels like prohibition baby give me the hard sell
More give me more give me more more more
I'm your yes man yes maam I'm your yes man
it took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam
and double pneumonia in a single room
and the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
are you laughing at me now may i please laugh along with you
this morning i woke up from a deep unquiet sleep
with ashtray clothes and miss lonelyheart`s pen
with which i wrote for you a lovesong in tatoo
upon my palm `twas stolen from me when jesus took my hand
you see i i wouldn¡¯t say it if i didn¡¯t mean it
drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily
i was a king bee with a head full of attitude
wore my heart on my sleeve like a stained
my aim was to taboo you
could we meet in the marketplace
did i ever hey please did you wound my knees
you see i i wouldn¡¯t say it if i didn¡¯t mean it
drop me and i`ll fall to pieces
yes it`s too easy and there¡¯s nobody else to blame
will i hang my head in a crying shame
there is nobody else to blame nobody else except my sweet self
again it took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam
twenty four gone years to conclude in tears
that the sickest joke was the price of the medicine
are you laughing at me now
may i please laugh along
i was a king bee with a head full of attitude
and ashtray heart on my sleeve wounded knees
and my one love song was a tatoo upon my palm
you wrote upon me when you took my hand
you see i i wouldn¡¯t say it if i didn¡¯t mean it
drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily
lucy jumped from the 39th floor
said she just couldn`t face another poor man
every juke box stuck on ";who`s next";
they almost got me when jimmy said
let`s get lost
but we`re gonna fall
a change of weather couldn`t do you no harm
let`s get lost
pick up your feet
don`t tempt late, boy, get a pair of cheap skates
penny walked in with that love in vain look
said every last man should be hanging from a meat hook
she looked in my eye singing ";marry me bill";
i loosened my tie just as jimmy said
let`s get lost
go work on a farm
a change of weather couldn`t do you no harm
let`s get lost
pick up your feet
don`t tempt late, boy, get a pair of cheap skates
and i was so depressed today...
bobby said ";we`re going to be rich quick";
you buy a brand new car-you get automatic cash back
pick up a parking lot-no money down
he was counting the cost just as jimmy said
let`s get lost
go work on a farm
a change of weather couldn`t do you no harm
let`s get lost
pick up your feet
don`t tempt late, boy, get a pair of cheap skates
get lost,let`s get lost
come on let`s get lost
let`s get lost
i love to see you in your sweater girl
i love you in your high tall boots
i love to see you in your sweater girl
love to see you walking that cute, you know it
i love to see you in your leather skin
love your lipstick on my sheets
and i love to see you in your alligator shoes
reciting to me my poetry, i really do but
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
i hate to see you doing that stuff
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
really hate to see you doing that stuff
i love you baby when you bite my ear
i don't worry about your uptown geek
and i love you baby don't you bite your lip
'cause it's me you talk to in your sleep and
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
i hate to see you doing that stuff
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
really hate to see you doing that stuff
i love to see you in your sweater girl
love your alligator chic
et je sais te vois dans ton christian la croix
but i hate to see you walking my street, but
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
i hate to see you doing that stuff
i hate to see you baby doing that stuff
i took 15 years, to break your spell
i loved you then, i love you still
i wake up cold, i wake up wet
my body weak, my mind is spent
i fill my days, i pay my rent and
i have no need, of electric light
because i dream the same dream every night
i call my man
i know it`s late
";could you fix me something to put me straight?";
`cause i need your love
i need it now
god speed your love
for crying out loud
you took all i have, there is no more
mother nature lied, there is no cure
so i take my pill, i close my eyes
and i wait for sleep, i wait all night long
but i see your face, i hear your voice
so i call your number, i have no choice
`cause i need your love
i need it now
god speed your love
for crying out loud
i took 15 years, to break your spell
i loved you then, i guess i failed
i wake up cold, i wake up wet
my body weak, my mind is spent
i fill my days, i pay my rent
and i have no need, and i have no-one
`cause i need your love
i need it now
god speed your love
She's calling up her old boyfriends
I'm falling in love with her again
She's looking for a change of pace,she says
I can see that old look on her face
She says it takes an open mind
I think she means an open relationship
She says I can be so unkind
All I said was...
Don't think twice
If you gotta go, Mary it's alright
How much love can one man need?
Don't change your mind
Because true love is hard to find
But I'll find another...lover...
She says it isn't wrong or right
And me, I'm emotionally colourblind
She's waking me at half past four
I'm sleeping on the bathroom floor again
She's fallen for his new age verse
I'm holding back a level of conciousness
I know it isn't wrong or right
But all I said was...
Don't think twice
If you gotta go, Mary it's alright
How much love can one man need?
Don't change your mind
Because true love is hard to find
But I'll find another...lover...
I ran into an old girlfriend
On the corner of Varrick and VanDam
She said she had to change her address
What a strange coincidence...
i could never understand
the wind at all
was like a ball of love oh no
i could never never see
the cosmic sea
was like a bumblebee
and when i'm sad
i slide
i have never never kissed
a car before
it's like a door
it`s like a door
i have always always
grown my own before
all schools are strange strange
and when i'm sad
i slide
watch me now
i`m gonna slide
and when i`m sad
i slide
i have never never
nailed a nose before
that's how the garden grows
i could never understand
the wind at all
was like a ball of love
and when i'm sad
i slide
watch me now
well i'm gonna slide
she said don't worry baby
i'll do my own crying
i'm a big girl now
now i'm gonna be okay
yes i'll find a new way of living
you know i will
and you lie there without sleeping
and you stare at your wall
and you realize you're not weeping
you don't need her anymore
you say don't hate me baby
it won't hurt you if you do
you got no reason not to
she'll kiss you on the head
says there's no easy road for leaving
if it hurts you too
and you lie there without sleeping
and you stare at your wall
and you realize you're not weeping
you don't need her anymore
you walk by the old place
looks like just any other place
yeah that's what you say
you say i'll be okay
yes i'll find a new way of living
sure i will
and you lie there without sleeping
and you stare at your wall
and you realize you're not weeping
you don't need her anymore
and you lie there without sleeping
and you stare at your wall
and you realize you're not weeping
'cause you don't need her anymore
well i don't know but i've been told and
seen what you've left behind
and i don't know if i like what i see
when it's knocking at my door
and you don't know if you're laughing or crying
and i don't know if i care
'cause i know right here
i've got me something that you never had
you might laugh but what are you looking at?
sending your own valentines to the one you never had
well i don't know but i've been told and
seen what you've left behind
and all those ladies you left standing on the corner
they're laughing at you now
(you never had, you never had)
so you drink all night and you sleep all day
'cause you see what you've left behind
and standing on the corner, hey lady got a quarter
she's passing you by
and you don't know if you're laughing or crying
and i don't know if i care
'cause i know right here
i've got me something that you never had
you might laugh but what are you looking at?
you tripped me up
you put mushrooms in my tea
you rolled me, took advantage of me
you tied me up
i see blisters on my wrists
do i recall you doing the wild thing on me
do you know what
i think that i liked it
do you know what
i think i'd like to do it again
you tripped me right up
you put mushrooms in my tea
you rolled me, took advantage of me
you tied me up
i see blisters on my wrists
do i recall you doing the wild thing on me
do you know what
i think that i liked it
do you know what
well it used to be everything was fine
everything, this all was mine
all i had to do was write it down
you'd just be there with your perfect frown
i made up my mind
i traded holy water for cheap wine
i ran out of time
well it used to be everything was fine
everything, this all was mine
but one fine day, you might say
that i, i threw it all away
'cause i made up my mind
i traded holy water for cheap wine
i ran out of time
or something that i can't define
i traded my whiskey for your wine
leaving my river running dry
and a waterline
you might say i'm wasting my time
you might say well, i don't mind
i ran out of time
or something that i can't define
i traded holy water for cheap wine
leaving my river running dry
leaving just a waterline
sign your name without apology, sign on, sign on
keep your eye on the economy, sign on, shine on
and everybody knows that this is nowhere
everybody knows that this is nowhere, nowhere
but you`ve got to be here
yes you`ve got to be right there
yes you got to be there yeh
yes you got to be there
man you got to be right there
yes you got to be here yeh
bide your time milk and three sugars please, sign on, sign on
you need a line, you need some poetry, right on, right on
and everybody knows that this is nowhere
nobody knows that this is nowhere oh yeh
but you`ve got to be there
yes you`ve got to be right there
yes you got to be there yeh
Everything you touch turns into gold
Got everything you want at 24
So what do you do
When all your dreams come true
What do you believe in
There`s nothing left to want
So who do you blame when nothing is wrong
And what do you do
(all your dreams)
When all your dreams come true
Are you feeling lucky are you feeling lost
Was it all too easy now how do you get it off
Cause your train won`t stop
the western minnesota intercollegiate circle
telephoned they said
hey sean could you mosey on down to our gala ball
it reads mister maddonna kicks some beat poetry
if i could i would i would i swear i would be better
but it seems i am just a natural no good
and whats more i like living like that
after seven lines seventeen maybe i had to stop
these philistines were yelling hey sean
i could not be heard for cowhand laughter
i picked up my books and headed for the door
and if i trash this tv then i know i will feel better
guess it seems i am just a natural no good
and i like it like that
but when i see you coming down my street
you walk right in and then you
you walk all over me
oh yeh i need you
gatecrashing on my beat
put on your high heels and baby
walk all over me
all over me
fat hacks new york times food columnists
want to review my soup yeh honestly
my wife says i go looking for trouble
i surely find it
do you think i like living like that
if i trash this tv then i know i will feel better
guess it seems i am just a natural no good
and i like it like that
but when i see you
coming down my street
you walk right in and then you
you walk all over me
oh yeh i need you
gatecrashing on my beat
walking like nancy sinatra
walk all over me
Walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane
Jane was in her turtle neck I was much happier then
If I were to ask you what you would do with yourself
If I were to tell you would you just talk to yourself
Am I asking oh for so much
I`m not asking to be understood
Am I asking oh for so much
I`m just looking for a brand new friend
Walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane
Jane was in her turtle neck I was much happier then
Am I asking oh for so much
You could do anything you wanted to
Am I asking oh for so much
No just something that I can hold down
Because it`s all downhill now
So let me count the times that we swore and lied
That we`d tie ourselves to the railway line
Let me count the times when of course we lied
Well we know no better it was no crime
Let me count the times
I well I don't know when I when i`ll be content
Jodie wears a hat
Although it hasn't rained for six days
She says, "A girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes"
She looks like Eve Marie Saint
In on the waterfront
She reads Simone de Beauvoir
In her American circumstance
She's less than sure if her heart has come
To stay in San Jose
And her never born child still haunts her
As she speeds down the freeway
As she tries her luck with the traffic police
Out of boredom more than spite
She never finds no trouble, she tries too hard
She's obvious despite herself
She looks like Eve Marie Saint
In on the waterfront
She says, all she needs is therapy, yeah
All you need is, love is all you need
Jodie never sleeps
'Cause there are always needles in the hay
She says, "A girl needs a gun these days
Hey, on account of all the rattlesnakes"
She looks like Eve Marie Saint
In on the waterfront
As she reads Simone de Beauvoir
In her American circumstance
Her heart, heart's like crazy paving
Upside down and back to front
She says, "Ooh, it's so hard to love when
High tide
In the cool of the mist
Walking in the shadows of the trade ships
I`ll be your baby
I will not be your man
I will not be around when you call
Oh daddy
I`ll be daddy's little girl
Black water
The warm summer rain
Washes your tears in to the big snake
Into the ocean
And your skin is so white under harbour light
Should you fall i`ll be your baby
Say i`ll be daddy's little girl
Oh daddy
I'm all alone now
Hush little baby
Don't you cry
I will sing you a lullaby
It's high tide
In the still of your room
And the big snake's a crawling
Through the smoke and perfume
To be your baby
I will not be your man
I will be around when you fall
I`ll be your baby
I`ll be daddy's little girl
Say it be my daddy
I`ll be daddy's little girl
Oh daddy
We're all alone now
Won't you be my daddy
We're all alone now...
