Adrian Belew

One day you wake up
but you didn't even know
you were asleep

Most of our lives
we await your embrace
and to know what it's like
when we meet face to face

And to know what it's like
when we meet face to face
Is it a beginning, a continuing
toward the end
is it a beginning, a continuing
toward the end

Most of our lives
we await your embrace
and to know what it's like
when we meet face to face

is it a beginning toward the end

I Wish I Knew

Sometimes I'm paralyzed

with life speeding by

I never seem to get anywhere

No matter how hard I try

Oh it used to be, I thought, I was in command

Now I know I'm up to my chin

in quicksand



Is there no thread of hope

that we control?

Oh if you could only pull me up...

I will never let you down, let you down



I will never let you down



Oh if you could only pull me up...

I will never let you down, let you down

I will never let you down

I will never let you down, let you down

I will never let you down



I will never let you down

She shudders like a leaf
falling from a tree
when I touch her

Her fingertips soft like fluff
across my lips

She shudders like a leaf
falling from a tree
when I touch her

Her fingertips soft like fluff
across my lips

Here it comes, here comes another day
Another decision on the way
Well here it comes, here comes a covered display
Of preferences to make
Here comes a knock on the door
Open it for an opportunity
Well here it comes, here comes a physical rain
Of memories to be made

Eyes wide open
Eyes wide open all the time

'N there it was, it was the perfect take
And were you asleep or awake?
There it was, it was a perfect time
To speak your mind
'N there it was, it was the chance of a lifetime
It flew right by and what did you do?
Well there it was, it was another day
For memories to be made

Eyes wide open
Eyes wide open all the time
I've got my eyes wide open all the time
Eyes wide open
Because you never know
What you might see

Memories to be made

Eyes wide open
Eyes wide open all the time
I've got my eyes wide open
Eyes wide open
Because you never know
What you might see

Six billion ants crawling on a plate
Six billion ants crawling on a plate
None of them give back as much as they take
Six billion ants crawling on a plate

Doesn't mean you should just because you can
It doesn't mean you should just because you can
Like Abraham and Ishmael fighting over sand
It doesn't mean you should just because you can

That is a fact of life
That is a fact of life

Now some of us build and some of us teach
Some of us build, some of us teach
And some of us kill what some of us eat

That is a fact of life
That is a fact of life

Nobody knows what happens when you die
Nobody knows what happens when you die
Believe what you want, it doesn't mean you're right

That is a fact of life
That is a fact of life

And when I have some words
This is the way I'll sing
Through a distortion box
To make them menacing

Yeah, then I'm gonna have to write a chorus
We're gonna need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face
Yes, I'm gonna have to write a chorus
I’m gonna need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face

Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
You have to be happy with what you have to happy with

And for a second verse
Of terse economy
I'll brew another pot
Of ambiguity

Then I'm gonna have to write a chorus
We're gonna need to have a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face
Yes, we're gonna need to have a chorus
I'm gonna have to write a chorus
And this would seem to be as good as any other place to sing it till I'm blue in the face

Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
You have to be happy with what you have to happy with

Then I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
Then I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus
I guess I'll repeat the chorus
We're gonna repeat the chorus

Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
Happy with what you have to be happy with
You have to be happy with what you have
To be happy with what you have
You have to be happy with what you have to happy with

She carries me through days of apathy
She washes over me
She saved my life in a manner of speaking
When she gave me back the power to believe

She carries me through days of apathy
She washes over me
She saved my life in a manner of speaking
When she gave me back the power to believe

She carries me?
She saved my life

Jet set ski shop quasi silver Porche jacket
bleached blonde forty-dollar Foster Grant
capped teeth two-inch eyelash
pseudo gamma delta doll
Adidas in heat

Beer slob Saturday addict pops another top
"Kill that sonovabitch," he screams at the t.v.
the thrill of victory, the agony of my feet
Adidas in heat

Sports awareness T-shirt
sports awareness T-shirt
you have the paraphenelic regaliaof an athletic supporter

Forced to wear this T-shirt
sports awareness T-shirt
you have the paraphenelic regalia
of an athletic supporter

