Bran Van 3000

Take me with you
My soul is on

Get back with your heart attack

Can I ride your motorbike?
Karaoke nights by the sea
Bomber jacket hyperspace
Leather laced in 3D
Water’s crashing
Road keeps turning on

So hold on, hold on
Take me with you
My soul is on

Can I stay with you?
Make it easy for me
You are the most selfish kind
Nevermind what I need
Water’s crashing
Road keeps turning on and on and on

So hold on, hold on
Take me with you
My soul is on
Hold on, hold on

Sliup - Ummm - Crack
Goes the backscreen door
She wanted to go for coffee
But I sleep an hour more
See Mary dancing across the porch
She put her rolled up Ziggys in her rock and roll jersey
Jersey, she was born to run
She was the spirit of midnight
She was blinded by the light
She was holed up in jungleland
Straight up
The rock and roll big boss
Turnpike down by the river of desire
Just off Thunder Road
Where you catch her in the Tenth Avenue
Freeze out
She was lost in a flood
Mary, Queen of Arkansas
Dreaming of a Cadillac ranch with a hungry heart
But most of all she was born in the USA
Ashbury Park, New Jersey
Inner state babe
To be exact she was her own rock and roll video
Rolls Royce, low riding
Speed climbing, driving by the sea
Making mad love on other people's private property
While being on the run from the local law for unpaid parking tickets

Can I stay with you?
Make it easy for me

Are you a tramp like that?
Are you born to run?
If you's a tramp like that
C'mon, give me some
You like your guitars fat
You like your beach with bum
I never had no fun
C'mon, let me ride shotgun
'Cause I'm a tramp like that
Yeah, I'm a tramp like that
And I'm gonna give you so much
New Jersey girl
We gonna ride around
New Jersey girl
New Jersey girl, New Jersey sun

Bring it on
Hear me scream

How y'all feel out there?
I can't hold it back

Hi, my name is Stereo Mike

Yeah, we got 3 tickets to the Bran Van concert this Monday night
at the Pacific Pallisades. You can all dial in if you want to answer
a couple of questions, namely,
what is Todd's favorite cheese.
Jackie just called up and said it was a form of Roquefort.
We'll see about that...

give us a ring-ding-ding! It's a beautiful day.

Yeah Todd, this is Liquid ring-a-ding-a-dinging
I want those 3 Bran Van tickets man
waddya think?
Todd, you there?

*voices in background*

I woke up again this morning with the sun in my eyes
when Mike came over with a script surprise
a mafioso story with a twist
a "Too Wong Foo,Julie Newmar" hitch
get your ass out of bed, he said:
I'll explain it on the way

but we did nothing
absolutely nothing that day
and I'll say
what the hell am I doing drinking in LA
at twenty six?
I got the fever for the flavor
the payback will be later
still I need a fix

and the girls on the bus kept on laughing at us
as we rode on the ten down to Venice again
flaring out the g-funk
sipping on juice and gin
just me and a friend
feeling kinda groovy
working on movie
(yeah right!)

but we did nothing
absolutely bupkis
that day
and I'll say
what the hell am I doing drinking in LA
at twenty six?
*with my mind on my money and my money on my, beer beer!*
I know that life is for the taking
so I'd better wise up
and take it quickly

(yeah one more time at trader vics)

some men there wanted to hurt us
and other men
said we weren't worth the fuss
we could see them all bitching by the bar
about the fine line
between the rich and the poor
then mike turned to me and said
what do you think we got done son?

we've got a conclusion
and I guess that's something
so I ask you
what the hell am I doing drinking in LA
at twenty six?
I got the fever for the nectar
the payback will be later
still I need a fix

(we need to fix you up
call me monday
and maybe we'll fix it all up)

L A
L A
L L A
L A
L A
L A
L L A
L A
L A
L A
L L A

so I ask
you what the hell am I doing drinking in LA
at twenty six?

