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Sometimes I wonder who am I the world seeming to pass me by A younger man now getting old I have to wonder what the rest of life will hold I hold a mirror to my face there are some lines that I could trace To memories of loving you the passion that breaks reason in two I have to think and stop me now if reminisces make you frown One thinks of what one hoped to be and then faces reality Sometimes I wonder who am I who made the trees, who made the sky Who made the storms, who made heartbreak I wonder how much life I can take I know I like to dream a lot and think of other worlds that are not I hate that I need air to breathe I'd like to leave this body and be free I'd like to float like a mystic child I'd like to kiss an angel on the brow I'd love to solve the mysteries of life by cutting someone's throat or removing their heart You'd like to see it beat you'd like to hold your eyes And though you know I'm dead you'd like to hold my thighs If it's wrong to think on this to hold the dead past in your fist Why were we given memories let us lose our minds and be set free Some-, sometimes I, I wonder who am I the world seeming to pass me by A younger man now getting old I have to wonder what the rest of life will hold I wonder I wonder - - Ooohhh, who started all this was God in love and gave a kiss To someone who later betrayed and Godless love sent us away To someone who later betrayed and Godless love sent us away |
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Standing on the corner suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest and me, I'm in a rock 'n' roll band, huh Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim you know those were different times Oh, all the poets they studied rules of verse and those ladies they rolled their eyes Sweet Jane, oh Sweet Jane, oh-oh Sweet Jane I'll tell you something that Jack, he is a banker and Jane, she is a clerk And both of them save their monies ha, and when, when they come home from work Ooohhh-wah, sittin' down by the fire, oh-wah the radio does play the classical music there, Jim "The March Of The Wooden Soldiers", all you protest kids you can hear Jack say, get ready, ah Sweet Jane, ah, come on baby Sweet Jane, oh, oh, oh-ah Sweet Jane Some people they like to go out dancing and other people they have to work, just watch me now And there's even some evil mothers, haha well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt You know that women never really faint and that villains always blink their eyes, ooohhh And that, you know children are the only ones who blush and that life is just to die But anyone who ever had a heart oh, they wouldn't turn around and break it And anyone who ever played a part oh, they wouldn't turn around and hate it Sweet Jane, oh, wow-woh Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane ... |
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Jenny said, when she was just five years old There was nothin' happening at all Every time she puts on the radio There was nothin' goin' down at all, not at all Then, one fine mornin', she puts on a New York station You know, she couldn't believe what she heard at all She started shakin' to that fine, fine music You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll Despite all the imputations You know, you could just go out And dance to a rock'n'roll station And it was all right, hey baby, You know, it was all right Jenny said, when she was just about five years old `You know, my parents are gonna be the death of us all Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars Well, you know, ain't gonna help me at all` Then, one fine morning, she turns on a New York station She doesn't believe what she hears at all Ooh, she started dancin' to that fine, fine music You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll Yeah, rock'n'roll Despite all the computations You could just dance to that rock'n'roll station And baby, it was all right, yeah Hey, it was all right Hey, here she comes now Jenny said, when she was just about five years old 'Hey, you know, there's nothin' happening at all, not at all Every time I put on the radio You know, there's nothin' goin' down at all, not at all But, one fine morning, she hears a New York station She couldn't believe what she heard at all, hey, not at all She started dancing to that fine, fine music You know, her life was saved by rock'n'roll Yes, rock'n'roll Despite all the computations You know, you could just dance to the rock'n'roll station -acapo |
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| 4:37 |
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I'm waiting for my man Got 26 dollars in my hand Up to Lexington 125 feelin' sick and dirty Huh, I'm waiting for my man Hey white boy, what you doin' uptown Hey white boy, you chasin' my women around Pardon me sir, it's furthest from my mind I'm just waitin' for a dear-dear friend of mine I'm waiting for my man, come on Here he comes, he's all dressed in black PR shoes and a big straw hat He's never early, he's always late first thing you learn is that you always gotta wait I'm waiting for my man Up to a brownstone, up three flights of stairs Everybody's pinned you and nobody cares He's got the works, gives you sweet taste then you gotta split because you got no time to waste I'm waiting for my man Hey baby, don't you holler, don't you ball and shout I'm feeling good, I'm gonna work it on out I'm feeling good, feeling so fine until tomorrow, but that's just some other time I'm waiting for my man I'm waiting for my man I'm waiting for my man man-man-man-man-man-man-man |
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| 5:01 |
