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When I was a young man, no bigger than this a chocolate egg cream was not to be missed Some U Bet's Chocolate Syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk you stir it up into a heady fro, tasted just like silk You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream Now you can go to Junior's, Dave's on Canal Street and I think there's Ken's in Boston there must be something in L.A. But Becky's on Kings Highway, was the egg cream of choice and if you don't believe me, go ask any of the boys You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream The only good thing I have to say about P.S. 92 was the egg cream served at Becky's, it was a fearsome brew For 50 cents you got a shot, choco bubbles up your nose that made it easier to deal with knife fights and kids pissing in the street You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream So the next time you're in Brooklyn, please say hello for me at Totonno's for Pizza and ice cream at Al and Shirley's But mostly you go to Becky's, sit in a booth and say hello and have two chocolate egg cream, one to stay and one to go You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream, ah You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream |
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| 2. |
| 4:56 |
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It can only lead to trouble if you break my heart
if you accidentally crush it on the ides of March I'd prefer you were straight forward you don't have to go through all of that I'm a New York city man, baby, and say "go" and that is that New York city man, you just say "go" and that is that I'm a New York city man, you just say "go" and that is that It's far too complicated to make up a lie that you'd have to remember and really why I wouldn't want to be around you if you didn't want to have me around I'm a M-A-N-N man, you blink your eyes and I'll be gone M-A-N-N man, you blink your eyes, honey, I love you, I'll be gone New York city man, you blink your eyes and I'll be gone Brutus made a pretty speech but Caesar was betrayed Lady Macbeth went crazy but Macbeth ended slain Ophelia and Desdamona dead leaving Hamlet in a play but I'm no Lear with blinded eyes, say "go" and I am gone The stars have shut their eyes up tight the earth has changed it's course a Kingdom sits on a black knight's back as he tries to mount a white jeweled horse While a clock full of butterflies on the hour releases a thousand moths You say "leave" and I'll be gone without any remorse No letters faxes phones or tears there's a difference between bad and worse I'm a New York city man, blink your eyes and I'll be gone New York city - man, M-A-N, you blink your eyes and I'll be gone New York city, I love you, New York city man New York city, how I love you, blink your eyes and I'll be gone just a little grain of sand New York city, ooohhh, how I love you New York city, baby, blink your eyes and I'll be gone Oh, how I love you |
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Wind blows snow outside my windows crowd below runs wild in the streets Two rented brothers race down two separate alleys heading for the finish line Down in the train yard out by the stockyard butchers with aprons hack meat in the snow Blood has the brothers pulsing with envy heading for the finish line Two rented brothers. Their faces keep changing just like these feelings I have for you And nothing's forever not even five minutes when you're headed for the finish line Down in the depot out by the meat rack down by the tunnels surrounding the jail Prisoners are marching in squares and in circles they're heading for the finish line They're lining up for Noah's Ark they're stabbing each other in the dark Saluting a flag made of some rich guy's socks heading for the finish line Close to the line the ice is cracking two rented feelings sitting in the stands Two mothers, two fathers and both of them are paid for all of a sudden it comes back to me Just up ahead is the finish line two rented referees and two checkered rags Out of the corner of my eye comes a dark horse with black wings headed for the finish line I'm five years old the room is fuzzy I think there's also a very young girl It's hard to remember what happened exactly as I'm staring at the finish line First came fire then came light then came feeling then cane sight |
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| 4:59 |
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I met a new me at 8 am, the other one got lost this was not a trade in, although I wouldn't believe the cost I woke up crying as we said goodbye me an my old self, each day he vanished more and more as I became someone else He actually was murdered I had taken him apart but when I put him back together, I couldn't find his heart It was resting underneath a chair, in a bed of bright tin foil if I pulled back the flaps, I could still see it beat I could still hear his voice uncoil, As I said : I want a trade in, a 14th chance at this life I've met a woman with a thousand faces and I want to make her my wife How could I have been so mistaken, how could I think that it was true a child that is raised by an idiot, and that idiot then becomes you How could I believe in a movie, how could I believe in a book but most of all how could I listen to you, such an obvious schmuck A life spent listening to assholes, it's funny but it's true so get rid of them I said to myself but first I'm getting rid of you I want a trade in, a 14th chance at this life I've met a woman with a thousand faces and I want to make her my wife Take me over to the window, my heart said to my head please set me on fine, so we can start again I was so wrong that it's funny, and I can't apologize but instead you can be everything that I'm not, the second that I die ooohhh, I want a trade in, the second chance at this life I've met a woman with a thousand faces and I want to make her my wife Ha! A 14th chance at this life, I want a trade in ... ... I said ... uuuhhh, 14th, 14th chance at this life |
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| 3:46 |
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When your imagination has too much to say when the chill of the night meets the sweat of the day And you have trouble understanding what other people have to say you'd better Hang on to your emotions, hang on to your emotions When a demagogue inside your head has taken charge and by default what you say or do is criticized And this litany of failures is recited a thousand times you'd better Hang on to your emotions, hang on to your emotions Could it be you've never felt like that that your mind's a cage - inside the cage a cat that spits and scratches all it can get at And that's you, and your emotions Could it be you've never felt like that your mind's a cage - inside the cage a rat rabidly trying to get it, you And your emotions, you and your emotions When your imagination has too much to say when that facile voice inside your head says give your life away You might think to ask - how it got that way what books it has read - that make it that way And where it got the right - to speak to anyone that way you'd better Hold on to your emotions, hold on to your emotions When a night city's breeze blows across the room and a 5 am moon and sun start their swoon You hear your lover's breath and not a moment too soon you get to Release all your emotions, you get to let go of your emotions, and now Release all your emotions, you'd better let go of your emotions Release, I wanna let go I wanna release, now |