*voices in background*

L A
L A
L A
L A

All I want to do is love you
I just want to take you there

Baby, I don’t want to argue
Don’t even want to fight
I just want to love you
And hold you all the night
The message from the party
Nothing to do with how...
Try to keep it happy
Then depress yourself to cry
All I want to do is love you
You’ve got to move on up

All I want to do is love you
I just want to take you there

The world is trying to make us
Go against our will
There’s too many mountains
Grown up from a hill
Just take nothing less
Than the second best
Do not obey
What most people say
'Cause you can pass the test
All I want to do is love you
Baby, we’ve got to move on up
We've got to move on up

All I want to do is love you
I just want to take you there

It feels like I'm already there

The world is trying to make us
Go against our will
It's early in our language
Of how the human feels
I just want to love you
I just want to cry

Loop me round and round
I will still stand tall though claim knocked down
And if you loop me into sound
I am found

And force me to capsize
By the strength of your intimidation
And factual lies
And If you force me to capsize
You’re denied

I’m astounded by the way you deal
With all your views and the things you conceal
And in view of all you views I think you feel
Yes, in view of all your fearlessness
You’re dying to reveal that
You’ll tell me anything I want to hear
You’ll tell me anything to keep me near

That’s how you loop me round and round
I will still stand tall though claim knocked down
And if you loop me into sound
I am found

I was feeling kind of ugly
Wanted everyone to love me
You can call it kind of greedy
Call it giving to the needy
Though I do believe you’ll tell me what I want to hear
You’ll tell me anything to keep me near

That’s how you loop me round and round
I will still stand tall though claim knocked down
And If you loop me into sound
I am found

That’s how you loop me
That’s how you groove me
And how you keep me and you lose me
You loop me
And it goes on and on and on...

I think I love to watch you laughing
In fact I love to watch you do anything
And yes I do feel this thing happening
But you’ll have to excuse me girl
'Cause my taxi’s waiting
Although I do

Yes I do
I love you in my own twisted ways

One day God walked on old Mount Royal
Just to dream up the human form
Threw stones and cans and comic books in a kettle
And you came out like a shining goddess heavy metal
Say it’s just too bad some hearts don’t settle
And the pipes are leaking and you feel like leaving
Yeah, we heard this one before
I said, “Dear God, buddy, now don’t you meddle”
'Cause I’ve got my own little twisted ways of showing you that I do

Yes I do
I love you in my own twisted ways

And sing it
Like we used to sing

See Kermit the Frog was one day daydreaming
Thinking about himself at a red light
With that it-ain’t-easy-being-greenin'
And the cars behind him kept honking and honking
And Kermit’s last words as he flipped the bird
Was, “Damn you Muppets just keep on taking!”
See I’ve got my own things now so stop tooting
I do my lily pad jumping
Miss Piggy bumping
Lotta Miss Piggys and that’s all good
And I’m gonna turn this red light
Into a block party
So we can get down in basics of what?

Rainbow connecting

Yes I do
I love you in my own twisted ways

The beat keep on
And it keep on pumpin'
All the Bran Clan now start the house bumpin'

And the beat keeps on

Go
Ain’t no party like a Bran Van party
'Cause a Bran Van party don’t stop
It don't stop
Don't quit

Yeah
I'd like to put it down baby
Bran Van three gee
Now feel me

I make it hot in New York streets
Who draws heat
While you talk sweet
C'mon
Blaze through invading the path
Put it down tight get paid in cash
Been in the game a decade and a half
Superfly style
Yet related to Shaft
Sippin’ me slow
Girls give me dough
You know one smoother than this
Let me know

Not stressing that little piece of fame
Y'all know who's most critically acclaimed
Your majesty, naturally
Get it all in a large capacity
Rather makin' you smile
Or bring it crucial
I'm gonna live 'til I die in the year three thou'
C'mon

Yo, I don't think they heard me

I ball hard
Any night
Cruise through your town
City lights
As for my game
It be tight
Message to you
Livin’ life
Nothing to prove
But something to make
Cutting the cake
Put it in your oven to bake
The rule of the game is
'bout the benjamins
And there ain't no need to guess
Who's got the winning hand
K to the A
N to the E
Player of the day
Then you'll agree
No one does it better
In the pimp game
I'm the trendsetter

Everybody knows
The prognosis
Is Discosis
Don't step on my Ghepetto’s
Pinocchio has got a broken nose
So watch your back bushwacker
You can't deal with the greatest cracker
Everybody knows
The prognosis
Is Discosis

Follow me go shopping
Me go shopping
Gonna follow me go shopping
Then me go shopping with you

Brooklyn and Bronx - LA to Manhattan
L.A. we go dance
And then we go shopping
On Saturdays I took her out
To the supermarket
Food is in the trolley
And roses in the basket
I remember when I used to walk it
It's impossible to carry water in a basket

Follow me go shopping
Me go shopping
Gonna follow me go shopping
Then me go shopping with you

And now I love her so much
She was smooth and never rough
She use her tongue like a paint brush