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(White light) White light going messin' up my mind (White light) and don't you know, gonna make me go blind (White heat) Oh, white heat, it tickle me down to my toes (White light) ooohhh, have mercy, white light have it, goodness knows (White light) White light going messin' up my brain (White light) oh, white light it's gonna drive me insane (White heat) Oh, white heat, it tickle me down to my toes (White light) oh, white light, I said now, goodness knows do it (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) Oh, I surely do love watch that stuff shooting itself in (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) watch that side, watch that side don't you know, gonna be dead and bright (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white heat) Yeah, foxy mama, watch her walking down the street (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) come upside, your head gonna make a dead end on your street (White light) White light movin' me drain my brain (White light) white light gonna make me really go insane (White heat) Oh, white heat, it tickle me down to my toes (White light) oh, white light, I said now, goodness knows (White light) Oh, white light, it's lightin' up my eyes (White light) don't you know it fills me up with surprise (White heat) Oh, white heat, tickle me down to my toes (White light) oh, white light, I tell you now, goodness knows work at it (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) Ooooh, she surely do move speed (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak everybody gonna make it every week (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white heat) Oh, sputter mutter, everybody gonna kill their mother (Ooohhh, ooohhh, white light) here she comes, here she comes everybody get it, make me run do it higher |
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| 6. |
| 11:00 |
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a) Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda whipped out her wallet the sexy boy smiled in dismay She took out four twenties 'cause she liked round figures everybody's a queen for a day Oh, babe, I'm on fire and you know how I admire your - - body why don't we slip away Although I'm sure you're certain, it's a rarity me flirtin' sha-la-la-la, this way Oh, sha-la-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la hey, baby, come on, let's slip away Luscious and gorgeous, oh what a hunk of muscle call out the national guard She creamed in her jeans as he picked up her means from off of the formica topped bar And cascading slowly, he lifted her wholly and boldly out of this world And despite people's derision proved to be more than diversion sha-la-la-la, later on And then sha-la-la-la-la, he entered her slowly and showed her where he was coming from And then sha-la-la-la-la, he made love to her gently it was like she'd never ever come And then sha-la-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la when the sun rose and he made to leave You know, sha-la-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la neither one regretted a thing b) Street Hassle Hey, that cunt's not breathing I think she's had too much of something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean I don't mean to scare you but you're the one who came here and you're the one who's gotta take her when you leave I'm not being smart or trying to be cold on my part and I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve But you know people get all emotional and sometimes, man, they just don't act rational they think they're just on TV Sha-la-la-la, man why don't you just slip her away You know, I'm glad that we met man it really was nice talking and I really wish that there was a little more time to speak But you know it could be a hassle trying to explain myself to a police officer about how it was that your old lady got herself stiffed And it's not like we could help but there was nothing no one could do and if there was, man, you know I would have been the first But when someone turns that blue well, it's a universal truth and then you just know that bitch will never fuck again By the way, that's really some bad shit that you came to our place with but you ought to be more careful around the little girls It's either the best or it's the worst and since I don't have to choose I guess I won't and I know this ain't no way to treat a guest But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet and just lay her out on the darkened street and by morning, she's just another hit and run You know, some people got no choice and they can't never find a voice to talk with that they can even call their own So the first thing that they see that allows them the right to be why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck |
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| 3:23 |
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In Berlin, by the wall
you were five foot ten inches tall It was very nice candlelight and Dubonnet on ice We were in a small cafe you could hear the guitars play It was very nice it was paradise You're right and I'm wrong hey babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day Oh, you're right and I'm wrong you know I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day One sweet day In a small, small cafe we could hear the guitars play It was very nice candlelight and Dubonnet on ice Don't forget, hire a vet he hasn't had that much fun yet It was very nice hey honey, it was paradise You're right and I'm wrong oh babe, I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day You're right, oh, and I'm wrong you know I'm gonna miss you now that you're gone One sweet day One sweet day One sweet day, one sweet day oh, one sweet day One sweet day, baby-baby, one sweet day one sweet day, one sweet day |