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| 3:38 |
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I was thinking of things that I hate to do SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS Things you do to me or I do to you, baby SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS Something fatter or uglier than Rush Rambo Something more disgusting than Robert Dole Something pink that climbs out of a hole And there it was - SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS I was getting so sick of this right wing republican shit These ugly old man scared of young tit and dick So I try to think of something that made me sick And there it was - SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS Now these old fucks can steal all they want And they can go and pass laws saying you can't say what you want And you can't look at this and you can't look at that And you can't smoke this and you can't snort that And me baby - I got statistics - I got stats These people have been to bed with their parents Now I know you're shocked but hang and have a brew If you think about it for a minute you know that it's true They're ashamed and repelled and they don't know what to do They've had sex with their parents When they looked into their lovers eyes they saw - mom In the name of the family values we must ask whose family In the name of the family values we must ask - Senator It's has been reported that you have had Illegal congress with your mother, - SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS ah, Senator An illegal congress by proxy is a Pigeon by any other name, - SEX WITH YOUR PARENTS Senators you polish a turd Here in the big city we got a word For those who would bed their beloved big bird And make a mockery of our freedoms Ah, without even using a condom Without even saying "no" By god we have a name for people like that It's - hey motherfucker |
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| 3:27 |
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| 4:18 |
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You're an adventurer you sail across the oceans you climb the Himalayas seeking truth and beauty as a natural state You're a queen reborn worshipped from above afar some see you as an elixir an elemental natural seeking perfect grace In a catacomb or cave of endless drawings prehistoric or religious your accomplishments prodigious seeking out the perfect tone Your language so clear your voice perfectly turning as in the city I sit yearning blowing rings of smoke from thin cigars or driving fast in foreign cars to capture your remains, huh You're an adventurer a turban wet wrapped 'round your head on the mountainside they predict your death oh how you fooled them all But subjects are a poor excuse when what you really want's a muse an inspirating knowledge of what comes before Ooohhh, speeds of light the momentary flicker of a candle in its wicker basket smoking wax, facts Did you find that superior knowledge that eluded you in college Did you find that super vortex that could cause your cerebral cortex ooohhh, to lose its grip You're an adventurer you were out looking for meaning while the rest of us were steaming in an inspirating ah, urban pit An adventurer you enter as I'm dreaming I wish I'd never wake up Differentiating scheming from my one true love You're an adventurer you love the angles and the cherries the height and width of levies the natural bridge and tunnels of the human race You're an adventurer nothing seem to scare you and if it does it won't dissuade you you just will not think about it you dismiss it and defocus you redefine the locus of your time in space, race As you move further from me and though I understand the thinking and have often done the same thing I find parts of me gone You're an adventurer and though I'll surely miss you and of course I'll survive without you and maybe good will come of that But at this point, ah I anticipate some grieving and although I know your leaving is a necessary adjunct to what we both do An adventurer splitting up the atom splitting up the once was splitting up the essence of our star-crossed fate None who meet you do forget you, my adventurer my adventurer, my adventurer-venturer my adventuress |
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| 7:47 |
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She's out of her mind like the wind in the storm Oh, like the ocean in the dawn as it disappears, with the riptide She's out of her mind she's pulled away by the moon She's ripped from her sleep as the cold luna sweep gains control Ooohhh, what you gonna do with your emotions Ah, ones you barely recognize In your sleep I heard your screaming, ooohhh "This is not voluntary! This is not voluntary! If this is life I'd rather die!" In the riptide, in the riptide She's out of her mind, riptide like a muscle that swells You know when you trip whether you're well or sick, your body aches She's out with the tide gone to a prisoner's dance Where a monkey's her date eating limbs off a plate with a spoon Ooohhh, what you gonna do with your emotions said the seagull to the loon What you gonna do with your emotions She said "Please wake me up" She said "Don't touch me now" She said "I wish I was dead" With the riptide She's out of her mind riptide, you always win It happens over and over again riptide She's out of her mind like a hurricane's rain She does not stand a chance at this luna dance, riptide I was thinking of Van Gogh's last painting the wheatfields and the crows Is that perhaps what you've been feeling When you see the ground as you fall from the shy As the floors disappears from beneath your feet riptide She's going out of her mind out with the tide out of her mind riptide She's going out of her mind with the riptide She's going out of her mind ah, riptide |
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| 5:04 |
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Take me for what I am a star newly emerging Long simmering explodes inside the self is reeling In the pocket of the heart, in the rushing of the blood in the muscle of my sex, in the mindful mindless love I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling At 5 am the moon and the sun sit set before my window Light glances off the blue glass we set right before the window And you who accept, in your soul and your head what was misunderstood, what was thought of with dread a new self is born, the other self dead I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling A soul singer stands on the stage the spotlight shows him sweating He sinks to one knee, seems to cry the horn are unrelenting But as the drums beats he finds himself growing hard in the microphone's face he sees her face growing large and the swelling crescendo no longer retards I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling As the twilight sunburst gleams as the chromium moon it sets As I lose all my regrets and set the twilight reeling I accept the new found man and set the twilight reeling |
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