Cracker

don't know why I come back to this place
no-one seems to re-e-member my face
I got the blue danube blues for you

Now all the girls around here, they're just a little corn-fed
Don't drink at all, I can't get them in bed
I got the blue danube blues for you

Bridge:
Now all my friends now I'm back at home
don't wanna hang around, they stay at home

They all got jobs and kids and wake up before noon

Chorus:
A yodel-odel-ay-ee-tee
A yodel-odel-ay-ee-e-tee-oh
I got the blue danube blues for you

Break

Repeat bridge

Repeat chorus

I got the blue danube blues for you

In the e days of my youth i was d told what it a means to be a e man d-a:d:d#
E now i've reached that age i try to d do all those a things the best i e can d-a:d:d#
But no e matter how i try, i find my d way into the a same old e jam d-a:d:d#
A good times, d bad times,
You a know i had my d share
When my b7 woman left home with a e7 brown eyed man,
But i b still don't seem to care.
seventeen: i fell in love with a girl as sweet as could be
Only took a couple of days til she was rid of me.
She swore that she would be all mine and love me till the end,
When i whispered in her ear i lost another friend
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E-d-a
E i know what it means to be a-d-lone
E i sure do wish i was at d home
E i don't care what the d neighbours say
E i'm gonna love you d each and every day
E d you can feel the a beat with-d-in d# my e heart
D 'cause, a baby, d we d# ain't e ever gonna part

Well is it such a sin to linger with the magazines
I want a chocolate bar or maybe something sweet
I want a stranger with your face
So I followed her to this place
It's been so long
I've been around the world

I say hello to howie
Say hello to spike
'cause the canals in camden are filled with bottles tonight
To watch the ripples fade away
To feel the rain upon my head
So I could say, I've been around the world

And how I wish I was in your apartment tonight
To hear the rain come down, down upon your roof
To see your clothes beside, clothes beside your bed
To lie and listen to your breath
Instead, I've been, I've been around the world

And how I wish I was in your bed tonight
To taste the salt upon, salt upon your neck
To feel your body press, pressing down on me
Instead of being, I've been around the world

Yeah I've been around,
I've been around the world
Yeah I've been around,
I've been around the world

I will find a way
To get to you someday
Cause I am so afraid I'd fall
Can't you hear me call

Chorus
Shake some action is what I need
To make me bust out at full speed
and I am sure that's all you'll need
to make it alright

It's take me so long
to get to where I belong
Lord don't make me send it back that way
Or I will make you pay

Chorus

You don't dig what I'm playing
Then I will go away
And I will turn around this little game
Cause I don't need your praise

Talkin' to myself and feelin' old
Sometimes I'd like to quit
Nothing ever seems to fit

Hangin' around nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
What I've got they used to call the blues
Nothin' is really wrong feelin' like I don't belong

Walkin' around some kind of lonely clown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down.
Funny but it seems I always wind up here with you
Nice to know somebody loves me funny but it seems that
it's the only thing to do Run and find the one who loves me.

What I feel has come and gone before
No need to talk it out We know what it's all about
Hangin' around Nothing to do but frown
Rainy Days and Mondays always get me down

I don't know what the world may need
But I'm sure as hell that is starts with me
And that's a wisdom
I've laughed at

I don't know what the world may want
But a good stiff drink it surely don't
So I think I'll go and fix myself a tall one

Cause, what the world needs now
Is a new kind of tension
Cause the old one just bores me to death
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
But a V8 engine is a good start for me
Think I'll drive to find a place
To be surly
I don't know what the world may want
But some words of wisdom could comfort us
Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser

Cause, what the world needs now
Are some true words of wisdom
Like La La La La La La La La La
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
And I never grasped your complexities
I'd be happy just to get your attention
And, I don't know what the world may want
But your long, sweet body lying next
To mine could certainly raise my spirits

Cause what the world needs now
Is a new Frank Sinatra
So I can get you in bed
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head
What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer

Like I need a hole in my head
What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is a new Frank Sinatra
So I can get you in bed

What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I was having a good sleep
In my car
In the, parking lot of the
Showboat Casino hotel

I say, "I remember you
You drive like a PTA mother"
You brought me draft beer
In a plastic cup

I'm feeling thankful
For the small things today
I'm feeling thankful
For the small things today