Yes, he was a fish head
his frontal lobe a retread
he rode a little motor scooter
they said he was a neuter
tried to be a masher
he was a failure as a flasher
what made it most regrettable
he thought he was incredible

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a smooth operator, I'm a mood elevator
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

Yes, he was a fish...sandwich
unfortunate case of brain damage
his modus operandi,
a burger and a french frie
his mother was a plumber
his father was a momur
he walked around a lot and took long naps

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a smooth operator, I'm a mood elevator
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now
here I come, hey, look at me now
I'm a stimulator, I'm a tax evader
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

Yes he was a fish head, as stable as a waterbed
for fear of pantaphobia he moved to Ethiopia

Here I come, yeah, look at me now
I'm a stimulator, I'm a space invader
They always said I would be nothing but a fish head
and look at me now

You're a monster, baby
you're a super killer
I want to be wiff you, I love ya
you're a super monster killer
show me your rhino thang

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

Although I must walk alone
I am part of her
if I must hurt anything
it will not be her

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

What happens to her
happens to me
what happens to her
happens to me

Although I depart alone
from our great earth
she has given more
than I can return

Come singing, saying praise
her beauty lives
she is not dead

Swingline throughout the backyards of the midwest
lean back, baby, in your seat on the train
look through the window pane

Look at that kid over there with no underwear
and a silly dog who doesn't care
his mother stretches to reach the clothes line
while a mean neighbor leans on the population sign

Non-stop through the backyards of the midwest
eavesdrop, baby, from your seat on the train
look through the window pane

Some kinda Buick left in a stream
it used to be somebody's' dream
a town stares at the summer heat waves
past a smooth afternoon,
ready to close for the day

She's demure...Friendly...Loving and good-looking
Good-looking and wealthy
She is tall, pretty, thin blonde
A loving person, great personality, fun to be with
Independent, gorgeous, rich, powerful
Liberal yet she's very romantic
Of course, she'd have to have the perfect figure...

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Everyone I meet says she's beautiful...

Blonde hair, blue eyes, about 5' 6"
Well,blonde about 5' 8"
Blonde about 5' 9"
36" 24" 36"

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Even with her clothes on she's beautiful...

Not necessarily beautiful, but...

Lovely...Sexy...She's contagious
Talented...Creative...Controllable
Very fashionable... Good religious woman
She's extremely mobile
Silent...Electrostatic... Enigmatic
My wife...My mother
Pretty with hairy legs...

Everywhere she goes she's beautiful
Everyone I know says she's beautiful
And I deram about her even in my sleep
Even with her clothes on she's beautiful...

There I stood in the night
out on the broken pier
me with my feet in the sea
you with your face in the clouds,
the man in the moon
and as I heard your voice,
felt your laugh
flood across the broken pier
I wanted to die right then and there

You smiled down across the waves
as if to say to me
"Everything will be okay,
be strong and true"
and I felt your eyes
like the tide
pulling me out into the air
for a moment in time
you held me there,
father and son,
home again'

Late last night
I was speaking with my wife
when she turned into a momur
tried to put me uptight
I said "You don't scare me"
then she let out a scream
that's when my heart started jumpin'
like a broken t.v.

She was a momur and it was just like I told ya'
she said "You better watch out, I might bite a big hole in ya'"

The very next morning
I was watching cartoons
when I thought I saw a momur
it was you know who
well, she backed me in a corner
tried to kill me with a broom
and shouted personal remarks
from across the living room

She was a momur and it was just like I told ya'
she said "You better watch out, I might bite a big hole in ya'"

Late last night
I was speaking with my wife again
when she turned into a momur again
tried to put me uptight again
she took me favorite guitar
and she smashed it on the floor
when she danced around on top of it,
I thought I might get sore

She was momur

I recall as a boy we would hop the freights
wasn't nothin' but a kick back then
there was no better thrill for my anxious heart
than a long flatcar
headin' out of the yard
and I knew even then she was in my blood
like the time when I first hired on
and the fireman laughed at my bony nose
but he tossed me a cap
said GM&O
and I was a man...