Trumpet: jon hassell
Early in the morning, just by the break of day
Well that's when my patience went away
She took her bags but she left all her clothes
She took her keys and left me out in the cold
Wearing a plastic coat
And the pressures of life through lack of patience
I get the pressures of her
Patience is a girl that I hate to love the way I do, but I do
She wakes me up in the morning through squeaking in my dreams
She took her bags but she left all her clothes
She took her keys and left me out in the cold
All because of patience
I get the pressures of life through lack of patience
I get the pressures of her
She beat me up and left me out in the pouring rain
Without no keys, without no reason to go back again
She left me empty-handed, she left me empty-hearted
Not no money, not nothing but the blues
All because of patience
I get the pressures of life through lack of patience
I get the pressures of her
She said the one thing that she needs is happiness
I don't believe that she's happy 'til she sees that I'm in distress
No, all because of patience
I get the pressures of life through lack of patience
I get the pressures of her
strange to see you babe, ain't nothing down here free
did you lose your ticket, hope you weren't looking for me
now i'm still wearing the scars i got from being your fool
you messed me up pretty good babe i didn't mean to rule you
remember when i first saw you babe you were looking pretty good
said you were looking for love, well then why didn't you
you just sat there taking everything you could get
never thought one day you might have to pay for it
well did you ever dream baby one day you might fall
and feel your back against the wall
well did you ever dream baby one day you might crawl
did you ever dream
now when you're putting on your face i guess that you feel kinda low
knowing that you passed your best and you got nothing to show
well baby you know just as well as i some fool is gonna fall your way
only this time around you might have to pay for it
well did you ever dream baby one day you might fall
and feel your back against the wall
well did you ever dream baby one day you might crawl
that's what i said
did you ever dream, baby
when you had no need, baby
did you ever dream
that you might have to pay for it
i do believe that you might have to pay now
well did you ever dream baby one day you might fall
yeah and feel your back against the wall
well did you ever dream baby one day you might crawl
(improvise)
strange to see you baby
mmm strange, very strange
'cause you messed me up good
yes you messed me up
messed me up pretty good now didn't you baby
mmm, took me a long time, to get back here
but i swear i didn't mean to rule you
yeah i swear i didn't mean to rule you
how do you mend what you didn't mean to do
'cause i swear i didn't mean it
i swear i didn't mean it
and i swear i didn't, swear i didn't mean to
swear i didn't mean to rule you
i swear, but you messed me up
you know that you messed me up good, do you now
you messed me up good, yes you did
yes you did now now, baby
'cause i'm looking at you now
and you're paying now, yes you are now
i swear, and you never dreamed that
and you never dreamed that
no you never dreamed that
but you're paying now
mmm you never dreamed that
mmm i'm looking right at you now
johnny stumbles johnny falls
under slogans
off the wall
he sees where's the sense
he says call me mister malcontent
a waste of space and alcohol
drinking rain and eating soil
and slogans off the wall
cannot express himself at all
cut off my nose despite my face
and i will not more longer wait
or should i laugh or should i cry
or should i part my hair behind...
...or should i laugh or should i cry
as i become all i despise
i know that i've been wrong
and i have no one to hang it on
so i take you by the hand
and i ask you please to understand
i just want to see you smile
but all i ever do is make you cry
ah ah, ah ah
guess i'm tough to be around
babe you're tough to be away from
you know every place i've been
every place i wish i'd never seen
now i just want to see you smile
but all i ever do is make you cry
ah ah, ah ah
you know what you're doing
it's a very special thing to ruin now
you know what you're doing
but you don't know why
oh oh
now i know what you've been thinking all along
you're saying oh oh no mister wrong
oh oh oh mister wrong
most of the time
i`m too focused all around
most of the time
i can keep both feet on the ground
i can follow the path
i can read the sign
i can stay right with it
as the road unwinds
i can handle whatever
i stumble upon
i don`t even notice that she`s gone
most of the time
most of the time
it`s well understood
most of the time
i wouldn`t change it if i could
i could make it all match up
i can hold my own?
i could deal with the situation
right down to the bone
i could survive
i can endure
and i don`t even think
`bout her
most of the time
most of the time
my head is on straight
most of the time
i`m strong enough not to hate
i don`t build up illusion until it makes me sick
i ain`t afraid of confusion no matter how thick
i can smile in the face of mankind
i don`t even remember how her lips felt on mine
most of the time
most of the time
she ain`t even in my mind
would i know her if i saw her
she`s that far behind
most of the time i can`t even be sure
if she was ever with me or if i was ever with her
most of the time i`m halfways content
most of the time i know exactly where it all went
i would cheat on myself
i don`t run and hide
i won`t hide from the feelings
that i buried inside
i don`t compromise
and i don`t pretend
and i don`t even care
if i ever see her again
most of the time
hey, hey, hey
look at me now
i`m unrecognizable
my trademark frown has grown
into the strangest easy smile
oh, my, my,
where did i go wrong?
ask all my drunken friends
";who`s going to carry us home?
who`s going to drink `till the morning?
who`s going to carry us home?
love ruined everything";
as the ladies line their eyes
and the gents make their excuses
and the talk is going cheap
i`ll be smiling in my sleep
hey, hey, hey,
look at her now
she`s the life of the party
oh, my, my,
where did she go wrong?
ask all my drunken friends
";who`s going to carry us home?
who`s going to drink `till the morning?
who`s going to carry us home?
shirley i love you 'til i'm drunk
and on and on and never to stop
the way i see it it's sad to say it but it's true
you're gonna be all that i need
so sad to see her looking so rusted
there must be more to life than this
or we'd be mercy killing us
yeah, killing us baby
the last train's leaving, there's nothing left
'cept to confess to love and happiness
the way i see it it's sad to say it but it's true
you're gonna be all that i need
so sad, sad to see her looking so rusted
there must be more to life than this
or we'd be mercy killing us
oh yeah, killing us baby
we'll slip past a graveyard
living on juice
eating out of tuna cans
mobile home
with my dairy queen
tied me a knot
but she had to cut me loose
i liked her a lot yeh
like lovers do, like lovers do
i liked her a lot, like lovers do
julia came
eating a tangerine
friday the third
four-thirty
she tore out a page
of my magazine
then she went away yeh
like lovers do, like lovers do
she went away like lovers do
saturday girls
keep you warm a while
but sunday sunshine
kills all conversation
you look in her eyes
and you see circles
then she lets you get away, yeh
like lovers do, like lovers do
you get away yeh, like lovers do
everyday you`re so sad to see me
and i`m so glad to take the blame
it`s always going to be that way
living on juice
eating out of tuna cans
mobile home
with my dairy queen
tied me a knot
but she had to cut me loose
now i`m looking at you yeh
like lovers do, like lovers do
i`m looking at you now, like lovers do
and i`m looking right at you now, just like lovers do
and i`m looking right at you now girl
just like lovers do, like lovers do
lay your head upon my shoulder
let it rest there for a while
i guess that i`m still good for something
once in a while
and if you need someone to talk to
just give a call i`ll be around
and if you want me to avoid you
just say the word
if you love him you should leave me
that`s the best thing to do
and if you need him you don`t need me
like you used to
and if you believe you`ll be happy
then i`m happy for you
yes and it`s just kind of funny
ain`t it me who never cried?