Happy, Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
And to you

Happy, Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
And to you

I'm feeling thankful
For the small things today
I'm feeling thankful
For the small things today

I remember you
I crashed your wedding
With some orange crepe paper
And some Halloween candy

Sometimes I wish I were Catholic
I don't know why
I guess I'm happy to see your face
At a time like this

Happy, Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
And to you

Happy, Happy Birthday to me
Happy Birthday to me
And to you

Happy Birthday baby, to me
Happy Birthday, to me
Happy Birthday, to me
Happy Birthday, to me

Hey hey it's okay to
Make a little mess out of your life
'Cause you don't need a diagram
to tell you how to have a good time

I said hey (hey)
Don't mean to frighten you away
This is Cracker soul, it comes so easy
I said hey (hey)
Don't get your head a mess.
This is just the best, it comes so easy
It comes so easy

Hey hey it's okay to never know
the answer but ask why (why oh why?)
You don't need another burden
come and party with your spirit guide

I said hey (hey)
Don't get your head a mess
This is Cracker Soul
It comes so easy
I said hey (hey)
Don't get yourself distressed
Love is just the best
When comes easy
It comes so easy

Hey hey it's okay to make
a little mess out of your life
'Cause you don't need a diagram
to show you how to have a good time

I said hey (hey)
Don't mean to frighten you away
This is Cracker soul, it comes so easy
I said hey (hey)
Don't get your head a mess
This is just the best, it comes so easy
It comes so easy

Hey hey it's okay to never know
the answer but ask why (why oh why?)
'Cause you don't need another burden
come and party with your spirit guide

I said hey (hey)
Don't get your hair a mess
It's just not Cracker soul
It comes so easy
I said hey (hey)
Don't get yourself distressed
This is just the best
When comes easy

I said hey (hey)
Don't get your head a mess
Leave it for the rest
It comes so easy
I said hey (hey)
Don't mean to frighten you away
This is Cracker soul
It comes so easy
It comes so easy

I'd really like to see you now
In your father's combat boots
I'd really like to be with you
'Cause we could be so dark
It was only for the grace of you
That I got this attitude
I'll show you my gratitude
When I make it though

I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
Someone please tell me it's not a train (train, I see the light)
I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
No time to speak, no time to explain

Sometimes I imagine you
Lying in your bed
Sometimes you imagine too
Do you sometimes lust
For the grace that others have inside
The simple peace they make with life
They feel love like some summer's night
Well I want it too

I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
Someone please tell me it's not a train (train, I see the light)
I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
No time to speak, no time to explain

(I see the light)
I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
Someone please tell me it's not a train (train, I see the light)
I see the light at the end of the tunnel now (I see the light)
No time to speak, no time to explain

I see the light now, I see the light now, I see the light now, now
I see the light now, I see the light now, I see the light now, now, now, now
I see the light now, I see the light now, I see the light
I see the light I see the light
I see the light, now, now, I see the light, I see the light, now
I see the light now, I see the light now, I see the light
I see the light now, I see the light now, I see the light
(Fades Out)

Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

And I had a dream last night
That I was feeling barely human
So save me a place in your parking lot
And save me a place beside you
When you lie down to sleep at night
Someday I'll get it right

Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

And if you see the dark clouds
Gathering out on the horizon
Don't be alarmed
They're just there for me
Just save me a place beside you
When you lie down to sleep at night
Someday I'll get it right

Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Someday well I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right
Yeah one day I'll get it right

Wind of fate has pried us loose
Light of mercy hurts my eyes
Is it worth the things you lose
To board the train and watch the sky

I sing myself to sleep at night
I sing myself to sleep

Another song about the rain
Coming down it burns through me
Another song about the rain

Got a line straight from my heart
Another time it went to you
Another place we were smart
Before the flood and time was through

I sing myself to sleep at night
I sing myself to sleep

Another song about the rain
Coming down it burns through me
Another song about the rain

Sorry now I never made you see
Sorry now sounds so far away
Will our child cry for me
When he hears the dragon's flame

Highway flares make red the streets
My fingers spin the dial again
But every station's on to me, yeah
Another song about the rain

(Another song about the rain) Another song about the rain
(Another song about the rain) Coming down it burns through me
(Another song about the rain) Another song about the rain
(Another song about the rain) Never rained so viciously
(Another song about the rain)
(Another song about the rain) Another song about the rain
(Another song about the rain) Another song about the rain
(Another song about the rain) Another song about the rain
(Another song about the rain)
(Fades Out)

She says this is my movie,
so you'll do what i tell you.
There's a mixup in Bali -
you get chased by a monkey.

Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.

Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.

I tried dating a mermaid;
she buys pot from the first mate.
That mysterious cargo
is still guarded by monkeys.
Then

Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.
Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.

Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.
Brides of Neptune cross the water,
bring us your sons and bring us your daughters.
I won't forsake thee deep in the blue sea;
I'll take you home.

Brides of neptune
Brides of Neptune
Brides of Neptune
Guarded by monkeys ..

You could never be
What you wanted to be
'Cause sweetheart it takes time
Someday you're gonna shine
You'll see

You'll be a Russian acrobat
You'll be like Burt Bacharach
You come to the party, you say "What's new pussycat?"
Someday you're gonna shine
You'll see

Don't wanna talk about it
You come around to tell it
You're beautiful can't you see?
Someday you're gonna shine
You'll see

(Someday you're gonna shine)
(Someday you're gonna shine)

Someday you're gonna shine

Someday you're gonna shine (aaah)
Someday you're gonna shine

Someday you're gonna shine (you're gonna) (aaah)
Someday you're gonna shine

Someday you're gonna shine (aaah)
Yeah someday you're gonna shine (you're gonna shine)

REPEAT WITH AD LIBS TO FADE

God gave you life
So get out of mine
And take your sorry ass
Back to florida

You're not welcome here
Ain't it perfectly clear
Take your sorry ass
Back to florida

Chorus:
You bring us down
Don't come around
You bring us down
You bring us down

Repeat chorus

You live a charmed life
But nothing seems right to you
Roses and wine
Thorns and vinegar

Your only delight
Is other's demise
So take your sorry ass
Back to florida

Repeat chorus x6

You are so beautiful
You should be hid deep in the jungle
On some forgotten island

I heard about you
I got your PGP key
I write you letters every day

CHORUS:
You are so beautiful
You should be guarded by monkeys
You are so beautiful

REPEAT CHORUS

I have invented
51 daylights
This does not seem to impress you

You are so beautiful
Sublime and classified
I can't stop thinking about you

REPEAT CHORUS x2


REPEAT CHORUS

CHORUS VARIATION:
You are so beautiful
You should be hid deep in the jungle
You are so beautiful

REPEAT CHORUS x2

You are so beautiful
You are so beautiful

(Ain't that strange)
(Ain't that strange)
Big Talkin' Joey's got his china dolls
While I'm sitting here at home with nothing at all
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?
My fallen Angelina left a week or so ago
A visit to her granny, took her nightclub clothes
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?

We've been shut down
Pushed and messed around (Aww)
[So might ya post all?] what you think
Is this ridiculous
Should I be suspicious
All these whiskers in the sink
My baby left me her brand new car
The ash-tray was filled with Philly Blunt cigars
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?

Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do doo
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?
A-we've been shut down (Do do, do do doo do do)
Pushed and messed around (Aww, Do do, do do doo do do)
[So might ya post all?] what you think (Do do, do do doo do do doo)

Is this ridiculous (Do do, do do doo do do)
Should I be suspicious (Do do, do do doo do do)
All these whiskers in the sink (Do do, do do doo do do doo)
The sun is setting on at the Stockman's Lounge
'Cause someone drank my Tanqueray and my baby's not around
Ain't that strange, hmm, hmm
Ain't that strange?

Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do doo
Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do
Do do, do do doo do do doo

Big Talkin' Joey's got his china dolls
While I'm sitting here at home with nothing at all
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?
Ain't that strange, yeah, yeah
Ain't that strange?

