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A monk with a hard on in a lavender robe That scratches his thighs for the height that he strode As he follows a path filled with harried desire And mimics his footsteps and sets his prayers on fire Glad to have chosen that which left no choice To sing without loving in a solitary voice To observe with passion each careful denial The protrusions which give my life meaning for a while Sometimes I see you eating berries and weeds You're brushing your teeth with licorice seeds Standing too close, holding your clothes Smiling at God, the meaning of life grows No, no I'll never tell and I'll never know What candles you light after the show And I'll never tell and I'll never ask The meaning of life after mass |
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| 3:30 |
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Begging round the sun beaten streets I can't make me no connections Locals here no speak no English Where is my woman, well no one knows Ah well, some girls just have to leave in the night While you're fast asleep But I don't worry, I move in the dark There were lights, there were border lights I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing I saw the light, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there I woke in some hotel room I could hardly remember my name They were only sixteen years old I felt so lonely, I felt so ashamed I know sometimes I just have to leave In the night, while you're fast asleep But I don't worry, I move in the dark There were lights, there were border lights I thought I heard that drum in the distance playing I turned around, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there Don't you wonder where one goes wrong Is it somewhere in a foreign rain? We're sitting out the storm Every lamplight in town Man don't know when he's got it his grace Till beat angels come and take her away, beat angels, beat angels Well I crossed my heart and beat angels were there, beat angels? |
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| 3:56 |
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Close your eyes and dream of me You've found the one you love Life is long and then it's through But you go on and on Nous serons une nuit brillante Comme tous les papillons Longue (est) la vie La mort...ce n'est pas finI Toujours je suis...un papillon La nuit ....les papillons Je suis les papillons |
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Pack up all your cares and woes Here I go singing low, Bye bye blackbird. Where someone waits for me Sugar's sweet and so is he, Bye bye blackbird. No one here can love and understand me, Oh what hard luck stories thay all hand me. Make my bed and light the light I'll arrive late tonight, Bye bye blackbird |
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| 6. |
| 3:31 |
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Chuck E.'s In LoveRickie Lee Jones(Rickie Lee Jones)How come he don't come and p.l.p. with me Down at the meter no more?And how come he turn off the T.V. And he hang that sign on the door?Well we call and we call "How come?" we sayHell, what could make a boy behave this a-way? Yeah Well he learned all of the lines now And everytime he don't-a s-stutter when he talksAnd it's true, it's true! He sure has acquired this kinda cool and inspired sort of jazz when he walksWhere's his jacket and his old blue jeans?Hey, if this ain't healthy it is some kinda cleanFact is that... Chuck E.'s In Love (yeah, yeah)Chuck E.'s In Love (no, no, no)n Chuck E.'s In Love (ah, ah)That Chuck E.'s In... Well I don't believe what you're sayin' to me This is somethin' I've got to seeIs he here? I look for him in the pool hallWell is he here? I look in the drug storeWell is he here? No he don't come here no moreWell I tell you what, I saw himHe was sittin' behind us down at the Pantages And whatever it is that he's got up his sleeveWell, I hope it isn't contagiousWhat's her name? Is that her there?Oh Christ, I think he's even combed his hair! And is that her, well then what's her name? Oh it's never gonna be the sameThat's not her! I know what's wrongCause Chuck E.'s in love With the little girl singin' this song, and Don't you know...Chuck E.'s In Love (yeah, yeah) Chuck E.'s In Love (no, no, no)Chuck E.'s In Love (ah, ah) Chuck E.'s InChuck E.'s In Love Chuck E.'s In Love He's in love, no-ho-noWith Me |
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I'll remember you too clearly But I'll survive another day Conversations to share When there's no one there I'll imagine what you'd say I'll see you in another life now, baby I'll free you in my dreams But when I reach across the galaxy I will miss your company Company I'll be looking for company Look and listen Through the years Someday you may hear me Still crying for company So now you're going off to live your life You say we'll meet each other now and then But we'll never be the same And I know I'll never have this chance again No, not like you So, I'll see you in another life now baby, I'll free you in my dreams But when I reach across the galaxy I will miss your company Company I'll be looking for company Look and listen Through the years Someday you may hear me Still crying for company |