i guess that i`ll still kind of love you
for a little while
if you love him you should leave me
that`s the best thing to do
and if you need him you don`t need me
like you used to
and if you believe you`ll be happy
then i`m happy for you
you silly thing
don`t you apologize
no, no,
you,
you walk in my house with her lipstick over your face
you tell me you got news for me well, do you think i can't see straight?
do you think i can't recognize her perfume on your clothes
you tell me you got news for me well, i don't need to be told
let me guess, she's looking for a little peace of mind
i don't want to cause any more pain but could i please have what's mine?
she's got such a pretty please i never could say no
well just take her half of everything and then please go
now i know right now you're thinking i'm some crazy kind of fool
but the truth of the matter is i'm just like you
she's some kind of voodoo woman, she said she can't use me anymore
that's what she said to me she said, i can't use you anymore
i don't need your lovin', i don't need your kissin'
i don't need for you to tell me all that i've been missin'
i don't need your lovin', i don't need your kissin'
i don't need for you to tear me down and tear me down again
every time you give a little more, she could still use a little more
every time you give a little more, she could still use a little more
and when you can't give a little more, she could still use a little more
she could still use a little more, she could still use a little more
tell her that she done me, that she done me good
tell her that she done me, like a lady should
i never ever seen her and i hope i never do
i might have to show her just what love can do
the sun ain't gonna shine, and the rain is gonna fall
'cause i put a spell on you
and all the years i cried, all the years that i tried
to save a stillborn love
i know what you're thinking, pretty soon i'll howl at the moon
but you better believe me, 'cause i was just like you
mister read the writing on the wall, get out while you're still whole
while you're still breathing
i don't need your lovin'
(i don't need your lovin')
kissin'
(i don't need your kissin')
lovin', no i don't need
tear me down again
(i don't need your lovin')
mmm lovin'
(i don't need your kissin')
mmm kissin', and i don't need
tear me down again
(i don't need your lovin')
yeah
(i don't need your kissin')
holier than thou, yes it's true
i'm too good for you
higher than heaven, taller than jesus
charlie knows just what you need is
we're going down, down, underground
we're going down, down, underground
trust me i know what is true
what is good for you
here in your heaven, in your hell
are you living, pray tell
we're going down, down, underground
we're going down, down, underground
now you're leaving all your friends behind
all damnations to the family
are you ready to be born again
should you awake
down, down, down
down, down, underground
holier than thou, yes it's true
i'm too good for you
higher than heaven, taller than jesus
charlie knows just what you need is
we're going down, down, underground
we're going down, down, underground
we're going down, down, underground
There you go again
Alma tell me when
Will you never learn
And now you`re underweight
And overpaid
You will not be saved
And you`re pushing 38
Heaven knows your train is late
Although my chance is slim
You percieve the state you`re in
Is good for one last fling
In a drastic dress you walk in drastic steps
Revealing no interest
You know it seems you wont be spared
And you`re so much wiser unaware, unaware
Independent means being alone and being
Good for one last fling
So there you go again
Alma tell me when
Will you ever learn
Instead you walk in these drastic steps
When you know too well
ALBUM:CD-MAXI "So you'd like to save the world"
This song is the B-side, even though it's better!
This song is transcribed from an Scandinavian
ear, so feel free to send me any corrections
that you think are necessary!
tt91jo@tintin.hik.se (Jorgen Olsen)
For the pleasure of your company
--------------------------------
Heaven is a shadow of your live
I'm a lonesome alcoholic for your kiss
Should I sit around
And wait
Well I had a chance
I hesitate
To ask you for the pleasure of your company
What would you say
Would you think about it
Would you think about it
Right now
I've been put upon
I've been passed round
For ever and I'm waiting for
The thirteenth of never
Should I swear to be true
Should you give a damn
What I say or do
Well, I'm asking for the pleasure of your company
What would you say
Would you think about it
Would you think about it
Right now
Love a chant
I've got everything you need
And I'm asking for the pleasure of your company
What DO you say
Baby
Cause it's been a long time
Baby
Think about it
i was looking for a rhyme for the new york times
when i sensed i was not alone
she said d'you know how to spell audaciously
i could tell i was in luck
and so i forced a smile contrary to my style
and she looked into my eyes
she said d'you want to go heaven
or would you rather not be saved
here comes my train
i'm on my way, will you not see
i don't need your sympathy
i won't read your poetry, oh sweetness please
so she took me back to her basement flat
which was down on charlotte street
though it was never my intention
we were not intense, not least because
well if you must just take then i'm a piece of cake
that is what she said to me
and so i gave myself to her charity
well at least that's how it seemed
here comes my train
i'm on my way, what got into me
i don't need your sympathy
i won't read your poetry, oh bittersweets
i was looking for a rhyme for the new times when i was distracted
yes those were precious times together that we wasted
now i'm working hard for my union card
i must believe in charlotte street
though it was never my intention to stay so long
so long
I've been bought and sold
I've been hung upside down
So you can hear me breathing
Do you think it`s easy
I've been aching all through summer
I've been aching just to fall
Cut me down
I've been billy name and filled my pockets with sand
I've seen everything I hang upon your pretty frown
I have wasted all my summer
I've been aching just to fall
Cut me down
All she had too much class to mention
Were the things he never knew
All the things she left unspoken
Were the things he needed
So i`m not hurting anymore
I've been bought and sold and I've been hung upside down
Can you hear me breathing do you think it`s easy
I may find it hard to follow
I've been aching just to fall
when you're nothing to no one
and you're less than you can
and you're looking for someone
who won't cling to anything
so you're stuck in some motel
with the sound of her sleeping
don't you feel kinda old now
well ain't that a funny thing
i used to wake up early
i used to try to believe
but life seems neverending
when you're young
so you're back on the highway
and there's wind in her hair
and you know that it's no time for thinking
about somebody up there
'cause you'll turn her to drinking
and you'll lead her to hell
with her bottle beside her
she surely looks like an angel
i used to wake up early
i used to try to believe
but faith is never easy
when you're young
no no no
i used to wake up early
now it's hard, hard enough to sleep
but life seems neverending
when you're young
didn't i hear you say your heart's made out of steel
no one's gonna get so close, no one's gonna know how you feel
now you're a punch drunk sycophant, a little s.o.b.
you say your mind is made up, isn't that the way that it's supposed to be
and it's a long way down
and it's a long, long way down
walking that tall your head is gonna trip your feet
walking with the devil's fine, just don't call it looking for sympathy
when it's four a.m. and mister you can't sleep
'cause your blood's still rushing at cocaine speed
and you know all that you need's a little baby to say
ah mister cool down won't you let me fade those blues away
and it's a long way down
and it's a long, long way down
and when you hit the ground you're gonna know about it
mister let's you and me see if we can't make a deal
i'll give you the world and all you've gotta do is cry for me
the reason it's a clich
Ž is because it's true
the harder you climb, the harder you fall, and that means you
so mister hard head, hard nose, hard as steel
you're just a punch drunk sycophant, a little s.o.b.
and it's a long, it's a long way down
and it's a long, long way down
Does it hurt to be polite
Or is it just cool to be unkind
Must you always hurt the ones you love
And then get paid back in time
Now, now, now
Andy is fine but his taste is not mine
Let me tell you I don`t mean maybe
I`m getting really tired of andy`s babies
Some say that children should be seen and not heard
That`s what i`d preferred
Let`s go downtown for a wine
I`m sure you`ll be forced to smile
When you see andy`s babies
And the bohemian lifestyle
Now, now now
Andy`s a saint
But i`m loosing my patience
I really don`t mean maybe
Don`t even wanna talk about andy`s babies
So andy says his children will inherit the earth
Isn`t that absurd, in a word
Trudy`s in the bathroom
She`s trying to clean up her eyes
And donald`s gone to mass
Yes we are thankful for that
It`s eight in the morning
And still you can`t get no sleep
On account of this perfect day and
All this white light white heat
Didn't mean to get you mad at me misty
Swear i`d never try to turn your brown eyes blue
It's just that I haven`t got a taste for this whisky
Maybe I i`ve been missing someone like you
Maybe I've been tired, maybe I've been lonely
I've been lonely and blue
Maybe I've been missing someone like you
But I was only trying to be your friend
Don't get weird on me babe
I swear I never try to mix things up again
Don't get weird on me babe
Billy says that you're wearing his ring now
He says it took away the sadness from your smile
I guess i`d tried hell if i`d only known how
I guess I learned when you walking down that isle
I guess that i`ll be sad babe and i`ll be lonely
I`ll be lonely and blue
Yes and i`ll be missing someone like you
Maybe I've been missing someone like you
But I was only trying to be your friend
Don't get weird on me babe
I swear I never try to mix things up again
Don't get weird on me babe
Was only trying to be your friend
And I was only trying to be your friend
Didn't mean to get you mad at me misty
Swear i`d never try and turn your brown eyes blue
It's just that I haven`t got a taste for this whisky
Maybe I i`ve been missing someone like you
Maybe I've been tired, maybe I've been lonely
I've been lonely and blue
Yes and I've been missing someone like you
But I was only trying to be your friend
Don't get weird on me babe
I swear I never try to mix things up again
Don't get weird on me babe
Don't get weird on me babe
Don't get weird on me babe
Even though the skies are blue
Don't we let the sun shine through
Because he is a jerk I guess
Does that make him love you less
Could you forgive that boy
Could you find some part of your aching heart
To forgive that boy
Could you take him home
Could you hold him in your arms
Until the morning comes
When he's a all cried out
Could you be that girl
What if it were you who fell
Would he have you go to hell?
Because he is a man that's true
Now wasn't she a woman too?