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| 4:12 |
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Caroline says
As she gets up off the floor Why is it that you beat me It isn't any fun Caroline says As she makes up her eyes You ought to learn more about yourself Think more than just i But she's not afraid to die All her friends call her "alaska" When she takes speed, they laugh and ask her What is in her mind What is in her mind Caroline says As she gets up from the floor You can hit me all you want to But I don't love you anymore Caroline says While biting her lip Life is meant to be more than this And this is a bum trip But she's not afraid to die All her friends call her "alaska" When she takes speed, they laugh and ask her What is in her mind What is in her mind She put her fist through the window pane It was such a funny feeling It's so cold in alaska It's so cold in alaska It's so cold in alaska |
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| 7:49 |
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They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because she was making it with sisters and brothers And everyone else, all of the others like cheap officers who would stand there and flirt in front of me They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because of the things that they heard she had done The black Air Force sergeant was not the first one and all of the drugs she took, every one, every one And I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because number one was the girl friend from Paris The things that they did, ah, they didn't have to ask us and then the Welshman from India, who came here to stay They're taking her children away because they said she was not a good mother They're taking her children away because of the things she did in the streets In the alleys and bars, no she couldn't be beat that miserable rotten slut couldn't turn, anyone away I am the Water Boy, the real game's not over here But my heart is overflowin' anyway I'm just a tired man, no words to say But since she lost her daughter It's her eyes that fill with water And I am much happier this way |
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Holly came from Miami FLA Hitchhiked her way across the USA Plucked her eyebrows on the way Shaved her legs Then he was a she She says hey babe take a walk on the wild side say hey honey take a walk on the wild side Candy came from out on the island In the back room she was everybody's darlin' But she never lost her head Even when she was givin' head She says hey babe take a walk on the wild side says hey honey take a walk on the wild side And the colored girls Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay A hustle here and a hustle there New york city's the place where They said hey babe take a walk on the wild side said hey joe take a walk on the wild side Sugar plum fairies came and hit the streets Lookin' for soul food and a place to eat Went to the apollo You should have seen him go go go They said hey sugar take a walk on the wild side They said hey babe take a walk on the wild side Jackie is just speedin' away Thought she was james dean for a day Then i guess she had to crash Valium would've helped that bash She said hey babe take a walk on the wild side said hey honey take a walk on the wild side And the colored girls sing |
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All your two-bit psychiatrists
are giving you electroshock They said, they'd let you live at home with mom and dad instead of mental hospitals But every time you tried to read a book you couldn't get to page 17 'Cause you forgot where you were so you couldn't even read Don't you know they're gonna kill your sons don't you know gonna kill, kill your sons They're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run away Mom informed me on the phone she didn't know what to do about dad Took an axe and broke the table aren't you glad you're married And sister, she got married on the island and her husband takes the train He's big and he's fat and he doesn't even have a brain They're gonna kill your sons don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons Don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run away Creedmore treated me very good but Paine Whitney was even better And when I flipped out on PHC I was so sad, I didn't even get a letter All of the drugs, that we took it really was lots of fun But when they shoot you up with t horizene on crystal smoke you choke like a son of a gun Don't you know they're gonna kill your sons don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons Don't you know they're gonna kill, kill your sons until they run, run, run, run, run, run, run away |
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| 2:56 |
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Vicious, you hit me with a flower
You do it every hour Oh, baby you're so vicious Vicious, you want me to hit you with a stick But all I've got is a guitar pick Oh baby, you're so vicious When I watch you come, baby, I just want to run far away You're not the kind of person around I want to stay When I see you walking down the street I step on your hands and I mangle your feet You're not the kind of person that I want to meet Baby, oh you're so vicious, you're so vicious Vicious, you hit me with a flower You do it every hour Oh, baby you're so vicious Vicious, hey why don't you swallow razor blades You must think that I'm some kind of gay blade But baby, you're so vicious When I see you coming I just have to run You're not good and you certainly aren't very much fun When I see you walking down the street I step on your hand and I mangle your feet You're not the kind of person that I'd even want to meet 'Cause you're so vicious, baby, you're so vicious Vicious, vicious... |
