-------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Uncle Arthur -------- [Verse 1] Strikes the bell for 5 o'clock, Uncle Arthur closes shop Screws the tops on all the bottles, turns the lights out, locks it up Climbs across his bike and he's away Cycles past the gasworks, past the river, down the high street Back to mother, it's another empty day [Chorus 1] Uncle Arthur likes his mommy Uncle Arthur still reads comics Uncle Arthur follows Batman [Verse 2] Round and round the rumours fly, how he ran away from Mum On his 32nd birthday, told her that he'd found a chum Mother cried and raved and yelled and fussed Arthur left her no illusion, brought the girl round, save confusion Sally was the real thing, not just lust [Chorus 2] Uncle Arthur vanished quickly Uncle Arthur and his new bride Uncle Arthur follows Sally [Verse 3] Round and round goes Arthur's head, hasn't eaten well for days Little Sally may be lovely, but cooking leaves her in a maze Uncle Arthur packed his bags and fled Back to mother, all's forgiven, serving in the family shop [Outro] He gets his pocket money, he's well fed Uncle Arthur past the gasworks Uncle Arthur past the river Uncle Arthur down the high street Uncle Arthur follows mother -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Sell Me a Coat -------- [Intro] La la la la la la, la la la la la la la A winter's day, a bitter snowflake on my face My summer girl takes little backward steps away Jack Frost took her hand and left me, Jack Frost ain't so cool [Chorus] Sell me a coat with buttons of silver Sell me a coat that's red or gold Sell me a coat with little patch pockets Sell me a coat because I feel cold And when she smiles, the ice forgets to melt away Not like before, her smile was warm in yesterday See the trees like silver candy, feel my icy hand [Chorus] Sell me a coat with buttons of silver Sell me a coat that's red or gold Sell me a coat with little patch pockets Sell me a coat because I feel cold See my eyes, my window pane See my tears like gentle rain That's the memory of the summer day [Chorus] Sell me a coat with buttons of silver Sell me a coat that's red or gold Sell me a coat with little patch pockets Sell me a coat because I feel cold Sell me a coat with buttons of silver Sell me a coat that's red or gold Sell me a coat with little patch pockets Sell me a coat because I feel cold [Outro] La la la la la la [repeat] -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Rubber Band -------- Rubber Band There's a rubber band that plays tunes out of tune In the library garden Sunday afternoon While a little chappie waves a golden wand Rubber Band In 1910, I was so handsome and so strong My moustache was stiffly waxed and one foot long And I loved a girl while you played teatime tunes Dear Rubber Band, you're playing my tune out of tune Oh Rubber Band Won't you play a haunting theme again to me While I eat my scones and drink my cup of tea? The sun is warm but it's a lonely afternoon (Oh, play that theme) Rubber Band How I wish that I could join your Rubber Band We could play in lively parks throughout the land And one Sunday afternoon, I'd find my love Rubber Band In the '14-'18 war I went to sea Thought my Sunday love was waiting home for me And now she's married to the leader of your band, oh [Outro] Oh yeah I hope you break your baton -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Love You Till Tuesday -------- [Verse 1] Just look through your window, look who sits outside Little me is waiting, standing through the night When you'll walk out through your door I'll wave my flag and shout [Chorus] Oh, beautiful baby My burning desire started on Sunday Give me your heart and I'll love you till Tuesday [Bridge] Who's that hiding in the apple tree, clinging to a branch Don't be afraid it's only me, hoping for a little romance If you lie beneath my shade, I'll keep you nice and cool [Verse 2] Oh, beatiful baby I was very lonely till I met you on Sunday My passion's never-ending and I'll love you till Tuesday Let the wind blow through your hair, be nice to the big blue sea Don't be afraid of the man in the moon, because it's only me I shall always watch you until my love runs dry [Chorus] Oh, beautiful baby My heart's a flame, I'll love you till Tuesday My head's in a whirl and I'll love you till Tuesday [Bridge] Love, love, love, love you till Tuesday [Outro] Well, I might stretch it till Wednesday -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- There Is a Happy Land -------- [Verse] There is a happy land where only children live They don't have the time to learn the ways Of you sir, Mr. Grownup There's a special place in the rhubarb fields underneath the leaves It's a secret place and adults aren't allowed there Mr. Grownup Go away sir Charlie Brown got's half a crown, he's going to buy a kite Jimmy's ill with chicken pox, and Tommy's learned to ride his bike Tiny Tim sings prayers and hymns, he's so small we don't notice him He gets in the way but we always let him play with us Mother calls, but we don't hear There's lots more things to do It's only 5 o'clock, and we're not tired yet But we will be, very shortly Sissy Steven plays with girls, someone made him cry Tony climbed a tree and fell, trying hard to touch the sky Tommy lit a fire one day, nearly burned the field away Tommy's mum found out, but he put the blame on me and Ray There is a happy land where only children live You've had your chance and now the doors are closed sir, Mr. Grownup Go away sir Boo, de boo, de boo, de boo dup -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- We Are Hungry Men -------- [Verse 1] Here is the news According the latest world population survey The figures have reached danger point, my god London 15 million 75 thousand New York 80 million Paris 15 million and 30 China 1000 million Billington-Spa: lots [Verse 2] My studies include exophagy I formed my own society To crush the power of fecundity The world will overpopulate Unless you claim infertility So who will buy a drink for me, your Messiah [Chorus] We are not your friends We don't give a damn for what you're saying We're here to live our lives [Verse 3] I propose to give the pill Free of charge to those that feel That they are not infertible The crops are few, the cattle gone There's only one way to linger on So who will buy a drink for me, your Messiah [Verse 4] Achtung, achtung, these are your orders Anyone found guilty of consuming more than their Allotted amount of air Will be slaughtered and cremated One only cubic foot of air is I have prepared a document, legalising mass abortion We will turn a blind eye to infanticide [Chorus] We are not your friends We don't give a damn for what you're saying We're here to live our lives [Verse 5] You don't seem to hear me clear Do I talk about your sphere? Let me explain my project dear Show you how I'll save the world Or let it die within the year Why do you look that way at me, your messiah [Chorus] We are not your friends We don't give a damn for what you're saying We're here to live our lives [Outro] We are hungry men We don't give a damn for what you're saying We're here to eat you -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- When I Live My Dream -------- [Verse] When I live my dream, I'll take you with me Riding on a golden horse We'll live within my castle, with people there to serve you Happy at the sound of your voice Baby, I'll slay a dragon for you Or banish wicked giants from the land But you will find, that nothing in my dream can hurt you We will only love each other as forever When I live my dream When I live my dream, I'll forgive the things you've told me And the empty man you left behind It's a broken heart that dreams, it's a broken heart you left me Only love can live in my dream I'll wish, and the thunder clouds will vanish Wish, and the storm will fade away Wish again, and you will stand before me while the sky will paint an ouverture And trees will play the rhythm of my dream When I live my dream, please be there to meet me Let me be the one to understand When I live my dream, I'll forget the hurt you gave Then we can live in our new land Till the day my dream cascades around me I'm content to let you pass me by Till that day, you'll run to many other men But let them know it's just for now Tell them that I've got a dream And tell them you're the starring role Tell them I'm a dreaming kind of guy And I'm going to make my dream Tell them I will live my dream Tell them they can laugh at me But don't forget your date with me When I live my dream -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Little Bombardier -------- War made him a soldier Little Frankie Mear Peace left him a loser The little bombardier Lines of worry appeared with age Unskilled hands that knew no trade Spent his time in the picture house The little bombardier Frankie drank his money The little that he made Told his woes to no man Friendless, lonely days Then one day, in the ABC Four bright eyes gazed longingly At the ice-cream in the hand of The little bombardier Sunshine entered our Frankie's days Gone his worries, his hopeless maze His life was fun and his heart was full of joy Two young children had changed his aims He gave them toffees and played their games He brought them presents with every coin he made Then two gentlemen called on him Asked him for his name Why was he friends with the children Were they just a game? Leave them alone or we'll get sore We've had blokes like you in the station before The hand of authority said "no more" to The little bombardier Packed his bags, his heart in pain Wiped a tear and caught a train Not to be seen in the town again The little bombardier -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Silly Boy Blue -------- [Verse] Mountains of Lhasa are feeling the rain People are walking the Botella lanes Preacher takes the school One boy breaks a rule Silly boy blue, blue, silly boy blue Yak butter statues that melt in the sun Cannot dissolve all the work you've not done A chela likes to feel That his overself pays the bill Silly boy blue, blue, silly boy blue You wish and wish, and wish again You've tried so hard to fly You'll never leave your body now You've got to wait to die La la la la la la la la la la [x2] La la la la la [x2] Silly boy blue, blue, silly boy blue Child of the Tibet, you're a gift from the sun Reincarnation of one better man The homeward road is long You've left your prayers and song Silly boy blue, blue, silly boy blue[x2] -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Come and Buy My Toys -------- [Chorus] Smiling girls and rosy boys Come and buy my little toys Monkeys made of gingerbread And sugar horses painted red [Verse] Rich men's children running past Their fathers dressed in hose Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes Gazing eyes and running wild Past the stocks and over stiles Kiss the window merry child But come and buy my toys You've watched your father plough the fields with a ram's horn Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn Reaped it with a sharpened scyth, threashed it with a quill The miller told your father that he'd work it with the greatest will Now your watching's over you must play with girls and boys Leave the parsley on the stalls Come and buy my toys You shall own a cambric shirt You shall work your father's land But now you shall play in the market square Till you'll be a man [Chorus] Smiling girls and rosy boys Come and buy my little toys Monkeys made of gingerbread And sugar horses painted red -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Join the Gang -------- [Verse] Let me introduce you to the gang Johnny plays the sitar, he's an existentialist Once he had a name, now he plays our game You won't feel so good now that you've joined the gang Molly is the model in the ads Crazy clothes and acid full of soul and crazy hip Someone switched her on, then her beam went wrong Because she can't switch off now that she's joined the gang Arthur is a singer with a band Arthur drinks two bottles just before he goes on stage Look at Arthur rave, all the kids have paid They want to see the croaking man who joined the gang You won't be alone, we've all got beery grins It's a big illusion but at least you're in At least you're in This club's called The Webb, it's this month's pick Next month we shall find a place where prices ain't so stiff 15 bob a go, afraid that's past a joke This is how to spend now that you've joined the gang This is what to do now that you're here Sit round doing nothing all together very fast Psychedelic stars, throwing down cigars They're picking up the joints now that they've joined the gang -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- She's Got Medals -------- [Verse 1] She'd walk through the door and she'd set up the drinks on the house She played a good game of darts, and the men slapped her back And never took her out She wore a trenchcoat khaki Her hobnail boots were full of holes [Chorus] She's got medals [Verse 2] Her mother called her Mary, but she changed her name to Tommy, she's a one, oh She went and joined the army, passed the medical Don't ask me how it's done They sent her to the front line Fighting for her country's name [Chorus] She's got medals [Verse 3] She got very tired of picking up girls Cleaning her gun and shaving her curls Then the enemy dropped a bomb Survivors there were none People say that when the moon is full and all the stars have gone to bed You can see her ghost but that's a lie because the naughty woman isn't dead She deserted on the previous morning Replaced her uniform with dresses silk and green Called herself Eileen Came to London town Now she's settled down [Chorus] She's got medals -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Maid of Bond Street -------- [Verse 1] This girl is made of lipstick Powder and paint Sees the pictures of herself Every magazine on every shelf [Verse 2] This girl is maid of Bond Street Hailing cabs, lunches with executives Gleaming teeth sip aperitifs [Verse 3] This girl is a lonely girl Takes the train from Paddington to Oxford Circus Buys the Daily News But passengers don't smile at her, don't smile at her [Verse 4] This girl is made of loneliness A broken heart For the boy that she once knew Doesn't want to know her any more [Verse 5] And this girl is a lonely girl Every thing she wants is hers But she can't make it with the boy she really wants to be with All the time, to love, all the time [Verse 6] This boy is made of envy Jealousy He doesn't have a limousine Really wants to be a star himself This girl, her world is made of flashlights and films Her cares are scraps on the cutting room floor [Verse 6] And maids of Bond Street drive round in chauffered cars Maids of Bond Street picture clothes, eyes of stars Maids of Bond Street shouldn't have worldly cares Maids of Bond Street shouldn't have love affairs -------- 1967 David Bowie -------- -------- Please Mr. Gravedigger -------- [Verse] There's a little churchyard just along the way It used to be Lambeth's finest array Of tombstones, epitaphs, wreaths, flowers, all that jazz Till the war come along and someone dropped a bomb on the lot And in this little yard, there's a little old man With a little shovel in his little bitty hand He seems to spend all his days puffing fags and digging graves He hates the reverend vicar and he lives all alone in his home "Ah-choo, excuse me" Please Mr. Gravedigger, don't feel ashamed As you dig little holes for the dead and the maimed Please Mr. Gravedigger, I couldn't care If you found a golden locket full of some girl's hair And you put it in your pocket "God, it's pouring down" Her mother doesn't know about your sentimental joy She thinks it's down below with the rest of her toys And Ma wouldn't understand, so I won't tell So keep your golden locket all safely hid away in your pocket Yes, Mr. GD, you see me every day Ah-choo! Standing in the same spot by a certain grave Mary-Ann was only 10 and full of life and oh so gay And I was the wicked man who took her life away Very selfish, oh God No, Mr. GD, you won't tell And just to make sure that you keep it to yourself I've started digging holes my friend And this one here's for you "Lifted our girl, she apparently doesn't know of it Hello misses, thought she'd be a little girl Bloody obscene, (crikey) catch pneumonia or something in this rain..." -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Space Oddity -------- [Instrumental intro] [Verse 1] Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight, seven) (Six) Commencing (Five) countdown, engines on (Four, three, two) Check ignition (One) and may God's love (Lift off) be with you [Instrumental Bridge] [Verse 2] This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirt you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare This is Major Tom to Ground Control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today [Chorus] For here am I sitting in my tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do [Verse 3] Though I'm past 100,000 miles I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much She knows Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you- [Chorus] -Here am I floating 'round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do [Instrumental outro] -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed -------- [Verse 1] Spy, spy, pretty girl I see you see me through your window Don't turn your nose up Well, you can if you need to You won't be the first or last [Verse 2] It must strain you to look down So far from your father's house And I know what a louse like me In his house could do for you [Verse 3] I'm the cream Of the great Utopia dream And you're the gleam In the depths of your banker's spleen [Verse 4] I'm a Phallus in pigtails And there's blood on my nose And my tissue is rotting Where the rats chew my bones And my eye socket's empty See nothing but pain I keep havin' this brainstorm About twelve times a day [Chorus] So now, you could spend the morning walking with me Quite amazed As I am unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed [Verse 5] I've got eyes in my backside That see electric tomatoes On credit card rye bread There are children in washrooms Holding hands with a Queen And my heads full of murders Where only killers scream [Chorus] So now you could spend your morning talking with me Quite amazed Look out, I'm raving mad and somewhat slightly dazed [Verse 6] Now you run from your window To the porcelain bowl And you're sick from your ears To the red parquet floor And the Braque on the wall Slides down your front And eats through your belly It's very catching [Chorus] So now, you should spend the morning, lying to your father Quite amazed About the strange unwashed and happily slightly dazed I'm not following [Outro] Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah Don't sit down Don't sit down Don't sit down -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Don't Sit Down -------- Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah, yeah, baby, yeah Yeah Don't sit down Don't sit down Don't sit down -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Letter to Hermione -------- The hand that wrote this letter sweeps the pillow clean So rest your head and read a treasured dream I care for no one else but you I tear my soul to cease the pain I think maybe you feel the same What can we do? I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do So I've been writing just for you They say your life is going very well They say you sparkle like a different girl But something tells me that you hide When all the world is warm and tired You cry a little in the dark, well so do I I'm not quite sure what you're supposed to say But I can see it's not okay He makes you laugh, he brings you out in style He treats you well and makes you up real fine And when he's strong he's strong for you And when you kiss it's something new But did you ever call my name, just by mistake? I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to do So I'll just write some love to you -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Cygnet Committee -------- [Chorus 1] I bless you madly Sadly as I tie my shoes I love you badly Just in time, at times, I guess Because of you I need to rest Because it's you That sets the test [Verse 1] So much has gone And little is new And as the sparrow sings Dawn chorus for Someone else to hear The Thinker sits alone growing older And so bitter "I gave Them life I gave Them all They drained my very soul ...dry I crushed my heart To ease Their pains No thought for me remains there Nothing can They spare What of me? Who praised Their efforts To be free? Words of strength and care And sympathy I opened doors That would have blocked Their way I braved Their cause to guide For little pay I ravaged at my finance just for Those Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility Those who said a new world, new ways ever free Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me [Chorus 1] I bless you madly Sadly as I tie my shoes I love you badly Just in time, at times, I guess Because of you I need to rest Because it's you That sets the test [Verse 2] So much has gone And little is new And as the sunrise stream Flickers on me My friends talk Of glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a word "We had a friend, a talking man Who spoke of many powers that he had Not of the best of men, but Ours We used him We let him use his powers We let him fill Our needs Now We are strong And the road is coming to its end Now the damned have no time to make amends No purse of token fortune stands in Our way The silent guns of love Will blast the sky We broke the ruptured structure built of age Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage Where money stood We planted seeds of rebirth And stabbed the backs of fathers Sons of dirt Infiltrated business cesspools Hating through Our sleeves Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat Stoned the poor On slogans such as "Wish You Could Hear Love Is All We Need Kick Out The Jams Kick Out Your Mother Cut Up Your Friend Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above And We Can Force You to Be Free And We Can Force You to Believe" And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain It said: "I believe in the Power of Good I Believe in the State of Love I Will Fight For the Right to be Right I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right" And I open my eyes to look around And I see a child laid slain On the ground As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command But not hearing anymore Not hearing anymore Just the shrieks from the old rich And I Want to Believe In the madness that calls 'Now' And I want to Believe That a light's shining through Somehow [Bridge] And I Want to Believe And You Want to Believe And We Want to Believe And We Want to Live Oh, We Want to Live We Want to Live We Want to Live We Want to Live We Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live [Outro] Live Live Live -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Janine -------- [Verse 1] Oh my love, Janine I'm helpless for your smile Like a Polish wanderer I travel ever onwards to your land And were it not just for the jewels, I'd close your hand Your strange demand To 'collocate' my mind Scares me into gloom You're too intense I'll have to keep you in your place I've no defence I've got to keep my veil on my face [Pre-Chorus] Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well But I've got things inside my head That even I can't face [Chorus] Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls But if you take an axe to me You'll kill another man Not me at all [Verse 2] You're fey, Janine A tripper to the last But if I catch you standing on my toes I'll have a right to shout you down For you're a lazy stream In which my thoughts would drown So stay, Janine And we can glide along I've caught your wings for laughs I'm not obliged to read you statements of the year So take your glasses off And don't act so sincere [Pre-Chorus] Janine, Janine, you'd like to know me well But I've got things inside my head That even I can't face [Chorus] Janine, Janine, you'd like to crash my walls But if you take an axe to me You'll kill another man Not me at all -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- An Occasional Dream -------- [Verse 1] I recall how we lived On the corner of a bed And we'd speak of a Swedish room Of hessian and wood And we'd talk with our eyes Of the sweetness in our lives And tomorrows of rich surprise... Some things we could do [Chorus] In our madness We burnt one hundred days Time takes time to pass And I still hold some ashes to me An Occasional Dream [Verse 2] And we'd sleep, oh so close But not really close our eyes Between the sheets of summer Bathed in blue... Gently weeping nights It was long, long ago And I still can't touch your name For the days of fate Were strong for you... Danced you far from me [Chorus] In my madness I see your face in mine I keep a photograph It burns my wall with time Time An Occasional Dream Of mine An Occasional Dream Of mine An Occasional Dream Of mine -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud -------- [Verse 1] Solemn faced The village settles down Undetected by the stars And the hangman plays the mandolin before he goes to sleep And the last thing on his mind Is the Wild Eyed Boy imprisoned 'Neath the covered wooden shaft Folds the rope into its bag Blows his pipe of smolders Blankets smoke into the room And the day will end for some As the night begins for one [Verse 2] Staring through the message in his eyes Lies a solitary son From the mountain called Freecloud Where the eagle dare not fly And the patience in his sigh Gives no indication For the townsmen to decide So the village dreadful yawns Pronouncing gross diversion As the label for the dog Oh, "It's the madness in his eyes" As he breaks the night to cry: [Verse 3] It's really me Really you and really me It's so hard for us to really be Really you and really Me You'll lose me, though I'm always Really free [Verse 4] And the mountain moved its eyes To the world of realize Where the snow had saved a place For the Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud [Verse 5] And the village dreadful cried As the rope began to rise For the smile stayed on the face Of the Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud And the women once proud clutched the heart of the crowd As the boulders smashed down from the mountain's hand [Verse 6] And the Magic in the stare Of the Wild Eyed Boy said "Stop, Freecloud They won't think to cut me down" But the cottages fell Like a playing card hell And the tears on the face Of the Wise Boy Came tumbling down To the rumbling ground And the missionary mystic of peace/love Stumbled back to cry among the clouds Kicking back the pebbles From the Freecloud mountain track -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- God Knows I'm Good -------- [Intro] I was walking through the counters of a national concern And a cash machine was spitting by my shoulder [Verse 1] And I saw the multitude of faces, honest, rich and clean As the merchandise exchanged and money roared And a woman hot with worry slyly slipped a tin of stewing steak Into the paper bag at her side And her face was white with fear in case her actions were observed So she closed her eyes to keep her conscience blind [Chorus] Crying God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God may look the other way today God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God may look the other way today [Verse 2] Then she moved toward the exit clutching tightly at her paper bag Perspiration trickled down her forehead And her heart it leapt inside her as the hand laid on her shoulder She was led away bewildered and amazed Through her deafened ears the cash machines were shrieking on the counter As her escort asked her softly For her name And a crowd of honest people rushed to help a tired old lady Who had fainted to the whirling Wooden floor [Chorus] Crying God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God knows I'm good Surely God won't look the other way God knows I'm good God knows I'm good God knows I'm good Surely God won't look the other way -------- 1969 Space Oddity -------- -------- Memory of a Free Festival -------- [Intro] "Maybe I should announce it, should I? Memory of a free festival." [Verse 1] The Children of the summer's end Gathered in the dampened grass We played Our songs and felt the London sky Resting on our hands It was God's land It was ragged and naive It was Heaven [Verse 2] Touch, We touched the very soul Of holding each and every life We claimed the very source of joy ran through It didn't, but it seemed that way I kissed a lot of people that day [Verse 3] Oh, to capture just one drop of all the ecstasy that swept that afternoon To paint that love upon a white balloon And fly it from the topest top of all the tops That man has pushed beyond his brain Satori must be something just the same [Verse 4] We scanned the skies with rainbow eyes And saw machines of every shape and size We talked with tall Venusians passing through And Peter tried to climb aboard but the Captain shook his head And away they soared Climbing through the ivory vibrant cloud Someone passed some bliss among the crowd And We walked back to the road, unchained [Outro] The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party The Sun Machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- The Width of a Circle -------- [Verse 1] In the corner of the morning in the past I would sit and blame the master first and last All the roads were straight and narrow And the prayers were small and yellow And the rumour spread that I was aging fast Then I ran across a monster who was sleeping by a tree And I looked and frowned and the monster was me [Verse 2] Well, I said hello and I said hello And I asked "Why not?" and I replied "I don't know" So we asked a simple black bird, who was happy as can be Well he laughed insane and quipped Khalil Gibran And I cried for all the others untill the day was nearly through For I realized that God's a young man too [Verse 3] So I said "So long" and I waved bye-bye And I smashed my soul and traded my mind Got laid by a young bordello Who was vaguely half asleep For which my reputation swept back home in drag And the morals of this magic spell Negotiate my hide When God did take my logic for a ride (Riding along) [Instrumental] [Verse 4] He swallowed his pride and puckered his lips And showed me the leather belt round his hips My knees were shaking, my cheeks aflame He said, you'll never go down to the Gods again (Turn around, go back!) He struck the ground, a cavern appeared And I smelt the burning pit of fear We crashed a thousand yards below I said, do it again, do it again (Turn around, go back!) His nebulous body swayed above His tongue swollen with devil's love The snake and I, a venom high I said, do it again, do it again (Turn around, go back!) Breathe, breathe, breathe deeply And I was seething, breathing deeply Spitting sentry, horned and tailed Waiting for you [Instrumental] -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- All the Madmen -------- [Verse 1] Day after day They send my friends away To mansions cold and grey To the far side of town Where the thin men stalk the streets While the sane stay underground [Verse 2] Day after day They tell me I can go They tell me I can blow To the far side of town Where it's pointless to be high Because it's such a long way down [Pre-Chorus] So I tell them that I can fly, I will scream, I will break my arm I will do me harm Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall I'm not quite right at all (am I?) Don't set me free, I'm as heavy as can be Just my librium and me And my E.S.T. makes three [Chorus] 'Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sad men roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me [Bridge] Where can the horizon lie When a nation hides Its organic minds in a cellar, dark and grim They must be very dim [Verse 3] Day after day They take some brain away Then turn my face around To the far side of town And tell me that it's real Then ask me how I feel [Pre-Chorus] Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall I'm not quite right at all Don't set me free, I'm as helpless as can be My libido's split on me Gimme some good 'ole lobotomy [Chorus] Because I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane as me [Outro] Zane, Zane, Zane, Ouvre le Chien Zane, Zane, Zane, Ouvre le Chien -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- Black Country Rock -------- [Verse] Pack a pack horse up and rest up here on Black Country Rock You never know, you might find it here On Black Country Rock Pack a pack horse up and rest up here on Black Country Rock You never know, you might find it here On Black Country Rock [Chorus] Some say the view is crazy But you may adopt another point of view So if it's much too hazy You can leave my friend and me with fond " Dieu" [Verse] Pack a pack horse up and rest up here on Black Country Rock You never know, you might find it here On Black Country Rock Pack a pack horse up and rest up here on Black Country Rock Never know, you might find it here On Black Country Rock [Chorus] Some say the view is crazy But you may adopt another point of view So if it's much too hazy You can leave my friend and me with fond " Dieu" [Outro] Some say the view is crazy But you may adopt another point of view So if it's much too hazy You can leave my friend and me with fond " Dieu" Ah! -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- After All -------- Please trip them gently, they don't like to fall Oh by jingo There's no room for anger, we're all very small Oh by jingo We're painting our faces and dressing in thoughts From the skies, from paradise But they think that we're holding a secretive ball Won't someone invite them, they're just taller children That's all After all Man is an obstacle, sad as the clown Oh by jingo So hold on to nothing, and he won't let you down Oh by jingo Some people are marching together and some on their own Quite alone Others are running, the smaller ones crawl But some sit in silence, they're just older children That's all After all I sing with impertinence, shading impermanent chords With my words I've borrowed your time and I'm sorry I called But the thought just occurred We're nobody's children At all After all Live till your rebirth and do what you will Oh by jingo Forget all I've said, please bear me no ill Oh by jingo [Outro] After all, after all -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- Running Gun Blues -------- [Verse 1] I count the corpses on my left, I find I'm not so tidy So I better get away, better make it today I've cut twenty-three down since Friday But I can't control it My face is drawn, my instinct still emotes it [Chorus] I slashed them cold, I killed them dead I broke the gooks, I cracked their heads I'll bomb them out from under the beds But now I've got the running gun blues [Verse 2] It seems the peacefuls stopped the war Left generals squashed and stifled But I'll slip out again tonight 'Cause they haven't taken back my rifle For I promote oblivion And I'll plug a few civilians [Chorus] I'll slash them cold, I'll kill them dead I'll break them gooks, I'll crack their heads I'll slice them till they're running red But now I've got the running gun blues -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- Saviour Machine -------- [Verse] President Joe once had a dream The world held his hand, gave their pledge So he told them his scheme for a Saviour Machine They called it the Prayer, its answer was law Its logic stopped war, gave them food How they adored till it cried in its boredom "Please don't believe in me Please disagree with me Life is too easy A plague seems quite feasible now Or maybe a war Or I may kill you all" [Chorus] Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine [Bridge] I need you flying, and I'll show that dying Is living beyond reason, sacred dimension of time I perceive every sign, I can steal every mind [Chorus] Don't let me stay, don't let me stay My logic says burn so send me away Your minds are too green, I despise all I've seen You can't stake your lives on a Saviour Machine -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- She Shook Me Cold -------- We met upon a hill The night was cool and still She sucked my dormant will Mother, she blew my brain I will go back again My God, she shook me cold I had no time to spare I grabbed her golden hair And threw her to the ground Father, she caved my head Oh Lord, the things she said My God, she should be told I was very smart Broke the gentle hearts Of many young virgins I was quick on the ball Left them so lonely They'd just give up trying Then she took my head and Smashed it up Kept my young blood rising Crushed me mercilessly Kept me going around So she don't know I crave her so-o-o I'll give my love in vain To reach that peak again We met upon a hill Mother, she blew my brain I will go back again My God, she shook me cold -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- The Man Who Sold the World -------- [Verse 1] We passed upon the stair We spoke of was and when Although I wasn't there He said I was his friend Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes, "I thought you died alone A long long time ago" [Chorus] Oh no, not me I never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world [Verse 2] I laughed and shook his hand And made my way back home I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed I gazed a gazeless stare At all the millions here We must have died alone A long long time ago [Chorus] Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world Who knows? Not me We never lost control You're face to face With the man who sold the world -------- 1970 The Man Who Sold the World -------- -------- The Supermen -------- [Verse 1] When all the world was very young And mountain magic heavy hung The supermen would walk in file Guardians of a loveless isle And gloomy browed with superfear Their tragic endless lives could heave nor sigh In solemn, perverse serenity Wondrous beings chained to life [Chorus 1] Strange games they would play then No death for the perfect men Life rolls into one for them So softly a supergod cries [Verse 2] Where all were minds in uni-thought Powers weird by mystics taught No pain, no joy, no power too great Colossal strength to grasp a fate Where sad-eyed mermen tossed in slumbers Nightmare dreams no mortal mind could hold A man would tear his brother's flesh A chance to die, to turn to mold [Chorus 2] Far out in the red-sky Far out from the sad eyes Strange, mad celebration So softly a supergod cries Far out in the red-sky Far out from the sad eyes Strange, mad celebration So softly a supergod dies -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Changes -------- [Intro] Oh yeah Mmm [Verse 1] Still don't know what I was waiting for And my time was running wild, a million dead-end streets and Every time I thought I'd got it made It seemed the taste was not so sweet So I turned myself to face me But I've never caught a glimpse Of how the others must see the faker I'm much too fast to take that test [Chorus] Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, don't want to be a richer man Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, just gonna have to be a different man Time may change me But I can't trace time [Interlude] Oh yeah [Verse 2] I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations They're quite aware of what they're going through [Chorus] Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, don't tell them to grow up and out of it Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (Turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it Time may change me But you can't trace time [Bridge] Strange fascination, fascinating me Ah, changes are taking the pace I'm going through [Chorus] Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, oh, look out you rock 'n rollers Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, pretty soon now you're gonna get older Time may change me But I can't trace time [Outro] I said that time may change me But I can't trace time -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Oh! You Pretty Things -------- [Verse 1] Wake up you sleepy head Put on some clothes, shake up your bed Put another log on the fire for me I've made some breakfast and coffee Look out my window and what do I see A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me All the nightmares came today And it looks as though they're here to stay [Verse 2] What are we coming to No room for me, no fun for you I think about a world to come Where the books were found by the Golden ones Written in pain, written in awe By a puzzled man who questioned what we were here for All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay [Chorus] Oh, you Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane? Oh, you Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Let me make it plain You gotta make way for the Homo Superior [Verse 3] Look out at your children See their faces in golden rays Don't kid yourself, they belong to you They're the start of the coming race The earth is a bitch, we've finished our news Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use All the strangers came today And it looks as though they're here to stay [Chorus] Oh, you Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Oh, you Pretty Things Don't you know you're driving your Mamas and Papas insane Let me make it plain Gotta make way for the Homo Superior -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Eight Line Poem -------- The tactful cactus by your window Surveys the prairie of your room The mobile spins to its collision Clara puts her head between her paws They've opened shops down West side Will all the cacti find a home But the key to the city Is in the sun that pins the branches to the sky -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Life on Mars? -------- [Verse 1] It's a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousy hair But her mummy is yelling, "No!" And her daddy has told her to go But her friend is nowhere to be seen Now she walks through her sunken dream To the seat with the clearest view And she's hooked to the silver screen [Pre-Chorus 1] But the film is a saddening bore For she's lived it ten times or more She could spit in the eyes of fools As they ask her to focus on [Chorus] Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? [Verse 2] It's on America's tortured brow That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow Now the workers have struck for fame Because Lennon's on sale again See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads Rule Britannia is out of bounds To my mother, my dog, and clowns [Pre-Chorus 2] But the film is a saddening bore Because I wrote it ten times or more It's about to be writ again As I ask you to focus on [Chorus] Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars? -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Kooks -------- [Chorus] Will you stay in our lovers' story? If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks hung up on romancing Will you stay in our lovers' story? If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks hung up on romancing [Verse 1] We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and dry And a funny old crib on which the paint won't dry I bought you a pair of shoes A trumpet you can blow and a book of rules On what to say to people when they pick on you 'Cause if you stay with us you're going to be pretty kooky too [Chorus] Will you stay in our lovers' story? If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks hung up on romancing [Verse 2] And if you ever have to go to school Remember how they messed up this old fool Don't pick fights with the bullies or the cads 'Cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's Dads And if the homework brings you down Then we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown [Chorus] Will you stay in our lovers' story? If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks hung up on romancing [Outro] Will you stay in our lovers' story? If you stay you won't be sorry 'Cause we believe in you Soon you'll grow, so take a chance With a couple of kooks hung up on romancing -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Quicksand -------- [Verse 1] I'm closer to the Golden Dawn Immersed in