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A love born once must soon be born again
A spark that burned, then died, leaving cinders to be fanned By the wind and thrown to flame Flames like tongues impassioned in a moments burst Tell me, friend, why do you stand aloof from your own heart? The truth confronts you, the truth confronts you as the sea Crushing with out detail Impassioned and detached Killing with love and power in God's Name People stop hurting people People stop hurting people Love conquers poses Love smashes stances Love crushes angles into black So you, without question Know your first love is your last And you will never, you never, never, you'll never love again But always wish to walk with her into restaurants, it's a clammy tale To be seen beside her at the public bar footrail I always wanted to be matched with her Yet her beauty was so different to mine My "beauty" needs an understanding and a knowledge of what I am Hers is enough, earned through eons, for that is what true beauty is Time's gift to perfect humility May I be matched with you again I know the match is bad But God help me May I be matched with you again I know the match is bad But God help me May I be matched with you again I know the match is bad God help me May I be matched with you again Without your match, there is no flame People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people People stop hurting people |
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I remember being richer than a king
The minutes of the day were golden I recall that when the joint passed 'round My body felt a little colder But now I'm like a sewer channel Running lime and scag Let me get at the master panel Let me at my stack The sea refuses no river And right now This river's banks are blown The sea refuses no river Whether stinking and rank Or red from the tank Whether pure as a spring There's no damn thing stops the poem The sea refuses no river And this river is homeward flowing I have seen a trace of strain In other's eyes, not spoken I must admit that I enjoyed their pain But this time it's me that's broken I demand for you and His This must be the time When we decide what freedom is Turn water into wine For the sea refuses no river We're polluted now But in our hearts still clean The sea refuses no river We tried not to age But time had it's rage We're washed over the stones From babies into clones of the mean The sea won't refuse this muddy river Won't deny the sulfurous stream There was a fool in a dressing robe Riding out the twilight hour Lonely and cold in an empty home Trying to assess his power But now he's like a stream in flood Swollen by the storm He doesn't care if he sheds his blood Let him be reborn The sea refuses no river Remember that When the beggar buys a round The sea refuses no river And rain fills the gutters No time for stutters This is our chance To sing and to dance and to clown The sea refuses no river And rivers were sprung to drown The sea refuses no river No pecking code Respected for the damned The sea refuses no river Whether starving and ill Or strung on some pill Just 'cos you own the land There's no unique hand plugs the dam The sea refuses no river And the river is where I am The river is where I am |
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Sometimes walking through the streets of this city
I see all the faces of the winners and the losers Oh why can't I see a change, just one sign? Before I say goodbye Before I say goodbye |
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I watch you sit and twitching
With a match between your teeth You seem to have a knack of moving it It's in time to the beat Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight I can't be distracted By the stuttering of the kids I just sit, enraptured By your fluttering eyelids Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight I can only stare You make me feel Like I don't care I can only stare You make me feel Like I don't care I can only stare You make me feel Like I don't care Your eyes explain a story That never had a start Your brow reveals the glory That's hidden in your heart Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Your skin is fine china White as winter snows Your lips are always shining Turning up your nose Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight (I can only stare) Face dances tonight (You make me feel) Fate chances moonlight (Like I don't care) Face dances tonight Fate chances moonlight |
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The tissue box is empty
No coffee for my cream Dogs howl in the alley Crazy women scream Some kids shout from there pick up truck There stoned on life and beer Fifty radios playing in this street But I'm still hardly here Exquisitely bored in California We take our trouble to the Crest Exquisitely bored in California Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest When the sun shines things'll get moving You feel close to the stars There are good times walking in Laguna But it rains in my heart The peasants here are starving They look out there barrels out in space Pray TV looks like pay TV to me It's just a curse on the human race I take a drive up to L.A. In my gas guzzling limousine There's a whole lot of crazy people up there Living out a life in sweet ennui Exquisitely bored in California We take our trouble to the Crest Exquisitely bored in California Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest When the sun shines things'll get moving You feel close to the stars There are good times walking in Laguna But it rains in my heart Exquisitely bored in California We take our trouble to the Crest Exquisitely bored in California Exquisitely bored, Just like all the rest |
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Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca
Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun Communicate Selbstdarstellung Gay Talese Ronald Rocking Euthanasia Use the words like flowing river touches Embraces parting hard steel surfaces revealing pages Beneath the water skin broken like ice flows Smashed by iron bows on the back of a whale Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun Communicate Selbstarstellung Open hearted Soon forgotten But never parted Com com communicate Communication Communicate communicate Via satellite or solid state Never never hesitate Communicate communicate Communicate communicate Never never hesitate Reaching, leaning, scratching vainly Faces dancing, locked lipped, between thigh secret Briolette tears drip from frozen masks As all those death-throe questions don't get asked Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun Communicate Communicate Communicate communicate Via satellite or solid state Never never hesitate Communicate communicate Communicate communicate Never never hesitate Communicate Never hesitate Never never hesitate Communicate communicate Yeah Comma comma-comma comma-comma comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commai comma-commai comma-commai comma-ca-ca-ca-ca Commu-a commu-a commu-a commun Communicate Communication Communication Communication Communication |
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Stardom in Acton, that's all they got
Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Just like the grub that wriggles to the top of the mass I'm the first to get hooked Just like the stub of that long cigarette full of hash I'm the last to get booked But I'm capable My love's inescapable Conquering lethargy I've got energy (Stardom) I want a hit Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence (Stardom) I want a script Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence I'll go where the senescent soldier retires And shiver in south California Watching the storms and the tangling wires And rivers that meet on the corner Like some prostitute Handing 'round the loot I am not ashamed I will stake a claim (Stardom) Born in a trunk Got my home, got my car, got stability (Stardom) I'm Hollywood's son All alone don't admire anonymity I'm so angry that you turned me on I didn't remain your friend too long I'm so angry that you turned me on I didn't stay your friend for too long I'm so angry that you let me see My totally futile destiny I'm so angry, you interrupted my dream Now I know that the power rests in me (Stardom) I want a hit Want my tan, want my cash, want my innocence (Stardom) I want a script Want my band, want my stash, want omnipotence (Stardom) Born in a trunk Got my home, got my car, got stability (Stardom) But I'm Hollywood's son All alone don't admire anonymity Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Stardom in Acton, that's all they got Stardom Stardom |