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| 3:48 |
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I and Braggar, and Junior Lee, well that's the way we always thought it would be In the wind-strewn leaves of September, how we met Decked out like aces, we'd beat anybody's bet Cuz we was Coolsville....cuz we was Coolsville Well you stick it here; you stick it over there; but it never fits And now a hungry night you want more and more and you chip in your little kiss. Well, I jumped all his jokers, but he trumped all my tricks And I swear to God I thought this one was smart enough to stick it into Coolsville.....yeah stick it into Coolsville... So now it's J and B, and me, and that sounds close, but it ain't the same (well, that's okay) Hot City don't hurt that much but everything feels the same Well the real thing come and the real thing go... Well the real thing is back in town... Ask me if you wanna know The way to Coolsville.... (Well I hear you wanna go back to Coolsville... Well come on honey, take you back...to Coolsville) |
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| 3:18 |
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So I'm down and so I'm out So are many others So I feel like tryin' To hide my head 'Neath these covers Life is like the seasons After winter comes the spring So I'll sit and stay awhile And see what tomorrow brings I've been told and I believe That life is meant for livin' Even when my chips are low There's still some left for givin' I've been many places Maybe not as far as you So I think I'll stay awhile And see if some dreams come true There isn't much that I have learned Through all my foolish years Except that life just run in cycles First there's laughter, then those tears But I'll keep my head up high Although I'm kind of tired Oh I just up and left last week Friday I got fired You know it's almost funny Things can't get worse than now But I'll keep on tryin' to sing But please, just don't ask me how |
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| 10. |
| 3:49 |
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Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel Love comes to the first thing love sees Love comes to the first thing that makes it real, makes it real Everybody's been hit, everybody's been hurt Everybody's been kicked, everybody's been dirt Everybody had to drive all night to reach L.A. in the morning light Try to lighten up, want to back you up But you just back down Julie got some brown girlfriend, got it for a coin Landlord threw her clothes out on the street in the tenderloin Everybody's been a dog, everybody's had to beg everybody's been a moth, Been a moth, when she woke up on her knees, everybody made her say please I was in a wild place where I go, I couldn't hear you Julie found god in a bus station and she liked it a lot You put your money in the basket that comes, you remember the first one that you bought Everybody starts out pure, starts out ridiculous, starts out beautiful nobody wants to be alone Out here I'm all on my own I try to lighten up, I always bear down, I want to back you up Julie found a sailor boy, sailed off to the deep blue sea So Firewalker you can walk on me, walk on me... |
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| 5:02 |
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Down there by the river is a man Whose born is twisted into shapes Unknown to the wicked and the wise And he bears the look of an animal Who's seen things no animal should ever see He has been driven beyond all towns And all the systems until now though it is Long past too far he keeps going Because it's a desert Because it's a desert We come to the river We'll walk away from all this now We come to the water We'll walk away from all this now She first saw him he was standing in the doorway Illuminated from behind by a light Though imaginary posses chased them To these distant adobes Standing on the cliffs today I thought I saw you below My shadow growing smaller It's a desert because Because it's a desert They'll be asking me about you forever I guess We come to the river We'll walk away from all this now We come to the water We'll walk away from all this now Long coats on the prairie Lying in the dust Who can I turn to ? Who can I trust ? Were you walking on the water ? Playing in the sun ? But the world is turning faster Than it did when I was young When I was young When I was young Oh, when I was young I was a wild, wild one |
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| 4:17 |
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Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive Under the bridges and over the street Now every shadow that I meet They all know my name And they whisper " What's a matter hon Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train" Jupiter Ray on the bus I remember when Jupiter came to town He was one of the best of us Oh, that stuff can really take you down Hey, Jupiter Ray is on the bus I remember when Jupiter was alive Come to think of it You all have a strange translucence in your eyes What's a matter son? Don't you know you're riding on the ghost train You just buy your ticket And get on board This train don't stop Cuz we like to ride, ride ride ride We just wanna ride, ride ride ride Ding goes the trolley Bang goes the bell Somebody call my second cousin I'm not feeling very well This is where little blondes check-in their furs This is where little blondes check-in their hat Don't worry about where you were at We took care of that Mr Driver is this my stop ? Mr Driver tell me how to get off Any way you can, any way Come back into the light You wanna get to heaven Take the devil by the hand And you slide right into the promised land Cuz this could be the night And this could be the gate Everybody's waitin' for you darlin' So don't be late What's a matter honey ? Didn't you pay your money for the ghost train ? Well I decided to take the bus It was about 6:05 Cuz I could hardly walk In fact, I was just barely alive |