Could you forgive that boy
Could you find some part of your aching heart
To forgive that boy
Could you take him home
Could you hold him in your arms
Until the morning comes
When he's a all cried out
Could you be that girl?
Could you forgive that boy
Could you find some part of your aching heart
To forgive that boy
Could you take him home
Could you hold him in your arms
Until the morning comes
When he's a all cried out
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Could you be that girl
Julie said, we drink far too much coffee
Wine and cigarettes and we never get no sleep
I first met them at a riverboat party
Both of them were speeding I would say
I lived on the edge of all this indulgence
Taking notes and trusting in prudence
Julie said to Jim, why don't we jump in
While the water is cool and we are still friends?
Some say that they O.D.'d on Leonard Cohen
Well, I can see that river whenever I think about them
The river is cruel and the water is deep and blue
I was working then on my great unfinished novel
Please let introduce myself, my name is Ronald
I was okay, there until I lost my cool
Now let me introduce you to the rest of the crew
It wasn't my style to find surf in my eye
It was much more my style to find sand in my eyes
Though there is absolutely no truth to be discovered
Albeit truth then is nothing to be found
We academics are not easily discouraged
Lloyd, you know wits, they come three to the pound
Julie said to Jim look at the state we're in
It was never her intention to conclude anything
It wasn't my style to find surf in my eye
It was much more my style to find sand in my eyes
It was just not my style to find surf in my eye
It was much more my style to get sand kicked in my eyes
You look so good when you're depressed
Better even in your current state of undress
Tears caressing me like rain
And I'm not even thinking, I feel fine in your pain
The coolest thing I ever saw
You were sitting there smoking my cigarettes
You were naked on the bare stone floor
Looked at me to say don't guess
I was only watching, yes I love you more undressed
Is it really such a sin?
Should I feel some kind of shame?
Will I truly go to hell?
Oh, you never lock the bathroom door
Should I be embarrassed when I've seen a hundred times before
How do married couples cope?
Should I say, "Excuse me darling?", I don't know
We could disconnect the telephone
Just sit around and mess around
And tell your ma we went to Rome, Tennessee
And I'm not even drinking, I feel fine, it's scary
Is it really such a sin?
Should I feel some kind of shame?
Will I truly go to hell?
Oh well
The coolest thing I ever saw
You were sitting there smoking my cigarettes
You were naked on the bare stone floor
You looked at me to say don't guess
I was only watching
Didn't I promise always to
Shelter and protect you
Didn't I answer - Yes I do
Well, today I'm not so sure
Didn't the stars shine awful bright then
Didn't I look into your eyes and
Didn't I swear I'd always be there
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah
Today I'm not so sure
Today I'm not so sure
Wasn't the world much younger then
Isn't the word indifferent
Wich Best describes this man in descent
Caught beteween love
And what I meant
Didn't I promise always to
Shelter and protect you
Didn't I answer - Yes I do
Well, today I'm not so sure
Didn't the stars shine awful bright then
Didn't I look into your eyes and
Didn't I swear I'd always be there
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, you`re a precious little prude?
But tell me the truth now
Have you ever had a care in the world
So tell me what`s it all about
You say oh you`re so attacked
Well you`ll never be so right
Oh you can cry yourself dry
But i`d be surprised if you can munster
Up a single crocodile
You`ll never be a hopeless child
Throw caution to the wind
Forgive yourself your sins
And don`t you know you
Really are the sweetest thing
There isn`t heart enough from you
Do you no longer care or feel that
You no longer have nothing left to prove
Oh tell me that it isn`t true
I wanted to tell you
That I used to admire you
Oh you know really that I don`t cared
No I never cared for you
But I used to read about you
And you oftenly would throw caution to the wind
And don`t you know you
Oh baby mystic lady
You do own my night
Put my dogs to fright
Yea yea yea yea yea
Sliding riding sorceress
In your dungarees
Got me on my knees
The people in your life are cruel
Keep on riding that hard road
The lovers in your life are few
You keep on riding that hard road
Baby baby baby
Oh baby baby baby
Pleasant crescent moon
Fills my heart with pain
Fills my toes with rain
Oh bobby you got a hobby
With the learned ones
Like a setting sun
The people in your life are cruel
Keep on riding that hard road
The lovers in your life are few
You keep on riding that hard road
Baby baby baby
Saint christopher sunday otherwise unaware
That is what she called it
She arrived was observed with her clothes in his suitcase
Looking suitably world weary
As he drove away she came to
She sat and she waited he did not telephone
Her heart was unbroken
She could not let this be known
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
He stood and laughed and shewalked out again
Which was when she wrote me in
To her scheme of things
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
She said she never did and I asked her why
She just shrugged and she sighed
And turned her head away
She did not say
Saint christopher sunday otherwise uneventful
Everything never happened
To her scheme of things
She said she'd throw herself off a bridge
He stood and laughed and she never did
She telephoned to say that she'd cut her wrists instead
She beat the walls with her fists
Somebody somewhere must pay
Not you you just walk away to the foot ofher stairs
She at the top with her head in the clouds
And was she easily lead
Well can you tell me that you were not
You unwashed and undressed
She with her head full of your cigarettes
She is oh such a pretty one wrapped up in needlecord and coincidence
And you don`t know what to want
Until it's gone gone gone pretty gone
Somebody somewhere must pay
Somebody else will confess all your sins
You'll be saved
Then you'll step on that face
She will laugh she will kiss yes and tell
She is gone she is pretty gone she's under your thumb
Oh you little man but you don`t know what you want
Until she's gone gone gone
Pretty dress full of nothingness to confess
She is nothing less
She was half way to holiness when you said
Wont you put on your dress and come down to magazine avenue
Rather than you, she said
I prefer solitude
Rather the company
I prefer cigarrettes
Even Los Angeles
Suffers occasionally
Do you have somewhere to stay?
But no more love songs
Not for me
I gave er whisky
And she gave me everything
There was a boy, she said
Beautiful, eloquent
He went to Spain
And where he went, she went
No Joan of Arc
She was broken discarded
And that was a long time ago
Still, no more love songs
No more love songs
Stil, you might as well live
I'll drink to harmony
Peace and disarmament
I'll dance the victory waltz
But no more love songs
If I ever was, then now i`m less than sure
What I was waiting for
If I could find the strenght to walk
Me i`m drinking the sea
She will send me to sleep
Surely there must be an easy way
And i`ll say it again will the nevers end
Do I have to forgive to forget
I wrote a letter only yesterday
I can not recall what I wanted to say
I saw a chance, I let it pass me by
This is the shallow age, my friend
I say never again will the nevers end
This is not what I had meant to say
So i`m drinking the sea, trying to pick up the pieces
And say it never again
If I ever was then now i`m less than sure
I was out stumbling in the rain
Staring at your lips so red
You said, "blah, blah, blah,
I got a pillow stuck in my head"
How could I argue with a mirror?
She looked at me ¡º
Yes, I hear her.
When I see the glory
I ain`t gotta worry
When I see the glory
I ain`t gotta worry
She said, "there's a halo on that truck,
"won't you please get it for me? "
I said, "of course my little swan,
"if ever and ever you adore me."
She got mad ¡º
She said, "you're too steep,"
Put on her boxing gloves and went to sleep
When I see the glory
I ain`t gotta worry
When I see the glory
I ain`t gotta worry
When I see the glory...
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's put it in writing
Jennifer we can't go wrong let's do it right now
Maybe you were a little hasty
But they say love is blind
Now her name on you
Jennifer in blue
Did you ever have a bad dream wake up and it not stop?
Did you ever feel for a girl for a time and then stop?
Well it's written there in blue
With a heart and arrow through
Her name on you
Jennifer in blue
And forever you said that's forever you said yes forever
And forever she said that's forever she said yes forever
But you change with the weather
You change with the weather
Ugly children with poor complexions and greasy hair
Receive no concessions and it`s a heartless world
And it`s a thoughtless heartless world
Oh james oh you're a terrible child
Hide yourself away from furnished accommodation
With a view and window seat
You swear she really is the best thing that you have ever seen
But your heart is in the wrong place
Cover your face and despair yourself away
Oh you're impossible james hide yourself away
And it`s a sin to be a saint
And you're impossible james
And it`s impossible to accept that she's impossible
And as a consequence you lock yourself away
And it`s a crime to be alive and be alone
And be content to be
Oh james oh you`re a terrible child
Hide yourself away
And in the morning when you wake
Well you could put me back down where you picked me up
And send me to from where I came
And you could ask me to leave and i`d be on my way
And I would not complain
And I will not leave you alone
Well I could steal your car if it might get you started
Thinking that you might be mine
Well I could grow my hair I really would not care
If I could be your valentine
And I will not leave you alone
Well you could put me back down where you picked me up
And send me to from where I came
And you could ask me to leave and i`d be on my way
And I would not complain
And I will not leave you alone
Well I could steal your car if it might get you started
Thinking that you might be mine
Well I could grow my hair I really would not care
If I could be your valentine
And I will not leave you alone
Some say that you may soon be leaving town
Do you tire of chasing all the women around
Will you never be contented with your life
Will you always be the one who won't think twice
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard to please
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard , down on mission street
God only knows how you can hurt her
When you know that's what you do
How does it feel to be so cruel
Will you never be contented with your life
Will you always be the one who won't look back
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard to please
When you go down on your knees
It feels like up, down on mission street
Julie said your eyes are blue
Your lips are cold as stone
She picked you up and you put her down
And messed her place around
Will you never be contented with your life
Will you always be the one who won't think twice
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard to please
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard , down on mission street
When you go down on your knees
You're so hard to please
When you go down on your knees
She crossed herself as she put on her things
She has promised once before not to live this way
If she don't calm down she will burn herself out
Like a forest fire, well doesn't that make you smile
If you don't slow down, I swear that I'll come round
And mess up your place, let's go for a spin
They say we shouldn't even know each other
And that we'll be undone
Don't it make you smile like a forest fire
I believe in love, I'll believe in anything
That's gonna get me what I want and get me off my knees
Then we'll burn your house down, don't it feel so good
There's a forest fire every time we get together
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Hey pick you up, put you down
Rip you up and spin you round
Just like we said we would
'cause we're a forest fire
Believe you me, we'll tear this place down
If we get caught in this wind then we could burn the ocean
If we get caught in this scene we're gonna be undone
It's just a simple metaphor, it's for a burning love
From northerton to northern california
Folk don't really change
And there's always the rain
From southport beach to sunday in the hamptons
Well I never could complain
And there's always the rain
The fool you are in manchester
The fool you are in maine
The lies you tell in liverpool
Will follow you to spain
It's the fool you are
From lambeth walk to london, ontario
We'd like(love) to run away
When it looks like rain
From sunset strip to waterloo underground
The stars are just the same
And it looks like rain
The fool you are in manchester
The fool you are in maine
The lies you tell in liverpool
Will follow you to spain
It's the fool you are
It's the fool you are
Yes it is
From the sunshine state to shaftesbury avenue
Folk don't really change
And there's always the rain
And the night before in northern california
Is dawning on the thames and it looks like rain
The fool you are in manchester
The fool you are in maine
The lies you tell in liverpool
Will follow you to spain
And the morning after leicester square
Is hungover in rome
And never again in newcastle
Is one more for the road
It's the fool you are
It's the fool you are
Yes it is
It's the fool you are
It's the fool that's what you are
I remember you well in the chelsea hotel,
You were talking so brave and so sweet,
Giving me head on the unmade bed,
While the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was new york,
We were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
Probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
You just turned your back on the crowd,
You got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don't need you,
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around.