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| 5:01 |
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They tied his arms behind his back, to teach him how to swim
They put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin They stood over the soldier, in the midst of the squalor There was war in his body and it caused his brain to holler Make the sacrifice, mutilate my face If you need someone to kill I'm a man without a will Wash the razor in the rain, let me luxuriate in pain Please don't set me free Death means a lot to me The pain was lean and it made him scream He knew he was alive He put a pin through the nipples on his chest He thought he was a saint I've made love to my mother, killed my father and brother What am I to do When a sin goes too far, it's like a runaway car And cannot be controlled Spit upon his face and scream: There is no Oedipus today This is no play you're thinking you are in What will you say Take the blue mask down from my face And look me in the eye I get a thrill from punishment, I've always been that way I loathe and despise repentance You are permanently stained Your weakness and indifference and indiscretion in the streets Dirty's what you are and clean is what you're not You deserve to be soundly beat Make the sacrifice, take it all the way There is no ' won't ' high enough To stop this desperate day Don't take death away, cut the finger at the joint Cut the stallion at his mount And stuff it in his mouth |
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When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble you pass through a maze of self doubt When you pass through humble, the lights can blind you some people never figure that out You pass through arrogance, you pass through hurt you pass through an ever present past And it's best not to wait for luck to save you pass through the fire to the light Pass through the fire to the light pass through the fire to the light It's best not to wait for luck to save you pass through the fire to the light As you pass through the fire, your right hand waving there are things you have to throw out That caustic dread inside your head will never help you out You have to be very strong, 'cause you'll start from zero over and over again And as the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire lying straight ahead Lying straight ahead lying straight ahead As the smoke clears there's an all consuming fire lying straight ahead They say no one person can do it all but you want to in your head But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce so what is left instead You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you you have to start at the beginning again And just this moment this wonderful fire started up again When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly when you pass through I'm better than you all When you pass through anger and self deprecation and have the strength to acknowledge it all When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that let you survive your own war You find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead not a wall A |
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They call you ecstasy nothing ever sticks to you Not velcro, not scotch tape not my arms dipped in glue Not if I wrap myself in nylon a piece of duct tape down my back Love pierced the arrow with the twelve and I can't get you back Ah, ecstasy ecstasy Ah, ecstasy Across the streets an old Ford, they took off its wheels the engine is gone In its seat sits a box with a note that says, Goodbye Charlie, thanks a lot I see a child through a window with a bib and I think of us and what we almost did The Hudson rocketing with light the ships pass the Statue of Liberty at night They call it ecstasy, ah ecstasy Ecstasy, ah ecstasy Some men call me St. Ivory some call me St. Maurice I'm smooth as alabaster with white veins runnin' through my cheeks A big stud through my eyebrow a scar on my arm that says, Domain I put it over the tattoo that contained your name They called you ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy They call you ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy The moon passing through a cloud a body facing up is floating towards a crowd And I think of a time and what I couldn't do I couldn't hold you close, I couldn't, I couldn't become you They call you ecstasy, I can't hold you down I can't hold you up I feel like that car that I saw today, no radio no engine, no hood I'm going to the cafe, I hope they've got music and I hope that they can play But if we have to part I'll have a new scar right over my heart I'll call it ecstasy Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy Ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy |
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I wanna be black, have natural rhythm
Shoot twenty foot of jism too and fuck up the jews I wanna be black, I wanna be a panther Have a girlfriend named Samantha and have a stable of foxy whores Oh, oh, I wanna be black I don't wanna be a fucked up middle class college student anymore I just wanna have a stable of foxy little whores Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black Oh, oh, I wanna be black Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black I wanna be black, wanna be like Martin Luther King And get myself shot in spring lead a whole generation, too and fucked up the jews I wanna be black, I wanna be like Malcolm X And pass the hex over President Kennedy's tomb and have a big prick, too Oh, I don't wanna be a fucked up middle class college student no more Yeah, I just wanna have a stable of foxy little whores Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black I wanna be black I wanna be black I wanna be black I wanna be black yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna be black Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna be black Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I wanna be black Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) (Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) (Yeah, yeah, I wanna be black, oh, oh) |
