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i choose my friends only far too well
i'm up on the pavement, they're all down in the cellar with their government grants and my i.q. they brought me down to size, academia blues louise is a girl, i know her well she's up on the pavement, yes she's a weather girl and i'm staying up here so i may be undone she's inappropriate, but then she's much more fun and when she smiles my way my eyes go out in vain she's got perfect skin shame on you, you've got no sense of grace, shame on me ah just in case i might come to a conclusion other than that which is absolutely necessary and that's perfect skin louise is the girl with the perfect skin she says turn on the light, otherwise it can't be seen she's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin and she's sexually enlightened by cosmopolitan and when she smiles my way my eyes go out in vain for her perfect skin yeah that's perfect skin she takes me down to the basement to look at her slides of her family life, pretty weird at times at the age of ten she looked like greta garbo and i loved her then, but how was she to know that when she smiles my way my eyes go out in vain she's got perfect skin up eight flights of stairs to her basement flat pretty confused huh, being shipped around like that seems we climbed so high now we're down so low strikes me the moral of this song must be there never has been one speedboat julie said we drink far too much coffee wine and cigarettes and we never get no sleep i first met them at a riverboat party both of them were speeding i would say i lived on the edge of all this indulgence taking notes and trusting in prudence julie said to jim why don't |
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she crossed herself as she put on her things
she has promised once before not to live this way if she don't calm down she will burn herself out like a forest fire, well doesn't that make you smile if you don't slow down, i swear that i'll come round and mess up your place, let's go for a spin they say we shouldn't even know each other and that we'll be undone don't it make you smile like a forest fire i believe in love, i'll believe in anything that's gonna get me what i want and get me off my knees then we'll burn your house down, don't it feel so good there's a forest fire every time we get together doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo hey pick you up, put you down rip you up and spin you round just like we said we would 'cause we're a forest fire believe you me, we'll tear this place down if we get caught in this wind then we could burn the ocean if we get caught in this scene we're gonna be undone it's just a simple metaphor, it's for a burning love don't it make you smile like a forest fire |
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jodie wears a hat although it hasn't rained for six days
she says a girl needs a gun these days hey on account of all the rattlesnakes she looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront she reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance she's less than sure if her heart has come to stay in san jose and her neverborn child still haunts her as she speeds down the freeway as she tries her luck with the traffic police out of boredom more than spite she never finds no trouble, she tries too hard she's obvious despite herself she looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront she says all she needs is therapy yeah all you need is, love is all you need jodie never sleeps 'cause there are always needles in the hay she says that a girl needs a gun these days hey on account of all the rattlesnakes she looks like eve marie saint in on the waterfront as she reads simone de beauvoir in her american circumstance her heart, heart's like crazy paving upside down and back to front she says ooh, it's so hard to love when love was your great disappointment |
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walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane
jane was in her turtle neck i was much happier then if i were to ask you what you would do with yourself if i were to tell you would you just talk to yourself am i asking oh for so much i`m not asking to be understood am i asking oh for so much i`m just looking for a brand new friend walking in the rain walking with jesus and jane jane was in her turtle neck i was much happier then am i asking oh for so much you could do anything you wanted to am i asking oh for so much no just something that i can hold down because it`s all downhill now so let me count the times that we swore and lied that we`d tie ourselves to the railway line let me count the times when of course we lied well we know no better it was no crime let me count the times i well i dont know when i when i`ll be content but i do know i need a brand new friend |
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it took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam
and double pneumonia in a single room and the sickest joke was the price of the medicine are you laughing at me now may i please laugh along with you this morning i woke up from a deep unquiet sleep with ashtray clothes and miss lonelyheart`s pen with which i wrote for you a lovesong in tatoo upon my palm `twas stolen from me when jesus took my hand you see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily i was a king bee with a head full of attitude wore my heart on my sleeve like a stained my aim was to taboo you could we meet in the marketplace did i ever hey please did you wound my knees you see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it drop me and i`ll fall to pieces yes it`s too easy and there's nobody else to blame will i hang my head in a crying shame there is nobody else to blame nobody else except my sweet self again it took a lost weekend in a hotel in amsterdam twenty four gone years to conclude in tears that the sickest joke was the price of the medicine are you laughing at me now may i please laugh along i was a king bee with a head full of attitude and ashtray heart on my sleeve wounded knees and my one love song was a tatoo upon my palm you wrote upon me when you took my hand you see i i wouldn't say it if i didn't mean it drop me and i`ll fall to pieces too easily |
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hey i was walking my bag
through a 20 storey non stop snow storm pirrelli calender girls wrestling in body lotion my head's swimming with poetry and prose excuse me one moment whilst i powder my nose me and my good thing are just about as close as can be we gave up sleep at the age of 17 my world's getting bigger as my eyesight gets worse i can't see the lines on my idiot board what about love? i don't let that stuff in my house this is the glamorous life there's no time for fooling around lord have mercy i know what I'm doing i don't need an alibi i need a fire escape and an open window it's my problem it's nothing i can't deal with I'm not chasing anything just jogging baby what's your bag? hundred million dollar jam got some traffic yessir in my nose motorcycle speed cops burning up my dust roads my baby left me heck ain`t that a shame she's over in the corner with my new best friend I'm doing fine with my whisky and wine and meet me in the john john meet me in the john john lord have mercy ...what's your bag? spin spin whisky and gin i suffer for my art bartender i got wild mushrooms growing in my yard fix me a quart of petrol clams on the half shell feels like prohibition baby give me the hard sell more give me more give me more more more I'm your yes man yes maam I'm your yes man lord have mercy... |
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jennifer we can't go wrong let's put it in writing
jennifer we can't go wrong let's do it right now maybe you were a little hasty but they say love is blind now her name on you jennifer in blue did you ever have a bad dream wake up and it not stop? did you ever feel for a girl for a time and then stop? well it's written there in blue with a heart and arrow through her name on you jennifer in blue and forever you said that's forever you said yes forever and forever she said that's forever she said yes forever but you change with the weather you change with the weather and this is the rain |
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You wanna leave me baby be my guest
All i'm gonna do is cry And then i'm gonna find there's someone else And tear the stars out of the sky Looking for something when there's nothing there to be found Make it easy on yourself Go out and find your body someone else And tear the stars out of the sky Baby you're too well-read Baby you're too well-spoken Baby you're too pristine When i cry, do you feel anything? Baby you're too well-read You wanna leave me baby be my guest All i'm gonna do is cry And then i'm gonna find there's someone else And tear the stars out of the sky Baby you're too well-read Baby you're too well-spoken Baby you're far too clean When i cry, do you feel anything? Baby you're too well-read Baby you're too well-read You don't need me anymore You don't need me anymore They say storms are right for summertime Well baby i'm long gone Whatcha gonna do when you open your eyes It's a brand new day and baby No blue skies Baby you're too well-read Baby you're too well-spoken Baby you're too pristine When i cry, do you feel anything? Baby you're too well-read Baby you're too well-spoken Baby you're far too clean When i cry, do you feel anything? Baby you're too well-read |
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when you're nothing to no one
and you're less than you can and you're looking for someone who won't cling to anything so you're stuck in some motel with the sound of her sleeping don't you feel kinda old now well ain't that a funny thing i used to wake up early i used to try to believe but life seems neverending when you're young so you're back on the highway and there's wind in her hair and you know that it's no time for thinking about somebody up there 'cause you'll turn her to drinking and you'll lead her to hell with her bible beside her she surely looks like an angel i used to wake up early i used to try to believe but faith is never easy when you're young no no no i used to wake up early now it's hard, hard enough to sleep but life seems neverending when you're young oh no no no no |
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i want to take you down to the side of the city