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I don't matter, you don't matter
Neither does this mindless clatter It don't matter where you're from What matters is your uniform Wear your braces 'round your seat Doctor Marten's on your feet Keep your bar net very neat For credibility on street We are marching as to war We won't be obscure no more In uniform, in uniform I am really living life inside a jar: I'm all alone So I feel forgiven if I'm under par, a fallen clone Only in the river can I claim a star to call my own I'm newly born In uniform I'm up on the throne I am frightened, you are frightened Should we get our trousers tightened? Where in Brighton is your norm Who wears enlightened uniform? On my Parka is some band I don't really understand Perry is my guiding hand Scooter polo sweeps the land We are marching as to war We won't be obscure no more In uniform, in uniform People think we dress alike to segregate identities Pills or drink or puffing pipes in integrated entities Then they wink and snort their line, and say how great their Bentley is They feel so warm when they conform They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended When we stand naked, then we all appear the same But it's just faking it if we all try pretending Are we're just making all our prayers in the rain Heaven knows I need new clothes We are marching as to war But we are really fighting for Our uniform, our uniform When I contemplate my future, I go numb, don't feel a thing I don't overrate my suitors number one, I always sing But the State and their computers make me run for comfort in My uniform In uniform I feel like a king They say that nakedness is what our Lord intended When we stand naked, then we all appear the same But it's just faking it if we all try pretending Are we just making all our prayers in the rain? It seems insane But Heaven knows It's all the same And I need new clothes |
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When you travel to the green hills of Ayr
Where the sea breaks windows on the border line Remember me to a girl who lives there For she once was a true love of mine Please see for me that her red hair is long And flows and curls down to her back and breast Please see for me that her red hair is long For that's the way I remember her best North country girl (Oh-oh-oh) North country girl (Oh-oh-oh) North country girl (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) North country girl See that she's warm when the summer ends When trees are bare and the rivers freeze She washes her clothes where the river bends She's working on her knees See for me that her coat's pulled up close And her beret frames her sweet, pretty face See that she's warm and drink her a toast For I am exiled in a lonely place Please let me know if she remembers me at all A hundred times I've hoped and prayed That way up there near the Roman wall She didn't suffer when the fall-out sprayed North country girl (Oh-oh-oh) North country girl (Oh-oh-oh) North country girl (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh) North country girl |
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I was just thirty-four years old and I was still wandering in a haze
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were Lost in a maze I don't know why I thought I should have some kind of Divine right to the blues It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the Front page sad news. The incense burned away and the stench began to rise And lovers now estranged avoided catching each others' eyes And girls who lost their children cursed the men who fit the coil And men not fit for marriage took their refuge in the oil No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned From all this you'd imagine that there must be something learned Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts I don't ever wear no ripped shirts Can't pretend that growing older never hurts. Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants Have to be so drunk to try a new dance So afraid of every new romance Slit skirts, slit skirt Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt Slit skirts, slit skirt Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance? Why can't we drink it up true heart romance Just need a brief new romance Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home just now. The big events of the day are passed and the late TV shows have come around. I'm number one in the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled. A silent voice in her broken heart complaining that I'm unskilled. And I know that when she thinks of me, she thinks of me as him, But, unlike me, she don't work off her frustration in the gym. Recriminations fester and the past can never change A woman's expectations run from both ends of the range Once she walked with untamed lovers' face between her legs Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg Slit skirts, Jeanie never wears those slit skirts And I don't ever wear no ripped shirts Can't pretend that growing older never hurts Knee pants, Jeanie never wears no knee pants We have to be so drunk to try a new dance So afraid of every new romance Slit skirts, slit skirt Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt Slit skirts, slit skirt Jeanie isn't wearing those slit skirts, slit skirt She wouldn't dare in those slit skirts, slit skirt Wouldn't be seen dead in no slit skirt Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up romance? Why can't we drink it up true heart romance Just need a brief new romance |
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He's a fool let's you know's who you say
You can see him coming a mile away He's got his lapel cut just a little over displayed And his shoes could be a problem could get in the way Watch that man He's your problem Got something for ya between his toes Watch that man He's your contact He's got his feather shoved right up your nose He was born in the future He's getting born here sometime soon Getting born in the future He may made up this rule They put out a police description out for this guy You know the kind of a guy with a kind of disguise I don't know quite if his shoulders are wide Or quite blue was his blue blue eyes How wide are his ties How smooth are his eyes How big are his feet He dresses so neat But he's being followed, followed in the street right now Just like you and me Too tong too chong who really cares If your born with long blond hair On the boarder was the smoggers and bald pieores And down on 42nd street with all the love flow whores Watch that man He's your problem Got something for ya between his toes Watch that man He's your contact He's got his feather shoved right up your nose He was born in the future Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world Tomorrow we will bring another soul Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world Tomorrow we will bring another soul Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world Tomorrow we will bring another soul Tomorrow we can bring another for the new world Tomorrow we will bring another soul He was born in the future He's getting born here sometime soon Getting born in the future He may made up this rule |
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