Crowley's uniform Of imagery I'm living in a silent film Portraying Himmler's sacred realm Of dream reality I'm frightened by the total goal Drawing to the ragged hole And I ain't got the power anymore No I ain't got the power anymore [Verse 2] I'm the twisted name on Garbo's eyes Living proof of Churchill's lies I'm destiny I'm torn between the light and dark Where others see their targets Divine symmetry Should I kiss the viper's fang Or herald loud the death of Man I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain't got the power anymore [Chorus] Don't believe in yourself Don't deceive with belief Knowledge comes with death's release Ah! Ah! [Verse 3] I'm not a prophet or a stone age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on I'm tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien Can't take my eyes from the great salvation Of bullshit faith If I don't explain what you ought to know You can tell me all about it On the next Bardo I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought And I ain't got the power anymore [Chorus] Don't believe in yourself Don't deceive with belief Knowledge comes with death's release Ah! Ah! Don't believe in yourself Don't deceive with belief Knowledge comes with death's release Ah! Ah! -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Fill Your Heart -------- [Verse 1] Fill your heart with love today Don't play the game of time Things that happened in the past Only happened in your mind Only in your mind Oh, forget your mind [Pre-Chorus] And you'll be free, yeah The writing's on the wall Free, yeah And you can know it all if you choose Just remember, lovers never lose [Chorus] 'Cause they are free of thoughts unpure And of thoughts unkind Gentleness clears the soul Love cleans the mind and makes it free [Verse 2] Oh, happiness is happening The dragons have been bled Gentleness is everywhere And fear's just in your head Only in your head, fear is in your head Only in your head, so Forget your head [Pre-Chorus] And you'll be free The writing's on the wall Free, yeah And you can know it all if you choose Just remember, lovers never lose [Chorus] Because they are free of thoughts unpure And of thoughts unkind Gentleness clears the soul Love will clean your mind and make you free! [Outro] Free-yeah Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Free-yeah Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Free-yeah Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Free-yeah Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Free-yeah Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah Free-yeah -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Andy Warhol -------- [Verse 1] Like to take a cement fix Be a standing cinema Dress my friends up just for show See them as they really are Put a peephole in my brain Two New Pence to have a go I'd like to be a gallery Put you all inside my show [Chorus] Andy Warhol looks a scream Hang him on my wall Andy Warhol, Silver Screen Can't tell them apart at all [Verse 2] Andy walking, Andy tired Andy take a little snooze Tie him up when he's fast asleep Send him on a pleasant cruise When he wakes up on the sea Be sure to think of me and you He'll think about paint And he'll think about glue What a jolly boring thing to do [Chorus] Andy Warhol looks a scream Hang him on my wall Andy Warhol, Silver Screen Can't tell them apart at all Andy Warhol looks a scream Hang him on my wall Andy Warhol, Silver Screen Can't tell them apart at all -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Song for Bob Dylan -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] Oh, hear this Robert Zimmerman I wrote a song for you About a strange young man called Dylan With a voice like sand and glue His words of truthful vengeance They could pin us to the floor Brought a few more people on And put the fear in a whole lot more [Chorus] Ah, here she comes, here she comes Here she comes again The same old painted lady From the brow of a superbrain She'll scratch this world to pieces As she comes on like a friend But a couple of songs from your old scrapbook Could send her home again [Verse 2] You gave your heart to every bedsit room At least a picture on my wall And you sat behind a million pair of eyes And told them how they saw Then we lost your train of thought The paintings are all your own While troubles are rising, we'd rather be scared Together than alone [Chorus] Ah, here she comes, here she comes Here she comes again The same old painted lady From the brow of a superbrain She'll scratch this world to pieces As she comes on like a friend But a couple of songs from your old scrapbook Could send her home again {Instrumental Bridge} [Verse 3] Now hear this Robert Zimmerman Though I don't suppose we'll meet Ask your good friend Dylan If he'd gaze a while down the old street Tell him we've lost his poems So we're writing on the walls Give us back our unity And give us back our family You're every nation's refugee Don't leave us with their sanity [Chorus] Ah, here she comes, here she comes Here she comes again The same old painted lady From the brow of a superbrain She'll scratch this world to pieces As she comes on like a friend But a couple of songs from your old scrapbook Could send her home again Ah, a couple of songs from your old scrapbook Could send her home again Oh, here she comes, ooh, here she comes Oh, here she comes, ooh {Instrumental Outro} -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- Queen Bitch -------- [Verse 1] I'm up on the eleventh floor And I'm watching the cruisers below He's down on the street And he's trying hard to pull sister Flo Oh, my heart's in the basement My weekend's at an all time low 'Cause she's hoping to score So I can't see her letting him go Walk out of her heart, walk out of her mind Oh, not her [Chorus] She's so swishy in her satin and tat In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat Oh God, I could do better than that [Verse 2] She's an old-time ambassador Of sweet talking, night walking games And she's known in the darkest clubs For pushing ahead of the dames If she says she can do it then she can do it She don't make false claims But she's a Queen and such are queens That your laughter is sucked in their brains Now she's leading him on And she'll lay him right down Yes, she's leading him on And she'll lay him right down [Refrain] But it could have been me Yes, it could have been me Why didn't I say Why didn't I say, no, no, no [Chorus] She's so swishy in her satin and tat In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat Oh God, I could do better than that [Verse 3] So I lay down a while And I gaze at my hotel wall Oh, the cot is so cold It don't feel like no bed at all Yeah, I lay down a while And I look at my hotel wall And he's down on the street So I throw both his bags down the hall And I'm phoning a cab 'Cause my stomach feels small There's a taste in my mouth And it's no taste at all [Refrain] It could have been me Oh yeah, it could have been me Why didn't I say Why didn't I say, no, no, no [Chorus] She's so swishy in her satin and tat In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat Oh God, I could do better than that [Outro] Ooh, you bet ya! Oh yeah Uh-huh Mmm -------- 1971 Hunky Dory -------- -------- The Bewlay Brothers -------- [Verse 1] And so the story goes, they wore the clothes They said the things to make it seem improbable The whale of a lie like the hope it was And the goodmen tomorrow Had their feet in the wallow And their heads of brawn were nicely shorn And how they bought their positions with saccharin and trust And the world was asleep to our latent fuss [Chorus 1] Sighing they swirl through the streets like the crust of the sun The Bewlay Brothers In our wings that bark Flashing teeth of brass Standing tall in the dark Oh, and we were gone Hanging out with your dwarf men We were so turned on By your lack of conclusions [Verse 2] I was stone and he was wax So he could scream and still relax Unbelievable And we frightened the small children away And our talk was old and dust would flow Thru our veins and lo! It was midnight back at the kitchen door Like the grim face on the cathedral floor And the solid book we wrote cannot be found today [Chorus 2] And it was stalking time for the moonboys The Bewlay Brothers With our backs on the arch And the Devil may be here But he can't sing about that Oh, and we were gone Real cool traders We were so turned on You thought we were fakers [Verse 3] Now the dress is hung, the ticket pawned The factor max that proved the fact is melted down And woven on the edging of my pillow And my brother lays upon the rocks He could be dead, he could be not, he could be you He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature [Chorus 3] Shooting up pie-in-the-sky The Bewlay Brothers In the feeble and the bad The Bewlay Brothers In the blessed and cold In the crutch-hungry dark Was where we flayed our mark Oh, and we were gone Kings of oblivion We were so turned on In the mind-warp pavilion [Outro] Lay me place and bake me pie I'm starving for me gravy Leave my shoes, and door unlocked I might just slip away, hey Just for the day, hey Please come away, hey Just for the day, hey Please come away, hey -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Five Years -------- [Verse 1] Pushing through the market square So many mothers sighing News had just come over We had five years left to cry in (cry in) News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying (dying) Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he was not lying (lying) I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the fat, skinny people And all the tall, short people And all the nobody people And all the somebody people I never thought I'd need so many people [Verse 2] A girl my age went off her head Hit some tiny children If the Black hadn't have pulled her off I think she would have killed them A soldier with a broken arm Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest And a queer threw up at the sight of that I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour Drinking milkshakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine Don't think you knew you were in this song And it was cold and it rained, so I felt like an actor And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there Your face, your race The way that you talk I kiss you, you're beautiful I want you to walk [Outro] We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, what a surprise Five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, stuck on my eyes Five years, what a surprise We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got We've got five years, what a surprise We've got five years, stuck on my eyes We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot Five years, that's all we've got Five years Five years Five years Five years -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Soul Love -------- [Verse 1] Stone love - she kneels before the grave A brave son - who gave his life To save the slogan That hovers between the headstone and her eyes For they penetrate her grieving New love - a boy and girl are talking New words - that only they can share in New words - a love so strong it tears their hearts To sleep - through the fleeting hours of morning [Chorus] Love is careless in its choosing Sweeping over cross a baby Love descends on those defenseless Idiot love will spark the fusion Inspirations have I none Just to touch the flaming dove All I have is my love of love And love is not loving [Solo] [Verse 2] Soul love - the priest that tastes the word and Told of love - and how my God on high is All love - though reaching up my loneliness Evolves, by the blindness that surrounds him [Chorus] Love is careless in its choosing Sweeping over cross a baby Love descends on those defenseless Idiot love will spark the fusion Inspirations have I none Just to touch the flaming dove All I have is my love of love And love is not loving [Outro] -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Moonage Daydream -------- [Verse 1] I'm an alligator I'm a mama-papa coming for you I'm a space invader I'll be a rock 'n' rollin' bitch for you Keep your mouth shut You're squawking like a pink monkey bird And I'm busting up my brains for the words [Chorus] (U-u-u-u-u-u) Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe (U-u-u-u-u-u) Put your ray gun to my head (U-u-u-u-u-u) Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah [Verse 2] Don't fake it, baby Lay the real thing on me The church of man, love Is such a holy place to be Make me, baby Make me know you really care Make me jump into the air [Chorus] (U-u-u-u-u-u) Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe (U-u-u-u-u-u) Put your ray gun to my head (U-u-u-u-u-u) Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah [Chorus] Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe Put your ray gun to my head Press your space face close to mine, love Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh- Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe (Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe) ('Lectric eye on me babe) Put your ray gun to my head (Put your ray gun to my head) (Ray gun to my head) Press your space face close to mine, love (Press your space face close to mine, love) (Press your space face close to mine, love) Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah (Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah) (Freak out in a moonage daydream Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah...) [Outro] Freak out (Freak out, freak out, freak out, freak out...) Far out (Far out, far out, far out, far out...) In out (In out, in out, in out, in out...) -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Starman -------- [Intro] Hey now, now Oh, oh, oh [Verse 1] Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin down some rock 'n' roll "Lotta soul," he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren't no DJ, that was hazy cosmic jive [Chorus] There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile He told me Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie [Verse 2] I had to phone someone so I picked on you Hey, that's far out, so you heard him too Switch on the TV, we may pick him up on channel two Look out your window, I can see his light If we can sparkle he may land tonight Don't tell your poppa or he'll get us locked up in fright [Chorus] There's a starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile He told me Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie [Chorus] Starman waiting in the sky He'd like to come and meet us But he thinks he'd blow our minds There's a starman waiting in the sky He's told us not to blow it 'Cause he knows it's all worthwhile He told me Let the children lose it Let the children use it Let all the children boogie [Outro] 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, 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, la, la La, la, la, la-la, la, la, la -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- It Ain't Easy -------- [Verse 1] When you climb to the top of the mountain Look out over the sea Think about the places perhaps, where a young man could be Then you jump back down to the rooftops Look out over the town Think about all of the strange things circulating round [Chorus] It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down [Verse 2] Well, all the people have got their problems That ain't nothing new With the help of the good Lord We can all pull on through We can all pull on through Get there in the end Sometimes it'll take you right up and sometimes down again [Chorus] It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down [Verse 3] Satisfaction, satisfaction Keep me satisfied I've got the love of a Hoochie Koochie woman She calling from inside She's a-calling from inside Trying to get to you All the woman really wants You can give her something too [Chorus] It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down It ain't easy, it ain't easy It ain't easy to get to heaven when you're going down -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Lady Stardust -------- [Verse 1] People stared at the makeup on his face Laughed at his long black hair, his animal grace The boy in the bright blue jeans Jumped up on the stage And lady stardust sang his songs Of darkness and disgrace [Chorus] And he was alright The band was altogether Yes, he was alright The song went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite out of sight And he sang all night long [Verse 2] Femme fatales emerged from shadows to watch this creature fair Boys stood upon their chairs to make their point of view I smiled sadly for a love I could not obey Lady stardust sang his songs of darkness and dismay [Chorus] And he was alright The band was altogether Yes, he was alright The song went on forever And he was awful nice Really quite paradise, and he sang All night, all night long [Bridge] Ooh, how I sighed when they asked if I knew his name [Chorus] Oh, it was alright The band was altogether Yes, he was alright And the song went on forever He was awful nice Really quite paradise, he sang All night long (Get some pussy now) -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Star -------- [Verse 1] Tony went to fight in Belfast Rudi stayed at home to starve I could make it all worthwhile as a rock & roll star Bevan tried to change the nation Sonny wants to turn the world, well, he can tell you that he tried I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star [Chorus] So inviting - so enticing to play the part I could play the wild mutation as a rock & roll star [Bridge] I could do with the money (You know that I could) I'm so wiped out with things as they are (You know that I could) I'd send my photograph to my honey And I'd c'mon like a regular superstar [Chorus 2] I could make a transformation as a rock & roll star [Chorus 1] So inviting - so enticing to play the part I could play the wild mutation as a rock & roll star Get on with the money [Bridge] I could do with the money (You know that I could) I'm so wiped out with things as they are (You know that I could) I'd send my photograph to my honey And I'd c'mon like a regular superstar [Verse 2] I could fall asleep at night as a rock & roll star I could fall in love all right as a rock & roll star [Outro] Rock & roll star Rock & roll star (Just watch me now) -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Hang on to Yourself -------- [Verse 1] Well, she's a tongue twisting storm She'll come to the show tonight Praying to the light machine She wants my honey not my money She's a funky-thigh collector Laying on electric dreams [Chorus] Well, come on, come on We've really got a good thing going Well, come on, well, come on If you think we're gonna make it you better hang on to yourself [Verse 2] We can't dance, we don't talk much, we just ball and play But then we move like tigers on Vaseline Well, the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar You're the Blessed, we're The Spiders From Mars [Chorus] Well, come on, come on We've really got a good thing going Well, come on, well come on If you think we're gonna make it you better hang on to yourself [Bridge] Come on Lay it on [Chorus] Come on, come on We've really got a good thing going Well, come on, well, come on If you think we're gonna make it you better hang on to yourself [Chorus] Well, come on, come on We've really got a good thing going Well, come on, well, come on If you think we're gonna make it you better hang on to yourself [Outro] Come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah Come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah Come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah Come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah, come on, ah -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Ziggy Stardust -------- [Intro] Oh yeah [Verse 1] Now Ziggy played guitar Jamming good with Weird and Gilly And The Spiders from Mars He played it left hand But made it too far Became the special man Then we were Ziggy's Band [Verse 2] Ziggy really sang Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo Like some cat from Japan He could lick 'em by smiling He could leave 'em to hang He came on so loaded, man, Well hung, snow white tan [Chorus 1] So where were the spiders While the fly tried to break our balls? Just the beer light to guide us So we bitched about his fans And should we crush his sweet hands? Oh yeah [Verse 3] Ziggy played for time Jiving us that we were Voodoo The kids was just crass He was the naz With God-given ass He took it all too far But boy, could he play guitar [Chorus 2] Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind (ah) Like a leper messiah When the kids had killed a man I had to break up the band [Bridge] Oh yeah Ooh [Outro] Ziggy played guitar -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Suffragette City -------- [Verse 1] (Hey man) oh leave me alone you know (Hey man) oh Henry, get off the phone, I gotta (Hey man) I gotta straighten my face This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place (Hey man) my schooldays insane (Hey man) my work's down the drain (Hey man) well, she's a total blam-blam She said she had to squeeze it but she, and then she [Chorus] Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket Back from Suffragette City Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight She's all right [Verse 2] (Hey, man) oh, Henry, don't be unkind, go away (Hey, man) I can't take you this time, no way (Hey, man) dear droogie, don't crash here There's only room for one and here she comes, here she comes [Chorus] Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket Back from Suffragette City Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight She's all right Oh, hit me [Chorus] Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket Back from Suffragette City Oh, don't lean on me, man, 'cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Don't lean on me, man, 'cause you can't afford the ticket Back from Suffragette City And don't lean on me, man, 'cause you ain't got time to check it You know my Suffragette City Is outta sight Whoa, she's all right [Outro] A Suffragette City A Suffragette City I'm back on Suffragette City I'm back on Suffragette City Whoa, Suffragette city Ooh, Suffragette City Ooh-how, Suffragette City Ooh-how, Suffragette City Ooh-how, Suffragette Oh, wham, bam, thank you, Ma'am! A Suffragette City A Suffragette City Quite all right A Suffragette City Too fine A Suffragette City Ooh, a Suffragette City Oh, my Suffragette City Oh, my Suffragette City Oh, Suffragette Suffragette! -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Rock 'n' Roll Suicide -------- [Verse 1] Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget Oh oh, oh, oh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide [Verse 2] You're too old to lose it, too young to choose it And the clock waits so patiently on your song You walk past a cafe but you don't eat when you've lived too long Oh, no, no, no, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide [Verse 3] Chev brakes are snarling as you stumble across the road But the day breaks instead so you hurry home Don't let the sun blast your shadow Don't let the milk float ride your mind You're so natural - religiously unkind [Bridge] Oh no, love! You're not alone You're watching yourself but you're too unfair You got your head all tangled up But if I could only make you care Oh no, love! You're not alone No matter what or who you've been No matter when or where you've seen All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share, I'll help you with the pain You're not alone! [Outro] Just turn on with me and you're not alone Let's turn on and be not alone (wonderful) Gimme your hands 'cause you're wonderful (wonderful) Gimme your hands 'cause you're wonderful (wonderful) Oh, gimme your hands -------- 1972 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars -------- -------- Sweet Head -------- I tried to break away from you From the spics and blacks and the gum you chew Where the posters are torn by the muggin' gangs By the faggy parks and the burnt out vans I've got ninety-nine years of laying in the dark and I'm far too young to lie I've got ninety-nine ways to play my guitar it's going to pay me before I die So bob your sweet head Brother Ziggy going to play I'm just about the best you can hear Gonna rock it in your head Shazam! and Kapow! With my guitar and Mr. Bang-o We can give you sweet head I'm tough as glass and clean as night Well if looks can love we can love all right I'm your rubber peacock angelic whore I'm a wrought iron face upon the wall I had ninety-nine years of murder come life and I'm running away from it all I got a bedroom, every mirror in town they're going to claim me if I fall So bob your sweet head Brother Ziggy going to play I'm just about the best you can hear Gonna rock it in your head Shazam! and Kapow! With my guitar and Mr. Bang-o We can give you sweet head Sweet head, give you sweet head (spoken: while ya down there) See my eyes of blocked emotion, see my tremble, see my fall Traumatics thick and fast, your faith in me can last Besides I'm known to lay you, one and all Look south the way your mother dwells If she knew what's going down, she'd give you hell I'm the kind of man she warned me of Till there was rock, you only had god You and I have a mutual vow We both like young, and we both like loud I got pretty shoes, and I'm kid and proud I'm street side out with my ear to the crowd So bob your sweet head Brother Ziggy going to play I'm just about the best you can hear Gonna rock it in your head Shazam! and Kapow! With my guitar and Mr. Bang-o We can give you sweet head Move along, sir! -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Watch That Man -------- [Verse 1] Shakey threw a party that lasted all night Everybody drank a lot of something nice There was an old fashioned band of married men Looking up to me for encouragement - it was so-so The ladies looked bad but the music was sad No one took their eyes off Lorraine She shimmied and she strolled like a Chicago moll Her feathers looked better and better - it was so-so Yea! it was time to unfreeze When the Reverend Alabaster danced on his knees Slam! so it wasn't a game Cracking all the mirrors in shame [Chorus] Watch that man! Oh honey, watch that man He talks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and spoon Watch that man! Oh honey, watch that man He walks like a jerk but he's only taking care of the room Must be in tune [Verse 2] A Benny Goodman fan painted holes in his hands So Shakey hung him up to dry The pundits were joking, the manholes were smoking And every bottle battled with the reason why The girl on the phone wouldn't leave me alone A throw back from someone's LP A lemon in a bag played the Tiger Rag And the bodies on the screen stopped bleeding Yeah! I was shaking like a leaf For I couldn't understand the conversation Yeah! I ran to the street Looking for information [Chorus] Watch that man! Oh honey, watch that man He talks like a jerk but he could eat you with a fork and spoon Watch that man! Oh honey, watch that man He walks like a jerk but he's only taking care of the room Must be in tune [Outro] Watch that man Watch that man Watch that man Watch that man -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Aladdin Sane -------- [Verse 1] Watching him dash away Swinging an old bouquet (dead roses) Sake and strange divine Uh-huh-huh-uh, huh-uh (You'll make it) Passionate bright young things Takes him away to war (Don't fake it) Saddening glissando strings Uh-huh-huh-uh, huh-uh (You'll make it) [Chorus] Who will love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne Just in time for sunrise Who will love Aladdin Sane? [Verse 2] Motor sensational Paris or maybe hell (I'm waiting) Clutches of sad remains Waits for Aladdin Sane (You'll make it) [Chorus] Who will love Aladdin Sane? Millions weep a fountain Just in case of sunrise Who will love Aladdin Sane? Will love Aladdin Sane Love Aladdin Sane [Chorus] Who will love Aladdin Sane? Millions weep a fountain Just in case of sunrise Who will love Aladdin Sane? Will love Aladdin Sane Will love Aladdin Sane [Outro] They say the lights are oh so bright on Broadway -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Drive-In Saturday -------- [Verse 1] Let me put my arms around your head (do-doo-ah) Gee, it's hot, let's go to bed Don't forget to turn on the light Don't laugh, Babe, it'll be alright (do-doo-ah) Pour me out another phone (do-doo-ah) I'll ring and see if your friends are home Perhaps the strange ones in the dome Can lend us a book, we can read up alone [Pre-Chorus] And try to get it on like once before, When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored Like the video films we saw [Chorus] His name was always Buddy And he'd shrug and ask to stay She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid And turn her face away She's uncertain if she likes him But she knows she really loves him It's a crash course for the ravers It's a drive-in Saturday [Verse 2] Jung the foreman prayed at work (do-doo-ah) That neither hands nor limbs would burst It's hard enough to keep formation Amid this fall out saturation (do-doo-ah) Cursing at the Astronette (do-doo-ah) Who stands in steel by his cabinet He's crashing out with Sylvian The bureau Supply for ageing men [Pre-Chorus] With snorting head he gazes to the shore Where once had raged the sea that raged no more Like the video films we saw [Chorus] His name was always Buddy (do-doo-ah) And he'd shrug and ask to stay And she'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid (do-doo-ah) And turn her face away She's uncertain if she likes him (do-doo-ah) But she knows she really loves him It's a crash course for the ravers (do-doo-ah) It's a drive-in Saturday, yeah [Chorus] His name was always Buddy (do-doo-ah) And he'd shrug and ask to stay And she'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid (do-doo-ah) And turn her face away She's uncertain if she likes him (do-doo-ah) But she knows she really loves him It's a crash course for the ravers (do-doo-ah) It's a drive in Saturday, yeah, yeah [Outro] Drive-in Saturday It's a drive-in Saturday It's a drive-in Saturday (drive, drive-in Saturday) It's a drive-in Saturday (it's a, it's a, it's a drive-in Saturday) It's a drive-in Saturday (it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a) (It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a) It's a drive-in Saturday It's a drive-in Saturday It's a drive-in Saturday It's a drive-in Saturday -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Panic in Detroit -------- [Verse 1] He looked a lot like Che Guevara Drove a diesel van Kept his gun in quiet seclusion Such a humble man The only survivor of the National People's Gang [Chorus] Panic in Detroit I asked for an autograph He wanted to stay home I wish someone would phone Panic in Detroit [Verse 2] He laughed at accidental sirens That broke the evening gloom The police had warned of repercussions They followed none too soon A trickle of strangers were all that were left alive [Chorus] Panic in Detroit I asked for an autograph He wanted to stay home I wish someone would phone Panic in Detroit [Bridge] Putting on some clothes, I made my way to school And I found my teacher crouching in his overalls I screamed and ran to smash my favorite slot machine And jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights {Verse 3} Having scored a trillion dollars Made a run back home Found him slumped across the table A gun and me alone I ran to the window, looked for a plane or two [Chorus] Panic in Detroit He'd left me an autograph "Let me collect dust." I wish someone would phone Panic in Detroit Panic in Detroit {Instrumental Outro} -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Cracked Actor -------- I've come on a few years from my Hollywood Highs The best of the last, the cleanest star they ever had I'm stiff on my legend, the films that I made Forget that I'm fifty 'cause you just got paid Crack, baby, crack, show me you're real Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel Suck, baby, suck, give me your head Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead Oh, stay Please stay Please stay You caught yourself a trick down on Sunset and Vine But since he pinned you, baby, you're a porcupine You sold me illusions for a sack full of cheques You've made a bad connection 'cause I just want your sex Crack, baby, crack, show me you're real Smack, baby, smack, is that all that you feel Suck, baby, suck, give me your head Before you start professing that you're knocking me dead Oh yeah Ooh, stay for a day Ooh yeah Don't you dare Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Woo! Woo! Oh yeah -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Time -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] Time - He's waiting in the wings He speaks of senseless things His script is you and me, Boy Time - He flexes like a whore Falls wanking to the floor His trick is you and me, Boy Time - In Quaaludes and red wine Demanding Billy Dolls And other friends of mine Take your time The sniper in the brain Regurgitating drain Incestuous and vain And many other last names Well, I look at my watch it says 9:25 and I think "Oh God! I'm still alive." [Chorus] We should be on by now We should be on by now Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li [Verse 2] You - Are not a victim You - Just scream with boredom! You - Are not evicting time... [Bowie breathing heavily] Chimes - Goddamn, you're looking old You'll freeze and catch a cold 'Cause you've left your coat behind Take your time Breaking up is hard But keeping dark is hateful I had so many dreams I had so many breakthroughs But you, my love, were kind But love has left you dreamless The door to dreams was closed Your park was real and dreamless Perhaps you're smiling now Smiling through this darkness But all I have to give Is guilt for dreaming [Chorus] We should be on by now We should be on by now We should be on by now We should be on by now We should be on by now Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li Li, li, li, li, li, li, li, li 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, la, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, yes, time! -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- The Prettiest Star -------- [Verse 1] Cold fire, you've got everything but cold fire You will be my rest and peace child I moved up to take a place near you So tired, it's the sky that makes you feel tried It's a trick to make you see wide It can all but break your heart in pieces [Chorus] Staying back in your memory Are the movies in the past How you moved is all it takes To sing a song of when I loved The prettiest star [Verse 2] One day though it might as well be someday You and I will rise up all the way All because of what you are The prettiest star [Chorus] Staying back in your memory Are the movies in the past How you moved is all it takes To sing a song of when I loved The prettiest star [Verse 2] One day though it might as well be someday You and I will rise up all the way All because of what you are The prettiest star -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Let's Spend the Night Together -------- [Verse 1] Well, don't you worry 'bout what's been on my mind I'm in no hurry, I can take my time I'm going red and my tongue's getting tired Out of my head and my mouth's getting dry I'm h-h-h-high [Chorus] Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now [Verse 2] I feel so strong that I can't disguise, oh my Well, I just can't apologise, no Don't hang me up but don't let me down We could have fun just by groovin' around And around and around [Chorus] Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now [Bridge] Oh, you know I'm smiling baby You need some guiding baby I'm just deciding baby [Chorus] Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now [Verse 3] This doesn't happen to me every day No excuses I've got anyway, hey I'll satisfy your every need And I know you'll satisfy me, oh my-my-my, my-my [Chorus] Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together [Verse 4] They said we were too young Our kind of love was no fun But our love comes from above Do it! Let's make love Hoo! [Chorus] Let's spend the night together Now I need you more than ever Let's spend the night together now! -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- The Jean Genie -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers And ate all your razors while pulling the waiters Talking 'bout Monroe and walking on Snow White New York's a go-go and everything tastes nice Poor little Greenie Woo-hoo (Get back one) [Chorus] The Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks (The Jean Genie) he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls The Jean Genie, let yourself go, oh [Interlude] [Verse 2] Sits like a man, but he smiles like a reptile She loves him, she loves him, but just for a short while She'll scratch in the sand, won't let go his hand He says he's a beautician and sells you nutrition And keeps all your dead hair for making up underwear Poor little Greenie [Chorus] The Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks (The Jean Genie) he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls The Jean Genie, let yourself go, whoa-oh [Interlude] [Verse 3] He's so simple minded, he can't drive his module He bites on the neon and sleeps in the capsule Loves to be loved Loves to be loved [Bridge] Woo-hoo Woo-hoo [Chorus] Oh, the Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks (The Jean Genie) he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls The Jean Genie, let yourself go, oh Go Go [Chorus] The Jean Genie lives on his back The Jean Genie loves chimney stacks (The Jean Genie) he's outrageous, he screams and he bawls The Jean Genie, let yourself go, oh Go Go, go [Instrumental Outro] -------- 1973 Aladdin Sane -------- -------- Lady Grinning Soul -------- [Verse 1] She'll come, she'll go She'll lay belief on you Skin sweet with musky oil The lady from another grinning soul Cologne she'll wear Silver and Americard She'll drive a beetle car And beat you down at cool Canasta [Chorus] And when the clothes are strewn Don't be afraid of the room Touch the fullness of her breast Feel the love of her caress She will be your living end [Verse 2] She'll come, she'll go She'll lay belief on you But she won't stake her life on you How can life become her point of view [Chorus] And when the clothes are strewn Don't be afraid of the room Touch the fullness of her breast Feel the love of her caress She will be your living end She will be your living end She will be your living end She will be your living end She will be your living end -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Rosalyn -------- [Verse 1] Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you have been Hey Rosalyn, tell me where you have been All the night and all the day Hide and seek's the game you play Treat me as sure as sin [Chorus] Oh Rosalyn, yeah Rosalyn Hey Rosalyn, you are the girl for me Hey Rosalyn, you are the girl for me When I am holding you so tight It is so hard to say goodnight It is you that I love now can't you see? [Verse 2] Do you really love me, do you love me true Do you really love me Rosalyn? Yeah got to know, yeah got to know Yeah got to know Rosalyn [Chorus] Yeah got to know, yeah got to know Yeah got to know Rosalyn Rosalyn Yeah Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, Rosalyn, ooh-yeah, ah -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Here Comes the Night -------- [Verse 1] Ohhhhh... here it comes Here comes the night Yeah, here comes the night Oh, yeah (here comes the night) I can see right out my window walking down the street my girl With another guy His arms around her Like it used to be with me Oh it makes me want to die [Chorus] Yeah, here it comes Here comes the night Yeah, here comes the night Yeah... (here comes the night) [Verse 2] There they go, funny how they look so good together Wonder what is wrong with me Why cannot I accept The fact she's chosen him And simply let them be? [Chorus] Oh she is with him They are turning down the lights Now he is holding her the way I used to do I can see her closing her eyes And telling him lies Exactly like she told me too -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- I Wish You Would -------- [Verse] Early in the morning by the break of day That is when my baby went away Come back baby I wish you would This crying and grieving Will not do me no good Hugging and a-kissing, late at night You know pretty baby it feels just right Come back baby what you are trying to do? Turning on me and some other men too Come back baby give me one more chance You know I still love You going to give you romance Yeah, romance all night long In my arms, oh yeah [Outro] Hey pretty baby I love you so You know pretty baby it hurts me to see you go Oh yeah [repeat ad inf.] -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- See Emily Play -------- [Verse 1] Emily tries but misunderstands She is often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams 'til Tomorrow [Chorus] There is no other day Let us try it another way You will lose your mind and play Free games for May See Emily play [Verse 2] Soon after dark Emily cries Gazing at trees in sorrow hardly a sound 'til tomorrow [Chorus] Put on a gown that touches the ground Float on a river for ever and ever Emily -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Everything's Alright -------- [Verse 1] Oh, little baby You know I have been away Oh, little baby You know I will come today Do not you know that [Chorus] Everything is alright (everything is alright) Everything is alright[x2] (everything is alright, babe) [Bridge] Let me hold your hand and be your loving man (all night)[x2] Let me hold your hand and be your loving man (all night, alright!) [Verse 2] Oh, little baby You know I feel so good Oh, little baby I never knew I could And do not you know that [Chorus] Everything is alright (everything is alright, babe) Everything is alright[x2] (everything is alright, babe) Let me give you loving like nobody can (all night) [x2] Let me give you loving like nobody can (all night, alright!) [Bridge] Let me hold your hand and be your loving man No, no, no, no, no, that's a-loving you (Must have been you I am going to all night loving you) No, no, no, no, no I will be good for you [Chorus] Everything is alright (everything is alright, babe) Everything is alright[x2] (everything is alright, babe) Let me give you loving like nobody can (all night) [x2] Let me give you loving like nobody can (all night, alright!) [Outro] Everything is alright[x2] Oh -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- I Can't Explain -------- [Verse] New feeling inside It is a hot certain kind I feel hot and cold Down in my soul, baby I cannot explain Going out of my mind Dizzy in the head, and I am feeling blue Things you say well maybe they are true I get funny dreams again and again Knows what it means, but Cannot explain I think it is love Say it to you When I feel blue I cannot explain, no, I cannot explain [Outro] You know I cannot explain I am going out of my mind Well I am worried guy But I cannot explain -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Friday on My Mind -------- [Verse 1] Monday morning feels so bad Everybody seems to nag me Coming Tuesday I feel better Even my old man looks good Wednesday just do not go Thursday goes too slow I have got Friday on my mind [Chorus] (See my baby) Going to have fun in the city (feel like fucking you) (Do my baby screw) Be with my girl She is so pretty (all I want to do) (I will go crazy) She looks fine tonight (zoom zoom zoom) She is out of sight to me (so divine) (Tonight) I spend my bread (Tonight) I lose my head (Tonight) I have got to get tonight Monday I have Friday on my mind Do the five day drag once more (Monday blue) [Verse 2] There is nothing else that bugs me More than working for the rich men (poor man, beggar Man, thief) Hey I will change that scene one day Today I might be mad Tomorrow I will be glad 'Cause I will have Friday on my mind [Chorus] (See my baby) (feel like fucking you) Gonna have fun (zoom zoom zoom) Be with my girl [repeat ad lib.] -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Sorrow -------- [Chorus] With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue The only thing I ever got from you Was sorrow Sorrow [Verse 1] You acted funny trying to spend my money You're out there playing your high class games Of sorrow Sorrow You never do what you know you oughta Something tells me you're a Devil's daughter Sorrow Sorrow Ahh, ooh, ooh [Verse 2] I tried to find her 'cause I can't resist her I never knew just how much I missed her Sorrow Sorrow [Chorus] With your long blonde hair and your eyes of blue The only thing I ever got from you Was sorrow Sorrow Oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh [Bridge] With your long blonde hair I couldn't sleep last night With your long blonde hair -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Don't Bring Me Down -------- [Verse 1] I'm on my own, nowhere to roam I tell you, baby, don't want no home I wander 'round, feet off the ground I even go from town to town I said I think this rock is grand Say I'll be your man [Chorus] Don't bring me down, don't bring me down [Chorus] I met this chick the other day And then to me, she said she'll stay I get this pad, just like a cave And then we'll have our live-in maid And then I'll lead her on the ground My head is spinning round [Chorus] Don't bring me down, don't bring me down [Verse 3] I, I, I, I, I need a lover who's someone new And then to her, I will be true I'll buy her furs and pretty things I will even buy a wedding ring But until then I'll settle down Say I'll be your man [Chorus] Don't bring me down, don't bring me down [Outro] But until then I'll settle down Say I'll be your man Don't bring me down, don't bring me down Don't bring me down -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Shapes of Things -------- [Verse 1] Shapes of things before my eyes Just teach me to despise Will time make man more wise Here within my lonely frame My eyes just hurt my brain But will it seem the same [Chorus] (Come tomorrow), will I be older (Come tomorrow), maybe a soldier (Come tomorrow), may I be bolder than today [Verse 2] Now the trees are almost green But will they still be seen When time and tide have been Boy into your passing hands Please do not destroy these lands Do not make them desert sands [Chorus] (Come tomorrow), will I be older (Come tomorrow), maybe a soldier (Come tomorrow), may I be bolder than today Soon I hope that I will find A seed within my mind That will not disgrace my kind -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere -------- [Verse 1] I can go anyway (way I choose) I can live anyhow (win or lose) I can go anywhere (for something new) [Chorus] Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose [Verse 2] I can do anything (right or wrong) I can talk anyhow (and get along) I don't care anyway (I never lose) [Chorus] Anyway, anyhow, anywhere I choose [Bridge] Nothing gets in my way, not even locked doors Don't follow the lines that been laid before I get along anyway I care Anyway, anyhow, anywhere [Verse 3] I can go anyway (way I choose) I can live anyhow (win or lose) I can go anywhere (for something new) [Chorus] Anyway, anyway, anywhere I choose [Outro] Anyway Anyway I choose! I wanna go Do it myself, do it myself Do it myself, do it myself Anyway Anyway I choose! -------- 1973 Pin Ups -------- -------- Where Have All the Good Times Gone -------- [Verse 1] In my life I have never stopped To worry about a thing Opened up and shouted out And never tried to see Wondering if I would done wrong Will this depression last for long [Chorus] Will you you tell me Where have all the good times gone[x3] [Verse 2] Once we had an easy ride And always felt the same Time was on our side And I had everything to gain Let it be like yesterday Please let me have happy days Ma and Pa looked back on all the things they used to do Did not have no money and they always told the truth Daddy did not have no toys And Mummy did not need no boys [Chorus] Yesterday was such an easy game for you to play But let us face it things are so much easier today Guess you need some bringing down Get your feet back on the ground -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Future Legend -------- And in the death As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare The shutters lifted an inch in temperance building, high on Poacher's Hill And red mutant eyes gazed down on Hunger City No more big wheels Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald Any day now, the year of the Diamond Dogs "This ain't rock and roll! This is genocide!" -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Diamond Dogs -------- [Spoken Intro] This ain't rock 'n' roll, this is genocide! [Verse 1] As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent You asked for the latest party With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump Dressed like a priest you was Tod Browning's Freak you was Crawling down the alley on your hands and knee I'm sure you're not protected, for it's plain to see The Diamond Dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal [Chorus] (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come on to me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs [Verse 2] The Halloween Jack is a real cool cat And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase The elevator's broke, so he slides down a rope Onto the street below, oh Tarzan, go man go Meet his little hussy with his ghost town approach Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch Sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake Wrecked up and paralysed, Diamond Dogs are stabilised [Chorus] (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come on to me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs [Bridge] (Oo-oo-ooh) call them the Diamond Dogs (Oo-oo-ooh) call them the Diamond Dogs Oh, hoo! Ah ooh! [Verse 3] In the year of the scavenger, the season of the bitch Sashay on the boardwalk, scurry to the ditch Just another future song, lonely little kitsch (There's gonna be sorrow) try and wake up tomorrow [Chorus] (Will they come?) I'll keep a friend serene (Will they come?) Oh baby, come on to me (Will they come?) Well, she's come, been and gone Come out of the garden, baby You'll catch your death in the fog Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs Young girl, they call them the Diamond Dogs [Outro] Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Oo-oo-ooh, call them the Diamond Dogs Bow-wow, woof woof, bow-wow, wow Call them the Diamond Dogs Dogs! Call them the Diamond Dogs, call them, they call them Call them the Diamond Dogs, call them, call them, ooh hoo! Call them the Diamond Dogs Keep cool, Diamond Dogs rule, OK Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! (Beware of the Diamond Dogs) (Beware of the Diamond Dogs) (Beware of the Diamond Dogs) (Beware of the Diamond Dogs) -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Sweet Thing -------- [Verse 1] It's safe in the city To love in a doorway To wrangle some screams from the dawn And isn't it me Putting pain in a stranger? Like a portrait in flesh, who trails on a leash Will you see that I'm scared and I'm lonely? So I'll break up my room, and yawn and I Run to the centre of things Where the knowing one says: [Chorus] "Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing If you want it, boys, get it here, thing For hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing" [Verse 2] I'm glad that you're older than me Makes me feel important and free Does that make you smile, isn't that me? I'm in your way, and I'll steal every moment If this trade is a curse, then I'll bless you And turn to the crossroads of Hamburgers, and [Chorus] "Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing Boys, Boys, it's a sweet thing, sweet thing If you want it, boys, get it here, thing For hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing" -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Candidate -------- I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake My set is amazing, it even smells like a street There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend Someone scrawled on the walls "I smell the blood of Les Tricoteuses" Who wrote up scandals in other bars I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people Spreading rumours and lies and stories they made up Some make you sing and some make you scream One makes you wish that you'd never been seen But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mch Making bullet-proof faces; Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay If you want it, boys, get it here, thing So you scream out of line: "I want you! I need you! Anyone out there? Any time?" Tres butch little number whines "Hey dirty, I want you When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces" If you want it, boys, get it here, thing Well, on the street where you live I could not hold up my head For I gave all I have in another bed On another floor, in the back of a car In the cellar of a church with the door ajar Well, I guess we must be looking for a different kind But we can't stop trying 'til we break up our minds 'Til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knights Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright I guess we could cruise down one more time With you by my side, it should be fine We'll buy some drugs and watch a band Then jump in the river holding hands -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Sweet Thing (Reprise) -------- If you want it, boys, get it here, thing For hope, boys, is a cheap thing, cheap thing Is it nice in your snow storm, freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same? Then let it be, it's all I ever wanted It's a street with a deal and a taste It's got claws, it's got me, it's got you -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Rebel Rebel -------- [Intro] Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo [Verse 1] You've got your mother in a whirl She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey babe, your hair's alright Hey babe, let's go out tonight You like me and I like it all We like dancing and we look divine You love bands when they're playing hard You want more and you want it fast [Pre-Chorus] They put you down, they say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on [Chorus] Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so {Bridge} Don't ya? Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo [Verse 2] You've got your mother in a whirl 'Cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl Hey babe, your hair's alright Hey babe, let's stay out tonight You like me and I like it all We like dancing and we look divine You love bands when they're playing hard You want more and you want it fast [Pre-Chorus] They put you down, they say I'm wrong You tacky thing, you put them on [Chorus] Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so [Bridge] Don't ya? Ooh! Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo Doo doo doo-doo doo doo-doo doo [Chorus] Rebel Rebel, you've torn your dress Rebel Rebel, your face is a mess Rebel Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so (don't ya?) [Bridge] [Outro] You've torn your dress, your face is a mess You can't get enough, but enough ain't the test You've got your transmission and your live wire You got your cue line and a handful of ludes You wanna be there when they count up the dudes And I love your dress You're a juvenile success Because your face is a mess So how could they know? I said, how could they know? So what you wanna know? Calamity's child, chi-chi, chi-chi Where'd you wanna go? What can I do for you? Looks like you've been there too 'Cause you've torn your dress And your face is a mess Ooh, your face is a mess Ooh, ooh, so how could they know? Ah, ah, how could they know? Ah, ah -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Rock 'n' Roll with Me -------- [Verse 1] You always were the one that knew They sold us for the likes of you I always wanted new surroundings A room to rent while the lizards lay crying in the heat Trying to remember who to meet [Pre-Chorus] I would take a foxy kind of stand While tens of thousands found me in demand [Chorus] When you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather be Nobody here can do it for me I'm in tears again When you rock and roll with me [Verse 2] Gentle hearts are counted down The queue is out of sight and out of sounds Me, I'm out of breath, but not quite doubting I've found a door which lets me out! [Chorus] When you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather be Nobody down here can do it for me I'm in tears again When you rock and roll with me [Chorus] Oh, when you rock and roll with me There's no one else I'd rather be Nobody down here can do it for me When you rock and roll with me [Outro] When you rock and roll, when you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather, I'd rather be Nobody here can do it for me I'm in tears, I'm in tears When you rock and roll with me -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- We Are the Dead -------- Something kind of hit me today I looked at you and wondered if you saw things my way People will hold us to blame It hit me today, it hit me today We're taking it hard all the time Why don't we pass it by? Just reply, you've changed your mind We're fighting with the eyes of the blind Taking it hard, taking it hard Yet now We feel that we are paper, choking on you nightly They tell me: son, we want you, be elusive, but don't walk far For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin For you're dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy You're just an ally of the leecher Locator for the virgin King, but I love you in your fuck-me pumps And your nimble dress that trails Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said We are the dead One thing kind of touched me today I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid Pressing our love through the night Knowing it's right, knowing it's right Now I'm hoping some one will care Living on the breath of a hope to be shared Trusting on the sons of our love That someone will care, someone will care But now We're today's scrambled creatures Locked in tomorrow's double feature Heaven's on the pillow, its silence competes with hell It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell And the streets are full of pressmen Bent on getting hung and buried And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round Baby Bankrupt Who sucks you while you're sleeping It's the theatre of financiers Count them, fifteen 'round a table White and dressed to kill Oh, caress yourself, my juicy For my hands have all but withered Oh, dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs Because of all we've seen, because of all we've said We are the dead We are the dead We are the dead -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- 1984 -------- [Verse 1] Someday they won't let you, now you must agree The times they are a-telling and the changing isn't free You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV Beware the savage jaw of 1984 [Verse 2] They'll split your pretty cranium, and fill it full of air And tell that you're eighty, but brother, you won't care You'll be shooting up on anything, tomorrow's neverthere Beware the savage jaw of 1984 [Chorus] Come see, come see, remember me? We played out an all night movie role You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled In 1984 (who could ask for more) 1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore) (Mor-or-or-or-ore) [Verse 3] I'm looking for a vehicle, I'm looking for a ride I'm looking for a party, I'm looking for a side I'm looking for the treason that I knew in '65 Beware the savage jaw of 1984 [Chorus] Come see, come see, remember me? We played out an all night movie role You said it would last, but I guess we enrolled In 1984 (who could ask for more) 1984 (who could ask for mor-or-or-or-ore) (Mor-or-or-or-ore) [Outro] 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 1984 -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Big Brother -------- [Verse 1] Don't talk of dust and roses Or should we powder our noses? Don't live for last year's capers Give me steel, give me steel, give me pulsars unreal He'll build a glass asylum With just a hint of mayhem He'll build a better whirlpool We'll be living from sin Then we can really begin [Bridge] Please saviour, saviour, show us Hear me, I'm graphically yours [Chorus] Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you We want you Big Brother, Big Brother [Verse 2] I know you think you're awful square But you made everyone and you've been every where Lord I think youd overdose if you knew whats going down [Chorus] Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you Someone to claim us, someone to follow Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo Someone to fool us, someone like you [Outro] We want you Big Brother -------- 1974 Diamond Dogs -------- -------- Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family -------- Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Brother Ooh-ooh Shake it up, shake it up Move it up, move it up Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Young Americans -------- [Verse 1] They pulled in just behind the bridge He lays her down, he frowns "Gee, my life's a funny thing Am I still too young?" He kissed her then and there She took his ring, took his babies It took him minutes, took her nowhere Heaven knows, she'd have taken anything, but [Chorus] (All night) She wants the young American (Young American, young American) (She wants the young American) (All right) She wants the young American [Verse 2] Scanning life through the picture window She finds the slinky vagabond He coughs as he passes her Ford Mustang But Heaven forbid, she'll take anything But the freak, and his type, all for nothing He misses a step and cuts his hand, but Showing nothing, he swoops like a song She cries "Where have all Papa's heroes gone?" [Chorus] (All night) She wants the young American (Young American, young American) (She wants the young American) (All right) She wants the young American [Bridge] All the way from Washington Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor "We live for just these twenty years Do we have to die for the fifty more?" [Chorus] All night He wants the young American (Young American, young American) (He wants the young American) (All right) All right He wants the young American [Verse 3] Do you remember, your President Nixon? Do you remember, the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday? Have you been the un-American? Just you and your idol sing falsetto 'bout Leather, leather everywhere And not a myth left from the ghetto Well, well, well, would you carry a razor In case, just in case of depression? Sit on your hands on a bus of survivors Blushing at all the Afro-Sheeners Ain't that close to love? Well, ain't that poster love? Well, it ain't that Barbie doll Her heart's been broken just like you and [Chorus] (All night) All night, you want the young American (Young American) young American (You want the young American) All right All right You want the young American [Verse 4] You ain't a pimp and you ain't a hustler A pimp's got a Cadi and a lady got a Chrysler Black's got respect, and white's got his soul train Mama's got cramps, and look at your hands ache (I heard the news today, oh boy) I got a suite and you got defeat Ain't there a man who can say no more? And ain't there a woman I can sock on the jaw? And, ain't there a child I can hold without judging? Ain't there a pen that will write before they die? Ain't you proud that you've still got faces? Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry? [Chorus] All night I want the young American (Young American) young American (I want the young American) All right I want the young American, young American [Outro] (Young American, young American) (I want the young American) (All night) You want I, I want you (Young American, young American) (I want the young American) (All right) All I want is the young American (Young American, young American) (I want the young American) (All night) -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Win -------- [Intro] (Hey, it ain't over) [Verse 1] Me, I hope that I'm crazy I feel you driving and you're only the wheel Slow down, let someone love you Ooh, I've never touched you since I started to feel If there's nothing to hide me Then you've never seen me hanging naked and wired [Pre-Chorus] Somebody lied, I say it's hip To be alive [Chorus] Now your smile is spreading thin Seems you're trying not to lose Since I'm not supposed to grin All you've got to do is win (Ooh, that's all you've got to do) (Ooh, it ain't over) [Verse 2] Me, I'm fresh on your pages Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud Life lies dumb on its heroes Wear your wound with honor, make someone proud [Pre-Chorus] Someone like you should not be allowed To start any fires [Chorus] Now your smile is spreading thin Seems you're trying not to lose Since I'm not supposed to grin All you've got to do is win (Ooh, that's all you've got to do) (Ooh) It ain't over [Chorus] Now your smile is spreading thin Seems you're trying not to lose Since I'm not supposed to grin All you've got to do is win (Ooh, that's all you've got to do) (Ooh) All you got to do is win (it ain't over, no) [Outro] And your smile is spreading thin (Ooh, seek and believe in you) It seems you're trying not to lose (Ooh, it ain't over, no, no) Since I'm not supposed to grin (Ooh, that's all you got to do) All you've got to do is win (Ooh, it ain't over, no) (Ooh, seek and believe in you) All you've got to do is win (Ooh, it ain't over, no, no) Woo-hoo! (Ooh) All you've got (that's all you've got to do) Is all you've got (Ooh, it ain't over) It ain't over -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Fascination -------- [Intro] I've got to use her [Verse 1] Every time I feel fascination I just can't stand still, I've got to use her Every time I think of what she put me through, dear Fascination moves, sweeping near me Still, I take ya [Chorus] (Fascination) fascination (Sure enough) fascination (Takes a part of me) takes a part of me (Can a heartbeat) can a heartbeat (Live in the fever) live in the fever (Raging inside of me?) (Fascination) fascination (Oh, yeah) oh, yeah (Takes a part of me) takes a part of me (I can't help it) I can't help it (I've got to use her) I've got to use her (Every time) fascination comes around Ooh (Fascination) [Verse 2] Your soul is calling like when I'm walking Seems that everywhere I turn I hope you're waiting for me I know that people think that I'm a little crazy Ooh, but pleasure seeks this thing, I think I like fascination Still, I take ya [Chorus] (Fascination) fascination (Sure enough) fascination (Takes a part of me) takes a part of me (Can a heartbeat) can my heartbeat (Live in the fever) live in the fever (Raging inside of me?) raging inside of me? (Fascination) fascination (Oh, yeah) oh, yeah (Takes a part of me) come on, come on, come on, come on (I can't help it) I can't help it (I've got to use her) I've got to (Every time) every time Fascination comes around [Chorus] (Fascination) sure enough (Sure enough) takes a part of me (Takes a part of me) can a heartbeat (Can a heartbeat) live in the fever (Live in the fever) raging (Raging inside of me?) fascination (Fascination) fascination (Oh, yeah) fascination (Takes a part of me) fascinate, ah, oh babe (I can't help it) fascination (I've got to use her) I've got to use her (Every time) Every time Fascination comes around [Outro] (Fascination) (Fascination) fascination (Sure enough) (Fascination) takes a part of me (Yeah, yeah) can a heartbeat (Fascination) live in the fever (Yeah, yeah) raging inside of me? (Fascination) fascination (Yeah, yeah) oh, yeah (Fascination) fascination (Yeah, yeah) oh, yeah (Fascination) oh, yeah (Yeah, yeah) oh, yeah (Fascination) takes a part of me (Yeah, yeah) I cannot help it (Fascination) I can't help it (Yeah, yeah) I've got to use her (Fascination) every time (Yeah, yeah) fascination (Fascination) (Yeah, yeah) fascination (Fascination) Fascination Takes a part of me Can a heartbeat live in the fever raging inside of me? Fascination takes a part of me I can't help it, got to use her Every time, every time Every time fascination comes around -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Right -------- [Chorus 1] Taking it all the right way Keeping it in the back Taking it all the right way Never no turning back Never need, no, never no turning back [Chorus 2] Flying in just a sweet place Coming inside and safe Flying in just a sweet place Never been known to fail, never been, no Never been known to fail [Verse 1] (Wishing) wishing you (Wishing) wishing that sometimes (sometimes) Doing it, doing it right Till (doing it) one time (one time) Gets you when you're down (nobody, nobody, do it again, get off) Ah, sometimes, doing Wishing sometimes (give it back) Up there, up there (giving it) Oh, my darling (No) Ah, my darling, (giving it) ah (up there) why? (Gimme, gimme) up there! (yeah) gimme, doing Taking with me (sometimes) Loving it, doing it (right) until (take it) one time Gimme (doing it) Giving it (giving it back) [Chorus 1] (Taking it all the right way) taking it (Keeping it in the back) hey, hey (Taking it all the right way) (Never no turning back, never need, no) (Never no turning back) [Chorus 1] Taking it all the right way Keeping it in the back Taking it all the right way Never no turning back, never need, no Never no turning back [Chorus 1] Taking it (Taking it all the right way) (Keeping it in the back) Taking it (Taking it all the right way) (Never no turning back, never need, no) (Never no turning back) [Chorus 2] Flying in just a sweet place Coming inside and safe Flying in just a sweet place Never been known to fail, never been, no Never been known to fail [Chorus 1] (Taking it all the right way) Taking it all the right way (Keeping it in the back) Keeping it in the back (Taking it all the right way) Taking it all the right way (Never no turning back, never need, no) Never (Never no turning back, never need, no) (Never no turning back, never need, no) [Outro] (Never need, no) (Never no turning back, never need, no) (Never no turning back, never need, no) (Never, never, never) (Never, never, never) (Never, never, never, never, never need, no) (Never, never) (Never, never, never) (Never no turning back, never, never, no) (Never no turning back, no, no, no) (Never no turning back, never, never, never) (Never no turning back, no, no) (A-never, a-never, a-never, a-never) (A-never, a-never, a-never, a-never) (A-never no turning back, never need, no) (Never need, no) (Never no turning back, never, never, never, never) (Never no turning back, never need, no) -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Somebody Up There Likes Me -------- [Verse 1] He's everybody's token, on everybody's wall Blessing all the papers, thanking one and all Hugging all the babies, kissing all the ladies Knowing all that you think about from writing on the wall [Pre-Chorus] He's so divine, his soul shines Breaks the night, sleep tight His ever loving face smiles on the whole human race He says "I'm somebody" [Chorus 1] He's got his eye on your soul, his hand on your heart He says "don't hurry, baby Somebody up there (somebody) likes me" [Verse 2] He's the savage son of the TV tube, planets wrote the day was due All the wisest men around, predicted that a man was found Who looked a lot like you and me, yeah Everyone with sense could see Nothing left his eye unmoved, he had the plan, he had to use [Pre-Chorus] (Somebody) he's so divine, (ooh, ooh) his soul shines Breaks the night, sleep tight (somebody up there) (Somebody) his ever loving face (ooh, ooh) Smiles on the whole human race (Somebody, somebody, somebody up there) [Chorus] (Somebody) he's got his eye on your soul (Ooh, ooh) and his hand on your heart He says "don't hurry, baby Somebody up there (somebody) [Bridge] Somebody plays my song in tune Makes me, makes me, makes me stronger for you, babe Was a way when we were young, that Any man was judged by what he'd done But now you've pick them on the screen (what they look like) Where they've been [Chorus] Keep your eye on your soul and your hand on your heart He says "don't hurry, baby Somebody up there (somebody) [Verse 3] Leaders come, they hate all the people know That given time, the leaders go Tell me, can they hold you under their spell? Can they walk and hold you as well as a Smile like Valentino? Could he sell you anything? (Somebody, somebody) [Chorus] Keep your eye on your soul, keep your hand on your heart He says "Don't hurry, baby Somebody up there (somebody) likes me" [Outro] (Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody) (Somebody, somebody, somebody, somebody) Somebody (somebody) somebody (somebody) Somebody (somebody, somebody) Somebody (somebody) somebody (somebody) Somebody (somebody, somebody) Yeah, can't remember (somebody) peace so well Oh, space to ramble, (somebody, somebody) space to boogie Soul shine (ooh-ooh), so divine Somebody (ooh-ooh, somebody) Soul shine (Ooh-ooh), so divine Somebody (ooh-ooh) (Somebody) Somebody, somebody, somebody Yeah, can't remember peace so well Can't remember peace so well Can't remember peace so well Soul shines (somebody) Soul shines, so divine, somebody (somebody) Soul shines, so divine, somebody (somebody) -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Can You Hear Me -------- [Verse 1] Once we were lovers Can they understand? Closer than others I was your I was your man Don't talk of heartaches Ooh, I remember them all When I'm checking you out one day To see if I'm faking it all [Chorus] Can you hear me? Can you feel me inside? Show your love, love Take it in right (take it in right) Take it in right (take it in right) [Verse 2] There's been many others (Oo-oo-oo-ooh) so many times Sixty new cities, and what do I What do I find? I want love so badly I want you most of all You know, it's harder to take it from anyone It's harder to fall Can you hear me call ya? [Chorus] Well, can you (hear me?) Can you (feel me inside?) Show your (love, love) Take it in right (take it in right) Take it in right (take it in right) [Chorus] Well, can you hear me? (yeah) Can you feel me inside? (I do) Show your love (love, love) Show me your sweet, sweet love, show me your love Take it in right (take it in right) Take it in right (take it in right) Take it in right To your love life, baby [Outro] Take it in right to your love life Take it in right, take it in right Right to your love life Take it in right, ah (Why don't you take it?) take it in, take it in right (Why don't you take it?) Right down, right down (Why don't you take it?) mmm, why don't you take it? (Right to your heart) can you hear me? (Why don't you take it?) can you feel me? (Why don't you take it?) can you take it in right? (Why don't you take it?) ooh, right down, right down (Right to your heart) can you take it? Feel me? (Why don't you take it?) down, to right down (Why don't you take it?) to your heart (Why don't you take it?) to your heart (Right to your heart) take it down, take it down (Why don't you take it?) (Why don't you take it?) take it in right (Right to your heart) -------- 1975 Young Americans -------- -------- Fame -------- [Verse 1] Fame, (fame) makes a man take things over Fame, (fame) lets him loose, hard to swallow Fame, (fame) puts you there where things are hollow Fame (fame) [Chorus 1] Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame That burns your change to keep you in... sane (sane) Fame (fame) [Verse 2] Fame, (fame) what you like is in the limo Fame, (fame) what you get is no tomorrow Fame, (fame) what you need you have to borrow Fame (fame) [Chorus 2] Fame, "Nein! It's mine!" is just his line To bind your time, it drives you to... crime Fame (fame) [Bridge] Could it be the best, could it be? Really be, really, babe? Could it be, my babe, could it, babe? Could it, babe? Could it, babe? [Verse 3] Is it any wonder I reject you first? Fame, (fame) fame, fame, fame (fame) Is it any wonder you are too cool to fool Fame (fame) [Chorus 3] Fame, bully for you, chilly for me Got to get a rain check on... pain (pain) (Fame) [Outro] Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame Fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame, fame Fame What's your name? (Feeling so gay, feeling gay) -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- Station to Station -------- [Intro] [Chorus 1] The return of the Thin White Duke Throwing darts in lovers' eyes [Verse 1] Here are we, one magical moment Such is the stuff, from where dreams are woven Bending sound, dredging the ocean Lost in my circle Here am I, flashing no color Tall in this room overlooking the ocean Here are we, one magical movement From Kether to Malkuth There are you, drive like a demon From station to station [Chorus 1] The return of the Thin White Duke Throwing darts in lovers' eyes The return of the Thin White Duke Throwing darts in lovers' eyes The return of the Thin White Duke Making sure white stains [Verse 2] Once there were mountains on mountains And once there were sun birds to soar with And once I could never be down Got to keep searching and searching And oh, what will I be believing And who will connect me with love? Wonder who, wonder who, wonder when Have you sought fortune, evasive and shy? Drink to the men who protect you and I Drink, drink, drain your glass, raise your glass high [Verse 3] It's not the side-effects of the cocaine I'm thinking that it must be love [Chorus 2] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is near [Verse 4] I must be only one in a million I won't let the day pass without her [Chorus 2] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is here [Verse 5] Should I believe that I've been stricken? Does my face show some kind of glow? [Chorus 2] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is here, yes it's here It's too late, It's too late It's too late, It's too late It's too late The European canon is near [Interlude] [Verse 3] It's not the side-effects of the cocaine I'm thinking that it must be love [Chorus] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is here [Verse 4] I must be only one in a million I won't let the day pass without her [Chorus] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is here, yes it's here [Verse 5] Should I believe that I've been stricken? Does my face show some kind of glow? [Chorus] It's too late to be grateful It's too late to be late again It's too late to be hateful The European canon is here, yes it's here It's too late, It's too late It's too late, It's too late It's too late The European canon is here -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- Golden Years -------- [Refrain] Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop [Verse 1] Don't let me hear you say Life's taking you nowhere, angel (Come get up, my baby) Look at that sky, life's begun Nights are warm and the days are young (Come get up, my baby) [Chorus 1] There's my baby, lost that's all Once I'm begging you save her little soul Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Come get up, my baby [Verse 2] Last night they loved you Opening doors and pulling some strings, angel (Come get up, my baby) In walked luck and you looked in time Never look back, walk tall, act fine (Come get up, my baby) [Chorus 2] I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years Golden years Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Come get up, my baby [Verse 3] Some of these days, and it won't be long Gonna drive back down where you once belonged In the back of a dream car twenty foot long (Come get up, my baby) Don't cry my sweet, don't break my heart Doing all right, but you gotta get smart Wish upon, wish upon, day upon day I believe, oh Lord, I believe all the way (Come get up, my baby) Run for the shadows, run for the shadows Run for the shadows in these golden years [Chorus 1] There's my baby, lost that's all Once I'm begging you save her little soul Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Come get up, my baby [Bridge] Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel (Come get up, my baby) Run for the shadows, run for the shadows Run for the shadows in these golden years [Chorus 2] I'll stick with you baby for a thousand years Nothing's gonna touch you in these golden years Golden years Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop Golden years, gold, whop, whop, whop -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- Word on a Wing -------- [Verse 1] In this age of grand delusion You walked into my life out of my dreams I don't need another change Still you forced a way into my scheme of things You say we're growing Growing heart and soul In this age of grand delusion You walked into my life out of my dreams Sweet name, you're born once again for me Sweet name, you're born once again for me Oh sweet name, I call you again You're born once again for me Just because I believe don't mean I don't think as well Don't have to question everything in Heaven or Hell [Chorus] Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing And I'm trying hard to fit among your scheme of things It's safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself And I don't stand in my own light Lord, Lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing My prayer flies like a word on a wing Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things? [Verse 2] In this age of grand delusion You walked into my life out of my dreams Sweet name, you're born once again for me Just as long as I can see I'll never stop this vision flowing I look twice and you're still glowing Just as long as I can walk I'll walk beside you, I'm alive in you Sweet name, you're born once again for me And I'm ready to shape the scheme of things [Bridge] Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things Ooh, ready to shape the scheme of things Ooh... [Chorus] Lord, I kneel and offer you my word on a wing And I'm trying hard to fit among your scheme of things It's safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself And I don't stand in my own light Oh Lord, Lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing And I'm trying hard to fit among your scheme of things But it's safer than a strange land, but I still care for myself And I don't stand in my own light Lord, Lord, my prayer flies like a word on a wing My prayer flies like a word on a wing Does my prayer fit in with your scheme of things? -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- TVC 15 -------- [Intro] Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh [Verse 1] Up every evening 'bout half eight or nine I give my complete attention to a very good friend of mine He's quadraphonic, he's a, he's got more channels, a [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Verse 2] I brought my baby home, she, she sat around forlorn She saw my TVC 15, baby's gone, she She crawled right in, my, my, she crawled right in my [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 Oh, so demonic, oh, my TVC 15 [Verse 3] Maybe if I pray every each night I sit there pleading "Send back my dream test baby, she's my main feature" My TVC 15, yeah, he just stares back unblinking [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Verse 4] One of these nights I may just jump down that rainbow way Be with my baby, then we'll spend some time together [Refrain] So hologramic oh my TVC 15 [Verse 5] My baby's in there someplace, love's rating in the sky [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Pre-Chorus] Transition Transmission Transition Transmission [Chorus] Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 [Verse 3] Maybe if I pray every, each night I sit there pleading "Send back my dream test baby, she's my main feature" My TVC 15, yeah, he just stares back unblinking [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Verse 4] One of these nights I may just, jump down that rainbow way Be with my baby, then we'll spend some time together [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Verse 5] My baby's in there someplace Love's rating in the sky [Refrain] So hologramic, oh, my TVC 15 [Bridge] Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh [Pre-Chorus] Transition Transmission Transition Transmission [Chorus] Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 Oh, my TVC 15 Uh oh, TVC 15 -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- Stay -------- [Verse 1] This week dragged past me so slowly The days fell on their knees Maybe I'll take something to help me Hope someone takes after me I guess there's always some change in the weather This time I know we could get it together If I did casually mention tonight That would be crazy tonight [Chorus] Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too [Verse 2] Heart wrecker, heart wrecker, make me delight Life is so vague when it brings someone new This time tomorrow I'll know what to do I know it's happened to you [Chorus] Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too [Chorus] Stay - that's what I meant to say Or do something, but what I never say is Stay this time, I really meant to so bad this time 'Cause you can never really tell When somebody wants something you want too -------- 1976 Station to Station -------- -------- Wild Is the Wind -------- [Verse 1] Love me, love me, love me, love me, say you do Let me fly away with you For my love is like the wind And wild is the wind, wild is the wind [Verse 2] Give me more than one caress Satisfy this hungriness Let the wind blow through your heart For wild is the wind, wild is the wind [Chorus] You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins You kiss me With your kiss my life begins You're spring to me, all things to me [Verse 3] Don't you know you're life itself Like the leaf clings to the tree Oh, my darling, cling to me For we're like creatures of the wind And wild is the wind, wild is the wind [Chorus] You touch me I hear the sound of mandolins You kiss me With your kiss my life begins You're spring to me, all things to me [Verse 3] Don't you know you're life itself Like the leaf clings to the tree Oh, my darling, cling to me For we're like creatures in the wind And wild is the wind, wild is the wind [Outro] Wild is the wind, wild is the wind Wild is the wind -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Beauty and the Beast -------- [Verse 1] Weaving down a byroad Singing the song That's my kind of highroad Gone wrong [Chorus] My-my, smile at least You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast [Verse 2] Something in the night Something in the day Nothing is wrong but darling Something's in the way There's slaughter in the air Protest on the wind Someone else inside me Someone could get skinned, how? [Chorus] My-my, someone fetch a priest You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast, darling [Instrumental] [Chorus] My-my You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast My-my You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast [Bridge] I wanted to believe me I wanted to be good I wanted no distractions Like every good boy should, my-my [Verse 3] Nothing will corrupt us Nothing will compete Thank God heaven left us Standing on our feet [Chorus] My-my, Beauty and the Beast, my-my Just Beauty and the Beast You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast, darling My-my, my-my -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Joe the Lion -------- [Chorus] Joe the lion went to the bar A couple of drinks on the house an' he said "Tell you who you are if you nail me to my car" [Verse 1] Boy, thanks for hesitating This is the kiss off Boy, thanks for hesitating You'll never know the real story Just a couple of dreams You get up and sleep You can buy God It's Monday Slither down the greasy pipe So far so good no one saw you Hobble over any freeway You will be like your dreams tonight You get up and sleep You get up and sleep Joe the lion Made of iron [Chorus] Joe the lion went to the bar A couple of drinks on the house an' he was a fortune teller He said, "nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are" Joe the lion, yeah, yeah Went to the bar, yeah, yeah A couple of dreams and he was a fortune teller He said, "nail me to my car, tell you who you are" [Verse 2] You get up and sleep The wind blows on your cheek The day laughs in your face I guess you'll buy a gun You'll buy it secondhand And you'll get up and sleep [Outro] Joe the lion Made of iron