where the sun doesn't shine and the moon isn't pretty the slow train crawls in the nights and the days are as warm as the smoke and the heat haze yes and neon here twenty-four hours of the day and you're sure looking pretty when it's hitting on your face looker on the corner take that dog for a donor well she's only doing what her mother told her i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down i wanna take you right down i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down i wanna take you right down i want to see a touch of evil in your eye but all that i'm getting babe is sweetness and lies i want to see something that i might desire i want to take you down babe into the mire deals going down no chance no masking one thing's for sure never get what you're asking they're coming with johnsons, they're coming with knives they're robbing your boots when they give you a shoe shine i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down i wanna take you right down i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down i wanna take you right downtown slow train down, babe, try twenty-nine there's no looking back when there's no sense of time 'cause it's neon here twenty-four hours of the day and you're sure looking pretty when it's hitting on your face with a touch of evil in your eye with a touch of evil in your eye i want to take you down to the side of the city i want to take you down to the blur of the city i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down i wanna take you right down i...i wanna take you down i wanna take you down yes i wanna take you right down i...i...i...i wanna take you i |
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you look so good when you're depressed
better even in your current state of undress tears caressing me like rain and i'm not even thinking, i feel fine in your pain the coolest thing i ever saw you were sitting there smoking my cigarettes you were naked on the bare stone floor you looked at me to say don't guess i was only watching, yes i love you more undressed is it really such a sin? should i feel some kind of shame? will i truly go to hell? oh you never lock the bathroom door should i be embarrassed when i've seen a hundred times before how do married couples cope should i say excuse me darling, i don't know we could disconnect the telephone just sit around and mess around and tell your ma we went to rome, tennessee and i'm not even drinking, i feel fine, it's scary is it really such a sin? should i feel some kind of shame? will i truly go to hell? oh well the coolest thing i ever saw you were sitting there smoking my cigarettes you were naked on the bare stone floor you looked at me to say don't guess i was only watching, is it bad that i should love you best undressed |
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She said she didn't understand him so she guessed he was deep
He swore he'd never been to college and was too tall to be So as she led him to the slaughter thinking she'd be laughing last Now the lady in the question is his better half She's got to be the stupidest girl I've ever seen She don't care who, why, or where I've been She's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me But she doesn't want to understand That she's a girl and I'm a man He thought that women and drink would make a man out of him But the extent of his studies left a jaded man So as she led him to the altar he was easily led And when they asked him if he did, well then, this is what he said She's got to be the stupidest girl I've ever seen She don't care who, why, or where I've been She's got a right to be, with all that's wrong with me But she doesn't want to understand That she's a girl and I'm a man Every time she's near me She gives me a new reason to be alive To try to get right She looks right through me She says you're not cool, you're just like me You're a stupid man Get over here, hold my stupid hand She's all right... Weird On Me I didn't mean to get you mad at me, Misty Swear I'd never try and turn your brown eyes blue It's just that having got a taste for this whiskey Maybe I've been missing someone like you Maybe I've been tired Maybe I've been lonely I've been lonely and blue Maybe I've been missing someone like you But I was only trying to be your friend Don't get weird on me, babe Swear I'd never try to mix things up again Don't get weird on me, babe Billy says that you're wearing his ring, now He says he took away the sadness from your smile Guess I tried, hell, if I'd only known how I guess I'll learn when you're walking down that aisle Yes, and I'll be sad and I'll be lonely I'll be lonely and blue Yes and I'll be missing someone like you But I was only trying to be your friend Don't get weird on me, babe Swear I'd never try to mix things up again Don't get weird on me, babe |
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You were an innocent child before I laid my hands on you
And all that pain that you held inside Was just waiting to bloom in a darkened room And you just flew right into the light and came alive My little butterfly Well, you'd never known love and you'd never known pain But you found out that they were just like wine and champagne You could drink a little more, then you hurt a little less And you'd get that butterfly feeling underneath your dress And your promises would turn into lies Then you'd fly My little butterfly Now I'm lying here, babe, on your side of the bed And I've got unclean thoughts flying through my head And I'm thinking about love, yes I'm thinking about pain And I'm thinking about some way that I might feel good again Yes, I'm thinking about my little butterfly |
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So you'd like to save the world