I gave her my best years
well, what can you do but laugh
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back

When we climbed up the great Appalachians
her engines would be raging like hell
then we'd come back down to the rising towns
where the cattle stare
in the frozen air
For me there nothing more sacred
than the beautiful sound she'd make
her long blue signal blowin' deep in the night,
it would get to me there,
it would get to me there
Now I'm afraid...

Afraid of these silent hours
awake underneath my old cap
I don't expect she'll ever be coming back

Well, I watched the beginning of the end for her
when I saw my first jet airplane
flying high overhead like a bird of prey
while the mighty fell
in the land of the brave
Now I'm alone.

Well, maybe you're thinkin' I'm outasight
'cause I know you saw me kickin' at the gig last night
maybe, baby, that's why they call
twang bar king

Rip bash smash, burn up a fret
I can keep it in tune and nearly beat it to death
yes, baby baby, that's why they call me
twang bar king

Well I can bash smash beat rip tear out the guts
burn it up and make it scream
yeah, yeah, yeah

Ooohhh, listen, baby
I ain't braggin' but I'm the twang bar king
twang bar
king

Tragedys of Kennedys, refugees, AIDS disease
photos of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and Kosovo
Tim McVeigh, Saddam Hussein, the bombing of the World Trade
hostages in Bosnia, atrocities, South Africa,
abortion and Kevorkian, Vietnam, napalm,
Lady Di, and Lennon died a violent crime, Columbine,
"I have a dream that one day..." Rodney King, O.J.,
symbols of our life and times, "One giant leap for mankind"

I was just now thinking about the Jaws Of Life
how they chew you up and spit you right
back into the frying pan

And how life unwinds around and around
up and down, you think you're fine
but then you're back in the frying pan

And how life unwinds
you think you're fine
but then...

Well, I woke up this morning in a cloud of despair
I ran my hand across my head,
pulled out a pile or worried hair
I went to my physician who was buried in his thoughts
he said, "Son, you've been reading
too much Elephant Talk"

He said, "The thing about depression is,
well you just can't let it get you down,
you have to see the world for what it is:
a circus full of freaks and clowns
and you'll never please everybody,
it's a well established fact",
he said, "I recommend a fifth of Jack
and a bottle of Prozac"

What can you give a man who has everything
can you give him back his edge,
can you make him want to sing?
No, you can only take from him,
and there's nothing he can do
I've got the driving me to drink and eat
a bottle of Prozac blues

Well, I woke up this morning and I shaved of my head
by the time I realized what I had done I was already dead
I went to see the gatekeeper standing by Heaven's door
he said, "I hope you brought a good supply of... you know"

Pain day sky beauty die black joy
Love empty day life die pain passion
Joy black day hate beauty die life
Joy ache empty day pain die love
Passion joy black light

And if God is dead, what am I
A fleck of dirt on the wing of a fly
Hurtling to earth
Through a hole in the sky
A hole in the sky

And if Warhol's a genius, what am I
A speck of lint on the penis of an alien
Buried in gelatin
Beneath the sands of Venus

Time sun hurt trust peace dark rage
Sad white rain sun anger hurt soft
Trust night rage rain white hope dark
Sacred sun time trust hurt rage anger
Rain white light

And if a bird can speak, who once was a dinosaur
And a dog can dream; should it be implausible
That a man might supervise
The construction of light
The construction of light

Pain day sky beauty black die joy
Love empty time sun hurt trust peace
Dark rage sad white rain hate anger
Hope sacred passion life night ache soft
Light

Pain day sky beauty die black joy
love empty day life die pain passion
joy black day hate beauty die life
joy ache empty day pain die love
passion joy black light

And if God is dead what am I,
a fleck of dirt on the wing of a fly
hurtling to earth
through a hole in the sky

And if Warhol's a genius, what am I,
a speck of lint on the penis of an alien
buried in gelatin
beneath the sands of Venus

Time sun hurt trust peace dark rage
sad white rain sun anger hurt soft
trust night rage rain white hope dark
sacred sun time trust hurt rage anger
rain white light