Joe the lion, made of iron Joe the lion Made of iron Joe the lion Made of iron -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- "Heroes" -------- [Chorus] I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can beat them, just for one day We can be heroes, just for one day [Verse 1] And you, you can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact Yes, we're lovers, and that is that [Refrain] Though nothing will keep us together We could steal time, just for one day We can be heroes, forever and ever What d'you say? [Verse 2] I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim [Refrain] Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, forever and ever Oh, we can be heroes, just for one day [Chorus] I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though nothing will drive them away We can be heroes, just for one day We can be us, just for one day [Verse 3] I, I can remember (I remember) Standing, by the wall (By the wall) And the guns shot above our heads (Over our heads) And we kissed, as though nothing could fall (Nothing could fall) [Refrain] And the shame was on the other side Oh, we can beat them, forever and ever Then we could be heroes, just for one day We can be heroes We can be heroes We can be heroes, just for one day We can be heroes [Outro] We're nothing, and nothing will help us Maybe we're lying, then you better not stay But we could be safer, just for one day Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, just for one day -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Sons of the Silent Age -------- [Verse 1] Sons of the silent age Stand on platforms blank looks and notebooks Sit in the back rows of city limits Lay in bed coming and going on easy terms Sons of the silent age Pace their rooms like a cell's dimension Rise for a year or two then make war Search through their one inch thoughts Then decide it couldn't be done [Chorus] Baby, I'll never let you go All I see is all I know Let's take another way down (Sons of sound, and sons of sound) Baby, baby, I'll never let you down I can't stand another sound Let's find another way in (Sons of sound, and sons of sound) [Verse 2] Sons of the silent age Listen to tracks by Sam Therapy and King Dice Sons of the silent age They pick up in bars and cry only once Sons of the silent age Make love only once but dream and dream They don't walk, they just glide in and out of life They never die, they just go to sleep one day [Chorus] Baby, I will never let you go All I see is all I know Let's take another way down (Sons of sound, and sons of sound) Baby, baby, baby, I won't ever let you down I can't stand another sound Let's find another way in (Sons of sound, and sons of sound) [Outro] (Sons of sound, and sons of sound) Baby, baby, baby Find another way -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Blackout -------- [Verse 1] Oh you, you walk on past Your lips cut a smile on your face (Your scalding face) To the cage, to the cage She was a beauty in a cage It's too, too high a price To drink rotting wine from your hands (Your fearful hands) [Verse 2] Get me to the doctor's, I've been told Someone's back in town, the chips are down I just cut and blackout I'm under Japanese influence and my honours at stake The weather's grim, ice on the cages Me, I'm Robin Hood, and I puff on my cigarette Panthers are steaming, stalking, screaming [Verse 3] If you don't stay tonight I will take that plane tonight I've nothing to lose, nothing to gain I'll kiss you in the rain, kiss you in the rain (Kiss you in the rain) Kiss you in the rain (Kiss you in the rain) In the rain (In the rain) [Bridge] Get me to the doctor [Outro] Get me off the streets (Get some protection) Get me on my feet (Get some direction) Hot air gets me into a blackout Oh, get me off the streets Get some protection Oh get me on my feet (wo-ooh!) While the streets block off Getting some skin exposure to the blackout (Get some protection) Get me on my feet (Get some direction, wo-ooh!) Oh get me on my feet Get me off the streets (Get some protection) -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- V-2 Schneider -------- [Refrain] V-2 Schneider V-2 Schneider -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Sense of Doubt -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Moss Garden -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- Neukln -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Heroes -------- -------- The Secret Life of Arabia -------- [Chorus] The secret life of Arabia Secret secrets, never seen Secret secrets, evergreen [Verse 1] I was running at the speed of life Through morning's thoughts and fantasies Then I saw your eyes at the cross fades [Chorus] Secret secrets, never seen Secret secrets, evergreen The secret life of Arabia Never here, never seen Secret life, evergreen The secret life of Arabia [Verse 2] You must see the movie, the sand in my eyes I walk through a desert song when the heroine dies [Chorus] Arabia Secret, secret Arabia Secret, secret Arabia Secret, secret The secret life of Arabia Never here, never seen Secret life, evergreen -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Speed of Life -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Breaking Glass -------- [Verse 1] Baby, I've been Breaking glass in your room again Listen [Verse 2] Don't look at the carpet I drew something awful on it See [Verse 3] You're such a wonderful person But you got problems oh-oh-oh-oh I'll never touch you -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- What in the World -------- [Verse 1] You're just a little girl with grey eyes Never mind, say something Wait until the crowd cries Oh, wait until the crowd cries You're just a little girl with grey eyes [Chorus] So deep in your room You never leave your room Something deep inside of me Yearning deep inside of me Talking through the gloom What in the world can you do? What in the world can you do? I'm in the mood for your love For your love For your love For your love [Verse 2] I'm just a little bit afraid of you 'Cause love won't make you cry But, wait until the crowd goes Oh, wait until the crowd goes I'm just a little bit afraid of you [Chorus] So deep in your room You never leave your room Something deep inside of me Yearning deep inside of me Is talking through the gloom What in the world can I do? What in the world can I do? I'm in the mood for your love For your love For your love [Outro] Oh, what you going to say? Oh, what you going to do? Ah, what you going to be? To the real me To the real me -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Sound and Vision -------- [Chorus] Don't you wonder sometimes 'Bout sound and vision? [Verse] Blue, blue, electric blue That's the colour of my room Where I will live Blue, blue Pale blinds drawn all day Nothing to read, nothing to say Blue, blue I will sit right down Waiting for the gift of sound and vision And I will sing Waiting for the gift of sound and vision Drifting into my solitude Over my head [Chorus] Don't you wonder sometimes 'Bout sound and vision? -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Always Crashing in the Same Car -------- [Verse 1] Every chance, every chance that I take I take it on the road Those kilometers and the red lights I was always looking left and right [Chorus] Oh, but I'm always crashing in the same car [Verse 2] Jasmine, I saw you peeping As I pushed my foot down to the floor I was going round and round the hotel garage Must have been touching close to 94 [Chorus] Oh, but I'm always crashing in the same car Yeah, yeah -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Be My Wife -------- [Verse] Sometimes you get so lonely Sometimes you get nowhere I've lived all over the world I've left every place [Chorus] Please be mine Share my life Stay with me Be my wife [Verse] Sometimes you get so lonely Sometimes you get nowhere I've lived all over the world I've left every place [Chorus] Please be mine Share my life Stay with me Be my wife [Outro] Sometimes you get so lonely -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- A New Career in a New Town -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Warszawa -------- Sula vie dilejo Sula vie milejo Cheli venco deho Cheli venco deho Malio Helibo seyoman Cheli venco raero Malio Malio -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Art Decade -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Weeping Wall -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1977 Low -------- -------- Subterraneans -------- [Verse] Share bride failing star Care-line, care-line Care-line, care-line riding me Shirley, Shirley, Shirley, own Share bride failing star -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Fantastic Voyage -------- [Verse 1] In the event that this fantastic voyage Should turn to erosion And we never get old [Bridge 1] Remember it's true Dignity is valuable But our lives are valuable too [Chorus] We're learning to live with somebody's depression And I don't want to live with somebody's depression We'll get by, I suppose [Post-Chorus 1] It's a very modern world But nobody's perfect It's a moving world But that's no reason To shoot some of those missiles Think of us as fatherless scum It won't be forgotten 'Cause we'll never say anything nice again Will we? [Verse 2] And the wrong words make you listen In this criminal world [Bridge 2] Remember it's true Loyalty is valuable But our lives are valuable too [Chorus] We're learning to live with somebody's depression And I don't want to live with somebody's depression We'll get by, I suppose [Post-Chorus 2] But any sudden movement I've got to write it down They wipe out an entire race and I've got to write it down But I'm still getting educated But I've got to write it down And it won't be forgotten 'Cause I'll never say anything nice again How can I? -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- African Night Flight -------- [Verse 1] African nightmare one-time Mormon More men fall in Hullabaloo men I slide to the nearest bar Undermine chairman, I went too far Bent on a windfall, rent a Sony Wonder how the dollar went down Got to get a word to Elizabeth's father Hey ho, he wished me well Seemed like another day I could fly Into the eye of God on high [Chorus] His burning eye will see me through One of these days, one of these days Got to get a word through one of these days His burning eye will see me through One of these days, one of these days Got to get a word through one of these days [Cricket Menace] [Refrain] Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na [Verse 2] Getting in mood for a Mombasa night flight Pushing my luck, going to fly like a mad thing Bare strip takeoff, skimming over Rhino Born in slumber, less than peace Struggle with a child, whose screaming, dreaming Drowned by the props all steely sunshine Sick of you, sick of me Lust for the free life, quashed and maimed Like a valuable loved one left unnamed Seemed like another day I could fly Into the eye of God on high Seemed like another day I could fly Into the eye of God on high Over the bush land, over the trees Wise like orangutan, that was me [Chorus] His burning eye will see me through One of these days, one of these days Got to get a word through one of these days His burning eye will see me through One of these days, one of these days Got to get a word through one of these days [Refrain] Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na Asante habari habari ha Asante nabana nabana na -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Move On -------- [Verse 1] Sometimes I feel the need to move on So I pack a bag and move on Move on Well, I might take a train or sail at dawn Might take a girl when I move on When I move on [Verse 2] Somewhere, someone is calling me When the chips are down I am just a travelling man Maybe it is just a trick of the mind But somewhere there is a morning sky Bluer than her eyes Somewhere there's an ocean Innocent and wild [Verse 3] Africa is sleepy people Russia has its horsemen Spent some nights in old Kyoto Sleeping on the matted ground Cyprus is my island When the going's rough I would love to find you Somewhere in a place like that [Bridge] Mahi-ya, mahi-yo, mahi-ya, mahi-yo Mahi-ya, mahi-yo, mahi-ya, mahi-yo [Verse 4] Somewhere, someone's calling me When the chips are down I stumble like a blind man I can't forget you, can't forget you Feeling like a shadow Drifting like a leaf I stumble like a blind man I can't forget you, can't forget you [Outro] I can't forget you, can't forget you -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Red Sails -------- [Verse 1] I feel a little roughed up, feel a bit frightened Nearly pin it down some time Red sail action, wake up in the wrong town Boy, I really get around [Refrain] Thunder ocean, thunder ocean Red sails take me, make me sail along Red sails, and a mast so tall Red sails, red sails [Verse 2] Do you remember, we another person Green and black and red and so scared Graffiti on the wall keep us all in tune Bringing us all back home [Refrain] Red sails, thunder ocean Red sails, sailor can't dance like you Red sail, red sail action Red sail, some reaction [Verse 3] Action boy seen living under neon Struggle with a foreign tongue Red sails make him strong Action make him sail along [Outro] Life stands still and stares The hinterland, the hinterland We're going to sail to the hinterland And it's far far, far far far, far far far away Its a far far, far far far, fa da, da da da 1, 2, 3, 4 Oooooooh -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- DJ -------- [Verse 1] I am home, lost my job And incurably ill You think this is easy, realism I've got a girl out there, I suppose I think she's dancing Feel like Dan Dare lies down I think she's dancing, what do I know? [Chorus] I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around, no, can't turn around, no, oh ooh I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around, no, turn around no, oh no I am a D.J., I am what I play I've got believers Believing in me [Verse 2] One more weekend Of lights and evening faces Fast food, living nostalgia Humble pie or bitter fruit [Chorus] I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around, no, can't turn around, no, oh, ooh I am a D.J., I am what I say Can't turn around, no, can't turn around, ooh I am a D.J., I am what I play I've got believers Believing me [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around, no, can't turn around I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around, no, can't turn around I am a D.J., I am what I play Can't turn around no (kiss-kiss) [Verse 3] Time flies when you're having fun Break his heart, break her heart He used to be my boss and now he is a puppet dancer I am a D.J., and I've got believers [Outro] I've got believers, I've got believers I've got believers in me (I've got believers) I am a D.J., I am what I play, I am a D.J -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Look Back in Anger -------- [Verse 1] "You know who I am," he said The speaker was an angel He coughed and shook his crumpled wings Closed his eyes and moved his lips "It's time we should be going" [Chorus] (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) Look back in anger, driven by the night Til you come (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) Look back in anger, see it in my eyes Til you come [Verse 2] No one seemed to hear him So he leafed through a magazine And, yawning, rubbed the sleep away Very sane he seemed to me [Chorus] (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) Look back in anger, driven by the night Til you come (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) Look back in anger, feel it in my voice Til you come [Outro] (Waiting so long, ahhh...) (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) (Waiting so long, I've been waiting so, waiting so) (Waiting so long) -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Boys Keep Swinging -------- [Verse 1] Heaven loves ya The clouds part for ya Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy Clothes always fit ya Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy [Pre-Chorus 1] When you're a boy, you can wear a uniform When you're a boy, other boys check you out You get a girl, these are your favorite things When you're a boy [Chorus] Boys Boys Boys keep swinging Boys always work it out [Verse 2] Uncage the colors, unfurl the flag Luck just kissed you hello When you're a boy They'll never clone you, you are always first on the line When you're a boy [Pre-Chorus 2] When you're a boy, you can buy a home of your own When you're a boy, learn to drive and everything You'll get your share When you're a boy [Chorus] Boys Boys Boys keep swinging Boys always work it out -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Repetition -------- [Verse 1] Johnny is a man and he's bigger than you But his overheads are high And he looks straight through you When you ask him how the kids are He'll get home around seven 'Cause the Chevys real old And he could have had a Cadillac If the school had taught him right [Chorus] And he could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse He could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse [Verse 2] And the food is on the table but the food is cold (Don't hit her) Can't you even cook? What's the good of me working when you can't damn cook? Well, Johnny is a man and he's bigger than her I guess the bruises won't show If she wears long sleeves But the space in her eyes shows through [Chorus] And he could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse He could have married Anne with the blue silk blouse [Outro] It shows through It shows through It shows through -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Red Money -------- [Verse 1] Oh, can you feel it in the way That a man is not a man? Can you see it in the sky That the landscape is too high? Like a nervous disease (And it's been there all along) It will tumble from the sky (And it's been there all along) [Chorus] Project cancelled Tumbling central Red money Can you hear it fall? Can you hear it well? Can you hear it at all? [Verse 2] I was really feeling good Reet Petite and how'd you do Then I got the small red box And I didn't know what to do 'Cause my fingers could not grope And I could not give it away And I knew I must not drop it, stop it, take it away [Chorus] Project cancelled Tumbling central Red money Can you hear it fall? Can you hear it well? Can you hear it at all? Project cancelled Tumbling central Red money Can you hear it fall? Can you hear it well? Can you hear it at all? Can you hear it at all? Can you hear it at all? [Outro] Red money Red money Red money Red money Such responsibility It's up to you and me -------- 1979 Lodger -------- -------- Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live) -------- [Chorus] (Yassassin) I'm not a moody guy (Yassassin) I walk without a sound (Yassassin) Just a working man, no judge of men (Yassassin) But such a life I've never known [Verse 1] We came from the farmlands To live in this city We walked proud and lustful In this resonant world [Bridge] You want to fight But I don't want to leave Or drift away [Chorus] (Yassassin) I'm not a moody guy (Yassassin) I walk without a sound (Yassassin) Just a working man, no judge of men (Yassassin) But such a life I've never known [Verse 2] Look at this, no second glances Look at this, no value of love Look at this, just sun and steel Look at this, then look at us If there's someone in charge Then listen to me Don't say nothing is wrong 'Cause I have got a love and she is-a feared [Bridge] You want to fight But I don't want to leave Or drift away [Chorus] (Yassassin) I'm not a moody guy (Yassassin) I walk without a sound (Yassassin) Just a working man, no judge of men (Yassassin) But such a life I've never known (Yassassin) I'm not a moody guy (Yassassin) I walk without a sound (Yassassin) Just a working man, no judge of men (Yassassin) But such a life I've never known Yassassin, Yassassin, Yassassin -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- It's No Game (Part 1) -------- [Intro] "1-2, 1-2-2" Shiruetto ya kage ga kakumei o miteiru Mo tengoku no giyu no kaidan wa nai [Verse 1] Silhouettes and shadows Watch the revolution No more free steps to heaven! [Chorus] It's no game Ore genjitsu kara shime dasare Nani ga okkote irunoka wakara nai Doko ni kyokun wa arunoka hitobito wa yubi o orareteiru Konna dokusaisha ni iyashime rareru nowa kanashii [Verse 2] I am bored from the event I really don't understand the situation! [Chorus] And it's no game [Bridge] Documentaries on refugees Couples 'gainst the target You throw a rock against the road And it breaks into pieces Draw the blinds on yesterday And it's all so much scarier Put a bullet in my brain And it makes all the papers Nammin no kiroku eiga Hyoteki o se ni shita koibito tachi Michi ni ishi o nage reba kona gona ni kudake Kino ni huta o sureba kyohu wa masu Ore no atama ni tama o buchi kome ba Shinbun wa kaki tateru [Verse 3] So where's the moral When people have their fingers broken? To be insulted by these fascists It's so degrading [Chorus] And it's no game [Outro] Shut up! Shut u... -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Up the Hill Backwards -------- [Verse 1] The vacuum created by the arrival of freedom And the possibilities it seems to offer [Chorus] It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it [Verse 2] A series of shocks - sneakers fall apart Earth keeps on rolling, witnesses falling [Chorus 1] It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it [Chorus 2] Yeah, yeah, yeah, up the hill backwards It'll be alright, ooh-ooh [Verse 3] While we sleep, they go to work We're legally crippled, it's the death of love [Chorus] It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it It's got nothing to do with you, if one can grasp it [Bridge] More idols than realities, ooh-ooh I'm OK, you're so-so, ooh-ooh [Chorus 2] Yeah, yeah, yeah, up the hill backwards It'll be alright, ooh-ooh [Instrumental Outro] -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) -------- [Verse 1] She had an horror of rooms, she was tired, you can't hide beat When I looked in her eyes, they were blue but nobody home Well, she could've been a killer if she didn't walk the way she do And she do She opened strange doors that we'd never close again [Pre-Chorus] She began to wail jealousy's scream Waiting at the lights, know what I mean [Chorus] Scary monsters, super creeps Keep me running, running scared Scary monsters, super creeps Keep me running, running scared [Verse 2] She asked me to stay and I stole her room She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind Now she's stupid in the street and she can't socialise Well, I love the little girl and I'll love her till the day she dies [Pre-Chorus] She wails Jimmy's guitar sound, jealousy's scream Waiting at the lights, know what I mean [Chorus] Scary monsters, super creeps Keep me running, running scared Scary monsters and super creeps Keep me running, running scared [Chorus] Scary monsters and super creeps Keep me running, running scared Scary monsters and super creeps Keep me running, running scared -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Ashes to Ashes -------- [Verse 1] Do you remember a guy that's been In such an early song? I've heard a rumour from Ground Control Oh no, don't say it's true They got a message from the Action Man "I'm happy, hope you're happy too I've loved all I've needed to love Sordid details following" The shrieking of nothing is killing Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair But I'm hoping to kick but this planet is glowing [Chorus] Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junky Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low [Verse 2] Time and again I tell myself I'll stay clean tonight But the little green wheels are following me Oh no, not again I'm stuck with a valuable friend "I'm happy, hope you're happy too" One flash of light, but no smoking pistol I've never done good things I've never done bad things I never did anything out of the blue, whoa whoa Want an axe to break the ice Wanna come down right now [Chorus] Ashes to ashes, funk to funky We know Major Tom's a junkie Strung out in heaven's high Hitting an all-time low [Outro] My mama said to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom My mama said to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom My mama said to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom My mama said to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Fashion -------- [Verse 1] There's a brand new dance but I don't know its name That people from bad homes do again and again It's big and it's bland, full of tension and fear They do it over there but we don't do it here [Pre-Chorus] Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Turn to the right Ooh, fashion! We are the goon squad and we're coming to town Beep-beep Beep-beep [Chorus] Listen to me - don't listen to me Talk to me - don't talk to me Dance with me - don't dance with me, no Beep-beep [Verse 2] There's a brand new talk but it's not very clear That people from good homes are talking this year It's loud and tasteless and I've heard it before You shout it while you're dancing on the dance floor Oh bop, fashion [Pre-Chorus] Fashion! Turn to the left Fashion! Right Fashion! We are the goon squad And we're coming to town Beep-beep Beep-beep [Chorus] Listen to me - don't listen to me Talk to me - don't talk to me Dance with me - don't dance with me, no Beep-beep Beep-beep [Outro] Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion La-la la la la la la-la Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion La-la la la la la la-la Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion La-la la la la la la-la Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion La-la la la la la la-la -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Teenage Wildlife -------- [Verse 1] Well, how come you only want tomorrow? With its promise of something hard to do A real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold Blue skies above and sun on your arms Strength in your stride and hope in those squeaky clean eyes You'll get chilly receptions everywhere you go Blinded with desire - I guess the season is on [Verse 2] So you train by shadow boxing, search for the truth But it's all, but it's all used up Break open your million dollar weapon And you push your luck, still you push, still you push your luck A broken nosed mogul, are you one of the New Wave boys? [Verse 3] Same old thing in brand new drag Comes sweeping into view, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh As ugly as a teenage millionaire Pretending it's a whizz kid world You'll take me aside, and say "Well, David, what shall I do? They wait for me in the hallway" I'll say "Don't ask me, I don't know any hallways" But they move in numbers and they've got me in a corner I feel like a group of one, no-no They can't do this to me [Chorus] I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife [Bridge] Those midwives to history put on their bloody robes And the word is that the hunted one is out there on his own And you're alone for maybe the last time And you breathe for a long time Then you howl like a wolf in a trap And you daren't look behind [Verse 4] You fall to the ground like a leaf from the tree And look up one time at that vast blue sky Scream out aloud as they shoot you down No, no [Chorus] I'm not some piece of teenage wildlife I'm not a piece of teenage wildlife [Verse 5] And no one will have seen and no one will confess The fingerprints will prove that you couldn't pass the test There'll be others on the line filing past Who'll whisper low I miss you he really had to go Well, each to his own, he was another piece of teenage wildlife Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh Another piece of teenage wildlife, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh Another piece of teenage wild... life [Outro] Wild... Wild... life -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Scream Like a Baby -------- [Verse 1] Well, I wouldn't buy no merchandise And I wouldn't go to war And I mixed with other colours But the nurse doesn't care And I hide under blankets Or did I run away I really can't remember Last time I saw the light of day But I remember Sam 'Cause he was like me [Chorus] Scream like a baby Sam was a gun And I never knew his last name And we never had no fun [Verse 2] Well, they came down hard on the faggots And they came down hard on the street They came down harder on Sam And they all knew he was beat He was thrown into the wagon Blindfolded, chains and they stomped on us And took away our clothes and things And pumped us full of strange drugs And, oh, I saw Sam falling Spitting in their eyes But now I lay me down to sleep And now I close my eyes Now I'm learning to be a part of societ... societ... s... [Chorus] Scream like a baby Sam was a gun And I never knew his last name And we never had no fun [Bridge] No athletic program No discipline, no book He just sat in the backseat Swearing he'd seek revenge But he jumped into the furnace Singing old songs we loved [Chorus] Scream like a baby Sam was a gun And I never knew his last name And we never had no fun [Outro] Scream like a baby Sam was a gun And I never knew his last name And we never had no fun -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Kingdom Come -------- [Verse 1] Well, I walked in the pouring rain And I heard a voice that cries "It's all in vain" The voice of doom was shining in my room I just need one day somewhere far away Oh Lord, I just need one day [Chorus] Well, I've been breaking these rocks And cutting this hay Yes, I've been breaking these rocks What's my price to pay? [Verse 2] Well, the river's so muddy, but it may come clear And I know too well what's keeping me here I'm just a slave of a burning ray Oh, give me the night, I can't take another sight Please, please give me the night [Chorus] Been breaking these rocks And cutting this hay Yes, I've been breaking these rocks What's my price to pay? [Bridge] Sun keeps beating down on me, wall's a mile high Up in the tower they're watching me, hoping I'm going to die [Chorus] (I won't be breaking no rocks) I won't be breaking no rocks (I won't be breaking no rocks) I said I won't be breaking no rocks (I won't be breaking no rocks) Oh-oh-oh Who will pardon me? (I won't be breaking no rocks) (I won't be breaking no rocks) (I won't be breaking no rocks) [Outro] When the kingdom comes (When the kingdom comes) (When the kingdom comes) When the kingdom comes (When the kingdom comes) (When the kingdom comes) When the kingdom comes (When the kingdom comes) (When the kingdom comes) When the kingdom comes -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- Because You're Young -------- [Verse 1] Psychodelicate girl - come out to play Little metal faced-boy Don't stay away They're so war-torn and resigned She can't talk anymore What are they trying to prove? What would they like to find? [Pre-Chorus] It's love back to front and no sides (like I say) These pieces are broken (like I say) These pieces are broken (hope I'm wrong but I know) [Chorus] Because you're young You'll meet a stranger some night Because you're young What could be nicer for you And it makes me sad So I'll dance my life away A million dreams, a million scars [Verse 2] He punishes hard Was loving her such a crime? She took back everything she said Left him nearly out of his mind They're people I know - people I love They seem so unhappy - dead or alive [Pre-Chorus] It's love back to front and no sides (like I say) These pieces are broken (like I say) These pieces are broken (hope I'm wrong but I know) [Chorus] Because you're young You'll meet a stranger some night Because you're young What could be nicer for you And it'll make me sad So I'll dance my life away A million dreams, a million scars [Outro] A million dreams A million scars A million -------- 1980 Scary Monsters and Super Creeps -------- -------- It's No Game (Part 2) -------- [Verse 1] Silhouettes and shadows Watch the revolution No more free steps to heaven Just walkie-talkie Heaven or hearth Just big heads and drums Full speed and pagan [Chorus] And it's no game [Verse 2] I am barred From the event I really don't understand the situation So where's the moral? People have their fingers broken To be insulted by these fascists it's so degrading [Chorus] And it's no game [Bridge] Documentaries on refugees Couples 'gainst the target Throw a rock against the road And it breaks into pieces Draw the blinds on yesterday And it's all so much scarier Put a bullet in my brain And it makes all the papers [Chorus] And it's no game [Verse 3] Children round the world Put camel shit on the walls They're making carpets on treadmills Or garbage sorting [Chorus] And it's no game -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Modern Love -------- [Intro] I know when to go out And when to stay in Get things done [Verse 1] I catch the paper boy But things don't really change I'm standing in the wind But I never wave bye-bye But I try I try [Verse 2] There's no sign of life It's just the power to charm I'm lying in the rain But I never wave bye-bye But I try I try [Chorus] Never going to fall for (Modern Love) walks beside me (Modern Love) walks on by (Modern Love) gets me to the church on time (Church on Time) terrifies me (Church on Time) makes me party (Church on Time) puts my trust in God and Man (God and Man) no confessions (God and Man) no religion (God and Man) don't believe in Modern Love [Verse 3] It's not really work It's just the power to charm I'm still standing in the wind But I never wave bye bye But I try I try [Chorus] Never going to fall for (Modern Love) walks beside me (Modern Love) walks on by (Modern Love) gets me to the church on time (Church on Time) terrifies me (Church on Time) makes me party (Church on Time) puts my trust in God and Man (God and Man) no confessions (God and Man) no religion (God and Man) don't believe in Modern Love [Chorus] (Modern Love) walks beside me (Modern Love) walks on by (Modern Love) gets me to the church on time (Church on time) terrifies me (Church on time) makes me party (Church on time) puts my trust in God and Man (God and Man) no confessions (God and Man) no religion (God and Man) don't believe in Modern Love [Outro] Modern love, modern love, modern love, modern love Modern love, modern love, modern love, modern love Modern love, modern love, modern love, modern love (Modern love, modern love, modern love, modern love) Modern love, walks beside me (modern love) Modern love, walks on by (modern love) Modern love, walks beside me (modern love) Modern love, walks on by (modern love) Never gonna fall for (Modern love, modern love, modern love, modern love) -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- China Girl -------- [Intro] Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl [Verse 1] I could escape this feeling with my China Girl I feel a wreck without my little China Girl I hear her heart beating loud as thunder Saw the stars crashing [Verse 2] I'm a mess without my little China Girl Wake up in the morning, where's my little China Girl? I hear hearts beating loud as thunder I saw the stars crashing down [Chorus 1] I'm feeling tragic like I'm Marlon Brando When I look at my China Girl I could pretend that nothing really meant too much When I look at my China Girl [Verse 3] I stumble into town just like a sacred cow Visions of swastikas in my head, plans for everyone It's in the white of my eyes [Bridge] My little china girl You shouldn't mess with me I'll ruin everything you are You know, I'll give you television I'll give you eyes of blue I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world [Chorus 2] And when I get excited My little China Girl says Oh baby, just you shut your mouth She says... shh She says... shh She says... [Chorus 2] And when I get excited My little China Girl says Oh baby, just you shut your mouth And when I get excited My little China Girl says Oh baby, just you shut your mouth She says... shh She says... [Outro] Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl Oh-oh-oh-oh, little China Girl -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Let's Dance -------- [Intro] Ah, ah, ah, ah [Refrain] (Let's dance) (Let's dance) [Verse 1] (Let's dance) put on your red shoes and dance the blues (Let's dance) to the song they're playing on the radio (Let's sway) while colour lights up your face (Let's sway) sway through the crowd to an empty space [Chorus] If you say run, I'll run with you And if you say hide, we'll hide Because my love for you would break my heart in two If you should fall, into my arms and tremble like a flower [Refrain] (Let's dance) (Let's dance) [Verse 2] (Let's dance) for fear your grace should fall (Let's dance) for fear tonight is all (Let's sway) you could look into my eyes (Let's sway) under the moonlight, this serious moonlight [Chorus] And if you say run, I'll run with you And if you say hide, we'll hide Because my love for you would break my heart in two If you should fall, into my arms and tremble like a flower [Refrain] (Let's dance) (Let's dance) [Verse 3] (Let's dance) put on your red shoes and dance the blues (Let's dance) to the song we're playing (Let's sway) (Let's sway) under the moonlight, this serious moonlight [Outro] (Let's dance) (Let's...) (Let's...) (Let's...) (Let's sway) (Let's...) Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance (Let's dance) Let's sway Let's sway Let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance, let's dance (Let's dance) (Let's dance) (Let's dance) (Let's dance) -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Without You -------- [Verse 1] Just when I'm ready to throw in my hand Just when the best things in life are gone I look into your eyes [Chorus] There's no smoke without fire You're exactly who I want to be with Without you What would I do? [Verse 2] And when I'm willing to call it a day Just when I won't take another chance I hold your hand [Chorus] There's no smoke without fire Woman, I love you Without you What would I do? -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Ricochet -------- [Verse 1] Like weeds on a rockface waiting for the scythe Ricochet - ricochet The world is on a corner waiting for jobs Ricochet - ricochet Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall "And who can bear to be forgotten" "And who can bear to be forgotten" [Chorus] March of flowers, march of dimes These are the prisons, these are the crimes "Men wait for news while thousands are still asleep Dreaming of tramlines, factories, pieces of machinery Mine shafts things like that." March of flowers, march of dimes These are the prisons, these are the crimes Sound of thunder, sound of gold Sound of the devil breaking parole Ricochet - it's not the end of the world [Verse 2] Sound of thunder, sound of gold Sound of the devil breaking parole Ricochet - ricochet These are the prisons these are the crimes Teaching life in a violent new way Ricochet - ricochet Turn the holy pictures so they face the wall "And who can bear to be forgotten" "And who can bear to be forgotten" [Chorus] March of flowers, march of dimes These are the prisons, these are the crimes "Early, before the sun They struggle off to the gates In their secret fearful places they see their lives Unraveling before them" March of flowers - march of dimes These are the prisons, these are the crimes Sound of thunder, sound of gold Sound of the devil breaking parole Ricochet - it's not the end of the world [Verse 3] "That's when they get home, damp eyed and weary They smile and crush their children to their heaving chests Making unfulfillable promises For who can bear to be forgotten" -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Criminal World -------- [Verse 1] You never told me of your other faces You were the widow of a wild cat And now I know about your special kisses And I know you know where that is at I guess I recognise your destination I think I see beneath your make-up What you want is so separation This is no ordinary, this is no ordinary [Chorus] (Oh, oh, oh) What a criminal world The boys are like baby-faced girls What a criminal girl She'll show you where to shoot your gun What a typical mother's son The only thing that she enjoys Is a criminal world Where the girls are like baby-faced boys [Verse 2] You've got a very heavy reputation But no-one knows about your low-life I know a way to find a situation And hold a candle to your high-life disguise You caught me kneeling at your sister's door That was no ordinary stick-up I'm well aware just what you're looking for I am no ordinary, I am no ordinary [Chorus] (Oh, oh, oh) What a criminal world The boys are like baby-faced girls What a criminal girl She'll show you where to shoot your gun What a typical mother's son The only thing that she enjoys Is a criminal world Where the girls are like baby-faced boys Baby-faced boys Baby-faced [Outro] What a criminal world What a criminal... Criminal What a criminal world What a criminal... Criminal -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Cat People (Putting Out Fire) -------- [Verse 1] See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years Colder than the moon It's been so long [Verse 2] Feel my blood enraged It's just the fear of losing you Don't you know my name? And you've been so long [Chorus] And I've been putting out fire With gasoline [Verse 3] See these eyes so red Red like jungle burning bright Those who feel me near Pull the blinds and change their minds It's been so long [Verse 4] Still this pulsing night A plague I call a heartbeat Just be still with me You wouldn't believe what I've been through You've been so long And it's been so long [Chorus] And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline Putting out the fire With gasoline [Verse 5] See these tears so blue An ageless heart that can never mend These tears can never dry A judgement made can never bend See these eyes so green I can stare for a thousand years Just be still with me You wouldn't believe what I've been through You've been so long Well, it's been so long [Chorus] And I've been putting out the fire with gasoline Putting out fire With gasoline [Outro] (Been so long) (Been so long) and it's been so long (Been so long) I've been putting out fire (Been so long) it's been so long (Been so long) been putting out fire (Been so long) it's been so long (Been so long) putting out fire (Been so long) Been so long (so long, so long) Been so long (so long, so long) Been putting out fire (been so long, so long, so long) Been putting out fire (been so long, so long, so long) Been so long (Been so long, so long, so long) (Been so long, so long so long) Been putting out fire Been putting out fire Been so long Been so long And I've been putting out fire I've been putting out fire -------- 1983 Lets Dance -------- -------- Shake It -------- [Intro] (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) [Verse 1] I feel like a sail-boat Adrift on the sea It's a brand new day So when you gonna phone me? [Verse 2] (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) I could take you to heaven I could spin you to hell But I'll take you to New York It's the place that I know well [Verse 3] (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) Sitting on a flagstone, talking to a faceless girl (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) Been wondering what to say but my eyes do the talking so well [Pre-Chorus] Duck and I sway (what's my line?) I shoot at a full moon (what's my line?) So what's my line? [Chorus] Shake it, shake it, baby Shake it, shake it, ooh 'Cause love is the answer Love's talking to me I'd scream and I'd fight for you You're better than money [Verse 3] (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) We're the kind of people who can shake it if we're feeling blue (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) When I'm feeling disconnected, well, I sure know what to do (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) [Chorus] Shake it, shake it, baby Oh, shake it, shake it [Pre-Chorus] I duck and I sway (what's my line?) I shoot at a full moon (what's my line?) So what's my line? [Chorus] Shake it, shake it, baby Shake it, shake it (whoa!) (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) [Outro] Shake it, baby Shake it, shake it (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) Shake it, baby Shake it, shake it (Shake it, shake it, what's my line?) -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Loving the Alien -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] Watching them come and go The Templars and the Saracens They're travelling the holy land Opening telegrams Torture comes and torture goes Knights who'd give you anything They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon Salvation for the mirror blind [Pre-Chorus] But if you pray All your sins are hooked upon the sky Pray and the heathen lie will disappear [Chorus 1] Prayers they hide the saddest view (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And your prayers, they break the sky in two (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) [Interlude] [Verse 2] Thinking of a different time Palestine a modern problem Bounty and your wealth in land Terror in a best laid plan Watching them come and go Tomorrows and the yesterdays Christians and the unbelievers Hanging by the cross and nail [Pre-Chorus] But if you pray All your sins are hooked upon the sky Pray and the heathen lie will disappear [Chorus 1] Prayers they hide the saddest view (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And your prayers, they break the sky in two (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) [Chorus 2] You pray til the break of dawn (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) And youll believe youre loving the alien (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) (Believing the strangest things, loving the alien) [Outro] -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Don't Look Down -------- [Verse 1] Don't look down They're making sort of crazy sounds Don't look down, no Don't know who else came to kneel On this empty battlefield [Chorus] But when I hear that crazy sound, I don't look down From Central Park to shanty town I always hear that crazy sound From New York to shanty town There's always something else Don't look down, no [Verse 2] I went this morning to the cemetery To see old Rudy Valentino buried Lipstick traces on his name [Chorus] But when I hear that crazy sound, I don't look down From Central Park to shanty town I always hear that crazy sound From New York to shanty town There's always something else Don't look down, no [Verse 3] When I see you standing there I can't see the clothes you wear [Chorus] But when I hear that crazy sound, I don't look down From Central Park to shanty town I always hear that crazy sound From New York to shanty town There's always something else Don't look down, no [Verse 4] No I won't be bored I won't be there Look at life it's no piece of cake [Chorus] But when I hear that crazy sound, I don't look down From Central Park to shanty town I always hear that crazy sound From New York to shanty town There's always something else Don't look down, no -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- God Only Knows -------- [Verse 1] If you should ever leave me My life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would living do me [Chorus] God only knows what I'd be without you [Verse 2] I may not always love you But as long as there are Stars above you You'll never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it [Chorus] God only knows what I'd be without you -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Tonight (Ft.TinaTurner) -------- [Verse] I saw my baby She was turning blue I knew that soon Her young life was through And so I got down on my knees Down by her bed And these are the words To her I said [Chorus] Everything will be alright tonight Everyone will be alright tonight No one moves No one talks No one thinks No one walks tonight Tonight Everything will be alright tonight Everything will be alright tonight No one moves No one talks No one thinks No one walks tonight Tonight [Outro] I am going to love you until the end I will love you until I reach the end I will love you until I die I will see you in the sky Tonight -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Neighborhood Threat -------- [Verse 1] Down where your paint is cracking Look down your backstairs buddy Somebody's living there and He don't really feel the weather And he don't share your pleasures No he don't share your pleasures [Chorus] Look at his eyes Did you see his crazy eyes You're so surprised he don't run to catch your ash Everybody always wants to kiss your trash [Verse 2] You can't help him Nobody can Now that he knows There's nothing to get Will you still place your bet On the neighborhood threat Somewhere a baby's bleeding Somewhere a mother's needing Outside a boy is lying But mostly he is crying And he just shouts in anger You'll find him interesting [Chorus] Look at his eyes Did you see his crazy eyes You're so surprised he doesn't build for you Everybody always wants to run with you -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Blue Jean -------- [Verse 1] Blue Jean, I just met me a girl named Blue Jean Blue Jean, she got a camouflaged face and no money Remember they always let you down when you need 'em Oh, Blue Jean, is heaven any sweeter than Blue Jean [Pre-Chorus 1] She got a police bike She got a turned up nose [Chorus] Sometimes I feel like (Oh, the whole human race) Jazzin' for Blue Jean (Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue) Blue Jean can send me (Oh, somebody send me) Somebody send me (Oh, somebody send me) [Verse 2] One day I'm gonna write a poem in a letter One day I'm gonna get that faculty together Remember like everybody has to wait in line Oh, Blue Jean, look out world, oh you know I've got mine [Pre-Chorus 2] She got Latin roots She got everything [Chorus] Sometimes I feel like (Oh, the whole human race) Jazzin' for Blue Jean (Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue) Blue Jean can tempt me (Oh, somebody send me) Somebody sent me (Oh, somebody send me) {Hook} [Chorus] Sometimes I feel like (Oh, the whole human race) Jazzin' for Blue Jean (Oh, and when my Blue Jean's blue) Blue Jean can tempt me (Oh, somebody send me) Somebody sent me (Oh, somebody send me) Somebody, somebody (Oh, somebody send me) Somebody send me (Oh, somebody send me) -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Tumble and Twirl -------- [Verse 1] I've seen the city I took the next flight For Borneo They say it's pretty I like the tee shirts In Borneo Some wear Bob Marley Others in Playboy Or Duvalier Make the last plane come Let me rise through the cloudy above With a book on Borneo [Pre-Chorus 1] Strangers come and go It's such a waste of time Problems far behind Another day But even in springtime It's a rich slice of life So send me a letter [Chorus 1] (We'll meet in borneo) I'll reply with a broken spear (We are *unclear*) That dusky mulatto (We'll meet in borneo) In nylons and tattoos (I like the free world) Hot juice in coke bottles (We'll meet in borneo) We dance in the sand (We are *unclear*) Well, they twirl and they tumble (Tumble and twirl) Yes, they twirl and they tumble (Tumble and twirl) Well, I'll twirl and I'll tumble (Tumble and twirl) [Verse 2] I've been to Leon's He's got nine daughters And a stereo (Stereo) They say that Leon Watches from the tree tops In Borneo (Borneo) When the road is mud Everything stops with a thud That's the way it goes Way down yonder in Borneo [Pre-Chorus 2] Far beneath his mansion There's an open drain Sending all the sewage down the hill But when the general shows movies No one hesitates To sneak from the jungle [Chorus 2] (We'll meet in borneo) They laugh and they mumble (We are *unclear*) Enjoying the show (We'll meet in borneo) And that dusky mulatto (I like the free world) Hot juice in coke bottles (We'll meet in borneo) In blue jeans and tattoos (We are *unclear*) Well, they twirl and they tumble (Tumble and twirl) Yes, they twirl and they tumble (Tumble and twirl) Well, I'll twirl and I'll tumble (Tumble and twirl) [Chorus 3/Outro] I like the free world (I like the free word) They say it's pretty (tumble and twirl) This time of year (I like the free word) They tumble and twirl (tumble and twirl) I'll tumble and twirl {etc.} -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- I Keep Forgetting -------- [Chorus] I keep forgetting you don't love me no more I keep forgetting you don't want me no more I keep forgetting that you told me that you Didn't want me around any more [Verse 1] But these stupid old feet Just head for your street Like they've done so many times before And this stubborn old fist On the end of my wrist Keeps a knocking on your front door [Chorus] I keep forgetting you don't love me no more I keep forgetting you don't want me no more I keep forgetting about those heartbreaking nights And those heartbreaking things That you said [Verse 2] Though I know in my heart We're drifting apart I can't believe that our love is dead Though it's plain as can be That you're finished with me I just can't get it through my head [Chorus] I keep forgetting you don't love me no more I keep forgetting you don't want me no more [Verse 3] Though I know in my heart We're drifting apart I can't believe that our love is dead Though it's plain as can be That you're finished with me I just can't get it through my head [Chorus] I keep forgetting you don't love me no more I keep forgetting you don't want me no more I keep forgetting you don't love me no more I keep forgetting you don't want me no more -------- 1984 Tonight -------- -------- Dancing with the Big Boys -------- [Verse 1] Something's going on in society (Dancing with the big boys) You chew your fingers And stare at the floor (Dancing with the big boys) One wrong word And you're out of sync Talking 'bout a hands on policy (Big boys) [Verse 2] Death to the trees (Dancing with the big boys) They weren't bad They weren't brave Nothing is embarrassing (Dancing with the big boys) [Verse 3] There are too many people Too much belief (Dancing with the big boys) Where there's Trouble there's poetry (Dancing with the big boys) Your family is a football team (Big boys) [Verse 4] This dot marks your location (Dancing with the big boys) Loneliness in a free society (Dancing with the big boys) (Big boys) This can be embarrassing (Big boys) Dancing with the big boys (Dancing with the big boys) La-la-la, la-la-la... (Big boys) -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Day In, Day Out -------- [Chorus] (Day in) Day in (Day out) Day out (Stay in) Stay in (Fade out) Fade out (Day in) Hoo hoo (Day out) Oh hoo hoo [Verse 1] She was born in a handbag Love left On a doorstep What she lacks is a backup Nothing seems to make a dent Going to find her some money, honey Try to pay her rent That's the kind of protection everyone is shouting about (Hey, hey) [Chorus] (Day in) Day in (Day out) Day out (Stay in) Stay in (Fade out) Fade out (Day in) Hoo hoo (Day out) Oh hoo hoo [Verse 2] First thing she learns is She's a citizen Some things they turn out right When you're under the USA Someone rings a bell And it's all over She's going out of her way Stealing for that one good rush (Ah) [Chorus] (Day in) Day in (Day out) Day out (Stay in) Stay in (Fade out) Fade out (Day in) Hoo hoo (Day out) Oh hoo hoo [Verse 3] She could use a little money She's hanging on his arms Like a cheap suit She's got no money, honey She's on the other side Oh come on little baby Late night, big town Police, shake down [Chorus] Day in Day out Stay in Fade out Hoo hoo (Day in) (Day out) (Stay in) (Fade out) [Verse 4] (Day in) She's got a ticket to nowhere (Day out) She's going to take a train ride (Stay in) Nobody knows her, or knows her name (Stay out) She's in the pocket of a home boy (Stay in) Oh she's going to take her a shotgun, pow (Stay out) Spin the grail spin the drug (Stay in) She's going to make them well aware (Stay out) She's an angry girl (All over) [Chorus] (Day in) Day in (Day out) Day out (Stay in) Stay in (Fade out) (Fade out) Fade out [Outro] (Day in) And there's angels everywhere (Day out) Suddenly shooting her down (Day in) Shooting her with video, drugs, bullets, and promises (Day out) Angels in a ton of sound... And it's (Day in) Day in (Day out) Day out (Day in) You stay in, or ya... (Day out) Ya fade out, fade out (Day in) Fade out (Day out) Ha, and ya... (Day in) Fade out (Day out) Fade out, fade out (Day in) Hoo hoo (Day out) Oh hoo hoo (Day in) (Day out) (Day out) (Day in) (Day in) (Day out) (Day out) (Day in) Hoo hoo -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Time Will Crawl -------- [Intro] Time will crawl [Verse 1] I've never sailed on a sea I would not challenge a giant I could not take on the church Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose I know a government man He was as blind as the moon, and he He saw the sun in the night He took a top-gun pilot and he He made him fly through a hole 'Til he grew real old, and he And he never came down He just flew till he burst [Chorus 1] Time will crawl 'Til our mouths run dry Time will crawl 'Til our feet grow small Time will crawl 'Til our tails fall off Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose [Verse 2] I saw a black, black stream Full of white eyed fish And a drowning man With no eyes at all I felt a warm, warm breeze That melted metal and steel I got a bad migraine That lasted three long years And the pills that I took Made my fingers disappear [Chorus 2] Time will crawl Time will crawl Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose (Go!) [Interlude] Time will crawl Time will crawl [Verse 3] You were a talented child You came to live in our town We never bothered to scream When your mask went off We only smelt the gas As we lay down to sleep Time [Chorus 1] Time will crawl And our heads bowed down Time will crawl And our eyes fall out Time will crawl And the streets run red Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose [Chorus 1] Time will crawl And our mouths run dry Time will crawl And our feet grow small Time will crawl And our tails fall off Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose [Chorus 1] Time will crawl And our heads bowed down Time will crawl And our eyes fall out Time will crawl And the streets run red Time will crawl 'Til the 21st century lose [Outro] Time will crawl For the crazy child Time will crawl We'll give every life 'Til the 21st century lose For the crackpot notion -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Beat of Your Drum -------- [Verse 1] Photograph king, watches you go Now, fashions may change, heaven knows But you still leave a stain on me Only to go Colours may fade Seasons may change, weather blows, but you still leave a mark on me Wrong, negative fades, never the twain, reckless and tame [Chorus 1] I like the beat of your drum I like to look in your eyes I like to look through your things I'd like to beat on your drum I like the smell of your flesh I like the dirt that you dish I like the clothes that you wear I'd like to beat on your drum (I'd beat it; I beat it; can't beat it; I feel it) [Verse 2] Disco brat, follow the pack Watching you peel, heaven knows, prison can't hold all This greedy intention Only to go, picture you now Music may change, hi-di-ho, keen to follow your nose Wrong love out of tune Sweet is the night Bright light destroys me [Chorus 1] I like the beat of your drum I like to look in your eyes I like to look through your things I'd like to beat on your drum I like the smell of your flesh I like the dirt that you dish I like the clothes that you wear I'd like to beat on your drum (I'd beat it; I beat it; I beat it; I beat it) [Chorus 2] I'd like to beat on your drum (oh, yeah) I'd like to beat on your drum (ah) I like your face in the crowd I'd like to beat on your drum (I'd beat it; I beat it; you beat it; I beat it) [Interlude] Can't beat it Can't beat it I beat it Ah yeah [Chorus 2] I'd like to beat on your drum I'd like to beat on your drum I'd like to yell it out loud I'd like to beat on your drum (Can't beat it; can't beat it; I beat it; I beat it) [Outro] Can't beat it I beat it Beat it out loud Beat it out of the crowd Beat it Beat it Beat it Beat it -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Never Let Me Down -------- [Verse 1] When I believed in nothing I called her name Trapped in a high-dollar joint In some place I called her name And though my days were slipping by And nights so cruel I thought I'd die [Prec-Chorus] She danced her little dance 'til it made me cry She was shaking like this honey doing that [Verse 2] When I needed soul revival I called your name When I was falling to pieces I screamed in pain Your soothing hand that turned me round A love so real Swept over me [Pre-Chorus] You danced a little dance 'til it made me cry She was shaking like this honey doing that [Chorus] Never let me down She never let me down Never let me down She never let me down [Verse 3] When all your faith is failing, call my name When you've got nothing coming, call my name I'll be strong for all it takes I'll cover your head Until the bad stuff breaks [Pre-Chorus] Dance my little dance 'til it makes you smile Shaking like this honey doing that [Chorus] Never let you down I'll never let you down I'll never let you down I'll never let you down [Outro] Oh no -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Zeroes -------- [Intro] Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah [Verse 1] You've arrived in the land of a thousand different names And the fabulous sons have crashed their planes in flames Now tomorrow is back claiming redemption is on your heels And a toothless past is asking you how it feels [Pre-Chorus] And me my little red Corvette has driven by Fair weather heart has fallen in My rainy day girl is feeling down And she tells me that the world is spinning round I say the dream was all for you You're nobody else [Chorus] Tonight the Zeroes were singing for you, yeah [Verse 2] Hi, can I walk you home again today Got to get forgive and forget hey, hey Something good is happening and I don't know what it is Don't you know we're back on trial again today [Pre-Chorus] And it's breaking wine for you Hell it's only because you're true Someone out-timed my heart Stopping and preaching and letting love in You are my moon, you are my sun Heaven knows what you are [Chorus] Tonight the Zeroes were singing for you, yes they were Tonight the Zeroes were singing for you, yeah Tonight the Zeroes were singing for you [Outro] Doesn't matter what you try to do (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) Doesn't matter what you try to do (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) Doesn't matter where you try to go (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) Doesn't matter who we really are (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) Oh, It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) Oh, It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It really doesn't matter I do (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) It doesn't matter (Doesn't matter, doesn't matter) -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- The Glass Spider -------- [Intro] Up until one century ago there lived In the Zi Duang province of an eastern country A glass-like spider Having devoured its prey It would drape the skeletons over its web In weeks creating a macabre shrine of remains Its web was also unique, in that it had many layers Like floors in a building At the top of this palace-like place Assembled with almost apparent care Were tiny, shining objects Glass, beads, dewdrops One could almost call it an altar When the breeze blew through this construction It produced sounds of wailing, crying Tiny wails, tiny cries The baby spiders would get scared And search frantically for their mother But the glass spider would have long gone Having known that the babies Would survive somehow on their own Oh, the glass spider had blue eyes almost like a human's They shed tears at the wintered turn of the centuries [Verse 1] Don't you hear this wasted cry, life is over you (Mommy come back because the water's all gone) But you've seen who's in Heaven, is there anyone in Hell? Mommy come back because it's dark now (Oh-hoho-oh) (Oh-hoho-oh) [Verse 2] Take care, take care (Mommy come back because the water's all gone) Somewhere she glows divine, somewhere she wakes alone But you, you've promised in your loving eye God it's dark now (Mommy come back because it's dark now) (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) [Verse 3] Gone, Gone the water's all gone (Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone) Stay low on the ground The fire can drive you, savage and afraid Spitting the dawn, come along before the animals awake (Gone, gone, the water's all gone) (Mommy come back because it's dark now) Run, run, we've been moving all night, rivers to the left If your mama don't love ya' then the riverbed might Gone, gone, the water's all gone (Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone) (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) [Bridge] Gone gone the water's all gone Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone Gone gone the water's all gone Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone Gone gone the water's all gone Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone [Outro] Mommy come back because it's dark now (Oh-hoho-oh) (Oh-hoho-oh) Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) Mommy come back because it's dark now (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) Mommy come back because it's dark now (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Ja ja ja ja ja) (Oh-hoho-oh) (Oh-hoho-oh) -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Shining Star (Makin' My Love) -------- [Verse 1] Eddie boy lit like paraffin Spending two weeks In a crack house Burns on his brain Like Chernobyl Dean was seen With a two bag purchase He was lying dead on his mother's bed Someone to pray for Until I met you [Pre-Chorus] Life is like a broken arrow Memory a swinging door I could be your great misfortune I can make you happy Every day of your life [Chorus] Making my love Like a shining star Taking my love Just a touch too far [Verse 2] Tessie turns tricks with a soul like ice Because love left holes And four swell kids breaking her heart I've got windows, I've seen much vice I've touched down with vermin Cowardice, lice And I say Nobody cares what you do Please be yourself to death I could be your great misfortune But you'll never find a, bet you'll never find a better man [Chorus] Making my love Like a shining star Taking my love Just a touch too far [Verse 3] Peter met Frank Formed a dummy run gang Worked heist or hit for 10 g's flat Blew heads out of shape for the name of Trotsky, Sinn-Fein, Hitler cashdown No hope heroes cover the page With debts in hell And fingers in blood Poor little bodies all covered in scabs Threw it all away Another life in the grave (a life in the grave) [Pre-Chorus] Life is like a broken arrow Memory a swinging door I could be your great misfortune Well, I could make you happy Every goddamn single day of your life [Chorus] Making my love Like a shining star Like a shining star If that's what you are Like a shining star (oh) Making my love (making my love) Like a shining star (like a shining star) Taking my love (taking my love) Just a touch too far (just a touch to far) Making my love (making my making my making my love) Like a shining star (like a shining star) Taking my love (making my love) Just a touch too far (just a touch to, uh far) Making my love (making my love) Like a shining star (huh, like a shining star) Taking my love (taking my love) Just a touch too far (touch to, uh, far) Making my love (mmm) Like a shining star (mmhmm) Taking my love (mmhmm) -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- New York's in Love -------- [Intro] Here it is Hey [Verse 1] Do you see that thing (that thing) I'm sure it's love (it's love) Would you do one thing New York's in love The city grew wings In the back of the night The clouds are stuck Like candy-floss She sees the rich trash Having all the fun Makes her wonder where they get the energy from There's nothing you can do to her This city's all clean and waiting I don't mean to wait too long But this joint can't get much higher [Chorus] New York's in love With her big green eyes And her long blonde hair New York's in flames New York's in love With the way she talks (t-t-talks, t-t-talks) And the way she walks New York's in love Goo goo goo goo goo goo [Verse 2] My, oh my, it's a tom-tom beat No-one knows they've had their day We can dance and we can see the singles swing Everybody's waiting for the Go-Go Boys You're turned to stone by the family It's now the dead speak to the living Nothing left here But a raging blaze I don't mean to wait too long [Chorus] New York's in love With her big green eyes And her long blonde hair New York's in flames New York's in love With the way she talks And the way she walks (walk that walk) New York's in love Goo goo goo goo goo goo [Outro] Pretty as a picture New York, New York Ugly on each side New York's in love New York's in love New York's in flames New York's in love New York, New York -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- '87 and Cry -------- [Verse 1] It's just a one dollar secret A lover's secrets in the UK Torn apart in the UK In the dribble of May-Day '87 and Cry '87 and Cry [Pre-Chorus] And there's nothing inside And there's nothing in mind (no) And only you rocket on through the sky [Chorus] Well, it couldn't be done without dogs It couldn't be once without us '87 and Cry '87 and Cry [Verse 2] When the days were the days were the days boys When blue ties were for the biggy guys Frannie dressing down for the enemy You saw him hanging on the enemy [Pre-Chorus] And there's no one in love And there's nowhere to scream And only you race on to wonder where [Chorus] Well, it couldn't be done without dogs It couldn't be once without us '87 and Cry '87 and Cry [Bridge] You can't make love with money You can't make mistakes with babies Nothing looked good on you That's how I liked you best Now you're ready for the real McCoy [Verse 3] Deep in the heart of Cupid Murders on the heels of love Just the ghost of a story Just a one dollar secret [Pre-Chorus] Baby these were the sounds Baby these were the sounds (yeah) And only you whisper these things aren't true [Chorus] Well, it couldn't be done without dogs Well, it couldn't be once without us '87 and Cry '87 and Cry [Outro] '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry) '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry) '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry, cry, cry) '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry, cry, cry) '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry, cry, cry) '87 and Cry '87 and Cry (cry, cry, cry, cry) '87 and Cry Hey Hey '87 and Cry -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Too Dizzy -------- [Verse 1] There's too much talking for a night drive Too much mist in front of my eyes I'm trying not to lose control But you're just pushing for a fight You look trapped, turn the radio on Too much smoke, air conditioning gone [Pre-Chorus] But I'm helpless in love with you But you're just looking, looking, looking for a break [Chorus] Is it love or is it what Who's this guy I'm going to blow away (ay) What kind of love is he giving you I'mma dizzy's What I'm trying to say (I said I'm) too dizzy You can't have a lover I'm too dizzy It's me or no other I'm a bad loser I'm shaking in anger I'mma too dizzy You can't have no lover [Verse 2] Don't come any harder Don't come any closer You can go on dreaming every night But I'm not letting you out of my sight I'm ten times the man than any guy around But you're just itching, twitching, itching for a break There's too much talking for a night drive Too much mist in front of my eyes [Pre-Chorus] But I'm helpless in love with you But you're just looking, looking, looking for a break [Chorus] Is it love or is it what Who's this guy I'm going to blow away What kind of love is he giving you I'm a dizzy's What I'm trying to say Too dizzy You can't have a lover I'm too dizzy It's me or no other (Oh) I'm a bad loser I'm shaking in anger I said I'm too dizzy You can't have no lover [Outro] I said I'm too dizzy (don't come any harder) I said I'm too dizzy (don't come any closer) I said I'm too dizzy (I said I'm) too dizzy Too dizzy Too dizzy Too dizzy Too dizzy You can't have no lover (oh no) Too dizzy Too dizzy I'm too dizzy -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Bang Bang -------- [Intro] Now, this isn't the right thing to do So So, let's So, let's go [Verse 1] Young girls they know what they're after Young girls don't kiss me goodbye Rockets shooting up into space Buildings they rise to the skies [Chorus] Bang bang, I got mine Bang bang, reach for the sky [Verse 2] I keep a good friend on videotape He'll drive his sports car until it's too late But we'll have a hot time on the town tonight Because love is my bet and it's the best yet [Chorus] Bang bang, I got mine Bang bang, sun don't shine [Chorus] Bang bang, you are angels Bang bang, now, you all oughta' be in pictures [Verse 3] Oh girl Oh girl My problems can't follow me Phone calls, I take my machine I wander lonely to the sea Lonely, ha-ha-ha, what does it mean [Chorus] Bang bang, I got mine Bang bang, and you are next in line [Chorus] Bang bang, reach for the sky Bang bang, sun don't shine [Bridge] Rise buildings Rise to the sky (Well, uh,) young girls they know what they're after I said, young girls don't kiss me goodbye [Chorus] Bang bang, then you closed, then you some closed, then you closed down ([?]) Bang bang, [?] (Just come in first) [Chorus] Bang bang (If prayers had wings) Bang bang (And you were next in line) -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Girls -------- Girls They come and they go They kiss Come and they go Like breeze Brushing my cheek Like pain Like the tears on my face Girls They come and they go Like spirits They vanish at dawn My heart Suspended in time Like you Vanish like tears in the rain Girls They take their loves away Like spirits Living so far away Girls Pretending to break down and cry Girls Whispering wind What are they giving away We used to be so happy Remember, remember So happy I never knew How lonely How lonely How lonely I could feel Girls They come and they go They kiss They come and they go Like spirits Brushing my cheek Like pain Like the tears on my face Girls They take their loves away Like spirits Living so far away Girls Pretending to break down and cry Girls Whispering wind What are they giving away We used to be so happy Remember, remember So happy I never knew How lonely How lonely How lonely I could feel Girls -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- Julie -------- Julie Oh And I know Like a mirror, Sunday morning When the dark clouds hung above I saw you kneeling 'neath a garden I saw the grim and stood above What kind of meaning in a gun shot It doesn't matter what they say I never felt I aimed at no one And who's gonna take the gun away Julie Pretend for me That I'm someone in your life Julie I'm yours till the end All the days and memories I'm not a man of single reason It's in every single man This beat of jealous retribution And every spurned heart makes its plan Well, I know that you really loved him And I know that if there's a God above Through million times we'll remember How the trail slips away Julie Pretend for me Even only for a while Julie My soul is on the line All the days and memories Julie Remember me All the days of your life Julie I'm lost over you Passion always ends this way End this way -------- 1987 Never Let Me Down -------- -------- When the Wind Blows -------- So long child, I'm on my way And after all is done, after all is done Don't be down, it's all in the past Though you may be afraid So long child, it's awful dark And I've never felt the sun I dread to think of when When the wind blows When the wind blows When the wind blows When the wind blows Life burns a savage wound, angry and wrong Trusting a twisted word, you'll run, run away You'll take him home You'll spit and taunt him But they won't believe you No matter what you'll say So long child, it's awful dark I never felt the sun I dread to think of when When the wind blows When the wind blows When the wind blows When the wind blows -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Heavens in Here -------- Baby I dream between the blade and the tongue Of the rose on your cheek the wounded and dumb We stumble and fall we stumble and fall Skin on skin but there's heaven in... Heaven's in here Heaven's in here Among the twilight and stars Like a rocket to Mars Heaven in here The first and the last are telling it all Telling you loud but selling it small I'm taking a swing at this shadow of mine Crucifix hangs an' my heart's in my mouth But it's here Heaven's in here Heaven's in here Among the twilight and stars Like a rocket to mars Heaven in here Heaven in one sigh Heaven in two eyes Heaven lies between your marbled thighs The rustle of your falling gown We stumble and fall like tragedy falls We stumble and twirl there's heaven in here We stumble and fall uncertain we fall Flesh on flesh but there's heaven in... Heaven's in here Heaven's in here Heaven's in here Among the twilight and stars Like a rocket to Mars Heaven in here You'll dance to my tongue we'll dance on the sun We're the twilight and stars There's heaven in here -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Tin Machine -------- Tin machine Tin machine Take me anywhere Somewhere without alcohol Or goons with muddy hair Tin machine Tin machine Tin machine Tin machine The zombies that I pass The guy that beats his baby up The preachers and their past Tin machine Tin machine Tin machine Baby doll Baby doll Clarity and power There's more than money moving here There's mindless maggot glare Working horrors-humping Tories Spittle on their chins Carving up my children's future Read 'em pal and grin Raging raging raging Burning in my room C'mon and get a good idea C'mon and get it soon I'm waiting on the fire escape I'm not exactly well I'm neither red nor black nor white I'm grey and blown to hell Tin machine Tin machine Make some new computer thing That puts me on the moon Not this psycho-time-bomb planet Poised to meet its maker Shake a leg Tin machine Tin machine One sick deathless duty to remain endangered species They reach right out to touch someone Then wash their crusty hands Tin machine Tin machine Baby doll Baby doll Blue suede tuneless wonders Mass confusion-faithless blues Night that spews out watchmen Mopping up another fortune Fractured words and branca-sonic Anger trapped behind locked doors And right between the eyes -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Prisoner of Love -------- Don't look back Whatever it takes to save your life I've believed I belonged to you for a long time And my heart says no, no one but you Like a rescue on a darkened street Love walked into town I was a victim of my own self-persecution I'm a prisoner of love-but I'm coming up for air Now don't be fooled by fools who promise you The world and all that glitters more fool you I'm such a hungry man that I beg you over and over and over and over And I might take any highway to be there with you Even the best men shiver in their beds I'm loving you above everything I have I'm a prisoner of love-just stay square Like a sermon on a blues guitar Love walked into town I was drowning so slowly One step in front of your shadow I'm a prisoner of love but I'm coming up for air Now don't be fooled by fools who promise you The world and all that glitters more fool you I smell the sickness sown in this city It drives me to hide you, yea, even deceive you I'm so afraid for you that I'll break any thug that maps out your passage to ruin Even the best men shiver in their beds I'm loving you above everything I have I'm a prisoner of love-just stay square Take care, take care I'm a prisoner of love-just stay square Just stay square Stay out of the shooting gallery Just stay square I've seen the best minds of my generation Laid out in cemeteries and crematories Just take care Just stay square Just stay square Don't look back, beautiful soul Don't look back, beautiful soul -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Crack City -------- Oh come all you children Don't grab that scabby hand It belongs to Mr. Sniff and Tell It belongs to the candyman Don't whore your little bodies To the worms of paradise Like Everest it's fatal Its peaks are cold as ice They're riding on the subways They're riding on the streets They'll ride you down to the gutters They'll ride you off your feet Gonna hit Crack City Hit Crack City Piss on the icon monsters Whose guitars bequeath you pain They'll face you down to their level With their addictions and their fast lanes Corrupt with shaky visions And crack and coke and alcohol They're just a bunch of assholes With buttholes for their brains You can't keep on riding The pain you know so well They'll ride you down to the gutter They'll ride you down to hell Gonna hit Crack City Hit Crack City And you the master dealer May death be on your brow May razors slash your mainline I'm calling you out right now May all your vilest nightmares Consume your shrunken head May the ho-ho-hoounds of paranoia Dance upon your stinking bed Don't look at me you fuckhead This nation's turning blue Its stink it fouls the highways Its filth it sticks like glue Gonna hit Crack City Hit Crack City They'll bury you in velvet And place you underground The hatred of yourself And the sufferings that conspire To take your little body and throw it to the fools And the hounds that rip your flesh Only your mind can take you out of this Only your mind or death I'm riding on the subway The subway down to hell I've finished with this journey I seem to know it well Gonna hit Crack City Hit Crack City -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- I Can't Read -------- I can't read and I can't write down I don't know a book from countdown I don't care which shadow gets me All I've got is someone's face Money goes to money heaven Bodies go to body hell I just cough, catch the chase Switch the channel watch the police car I can't read shit anymore I just sit back and ignore I just can't get it right, can't get it right I can't read shit I can't read shit When you see a famous smile No matter where you run your mile To be right in that photograph Andy where's my fifteen minutes I can't read shit anymore I just sit back and ignore I just can't get it right, can't get it right I can't read shit I can't read shit -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Under the God -------- Skin dance back-a-the condo Skin heads getting to school Beating on Blacks with a baseball bat Racism back in rule White trash picking up Nazi flags While you was gone, there was war This is the West, get used to it They put a swastika over the door Under the God Under the God One step over the red line Under the God Under the God Ten steps into the crazy Washington heads in the toilet bowl Don't see supremacist hate Right wing dicks in their boiler suits Picking out who to annihilate Toxic jungle of Uzi trails Tribesmen just wouldn't live here Fascist flare is fashion cool Well, you're dead - you just ain't buried (yet) Under the God Under the God One step over the red line Under the God Under the God Ten steps into the crazy As the walls came tumbling down So, the secrets that we shared I believed you by the palace gates Now the savage days are here Under the gods Crazy eyed man with a shot gun Hot headed creep with a knife Love and peace and harmony Love you could cut with a life Under the God Under the God One step over the red line Under the God Under the God Ten steps into the crazy -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Amazing -------- I'm lazy You crazy girl Stay by my side I'm scared you'll Meet someone In whom you'll confide, no no no Life's still a dream Your love's amazing Since I found you My life's amazing I pledge you'll Never be blue There's too much at stake to be down My nightmare Rooted here watching you go Divine in both our lives Life's still a dream Your love's amazing, amazing Since I found you My life's a roll, go go go And it's amazing It's amazing Go, go, go It's amazing Ow Ow Ow Go, go, go Ow Ow It's amazing -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Working Class Hero -------- As soon as you're born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if your clever and they despise a fool Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be When they've tortured and scared you for 20 odd years Then they expect you to pick a career When you can't really function you're so full of fear A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be Keep you doped wit religion and sex and TV And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be There's room at the top they are telling you still But first you must learn how to smile as you kill If you want to be like the folks on the hill A working class hero is something to be If you want to be a hero just follow me If you want to be a hero well just follow me -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Bus Stop -------- There's a cry that is heard in the city Froom Vivian at Pentecost Lane A shriekin' and dancing till 4 a.m Another night of muscles and pain I love you despite your convictions That God never laughs at my jokes I'm a young man at oods with the Bible But I don't pretend faith never works When we're down on our knees Prayin' at the bus stop Now Jesus he came in a vision And offered you redemption from sin I'm not sayin' that I don't believe you But are you sure that it really was him I've been told that it couldn've been blue cheese Or the meal that we ate down the road Hallelujah I'm a young man at oods with the Bible But I don't pretend faith never works When we're down on our knees Prayin' at the bus stop -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Pretty Thing -------- Think about the good things Think about the bad things Think about a reason to see you tonight Something getting hard when you rock it up Something getting hot when you rock it up Pretty little girl let your sweet thing sway Never gonna treat you wrong Tie you down pretend you're Madonna Never gonna treat you wrong Oh you pretty thing Shake your pretty thing Gimmee that pretty thing Think about the love thing Think about the sex thing Think about you holding me, taking me down Something getting hard when you rock it up Something getting hot when you rock it up Pretty little girl let your sweet thing sway Never gonna do you wrong Strip you down and take you to pieces Always gonna love this song Oh you pretty thing Feel that pretty thing Suck that pretty thing -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Video Crime -------- Ain't got room for charity Me, I'm crawling with no cash Me, I'm looking for hot flesh This skeleton's mine Chop it up Chop it up Blood on video-video crime Video crime Needles and pins and video crime Video crime I've got dollars-I've got sense Wonder where the Third World went Ain't got time for honeymoon (chop it up) Trash Time Bundy, Death Row Chic (chop it up) Haunt this street from half past ten (chop it up) Blood on video-video crime Video crime Needles and pins and video crime Video crime Late night cannibal-cripples decay Just can't tear my eyes away Ain't got no room for charity (this skeleton's mine) Ain't got room for Hollywood (chop it up) Me, I'm crawling with no cash (chop it up) Blood on video-video crime Video crime Needles and pins and video crime Video crime I've got dollars I've got sense Wonder where the Third World went -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Run -------- Wish I were a sailor Crossing an azure sea Under leaden skies Under your eyes But I can't see too far With these animal eyes Can't hold my breath Without your voice An' I'm danger-prone I'll be bound I'll be fast as hell Without your touch An' I'll run run run run run An' I'll run run run run run Without your love I'm a goldman I'm a soaring tower And it's cold in here Without your love Trouble in here-trouble out there Mainline problems til you no longer care Get a long-low life-it's duty bound No hope-no life-no you-ah ha And I run run run Run run run Without your love I duck the shots-tilt the world I talk myself crazy-shoot the breeze Shout to live-shoot to kill Double up in pain-I'm on my knees -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Sacrifice Yourself -------- Some days he feels so empty Just