So let's all be someone else
I'm tired of being myself
Let's all be someone else
You could be someone else
I know you're tired of yourself
You say you're so bored you could cry
Well let me tell you, so am I
Well, Lola came from Mesilla
She sometimes called herself Anita (background shout: Bebidas)
But no-one ever knew why
But things just seemed to work out right, right, right
So let's all be someone else (do do do doo do do do)
I'm tired of being myself (do do do doo do do do)
Let's all be someone else
The blue ladies rode the bikes
And what they were, we assumed rhymed with bikes
But them one day one did not get out of bed
She was dead, and a guy, that's what the paramedic said
So let's all be someone else (do do do doo do do do)
I'm tired of being myself (do do do doo do do do)
Let's all be someone else
So come on down Miss Santa Cruz County
Won't you come on down from you daddy's hydroponic farm?
'Cause there's no shame in being seen as the Artichoke Festival Queen
You know we like what you've become
You know we like what you've become
So let's all be someone else (do do do doo do do do)
I'm tired of being myself (do do do doo do do do)
So let's all be someone else
So let's all be someone else (do do do doo do do do)
I'm tired of being myself (do do do doo do do do)
Let's all be someone else
Let's all be someone else
So let's all be someone else (do do do doo do do do)
I'm tired of being myself (do do do doo do do do)
So let's all be someone else
Let's all be someone else
Let's all be someone else
Let's all be someone else
Let's all be someone else
Someone else

SECTION 1:
I heard the words, now here I am
You were talking to me, I'm your super fan
I loved you then, I love you still
But if I can't have you, no-one will

Woah!

REPEAT SECTION 1

SECTION 2:
I will make you understand
I'm your super fan

SECTION 3:
I know you like it
I was watching from outside my love
I saw her leaving
She's not right for you my life, my love
I know what hurts you
Sing it to me again my life, my love
I know what hurts you
...I could hurt you

I'll track you down, I'll steal your mail
A lock of hair, some fingernails
A piece of you upon my shrine
Now you're with me all the time

REPEAT SECTION 2

REPEAT SECTION 3

- heavy breathing break -

If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
If I can't have you, no-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will
No-one will

I have lost the one I love to someone else
She lies beside me, but she's not here, she's far away
She's WALKING softly, she's talking sweetly about a dream
Sweet Magdalena of my misfortune, where ARE YOU NOW?

Things I lost, left behind, or threw away
They gather in the dusky light of reverie
Always with me, where I go, sweet company, or is it misery?
Sweet Magdalena of my misfortune, where have you gone?
So many ways to go and lay your burdens down
Yeah, so many hours from now to the dawn
Yeah, so many words I never found to make you stay just one more day

Sweet Magdalena of my misfortune, where have you gone?
Yeah, ooh
Yeah, so many words I never found to make you stay FOR just one more day
Sweet Magdalena of my misfortune, where are you now?
Yeah, sweet Magdalena of my misfortune, where are you now?

Merry christmas Emily
Merry christmas Emily

Emily was twenty three
Sitting on the ground
Under a dead palm tree
6th and Speedway
On Christmas day
Seemed like things were gonna go my way

But we had some good times
Drinking cheap wine and popping pills
Spending the holidays
Getting drunk at the rusty nail

Emily from a good family
They fucked* your head (* messed in the radio version)
And sent you to me

'Its a Wonderful Life'
Is playing on TV
I still think about you
Do you think about me

(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
I still think about you do you still thing about me
(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
Merrry Christmas Emily

It may have seemed
like i was down and out
But my insurance claim
Was still paying out
You were heading back up
While I was going down
So I reformed the band
To try to keep you around

Then we had some bad times
Drinking wine in the summer heat
A couple loud arguments
Standing in the middle of Congress St.
So there's Emily
Under the dead palm tree
Its Christmas day
And its like 80 degrees
I still think about you
Do you still think about me

(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
I still think about you
(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
Merrry Christmas Emily

(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
I still think about you do you still think about me
(Merry christmas Emily)
Merrry Christmas Emily

(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)
(Merry christmas Emily)

Movie stars
And magazines
Life is good
Grass is green
Come ride with me
Down 62
'Cause all I want
Is to be with you
Past rusted out
Faded towns
Little places
Broken down
Life is good
When I'm with you
I don't need
Anything.

I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever

Crystalline
Those perfect dreams
Its all wide open
At seventeen
Start again
Me and you
A simple life
On Route 62
Rusted out
Broken down
Little places
Falling down
Life is good
Or so it seems
I don't need
Anything.