And if a bird can speak, who once was a dinosaur,
and a dog can dream; should it be implausible
that a man might supervise
the construction of light
the construction of light

Pain day sky beauty black die joy
love empty time sun hurt trust peace
dark rage sad white rain hate anger
hope sacred passion life night ache soft
light

Hat bandana Graham cracker jackhammer in
a nail file suit your self-serviceman
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
autographed pictures of Shakespeare fishing
gear head phone Madison Square garden hose
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum

Get set get wet get fat get fit get a life
get it on get it up get it off of me
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get sacked get the facts get a load of this
get pissed get real get over it get it over with
the world's my oyster soup bowling ball of wax museum

Cannibal dog house plan B happy
as a lark's tongue in cheekbone china doll
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
don't ask Y2 cake and eat it too
nothing lasts for evergreen thumbscrew
the world's my oyster soup kitchen door frame by frame

Get back slapback backtalk halfback back track talkback
back to back I'll be back to get you back
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get bumped get pumped get dumped get the funk
get sick get fixed get jiggy with it
the world's my oyster souffle mignon

Get set get wet get fat get fit
get along little doggiem get it off of me
oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum
get sacked get the facts get a load of this
the world's my oyster soup kitchen floor wax museum

Walking down the street, do you stare at your feet
and never do you let your eyes meet the freaks,
the deadbeat addicts, social fanatics,
they're a dime a dozen and they carry guns

Halloween, every other day of the week
Living in a cage in the USA
Living in a cage in the USA
Holy smoke! Somebody blew up the Pope
Living in a cage in the USA

All around us the rules are changing
Taller walls and stronger cages
Nothing is sacred or too outrageous
Taller walls and stronger cages
What in the world has happened to the world?
What in the world...

Driving your Mercedes you think you're safe
but there is no escape in a world of hateful
criminal minds with guns and knives
who say "give me a ride or give me your live"

Halloween, every other day of the week
Living in a cage in the USA
Living in a cage in the USA
Holy smoke! Somebody blew up the Pope
Living in a cage in the USA

All around us the rules are changing
Taller walls and stronger cages
Nothing is sacred or too outrageous
Taller walls and stronger cages
What in the world has happened to the world?
What in the world...

one eye goes laughing,
one eye goes crying
through the trials and trying of one life
one hand is tied,
one step gets behind
in one breath we're dying

i've been waiting for the sun to come up
waiting for the showers to stop
waiting for the penny to drop
one time
and i've been standing in a cloud of plans
standing on the shifting sands
hoping for an open hand
one time

sex sleep eat drink dream
primal tribal aplle egg vegetable eel
i have a new canoe but it does not have a wheel

private velvet animal oldsmobile mind
i'm sitting in the fireplace burning up my time

private velvet animal empty t.v.
they're fishing in the kitchen
but they haven't caught up to me

primal tribal chemical digital night
i've got to get dressed to go out of my mind

sex sleep eat drink dream

Marine 475
410
400
062
1009
1097
65
Non-Marine
10
190
510
1148
Motor
254
Aviation
545

long ago and far away in a different age
when i was a dumb young guy
fossilized photos of my life then
illustrate what an easy prey i must have been
standing in the sun, idiot savant
something like a monument
i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones

ignorance has alway been something i excel in
followed by naivete and pride
doesn't take a scientist to see how
any clever predator could have a piece of me
standing in the sun, idiot savant
something like a monument
i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones

when i look back on the past
it's a wonder i'm not yet extinct
all the mistakes and bad judgements i made
nearly pushed me to the brink
it doesn't pay to be too nice
it's the one thing i have learned
still, i made my fossil bed
now i toss and turn

i'm a dinosaur, somebody is digging my bones

autumn has come to rest
in her garden
come to paint the trees with emptiness
and no pardon
so many things have come undone
like the leaves on the ground
and suddenly she begins to cry
but she doesn't know why
heavy are the words that fall through the air
to burden her shoulders
caught up in the trees
her soliloguy,
"don't leave me alone"