I remember you well in the chelsea hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
You fixed yourself, you said, "well never mind,
We are ugly but we have the music."
And then you got away, didn't you babe...
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the chelsea hotel,
I?m serving 12 to 15, working the coffee machine
I?ve got a license to fly underneath the radar
She?s about 50 feet north, 'As Seen On TV' store
I know she?s gonna tune me in sooner or later
With my medication, I will be fine
With my medication, I will be fine
With my medication, I will be, I will be fine
I said, ?I?m trying to write my novel?
She said, ?Neither am I?
And either way I saw you reading 'No Depression'
You?re doing nothing, I?ll come over
We?ll watch '6 Feet Under'
And then we?ll maybe get around to your condition
With my medication, I will be fine
With my medication, I will be fine
With my medication, I will be, I will be fine
First she?s gonna tire of my fixations
Then she?s gonna tire of my face
I?m gonna need a new affectation
I?m gonna need a new one everyday, everyday
With my medication I will be fine
With my medication, I will be fine
She drove her mother's car, 'twas a 2cv
I was most impressed by her casual dress
I was most impressed
Inside her rented room colored deepest blue
I suppose we found some kind of happiness
To fill the emptiness
We were simply wasting precious time
Hiding from the cruelest summer sky
She took her mother's car to get away from me
Heaven knows that i, I can sympathize
Oh I can sympathize
For we were never close if the truth were told
All we ever shared was a taste in clothes
Oh we were never close
We were simply losing everything
Underneath the cruelest london sun
We were simply wasting precious time
We were simply wasting precious time
Blaming mary jane I'm drinking cheap -bahrein-
She's getting prettier by the ....
She says I should care more for
The rich and the poor but i
Can't find the energy blame mary jane
I'm gonna close my eyes to the morning papers
Shut my ear to the news
I'm gonna lose my soul in the lonesome afternoon
Yes I am
Speak plain mary jane
Could you give your hand to a man that
Never gave a damn
That's why I rather sleep than thinking
Nothing more than drinking
All I want is to blame mary jane
I'm gonna close my eyes to the morning papers
Shut my ear to the news
I'm gonna lose my soul to the long lonesome
Afternoons, yes I am
I'm gonna close my eyes to the morning papers
Shut my ear to the news
I'm gonna lose my soul to the lonesome afternoon
Oh maybe I won't be your whipping boy
I won't be your whipping boy
Shame baby shame oh shame sweet mary jane
I truly do love you
She said that I should care more
For that body of yours
If you carry the weight of the world oh my
I'm gonna close my eyes to the morning papers
Shut my ear to the news
I'm gonna lose my soul in the long lonesome afternoon
Yes I am
I'm gonna close my eyes to the morning papers
Shut my ear to the news
I'm gonna lose my soul in thelonesome afternoon
Maybe I will be your whipping boy
used to be mean
used to be cruel
but you were laughing then
and it was no accident
where did the mean man go
is he chasing his shadow
is he unhappy to report
that the gentleman he found is a terrible bore
you know it all
you've got all the answers
but if that's the case
what's with the long face
it's very easy to be brave
with your good foot in the grave
it's very easy to be cold
when there's no one in the world you want to know
it's very easy to be suave
when you're on your guard
like you always are
the sun goes down and now the shadows arise
and morning is broken as you mourn your life
you smile at your neighbors as you lock your doors
you face up the mirror, mister pimp or whore
is it hard to let go
at the foot of the rainbow
just to be informed
that the chase was your reward
here have a crock of gold
keep it for when you're old
like a week on tuesday
hey wise man say
it's very easy to be brave
with your good foot in the grave
it's very easy to be cold
when there's nowhere in the world you want to go
it's very easy to be suave
when you're on your guard
like you always are
the sun goes down and now the shadows arise
and morning is broken as you mourn your life
you smile at your neighbors as you lock your doors
you face up the mirror, mister pimp or whore
the sun goes down and now the shadows arise
and morning is broken as you mourn your life
you smile at your neighbors as you lock your doors
the morning is broken, mister pimp or whore
put me in the ground
put me in the ground
come on put me in the ground
the morning is broken
(the morning is broken as you mourn your life)
come on put me in the ground
(the sun goes down and now the shadows arise)
come on come on put me in the ground
(the morning is broken as you mourn your life)
the morning is broken
the sun goes down and now the shadows arise
if i told you that i'd never really cared
and if i told you that i'd never cried you'd know that i lied
you'd know i lied
and if i told you that i'd found somebody new
it wouldn't make it any easier and what he doesn't know
won't hurt at all
you know just as well as i that he's a better man than i
and i know you know
guess i never got around to telling you
i guess that if i told you now then i'd have nothing to lose
well i think of you
'cause if i told you that i'd found another girl
it wouldn't make it any easier and what he doesn't know
won't hurt at all
you know just as well as i that he's a better man than i
you know just as well as i, you know just as well as i
rain on me, i'm not complaining
i'm soaking from my hat down to my shoes
rain on me 'cause i'm believing
love is something i get to lose
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
take a look at my face to get my meaning
mister i got scars on my knees
take a look at these hands i got from praying
you better believe i do believe
it's raining on bleecker street
from my heart down to my feet now
doo doo doo doo doo doo...
now i know that this blood here is for bleeding
sure as jesus is up above
he knows my heart is just for pleading
but what do you know about love?
it's raining on my main street
from my heart down to my feet now
doo doo doo doo doo doo...
raining from my heart down to my feet now
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
it's raining on bleecker street
raining from my heart down to my feet now
doo doo doo doo doo doo...
raining from my heart down to my feet yessir
doo doo doo doo doo doo...
(should rain on me now)
(falling down on me now now now now)
(should rain on me)
raining from my heart down to my feet now now
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
what do you know about love?
if every lover that you'd ever known
could turn around would you take one
or would you really rather be alone
and full of wrath and when you might please
well i don't know babe if you ever have been told
but you're a tough one to play for
i tried to be what you were looking for
now i'm not sure if you ever really knew
you know the world won't wait, babe you're crying too late
and you're drinking on borrowed time
and the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
i guess that the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
you sit around sticking pins in dolls
what's there to fall down and die for?
you're looking fine baby it's well known
why does your story have to be so short?