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| 2:20 |
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I would call him, Hey Bub He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - (poof) Boy, we were so in love He moved us to a home there A place where he'd take care of me And I'd always know where he'd be I don't know, it happened so fast And sometimes all I see is lonely Oh lonely He's gone and I don't like to hear anymore All the places that saw us meet The darkness, there's not much left of our old town I would call him, Hey Bub He had a little place he kept for me And he would tell me - (poof) I miss him... |
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| 4:59 |
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It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love that we keep trying to hear Cuz I imagined this kind of vvonderful choice I imagine you hear the very same voice When I speak to you You say "That's just my imagination" Oh no, no, no It Must Be Love It Must Be Love Perhaps one girl who was moving in a fine line Finds one boy in back That she can always stand behind And it's you and me Cuz that's where we want to be Oh, It Must Be Love, It Must Be Love People look through everything they see Cuz there's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I wanted to know why you were crying I wanna fix what's wrong... It must be love the sailor sails for Must be love that drives a bottle to the bottom of the ocean floor Because I imagine all kinds of wonderful water I would have you there wherever I'll go Way from the seventh sea, He brings the bottle back to me Oh, It Must Be Love Oh, It Must Be Love People look through evervthing thev see There's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I want to know whv vou were crying Baby, let me fix what's wrong... It must be love that fathoms the moonlight Must be love that shallovvs The deepest part of the night So you can show them vvith vour eye The things that make them cry, Because that Must Be Love It Must Be Love... And the way you are Must Be Love And the things vou Feel Oh, It Must Be Love, Oh, It Must Be Love Must Be Love |
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| 6:26 |
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Eddie's got one crazy eye that turns him into a cartoon wahen a pretty girl comes by and there's nothin' here to do anymore he sits on the stoop all day like there's something he's waiting for Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley he's got all those guys with him from that town where they all look like Frankie Valli they speak fluently blonde from her legs to her cigarette and Louie told Eddie that he'd fix him up but he ain't come back yet well, you know It's more trouble than it's worth it's more trouble than it's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are - Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are Tell him where you are Zero quit school and she lost her job again and then her boyfriend beat her up and now he won't let her in so she's walking by his joint in a black and blue dress she looks at Louie who elbows Eddie who says "don't tell me, lemme guess." It's more trouble than it's worth he's more trouble than he's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are - Oh Wild and the Only ones Tell him where you are Well at first when it was this way when they're the only ones and you've got all these ideas you never tell to anyone there are always magnets pulling each of you there living every story you'd dare to be the only ones the only ones... Oh, who are living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we'll be living it up oh yeah, we're living it up gotta be living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up oh yeah, we're living it up Louie and Eddie found a reason then and there carried her over the bridges like fluttering pages they didn't care in the terminal where dreams let so many tickets through when strangers look in faces and see somebody there they knew you might meet me tomorrow as all the lights are blooming green and you're feeling a little lonely, a little sad, a little mean remember a place inside of that hotel where you could do anything you want to do you couldn't tell If it's more trouble than it's worth ah, this is more trouble than it's worth Oh Wild and the Only ones tell him where you are - Oh Wild and the Only ones I'm waiting you could tell him where you are - Oh Wild and the Only ones why don't you tell him where you are? |
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| 4:45 |