I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever

I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
I just wanna live like this now and forever
Now and forever, forever

You're so shameless
Sweet thing please don't bring us down
You're so shameless
But what goes it comes around

And on a trip to Mexico
Never knew that it could snow
We shared a bed like days gone by
The mistresses all knew your name
The minister started acting strange

Shameless
Don't really wanna know what's going on
You're so shameless
Sweet thing please don't bring us down

And on a trip to Yellow Knife
Professor Panos and his wife
Secret dealings at the Quebec bar

With an arctic wilderness guide
Says he was a retired Canadian spy

Shameless
Sweet thing please don't bring us down (hm-hm, no-no)
You're so shameless
Don't really wanna know what's going on (hm-hm-hm)

You're so shameless
But what goes it comes around
Yeah you're so shameless (shameless)
Yeah you're so shameless (shameless)

You're so shameless (yeah yeah shameless)
You're so shameless
You're so shameless (you should be guarded by monkeys)
You're so shameless (you should be guarded by monkeys)

This broken wing will fly again
One fine day
This blackbird's mute gonna sing again
One fine day

So all you sinners come out
And all you drunkards crawl out
Come into the light of one fine day

And all you liars come out
And all you thieves you walk out
Come into the light of one fine day

These crippled legs will walk again
One fine day
This broken heart will love again
One fine day

So all you sinners come out
And all you drunkards crawl out
Come into the light of one fine day

And all you liars come out
And all you whores you walk out
Come into the light of one fine day

This broken wing will fly again
One fine day
This blackbird's mute gonna sing again
One fine day

So all you sinners come out
And all you drunkards crawl out
Come into the light of one fine day

And all you liars come out
And all you whores you walk out
Come into the light of one fine day
Yeah come into the light of one fine day
Come into the light of one fine day
Come into the light of one fine day

What You're Missing

Colton, Redlands....)
(protegido por monos)
(various town names, neighborhoods, mostly unintelligle)
North of Broad...
(peli roja, protegido por monos)
Mentone, Yucaipa
The name is MC Cracker D.
The singer in this band.
(listen up)
Thats Cracker with a C not a K
or uncle understand.
And if you've got a problem
With your geometry
I can help you out with that
Cause I have a mathematics degree

CHORUS
Hey, hey, you don't know what you're missing
What you're missing
Hey, hey, you don't know what you're missing
Now.

(c?on peli roja)

(Brandy Wood)
Here I am the only girl
So I get my own room
Unless somebody needs the phone
And then I get the broom
(huh)
Checking out the haircuts
Not making any fuss
I ask one up for tea
But David throws him off the bus.

(he was a drummer!)

CHORUS

(give me some room)
(I smell something)
(you call that a guitar solo?)
(i'm trying)
(you call that a guitar solo?)

CHORUS
(watch me break this chair)
(Professor Raagini)

(Kenny Margolis)
Me and my boy Sammy
We're hanging in the park
(his science is strong)
There's plants and birds
(mysterioso!)
And rocks and things we
Best be home by dark
Climbing up, sliding down
Tumbling with the tots
Swinging sounds of laughter
Does anyone remember laughter?
(yeah that was Uncle Led Zeppelin right?)

CHORUS
(okay throw that chair Johnny)

(Johnny Hickman)
They call me Lonesome Johnny
I helped to start this band
(yeah right)
Came up with MC Cracker D
But was not in Camper Van
(he was in Wicked Scepter)
I play the lead guitar round here
But Sometimes it plays me
(your pants are too tight)
And I don't look like Richard Grieco
That pendejo looks like me.
(ohhh)

(protegido por monos)
(play it professor)
(his name is Professor Raagini)
(when he don? play keyboard
He plays tambourini)

(Frank Funaro) (heavy brooklyn accent)
If you need some riddem
den I'm the man for you.
(is he from England?)
(what happened to the Mexican guy
who used to play drums)
If you got a sister well ...
I'm da man for her too
(dream on brother!)
I may not be a singer
But I play one on TV
I wrote myself some lyrics
Wid a rhyming dictionary

CHORUS
(protegido por monos)

We have lots of friends
In our extended family
Of freaks and geeks and wierdos
That keep it quite unique
So if you think you're one of us
I'll tell you what to do
Step over have a listen
Then you're know just what you're missing.

So we were standing, like the last rock band on the planet
Of vapor trails and alpine skies
It's all green fields, yellow flowers, and brown liquor
Oh brown liquor

Bug's got a job in the Catskills
Met some fraulein along the way
Took her home, but then she had an episode
Though it did disturb him, he was strangely compelled

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

So we were standing around, fading in and out of fashion
While Amerikids dug Eurobeats
Well we know all of the doormen and other bartendresses
And there ain't nothing that you got that we don't need
Did I say that right?