well pretty soon babe you're gonna show your age
'cause you're drinking on borrowed time
and then the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
i guess the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
you know the world won't wait, babe you're crying too late
you're drinking on borrowed time
and the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
yeah i guess that the last thing you need is me and my weeping wine
me and my weeping wine
Vicious, you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour
Oh baby you`re so vicious
Vicious, you want me to hit you with a stick
All I got here is a guitar pick
Baby you`re so vicious
When I see you come, baby I just have to run far away
You`re not the kind of person around whom I want to stay ah ah
(when I see you coming)
When I see you coming down my street
(I just have to run)
I step on your hands and I mangle your feet
(when I see you come come come come)
You`re not the kind of person with whom I want to make
Cause you`re so vicious
Ah ah vicious (vicious)
Oh yeah
Delicious, you hit me with your flower
You do it every hour
Oh baby you`re so vicious
Vicious, why don`t you go swallow razor blades
You must think i`m some kind of gay blade? uh uh
Oh baby you`re so vicious
When I see you coming baby I just got to run
(run run)
Far away
You`re not that good but you`re
Certainly fair game
(when I see you coming)
When I see you coming down my street
(I just have to run)
I step on your hands and I mangle your feet
(when I see you come come come come)
You`re not the kind of person that I even wanna meet
Cause you`re so vicious
You`re so vicious, you`re so vicious
You`re so vicious, you`re so vicious
You`re so vicious, you`re so vicious
You`re so vicious
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you stay with me
and i will stay with you, baby
do you ever wonder
'bout the way you move
you know what it does to me
you've got nothing to prove
do you ever think about
your natural grace
and how it is that it came to you
and landed on your sweet face
ooh, ahh
now every day that i go without you baby
is a rainy day
i'm gonna get up in the morning
i'm gonna work all day
if that's what it takes
to be with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you stay with me
and i will stay with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you say to me
i want to stay with you, baby
do you ever think about
the way that you move me
you know what it does to me
you've got nothing to prove to me
do you ever think about
your natural grace
and how it is that it came to you
and landed on your sweet face
ooh, ahh
now every day that i go without you baby
is a rainy day
i'm gonna get up in the morning
i'm gonna work all day
if that's what it takes
to be with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you stay with me
and i will stay with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you say to me
i want to stay with you, darling
waking up is hard to do
except when i'm lying next to you baby
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you stay with me
and i will stay with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you say to me
i want to stay with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you stay with me
and i will stay with you
if it's good for me
and it's good for you
won't you say to me
i want to, i want to stay with you
i'm looking for a religious girl
with child-bearing hips and a wedding veil
but i'm saddened to report sir, it's not easy
this town is full of those cynical girls
walking two steps behind forty-five-year-olds
i can't bear to hear those church bells ring again
so driver can't you drive me a little more slowly
i've gotta go
can't you find me some george jones on your radio
sometimes i get to thinking
i'm a hurting kind of guy
why'd that woman leave me for a lesser kind
if you don't know now, then you never will
is what she said
she said i didn't listen
well i know that that's untrue
she said i didn't understand her
well i guess that you do
well i guess you do
summer came around
her old blanket on the floor
i woke to the slamming of the door
then the rain came
and i just let it pour all over me
sometimes i get to thinking
i've been wronged by my own kind
downed by my own undertakings
now i'm down by the water, black water
and i'm looking in
she said i wouldn't miss her
well you know that that's unfair
she said i wasn't there for her
well i never would have been there
no sir, if not for her
summer comes around
and i miss that woman more
i guess i'll get me somewhere by the fall
when the rain comes
well i'll just let it pour all over me
sometimes i get to thinking
i'm a hurting kind of guy
why'd that woman leave me for a lesser kind
if you don't know now, then you never will
is what she said
summer comes around
and i miss that woman more
i guess i'll get me somewhere by the fall
when the rain comes
i've got a little piece of paper with your name written on it
got a head full of attitude and nowhere to put it
tell me why don't you come down to rue morgue avenue
why don't you come down
soil your pretty feet on the dirty ground of rue morgue avenue
well there's a chapel on the corner where i'm doing my crying
there's a limit to my patience, what d'ya say fay let's get married
down on rue morgue avenue
they say the world keeps on turning, everything remains the same
well my heart's burning and i say everything must change
why don't you come down to rue morgue avenue
why don't you come down
soil your pretty feet on the dirty ground of rue morgue avenue
rue morgue avenue
rita mae, tell your sister she's unkind
tell your sister well, i don't mind
tell your sister, she's got mine
why don't you come down
soil your pretty feet on the dirty ground
i got a four letter word, starts with the letter l
can't bring myself to say it 'cause it's making my life hell
why don't you come down to rue morgue avenue
'cause i've been drinking all night and all day
just trying to picture your sweet face
down on rue morgue avenue
down on rue morgue avenue
down on rue morgue avenue
rita mae, tell your sister she's unkind
tell your sister well, i don't mind
tell your sister, she knows where, where i lie
down on rue morgue avenue
down on rue morgue avenue
down on...
down on rue morgue avenue
ALBUM:CD-MAXI "So you'd like to save the world"
This song is transcribed from an Scandinavian
ear, so feel free to send me any corrections
that you think are necessary!
tt91jo@tintin.hik.se (Jorgen Olsen)
So you'd like to save the world
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So you'd like to save the world
I suggest you take one person at a time
And start with me
Not an ordinary girl
Not someone that I should rear upon
And ask hey what you sign baby
Have you been reading my mind
Nothing more or less to rest will
Could I keep you in mind
Did you really cry
Then you saw the hole in the sky
Did you really hold your head
And hide your eyes
That's alright
You might call it ultraviolet radiation
It's only sunlight
So you'd like to save my world
If you could free my inner child
And I could free your inambition baby
Or would you like to mother me
I love the way you wear that motorola generation cheek mama
So you'd like to save the world
I'd really like to help you
I'd really like to be you for a while
Is that alright
And I could call it ultraviolet radiation
It's only sunlight
Don't you know
It's only sunlight
It's only sunlight
But you might call it ultraviolet radiation
This one's from the hip
Oh mother you have sorely misjudged me
It should have been whipped
Out of me
Without a father figured i
Yeh I concluded then that i'm
Not for spitting on
This one's from the hip
My love I should have warned you about me
It never got whipped
Out of me
Me and my modesty and
Mother your wretched son won't
Take his medicine
Not i
I don't care anymore
I'm sick and I'm tired
And I don't care anymore
This one's from the hip
Why should I know why?
It's a wicked world
I've had it up to here
Sweet jesus I should have warned you about me
It's sure to end in tears
And misery
Without a father figured i
Yeh I concluded then that i'm
Not for spitting on
Not i...
Why should I know why should I care?
Who's telling me what I should wear?
Mother your wretched son is hooked on his medicine
I don't care anymore
I'm sick and I'm tired
And I don't care anymore
This one's from the hip
Why should I know why
i freed my mind in the oxygen tent
sold my ass, now my trousers fit again, yeah yeah
i blew my stash on hallucinogens
you love my song, well i don't know what it means, no
man i need t.v.
for when i got my morrissey
have you seen the future of rock and roll
(have you seen the future of rock and roll)
have you seen the future of rock and roll
(have you seen the future of rock and roll)
all my friends do the model girl thing
so i found one, now she wears my nose ring
she's really beautiful
but she's hung up on the chelsea kid
and i'm a renaissance man but she just can't dig it, no
man i need t.v.
for when i got my morrissey
have you seen the future of rock and roll
(have you seen the future of rock and roll)
have you seen the future of rock and roll
(have you seen the future of rock and roll)
do you believe that the war is really over
(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
do you believe your coast is really clear
and your batteries clean, do you know
come on, yeah yeah yeah
na na na na na na na na
yeah yeah yeah
na na na na na na na na
yeah yeah yeah (have you seen it, have you seen it)
na na na na na na na na (have you seen the future of rock and roll)
yeah yeah yeah (have you seen it, have you seen it)
She left you 1958
When the thought of another fifteen years
Was more than she could face
But did you miss her much well hey
You never gave her too much thought
In your newspaper grey
So waste away to morro bay
You never got around to yesterday
But money is for taking yes
And rich is what to be forsaken grey
And giving it away
And even jesus has a price
You're making credit card donations to television faith healers
Born again missionaries come to morro bay
They saved your body but your mind hey
And everything you earned
You're going to throw it all away
And waste away tomorrow
C.a. is where everybody falls down off the wagon under the wheels
Remember 1970
When the thought of a day without a drink
Was more than you could face
But did you miss her much well hey
You never gave her too much thought
In your newspaper grey
So waste away to morro bay
Saved your body but your mind paid
But money is for taking yes
And rich is what to be forsaken
Grey and giving it away
You're going to hurt somebody if you can
You're going to make somebody understand
Baby you're a rich man
you just saved my life
now this may not be what you had in mind
would you love me to death my dear
oh no no she said better alive than dead
when are you gonna come home
(when are you gonna come home)
are you waiting for the end of the world
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home
and be loved by the ones you love
it's a senseless thing
desire to be loved by everyone
it's a senseless thing
desire to be loved by everyone
when are you gonna come home
(when are you gonna come home)
are you waiting for the end of the world
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home
and be loved by the ones you love
ah ah ah oh
you won't take my money
you don't find my jokes that funny do ya
if i took you to the hollywood bowl
oh no no she said radio city music hall
ah ah ah oh
and be loved by the ones you love
ah ah ah oh
come on love the ones you love
it's a senseless thing
desire to be loved by everyone
it's a senseless thing
desire to be loved by everyone
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home, ah oh
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home, ah oh
(when are you gonna come home)
when are you gonna come home
Should you awake dear from your beauty sleep
To find your room swimming in blue and green
Should you awake to feel like you'd never slept
And feel so very old well don't you feel alone
I`m kind of blue blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
But what to do whatever I touch turns blue
And should you find yourself lost but in no need of sympathy
Calm down to the beach and watch the waves come in
I dream the ocean was in my house
I feel the surf against my skin
But I just can't keep the waves from dragging me down
But when you say
Ooh baby you're my best friend
Then I lose I lose my common sense
I`m kind of blue it`s the truth
Should you awake dear from your beauty sleep
To find your room swimming in blue and green
Should you awake to feel like you'd never slept
And feel so very old
Well don't you feel alone
I`m kind of blue blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
But what to do whatever I touch turns blue
Blue for you again
I guess i`m a fool at least i`m not innocent
I may be blue but don't you let me make you blue
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well that long black train got my baby and gone
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Well it took my baby, but it never will again (no, not again)
Train train, comin' down the line
Train train, comin' down the line
Well it's bringin' my baby, because she's mine all, all mine
(she's mine, all, all mine)
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
Train train, comin' 'round the bend
well the last thing that you knew
he was walking out on you
to the point of no return
where i found you
when i couldn't find my way home
i could always make my way to you
when i couldn't drink myself sober
i found you
i found you
i found you
well the last thing that you need now
is a shoulder there to bleed on
but i believe i've seen light
coming through you, yeah yeah
when i couldn't find my way home
i could always make my way to you
when i couldn't drink myself sober
i found you
baby i found you
i found you
when i couldn't find my way home
i could always make my way to you
when i couldn't drink myself sober
i found you
i found you
i couldn't find my way home
but i found you
i couldn't find my way home
but i found you
i couldn't find my way home
but i found you
i couldn't find my way home
i couldn't find my way home
but i found you
i couldn't find my way home
but i found you
i used to be content to frown
but anything for money now
i'd rather be a mannish kind of girl
i used to get drunk on spanish wine
well now i'm drunk most all the time
i guess i've been too grateful for too long
so i sit around and wait
and watch the grass grow green
and count the cars
feeling lost, alone, misunderstood
so i wait, hey hey
yes i wait, hey hey
well i had a girl in london town
she picked me up and she spun me round
i guess she was a mannish kind of girl
i went away and i still don't know why
six feet under is where my bloddy heart lies
i'm just afraid i can't forget her now
so i sit around and wait
and watch the grass grow green
and count the cars
feeling lost, alone, misunderstood
so i wait, hey hey
so i wait, hey hey
hey hey
i used to be too big to crawl
now i don't give a damn at all
i'd rather be a mannish kind of girl
yeah i used to get drunk on that spanish wine
but now i'm drunk most all the time
i guess i'm just afraid i can't forget her now
and so i'll sit around and wait
and watch the grass grow green
and count the cars
feeling lost, alone, misunderstood
so i wait, hey hey
yeah i wait, hey hey
yes i wait, hey hey
yeah i wait, hey hey
now that the low life has no meaning
'cause you've been there, now you're gone
but your heart won't keep from cheating
it's stringing you along
stranger to me, well what's the lowdown
are you man enough to pray
for a better way of living
i believe i've lost my way
oh may, could you please hold me
i believe i might fall
i believe that i might fall
could there be a better way of living
better than the easy way
could the wretched be forgiven
are you man enough to pray
wore my heart upon my sleeve
to court the wretched and the free
but if by chance i'd lost my way
would you help me find it babe
oh may, could you please hold me
i believe that i might fall
i believe i might fall
now that the low life has no meaning
'cause you've been there, now you're gone
but your heart won't keep from cheating
it's stringing you along
wore my heart upon my sleeve
to court the wretched and the free
but if by chance i'd lost my way
would you help me find it babe
oh may, could you please hold me
i believe that i might fall
i believe that i might fall
wore my heart upon my sleeve
to court the wretched and the free
but if by chance i'd lost my way
am i man enough to pray
am i man enough to pray
are you man enough to pray
Jesus said to mary: lord the things we do for love
Well do you think I seem selfconcious,
Its only you I'm thinking of.