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Hey now, bitch, now, baby you better make your face get out of here, quick Maybe your, was getting, ah, too rich It ain't like we ain't never seen this thing before And if it turns you then around then you better hit the door But I know, oh, it's just a temporary thing Oh yeah, it's just a temporary thing You've read too many books, you've seen too many plays And it's things like this, that turn you away Hey, now, now, look, huh, look, hey look, hey look you better think about it twice I know that your good breeding makes it seem not so nice It's just a temporary thing Ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha, it's just a temporary thing Where's the number, where's the dime and where's the phone I feel like a stranger, I guess you wanna go back home Your mother, your father, your brother I guess they wouldn't agree with me But I don't give two shits, they're no better than me Ah-ha, it's just a temporary thing Oh yeah, been there before just a temporary thing It's just a temporary thing Ah bitch, get off my kids, temporary thing Get out, it's just a temporary thing Yeah now, home (it's just a temporary thing) Temporary thing, huh, ah-ha (it's just a temporary thing) .... (it's just a temporary thing) .... (it's just a temporary thing) (it's just a temporary thing) (it's just a temporary thing) |
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All the people had their share of the glory looking out after you It's just a story about winners and glory and you know that it's true Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star Some men may glory from a different condition of another car And later persuasion would permit the arranging of a ... And to cause more confusion, and to make this illusion would have gone too far And it's my ambition, of a jacket ignition in a Cadillac metal car Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star Ah ha, oh yeah, you're just a shooting star You're just a shooting star |
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| 3:05 |
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Legendary hearts tearing up apart with stories of their love their great transcendent loves While we stand here and fight and lose another night of legendary love Legendary loves haunt me in my sleep promises to keep I never should have made I can't live up to this I'm good for just a kiss not legendary love Romeo, oh, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo he's in a car or at a bar or churning his blood with an impure drug He's in the past and seemingly lost forever He worked hard at being good but his basic soul was stained not pure and when he took his bow no audience was clapping Legendary hearts tear us all apart make our emotions bleed crying out in need No legendary love is coming from above it's in this room right now And you've got to fight to make what's right you've got to fight to make what's right You've got to fight to make what's right you've got to fight to keep your legendary love |
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| 8:21 |
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I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein Then I tell you things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus' son And I guess that I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I have made the big decision I'm gonna try to nullify my life 'Cause when the blood begins to flow When it shoots up the dropper's neck When I'm closing in on death And you can't help me, not you guys Or all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk You can all go take a walk And I guess I just don't know And I guess that I just don't know I wish that I was born a thousand years ago I wish that I'd sailed the darkened seas On a great big clipper ship Going from this land here to that On a sailor's suit and cap Away from the big city Where a man cannot be free Of all the evils of this town And of himself and those around Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know Heroin, be the death of me Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life, ha-ha Because a mainer to my vein Leads to a center in my head And then I'm better off than dead Because when the smack begins to flow I really don't care anymore About all the Jim-Jims in this town And all the politicians making crazy sounds And everybody putting everybody else down And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds 'Cause when the smack begins to flow Then I really don't care anymore Ah, when that heroin is in my blood And the blood is in my head Man thank God that I'm as good as dead And thank your God that I'm not aware And thank God that I just don't care And I guess that I just don't know Oh, and I guess that I just don't know |