a talking head Married to a Klingon Who could cream him in the press God could detonate him God's the one we pick to curse us And 35 years pass him Like an evening at the circus Don't sacrifice yourself Sacrifice yourself Surprise yourself Don't sacrifice yourself There it is, the look, the winner you Once talked of being Give her one last kiss and Dive right out the window screaming No truth decent, It was summer from the waist down She blew the troops right off your feet She tells you she's God's grammy Don't sacrifice yourself Sacrifice yourself Surprise yourself Don't sacrifice yourself Her, the only game in town, a queen of competence Blind in front of mirrors, proving nothings says a lot Wham bam thank you Charlie Vanity is all You wander lonely to the scene A crawling up the walls Don't sacrifice yourself Sacrifice yourself Surprise yourself Don't sacrifice yourself -------- 1989 Tin Machine -------- -------- Baby Can Dance -------- I'm rolling out of the ferris wheel No one looks and no one feels But the baby can The baby can The way it feels just feeling you Holding out and falling out But the baby can The baby can I'm the jumping man I'm the jumping man But baby can float Baby can drown Baby can touch her toes Toss her hair Makes you feel you're going nowhere Baby can dance Baby can dance Baby can walk around the town Attract a man and cut him down I'm the shadow man the jumping jack The man who can and don't look back But the baby can The baby can I'm rolling out of the ferris wheel No one looks and no one feels But the baby can The baby can And the way it feels I'm feeling you But baby can float Baby can drown Baby can touch her toes Toss her hair Makes you feel you're going nowhere Baby can dance Baby can dance Baby can walk around the town Attract a man and cut him down Everyday is far away Everyday, everyday It's over now It's over now I'm the jumping man I'm the jumping man But baby can float Baby can drown Baby can touch her toes Toss her hair Makes you feel you're going nowhere Baby can dance Baby can dance Baby can walk around the town Attract a man and cut him down -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Baby Universal -------- Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby (getting) Baby (care) Baby (talking) Baby (well) Baby (thinking)Baby (walk) Baby (lost) Baby (found) Baby (getting) Baby (care) Baby (talking) Baby (well) Baby (thinking)Baby (walk) Baby (lost) Baby (found) Baby (getting) Baby (care) Baby (talking) Baby (well) Baby (thinking)Baby (walk) Baby (lost) Baby (found) Now that he has no sense of destination Now he's running for the love of speed When the child goes bad it's no cause for celebration Like Jimmy Dean he don't talk back to me Failures as fathers, Mothers to chaos No baby, no baby, no baby no CHORUS Hallo humans can you feel me thinking I assume you're seeing everything I'm thinking Hallo humans nothing starts tomorrow I'm the baby now Baby (repeat to end of chorus) (getting) (care) (talking) (well) (thinking) (walk) (lost) (found) Baby Universe Baby Universe Baby Universal (Talking well) (Talking well) A speck of dust just settled in my eye It doesn't matter I've seen everything anyway Failures as fathers, Mothers to chaos No baby, no baby, no baby no CHORUS -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- One Shot -------- Ooo-oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-oo-oh Ooo-oo-oo-oh, oo-oo-ooo The last days were the meanest Leanest days of our lives You threw me the pieces I started the fire One thing led to a dead end One shot put her away, hey-hey Look out on a green world Windows and wives No bedroom to run to No miracle jive - no conversation Then nothing meant nothing Ten dollars tore us apart One thing led to a dead end One shot put her away One day nothing meant nothing Ten dollars tore us apart One thing led to a dead end One shot put her away The last days were the meanest Leanest days of our lives One thing led to a dead end One shot further away Looked out on a green world Windows and wives No bedroom to run to No miracle jive - no conversation Hot love is the dearest No money can buy She burnt like a spitfire One shot put her away One shot put her away, heh-heh One shot put her away, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Oo-oo-oo-oh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Oo-oo-oo-oh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Oo-oo-oo-oh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Oo-oo-oo-oh, uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh Oo-oo-oo-oh, uh-huh-huh One shot put her away -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- You Belong In Rock & Roll -------- Just the twinkling lights of heaven Two reflections on the sparkling water Hand in hand in love with love uh-huh I love the cheap things that you say-a-say You belong in rock 'n roll You belong in rock 'n roll You belong in rock 'n roll Well so do I I love how she moves me It makes me feel alright, alright, alright, alright I'm a hurt, I'm a hurt, I'm a hurting I'm a man with a beat in my pocket I'm going down to the rhythm of love I love the bad luck that you bring-r-ing You belong in rock 'n roll You belong in rock 'n roll You belong in rock 'n roll Well so do I Alone on a mean street It makes me feel on fire, on fire, on fire, on fire, on fire... On fire, on fire, on fire, on fire, on fire I love the cheap street in your walk, uh-huh You belong in rock 'n roll You belong in rock 'n roll Well so do I I love how she moves me It makes me feel alright, alright, alright, alright, alright... Oh-oh! -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- If There Is Something -------- If there is something That I might find Look around corners Try to find peace of mind, I say "Where would you go If you were me? Trying to keep a straight course is not easy" Somebody special Looking at me Same kind of reaction Wanted to cry with me If there are many Too easy to say When it's love It's just a game-ame-ame-ame I would do anything for you I would come all day I would swim all the oceans blue I would walk a thousand miles Reveal my secrets More than enough for me to share I will put roses around your door Sit in the garden Growing potatoes by the score Shake your head girl, with your ponytail Takes me right back (when you were young) Throw your precious gifts into the air Watch them fall down (when you were young) Your love - could feel you put them on the ground It used to fall apart (when you were young) Your love - could feel you put them on the ground The hills were higher (when you were young) Your love - could feel you put them on the ground The trees were taller then (when you were young) Your love - could feel you put them on the ground The grass was greener (when you were young) Your love - could feel you put them on the ground It use to fall apart (when you were young) -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Amlapura -------- Hey-hey it's the tall sail On a beach reach for java Make way for to Java Watching for Boogies Hey-hey it's a dreaming I would burn you if you should die Hey-hey I would burn too If you should lie upon that bamboo pyre I dream of Amlapura Never saw in all my life a more shining jewel I dream of Amlapura Of an ocean or dream of a princess in stone Hey-hey golden roses around A rajah's mouth Hey-hey all the dead children buried standing A flying Dutchman Smoking gun and spice wind I dream of Amlapura Never saw in all my life a more shining jewel I dream of Amlapura Of an ocean or dream of a princess in stone I dream of Amlapura Of a princess in stone Hey-hey it's a tall ship Hey-hey Hey-hey Amlapura -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Betty Wrong -------- Till the sun blisters and sprays And every lamb ceases to graze When the kiss of the comb Tears my face from the bone I'll be your light When the shadows fall down the walls Then life will be done And it just won't matter at all I was caught from a hand Nurtured on grime, goodwill and screams Now your breath fills my step Now there is you till life is gone I'll be your light When the shadows fall down the walls Then life will be done And it just won't matter at all I'll roll your ball Till the stars can't make me cry Then life will be done And it just won't matter at all Not at all When the kiss of the comb Tears my face -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- You Can't Talk -------- Beauty shrieks "Beast in booties" Coming home so lay the table Look at you calling shots Call you over under out I was under, backwards, forwards Holding hands in the dark Kissing some, kissing cousins Kissing this in cover Kissing cousins, kissing that Over under out Over under out Over under out You can't talk You can't see me drowning You can't talk I don't see you swimming You can't talk You want go your way You can't talk I know you don't love me Look at this heart's a poppin' Guess it's over Crazy action mine's a breakin' Guess it's over (Here we go) You can't talk You can't see me drowning You can't talk I don't see you swimming You can't talk You want go your way You can't talk I know you don't love me Oh-oh-oh Beauty shrieks 'Beast in booties' Coming home so lay the table Look at you calling shots Call you over under out I was under, backwards, forwards Holding hands in the dark Kissing some, kissing cousins Kissing this You can't talk You can't see me drowning You can't talk I don't see you swimming You can't talk You want go your way You can't talk I know you don't love me You can't talk You can't see me drowning You can't talk I don't see you swimming You can't talk You want go your way You can't talk I know you don't love me You can't talk You can't talk I know you don't love me... -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Stateside -------- I'm going home I've been gone much too long She said she missed me Since I been gone I'll be back soon Ain't no doubt 'Cause she said she wanted my loving, my loving No holding back I'm going home No holding back I'm going home I'm going stateside with my convictions No holding back I'm going home No holding back I'm going home I'm going stateside with my convictions I said I'm coming home soon I don't know when It will be sometime soon Sooner than I thought I'd be I thought I'd be I thought I'd be stateside sooner than later Marilyn inflatables home on the range Where the living is easy on a horse with no name Kennedy convertibles home on the range Where the suffering comes easy on a blonde with no brain I'm going stateside I'm going stateside I'm going home It's been so long She said she missed me And all the fun we've had I think it be the best way She said she missed me in Every, every way, so No holding back I'm going home No holding back I'm going home I'm going stateside with my convictions No holding back I'm going home No holding back I'm going home I'm going stateside with my convictions I've been gone so long I've been gone, I've been gone I'm missing you Marilyn inflatables home on the range Where the living is easy on a horse with no name Kennedy convertibles home on the range Where the suffering comes easy on a ten dollar raise I'm going stateside I'm going stateside -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Shopping for Girls -------- Between the dead ring ash of extreme defense The lonely groups of company boys Snapping pictures of scrawny limbs and toothy grins These are children riding naked on their tourist pals While the hollows that pass for eyes swell from withdrawal And he lies on a mattress in a rat infested room Talking 'bout his family and the cold back home Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable Noone over here reads the papers pal 'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls A small black someone jumps over the crazy white guard Cranking up the volume of a Michael Jackson song Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable Noone over here reads the papers pal 'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable He's a clean trick and he's shopping for girls Where the frangipani scents the air She mouths a word that breaks his stare He grunts his reply in a garrulous croak "That's a mighty big word for a nine year old" Between the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable Noone over here reads the papers pal 'Tween the dull cold eyes and the mind unstable He's a squeaky clean trick and he's shopping for girls Shopping for girls, shopping for girls You gaze down into her eyes for a million miles You wanna give her a name and a clean rag doll -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- A Big Hurt -------- To meet her once just to know it through and through I know, I know But it ain't finished till the fat lady sings I know, I know How can I help you? You're just a wanna-be I'm a believer You're a sex receiver And me with a big hurt You know I had a big hurt From the very start I'm hurting so bad 'Cause you're my room-mate from hell Got to take some blows on the stepping stones Speak in extremes It'll save you time You were a saint abroad But a devil at home Come on here, woo-woo And kiss it for me To meet her once just to know it through and through I know, I know Even a glass eye in a duck's ass can see that I know, I know How can I help you? I'm hit with a big hurt You know I had A great big hurt From the very start I'm hurting so bad And here come the indians oooo Got to take some blows on the stepping stones Speak in extremes It'll save you time You were a saint abroad But a devil at home Come on here, woo-woo And kiss it for me Kiss it for me, woo-woo Kiss it for me Woo-woo, kiss it for me Come on here, woo-woo Kiss it for me Kiss it where it counts Kiss it for me Come on here, woo-woo Woo-woo, woo-woo, woo-woo, woo-woo Kiss it for me I know -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Sorry -------- Time is tight love always gets in the way I'm sorry Didn't mean to hurt you but I always do I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry You know I am Well my eyes are pinned and my money's spent I'm sorry You know I'm sorry I wouldn't do for me what I would for for you Would you forgive me I'm sorry I'm so sorry I guess I've thrown it away I've thrown it away Didn't mean to do it that way I'm sorry Time is so tight And I mean it if I say I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sor-rrr-ry You know I am -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Goodbye Mr. Ed -------- The ghost of Manhattoes Shrieking as they fall From AT&T Someone sees it all Goodbye Mr. Ed Andy's skull enshrined In a shopping mall near Queens Someone sees it all Icarus takes his pratfall Bruegel on his head Goodbye Mr. Ed Four and twenty black kids Some of them are blind Someone sees it all Tolerance of violence By the fellows with no heads Goodbye Mr. Ed Some things are so big They make no sense Histories so small People are so dense Someone sees it all Goodbye Mr. Ed Some things are so big They make no sense Histories so small People are so dense Someone sees it all Goodbye Mr. Ed Never mind the Pistols They laid the Golem eggs Others came to hatch them Outside the pale Someone sees it all Goodbye Mr. Ed -------- 1991 Tin Machine II -------- -------- Hammerhead -------- I should never call her Heartbreakers, never kill But she's been New Zealand on another trip Have you felt like Dixon And Ray, and Ali? Hit me Hit me baby On the camera Take me in I'm going down Hit me baby You win You're the very tough with a long past You're a hammerhead Sweet thing Goldwyn drive Keep it all stuck on here She's all black or white Don't tell her where I'm livin' Hit me Hit me baby She got me ruined She's a bore She fell apart Oh, oh, ooh She's so fabulous Just like Cher It was life at the top You would be I She's a hammerhead Sweet thing She's a hammerhead I mention her hammerhead Oh, oh, ooh Hit me Hit me baby She's a hammerhead Sweet thing Hit me Hit me baby Drop my folly into the night Enter the dragon Oh, oh, ooh She's so fabulous Just like Cher It was life at the top It would be I She's a hammerhead Sweet thing She's a hammerhead Mention her hammerhead Oh, oh, ooh -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- The Wedding -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- You've Been Around -------- [Verse 1] Where's the pain in the violent night? I'm depressed by the grin I stay over many years I should have thought of that For the love of the money Like a black-hearted violin It's the nature of being [Chorus] It's too many lonely nights I can't tell bad from wrong I can't pass you by Too exchanging You've been around But you've changed me [Verse 2] Where the flesh meets the spirit world Where the traffic is thin I slip from a vacant view I should have thought of that And the sound of tomorrow Like a black-hearted vile thing Like the silence of tension It's too many lonely nights I can't tell good from bad I can't pass you by Too exchanging You've been around But you've changed me You've been around Can't pass you by You've been around But you've changed me Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-change! Too exchanging You've been around But you've changed me You've been around Can't pass you by -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- I Feel Free (Ft.MickRonson) -------- [Intro] Dear when I dance with you We move like the sea You, you're all I want to know I feel free I feel free [Chorus] I can walk down the street There's no one there The pavement is one huge crowd I can drive down the road My eyes can't see But my mind wants to cry out loud I feel free I can walk down the street There's no one there The pavement is one huge crowd I can drive down the road My eyes can't see But my mind wants to cry out loud I feel free [Outro] Dance floor is like the sea The ceiling is the sky You're the sun, and as you shine on me I feel free Dance floor is like the sea The ceiling is the sky You're the sun, and as you shine on me I feel free Dance floor is like the sea The ceiling is the sky You're the sun, and as you shine on me I feel free -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Black Tie White Noise (Ft.AlB. Sure!) -------- [Verse 1] Getting my facts from a Benetton ad I'm looking thru African eyes Lit by the glare of an L.A. fire (Black tie, white noise) I've got a face, not just my race, bang bang I've got you babe [Hook] Putting on the black tie Cranking out the white noise [Verse 2] Sun comes up and the man goes down And the woman comes again Just an hour or so to be safe from fear (Black tie, white noise) Then we jump thru hoops, we're divisible now Just disappear [Hook] Putting on the black tie Cranking out the white noise [Chorus] We reach out over race and hold each other's hands Then die in the flames singing "We Shall Overcome" What's going on? There'll be some blood no doubt about it But we'll come thru, don't doubt it I look into your eyes and I know you won't kill me I look into your eyes and I know you won't kill me You won't kill me You won't kill me, no But I look into your eyes and I wonder sometimes [Hook] Putting on the black tie Cranking out the white noise [Bridge] Oh Lord, just let him see me Lord, Lord, just let him hear me Let him call me brother Let him put his arms around me Let him put his hands together [Chorus] Reach over race and hold each other's hands Walk thru the nite thinking "We Are the World" What's going on? There'll be some blood no doubt about it But we'll come thru don't doubt it I look into your eyes and I know you won't kill me And I turn my back and I know you won't kill me You won't kill me You won't kill me, no But I wonder why Yes, I wonder why sometimes [Hook] Putting on the black tie Cranking out the white noise [Bridge] They'll show us how to break the rules But never how to make the rules Reduce us down to witless punks (Black tie, white noise) Facist cries both black and white Who's got the blood, who's got the gun? [Hook] Putting on the black tie Cranking out the white noise (Just a fool!) -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Jump They Say -------- [Intro] When comes the shaking man A nation in his eyes Striped with blood and emblazed tattoo Streaking cathedral spire [Verse 1] They say They say They say He has no brain They say He has no mood They say He was born again They say Look at him climb They say jump They say jump [Verse 2] They say He has two gods They say He has no fear They say He has no eyes They say He has no mouth [Chorus] They say 'hey that's really something' They feel he should get some time I say he should watch his ass My friend don't listen to the crowd They say jump They say jump Watch out! [Breakdown] Watch out! Watch out! [Chorus] They say 'hey that's really something' They feel he should get some time I say he should watch his ass My friend don't listen to the crowd They say jump [Outro] Got to believe somebody They say jump Jump Got to believe somebody They say jump Jump Got to believe They say jump Got to believe somebody Jump Got to believe Jump Got to believe somebody Jump Got to believe Jump Got to believe somebody Jump They say jump They say jump They say jump They say jump -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Nite Flights -------- [Verse] There's no hold The moving has come through The danger brushing you Turns its face into the heat and runs the tunnels It's so cold The dark dug up by dogs The stiches torn and broke The raw meat fist you choke Has hit the bloodlite [Chorus] Glass traps open and close on Nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to fall Glass traps open and close on Nite flights Broken necks feather weights press the walls Be my love, we will be gods on nite flights With only one promise, only one way to fall [Outro] On nite flights Only one way to fall -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Pallas Athena -------- God Is on top of it all That is all That's all we are We are, we are praying We are, we are God Is on top of it all -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Miracle Goodnight -------- [Verse 1] Burning up each others love, burning up our lives Tried all kinds of working out, miracle goodnight Future full and empty knocking on my door Ragged limbed and hungry mama Miracle no more (Skin tell me) turn it around (Head tell me) make it alright (Nobody dancing) Morning star you're beautiful, yellow dime on high Spin you round my little room, miracle goodnight Evening flower all alone, puzzling, capiche? Haven't got a death wish, just want a little more [Chorus] (Skin tell me) turn it around (Head tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) miracle goodnight (Breath tell me) turn it around (Heart tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) it was only make believe [Verse 2] I wish I was a sailor a thousand miles from here I wished I had a future, anywhere I love you in the morning sun, I love you in my dreams I love the sound of making love, the feeling of your skin The corner of your eyes, I long forevermore I never want to say goodnight, miracle goodnight [Chorus] (Skin tell me) turn it around (Head tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) miracle goodnight (Breath tell me) turn it around (Heart tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) it was only make believe [Verse 3] Don't want to know the past, I want to know the real deal I really don't want to know that The less we know, the better we feel Morning star you're beautiful, yellow diamond high Spinning around my little room, miracle [Chorus] (Skin tell me) turn it around (Moon tell me) make it alright (Nobody dancing) it was only make believe (Eyes tell me) turn it around (News tell me) make it alright (Nobody dancing) (Skin tell me) turn it around (Head tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) miracle goodnight (Breath tell me) turn it around (Heart tell me) make it all right (Nobody dancing) it was only make believe -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Don't Let Me Down & Down -------- [Verse 1] Still I keep my love for you No place to hide no way to fall Nowhere to lie no world so wide [Chorus] I'm sick and tired of telling you Don't let me down and down and down Don't let me down and down and down [Verse 2] I know there's something in the wind That crazy balance of my mind What kind of fool are you and I? Scared to death and tell me why [Chorus] I'm sick and tired of telling you Don't let me down and down and down Don't let me down and down and down [Interlude] Still I keep my love for you [Verse 3] You made a date with destiny You jog-jog in my memory You haunt in mind not fade away [Chorus] I'm sick and tired of telling you Don't let me down and down and down Don't let me down and down and down Don't let me down and down and down I'm sick and tired of telling you [Verse 1] Still I keep my love for you No place to hide no way to fall Nowhere to lie no world so wide [Chorus] I'm sick and tired of telling you Don't let me down and down and down Don't let me down and down and down [Outro] Still I keep my love for you Don't let me down and down and down I'm sick and tired of telling you Don't let me down Don't let me down Don't let me down No place to hide no way to fall Still I keep my love for you Still I keep my love for you -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Looking for Lester -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday -------- My love wherever you are Whatever you are Don't lose faith I know it's gonna Happen someday to you Please, wait Please, wait Wait, don't lose faith You say that The day never arrives And it's never Seemed so far away But I know it's gonna Happen someday to you Please, wait Please, wait Wait, don't lose faith Please, wait Please, wait Please, don't lose faith Don't lose faith You say that The day never arrives And it seems so far away But I know it's gonna Happen someday Someday to you, to you Please, wait -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- The Wedding Song -------- [Chorus] These are silver wings These are golden eyes These are floating clouds Angel for life [Bridge] Dreaming alone and I feel that someone Listens to me Angel for life [Chorus] These are silver wings These are golden eyes These are floating clouds Angel for life [Verse] Heaven is smiling down, heaven's girl in a wedding gown I'm going to be so good, just like a good boy should I'm going to change my ways Angel for life Of all the saints alive Don't I feel like a saint alive She's not mine for eternity Though I'll never fly so high I'm smiling [Outro] I believe in magic Angel for life -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Real Cool World -------- [Verse 1] So far this love is delightful The face of seduction was you But I listened for each and every footstep In this Real Cool World [Verse 2] Questioning saintlike and fantastic heroes Feeling like lost little children in fabled lands So I listen for each and every friendship In this Real Cool World [Refrain] Now there is you In my Real Cool World [Verse 3] Starry-eyed life but somehow believing in nothing You whisper sweet nothing but reading between your lines I listen color me doubtful In this Real Cool World [Refrain] Now there is you In my Real Cool World [Bridge] You came from nowhere You came from nowhere You held me you shook me Hey [Interlude] It's a Cool World It's a Cool World It's a Real Cool World It's a Real Cool World It's a Real Cool World It's a Real Cool World [Refrain] Now there is you In my Real Cool World [Refrain] Now there is you In my Real Cool World [Outro] Mmmm Real Cool World -------- 1993 Black Tie White Noise -------- -------- Lucy Can't Dance -------- [Verse 1] Lucy I know what you're going to going to do Oh Lucy look what you're doing I'm doing it too Now you're looking for God in exciting new ways I say trust Him at once which is something these days [Chorus] Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do [Bridge] Did the world just explode? Don't recognize anyone But you've still got me under your thumb [Chorus] Lucy can't dance to the noise but she knows what the noise Can do [Verse 2] Pursuing your frenzy in Ritz or Savoy In this sexual noise, vicious chords Offer joy You live and you die in the blink of an eye Well I can't make you dance Dance to the noise [Chorus] Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do Dance to the noise [Verse 3] Lucy I know what you're going to going to do But you can't buy me off in this serial world Who who who died and made you material girl? Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do [Bridge] So I'll spin while my lunatic lyric Goes wrong Guess I'll put all my eggs in a postmodern Song [Chorus] Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do [Verse 4] Or this shallow orb mugged by reality Just a few simple words like I love you, I need You Live and you die in the blink of an eye Still I can't make you dance Dance to the noise [Chorus] Lucy can't dance to the noise but she Knows what the noise Can do -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Leon Takes Us Outside -------- [Spoken] Valentines Day, 25, June, 16th, Wednesday, July 6th, 20, 0, 20, 15 Martin Luther King Day, June 18th, June 6th, Wednesday August 18th, 9th, 1999, 12, Nicholas, August, Wednesday, 13th, Sunday, 5th March, October, January, October 13th Wednesday, Martin Luther King Day, afternoon, in view of nothing, 20, 0, 1 Late winter, Martin Luther King Day, 12, 16, August, Wednesday, 13th, Friday, 7, June -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Outside -------- [Refrain] Now Not tomorrow Yesterday Not tomorrow It happens today [Verse 1] The damage today They fall on today They beat on the outside And I'll stand by you [Refrain] Now Not tomorrow It's happening now Not tomorrow It's happening now [Verse 2] The crazed in the hot-zone The mental and diva's hands The fisting of life To the music outside To the music outside [Chorus] It happens outside The music is outside It's happening outside The music is outside It's happening [Refrain] Now Not tomorrow Yesterday Not tomorrow [Chorus] The music is outside It's happening outside The music is outside The music is outside [Outro] Outside Outside Outside -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- The Hearts Filthy Lesson -------- [Intro] Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson [Verse] There's always the Diamond friendly Sitting in the Laugh Motel The Heart's filthy lesson With her hundred miles to hell [Pre-Chorus] Oh, Ramona If there was only something between us If there was only something between us Other than our clothes Something in our skies, something in our skies Something in our blood, something in our skies [Interlude] Paddy, Paddy Who's been wearing Miranda's clothes? [Chorus] It's the Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Falls upon deaf ears Heart's filthy lesson It's the Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Falls upon deaf ears Falls upon deaf ears Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson Heart's filthy lesson [Post-Chorus] Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future Oh Ramona, if there was only some kind of future And these cerulean skies Something in our skies, something in our skies Something in our blood, something in our skies [Interlude] Paddy? Paddy? [Bridge] Paddy, will you carry me? I think I've lost my way Heart's filthy lesson, heart's filthy lesson I'm already five years older, I'm already in my grave I'm already Heart's filthy lesson, heart's filthy lesson I'm already I'm already Heart's filthy lesson, heart's filthy lesson Will you carry me? Oh Paddy I think I've lost my way [Outro] Paddy, what a fantastic death abyss Heart's filthy lesson Paddy, what a fantastic death abyss Heart's filthy lesson It's the Heart's filthy lesson Tell the others Heart's filthy lesson It's the Heart's filthy lesson Paddy, what a fantastic decade Tell the others Heart's filthy lesson It's the Heart's filthy lesson Paddy, what a fantastic death abyss Heart's filthy lesson It's the Heart's filthy lesson Tell the others -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- A Small Plot of Land -------- [Verse 1] Poor soul Spit upon that Poor soul He never knew what hit him and it hit him so [Verse 2] Poor dunce He pushed back the pigmen The Barbs laughed The fool is dead Poor dunce He's less than within us The brains talk But the will to live is dead And prayer can't travel so far these days [Verse 3] The talk of your life Standing so near To innocent eyes Poor dunce Swings through the tunnels And claws his way Is small life so manic Are these really the days Poor dunce, poor dunce [Non-Lyrical Vocalizing] [Verse 1] Poor soul Spit upon that Poor soul He never knew what hit him and it hit him so [Non-Lyrical Vocalizing] [Outro] People spat upon him Poor soul Poor soul Poor soul -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Segue - Baby Grace (A Horrid Cassette) -------- [Spoken] Test, testing, testing This, hmmm, Grace is my name And and I was...um It was that phot... a fading photograph of a patch..., a patchwork quilt And they've put me on these Ramona put me on These interest drugs So I'm thinking very too bit too fast like a brain hatch And ah they won't let me see anybody If I want to sometimes ... and I ask I can still hear some pop...popular musics and aftershocks. (Ahhh-choo) See I've been watching a television of um In the homelands That's the new homelands and um that's all I can remember And now they just want me to be quiet And I think something is going to be horrid -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Hallo Spaceboy -------- [Verse] Spaceboy, you're sleepy now Your silhouette is so stationary You're released but your custody calls And I want to be free, don't you want to be free? Do you like girls or boys? It's confusing these days But Moondust will cover you, cover you This chaos is killing me [Chorus] So bye bye love Yeah bye bye love Bye bye love Yeah bye bye love This chaos is killing me [Verse] (Hallo) Spaceboy You're sleepy now Your silhouette is so stationary You're released but your custody calls And I want to be free Don't you want to be free? Do you like girls or boys? It's confusing these days But Moondust will cover you Cover you And that chaos is killing me [Chorus] So bye bye love Yeah bye bye love Bye bye love Yeah bye bye love This chaos is killing me (Will cover you) Bye bye love [Outro] Yeah bye bye love Bye bye love Good time love Be sweet sweet dove Bye bye spaceboy Bye bye love Moondust will cover you -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- The Motel -------- [Verse 1] For we're living In a safety zone Don't be holding back from me We're living from hour to hour down here And we'll take it when we can [Verse 2] It's a kind of living which recognises The death of the odourless man When nothing is vanity nothing's too slow It's not Eden but it's no sham [Chorus] There is no hell There is no shame There is no hell Like an old hell There is no hell And it's lights up, boys Lights up boys [Verse 3] Explosion falls upon deaf ears While we're swimming in a sea of sham Living in the shadow of vanity A complex fashion for a simple man [Chorus] And there is no hell And there is no shame And there is no hell Like an old hell There is no hell [Verse 4] And the silence flies On its brief flight A razor sharp crap shoot affair And we light up our lives [Chorus Variation] And there's no more of me exploding you Re-exposing you Like everybody do Re-exploding you I don't know what to use Make somebody move Me exploding Me exploding you -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- I Have Not Been to Oxford Town -------- [Verse 1] Baby Grace is the victim She was 14 years of age And the wheels are turning, turning For the finger points at me [Pre-Chorus] (All's well) But I have not been to Oxford Town (All's well) No I have not been to Oxford Town [Chorus] Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies [Verse 2] And the prison priests are decent My attorney seems sincere I fear my days are numbered Lord get me out of here [Pre-Chorus] (Here) (All's well) But I have not been to Oxford Town (All's well) No I have not been to Oxford Town [Chorus] Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies [Spoken Interlude] This is your shadow on my wall This is my flesh and blood This is what I could've been [Verse 3] And the wheels are turning and turning As the Twentieth Century dies If I had not ripped the fabric If time had not stood still If I had not met Ramona If I'd only paid my bill [Pre-Chorus] (All's well) But I have not been to Oxford Town (All's well) No I have not been to Oxford Town [Chorus] Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies [Spoken Interlude] This is my bunk with two sheets This is my food though foul This is what I could have been [Chorus] Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th Century dies Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies (All's well) 20th century dies (All's well) All's well, all's well Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies Toll the bell Pay the private eye (All's well) 20th century dies -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- No Control -------- [Verse 1] Stay away from the future Back away from the light It's all deranged - no control Sit tight in your corner Don't tell God your plans It's all deranged No control [Verse 2] If I could control tomorrow's haze The darkest shore wouldn't bother me If I can't control The web we weave My life will be lost in falling leaves [Verse 3] Every single move's uncertain Don't tell God your plans It's all deranged No control [Verse 4] I should live my life on bended knee If I can't control my destiny You've got to have a scheme You've got to have a plan In the world of today, for tomorrow's man [Bridge] No control Stay away from the future Don't tell God your plans It's all deranged No control [Verse 5] Forbidden words, deafen me In memory, no control See how far a sinful man Burn his tracks, his bloody robes [Verse 6] You've got to have a scheme You've got to have a plan In the world of today, for tomorrow's man I should live my life on bended knee If I can't control my destiny No control I can't believe I've no control It's all deranged [Outro] I can't believe I've no control It's all deranged Deranged Deranged -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Segue - Algeria Touchshriek -------- [Spoken] My name is Mr. Touchshriek Of Touchshriek with mail over and fantasy My shop sells egg shells off the shesores and Empty females I'm thinking of leasing the room above my shop To a Mr. Walloff Domburg A reject from the world wide Internet He's a broken man I'm also a broken man It would be nice to have company We could have great conversations Looking through windows for demons And watching the young advance in all electric Some of the houses around here Still have inhabitants in them I'm not sure if they're from this country or not I don't get to speak much to anyone Or that sort of thing If I had another broken name Oh, I dream of something like that -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty) -------- [Intro] Turn and turn again Turn and turn again [Verse 1] I shake And stare at the sun Till my eyes burn I shake At the mothers brutal vermin I shake And stare at the watery moon With the same desire As the sober Philistine And I shake [Hook] Turn and turn again Worm, the pain and blade Turn and turn again [Verse 2] The screw Is a tightening Atrocity I shake For the reeking flesh is as romantic as hell The need To have seen it all The Voyeur of Utter Destruction As beauty [Hook] I shake Worm, the pain and blade Turn and turn again I shake Turn and turn again I shake I shake I shake [Outro] Research has pierced All extremes of my sex Call it a day Call it a day Needle point life Blinds the will to be next Call it a day Research has pierced All extremes of my sex Call it a day Call it a day Needle point life Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it a day Call it today Call it today Today Today Today Today -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Segue - Ramona A. Stone / I Am with Name -------- [Verse 1] I was Ramona A. Stone I started with no enemies of my own I was an artiste In a tunnel But I've been having a MIDI-life crisis And I've been dreaming in a sleep And ape men with metal parts I've spat upon deeply felt age I've hid my hearts in And I hate the funny colored english We'll creep together you and I For I know who the small friends are [Bridge] I am with name, I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone A night fear female Good timing drone I am with name, I am with name [Verse 2] I am with name, I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone She should say: twitch & stream It'll end in chrome Night of the female Good time drone I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone (She should say) I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone [Verse 3] A person who loses a name Feels anxiety descending Left at the crossroads, between the centuries A millenium fetish I am with name, I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone I am with name [Bridge] Night fear female Good timing drone I am with name I am Ramona A. Stone[x2] [Outro] (Give it to me one more time!) Anxiety descending[x2] -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Wishful Beginnings -------- [Verse 1] Cruising around me The flames burn my body Wishful beginnings Does this remind them again and again You're a sorry little girl You're a sorry little girl [Verse 2] Please hide For the pain must feel Like snow You're a sorry little girl Sorry little girl [Verse 3] Please hide from the kiss and the bite Shame burns Breathing in, breathing out Breathing in only doubt The pain must feel like snow I'm no longer your golden boy Sorry little girl I'm sorry little girl [Verse 4] The pain must feel like snow There you go Cover me, cover me We flew on the wings We were deep in the dead air And this one will never go down We had such Wishful beginnings But we lived Unbearable lives I'm sorry little girl Sorry little girl So so sorry little girl [Outro] The pain must feel like snow There you go There you... -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- We Prick You -------- [Verse 1] White boys falling on the fires of night (I wish you'd tell, I wish you'd tell) Flesh punks burning in their glue Revolution comes in the strangest way (I wish you'd tell, I wish you'd tell) I'd rather be inside you [Chorus] Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you (You show respect even if you disagree You show respect You show respect even if you disagree You show respect) [Verse 2] Mama can I kiss you daddy can I tell (We wish you well, we wish you well) Innocence passed me by Want to be screwing When the nightmare comes (I wish you well, I wish you well) Want to come quick and die [Chorus] Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you (You show respect even if you disagree You show respect You show respect even if you disagree You show respect) [Verse 3] All the little rose-kissed foxy girls (Shoes, shoes, little white shoes) Where have all the flowers gone All the little fragile champion boys (Toys, toys, little black toys) Dripping on the end of a gun (Even if you disagree) [Chorus] Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you Tell the truth Tell the truth Tell the truth We prick you we prick you we prick you (You show respect even if you disagree You show respect) [Outro] Shoes, shoes, little white shoes Wish you well, wish you well (even if you disagree, even if you disagree) Toys, toys, little black toys Wish you well, wish you well (even if you disagree) Shoes, shoes, little white shoes Wish you well, wish you well -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Segue - Nathan Adler (I) -------- [Spoken] Old Touchschriek was the main name server suspected of being a shoulder surfer. But he didn't know from shit about challenge response systems Now Ramona A Stone we know was selling interest drugs. She got males all hung up on her mind filters She was, if you don't mind me saying so, an update demon. Now Leon he couldn't wait for 12 o'clock midnight... He jumps up on the stage with a criss criss machete and slashes around cutting a zero on everything. I mean a zero in the fabric of time itself Was this a suspect? I says to myself: "Whoa! Quelle courage!" Oh wait, I'm getting ahead of myself Let me take you back to when it all began Ramona is so cold. When she broke it off with Leon, she said, "The