Then we go shopping

Her name was Mary Mitten
Soft like a kitten
The diamond that she wore
Makes my eye glisten
I told her not to kiss him
But she wouldn't listen
On my back she bit and
On her chest my name written
Just below her nipple
Her stomach filled with ripple

And follow me go shopping
Me go shopping
Gonna follow me go shopping
Then me go shopping with you

Moloch passed the message to the Behemoth
Whose master passed it on to Zebedee
It was sent by Internet, by obscure protocols
To its recipient, the delicious Miss Gee

It was early afternoon when your message came
I was slumped under the table, slightly cold
I didn't have a single stitch of clothing on
I was trembling but my trembling was controlled

I really can't recall who I was meant to be that day
I'm an actress, I play so many roles
But the script required Miss Gee
That's who I was meant to be
And I was just about to pick out her clothes

When a crumpled paper ball
Hit the floor beside you
It made no sense at all
It said:

Bandy biwa krishnamurti
Pilgrim snorkel meat
Ipsum lorem dolor sit amet
Unix at the portal
Body type by Letraset
Here at the Epoch let us forget

Grip my head and feel my pain
Imagine I'm the king of Spain
Imagine I'm a weapon in your sheath

East is East and West is West
New York City to Dunsinane

Polly Peachum creaming her McHeath

In the sturgeon caviar
In the virgin Mr McPherson
In the rain the cloud
And in the cloud the rain

Green tea ice cream, wind dried duck
Did you ever meet a person hot to

Forget it! Shower in my shower
I'll soap you back and front
Take me by the hand and lead it to your

Country cousins, kissing by the bridge
A babbling brook and a choc-a-bloc fridge
My favourite restaurant is Yo Below
So when we go, slip under the table and begin to

Blow me down, gyoza, my favourite snack
Dip it in the soy sauce, slip it up your

Crack goes the whip boys, crack kiss crack
Miss Gee has a whip and she'll stick it in your

Ask no questions, I'll tell you no lies
It isn't exclusively all about size
But did you ever see a rock star doing up his

Flies are a nuisance, bees are worse
If you owe a girl money, put it in her

Purse my lips, touch me there with a feather
Better take an umbrella, what terrible weather

Or we might get wet
And we wouldn't want that
Would we

By many names I've been known
Gil Martin, also Don Van Vliet
Giovanni, Mantovani, Barry Manilow
I could go on

Please do

Super lovers Jesus Christ
Coming once and coming twice
In a paper cup
In my hammock samovar
I'm a caballero erojiji
Gaugin eating out Tahiti
Near as damn it, no cigar
Very kimochi

Jesus Christ was a superstar
A pimpin' big daddy with a Lincoln Town Car
Drove it real fast with the fly-ass hos
Playing chicken with the devil for the greatest applause

First came the question
And then came the answer
And then came the ultimate question:
Are you happy?
Then the messiah, alright
Lost and found with the resurrection
And with tools of deep precision
With the schools of thought complexion
Teaching us the brain expansion
It got heavy, we started dancing

Bran van three grand
We don't have to make it
Complicated
Act like a man, boy
We don't have to make it
Complicated

I said come comma comma comma some more
Kick up the club floor, that’s what ya came for
Leave your big booty round at my front porch
And leave your big ugly frown back out the back door
Forget your big plans, your high ideals
'Cause it's a quicksand for the way you feel
When they put you down the river and they leave you squeal
Come on, squeal like a pig how the summer girl feels

We're leaving, leaving our machine this very evening
They're programming your head
So stop believing
No need to complicate, it's all illusion
Anyways, I feel the machine's got boring

Bran van three grand
We don't have to make it
Complicated
Act like a man, boy
We don't have to make it
Complicated

Hey Charlton Heston
Moses did alright without a handgun
If you're horny for god let Dizzy give some

I'm Dizzy D, no one the finer
The queen and king, from here to China
All the ladies love to give me the boom boom boom boom
Back to my room where it's hurry hurry hurry and wait
A bottle of crisp and a pasta plate
Kick up the love baby, down the hate
'Cause the bran van brothers do not complicate
Say hurry hurry hurry rush
You're moving so fast that you're out of touch
Money money money got your head in a mush
Now Bush has got the button, is he gonna push?
Well, some little joker got a dot-com deal
About Internet wiggers and keepin’ it real
You're sweatin' like a fool to put the gravy on your meal
And now you just found out you lost your sex appeal

Bran van three grand
We don't have to make it
Complicated
Act like a man, boy
We don't have to make it
Complicated

The answer...
(Can you take me higher?)
...is in the dancer.