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Homeboys Calling from the corners Station to station For the magazine But her pages are turning Out the lights in the windows And all that you're reading Is the braille night I can't come out And play Paddy with The Precinct boys no more But you and me baby We'll be lovers again But she's walking to the A Walking to the B Walking to the C now, Where are you going? I'm just going with him... He could be anywhere I don't know where he is I know he's coming I know he's coming to me It could be anyday I will know right away I'll know he's Coming I'll know he's Coming to me I'll know he's Coming I'll know he's Coming to me now... I don't think you know What you're doing I don't think you know That she'll make him cry Make my baby cry Cuz you'll break my heart, Carol, Carol, Carol There's a flagboy Calling danger Watch you're back now Hey you. Flagboy, Let'em come, let'em come Cuz I can see them there I can see them coming I can see it all now Hey you, Flagboy Let'em come They don't know where I am I could be anywhere I know they're coming I know they're coming to me It could be anyday I will know right away I know they're coming... I know they're coming to me I know they're coming, Everything's Coming Everything's Coming to me Everything's Coming Alive |
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| 2:34 |
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The most as you'll ever go Is back where you used to know If grown-ups could laugh this slow Where as you watch the hour snow Years may go by So hold on to your special friend Here, you'll need something to keep her in: "Now you stay inside this foolish grin ... " Though any day your secrets end Then again Years may go by You saved your own special friend 'Cuz here you need something to hide her in And you stay inside that foolish grin When everyday now secrets end Oh and then again Years may go by |
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| 3:55 |
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Come on - Joey get out of school We got places to go A '57 Lincoln you got a radio that hurts And the girls like to touch it Just to find out if it works But don't look at me It wasn't me Joey live on the edge of the corner Of living on the run I like to ride in the middle I'm just tryin to have some fun Until the Pirates come And take me And I won't need a pilot Got a pirate who might sail Somewhere I heard far away You answer me So i'm holding on To your rainbow sleeves Well, goodbye boys, Oh my buddy boys, Oh my sad-eyed Sinatras It'as a cold globe around the sea You keep the shirt that I bought ya And I know you'll get the chance to make it And nothin's gonna stop you You just reach right out and take it You say - So long, lonely Avenue So long lonely avenue I'll see you there Wait 'n see Be lookin' for me Just like you Just like me |
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| 4:59 |
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Oh the ship I'm on Time is what I ride Forty winds, the captain and the tide Oh a sailor boy Stole me from my home And this sea of joy Is the only life I've known I could fly away I could fly away But I take the sea For stranger days than these A salty dog Is caught up on the reef And the bottom of the sea She kisses in relief She could fly away She could fly away But she takes the sea For stranger days than these You trade your life When something comes for you And you bury the knife Between the lies and truth You could fly away You could fly away But you take the sea For stranger days than these And I take the sea For stranger days than these Stranger days... |
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| 4:57 |
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We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites We were born forever Tunneled into the fugitive night Friends must stay together Code the world with the fugitive light I just saw you walking Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight casting runes on the rooftops and alleys You'll never read it more than you will tonight So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites |
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| 5:18 |
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And my hands are flickering and the water turns to tracing paper and I watch you dry I'm an army of stills like you flick between your fingers You will always make me be faster than I am There's a banner rising I know sorry when I see its bones We will always end up washed up on the shore and my hands are flickering, Some one's reading the book over us, White letters cross your trousers, we were always being dubbed |
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| 3:41 |
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She was pregnant in May Now they're on their way Dashing thru the snow To St. John's, here we go Well, it could be a boy But it's okay if he's girl Oh, these things that grow out of The things that we give We should move to the west side They still believe in things That give a kid half a chance When he pulled off the road Step in a waltz of ted moon-beams Said he fit an APB, A robbery nearby And he go for his wallet And they thought he was going for a gun And the cops blew Bird away Some kids like watching Saturday cartoons Some girls listen to records all day in their rooms But what do birds leave behind, of the wings that they came with If a son's in a tree building model planes? Skeletons, Skeletons. |