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

This holy circus camp
Aladdin and his lamp
A feverish daydreams and suerte loca
My face in magazines
The lesbian James Dean
I got all I ever wanted

So I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Down miles of empty road
With acolytes in tow
You could be Persephone
A pigeon through the glass
A drunken trapeze act

Well you got all you ever wanted
So I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well I don't mind saying
This is how the good life's supposed to be
The good life for you, for me

Well, lucky number seven passed me by
Lucky number seven called my name and passed on by
Well he came back don't you know
With his brother six in tow
And that is how number thirteen wound up at my side

And that is how I got these lonesome Johnny blues
How I got these lonesome Johnny blues
Got the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Here we go

Grim reaper he pulled up into my drive
Grim reaper pulled his little old chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive
Johnny, I haven't come up for you
But I want someone who's dear to you
And the price you pay is to remain alive

And I'll stay here with these lonesome Johnny blues
Stay here with these lonesome Johnny blues
With the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Woah, no more trouble send him down the road, won't you please.
No more trouble won't you beat him up, won't you send him down the road
Trouble dumped out the trash
Ransacked the place for cash
And he wound up taking much more than I own

And he left me with these lonesome Johnny blues
Left me with these lonesome Johnny blues
With the lonesome Johnny blues
And there's nothing I can do
'Cept sing these sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Johnny blues
The sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues
Johnny blues
The sad old weary lonesome Johnny blues

Cigarette and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
for those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the Cafe Xeno's steps
with a book I haven't started yet
watching all the girls walk by

Could I take you out
I'll be yours without a doubt
on that big dipper

And if the sound of this it frightens you
we could play it real cool
and act somewhat indifferent

And hey June why did you have to come,
why did you have to come around so soon
I wasn't ready for all this nature

The terrible green green grass,
and violent blooms of flowered dresses
and afternoons that make me sleepy

But we could wait awhile
before we push that dull turnstile
into the passage

The thousands they had tread
and others sometimes fled
before their turn came
...

And we could wait our lives
before a chance arrives
before the passage

From the top you can see Monterey
or think about San Jose
though I know it`s not that pleasant

And hey Jim Kerouac brother of the famous Jack
or so he likes to say "lucky bastard"

He's sitting on the cafe Xeno's steps
with a girl I'm not over yet
watching all the world go by

Boy you are looking bad
Did I make you feel that sad
I'm honestly flattered

But if she asks me out
I'll be hers without a doubt
on that big dipper

Cigarettes and carrot juice
and get yourself a new tattoo
for those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the cafe Xeno's steps
I haven't got the courage yet,
I haven't got the courage yet,

I haven't got the courage yet

I don't know what the world may need
But I'm sure as hell that is starts with me
And that's a wisdom
I've laughed at

I don't know what the world may want
But a good stiff drink it surely don't
So I think I'll go and fix myself a tall one

Cause, what the world needs now
Is a new kind of tension
Cause the old one just bores me to death
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
But a V8 engine is a good start for me
Think I'll drive to find a place
To be surly
I don't know what the world may want
But some words of wisdom could comfort us
Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser

Cause, what the world needs now
Are some true words of wisdom
Like La La La La La La La La La
Cause, what the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
And I never grasped your complexities
I'd be happy just to get your attention
And, I don't know what the world may want
But your long, sweet body lying next
To mine could certainly raise my spirits

Cause what the world needs now
Is a new Frank Sinatra
So I can get you in bed
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head
What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer

Like I need a hole in my head
What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is a new Frank Sinatra
So I can get you in bed

What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

What the world needs now
What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie
It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie
She claps her hands and snaps her fingers
Knows my name but calls me Ginger
It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

(Sweet Thistle Pie) Sweet Thistle Pie
(Sweet Thistle Pie) Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

It's been a long time since I've been so very low
It's been a long time since I've been so very low
When I was young you were no stranger
Around the world and slip through my fingers
It's been a long time since I've been so very low

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
(Sweet Thistle Pie) Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

Sweet Thistle
Sweet Thistle
Sweet Thistle
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

Well we went to the station
They were looking for vegas
But I was stuck in my Beat phase
Like it was 1959

They say the girls wanna hip-shake
They say the boys wanna ball-break
But we couldn't be bothered
Cause we're hipper than y'all