Well that was fun
But I'm still horny

Bonjour, mon nom est Paul Extase
Pis j'suis avec les deux cochonnes
Alors toi, si toi tu t'ennuis la a la maison, la
Tu peux appeler si t'as envie de me parler
Pis faire du dirty talk, talk, talk, talk

Talk, talk, talk
Dirty, dirty talk
Dirty, dirty talk
Talk, talk

Bonjour, mon nom est Paul Extase
Pis j'suis avec les deux cochonnes
Dirty, dirty talk, talk, talk, talk

Oui, toi tu n'es pas crispe
Alors tu m'appelles
En fin de semaine on loue un chalet
On part a trois on fais ca a trois
Des fois on fait du sport ensemble
Pis la parcequ'on est fatigue
On fait ca a trois

Find me
Find me
Wine me and dine me
Get fuckin' loaded
Party

I want to play guitar
And be a movie star
Be in the B-movies
And take off all my clothes
Who do you want me to be
Who do I wanna be
Who do you want me to be
Get fuckin' loaded

Party
Get fuckin' loaded

Mi numero di telefono
E le 2-7-8-7-8-2-7
Ciao bello ragazz o ciao
Get fuckin' loaded
And how's your money
Are you fuckin' loaded?
Party

Here I am
R-A-W
Put it down the way that I love to do
Verbally that's the best you can get
'Cause y'all come loaded with special effects
A big Benz so that you can floss with it
Ice style 'til your neck's frost-bit
Rocks for your medallion to shine
Dressed head to toe in Italian design
All night trying to ball right
Mack-a-docious, Loaded
Let your neck flow
With shots of X-O
From the first shelf
Don't hurt yourself
You know it's all quite funny to me
It really don't matter what money you see
'Cause while your wife's out dressed in Gucci
I can put your girl buck-naked in a Hootie

(Speaking):
As long as we're getting a bit technical,
I'd like to remind you that most women
and children can perceive higher
frequencies of sound than most men.

Everywhere I see your faces,
Everywhere you sing your smile and,
Everytime you're not around,
It doesn't matter,
'Cause you're everywhere to me.

Everyone you've ever known counts on you,
Waits for you,
To come through.
Don't you know that you're gonna break through?

And everywhere you came and left,
You came in the name of love and,
Left a wake of happiness and tenderness,
And sweet conflict, sweet conflict.

You hang around,
You come on down,
You come on down,
And it's on and on and on and on,
It's on.
It goes on.

You hang around,
You come on down,
But you don't come down.

Whispering,
Whispering,
Whispering your name.
You're everywhere, everywhere, everywhere,
To me.
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere,
To me.

Calling,
Calling,
I'm calling your number,
Calling,
I'm calling your number,
Calling,
I'm calling your number,
Calling your number,
I'm calling your number,
Calling,
You're everywhere,
You're everywhere to me.
Everywhere to me.

Everything’s up in the air again
Here we go again
I can’t pretend that
Time will bend for me
In the need to feel
So worthy

And like you say
I can change
They can fix me
Remix me
Seduce and abandon me
Build me like Tetris
Pile pieces around me
It’s so easy:
For once in your life
Just say I’m worthy

'Cause that I think that I can function
And walk around this town
In self-consumption
It's so easy

It’s so predictable to want to feel so beautiful

And I admit it is easy to sing to you
First, personally
Call it the need to only talk about me
Call it the need to feel
So what if our face is changing
My love for you is all-consuming
My working mind
From time to time, I need to shine
I am shining, designing
My reflection blinding you
I am shining

It’s so predictable to want to feel so beautiful

Hey Job
You sure got it figured out
She loves you so
At least that's what she said
And God took a toll
And showed you what it's all about
Oh, hey Job
You always do what you're told
You poor young fool
You should never listen
To what they preach
To keep you on a mission of hate
And, dare I say
Your brother's got a big mouth
And dare I say
So what

Do what you want
And make the fuckers pay
And don't waste your time
And sleep your life away
I always meant to tell you
I don't like you anyway
And dare I say
Dare I say

Quand arrive minuit et que la lune est belle
On voit alors dans le ciel arriver les morts-vivants
Ils sont v㉩tus de vieux oripeaux de misIJreux
UsIJs par le temps et brisIJs par les ans

On les accueille avec joie:
Ils sont notre espIJrance,
Notre raison de vivre,
Notre source seule de jouissance...
Dis-moi, toi qui semblait avoir mille ans,
Raconte-moi comment c'est dans le ciel, comment...
Raconte-moi si les IJtoiles sont d'or
Raconte-moi, raconte-moi comment...