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| 3:46 |
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Hold me love, I can't sleep again Will I have to kiss your nose? I wanna lay here next to him, love I remember walking in the rain Rain was falling on my hands I don't wanna live through that again, no Outside the heart it gets dark now And I was walking in the park now Children singing songs that Will now make all our dreams come true I'm in love with you I know it takes is love Love is a healing thing When you give everything You're loving the world The world gives you love to hold onto Remembering, we seldom remember love (Somewhere) Just give me many chances (Far away) I'll see you through it all (Remember) Just give me time to learn to crawl In September, when the rain comes, and the wind blows, I will see you walking in that coat, oh And if you let me, I will keep you here inside the stars, I will love the sound of my sheets Oh, you have moved beneath them |
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| 4:26 |
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| 4:09 |
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A long stretch of headlights
Bends into I-9 Tiptoe into truck stops And sleepy diesel eyes Volcanoes rumble in the taxi And glow in the dark Camels in the driver's seat A slow, easy mark But you ran out of gas Down the road a piece Then the battery went dead And now the cable won't reach... It's your last chance To check under the hood Last chance She ain't soundin' too good, Your last chance To trust the man with the star You've found the last chance Texaco Well, he tried to be Standard He tries to be Mobil He tried living in a world And in a shell There was this block-busted blonde He loved her - free parts and labor But she broke down and died She threw all the rods he gave her But this one ain't fuel-injected Her plug's disconnected She gets scared and she stalls She just needs a man, that's all It's her last chance Her timing's all wrong Her last chance She can't idle this long Her last chance Turn her over and go Pullin' out of the last chance texaco The last chance |
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| 5:32 |
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The tigers come at four Shaped like the curtain and the floor Like the stars they once were wild and cold Your turn to see me I can't believe its really you Sharpening your teeth on my low womb Playing with tigers Chasing the lampshade with my toes Playing with tigers 'Til I find out where it goes You check your clothes You come and lay with me a while In the theater of dream We are sleeping in the aisle Wind climbs up the brick Carrying brightly colored ghosts They play on you with The light from the street below Playing with tigers Chasing the lamp with my toes Playing with tigers Until I find out where it goes Where it goes, where it goes I tried to leave you But you sent all the cars to bring me back Tigers are falling like paper on our parade Tigers, tigers. And the mail blowing out of the mailbox Down the street, yeah yeah Tigers. I can't tell you anymore than that. I'll tell you tomorrow when the train comes. Tomorrow when the train comes |
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| 8:01 |
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We go down round The far side of the tracks Lolitas playing dominoes and poker Behind their daddy's shacks Vacant-eyes, glue-face boys On a pearl splashing glass If they give us any flack If they come up on our ass We'll just give 'em the go-by The Cadillac pass Take me now From the blue and pale room I'd follow Through the faces and the traces of Treasure I keep hearing inside me Madmen throw their voices From pretty boys And from the best ones You pick up connections As they hand you your directions To the Western Slope I lied to my angel so I could take you downtown I'd lie to anybody there was nobody else around And I know what people say about me But I lied to my angel and now he can't find me I'm sorry I saw him I saw him Laughing I could hear them Laughing Alive I could hear them E. A. Poe And Johnny Johnson If you dial in They're calling from the Western Slope Who's the thin thread of light That keeps you strangled in the scenery That follows my voice - can you se me? Then follow my voice Who raised this banner? That no one hears - The Jack Beneath the axis Digging under the current Someone's trying to get back But who's qualified to retrieve The soul's enduring song? From the grottos of her eyes And the clashing stars E. A. Poe And Johnny Johnson If you dial in They're calling from the Western Slope Who's the thin thread of light That keeps you strangled in the scenery That follows my voice - can you se me? Then follow my voice - see me? |
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| 4:20 |