Rome now comes to sit
in her garden
mingling the breeze with memories
of a time when
there was a room in pale yellow hues
her room with a view
where love made a bed of happiness
in muslin and lace
sweet is the voice from far away
that speaks sotto voce and
is lingering there in the golden air
to quiet the day.

one eye goes laughing,
one eye goes crying
through the trials and trying of one life
one hand is tied,
one step gets behind
in one breath we're dying

i've been waiting for the sun to come up
waiting for the showers to stop
waiting for the penny to drop
one time
and i've been standing in a cloud of plans
standing on the shifting sands
hoping for an open hand
one time

people fly people flee
people clam and say "it wasn't me"
people fish people beef
people arm to teeth
yes, you've got people on the tube
walking on the moon
people at the bottom of the sea
people in tombs
people in igloos
even a tribe of pygmies

people are the main spring
turning the world around
people, they're the main spring
spinning this world upside down

people sun people toast
people tire shile other people smoke
people bowl people rock
people pay to see two people box

watch me face me
dress me baby me
phone me wire me
house me bug me fire me

people are the main spring
spinning the world around
people, they're the main spring
turning this world inside out

Sex sleep eat drink dream
Primal tribal aplle egg vegetable eel
I have a new canoe but it does not have a wheel

Private velvet animal oldsmobile mind
I'm sitting in the fireplace burning up my time

Private velvet animal empty t.v.



They're fishing in the kitchen
But they haven't caught up to me

Primal tribal chemical digital night
I've got to get dressed to go out of my mind

Sex sleep eat drink dream

close your eyes and look at me
i'll be standing by your side
in between the deep blue sea
and the sheltering sky
if we find no words to say
to the rhythm of the waves
then we'll both surrender there
walking on air

and the worries of the day lie down
under cover of the fading clouds
the secrets of the night
come alive in your eyes
you don't have to hurry
you don't have to try
cause you don't have a care
you're walking on air

Gunman, my sort of star, we put you there
You're all of us now, you're all over town
On wrappers and cans, you're bigger than life
You're braver than dad
You're a gunman, holding your own
You're a gunman, never alone

Gunman, leader of packs, shadow of death,
Killer in chic, never betrayed, friend of our kids
You're a gunman, holding your own
You're a gunman, never alone

Gunman, trader in arms
The kids on the streets are buying your charms

Gunman, my sort of star,
We're bleeding for you, we put you there
What would you give, you're all of us now
We're burning for you
You're all over town, gunman,
You're on wrappers and cans,
You're bigger than life and we're dying for you
And you're braver than dad, gunman
You're woman are dogs
But they're braver than you

We're bleeding for you
What would you give?
We're burning for you, gunman

We invented you,
Now we've got to live with you
You're more solid than a rock
A rock of cocaine or crack or ice or death,
Like a rock of death
Like a gravestone,
Gunman

I need to feel your heartbeat
so close, it feels like mine
all mine
I remember the feeling,
my hands in your hair
I remember the feeling
of the rhythm we made
I need to land sometime
right next to you
and feel your heartbeat
right next to me

I (Belew/Omega)

"Friends seen an' unseen...to you that are ridin' along
in your automobile...to you that are sitting at you table
I greet you with the holy word 'Peace'...
for with my infinite mind I thinks constructively...
and I'm able to draw whatsaever I want into my immediate
surroundin'...for yo' minds are my mind
and my mind is yo' mind and I'm sendin' out
my mind to you, you, an' you...

You've got to remain to bein' yourself...you cannot be
nobody else, it ain't no use tryin' bein' no whirlwind
an' uh, jumpin' here an' an' playin' checkers with
your own life, that ain't gonna work, baby...