ring is enough, I don't wanna see his face again." Ramona was so cold, Ramona was so cold... -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- I'm Deranged -------- [Verse 1] Funny how secrets travel I'd start to believe If I were to bleed Thin skies, the man chains his hands held high Cruise me blond Cruise me babe A blond belief beyond beyond beyond No return No return I'm deranged Deranged down down down I'm deranged down down down So cruise me babe cruise me baby [Chorus] And the rain sets in It's the angel-man I'm deranged Cruise me cruise me cruise me babe [Verse 2] The clutch of life and the fist of love Over your head Big deal Salaam Be real deranged Salaam Before we reel I'm deranged [Chorus] And the rain sets in It's the angel-man I'm deranged And the rain sets in It's the angel-man I'm deranged Cruise me cruise me cruise me babe [Outro] I'm deranged -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Thru' These Architect's Eyes -------- [Intro] (We're living in the golden, in the golden age) (We're living in the golden age, the golden age) [Verse 1] Stomping along On this big Philip Johnson Is delay just wasting my time Looking across at Richard Rogers Scheming dreams to blow both their minds It's difficult you see To give up baby To leave a job When you know You know the money's from day to day [Chorus] All the majesty of a city landscape All the soaring days in our lives All the concrete dreams In my mind's eye All the joy I see Thru these architect's eyes (We're living in the golden, in the golden age) (We're living in the golden age, the golden age) [Verse 2] Cold winter bleeds On the girders of Babel This stone boy watching the crawling land Rings of flesh and the towers of iron The steaming caves and the rocks and the sand Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson Is delay just wasting my time It's difficult you see To give up baby These summer scumholes This goddamned starving life [Chorus] All the majesty of a city landscape All the soaring days in our lives All the concrete dreams In my mind's eye All the joy I see Thru these architect's eyes (We're living in the golden, in the golden age) (We're living in the golden age, the golden age) [Outro] It's difficult you see It's difficult you see -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Strangers When We Meet -------- [Intro] You You You You You You [Verse 1] All our friends Now seem so thin and frail Slinky secrets Hotter than the sun No peachy frres No trendy rchauff I'm with you So I can't go on [Chorus] All my violence raining tears upon the sheets I'm bewildered, for we're strangers when we meet [Verse 2] Blank screen TV Preening ourselves in the snow Forget my name But I'm over you Blended sunrise And it's a dying world Humming Rheingold We scavenge up our clothes [Chorus 2] All my violence raging tears upon the sheets I'm resentful, for we're strangers when we meet [Verse 3] Cold tired fingers Tapping out your memories Halfway sadness Dazzled by the new Your embrace It was all that I feared That whirling room We trade by vendu [Chorus 3] Steely resolve is falling from me My poor soul, poor bruised passivity All your regrets ran rough-shod over me I'm so glad that we're strangers when we meet I'm so thankful, for we're strangers when we meet I'm in clover, for we're strangers when we meet Heel head over, for we're strangers when we meet [Outro] Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet Strangers when we meet -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Get Real -------- [Verse 1] Oh pity us here we angels of lead We're dead, we're sick hanging by thread Get real Get real [Verse 2] You can't stop meaningful teenage cries From deep behind fifty year old eyes Get real Get real [Chorus 1] I'm scared to touch Too tense to be undone I walk the streets Not expecting morning sun Against the voice of doom Failures fall all over town [Post-Chorus 1] I guess I should I feel I should Get real Get real [Verse 3] What's up? What happened when I wasn't around? Who did what? What went down? Get real Get real [Verse 4] Think about myself it happens to me It happens in the tunnel when I let myself feel Get real Get real [Chorus 2] I'm scared to touch Too tense to be undone I walk the streets Not expecting morning sun I feel it all through breakdowns falling all over town [Post-Chorus 2] I feel I should I guess I should Get real Get real Get real Get real [Verse 5] The dazzle of light The rape of life The seed, the curse The jazz of life Get real Get real [Outro] Get real Get real -------- 1995 Outside -------- -------- Nothing To Be Desired -------- [Verse 1] Nothing to be desired It leaves nothing to be desired Nothing There's nothing to be desired Nothing to be desired Nothing to be desired any more [Chorus] Mind changing Mind changing Mind changing Change your Mind changing Mind changing Change your mind changing Mind changing Stand by Mind changing Mind changin Stand by Mind changing Mind changing [Verse 2] And there's nothing to be desired Nothing to be desired Nothing Certainly not [?] Nothing to be desired Nothing Nothing to be desired [Chorus] It's not mind changing Mind changing Change your mind changing Mind changing Change your mind changing Mind changing Change your mind changing Mind changing Change your mind changing Mind change Change your mind change -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Little Wonder -------- [Verse 1] Stinky weather, fat shaky hands Dopey morning Doc, grumpy gnomes [Refrain] Little wonder then, little wonder You little wonder, little wonder you [Verse 2] Big screen dolls, tits and explosions Sleepy time, bashful but nude [Refrain] Little wonder then, little wonder You little wonder, little wonder you [Spoken ad lib] I'm getting that [Verse 3] Intergalactic, seeming to be you It's all in the tablets, sneezy Bhutan [Refrain] Little wonder then, little wonder You little wonder, little wonder you [Verse 4] Mars happy nation, sit on my karma Dame meditation, take me away [Refrain] Little wonder then, little wonder You little wonder, little wonder you [Chorus] Sending me so far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so so far away [Refrain] You little wonder, little wonder you You little wonder, little wonder you [Chorus] Sending me so far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so so far away So far away, so far away So far away, so so far away [Refrain] Little wonder, little wonder you You little wonder, you little wonder you You little wonder you Little wonder then, little wonder You little wonder, little wonder you -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Looking for Satellites -------- [Chorus intro] Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop [Verse 1] Where do we go from here? There's something in the sky Shining in the light Spinning and far away [Chorus] Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop, (Satellite) Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, (Satellite), Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop, (Satellite) Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, (Satellite), Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop [Refrain] Looking for satellites Looking for satellites [Verse 2] Where do we go to now? There's nothing in our eyes As lonely as a moon Misty and far away [Chorus] Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop, (Satellite) Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, (Satellite), Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop, (Satellite) Nowhere, Shampoo, TV, Combat, (Satellite), Boy's Own Slim tie, Showdown, Can't stop [Refrain] Looking for satellites Looking for satellites [Outro] Where do we go from here? -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Battle for Britain (The Letter) -------- [Verse 1] My, my, the time do fly when it's in another pair of hands And a loser I will be for I've never been a winner in my life I got used to stressing pain, I used the sucker pills to pity for the self Oh, it's the animal in me but I'd rather be a beggar man on the shelf [Pre-Chorus] Don't be so forlorn, it's just the payoff It's the rain before the storm On a better day, I'll take you by the hand And I'll walk you through the doors Don't be so forlorn, it's just the payoff It's the rain before the storm [Chorus] Don't you let my letter get you down Don't you, don't you, don't you [Verse 2] My, my, but time do fly when it's in another pair of pants And illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner, la di da [Pre-Chorus] Don't be so forlorn, it's just the payoff It's the rain before the storm [Chorus] Don't you let my letter get you down Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you [Interlude] [Chorus] Don't you let my letter get you down, down, down, down Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you Don't you let my letter get you down, down, down, down Don't you, don't you, don't you, don't you [Outro] Down, down, down, down, down, down Down, down, down, down, down, down Down, down, down, down, down, down -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Seven Years in Tibet -------- [Verse 1] "Are you OK? You've been shot in the head And I'm holding your brains," The old woman said So I drink in the shadows of an evening sky See nothing at all [Verse 2] The stars look so special And the snow looks so old The frail form is drifting Beyond the yoga zone Time to question the mountain: Why pigs can fly? It's nothing at all [Chorus] I praise to you Nothing ever goes away I praise to you Nothing ever goes I praise to you [Chorus] I praise to you Nothing ever goes away I praise to you Nothing ever goes I praise to you Nothing ever goes away [Outro] I praise to you Nothing ever goes, nothing ever goes Nothing -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Dead Man Walking -------- [Verse 1] He swivels his head Tears his eyes from the screen As his past puts him back in Atlantic City There's not even a demon in Heaven or Hell Is it all just human disguise As I walk down the aisle [Pre-Chorus] And I'm gone, gone, gone [Gone, gone, gone spinning slack through reality] Now I'm older than movies [Dance my way, falling up through the years] Let me dance away [Until I swivel back round then I fly, fly, fly] Now I'm wiser than dreams [Losing breath underwater well I'm gone, gone, gone] Let me fly, fly, fly [Spin slack through reality] While I'm touching tomorrow [Dance my way, falling up through the years] And I know who's there [Until I swivel back round then I fly, fly, fly] [Losing breath underwater when I'm gone, gone, gone] When silhouettes fall [Spinning slack through reality] [Chorus] And I'm gone Like I'm dancing on angels And I'm gone through the crack in the past [Refrain] Like a dead man walking Like a dead man walking [Verse 2] Three old men dancing under her lamp lights Shaking their sex in the bones And the boys that we were An alien nation in therapy Sliding naked, anew Like a bad tempered child On the rain slicked streets [Pre-Chorus] And I'm gone, gone, gone [Gone, gone, gone spinning slack through reality] Now I'm older than movies [Dance my way, falling up through the years] Let me dance away [Until I swivel back round then I fly, fly, fly] Now I'm wiser than dreams [Losing breath underwater well I'm gone, gone, gone] Let me fly, fly, fly [Spin slack through reality] While I'm touching tomorrow [Dance my way, falling up through the years] And I know who's there [Until I swivel back round then I fly, fly, fly] [Losing breath underwater when I'm gone, gone, gone] When silhouettes fall [Spinning slack through reality] [Chorus] And I'm gone Like I'm dancing on angels And I'm gone through the crack in the past [Refrain] Like a dead man walking Like a dead man walking Like a dead man Like a dead man walking [Pre-Chorus] And I'm gone, gone, gone [Gone, gone, gone spinning slack through reality] [Dance my way, falling up through the years] Let me dance, dance, dance [Until I swivel back round then I fly, fly, fly] And I'm gone [Losing breath underwater well I'm gone, gone, gone] Let me dance, dance, dance [Chorus] And I'm gone Like I'm dancing on angels And I'm gone through the crack in the past And I'm gone Like I'm dancing on angels And I'm gone through the crack in the past [Refrain] Like a dead man walking Like a dead man walking Like a dead man -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Telling Lies -------- [Intro] Telling lies [Verse 1] Gorgeous girls are bound to meet To talk of stars and kings and feet Through the chromosomes of space and time Me I'm fast like bad infection Gasping for my resurrection Swear to me in times of war and stress [Pre-Chorus] Telling lies Telling lies Telling lies Telling lies [Chorus] Telling lies (Oh ah visionary, oh ah visionary) Telling lies (feels like somethings going to happen this year) Telling lies (Oh ah visionary, oh ah visionary) Telling lies (feels like somethings going to happen this year) Telling lies [Verse 2] Shadow falls in shrinking smiles See me poised at the happy games Standing in the mouth of all that's pure Come straggling in your tattered remnants You come to me with tears and blame I'm your future, I am tomorrow, I am the end [Pre-Chorus] Telling lies Telling lies Telling lies Telling lies [Chorus] Telling lies (Oh ah visionary, oh ah visionary) Telling lies (feels like somethings going to happen this year) Telling lies (Oh ah visionary, oh ah visionary) Telling lies (feels like somethings going to happen this year) Telling lies Telling lies [Outro] Oh ah oh Oh ah oh Oh ah oh Oh ah oh Feels like somethings going to happen this year Feels like somethings going to happen this year (Telllliiing lllliiiies) Oh ah Feels like somethings going to happen this year (Telllliiing lllliiiies) Oh ah Feels like somethings going to happen this year (Telllliiing lllliiiies) Oh ah Feels like somethings going to happen this year -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- The Last Thing You Should Do -------- [Verse 1] What have you been doing to yourself? What have you been doing to yourself? What have you been doing to yourself? It's the last thing you should do-oh-oh-oh-oh [Verse 2] Nobody laughs anymore Nobody laughs anymore Nobody laughs anymore It's the worst thing you can do-oh-oh-oh-oh [Verse 3] Save the last dance for me Catch the last bus with me Give the last kiss to me It's the safest thing to do-oh-oh-oh-oh Yeah Yeah Yeah [Verse 1] What have you been doing to yourself? What have you been doing to yourself? What have you been doing to yourself? It's the last thing you should do-oh-oh-oh-oh [Verse 2] Nobody laughs anymore Nobody laughs anymore Nobody laughs anymore It's the worst thing you can do-oh-oh-oh-oh -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- I'm Afraid of Americans -------- [Verse 1] Johnny's in America, Lo-Teks at the wheel No one needs anyone, they don't even just pretend Johnny's in America [Chorus] I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans Johnny's in America [Verse 2] Johnny wants a plane, Johnny wants to suck on a Coke Johnny wants a woman, Johnny wants to think of a joke Johnny's in America [Chorus] I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans Johnny's in America [Verse 3] Johnny's in America, Johnny looks up at the stars Johnny combs his hair and Johnny wants pussy and cars Johnny's in America Johnny's in America [Chorus] I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans [Interlude] God is an American God is an American [Chorus] I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't Yeah, I'm afraid of Americans I'm afraid of the world I'm afraid I can't help it I'm afraid I can't I'm afraid of Americans [Outro] God is an American God is an American God is an American God is an American God is an American -------- 1997 Earthling -------- -------- Law (Earthlings on Fire) -------- [Refrain] I don't want knowledge, I want certainty I don't want knowledge, I want certainty I don't want knowledge, I want certainty [Verse 1] In the street a man shouts out loud A wallet drops and money flies into the midday sun [Pre-Chorus] With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground Oh I get a little bit afraid Sometimes [Chorus] Earthlings on fire Earthlings on fire [Pre-Chorus] With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground Oh I get a little bit afraid Sometimes [Chorus] Earthlings on fire Earthlings on fire [Refrain] I don't want knowledge, I want certainty I don't want knowledge, I want certainty I don't want knowledge, I want certainty [Verse 2] In a house a man drops dead As he hits the floor he sighs "What a morning" [Pre-Chorus] With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground Oh I get a little bit afraid Sometimes With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground Oh I get a little bit afraid Sometimes [Chorus] Earthlings on fire Earthlings on fire [Outro] Earthlings on fire Earthlings on fire Earthlings on fire (I don't want knowledge, I want certainty) Earthlings on fire (I don't want knowledge, I want certainty) Sometimes Earthlings (I don't want knowledge, I want certainty) I don't want knowledge -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- Thursday's Child -------- [Verse 1] All of my life I've tried so hard Doing my best with what I had Nothing much happened all the same Something about me stood apart A whisper of hope that seemed to fail Maybe I'm born right out of my time Breaking my life in two [Chorus] Throw me tomorrow Now that I've really got a chance Throw me tomorrow Everything's falling into place Throw me tomorrow Seeing my past to let it go Throw me tomorrow Only for you I don't regret That I was Thursday's child [Post-Chorus] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Thursday's child [Verse 2] Sometimes I cried my heart to sleep Shuffling days and lonesome nights Sometimes my courage fell to my feet Lucky old sun is in my sky Nothing prepared me for your smile Lighting the darkness of my soul Innocence in your arms [Chorus] Throw me tomorrow Now that I've really got a chance Throw me tomorrow Everything's falling into place Throw me tomorrow Seeing my past to let it go Throw me tomorrow Only for you I don't regret That I was Thursday's child [Post-Chorus] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Thursday's child Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Thursday's child [Outro] Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday born I was -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- Something in the Air -------- [Verse 1] Your coat and hat are gone I really can't look at your little empty shelf A ragged teddy bear It feels like we never had a chance Don't look me in the eye We lay in each others arms But the room is just an empty space I guess we lived it out, something in the air We smiled too fast then can't think of a thing to say [Pre-Chorus] Lived with the best times Left with the worst I've danced with you too long Nothing left to say Let's take what we can I know you hold your head up high We've raced for the last time A place of no return [Chorus] And there's something in the air Something in my eye I've danced with you too long Something in the air Something in my eye [Verse 2] Abracadoo - I lose you We can't avoid the clash, the big mistake Now we're going to pay and pay The sentence of our lives Can't believe I'm asking you to go We used what we could to get the things we want But we lost each other on the way I guess you know I never wanted Anyone more than you [Pre-Chorus] Lived all our best times Left with the worst I've danced with you too long Say what you will [Chorus] But there's something in the air Raced for the last time Well I know you hold your head up high There's nothing we have to say, there's nothing in my eyes But there's something in the air Something in my eye I've danced with you too long There's something I have to say There's something in the air Something in my eye I've danced with you too long -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- Survive -------- [Verse 1] Oh my, naked eyes I should have kept you, I should have tried I should have been a wiser kind of guy I miss you [Verse 2] Give me wings, give me space Give me money for a change of face These noisy rooms and passion pants I loved you [Chorus 1] Where's the morning in my life? Where's the sense in staying right? Who said time is on my side? I've got ears and eyes and nothing in my life But I survive your naked eyes I'll survive [Chorus 2] You alone across the floor You and me and nothing more You're the great mistake I never made I never lied to you, I hated when you lied But I'll survive your naked eyes I'll survive [Verse 3] Beatle boys, all snowy white Razzle dazzle clubs every night Wish I'd sent a Valentine I love you [Outro] I'll survive Naked eyes I'll survive I'll survive My naked eyes I'll survive -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- If I'm Dreaming My Life -------- [Verse 1] Was she never there? Was she ever? Was it air she breathed? At the wrong time All the flowers so From the gallery With the hymns of night Singing: "Come to me" [Chorus] At the wrong time On the wrong day All the lights are fading now If I'm dreaming all my life If I'm dreaming all my life [Verse 2] Just one living chance When the mother sighs When the father steps aside At the wrong time Oh-oh [Chorus] At the wrong time On the wrong day All the lights are fading now If I'm dreaming all my life If I'm dreaming all my life [Bridge] Was she ever? Was she ever here? If I'm dreaming all my life If I'm dreaming all my life away [Outro] Dreaming my life Dreaming my Dreaming my Dreaming my Dreaming my life Dreaming my life away Dreaming my life Dreaming my Dreaming my life away Oh-oh -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- Seven -------- [Verse 1] I forgot what my father said I forgot what he said I forgot what my mother said As we lay upon your bed [Pre-Chorus 1] A city full of flowers A city full of rain [Chorus] I got seven days to live my life Or seven ways to die [Verse 2] I forgot what my brother said I forgot what he said I don't regret anything at all I remember how we wept [Pre-Chorus 2] On a bridge of violent people I was small enough to cry [Chorus] I got seven days to live my life Or seven ways to die [Pre-Chorus 3] Hold my face before you Still my trembling heart [Chorus] Seven days to live my life Or seven ways to die [Verse 3] The gods forgot they made me So I forgot them too I listen to the shadows I play among their graves [Pre-Chorus 4] My heart was never broken My patience never tried [Chorus] I got seven days to live my life Or seven ways to die Seven days to live my life Or seven ways to die [Outro] Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven Seven -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- What's Really Happening -------- [Verse 1] Grown inside a plastic box Micro thoughts and safety locks Hearts become outdated clocks Ticking in your mind [Pre-Chorus] Now it's time to close our eyes Now it's time to say goodbye Now it's time to face the lie That we'd never cry [Chorus] What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? [Verse 2] All the clouds are made of glass And they're slowly sinking Falling like the shattered past Were we built to last? [Chorus] What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? [Pre-Chorus] Now it's time to close our eyes Now it's time to say goodbye Now it's time to face the lie That we'd never cry [Chorus] What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? What's really happening? What tore us apart? What's really happening? -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell -------- [Verse 1] What to do? What to say? What to wear on a sunny day? Who the phone? Who to fight? Who to dance with on a sunday night? [Pre-Chorus] I'm reaching the very edge you know Reaching the very edge I'm going to the other side this time Reaching the very edge [Chorus] You're still breathing but you don't know why Life's a bit and sometimes you die You're still breathing but you just can't tell Don't hold your breath But the pretty things are going to hell [Post-Chorus] I am a drug, I am a dragon I am the best jazz you ever seen I am the dragon, I am the sky I am the blood at the corner of your eye I found the secrets I found gold I find you out before you grow old I find you out before you grow old [Verse 2] What is eternal? What is damned? What is clay and what is sand? Who to diss? Who to trust? Who to listen to? Who to suss? [Pre-Chorus] I'm reaching the very edge you know Reaching the very edge I'm going to the other side this time Reaching the very edge [Chorus] You're still breathing but you don't know why Life's a bit and sometimes you die You're still breathing but you just can't tell Don't hold your breath But the pretty things are going to hell [Post-Chorus] I am the dragon, I am the drug I am your best jazz you've ever heard I am the dragon, I'm the sky I am the blood at the corner of your eye I found the secrets I found gold I found you out before you grow old I found you out before you grow old [Outro] The pretty things are going to hell They wore it out but they wore it well The pretty things are going to hell They wore it out but they wore it well The pretty things are going to hell They wore it out but they wore it well The pretty things are going to hell They wore it out but they wore it well You're still breathing but you don't know why You're still breathing but you just can't tell Don't hold your breath But the pretty things are going to hell -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- New Angels of Promise -------- [Verse 1] New Angels of Promise We despair We are the dead dreams We take the blame Take us to the edge of time Take us to the edge of time We are the fabulous lovers I'm a blind man and she's my eyes [Chorus] Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time [Verse 2] New Angels of Promise We despise Don't fall apart now We are the silent ones Take us to the edge of time Take us to the edge of time We are the tabular lovers We listen to the storm [Chorus] Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time [Verse 1] New Angels of Promise We despair We are the dead dreams We take the blame Take us to the edge of time Take us to the edge of time We are the fabulous lovers I'm a blind man and she's my eyes [Chorus] Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time Suspicious minds You didn't feel us coming In this lonely crowd It's always time It's always time It's always time It's always time -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- Brilliant Adventure -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- The Dreamers -------- [Verse 1] Black eyed ravens They spiral down They tilt his head back To the flame filled sunset Raise their guns high As the darken falls These are the days boys Shallow man Shallow man... and they Eats in the doorway With his head inclined And he's always in decline No-one heals anymore So he shrinks as they ride Under vermillion sky [Chorus] So it goes Just a searcher A lonely soul The last of the dreamers [Verse 2] Shallow man Shallow man Speaks to the shadows Moves his trembling hands And he's always a little late For the dawning of the day [Chorus] So it goes Just a searcher A lonely soul The last of the dreamers -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- We All Go Through -------- Skeletal city highs Crazies with dumb replies Nobody's eyes anymore Frown on your beggar's face Walking this lunarscape Nothing in my lackaday We'll all be right We'll all be right We'll all be right in the now We all go through We all go through We all go through it sometimes Somebody's space to rent Somebody's soul to dent Dog is in every word Hiding the flames of power Hiding us home by home Nearly got out yesterday We'll all be right We'll all be right We'll all be right in the now We all go through We all go through We all go through it sometimes Trouble it travels on the wing Doorway to door Open your eyes Nothing remains A secret love between us Nothing can hide for long We are the morning song Holding my breath anyway We'll all be right We'll all be right We'll all be right in the now We all go through We all go through We all go through it sometimes We'll all be right We'll all be right We'll all be right in the now We all go through We all go through We all go through it sometimes Through it sometimes (We all go through) Through it sometime (We all go through) (We all go through) (We all go through) -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- 1917 -------- [Instrumental] -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- No One Calls -------- Nobody calls Fall into pieces Don't be afraid Life isn't easy Sunshine to rain Counting the windows But nobody calls Nobody calls Sunshine to rain Smile for the camera But nobody phones Nobody phones Anyone At all Not at all Nobody phones Anyone At all Nobody phones Anyone At all Nobody phones Anyone At all Nobody phones Anyone At all Not at all Not at all -------- 1999 Hours -------- -------- We Shall Go to Town -------- No more delight or crawling around Whisper the word and hold my hand Never forget those who refuse you Never forget who you've been And you will fight with demons When we shall go to town And we'll eat between the rich men And we'll dream, if we don't go down Follow the light, stay on the outside The only way in is swollen with tears Don't bring your things, just let me serve you Only the fool turns around Then you will fight with demons When we shall go to town And you will wear your best shoes And we'll dance, if we don't go down And we'll dance, if we don't go down -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Sunday -------- [Intro] Nothing remains We could run when the rain slows Look for the cars or signs of life Where the heat goes [Verse] Look for the drifters We should crawl under the bracken Look for the shafts of light on the road Where the heat goes Everything has changed For in truth it's the beginning of nothing And nothing has changed Everything has changed For in truth it's the beginning of an end And nothing has changed Everything has changed (In your fear) In your fear (Seek only peace) Of what we have become (In your fear, seek only love) Take to the fire (In your fear) Now we must burn (Seek only peace) All that we are (In your fear, seek only love) Rise together (In your fear) Through these clouds (In your fear) As on wings This is the trip And this the business we take This is our number All my trials Lord, will be remembered [Outro] Everything has changed -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Cactus -------- [Verse 1] Sitting here wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore I put it on when I go lonely Will you take off your dress and send it to me? [Verse 2] I miss your kissing and I miss your head And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead Just run outside in the desert heat Make your dress all wet and send it to me [Verse 3] I miss your soup and I miss your bread And a letter in your writing doesn't mean you're not dead So spill your breakfast and drip your wine Just wear that dress when you dine [Interlude] D-A-V-I-D [Verse 3] Sitting here wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore Bloody your hands on a cactus tree Wipe it on your dress and send it to me [Outro] Sitting here wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Slip Away -------- [Verse 1] Oogie waits for just another day Drags his bones To see the Yankees play Bones Boy talks and flickers gray Oh, they slip away [Verse 2] Once a time They nearly might have been Bones and Oogie on a silver screen No one knew what they could do Except for me and you They slip away They slip away [Chorus] Don't forget To keep your head warm Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd Watching all the world And war torn How I wonder where you are Oo-o Sailing over Coney Island Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd We were dumb But you were fun, boy How I wonder where you are Oo-o [Verse 3] Oogie knew there's never ever time Some of us will always stay behind Down in space it's always 1982 The joke we always knew Oo-oo What'sa matter with you C'mon, let's go Slip away Oo-o [Chorus] Don't forget To keep your head warm Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd Watching all the world And war torn How I wonder where you are Oo-o Sailing over Coney Island Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd We were dumb But you were fun, boy How I wonder where you are Oo-o [Outro] Sailing -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Slow Burn -------- [Verse 1] Here shall we live in this terrible town Where the price for our minds Shall squeeze them tight like a fist And the walls shall have eyes And the doors shall have ears But we'll dance in their dark And they'll play with our lives [Chorus] Like a Slow Burn Leading us on and on and on Like a Slow Burn Turning us round and round and round Hark who are we So small in times such as these Slow Burn Slow Burn [Verse 2] Oh, these are the days These are the strangest of all These are the nights These are the darkest to fall But who knows? Echoes in tenement halls Who knows? Though the years spare them all [Chorus] Like a Slow Burn Leading us on and on and on Like a Slow Burn Twirling us round and round And upside down There's fear overhead There's fear overground Slow Burn Slow Burn Like a Slow Burn Leading us on and on and on Like a Slow Burn Turning us round and round and round And here are we At the center of it all Slow Burn Slow Burn Slow Burn -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Afraid -------- [Verse 1] I wish I was smarter I got so lost on the shore I wish I was taller Things really matter to me [Pre-Chorus] But I put my face in tomorrow I believe we're not alone I believe in Beatles I believe my little soul has grown [Chorus] And I'm still so afraid Yeah, I'm still so afraid Yeah, I'm still so afraid On my own On my own [Verse 2] What made my life so wonderful? What made me feel so bad? I used to wake up the ocean I used to walk on clouds [Pre-Chorus] If I put faith in medication If I can smile a crooked smile If I can talk on television If I can walk an empty mile [Chorus] And I won't feel afraid No I won't feel afraid I won't be, be afraid anymore [Outro] Anymore (And then I just won't be afraid) Anymore (And then I just won't be afraid) -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- I've Been Waiting for You -------- [Intro] (I've been looking, I've been looking)[x2] [Verse] I've been looking For a woman To save my life Not to beg or to borrow A woman with a feeling Of losing once or twice Who knows how it could be Be tomorrow I've been waiting for you And you've been coming to me For such a long time now For such a long time now A woman with a feeling Of losing once or twice Who knows how it could be Be tomorrow [Outro] I've been waiting for you And you've been coming to me For such a long time now[x4] -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- I Would Be Your Slave -------- [Verse 1] Walking in the snowy street Let me understand Drifting down a silent park Stumbling over land Open up your heart to me Show me who you are And I would be your slave Do you sleep in quietude? Do you walk in peace? Do you laugh out loud at me? No one else that is free Open up your heart to me Show me all you are And I would be your slave [Chorus] I don't sit around and wait I don't give a damn I don't see the point at all No footprints in the sand [Verse 2] I bet you laugh out loud at me A chance to strike me down Give me peace of mind at last Show me all you are Open up your heart to me And I would be your slave [Chorus] I don't sit around and wait I don't give a damn I don't see the point at all No footprints in the sand I would give you all my love Nothing else is free Open up your heart to me And I would be your slave -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spacecraft -------- [Chorus] I took a trip On a gemini spacecraft And I thought about you I passed through the shadow of Jupiter And I thought about you I shot my spacegun And boy, I really felt blue [Verse 1] Two or three flying saucers Parked under the stars The winding stream Moon shining down On some little town And with each beam The same old dream [Chorus] I took a trip On a gemini spacecraft And I thought about you I shot my spacegun And I thought about you I pulled down my sun visor Boy, I really felt blue [Verse 2] You jumped into your Gemini I jumped into mine We'll orbit the moon For just one time Tomorrow night Tomorrow night Will you hold hands With me in the moonlight [Chorus] I took a trip In a gemini spacecraft And I thought about you I shot my spacegun And I thought about you I took I took a walk in space Boy, I really felt blue [Verse 3] Well, I peeked through the crack And I looked way back The stardust trail Leading back to you What did I do What could I do Yes what did I do [Outro] Well I thought about you I thought about you Took a trip On a gemini spacecraft Thought about you -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- 5.15 The Angels Have Gone -------- [Verse 1] 5:15 I'm changing trains This little town Let me down This foreign rain Brings me down [Verse 2] 5:15 Train overdue Angels have gone No ticket I'm jumping tracks I'm changing towns [Chorus 1] We never talk anymore Forever I will adore you [Verse 3] 5:15 All of my life Angels have gone I'm changing trains Angels like them Thin on the ground All of my life All legs and wings Strange sandy eyes [Verse 4] 5:15 Train overdue Angels have gone [Chorus 2] We never talk anymore Forever I will adore you Cold station All of my life Forever I'm out of here forever -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Everyone Says 'Hi' -------- [Verse 1] Said you took a big trip They said you moved away Happened oh, so quietly They say [Verse 2] Shoulda took a picture Something I could keep Buy a little frame Something cheap For you [Chorus] Everyone says 'hi' [Verse 3] Said you sailed a big ship Said you sailed away Didn't know the right thing To say [Verse 4] I'd love to get a letter Like to know what's what Hope the weather's good And it's not too hot For you [Chorus] Everyone says 'hi' Everyone says 'hi' Everyone says Don't stay in a sad place Where they don't care how you are Everyone says 'hi' [Bridge] If the money is lousy You can always come home We can do the old things We can do all the bad things If the food gets you leery You can always phone We could do all the good things We could do it, we could do it We could do it Don't stay in a bad place Where they don't care how you are [Chorus] Everyone says 'hi' Everyone says 'hi' Everyone says 'hi' And the girl next door And the guy upstairs Everyone says 'hi' And your mum and dad Everyone says 'hi' And your big fat dog Everyone says 'hi' Everyone says 'hi' Hi hi hi hi -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- A Better Future -------- [Verse 1] Please don't tear this world asunder Please take back this fear we're under I demand a better future Or I might just stop wanting you I might just stop wanting you Please make sure we get tomorrow All this pain and all the sorrow [Chorus] I demand a better future Or I might just stop needing you I might just stop needing you Give my children sunny smiles [Verse 2] Give them moon and cloudless skies I demand a better future Or I might just stop loving you Loving you, loving you [Bridge] When we talk, we talk to you When we walk, we walk to you From factory to field How many tears must fall [Verse 3] Down there below Nothing is moving I might just stop wanting you I might just stop needing you I might just stop loving you I demand a better future I demand a better future [Chorus] I demand a better future For I might just stop loving you Loving you, loving you I demand a better future [Outro] I demand a better future I demand a better future For I might just stop loving you, loving you, loving you I demand a better future -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Heathen (The Rays) -------- [Verse] Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason? Have I stared too long? [Outro] You say you'll leave me And when the sun is low And the rays high I can see it now I can feel it die Oo-o Oo-o -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Wood Jackson -------- Jackson made twenty tapes in a day To give away A give away And he play The tunes they'd call creative when they're running out of names Heaven knows he's really torn it now But the names it hurt poor Jackson stopped the haters in his way Heaven knows he's for it Sha-a-a-me! Hey hey He was never quite unsure but really sane Wants to play Jackson stole twenty souls in a day To take away A take away He takes away And no complaints Heart's upon his sleeve and his blade Wood Jackson took the beating every day, given out, passed away, another way Hey hey Just wants to play And how he played The mob they bleed and tremble when they're running after life Heaven knows he's really torn it now The words that killed Wood Jackson's friends were written on the wall Heaven knows he's for it Shame! Just wants to play It's a shame Shame It's a shame Wants to play It's a shame It's a shame Just wants to play -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Baby Loves That Way -------- (Baby loves that way) Yes, she does, yes, she does (Baby loves that way) Oh, I love my baby (Baby loves that way) Ooh, I gotta take her (Baby loves that way) Yep, I love her Baby likes to go outside, so I let her Wants to fool with other guys, so I let her Wants to be bad, so I let her be bad But fooling around, it will make me sad She fools around with other boys and treat me like an unwanted toy (Baby loves that way) Oh, I love my baby (Baby loves that way) Ooh, she does too much to me (Baby loves that way) And I can't think too much of her (Baby loves that way) Gotta take her, gotta take her Gonna better leave her alone, put you down son Treating her real fine, thus I'm home being a loner Jeanny's my babe and that's alright, yeah She treats me good, each and every night She fools around with other boys and treat me like an unwanted toy (Baby loves that way) I love my baby (Baby loves that way) Ooh, she's too much (Baby loves that way) Yes she does, yes she does (Baby loves that way) (Baby loves that way) I love my baby (Baby loves that way) Yeah, she's too much, yeah yeah (Baby loves that way) Ooh, I think she can live with me (Baby loves that way) Love her, love her, love her Baby likes to go outside, so I let her Wants to fool with other guys, so I let her Wants to be bad, so I let her be bad But fooling around, it will make me sad She clings around with all the boys, who treat her like unwanted toys (Baby loves that way) Obviously this is the end (Baby loves that way) Gotta take her (Baby loves that way) Ooh yeah (Baby loves that way) Can't do enough (Baby loves that way -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Safe -------- Frozen to the glass again Out of our skins again Cold I am, tonight I am Tomorrow's really on my mind Sure to think of, from now on The things will move more slowly But thin is thin and chances slim And sometimes we all have those dreams Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa In this skyline The past it almost shimmers now All we needed, all we wished for But here I am and safe am I Trusting in an endless sky Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa In this skyline Skyline Skyline Skyline Are things getting better now? Are things getting worse? But I'm standing in the sunshine And it lifts my heart and feeds my mind Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa Safe in this skyline Safe, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa In this skyline Skyline Skyline Skyline Skyline Skyline Skyline -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- Shadow Man -------- [Verse 1] There's a man back a-ways Who believes at where he is And there's a girl Up ahead who says she knows [Verse 2] And the street overflows With the folk who understand For the guy who can't be seen He's the Shadow Man And the Shadow Man is close at hand [Verse 3] Take a turn and see his smile Made of nothing but loneliness Take a walk and be a friend To the Shadow Man [Chorus] You can call him Joe, you can call him Sam You should call and see who answers For he promises to come running, guided by the truth For the Shadow Man is really you [Bridge] Look in his eyes and see your reflection Look to