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You know, man, when I was a young man in high school you believe in or not I wanted to play football for the coach And all those older guys they said he was mean and cruel, but you know wanted to play football for the coach They said I was to little too light weight to play line-backer so I say I'm playing right-end wanted to play football for the coach 'Cause, you know some day, man you gotta stand up straight unless you're gonna fall then you're gone to die And the straightest dude I ever knew was standing right for me all the time So I had to play football for the coach and I wanted to play football for the coach When you're all alone and lonely in your midnight hour And you find that your soul it's been up for sale And you begin to think 'bout all the things that you've done And you begin to hate just 'bout everything But remember the princess who lived on the hill Who loved you even though she knew you was wrong And right now she just might come shining through and the - - Glory of love, glory of love glory of love, just might come through And all your two-bit friends have gone and ripped you off They're talking behind your back saying, man you're never going to be no human being And you start thinking again 'bout all those things that you've done And who it was and what it was and all the different things you made every different scene Ahhh, but remember that the city is a funny place Something like a circus or a sewer And just remember different people have peculiar tastes and the - - Glory of love, the glory of love the glory of love, might see you through yeah, but now, now Glory of love, the glory of love the glory of love, might see you through Glory of love, ah, huh, huh, the glory of love Glory of love, glory of love Glory of love, now, glory of love, now Glory of love, now, now, now, glory of love Glory of love, give it to me now, glory of love see you through Oh, my Coney Island baby, now (I'm a Coney Island baby, now) I'd like to send this one out for Lou and Rachel and all the kids and P.S. 192 Coney Island baby Man, I'd swear, I'd give the whole thing up for you |
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Last shot sure killed me pour another drink Let's drink to the last shot and the blood on the dishes in the sink Blood inside the coffee cup blood on the table top But when you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot When you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot I shot blood at the fly on the wall my heart almost stopped hardly there at all I broke the mirror with my fall, with my - - Fall-fall-fall fall-fall-fall Gimme a double, give yourself one two gimme a short beer, one for you too And a toast to everything that doesn't move that doesn't move But when you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot When you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot Whiskey, bourbon, vodka and scotch I don't care what it is you've got I just want to know that it's my last shot My last shot I remember when I quit pretty good see this here, this is where I chipped my tooth Shot of vein in my neck and I coughed up a Quaalude On my last shot my last shot Here's a toast to all that's good and here's a toast to hate And here's a toast to toasting and I'm not boasting When I say I'm getting straight when I say I'm getting straight But when you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot When you quit, you quit, but you always wish that you knew it was your last shot |
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And the actresses relate to the actor who comes home late after the plays have gone down and the crowds have scattered around Though the city lights and the streets no ticket could be beat for the beautiful show of shows ah, Broadway only knows The great white Milky Way it had something to say when he fell down on his knees after soaring through the air With nothing to hold him there it was really not so cute to play without a parachute as he stood upon the ledge Looking out, he thought he saw a brook And he hollered, Look, there are the bells and he sang out, Here come the bells Here come the bells, here come the bells here come the bells Here come the bells here come the bells Here come the bells here come the bells |
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| 3:43 |
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Just a perfect day Drink sangria in the park And then later When it gets dark we go home Just a perfect day Feed animals in the zoo then later I move to and Then home Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It's such fun Just a perfect day You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else Someone good Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow |
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| 2:55 |
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Sally dances on the floor She says she can't do it anymore She walks down St. Marks Place And eats natural food at my place Sally can't dance no more, she can't get off of the floor Sally can't dance no more They found her in the trunk of a ford Oooh, she can't dance no more Sally is loosing her face She lives on St., Marks Place In a rent-controlled appartment, eighty dollars a month She has lots of fun, she has lots of fun But, Sally can't dance no more Sally can't dance no more She took too much meth and can't get off the floor Now Sally, she can't dance no more She was the first girl in the neighbourhood To wear tied-dyed pants, ah, like she should She was the first girl that I ever seen That had flowers painted on her jeans She was the first girl in her neighbourhood that got raped on Tompkins Square real good Now she wears a sword, like Napoleon And she kills the boys and acts like a son Sally can't dance no more, Sally can't dance no more She can't get herself off the floor, Sally, she can't dance no more Sally became a big model, she moved up to eighties and park She had a studio appartment and that's where she used to ball folk singers, and that's where she used to ball folk singers Sally can't dance no more, Sally can't get off of the floor She can't dance no more, Sally can't dance She knew all the right people, she went to Le Jardin She danced with Picasso's illegitimate mistress And wore Kenneth Lane jewels - it's trash - But - Sally can't dance no more, she can't get off of the floor Sally can't dance no more, Sally can't dance |