Now repeat these words behind me:
'I am what I am'...now that's all you are...
you are what you believe you are...stretch out

So many of you all in Radioland, you're not stretchin' out...
but I want to say one thing to you today...it makes no
differen' who you are, what you're doin', what you're
tryin' to do or want to do, repeat these words
'I am what I am and that's all I am...is what I am'...
that's all I, look, that, that's all I am is what I am...and I'm it

Make no differen' whether it's in the mornin',
the evenin', or in the night time...
hair breakin' out, bald headed...it's the same thing...
you are what you believe you are

'Cause some of you all are sittin' there right now,
amen, an' tell if you had a necktie on yo', on now, right now,
a whirlwind would come along an' choke you to death,
that's how bad luck some of you all in...
some of you all in such a bad luck right now
that you couldn't hit a barn with a baseball bat...
some of you all in such a bad luck right now, amen,
if you was to sit down by-a-by-men, by a pond, amen,
somethin' would come up an' stick ya'
you just in that bad a' luck...

I am what I am...now repeat this behind me:
'I am what I am and that is all I am and I am it'...
Yes, I know what you're sayin'...stretch out...oh, yes...stretch out"

I'm looking through my telescope
looking for a UFO
I'm looking through my telescope
searching for a ray of hope
to come out of this dark night
I hope they understand wrong from right
and maybe they can show us
how to clean up our mess

I'm looking through my telescope
looking for a UFO
I wonder what they see on earth
do they see the hate and hurt
or do they see the Christmas lights and mirth
and hear songs of peace on earth

Somebody will have to fall out of the sky
somebody to show us how to survive
oh, wouldn't that be nice

Somebody to guide us out of this dark night
somebody to show us how to take hate and hurt
and turn it into peace on earth

I'm looking for a UFO
I'm looking through my telescope
for somebody with a ray of hope

Wouldn't it be great
to see the African plains
before they lay them to waste
and only the bones remain
Wouldn't it be poetry
to shoot holes in the poachers we see
with an elephant gun

Men in helicopters fly
shooting rhinos from out of the sky
Why do we always assume
the planet is ours to ruin?
what a legacy we're leaving behind
what a legacy

Wouldn't it be something
for the men killing dolphin
to be caught up by their necks
in their greedy fishing nets
Wouldn't it be irony
if the tuna fish canneries
were to fall into the sea

The dolphins and the whales still left alive
cry to the stars in the deep blue night
"There's nowhere to hide,
the people on earth will not be denied"
what a legacy we're leaving behind
what a legacy

Wouldn't it be odd
if there really was a God
and he looked down on earth
and saw what we've done to Her
Wouldn't it be just
if He pulled the plug on us,
and took away the sun

You always said that I'd be back again, that I'd come running to you in the end
I thought that you were on your own, and now I find you're not alone
(Not alone) I'll see you through the rain
(Not alone) through the heartache and pain
(Not alone) It hurts like never before, you're not alone any more

You always said that I would know someday just how it feels when your love walks away
I let you down, I let you go, I lost you, how was I to know?
(Not alone) I'll see you through the rain
(Not alone) through the heartache and pain
(Not alone) It hurts like never before, you're not alone any more

I never knew I could feel this way, I never could see past yesterday
You feel that everything is gone, I feel it too, you're not alone
(Not alone) I'll see you through the rain
(Not alone) through the heartache and pain
(Not alone) It hurts like never before
You're not alone, you're not alone, you're not alone any more, any more, any more

"Hello, honey, I hope I didn't wake you up,
but I had to hear your voice
I'm standing in another phone booth,
somewhere on the moon

I'm alright, I guess, except for all the stuff I miss
the things we used to do
I never knew I could be this blue

It's so quiet here
like the stars are sayin',
"shh, be quiet"

So, how are the kids?
Did I miss his birthday again?
aw, no...could you tell him I'm sorry,
sometimes my mind gets blurry
and I lose all sense of time

Time moves slowly
like the curve of the earth

Aw, honey, I wish I really could
reach out and touch you...but that's not real
like the moon is blue...like this lonely view
from a sad phone...out here on the moon

And it feels like one long lonely night
you know what I mean,
that's why I called"

She's just been to Russia and they're dying their faces
They're dying over there

A pretty pink rose

That r'n'r lady takes a space-ship ride she's out of this world

A pretty pink rose

And we're living for you my love, we're living for you
And we're dying for you my love
Pretty pink rose