I suggest you take one person at a time And start with me Not an ordinary girl Not someone that I should hit upon And ask, "Hey, what's your sign, babe?" Have you been reading my mind ? (What did you find?) Nothing more or less terrestrial Could I keep you in mine? Did you really cry When you saw the hole in the sky? Did you really hold your head and hide your eyes? Well, that's all right You might call it ultraviolet radiation It's only sunlight So you'd like to save my world If you could free my inner child Then I could free your inhibitions, baby Or would you like to mother me I love the way you wear That Motorola generation chic, mama Have you been reading my mind? (What did you find?) Nothing more or less terrestrial Could I keep you in mine? Did you really cry When you saw the hole in the sky? Did you really hold your head and hide your eyes? Well, that's all right You might call it ultraviolet radiation It's only sunlight So you'd like to save the world I'd really like to help you I'd really like to be you for a while Is that all right? And I could call it ultraviolet radiation It's only sunlight... |
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When the last thing that you knew
He was walking out on you To the port of no return Where I found you When I couldn't find my way home I could always make my way to you When I couldn't drink myself sober I found you Well, the last thing that you need, now Is a shoulder there to bleed on But I believe I've seen light Coming through you When I couldn't find my way home I could always make my way to you When I couldn't drink myself sober I found you |
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Living on juice
Eating out of tuna cans Mobile home With my dairy queen Tied me a knot She had to cut me loose I liked her a lot Like lovers do Julia came Eating a tangerine Friday the third 4.30 She tore out a page Of my magazine Then she went away Like lovers do Saturday girls Kept me warm a while Sunday sunshine Kills all conversation You look in her eyes And you see circles Then she lets you get away Like lovers do Everyday Are you so sad to see me And I'm so glad to take the blame If it's always going to be that way Living on juice Eating out of tuna cans Mobile home With my dairy queen Tied me a knot She had to cut me loose Now I'm looking at you Like lovers do |
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Wasting my time
A shadow on the riverbank Watching my reflection go to sea Wind in my hair I could be most anywhere But I do not care to know Not where I stand Baby, I've been lost without you Since I don't have a place to call my home Oh, my sweet baby, must I empty my heart? Must I take what I can get and call it my own? As long as I love my baby I'm only lonely. She said not to call Said it would be best for all concerned If I just all but disappear But she loves you best And I love her nonetheless So I just listen to the voice on the machine, singing Baby, I've been lost without you Since I don't have a place to call my home Oh, my sweet baby, must I empty my heart? Must I take what I can get and call it my own? As long as I love my baby I'm only lonely. Maybe one day she'll call me up and say "God damn you your baby's crying and I'm lonely. Come home." Maybe I'll find some guts someplace and drive up And you'll be there playing on the porch and she'll just say "Baby, where you been? And ain't your little man growing?" Pay me no mind I'm just a shadow on the riverbank Watching my reflection go to sea Baby, I've been lost without you Since I don't have a place to call my home Oh, my sweet baby, must I empty my heart? Must I take what I can get and make it my home? As long as I love my baby I'm only lonely |
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from Northerton to Northern California
folk don't really change and there's always the rain from Southport Beach to sunday in the Hamptons well I never could complain and there's always the rain the fool you are in Manchester the fool you are in Maine the lies you tell in Liverpool will follow you to Spain it's the fool you are from Lambeth Walk to London, Ontario we'd like(love) to run away when it looks like rain from Sunset Strip to Waterloo underground the stars are just the same and it looks like rain the fool you are in Manchester the fool you are in Maine the lies you tell in Liverpool will follow you to Spain it's the fool you are it's the fool you are yes it is from the Sunshine State to Shaftesbury Avenue folk don't really change and there's always the rain and the night before in Northern California is dawning on the Thames and it looks like rain the fool you are in Manchester the fool you are in Maine the lies you tell in Liverpool will follow you to Spain and the morning after Leicester Square is hungover in Rome and never again in Newcastle is one more for the road it's the fool you are it's the fool you are yes it is it's the fool you are it's the fool that's what you are it's the fool you are |
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Even though the skies are blue
Don't they let the sun shine through? Because he is a jerk, I guess Does that mean he loves you less? Could you forgive that boy? Could you find some part of your aching heart To forgive that boy? Could you take him home? Could you hold him in your arms Until the morning comes? When he's all cried out Could you be that girl? And what if it were you who fell Would he have you go to hell? Because he is a man, it's true Well, wasn't she a woman too? Could you forgive that boy? Could you find some part of your aching heart To forgive that boy? Could you take him home? Could you hold him in your arms Until the morning comes? When he's all cried out Could you be that girl? |
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