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He's an ugly man He always was an ugly man He grew up to be like his father An ugly man And he'll tell you lies He'll look at you and tell you lies He grew up to be like his father Ugly inside Hey - ugly man What's the plan? If people knew What would they do To the ugly man? Having fun? But will we be here When you're done With me....? Revolution Now it's finally going to come Everywhere that you're not looking Revolution And we'll take it back Now we take the country back Everywhere that you're not looking Ugly man Ugly man Ugly man |
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Tell me everything I just want to talk to you I won't do you no harm I just want to know about your different lives On this is here people farm I heard some of you got your families Living in cages tall and cold And some just sit there and dust away Past the age of old. Is this true? Please let me talk to you. I just wanna know The rooms behind your minds Uh do I see a vacuum there Or am I going blind? Or is it just remains of vibrations And they happen long ago? Things like "Love the world" and "Let your fancy flow" Is this true? Please let me talk to you Is this true? I just wanna talk to you. I have lived here before The days of ice So of course this is why I'm so concerned about the earth 'Cause I come back to find The stars are misplaced And the smell of a world That's burned A smell of a world That's burned. So where do I purchase my ticket? I'd just like to have a ringside seat I wanna hear about these new Mother Earth I want to hear and see everything I want to hear and see everything I want to hear and see everything I want you to show me I want you to say to me Show me everything Oh yeah is that true? Is that true? Please let me talk to you Oh my new Mother Earth I won't do you no harm Yes I have lived here before, Many times many times I know you. |
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| 2:53 |
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A distant light finds me when I'm with you A distant light knows me when I'm through Once I mistake you For somebody else Mistook you for somewhere, mistook you A distant light that binds me A distant sound that finds me When I'm through True Vessels of Light |
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| 4:53 |
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I say this was no game of chicken You were aiming your best friend That you wear like a switchblade on a chain around your neck I think you picked this up in Mexico from your dad Now its daddy on the booze And Brando on the ice Now it's Dean in the doorway With one more way he can't play this scene twice So you drug her down every drag of this forbidden fit of love And you told her to stand tall whet you kissed her But that's not where you were thinking... How could a Natalie Wood not get sucked into a scene so custom tucked? How now look who shows up In the same place In this case I think it's better To face it - We belong together We belong together Once Johnny the King made a spit ring And all the skid kids saw a very, very proud man And he entwine her in his finger And she lay there like a baby in his hand And climb upon the rooftop docks lookin' out on the crosstown seas And he wraps his jacket across her shoulders And he falls and hugs and holds her on his knees But a sailor just takes a broad down to the dark end of the fair To turn her into a tattoo That will whisper Into the back of Johnny's black hair And now Johnny the King walks these streets without her in the rain Lookin' for a leather jacket And a girl who wrote her name forever A promise that - We belong together We belong together Shall we weigh along these streets Young lions on the lam? Are the signs you hid deep in your heart All left on neon for them? Who are foolish Who are victim Of the sailors and the ducky boys who would Move into your eyes and lips and Every tear That falls down on the neighborhood now I said "Bird, we just gotta tell them" And they turn and ignore us And the only heroes we got left Are written right before us And the only angel who sees us now Watches through each other's eyes And I can hear him In every footstep's p |
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| 6:26 |
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Sal was working at Nyro's nook in downtown Selling articles of congress to these people downtown He was pretty sleezy when I met him A weasel in a poor boy's wool Sal lives in a black vinyl pen in New Jersey Buys his meat from a whore next door Wants it rare but he gets it well A weasel on a short order floor So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad Sal, say good-bye to the barrio Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals Angela, Perry and Mario Kid Sinister with the Bus Stop Blues A quarter could take you home A dime could make a dream come true But a weasel ain't got a dime for the phone ( Does a weasel got a dime for the phone ? ) So, Sal, say good-bye to your mom and your dad Sal, say good-bye to the barrio Sal, say good-bye to your buddies and your pals Angela, Perry and Mario You dancin' in the welfare lines, Sal Actin' like some jerk-off fool When we could lay out eatin' peaches on the beaches A weasel in a white boy's cool But we're all in a white boy's school ( Just like a weasel ) |
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| 4:27 |