She tore down Paris on the tail of Thom Paine
But the left wings broken the right insane

A pretty pink rose

Have a nice day, it's a killer, turn a cheek
It's a christian code

A pretty pink rose

And we're living for you my love, we're living for you
And we're dying for you my love

Pretty pink rose

She's the poor man's gold she's the anarchist crucible
Flying in the face of the despot cannibal

She's a pretty pink rose

Never let it rain, never let it rain on the heart of the pretty pink rose

Pretty pink rose

And we're living for you my love, we're living for you
And we're dying for you my love, pretty pink rose

Get me thru the pain, thru the pain of the thorn on the pretty pink rose

Never let it rain, never rain never rain, the pretty pink rose

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart, of the pretty pink rose

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart, of the pretty pink rose

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart,, of the pretty pink rose

Take me to the heart, to the heart, to the heart

Someday when I'm flying far away
somewhere over Germany
someday when you least expect
I'll be singing in your hair

Once upon a time in a different era
when great fat Cadillacs roamed the earth

Oh, it's a small world on a two-inch t.v.
yes, it's a small world on a two-inch t.v. screen
small world

Someday when I'm lost in a dream
out my window in the clouds
someday you'll be doing your gardening
hear me singing out loud

Once upon a time in a different age
of drive-in movies and luxury trains

Oh, it's a small world on a two-inch t.v.
yes, it's a small world on a two-inch t.v. screen
small world

Big doors opening
big doors are opening wide
glass of red wine
wine...

Hot tribal night
underneath florescent skies
bonfires rage strange
wild waving shouting Picasso faces

In the guise of a lioness
the wind kisses her burning dress
you can fell her animal eyes
you can hear them cry,
"Be the jewel around my neck,
never a tear on my burning dress"

Lying, paralyzed,
a brave prey who lays dying
and is surrounded by angry spirits
hunters, guns, drums, and elephants

Why is this night quiet?
filled with trees filled with eyes
as she prowls around my feet
she throws back her head dress and cries,
"Now you will be mine,
be my young lion"

Why is this night quiet?
why the trees filled with eyes?
as she prowls around my feet
she throws back her head dress and cries,
"Be my young lion"

Last night
I took a walk into the back of my mind
through the trash and the warning signs
there was a party full of jokes and clich's
I couldn't think of anything to say
and so I slipped into the men's room there
I saw my hair a way it's never been before

I took the stairs from my head to my heart
I didn't know they were so far apart
the heart is like a little chapel somewhere,
the pretty lights and the empty chairs
but I'm gonna bring a broom next time
I'll sweep out all the broken strings I find

She walks me down to my private train
and lays me down in my sleeping car
she keeps my elephant out of the rain
and sees to the care of my vintage cars
she is the blood of my life
without her I would starve

Who you gonna run to?
Who you gonna hide behind?
Who you gonna turn to
when there's nobody home but you?

What's a father to do
with all theses school-less injuns
running in circles around the wagons
What's a father to do
with all these monster debts
around my neck
on a sad sun deck
Oh, my children, the times are jaded
the simple life is complicated
oh, my children

Now if the dark of the night
arrives in the middle of the day
I'm gonna say my prayer
for sweetness and light,
gonna fix myself a Coke,
and hope it's alright

If the bat-winged beast sweep down
for a feast on me
I'm gonna pin my soul
to a hot-air balloon
gonna make it pop
and shoot me to the moon

Now you've had another piece of my mind,
a cup of coffee and a slice of time
if you'll excuse me I should say goodbye
I gotta go now.