Do what you want
And make the fuckers pay
And don't waste your time
And sleep your life away
I always meant to tell you
I don't like you anyway
And dare I say
Dare I say

Ce n'est rien de tout cela
Fais comme "J'suis juste endormi
dans les bras d'une belle amie"
Tu te laisserais bercer
Comme un enfant nouveau-nIJ
En pensant Ħ sa t㉩tIJe
En pensant Ħ sa t㉩tIJe

Do what you want
And make the fuckers pay
Boys and girls are different
In a certain kind of way
I always meant to tell you
That I wished you'd go away
And dare I say
Dare I say

Do what you want
And make the fuckers pay
And don't waste your time
And sleep your life away
I always meant to tell you
I don't like you anyway
And dare I say
Dare I say

She: Do you ever wish you were somebody else?

He: All the time.

She: Why, don't you like yourself?

He: No, it's - it's not that. I mean, it's just not what you thought it would be.
I mean, my, uh, my old man he used to sit, and he'd go; "I don't know."
I mean, he'd just be sitting there, and - and, uh, he'd say "I don't know."
And I'd say "What, Daddy? What don't you know?"
And he'd say "I don't know."
He'd have a thought, and he'd go "I don't know. I don't know."
And I guess it's just 'cause you never do figure it out.

She: Don't you like yourself?

He: No, it's - it's not that. It's, it's some way you, you fucked up.
And somewhere down the line, something went wrong, and, uh
You spend the rest of your life trying to figure it out.

You see I met her on a Monday
And her name was Chill
From the what-the-hell family's
Relation to free will
Yeah she circled my circumference
Said she had some time to kill
Been combing the beach for a beautiful freak
And I just might fight the fool
She said

Ooh, I think I'm liking you
Ooh, do you feel the same the way too?
I said, ooh, I think I do
I said, ooh, I think you're cute
I said, ooh, merci beaucoup
I said, ooh ooh
And maybe I'm calling you baby
And I might just say you're my love clichIJ

You're my love clichIJ
And I like it that way

So we fell in love that summer
Underneath the Star Wars sign
Drinking cases of each other
And guitar and April Wine
And we lay down in the alley
As the sunlight hit the pine
And talked of all things great
Like the rose of Gertrude Stein
And we fell in love that summer
But it lasted 18 weeks
Used to kiss her on the hummer
Now I kiss her on the cheek
And I vividly remember
In a moment of recline
When she whispered in my ear
"I think I like both kinds"

She said, ooh, I think I do
I said, ooh, I think you're cute
She said, ooh, merci beaucoup
I said, ooh ooh
And maybe I'm chasing Amy
And I might just say you're my love clichIJ

You're my love clichIJ
And I like it that way

I'm feeling love

So why don't you tell me what's great?

When the puck hits the net
At the Stanley Cup game
And Miles hits the notes
When he sketches out of Spain
And the wedding gets you high
From the perfect catering
And love makes you lie
Even though you bought the ring
And you screw with the
And the minor chord change
And the more things change
The more they stay the same
But I'm looking for your kind
Yeah I'll drive through the driving rain
'Cause what was so wrong
From the very beginning
That we would have to change

You're my love clichIJ
And I like it that way

And maybe I'm calling you baby
And I might just say you're my love clichIJ

I'm in love

Inappropriate behaviour
Thinking distraction will be your saviour
This need seems never-ending
These nights seem all-pretending
The record's spins comfort me
Dreams locked in the record company

And all those things you said you'd never do
Watch them slowly catch up with you
So unrelenting
And you're unrepenting
Go to sleep as the sky turns blue
Simply running out of things to abuse

And I said, mama, gonna buy you out
I'm a rockstar now
I said, mama, gonna buy you out
I'm a rockstar now

You lead me down the road with maybe
Just some ego tripping with a lady
It seems I'm always waiting
Waiting for what?
And the laziness won't disappear
My indifference sets in out of fear
Mean ass spider, called her hairy
And she likes her webs big and scary
She'll never let go
Not as long as she's still spinning
But the irony just gets lost
'Cause no one cares who pays the cost

And I said, mama, gonna buy you out
I'm a rockstar now
I said, mama, gonna buy you out
I'm a rockstar now