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| 3:38 |
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Satellite's gone up to the skies Thing like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I like to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of Satellite's gone way up to Mars Soon it will be filled with parking cars I watch it for a little while I love to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of I've been told that you've been bold with Harry, Mark and John Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday with Harry, Mark and John Satellite's gone up to the skies Thing like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love ... |
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| 4:55 |
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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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| 3:30 |
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Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
he looks out a window without glass The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg He's got 9 brothers and sisters they're brought up on their knees it's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man but that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard he's going out, to the dirty boulevard He's going down, to the dirty boulevard This room cost 2,000 dollars a month you can believe it man it's true somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything they dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em that's what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard going out, to the dirty boulevard He's going down, on the dirty boulevard going out Outside it's a bright night there's an opera at Lincoln Center movie stars arrive by limousine The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan but the lights are out on the Mean Streets A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel he's selling plastic roses for a buck The traffic's backed up to 39th street the TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming he's found a book on magic in a garbage can He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling 'At the count of 3' he says, 'I hope I can disappear' And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard I want to fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard I want to fly away I want to fly Fly, fly away I want to fly Fly-fly away (Fly a-) fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...) Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away) fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away) |
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Paralyzed by hatred and a piss ugly soul if he murdered his father, he thought he'd become whole While listening at night to an old radio where they danced to the rock minuet In the gay bars in the back of the bar he consummated hatred on a cold sawdust floor While the jukebox played backbeats, he sniffed coke off a jar while they danced to a rock minuet School was a waste, he was meant for the street but school was the only way, the army could be beat The two whores sucked his nipples 'til he came on their feet as they danced to the rock minuet He dreamt that his father was sunk to his knees his leather belt tied so tight that it was hard to breathe And the studs from his jacket were as cold as a breeze as he danced to a rock minuet He pictured the bedroom where he heard the first cry his mother on all fours, ah, with his father behind And her yell hurt so much, he had wished he'd gone blind and rocked to a rock minuet In the back of the warehouse were a couple of guys they had tied someone up and sewn up their eyes And he got so excited he came on his thighs when they danced to the rock minuet On Avenue B, someone cruised him one night he took him in an alley and then pulled a knife And thought of his father, as he cut his windpipe and finally danced to the rock minuet In the curse of the alley, the thrill of the street on the bitter cold docks where the outlaws all meet In euphoria drug in euphoria heat you could dance to the rock minuet In the thrill of the needle and anonymous sex you could dance to the rock minuet So when you dance hard, slow dancing when you dance hard, slow dancing When you dance hard, slow dancing when you dance to the rock minuet |
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Sometimes I feel so happy sometimes I feel so sad Sometimes I feel so happy but mostly you just make me mad Baby you just make me mad Linger on your pale blue eyes Linger on your pale blue eyes Thought of you as my mountain top thought of you as my peak Thought of you as everything I've had but couldn't keep I've had but couldn't keep Linger on your pale blue eyes Linger on your pale blue eyes If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see I'd put you in a mirror I'd put in front of me I'd put in front of me Linger on your pale blue eyes Linger on your pale blue eyes Skip a life completely stuff it in a cup She said Money is like us in time it lies but can't stand up Down for you is up Linger on your pale blue eyes Linger on your pale blue eyes It was good what we did yesterday and I'd do it once again The fact that you are married only proves you're my best friend But it's truly truly a sin Linger on your pale blue eyes Linger on your pale blue eyes |
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