I knew the weather was supposed to turn gray
but I didn't know it'd never go away
until I answered when my telephone rang
bad days coming my way
'cause I heard my baby saying
she's gonna be leaving me
bad days must be on my tracks
'cause I heard my baby saying
she won't be coming back
bad days
followed by those awful nights

I could've told you she was tired of my ways
I had no more surprises up my sleeve
but when she went away it sure surprised me, oh
bad days must be on my back
'cause I sense my baby's never
she's never coming back
bad days must be here to stay
'cause it seems so long since she,
since she went away
bad days
and always those awful nights

So this morning when I slept so late
I couldn't move beneath the heavy weight
I heard somebody at my backyard gate, oh
there she was coming through the haze saying,
"Hold me, baby, and I hope I'm not too late"
bad days are never coming again
because I heard my baby say she's,
she's never leaving me
happy days
and no more of those awful nights

I'm not a free lunch box car parked in the seat
dead-end streetcar of desire caught by the tailpiece
I'm a jiffy pop tarts are bad for your teen-aged beef

There's a mando-Linda Evans talking on the
phone call a Porter Wagoner tailor-made underwear
every dog has his Dayton Ohio Hitler
says to button your fly Tijuana place a Bette Midler

Oh drop dead lock stock and bugle coral reefer man
every Marlon Brando gave him a great big handstand
what a lumpy Guy lumbago embargo fish pants

Is there a Groucho Marxist doctrine in the
house calls about a lost set of Keystone cops out
the same way you came in through the bathroom wind-
oh look! a rock'n'roller skate and all skate slowly

Hey man a T-bone state of the aren't
you gonna finish your bird in a box
Hey man your witness to the stand still
shoulder to shoulder the burden a box
Hey man and even Colonel Sanders' daddy
was a Thunderbird in a box

Loose tooth three of a perfect paradiced onions cheese
and beans from another planeteri gargoyle change
every two thousand smiled at
Linda Evans called again singing happy birthmark

What's a blue man gonna do
when he collects the whole set of the blues
he can't move,
he can't shake his slump
a blue man says bumpity bump

Hey, bumpity bump
my heart hurts like a drum

What's a man,
what's a blue man gonna do
when he knows the truth of the blues
he can't find the world a satisfyin' place
he can't even face his own face

Why do I hurt like a drum?
my heart says bumpity bump

A blue man
what's he got to do,
go to sleep to evade the blues?
they might follow him right into his dreams
they might corner him and make him scream

Why do I feel like a bomb?
my heart says bumpity bump

Hey, what's a blue man say
when he's got to wake up
to another blue day
Oh, and nothing is right
and he's got no disguise
Who knows, maybe he woke up
in a different guy

Why do I feel like a bomb?
my heart hurts like a drum, why?
my heart says bumpity bump

(Belew/Hertzman)

Hello honey, how is every little thing?
sure I'll be glad to meet you at the beach at ten
I wanna be your brown-eyed handsome man
plant my feet in the sand
maybe you could be the Sunkist queen
in your cool Raybans
ooohweee, you and me babe
here comes another summer of love
and we're a fine pair of coconuts

Oil me up, buttercup
park your towel over here
with your things n' stuff
I'm gonna work on my major tan
I'm gonna get it perfect yet
you go ahead, hon, and jump in the lake
let me know if it's wet
ooohweee, you and me babe
here comes another summer of love
and we're a fine pair

Under the sun
where there's only one plan
build a condo in the sand
and maybe we'll be fried again, oh man

Oil me up now coconut
I just love to feel your hands
oil me up now coconut
I wanna be your man
ooohweee, you and me babe
here comes another summer of love
and we're fine coconuts

Pay Here
chimpanzee
Don't Park
under the aviary
walk through heatwave afternoon fast food hot zoo

Do the shuffle to the buffalo
see the mad monkey by the lonely pay phone
let's go fishin' in the air conditioned dark
man, look at the bite on that great big bark

Waste Here
souvenir land
Don't Feed
nobody your hand
rest room photograph pachyderm cat house hot zoo

Three sleepy zebra in their living room suits
joke with a crazy cockatoo
big giraffe in their injured party hats say
"Are you gonna watch our customary nap?"

Eat Here
a dinosaur egg
Don't Touch
the tarantula legs
march like army ants itchin' for a PX
hot zoo

I dig iguana in their outer space duds
sayin' "Aren't you glad we only eat bugs?"
closing time, quick! close those gates
capture a few of these human apes

Exit Here
kangaroo
Don't Forget
to come back soon