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Black vinyl man with black plasticised imagination
More fodder for the new lost generation I got a question to send you to the nearest closet "Why can't you let us do it like Joni does it?" There you go again, giving it your very best trying so hard to make it sound like all thee rest And as your factory sanctifies your wooden soul you gave us T.V. dinners, now it's T.V. rock 'n' roll We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola I got political inclinations to announce but no way, if it doesn't scan with your accounts I got some spiritual ideology for you I know it's gotta correspond with the corporation view We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola You can find it in the streets You can find it in the elevators You can find it where the ladies wash their hands It emanates from littleboxes on the wall and it'll soon be coming in disposable tin cans My soul shows art to me, but dollars says my radio Wall Street liquid lunches showing us the way to go Why tolerate this numismatical polity? There isn't any other way, there isn't any other way, more's the pity We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola We're growing up We're growing up To radio musicola |
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| 2. |
| 4:22 |
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I pretend that I'm glad you went away
But these four walls close in more every day And I'm dying inside and nobody knows it but me Like a clown I put on a show The pain is real even if nobody knows And I'm crying inside and nobody knows it but me Why didn't I say the things I needed to say How could I let my angel get away Now my world is just a-tumblin' down I can say it so clearly but you're nowhere around The night are lonely, the days are so sad And I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had And I'm missing you and nobody knows it but me How blue can I get, you could ask my heart Just like a jigsaw puzzle it's been torn all apart A million words couldn't say just how I feel A million years from now, you know, I'll be loving you still The night are lonely, the days are so sad And I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had And I'm missing you and nobody knows it but me The night are lonely, the days are so sad And I just keep thinkin' about the love that we had And I'm missing you and nobody knows it but me |
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permanent wave
temporary laughter morality's soul living happy ever after never see the end never in a million years and never be afraid cos even when my head says this is all there is i believe there'll be another time L.A.B.A.T.Y.D. all our bodiesthree score years and ten i know we're waiting for the big amen only one chance tears of blood and years of sweat and toil give it all up then shuffle off your mortal coil don't it make you sigh don't you want to bend and cry don't you be afraid cos even when my head says this is all there is i believe there'll be another time life's a bitch and then you die |
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i read it in the papers
it must be true it said "girl gives birth to alien boy" but do we see a photo of this bundle of joy --- no, no i saw another headline it knocked me flat it said "dinosaur found alive today" it's easy when you're talking the rhetorical way it's what the papers say you know it's right it's down there written in black and white --- for you it's what the papers say you know it's true they're responsible citizens and wold they lie to you? i saw it on the front page whatever next? it read "N.A.S.A plans sex in outer space" no doubt to procreate the human race they put it in the late news well, now hear this,it went "man with two heads learns to fly" well, JESUS, but it must have been one hell of a guy it's what the papers say you know it's right it's down there written in black and white --- for you it's what the papers say you know it's true they're the pillars of society and would they lie to you? i saw it on the newsstand it shouted at me it said "we are all good and they are all bad" well drive me to the clinic 'cos it's driving me mad it's what the papers say you know it's right it's down there written in black and white --- for you it's what the papers say you know it's true they're responsible citizens and would they lie to you? it's what the papers say you know it's right it's down there written in black and white --- for you it's what the papers say you know it's true they're the pillars of society and would they lie to you? it's what the papers say you know it's right it's down there written in black and white --- for you it's what the papers say you know it's true they're responsible citizens and would they lie to you? |
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| 5:02 |
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even though i think of you
life goes on i keep your photograph in my attache' your eyes seem to follow me from day to day i make the curtains sing and dance in my room i'm sure i see your smile and smell your sweet perfume and sometimes your face is in everything i see forever with me sometimes our love is more than just a memory even though i think of you life goes on my heart keeps me awake as loud as it beats i'm sure i feel your skin between the warm silk sheets and sometimes your face is in everything i see forever with me sometimes our love is more than just a memory even though i think of you life goes on when i'm awake or sleepingwhen i got things to do why does everything i see remind me of (you?) (You) swept the broken years away just like a brand new broom. and there was only you there in (the room) (the room) grows hazy and the people grow loud i'm sure i hear your voice above the madding crowd and sometimes your face is in everythings i see forever with me sometimes our love is more than just a memory even though i think of you life goes on |
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noon glistens and shadows wave