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Dutch took 'em on the slow train to Peking on La Brea Avenue To find the Stax and Sun They were reaching to get to They was a rapping the flat scat Diamond dialectos of points and taps Between the chicken and the back They drew themselves a be-bop Midnight map They said "do you got a map the next joint?" "Do you got a map the next joint?" Pick it up on the night train Down on the corner of rhythm and blues Where I have met all of my boys since Back in '52 Bringing 'em Stax and Sun Cuz I think that Cleveland forgot And Memphis forgot Where they were coming from Do ya like it? Do ya like it like that? Do you like rapping the fat scat? Woody and Dutch dance in the cell of fourteen Like a pill they do it all night Spectators, White-walls, find and greased back Every Saturday night Leaning in the scenery Picking up the kids At the next door neighbors' "Yeah I know what you did Yeah I got a room you can stay in If you promise you won't make so much noise" "No I won't" "No I don't!" |
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| 3:16 |
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| 4:09 |
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| 7:23 |
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Maybe you want another world One where heaven doesn't weigh so much Maybe you'll find another girl One you can feel when you do not touch Well I've got something Warm inside me It won't let you fall 'Til I see Somewhere better than this place Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away Somewhere better than the world I'm an aviator now Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly Over this tenement waterfall This wet buries all the tears we've cried I dream of you coming to me Swimming in a water Of many hearts I've known Beneath new stars they're calling Somewhere better than this place Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark Go find the arc Show them the atlas' marker You walk into school like you got nothin' to win They won't let you in without atlas' marker Oh, my sister's buried here so deep I hear her digging in her sleep Somewhere better than his place Sometimes she closes her eyes And she's out in space Somewhere better than the world where we live |
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| 4:06 |
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| 3:27 |
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My funny valentine, Sweet comic valentine, You make me smile with my heart. Your looks are laughable, they're un-photographable, But still, still you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek? Is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, baby, are you smart? Please, don't change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay my funny valentine, stay Each day is my Valentine's Day |
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| 5:35 |
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Something cool I'd like to order something cool It's so warm here in town And this heat gets me down And I'd like something cool My, it's nice Just to sit down and rest awhile Hey, you know it's a shame But I can't think of your name But I remember your smile Well, I don't ordinarily drink With strangers I guess I usually just, just drink alone But you were so nice to ask me And I'm so terribly far from home Like my dress, well, I must confess It's very old Hey, but it's simple and neat And it's just right for this heat Hey, I will save my furs for the cold A cigarette, no , I don't smoke them As a rule But, I'll have one, it might be fun With something I'll bet you wouldn't imagine But I once had a house With so many rooms I couldn't count them all Yeah, I know you wouldn't imagine But I had fifteen different guys Who would beg and beg to take me to a ball And I know you wouldn't picture me The time I went to Paris in the fall Oh who would think the guy I loved Was quite so handsome and quite so tall Well, it's through, it's through That was just a memory I had One I guess I almost forgot Oh, 'cause the weather's so hot And I'm feeling so bad About a date Oh wait, I'm such a fool He's just a guy who stopped to buy me Something cool |
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| 4:56 |
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| 2:50 |
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Take a walk around midnight in the city Young Blood is hiding there somewhere If you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there Like I & Bragger, we borrowed a coupe to day Here come Pepe and she's got a friend with a chevrolet But she ain't running She's walking a little slow And she ain't crying-- she's just singing a little low They say this city will make you dirty But you look alright You feel real pretty when he's holding you tight City will make you mean But that's just make-up on your face Love will wash you clean in the night's disgrace Find a block where your people can find you Keep a third eye watching behind you You never know when you're making a memory They will wish they were here together again, someday Kids looking for something to get into-- Take a look Two for the movie show Three for the back row Hold on tight! Remember, you might have looked like cool twelve But your fuse just felt like dynamite Take a walk around midnight in the city Young Blood will find you there, somewhere And if you're looking for something to do There's always something happening there |