I was hiding in the bathroom quite unable to cry.
Now I'm weeping with a vengeance
Since your voice came down the line.
And I move up from the country,
Oh I never could have stayed.
I just dipped my hand in the water
And got carried away.
Oh would you put me down
Just for being around
At the wrong time all day
Or would you leave while I'm sleeping
Out through the fire escape
They tell me swans do fly
Across the perfect sky
And it's the purest sky tonight
So you desert me in the morning,
Kind of your cruelty and spice
And I move up from the country to wave a goodbye to old anne
And I just let her on that riverboat and I never will look back
Jesus said to mary: look at the things we do for love
Well do you think he was selfconcious,
It was only her he was thinking of.
I was hiding in the bathroom quite unable to cry.
Now I'm weeping with a vengeance
These are tears of joy oh my
And I move up from the country,
Oh I never could have stayed.
I just dipped my hand in the water
maybe i'm a little old-fashioned, maybe you're a little unkind
maybe i'm a little impatient, we'll concede that in mind
you won't give me your number, you won't give me your time
you said meet me on the corner, and there's still no sign
maybe i'm a little outdated, maybe a little out of time
to believe your heart is in the right place
despite what you're doing to mine
so i'm standing on the corner, looking like i don't care
d'you wanna crucify my feelings with your fingernails
and leave the loneliest boy in the western world
cruising the streets for an ice cream girl
i feel like a shady politician trying to sell a broken-down car
sit home sleeping for virgin princess, you know that's not what you are
do i have to feel this small before you'll play ball?
maybe i lack sophistication, maybe a little unrefined
so my credit ain't too good, well call a dollar a dime
you won't give me your number, you won't give me your time
i'm standing on the corner, and there's still no sign
d'you wanna crucify my feelings with your fingernails
and leave the loneliest boy in the western world
cruising the streets for an ice cream girl, hey
d'you wanna crucify my feelings with your fingernails
and leave the loneliest boy in the western world
I can't understand,
She let go of my hand
An' left me here facing the wall.
I'd sure like t' know
Why she did go,
But I can't get close t' her at all.
Though we kissed through the wild blazing nighttime,
She said she would never forget.
But now morning's clear,
It's like I ain`t here,
She just acts like we never have met.
It's all new t' me,
Like some mystery,
It could even be like a myth.
Yet it's hard t' think on,
That she's the same one
That last night I was with.
From darkness, dreams're deserted,
Am I still dreamin' yet?
I wish she'd unlock
Her voice once an' talk,
'stead of acting like we never have met.
If she ain`t feelin' well,
Then why don't she tell
'stead of turnin' her back t' my face?
Without any doubt,
She seems too far out
For me t' return t' her chase.
Though the night ran swirling an' whirling,
I remember her whispering yet.
But evidently she don't
An' evidently she won't,
She just acts like we never have met.
If I didn't have t' guess,
I'd gladly confess
T' anything I might've tried.
If I was with 'er too long
Or have done something wrong,
I wish she'd tell me what it is, I'll run an' hide.
Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played,
Her mouth was watery and wet.
But now something has changed
For she ain`t the same,
She just acts like we never have met.
I'm leavin' today,
I'll be on my way
Of this I can't say very much.
But if you want me to,
I can be just like you
An' pretend that we never have touched.
An' if anybody asks me, "is it easy to forget? "
I'll say, "it's easily done,
You just pick anyone,
I was woken up at four A.M.
By your screams and anguished cries
Your mother was singing in the bathroom
She will never be my child
Oh baby, talks in her sleep so loud
We're living four flights up
But I swear right now it feels like underground
Well, you have absolutely no common sense
Yes, I know that's your charm
You spend the whole day on the phone
You say, well, it helps you stay calm
You cling to my arm, yes, I know that's your charm
And when I ask you what you want
You say, "Do you mind, hey, crocodile"
Well, then could you give me some peace
You say, "Well, maybe for a while"
Sometimes you know you could almost be a child
Oh, must you tell me all your secrets
When it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing
We're living four flights up
But I swear right now it feels like underground
You are your own worst enemy
So don't expect my sympathy
Oh, go back to your mother's house
And cry your little heart out
You can drive them back to town
In a beat-up Grace Kelly car
Looking like a friend of Truman Capote
Looking exactly like you are
Yes, yes, I know that's your charm
So don't ask me if I want you
Only ask me if I must
I've been blown around so long
Don't know which senses to trust
Oh no, but I know that I must
Oh, must you tell me all your secrets
When it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing
We're living four flights up
to the corner of the market
place your wager to the price of tea in china
and the smell of dirty money
on your fingers, in the honeypot is empty
fall together, pretty boys, don't you cry
wrote the sequel to the bible
bought the rights to the original sin
made the movie, did the business
took a mortgage on a mortgage on a loan
fall together, right now, pretty boy
sold the lamborgini baby
got the baby, now your broker's on the phone
from the land of wine and plates
send your resume, we'll call you back jack
fall together, right now, over me
'cause nothing very good or very bad
will ever last for very long
nothing very good or very bad
will ever last for very long
nothing very good or very bad
will ever last for very long
nothing very good or very bad
don't hesitate, there is no time like now
for you to break the habits of a lifetime
babe, get on your pony and ride
make no mistake, we're gonna cry at your funeral
t-bone steak, french fries
for heaven's sake, your belly's bigger than your eyes
all you could eat for a dollar and a dream
and the drinks are on the house at the funeral parlor
if you don't know what's good for you boy
eat your fried greens and pray
nobody loves you more than we do
sha la la la la la hey
(wake up, time to fly)
sugar kiss, sugar kicks like a mule
ain't that the truth, and you're a strawberry fool
look at your hips, look at the cream in your coffee
you could whip it, or we could cry at your funeral
if you don't know what's good for you boy
eat your fried greens and pray
nobody loves you more than we do
sha la la la la la hey
well if you don't know what's good for you boy
eat your fried greens and pray
nobody loves you more than we do
sha la la la la la hey hey hey
well if you don't know what's good for you boy
eat your fried greens and pray
nobody loves you more than we do
sha la la la la la hey
if you don't know what's good for you boy
eat your fried greens and pray
nobody loves you more than we do
sha la la la la la hey
if you don't know
if you don't know
what's good
you've been talking in circles now for years man
lesson number one is change your attitude
people would like to help you
all you ever wanted was a picture with the queen
ah, welcome to london
when you've arrived, well you stay or you leave
don't you know you're quite certain
nothing is so pretty as it used to be, no indeed
could you entertain us with a song
with a very special melody
we could sing along
and you know you should be grateful
but i let it pass
'cause you can't get arrested
but you could kiss my ass
in hollywood, yeah yeah, doo doo doo
yeah yeah, yeah yeah
you've been talking in circles now for years man
is your foot nailed to the floor or do you like it here
people would like to get to know you
all you ever wanted was a picture with the queen
ah, welcome to london
when you've arrived, well you stay or you leave
don't you know you're quite certain
if you decide boy you'll stay on your leash well
we'll reward you quite handsome
when you've arrived, well you stay or you leave
don't you know you're quite certain
nothing is so pretty as it used to be, no indeed
could you entertain us with a song
with a very special melody
we could sing along
well you know you should be grateful
but i let it pass
'cause you can't get arrested
you could kiss my ass
you know my first instinct's
to kick you now you're down
and you come waltzing in
think that you could push me around
well you know you should be grateful
should i let it pass
'cause you can't get arrested
but you could kiss my ass
in hollywood, doo doo, doo doo
doo doo, doo doo doo
yeah yeah, yeah yeah
sunset
and vine
on sunset
and vine
ah on sunset and vine
have a real good time
ah on sunset
on sunset and vine
have a real good time
ah on sunset
yeah on sunset
ah on sunset and vine
you, you can't get arrested
you, you can't get arrested
you, you can't get arrested
you, you can't get arrested
on sunset
ah ah on sunset
you, you can't get arrested
you, you can't get arrested
ah on sunset
ah on sunset
ah...on sunset
ah...on sunset
can't get arrested
you were an innocent child before i laid my hands on you
and all that pain that you held inside
was just waiting to bloom in a darkened room
and you just flew right into the light and came alive
my little butterfly
well you'd never known love and you'd never known pain
but you found out that they were just like wine and champagne
you could drink a little more, then you hurt a little less
and you get that butterfly feeling underneath your dress
and your promises will turn into lies
then you will fly
my little butterfly
now i'm lying here babe on your side of the bed
and i've got unclean thoughts flying through my head
and i'm thinking about love, yes i'm thinking about pain