the stars and see his eyes He'll show you tomorrow, he'll show you the sorrow Of what you did today [Chorus] You can call him foe, you can call him friend You should call and see who answers For he knows your eyes are drawn to the road ahead And the Shadow Man is waiting round the bend The Shadow Man is waiting up ahead Shadow man Is waiting up ahead Is waiting up ahead -------- 2002 Heathen -------- -------- You've Got a Habit of Leaving -------- You've got a habit of leaving me You've got a habit of deserting me Sometimes I cry Sometimes I'm so sad Sometimes I'm so glad, so glad You could grow up if you wanted to, wanted to, wanted to Wanted to Wanted to You've got a habit of leaving me You've got a habit of deserting me Sometimes I cry Sometimes I'm so sad Sometimes I'm so glad, so glad You could grow up if you wanted to, wanted to, wanted to Wanted to Wanted to -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- New Killer Star -------- [Verse 1] See the great white scar Over Battery Park Then a flare glides over But I won't look at that scar Oh, my nuclear baby (We'll discover a star) Oh, my idiot trance All my idiot questions (Like the stars in your eyes) Let's face the music and dance [Pre-Chorus] Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready I'll never say I'm better, I'm better, I'm better Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you [Chorus] All the corners of the buildings Who but we remember these? The sidewalks and trees I'm thinking now I got a better way I discovered a star I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way A new killer star I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way The stars in your eyes I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way I discovered a star I got a better way Ready, set, go [Verse 2] See my life in a comic Like the way they did the Bible With the bubbles and action The little details in color First a horseback bomber (We'll discover a star) Just a small thin chance Like seeing Jesus on Dateline (Like the stars in your eyes) Let's face the music and dance [Pre-Chorus] Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better Don't ever say I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready I'll never said I'm better, I'm better, I'm better, I'm better than you [Chorus] All the corners of the buildings Who but we remember these? The sidewalks and trees I'm thinking now I got a better way I discovered a star I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way A new killer star I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way The stars in your eyes I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way I discovered a star I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way I got a better way Ready, set, go I got a better way Oooh oo I got a better way Ready, set, go -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Pablo Picasso -------- [Chorus] Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails [Verse 1] Well some people try to pick up girls They get called assholes This never happened to Pablo Picasso The girls would turn the color of a juicy avocado When he would drive down their street in his El Dorado He could walk down your street Girls could not resist his stare So Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole Not like you Wow! [Chorus] Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails [Verse 2] He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole Well the girls would turn the color of a juicy avocado When he would drive down their street in his El Dorado Well he was only 5'3" But girls could not resist his stare Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole Not in New York Wow! [Chorus] Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails Swinging on the back porch Jumping off a big log Pablo's feeling better now Hanging by his finger nails -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Never Get Old -------- [Verse 1] Better take care Think I better go, better get a room Better take care of me Again and again I think about this and I think about personal history Better take care I breathe so deep when the movie gets real When the star turns round Again and again He looks me in the eye says he's got his mind on a countdown 3-2-1 [Pre-Chorus 1] Forever I'm screaming that I'm gonna be living on till the end of time Forever The sky splits open to a dull red skull My head hangs low cause it's all over now [Chorus 1] And there's never going to be enough money And there's never going to be enough drugs And I'm never ever going to get old There's never going to be enough bullets There's never going to be enough sex And I'm never ever going to get old So I'm never ever going to get high And I'm never ever going to get low And I'm never ever going to get old [Verse 2] Better take care The moon flows on to the edges of the world because of you Again and again And I'm awake in an age of light living it because of you Better take care I'm looking at the future solid as a rock because of you Again and again Want to be here and I wanna be there Living just like you, living just like me [Pre-Chorus 2] Forever Putting on my gloves and bury my bones in the marshland Forever Think about my soul but I don't need a thing just the ring of the bell in the pure clean air [Chorus] And I'm running down the street of life And I'm never going to let you die And I'm never ever going to get old And I'm never ever going to get I'm never ever going to get I'm never ever going to get old And I'm never ever going to get I'm never ever going to get And I'm never ever going to get old I'm never ever going to get Never ever get old -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- The Loneliest Guy -------- [Verse 1] Streets damp and warm Empty smell metal Weeds between buildings Pictures on my hard drive [Refrain] But I'm the luckiest guy Not the loneliest guy [Verse 2] Steam under floor Shards by the mirror's frame Clouds green and low No sign, no nothing now [Refrain] But I'm the luckiest guy Not the loneliest guy [Bridge] All the pages that have turned All the errors left unlearned, oh [Refrain] Well I'm the luckiest guy Not the loneliest guy In the world [Outro] Not me Not me -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Looking for Water -------- [Verse 1] Silver leaves are spinning round Take my hand as we go down and down and down Looking for water But I lost God in a New York minute Don't know about you but my heart's not in it (Looking looking looking) I'm looking for water I'm looking for water (Looking looking looking) I can't breathe the air Can't raise the fight Because all we've got left is a beat in the night And I'm Looking for water Looking for water Looking for water Looking looking [Verse 2] Take my hand as we go down and down Leave it all behind nothing will be found I'm looking for water I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking everywhere Looking for water Looking here and there I'm looking for water I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I can't live in this cage I can't eat this candy To the ends of the Earth To this pain in my head The look in your eyes That never means never The dawns early light Baby dumb is forever [Bridge] (Looking looking) (Looking looking) [Outro] Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking for water (Looking looking) I'm looking for water Looking for water -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- She'll Drive the Big Car -------- [Verse 1] She waited by the moon She was sick with fear and cold She felt too old for all of this Of course she never showed She lugged her suitcase to the bus Melted home through the snow North along Riverside [Verse 2] She slips beneath the sheets A husband's quiet devoted wife But strangers, sad and nervous By the dawn's early light Love lies like a dead cloud On a shabby, yellow lawn Up on Riverside [Chorus 1] She'll drive the big car He'll sit behind She'll keep an eye on Jessica South along the Hudson She'll turn the radio high Find a station playing sad, sad soul Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now) South along the Hudson yeah (I'll bring you there) Just a little bit faster now (Just a little bit faster now) Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now/I'll bring you there) Just a little bit angry now (Just a little bit angry now) South along the Hudson, yeah (I'll bring you there) And she'll drive the big car And talk herself insane (I'll bring you there) Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now) Just a little bit angry now (I'll bring you there) [Verse 3] Way back when millennium Meant racing to the light He promised her a dream-life He'd take her back to street-life Away from violent water With its cormorants and leaves Up on Riverside [Chorus 2] She'll drive the big car But he'll sit behind Bursting her bubbles of Ludlow and Grand South along the Hudson She'll turn the radio way up high Find a station playing sad, sad soul Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now) South along the Hudson (I'll bring you there) Just a little bit faster now (Just a little bit faster now) Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now/I'll bring you there) Just a little bit angry now (Just a little bit angry now) South along the Hudson (I'll bring you there) Just a little bit faster now (Just a little bit faster now) Just a little bit louder now (Just a little bit louder now/I'll bring you there) Just a little bit angry now (Just a little bit angry now) South along the Hudson, yeah (I'll bring you there) She'll drive the big car He'll sit behind (I'll bring you there) She'll keep an eye on Jessica Just a little bit faster now (I'll bring you there) Just a little bit faster now -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Days -------- [Verse 1] Hold me tight Keep me cool Going mad Don't know what to do Do I need a friend? Well, I need one now [Chorus] All the days of my life All the days of my life All the days I owe you [Verse 2] All I've done I've done for me All you gave You gave for free I gave nothing in return And there's little left of me [Chorus] All the days of my life All the days of my life All the days I owe you [Bridge] In red-eyed pain I'm knocking on your door again My crazy brain in tangles Pleading for your gentle voice Those storms keep pounding through my head and heart I pray you'll soothe my sorry soul [Chorus] All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days I owe you (Aah) All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days I owe you (Aah) All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days of my life (All the days of my life) All the days I owe you (Aah) -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Fall Dog Bombs the Moon -------- [Verse 1] Hope little girl Come blow me away I don't care much I win anyway Just a dog [Verse 2] I'm God damn rich An exploding man When I talk in the night There's oil on my hands What a dog [Chorus] Fall dog is cruel and smart Smart time breaks the heart Full dog bombs the moon Devil in a market place Devil in your bleeding face Full dog bombs the moon What a dog [Verse 3] There's always a moron Someone to hate A corporate tie A wig and a date Just a dog [Verse 4] These blackest of years That have no sound No shape, no depth No underground What a dog [Chorus] Fall dog is cruel and smart Smart time breaks the heart Full dog bombs the moon A devil in the market place A devil in your bleeding face Full dog bombs the moon What a dog -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Reality -------- [Verse 1] Tragic youth was looking young and sexy The tragic youth was wearing tattered black jeans Bearing arms and flaunting all her mischief The tragic youth was going down on me [Pre-Chorus] And I swear Woo hoo Yes I swear [Chorus 1] I built a wall of sound to separate us And hid among the junk of wretched highs I sped from Planet X to Planet Alpha Struggling for reality [Post-Chorus] Ha ha ha ha Woo hoo Ha ha ha ha Whoo hoo [Verse 2] Hey, now my sight is failing in this twilight Da da da da da da da da da Now my death is more than just a sad song Da da da da da da da da da [Pre-Chorus] And I swear Woo hoo Yes I swear Woo hoo [Chorus 2] I still don't remember how this happened I still don't get the wherefores and the whys I look for sense but I get next to nothing Hey boy welcome to reality [Post-Chorus] Ha ha ha ha Woo hoo [Bridge] I've been right and I've been wrong Now I'm back where I started from Never looked over reality's shoulder [Post-Chorus] Ha ha ha ha Huh ha ha ha Woo hoo Huh ha ha Wooh Woo hoo Wooh -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Bring Me the Disco King -------- [Verse 1] You promised me the ending would be clear You'd let me know when the time was now Don't let me know when you're opening the door Stab me in the dark, let me disappear Memories that flutter like bats out of hell Stab you from the city spires Life wasn't worth the balance Or the crumpled paper it was written on [Refrain] Don't let me know we're invisible Don't let me know we're invisible [Verse 2] Hot cash days that you trailed around Cold cold nights under chrome and glass Led me down a river of perfumed limbs Sent me to the streets with the good time girls [Refrain] Don't let me know we're invisible Don't let me know we're invisible [Pre-Chorus] We could dance, dance, dance through the fire Dance, dance, dance through the fire [Chorus] Feed me no lies I don't know about you, I don't know about you Breathe through the years I don't know about you, I don't know about you Bring me the disco king I don't know about you, I don't know about you Dead or alive, bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king, bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king [Verse 3] Spin-offs with those who slept like corpses Damp morning rays in the stiff bad clubs Killing time in the '70s Smelling of love through the moist winds Don't let me know when you're opening the door Close me in the dark, let me disappear Soon there'll be nothing left of me Nothing left to release [Pre-Chorus] Dance, dance, dance through the fire Dance, dance, dance through the fire [Chorus] Feed me no lies I don't know about you, I don't know about you Breathe through the years I don't know about you, I don't know about you Bring me the disco king I don't know about you, I don't know about you Dead or alive, bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king, bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king, bring me the disco king Bring me the disco king, bring me the disco king -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Waterloo Sunset -------- [Verse 1] Dirty old river, must you keep rolling Flowing into the night People so busy, makes me feel dizzy Taxi light shines so bright But I don't need no friends As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise [Chorus] Every day I look at the world from my window Chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine [Verse 2] Terry meets Julie at Waterloo Station Every Friday night But I am so lazy, don't want to wander I stay at home at night But I don't feel afraid As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset I am in paradise [Chorus] Every day I look at the world from my window Chilly, chilly is the evening time Waterloo sunset's fine [Verse 3] Millions of people swarming like flies 'round Waterloo underground But Terry and Julie cross over the river Where they feel safe and sound And they don't need no friends As long as they gaze on Waterloo sunset They are in paradise [Outro] Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine Waterloo sunset's fine -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Fly -------- The television's on And I'm walking through the yard The house is fast asleep And I'm crying in my car Dying for the weekend The kids are alright But they don't smile much They sit up in their garage With their decks and their stuff Dying for the weekend The boy's on a charge But his mother doesn't know He never got around Yet to telling her so It would only make her crazy And I'll be fine I'm only sleeping in my head And I can fly I close my eyes and I can fly The television's on And I'm walking through the yard The house is fast asleep And I'm crying in my car Dying for the weekend The kids have got a gig In an all night rave They're lookin' pretty tough But I still want to say Do you really have to go? Down in the back street A skinny kid cries Bad drive Saturday Another life flies Dying for the weekend And I'll be fine I'm only sleeping in my head And I can fly I close my eyes and I can fly And I can fly And fall toward the end And I can fly And I'll be fine I'm only sleeping in my head And I can fly I close my eyes and I can fly -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Queen of All the Tarts (Overture) -------- [Refrain] Queen of Queen of all the tarts Queen of Queen of all the tarts [Refrain] Queen of Queen of all the tarts Queen of Queen of all the tarts [Outro] Queen of Queen of Queen of Queen of -------- 2003 Reality -------- -------- Try Some, Buy Some -------- [Verse 1] Way back in time Someone said try some I tried some Now buy some, I bought some Oh oh oh After a while When I had tried them, denied them I opened my eyes and I saw you [Chorus] Not a thing did I have Not a thing did I see Untill I called on your love And your love came to me Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh ohhh [Verse 2] Through my life I've seen grey sky, met big fry Seen them die to get high Ohhh And when it seemed that I would only be lonely I opened my eyes and I saw you [Chorus] Not a thing did I feel Not a thing did I know Untill I called on your love And your love sure did grow Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh ohhh [Outro] Won't you try some Baby won't you buy some Won't you try some Baby won't you buy some Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh oh ohhh -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- The Next Day -------- [Verse 1] Look into my eyes he tells her I'm gonna say goodbye he says, yeah Do not cry she begs of him goodbye, yeah All that day she thinks of his love, yeah They whip him through the streets and alleys there The gormless and the baying crowd right there They can't get enough of that doomsday song They can't get enough of it all Listen [Verse 2] Listen to the whores he tells her He fashions paper sculptures of them Then drags them to the river's bank in the cart Their soggy paper bodies wash ashore in the dark And the priest stiff in hate now demanding fun begin Of his women dressed as men for the pleasure of that priest [Chorus] Here I am Not quite dying My body left to rot in a hollow tree Its branches throwing shadows On the gallows for me And the next day And the next And another day [Verse 3] Ignoring the pain of their particular diseases They chase him through the alleys chase him down the steps They haul him through the mud and they chant for his death And drag him to the feet of the purple headed priest First they give you everything that you want Then they take back everything that you have They live upon their feet and they die upon their knees They can work with Satan while they dress like the saints They know God exists for the Devil told them so They scream my name aloud down into the well below [Chorus] Here I am Not quite dying My body left to rot in a hollow tree Its branches throwing shadows On the gallows for me And the next day And the next And another day Here I am Not quite dying My body left to rot in a hollow tree Its branches throwing shadows On the gallows for me And the next day And the next And another day Here I am Not quite dying My body left to rot in a hollow tree Its branches throwing shadows On the gallows for me And the next day And the next And another day [Outro] Listen -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Dirty Boys -------- [Verse 1] Something like tobacco road Living on a lonely road I will pull you out of there We will go to Finchley fair I will buy you feather hat I will steal a cricket bat Smash some windows, make a noise We will run with dirty boys [Chorus] When the sun goes down When the sun goes down and the die is cast When the die is cast and you have no choice We will run with dirty boys [Verse 2] We all gone mad We all want you Vinny and the boys, we all go through You got to learn to hold your tongue This ain't the moon this is burnin' sun [Chorus] When the sun goes down When the sun goes down and the die is cast When the die is cast and you have no choice We will run with dirty boys -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- The Stars (Are Out Tonight) -------- [Chorus] Stars are never sleeping Dead ones and the living [Verse 1] We live closer to the earth Never to the heavens The stars are never far away The stars are out tonight They watch us from behind their shades Brigitte Jack and Kate and Brad From behind their tinted window stretch Gleaming like blackened sunshine [Chorus] Stars are never sleeping Dead ones and the living [Verse 2] Waiting for the first move Satyrs and their child wives Waiting for the last move Soaking up our primitive world [Chorus] Stars are never sleeping Dead ones and the living [Verse 3] Their jealousy's spilling down The stars must stick together We will never be rid of these stars But I hope they live forever [Bridge] And they know just we do That we toss and turn at night They're waiting to make their moves But the stars are out tonight [Verse 4] Here they are upon the stairs Sexless and unaroused They are stars, they're dying for you But I hope they live forever They burn you with their radiant smiles Trap you with their beautiful eyes They're broke and shamed or drunk or scared But I hope they live forever Their jealousy's spilling down The stars must stick together We will never be rid of these stars But I hope they live forever [Outro] And they know just what we do That we toss and turn at night They're waiting to make their moves on us But the stars are out tonight The stars are out tonight The stars are out tonight -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Love Is Lost -------- [Verse 1] It's the darkest hour, you're 22 The voice of youth, the hour of dread It's the darkest hour, and your voice is new Love is lost, lost is love [Verse 2] Your country's new, your friends are new Your house, and even your eyes are new Your maid is new, and your accent, too But your fear is as old as the world [Chorus] Say goodbye to the thrills of life When love was good, when love was bad Wave goodbye to the life without pain Say hello, you're a beautiful girl [Verse 3] Say hello to the lunatic men Tell them your secrets, they're like the grave Oh, what have you done? Oh, what have you done? Love is lost, lost is love You know so much, its making you cry You refuse to talk, but you think like mad You've cut out your soul and the face of thought Oh, what have you done? Oh, what have you done? Oh, what have you done? Oh, what have you done? -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Where Are We Now? -------- [Verse 1] Had to get the train From Potsdamer platz You never knew that That I could do that Just walking the dead Sitting in the Dschungel On Nrnberger Strasse A man lost in time near KaDeWe Just walking the dead [Chorus] Where are we now? Where are we now? The moment you know You know, you know [Verse 2] Twenty thousand people Cross Bsebrcke Fingers are crossed Just in case Walking the dead [Chorus] Where are we now? Where are we now? The moment you know You know, you know [Outro] As long as there's sun As long as there's sun As long as there's rain As long as there's rain As long as there's fire As long as there's fire As long as there's me As long as there's you -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Valentine's Day -------- [Verse 1] Valentine told me who's to go Feelings he's treasured most of all The teachers and the football star It's in his tiny face It's in his scrawny hand Valentine told me so He's got something to say, it's Valentine's Day The rhythm of the crowd Teddy and Judy down [Chorus] Valentine sees it all He's got something to say, it's Valentine's Day [Verse 2] Valentine told me how it feels If all the world were under his heels Or stumbling through the mall It's in his tiny face It's in his scrawny hand [Chorus] Valentine knows it all He's got something to say, it's Valentine's Day [Bridge] (Yeah) Valentine Valentine (Yeah) (Woo) (Woo) Valentine Valentine [Outro] It's in his scrawny hand It's in his icy heart It's happening today Valentine Valentine It's in his scrawny hands It's in his icy heart It's happening today Valentine Valentine -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- If You Can See Me -------- If you can see me I can see you I could wear your new blue shoes I should wear your old red dress And walk to the crossroad, so take this knife And meet me across the river Just chutes and ladders And this is the kiss American anna fantasticalsation From nowhere to nothing And neither way back Children swarm like thousands of bugs Towards the light The beacons above the hill The stars to the West, the South, the North And to the East Now you can say I've got a gift of sorts A fear of rear windows and swinging doors My love of violence and tenants' sighs If you can see me I can see you If you can see me I can see you I have seen these bairns wave their fists at God Swear to destroy the beast, stamping the ground In their excitement for tomorrow I could wear your new blue shoes I should wear your old red dress And walk to the crossroad, so take this knife And meet me across the river I will take your lands and all that lays beneath The dust of cold flowers, drizzle of dark ashes I will slaughter your kind, descend from belief I am the spirit of greed, the lord of theft Burn all your books and the problems they make If you can see me I can see you If you can see me -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- I'd Rather Be High -------- [Verse 1] Nabokov is sun-licked now Upon the beach at Grunewald Brilliant and naked just The way that authors look Clare and Lady Manners drink Until the other cows go home Gossip till their lips are bleeding Politics and all [Chorus] Id rather be high Id rather be flying Id rather be dead Or out of my head Than training these guns on those men in the sand Id rather be high [Verse 2] The Thames was black, the tower dark I flew to Cairo, find my regiment Citys full of generals And generals full of shit I stumble to the graveyard and I Lay down by my parents, whisper Just remember duckies Everybody gets got [Chorus] Id rather be high Id rather be flying Id rather be dead Or out of my head Than training these guns on those men in the sand Id rather be high [Bridge] Im seventeen my looks can prove it Im so afraid that I will lose it Id rather smoke and phone my ex Be pleading for some teenage sex Yeah [Chorus] Id rather be high Id rather be flying Id rather be dead Or out of my head Than training these guns on the men in the sand Id rather be high -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Boss of Me -------- [Verse 1] Tell me when you're sad I wanna make it cool again I know you're feeling bad Tell me when you're cool again [Bridge] Who would have ever thought of it? Who would have ever dreamed? That a small-town girl like you Would be the boss of me [Verse 2] You fly through the night With tears on your lips Life has your mind and soul It spins on your hips [Chorus] Who would have ever thought of it? Who would have ever dreamed? Who would have ever thought of it? Who would have ever dreamed? That a small-town girl like you Would be the boss of me Would be the boss of me Would be the boss of me [Verse 3] You know that me and you we fall free through skies I look to the stars as they flicker and float in your eyes And under these wings of steel the small town dies [Chorus] Who would have ever thought of it? Who would have ever dreamed? Who would have ever thought of it? Who would have ever dreamed? That a small-town girl like you Would be the boss of me Would be the boss of me Would be the boss of me -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Dancing Out in Space -------- Cutting through the water Hands upon the ghost To the city of solid iron Through the kingdom of the boats Send your friend away now Let him sail back home tonight Something like religion Dancing face to face Something like a drowning Dancing out in space No-one here can see you Dancing face to face No-one here can beat you Dancing out in space Silent as Georges Rodenbach Mist and silhouette Girl, you move like water Youve got stars upon your head Youve got my name and number You've got to take the floor Something like religion Dancing face to face Something like a drowning Dancing out in space No-one here can see you Dancing face to face No-one here can beat you Dancing out in space Dancing face to face Dancing out in space -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- How Does the Grass Grow? -------- [Verse 1] There's a graveyard by the station where the girls Wear vinyl skirts and sandals from Hungary The boys ride their Riga 1s upon the little hills Such sadness and grief, the kids die standing That's where we made our tryst and struggled with our guns Would you still love me if the clocks could go backwards? The girls would fill with blood, and the grass will be green again Remember the dead, they were so great, some of them [Chorus] Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Where do the boys lie? Mud, mud, mud How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood [Verse 2] Well I lived a blind life, a white face, a prison That you made, a life out of nothing, now I ride by Black roads. I miss you more than you'll never, ever know Waiting with my red eyes and my stone heart [Chorus] Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Where do the boys lie? Mud, mud, mud How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood [Bridge] I gaze in defeat at the stars in the night The light in my life burnt away There will be no tomorrow Then you sigh in your sleep And meaning returns with the day [Chorus] Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya Where do the boys lie? Mud, mud, mud How does the grass grow? Blood, blood, blood -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- (You Will) Set the World on Fire -------- [Verse 1] Midnight in the Village Seeger lights the candles From Bitter End to Gaslight Baez leaves the stage Ochs takes notes When the black girl and guitar Burn together hot in rage You've got what it takes You say too much [Chorus] Oh you will set the world babe You will set the world on fire I can work the scene and I can see the magazines I can hear the nation I can hear the nation cry You will set the world babe You will set the world on fire You will set it on fire [Verse 2] Kennedy would kill for the lines that youve written Van Ronk says to Bobby "shes the next real thing" Crouched in the half light, screaming like a banshee Youre in the boat babe, we're in the water You say too much [Chorus] Oh you will set the world babe You will set the world on fire I can work the scene and I can see the magazines I can hear the nation I can hear the nation cry You will set the world babe You will set the world on fire You will set it on fire [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] Oh you will set the world babe You will set the world on fire I can work the scene and I can see the magazines I can hear the nation I can hear the nation cry You will set the world babe You will set the world on fire You will set it on fire Oh you will set the world babe You will set the world on fire I can work the scene and I can see the magazines I can hear the nation I can hear the nation cry You will set the world babe You will set the world on fire You will set it on fire -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- You Feel So Lonely You Could Die -------- [Verse 1] No one ever saw you moving through the dark Leaving slips of paper somewhere in the park Hidden from your friends, stealing all they knew Love is thrown in airless rooms, then vile rewards for you [Pre-Chorus] And I'm gonna tell, yes, I've gotta tell Gotta tell the things you said When you're talking in the dark And I'm gonna tell the things you've done When you're walking through the park [Chorus] Some night on the thrillers street Will come the silent gun You've got a dangerous heart You stole their trust, their moon, their sun They'll come such assassin's needle on a crowded train I bet you feel so lonely you could die [Verse 2] Buildings crammed with people, landscapes filled with wrath Gray concrete city, rain has wet the street I want to see you clearly before you close the door A room of bloody history, you made sure of that [Pre-Chorus] I can see you as a corpse hanging from a beam I could read you like a book I can feel you falling I hear you moaning in your room Oh, see if I care Oh, please, please make it soon [Chorus] Walls have got you cornered You've got the blues, my friend And people don't like you But you will leave without a sound, without an end Oblivion shall own you Death alone shall love you I hope you feel so lonely you could die Feel so lonely you could die You feel so lonely you could die -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Heat -------- [Verse 1] When we saw Mishima's dog Trapped between the rocks Blocking the waterfall The songs of dust The world would end The night was always falling The peacock in the snow [Chorus] And I tell myself, I don't know who I am And I tell myself, I don't know who I am My father ran the prison My father ran the prison [Verse 2] I can only love you by hating him more That's not the truth, it's too big a word He believed that love is theft Love and war, the theft of love [Chorus] And I tell myself, I don't know who I am And I tell myself, I don't know who I am My father ran the prison My father ran the prison [Bridge] But I am a seer, I am a liar I am a seer, but I am a liar [Chorus] My father ran the prison My father ran the prison -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- So She -------- [Verse 1] For the priceless man Who suffers gloom So slow Eyes were stolen For her A sleeping sky Takes the moon So slow I would slide away Further out to sea Further out to sea So she [Verse 2] She saw me smile Feeling like Id never been She saw me smile Feeling like Id never been In love Feeling like Id never been The only one and all alone The only one and all alone -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- Plan -------- [Instrumental] -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- I'll Take You There -------- [Verse 1] Today, today is the 1st of May Everything around us Everything a lie Your hearts beating fast As we race through the dark Past the really good people Who do what theyre told [Chorus] What will be my name In the USA? Hold my hand and Ill take you there Who will I become In the USA? Hold my hand and Ill take you there [Verse 2] Sophie and Lev are running away These are the days The days of gloom Lev cant smile and Sophie cant sing A mile to the future Where tomorrow is king [Chorus] [Verse 3] I dont need to know Know where you are Only that you are Safe in this world Then Ill be content Get on with my life Eat, drink and sleep Look up at the stars [Chorus] -------- 2013 The Next Day -------- -------- God Bless the Girl -------- [Verse 1] Jacqui loves her work, and her work is love For there is no other She says "God has given me a job" Jacqui loves her work There is no other Jacqui's aiming for the stars but landed on the clouds There is no other Sitting in her corner too afraid to run away Like a slave without chains [Chorus] The wonder turns to danger, spring turns to winter God Bless the Girl But I will treasure, treasure every single moment God Bless the Girl Fire turns to water, light becomes darkness God Bless the Girl And I don't wanna hurt you, just wanna have some fun God Bless the Girl God Bless the Girl Yeah, I don't wanna hurt you, just wanna have some fun God Bless the Girl [Verse 2] You don't need another friend, you just need a reason There is no other Jacqui loves her work, and her work is love For there is no other [Chorus] The wonder turns to danger, spring turns to winter God Bless the Girl But I will always treasure, treasure every single moment God Bless the Girl Fire turns to water and light becomes darkness God Bless the Girl I don't wanna hurt you, just wanna have some fun God Bless the Girl God Bless the Girl God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) I don't wanna hurt you, just wanna have some fun God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) The years pass so swiftly God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) Years pass so swiftly God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) God Bless the Girl (God Bless the Girl) -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- Blackstar -------- [Intro] In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all Your eyes On the day of execution, on the day of execution Only women kneel and smile, ah-ah, ah-ah At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all Your eyes, your eyes [Bridge I] Ah-ah-ah Ah-ah-ah In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah At the centre of it all, at the centre of it all Your eyes, your eyes Ah-ah-ah [Bridge II] Something happened on the day he died Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried (I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar) How many times does an angel fall? How many people lie instead of talking tall? He trod on sacred ground, he cried loud into the crowd (I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar) I can't answer why (I'm a blackstar) Just go with me (I'm not a filmstar) I'ma take you home (I'm a blackstar) Take your passport and shoes (I'm not a popstar) And your sedatives, boo (I'm a blackstar) You're a flash in the pan (I'm not a marvel star) I'm the Great I Am (I'm a blackstar) I'm a blackstar, way up, on money, I've got game I see right, so wide, so open-hearted pain I want eagles in my daydreams, diamonds in my eyes (I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar) Something happened on the day he died Spirit rose a metre then stepped aside Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried (I'm a blackstar, I'm a star's star, I'm a blackstar) I can't answer why (I'm not a gangstar) But I can tell you how (I'm not a flam star) We were born upside-down (I'm a star's star) Born the wrong way 'round (Im not a white star) I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar I'm not a pornstar, I'm not a wandering star I'm a blackstar, Im a blackstar [Bridge III] In the villa of Ormen stands a solitary candle Ah-ah, ah-ah At the centre of it all, your eyes On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile Ah-ah, ah-ah At the centre of it all, your eyes, your eyes Ah-ah-ah [Outro] -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] Man, she punched me like a dude Hold your mad hands, I cried Tis a pity she was a whore Tis my curse, I suppose That was patrol That was patrol This is the war [Bridge] [Verse 2] Black struck the kiss, she kept my cock Smote the mistress, drifting on Tis a pity she was a whore She stole my purse, with rattling speed That was patrol This is the war Tis a pity she was a whore [Bridge 2] [Verse 3] Man, she punched me like a dude Hold your mad hands, I cried Tis a pity she was a whore Tis my fate, I suppose For, that was patrol That was patrol Tis a pity she was a whore [Outro] Tis a pity she was a whore Woo! Ahh! Woo! Woo! -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- Lazarus -------- [Intro] [Verse 1] Look up here, I'm in heaven I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be stolen Everybody knows me now [Verse 2] Look up here, man, I'm in danger I've got nothing left to lose I'm so high, it makes my brain whirl Dropped my cell phone down below Ain't that just like me? [Bridge] By the time I got to New York I was living like a king There I used up all my money I was looking for your ass [Verse 3] This way or no way You know I'll be free Just like that bluebird Now, ain't that just like me? Oh, I'll be free Just like that bluebird Oh, I'll be free Ain't that just like me? [Outro] -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- Sue (or In a Season of Crime) -------- [Verse 1] Sue I got the job We'll buy the house You'll need to rest But now we'll make it [Verse 2] Sue The clinic called The x-ray's fine I brought you home I just said home [Verse 3] Sue, you said you want it writ Sue, the virgin on your stone For your grave Why too dark to speak the words? For, I know that you have a son Oh, folly, Sue [Verse 4] Ride the train, I'm far from home In a season of crime none need atone I kissed your face Sue, I've pushed you down beneath the weeds Endless faith in hopeless deeds I kissed your face I touched your face [Bridge] Sue, goodbye [Outro] Sue, I found your note That you wrote last night It can't be right You went with him Sue, I never dreamed I'm such a fool Right from the start You went with that clown -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- Girl Loves Me -------- [Verse 1] Cheena so sound, so titi up this malchick, say Party up moodge, nanti vellocet round on Tuesday Real bad dizzy snatch making all the omies mad - Thursday Popo blind to the polly in the hole by Friday [Bridge] Where the fuck did Monday go? I'm cold to this pig and pug show I'm sittin' in the chestnut tree Who the fuck's gonna mess with me? [Chorus] Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me [Bridge] Where the fuck did Monday go? (Go, go, go, go, go, go, go) I'm cold to this pig and pug show (Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go) Where the fuck did Monday go? (Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go) [Verse 2] You viddy at the cheena Choodesny with the red rot Libbilubbing litso-fitso Devotchka watch her garbles Spatchko at the rozz-shop Split a ded from his deng deng Viddy viddy at the cheena [Chorus] Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me [Refrain] Where the fuck did Monday go? Where the fuck did Monday go? Where the fuck did Monday go? [Chorus] Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me Girl loves me (Hey, cheena) Girl loves me [Refrain] Where the fuck did Monday go? Where the fuck did Monday go? -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- Dollar Days -------- [Verse 1] Cash girls suffer me, Ive got no enemies Im walking down Its nothing to me Its nothing to see If I'll never see the English evergreens Im running to Its nothing to me Its nothing to see [Chorus 1] Im dying to Push their backs against the grain And fool them all again and again Im trying to We bitches tear our magazines Those oligarchs with foaming mouths come Now and then Cant believe for just one second Im forgetting you Im trying to Im dying to [Verse 2] Dollar days, survival sex Honour stretching tails to necks Im falling down Its nothing to me Its nothing to see If I'll never see the English evergreens Im running to Its nothing to me Its nothing to see [Chorus 2] Im dying to Push their backs against the grain And fool them all again and again Im trying to Its all gone wrong but on and on The bitter nerve ends never end Im falling down Dont believe for just one second Im forgetting you Im trying to Im dying to [Outro] Im trying to Im dying to Im trying to Im dying to Im trying to Im dying to Im trying to Im dying to -------- 2016 Blackstar -------- -------- I Can't Give Everything Away -------- [Produced By David Bowie & Tony Visconti] [Verse 1] I know something's very wrong The pulse returns the prodigal sons The blackout hearts, the flowered news With skull designs upon my shoes [Chorus] I can't give everything I can't give everything Away I can't give everything Away [Verse 2] Seeing more and feeling less Saying no but meaning yes This is all I ever meant That's the message that I sent [Chorus] I can't give everything I can't give everything Away I can't give everything Away I can't give everything I can't give everything Away I can't give everything Away [Verse 1] I know something's very wrong The pulse returns the prodigal sons The blackout hearts, the flowered news With skull designs upon my shoes [Chorus] I can't give everything I can't give everything Away I can't give everything Away I can't give everything I can't give everything Away I can't give everything Away