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| 2:19 |
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All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - grey Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way Say goodnight, America The word still loves a dreamer And all the gang has gone home And I'm standind on the corner All alone |
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| 2:53 |
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There was a Joe Leanin' on the back door A couple Jills with their eyes on a couple bills Their eyes was statin' They was waitin' To get their hands on some easy money They flipped a dime One said " well, I'll take heads this time" One stepped up One stepped back One loosened her shoulder strap She couldn't speak, Her knees got weak She could almost taste that easy money There was this old black cat Sittin' in a old black cadillac The Joe smelled sweet She curled up at her boyfriend's feet She said "I got a plan Listen, Sam, how'd ya like to make some easy money ? " He say, "yes! oh yes! Jus' tell me what you want me to do " She said, "Baby, you can trust me Baby, but you must be hidin' in my room At a quarter to two" Well, the cat told the boy "Come up to the room and play with my toy" But the Jill set the bait And she wasn't gonna sit around and wait But this guy was wise to all the lies And he flies out the door With the easy money Because there ain't no man Who got the money in his hand Who got any of that bread Bein' slow in the head The easier it looks The hotter it hooks There ain't no such thing as easy money We say, "yes! oh yes!" Saturday night There was a terrible, terrible fight Between two dames who was losin' the same game It wasn't clear, But I hear somebody was lookin' for some easy money |
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| 4:53 |
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Out on the range The quiet, endless still Where the wild S.S.I Whispers from these hills It's a petrified forest Trailer parks and fords And there ain't no goin' back Rodeo girl Saddle up There's no more credit in this bank Try your luck Up in the East Down in the West Hold on tight To the pony that you love the best There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back And this world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl Rodeo girl, rodeo girl Count all the boxcars The blue and white stars That fall for ya rodeo girl You're lost in the desert And it's too hot to think You gotta know about the milk truck If you want a drink And when the cowboy's sing Bobby sands and the bear You can wet your lips In the cool pools of despair Up in the East Down in the West Hold on tight Now you gotta be better than the best There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back This world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl There's a medicine at the gate And a number on your back This world is all jacked up like a cadillac Painted by a rodeo girl Rodeo girl |
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| 6:26 |
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We were born forever We are twinned in a fugitive mind Friends should stay together and Light the world with the fugitive kind So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites We were born forever Tunneled into the fugitive night Friends must stay together Code the world with the fugitive light I just saw you walking Ice was reading fortunes by the moonlight casting runes on the rooftops and alleys You'll never read it more than you will tonight So you keep talking in many languages Telling us the way you feel Don't stop confiding in the road you're on Don't quit, you're walking satellites Walking satellites She laughs satellites A room filled with satellites Ahh, walking satellites |
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| 47. |
| 4:27 |
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| 48. |
| 5:51 |
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Maybe you want another world One where heaven doesn't weigh so much Maybe you'll find another girl One you can feel when you do not touch Well I've got something Warm inside me It won't let you fall 'Til I see Somewhere better than this place Some night you'll open your eyes and live far away Somewhere better than the world I'm an aviator now Atlas hold me in your arms, I'll fly Over this tenement waterfall This wet buries all the tears we've cried I dream of you coming to me Swimming in a water Of many hearts I've known Beneath new stars they're calling Somewhere better than this place Oh! don't stay at home with your momma in the dark Go find the arc Show them the atlas' marker You walk into school like you got nothin' to win They won't let you in without atlas' marker Oh, my sister's buried here so deep I hear her digging in her sleep Somewhere better than his place Sometimes she closes her eyes And she's out in space Somewhere better than the world where we live |
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