and i'm thinking about some way that i might feel good again
Jimmy's in the bathroom
He took all your pills it gave him x-ray vision
He says everybody here is naked
Told me I should warn you not to leave me too fast
I got that you been checking in the corner and all that he's cracked
You're too damn tall with your fat shoes on
Believe me I get the message and I do feel small
Swore i`d eat the whole fruit nothing but the feat juice
Ninety five percent of the fruit ain`t gonna get you conviction
Flew in on the red eyed virgin mother mary
Brand new baby precontacts and I'm a ..... visionary
Forty five opinions get a consensus to cry
There's most .....................different races uh uh
Ah come on jane we're not so crazy as we'd like to think
Come on walk me home
You know my place and I'm only limping
And you know my place and I'm only limping
Ah come on jane
Jimmy's in the bathroom
He took all your pills it gave him x-ray vision
He says everybody here is naked
Told me I should warn you not to leave me too fast
I got that you been checking in the corner and all that he's cracked
You're too damn tall with your flat shoes on
Believe me I get the message yes I do feel small
Ah come on jane we're not so crazy as we'd like to think
Come on walk me home
You know my place and I'm only limping
And you know my place and I'm only limping
Ah come on jane
Ah come on jane
Ah come on now baby
Looking like a born again
Living like a heretic
Listening to arthur lee records
Making all your friends feel so guilty
About their cynicism
And the rest of their generation
Not even the government are gonna stop you now
But are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Pumped up full of vitamins
On account of all the seriousness
You say you're so happy now
You can hardly stand
Lean over on the bookcase
If you really want to get straight
Read norman mailer
Or get a new tailor
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to bleed?
What would it take
What would it take to wipe that smile off of your face?
Are you ready to be, are you ready to bleed?
Are you ready to be heartbroken?
Are you ready to bleed? (heartbroken)
Well you better get ready now baby
my friend parker is a painter
a poet and a groove
he came around on wednesday
and made me think about you
now he seemed to be a daddy-o
and yes i am too
this is for you m.b.
you made me so happy
now lenny's got trousers
and bobby's got the wig
there's a lot of friendly people
i'm not so sure about this
now little prince has got the cream
i've got a new drum machine
hey you m.b.
you taught us all how to be groovy
all the children now are dancing to the music
and the music never stops
do they think that they know something we know not
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna be groovy
my friend parker is a painter
a poet and a groove
he came over wednesday
and made me think about you
now he seemed to be a daddy-o
and yes i am too
this is for you m.b.
when i was a kid you made me happy
all the children now are dancing to the music
and the music never stops
do they think that they know something we know not
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna do it in the park
woodland rock
we're gonna do it in the park
just like marc
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna rock
just like marc
we're gonna be groovy daddy-o's
as a child i laughed a lot
didn't you?
now it seems i cry a lot
tell me true, don't you?
are you now?
Life begins at thirty
So I have been told
I can easily believe it
The way I'm getting on
Yeh I'm getting on
You hang around backstreet bars
For what you wish you knew
You say give me something cheap
Something I won't want to keep
Love's not everything
I was just hoping you might stay
Hell it's hard to say
I was hoping you might stick around
Until the morning
You've heard it all before kid
I`ll say it all again
And I'm going to live a lush life
An ask for nothing much life
Love's not everything
I was just hoping you might stay
Hell it's hard to say
I was hoping you might stick around
If you were doing nothing
Fool for love...
I was just hoping you might stay
But it's not easy to say
Hey...you doing nothing?
Fool for love
And it's not only the lonely
Not only the lonely
Lying here between your progeny and your Visa card statement
Beside the coffee stained torn envelope
We took your facsimile and we pinned it to the wall
Here on the other side of the world
You call here when it's 3 AM and we hear music playing
You call here and you don't have time to talk
You call in on your cell phone but you're cutting out
Here on the other side of the world
You send in electronic mail transmissions
Dispatches from your colonies - your Commonwealth
But your syntax is distracted and your sideways happy face
Is not on the other side of the world
from the girl
with the starry eyes
and the easy smile
she's just sitting there
Could I stay a while?
Lying here between your progeny and your Visa card statement
Beside the coffee stained torn envelope
We took your facsimile and we pinned it to the wall
I hear they have the good drugs in Brazil
Maybe I'll take some
Maybe I'll feel better if I do
In Brazil
I hear they're pretty laissez-faire down there
But me I'm so uptight
Taken unaware - well, I just might
In Brazil
I hear they have the good drugs in Brazil
Maybe I'll take some
Maybe I'll feel better if I do
I am consumed by delusions of grandeur
I'm fallen prey to the beautiful girl
I have seen romance in the obvious quarters
And I have painted myself into that world
I have constructed my own personal Babel
But many passages remain out of print
Leaving me in an unresolved sentence
Without an idea of where it went
I have developed an unnatural candour
In contradiction to all I hold dear
I think of myself as tall and silent
This little voice is all that I hear
Now the night's drawing in
I'm your unworthy friend
At the untimely end of a lifetime
Thinking I might hold on to my first marriage
I learned the language of the self obsessed
It was only later at the post-grad parties
That it rewarded me with great success
No longer waiting for my prayers to be answered
No longer waiting for my publisher's call
No longer charming in my reminiscence
Only immersed in a faint afterglow
Now the night's drawing in
I'm your unworthy friend
I am cold, distant, increasingly resistant to your smile
And this I don't deny
You are bold, beautiful, I'm always going to be in love with you
Amphetamines or none
You say - Give it to me straight
Well I already did
There isn't any more
And what pale fire I ever had is gone
But you don't want to hear that in a song
Music in a foreign language
Words that we don't understand
Melodies won't come between us
And even if you wanted - we can't sing along
La la la...
I heard a voice - resonant, born of Scandinavian descent
I didn't comprehend a single word, sentence
My stunted sensibility content
To listen without words
I'll try to give it to you straight
My heart is almost full - there's not a lot of space
And so forgive me if I'm less than awed
By your world weary twenty-six year old
Music in a foreign language
Words that we don't understand
Melodies won't come between us
And even if you wanted - we can't sing along
La la la...
You say I'm dry - a scientist
No mate for the lioness you are
I'm freezing cold because I've been out all night
I guess I left without my coat
I just got to walking round and round your block
Very, very rock and roll
Remember when you said you're my best friend
If that's the best that I've got
And any time I needed anything
Well, I guess I need to cash that cheque
I guess I had another bright idea
Why don't I share it with you
I went right up and knocked on Trouble's door
And they said - Mister, we've been waiting for you
Could you be my alibi
Could you drive my getaway car?
Get me out of jail free
Baby, you and me?
I'm freezing cold because I've been out all night
I guess I left without my coat
I just got to walking round and round your block
Very, very rock and roll
Could you be my alibi
Could you drive my getaway car?
Get me out of jail free
Just another bunch of torn down college graduates
Trying to find a place to set down for a while
Too pumped up to fake it
Too belligerent to take it sitting down
Early town
Just another bunch of would be desperadoes
Failing to pace themselves against the grain
Strung out on semantics
Holiday Inn vigilantes
Late night, early town
Oh, Los Angeles
How do you sleep?
You seem so full of cocaine
and self belief
If I could get me some
I'd take it and I'd run
Oh, but it's just another
Late night, early town
Is t too late to be post modern lovers?
Is it too late to straighten out the show?
The sky is turning grey
and now the afterparty fades
We're coming down
on an early town
Oh, Los Angeles
How do you sleep?
You seem so full of cocaine
and self belief
If I could get me some
I'd take it and I'd run
Oh, but it's just another
Late night, early town
Late night, early town
Am I supposed to sleep
Here all alone?
Beneath the shadow of the minibar
With the promise of a Spectravision girl
A Spectravision girl
Clearly you can see that I am bleeding
Clearly you can see my clothes are torn
Clearly this demands an explanation
Only I can offer none
My other life
Witnesses have placed me at the crime scene
Forensic evidence concurs
Samples taken from under my fingernails
Support the prosecutions case
My other life
Analysis failed to find a motive
Hypnotists have failed to break the code
Journalists are camped out on my doorstep
Per chance that I might slip and drop the key
To my other life
Welcome to my made for TV movie
I look strangely placid on the stand
You can be the judge and do the jury
Consider please the allegations
My other life
I slip away to my other life
With no regret or remorse
Happy and gay in my other life
No need to wake me Monday morning