who know whether we're stupid or brave and they way we are oh we are running scared no use fighting in the name of pride when there probably isn't any place to hide and the two of us running scared they're fakin' their peace and makin' their tracks they re watching you, watching them, watching your backs and they know we are oh we are running scared running scared from hearsay and hate fatality and fate st peter's pearly gate on the run to merciful release where paranoias cease and an everlasting peace is not a gun we could be pushing it much too far well maybe we, maybe, just maybe we are and the both of us both of us running scared excuse me officer, don't you know that this is the place where you people don't go here we go here we go running scared running scared from hearsay and hate fatality and fate st peter's pearly gate on the run to merciful release where paranoias cease and an everlasting peace is not a gun running running scared |
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| 5:20 |
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Talk tougher than james cagney
Act smarter than charlie chan Love longer than valentino or you never will be a man i saw him down at the drive-in saturday a forty five to blow away anyone who happens to disagree With such panache and style, he wins the game when all the while, i'm sitting here thinking that it could be me Suddenly, in walks a criminologist with too much knowledge to resist and plenty of answers for the good at heart No fear, no pain, no sweat, the teardrop on the serviette Oh i could be a hero if i was that smart Silver cloud, silver tongue on a silver lover screen with the sweetest of the sweet and meanest of the mean Talk tougher than james cagney Act smarter than charlie chan, oh Love longer than valentino or you never will be a man back to the movies where the lady, beset by his charms, falls faintly in the lover's arms the fate of every watching woman in his hands after the earth moves, musn't dwell, our hero bids a fond farewell upon his trusty camel 'cross the desert sands with the bad guys in a fix and the ladies in a spin where does fantasy end and reality begin? Talk tougher than james cagney Act smarter than charlie chan, oh Love longer than valentino or you never will be a man When you take up the sword and you fight the good fight with your ego in the red and your dreams in black and white. talk tougher than james cagney act smarter than charlie chan love longer than valentino or you never will be a man |
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| 4:34 |
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i wouldn't if i were you
thank god we're not my finger shoots straight and true that shows a lot just try it on if you dare so tough so free my shoulder has chips to spare save one for me whenever these bars close before me i'll tear them down with one fit of temper it's hot head, hot groove, don't look, don't move don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might kill somebody don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might thrill somebody whatever their name may be who dares, who dares? nobody does that to me who cares, who cares? whenever these four walls close me in i'll knock them down with one flick of my wrist it's so mean, so cute, don't scream, don't shoot. don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might kill somebody don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might thrill somebody i'm counting from one to ten one two, one two no telling what happens then it's up to you it could be love or it cold be war what will you choose it depends what i want to get out of my cage for choose war, you lose whenever the roof falls down on me i'll come right through with one beat of my heart it's you win, you bet, don't cry, don't fret don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might kill somebody don't let me out of my cage boy 'cos i might thrill somebody |
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Half-way to paradise or so it seems that way
Same as anyone the same as any other day. We seek eternity in all the things we buy Not top priority but it sure figures very high. Who steals the real world fooling us all as it goes And who gets to heaven - heaven knows. When a heart beats you can see forever When our time sleeps you can be forever be forever. Meanwhile in Cuckoo Land a most delightful place We look no further than the nose in front of our face. No wood anywhere we can see only trees Last train for material refugees. When a heart beats you can see forever When our time sleeps you can be forever. When a heart beats you can see forever When our time sleeps you can be forever be forever. Don't concern yourself with matters past and future Just put your mind to where they meet. But when a heart beats fooling us all as it goes And who gets to heaven - heaven knows. When a heart beats you can see forever When our time sleeps you can be forever be forever - be forever - be forever - be forever - be forever - Heart beats heart beats - be forever - Heart beats heart beats - be forever - be forever. |
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| 6:18 |
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shades of all shades
every shape and size promised parties in the air danced before her eyes but where did love go and where were you on the day they turned violet to blue friends of all friends friends that came and went some did care some did not subway residents but what did you feel what did you do on the day they turned violet to blue on the day they turned violet to blue can't stop, don't start warm hand, cool heart please hear my call out cold, in deep no sense, no sleep at all so before you go kinds of all kinds glittering like gold selling for the highest bid keeping out the cold and did the angels call by for you on the day they turned violet to blue on the day they turned violet to blue on the day they turned violet to blue can't stop, don't start warm hand, cool heart please hear my call out cold, in deep no sense, no sleep, at all |
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