And everyday I resolve to say
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine

So will you give me salvation
Or a standing ovation
Cause I really deserve it
And so much more

The big kid in the magazines
You and me, we went to make the scene
But get your name, man
And tomorrow you'll be gone

So everyday I resolve to say
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine

But everyday I resolve to say
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine

The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine
The world is mine

Sometimes I wanna take you down
Sometime I wanna get you low
Brush your hair back from your eyes
Take you down let the river flow

Sometimes I go and walk the street
Behind a green sheet of glass
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

A million poppies gonna make me sleep
Just one rose it knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
A fruit is calling from the trees

Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some junky cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

Blue, blue is the sun
Brown, brown is the sky
Green, green are her eyes
A million miles, a million miles

Hey don't you wanna go down
Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below their feet
A million miles, a million miles

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned
I'll be with you, girl, like being low
Hey, hey, hey like being stoned

Well there are some lines that can't be crossed
And sometimes those lines get lost

CHORUS:
Do you need anything from Duty Free?
I've got to get out of the wet UK

Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do

VERSE:
Jackson Haring and I were at London Arms
College drunks kicking pigeons in the asses
Yeah feathers flying, and bobbies whining
Like little drunken schoolboys we only thought we were kicking rats

CHORUS:
Will you need anything from Duty Free?
I got to get out of the wet UK
Do you need anything from Duty Free?
I've got to get back to the USA

REPEAT DOs

Liam Moore he comes from Kilken-ny
He's a singer and a painter, but not much behind the wheel
Drove my pick-up truck in Iowa into a drainage ditch
He said he thought it was valet parking for the Holiday Inn Express

Do you need anything from Duty Free?
I got to get back to Kil-, Kilken-ny
Do you need anything from Duty Free?
I've got to get the fuck outta the USA

REPEAT DOs


Well Frank Quinn is an Irish singer
A scuba-diving, paramedic, and a dead ringer
For every Irish fuck who ever had his picture on
A poster for the offices of Irish Tourism

Now I love Frank, and I love all o' his songs
And I love all o' his stories about fishing stiffs out of the Shannon
And how the moss and seaweed would grow upon the skin of the victims
And how one day Frank would go home, and get that gig again

Will you need anything from Duty Free?
I got to get out of the USA
Do you need anything from Duty Free?
I got to get the fuck out of the USA

REPEAT DOs x2

REPEAT INTRODUCTION

Well the first dance cost me a quarter,
and the second dance cost me my heart
Now I'm here on this barstool,
like a circle it ends where it starts
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

Well I woke up hung over in the squalor
where I make my home
Ate my heart out for breakfast,
then I met the day stoned
And it goes something like this
Always a swing and a miss

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

(Guitar Solo)

Well I ain't seen you since I drank all night
Now my eyes are black 'cause I fought all night
I come stumblin' home to sleep alone but it's alright
yeah it's alright
And it's hard to tell what it is and what it's not
Until it is something that you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got
It's something you ain't got

'cause it's alright, yeah it's alright

Lazybones, c'mon get your beautiful ass out of bed
It's half past noon, and I been calling you since 11 a.m.

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

4 a.m., bar time at the Scottish gates of dawn
Aberdeen, Glasgow there's a piper playing on the cemetary lawn

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

You're everything I ever wanted
But I'm half of what you need
You knew that I was damaged, so come on Maggie
Don't break my heart
Come on Maggie, don't break my heart
Don't break my heart

Fluffy Lucy she's not fluffy
Everybody says, she's got it easy
But she's dark, straight to her soul

She's got the kind of trouble
That it's hard to tell another
Because they think that you're jaded, or you're spoiled

Well dirty Daisy she's not crazy
Everybody called her a loon
But she's just another sweet dark fruit

She's got the kind of trouble
That it's hard to tell another
Cause they think that you're jaded or you're spoiled

So lay down your head
Lay down your heart
Come lay down, in my bed
And I won't tell a soul

So wake in the morning
You kick me in the ass
You say you're glad to see me
But this time I don't need it, I'm right on the mark

Yeah I declared my prerogative
To alternate between what is heavy and what is light
Now feel the weight, the weight of the world

So gonna lay down my head
Lay down my heart

I wanna lay down in your bed

And I won't tell a soul
And I won't tell a soul
I won't tell a soul

Saw my baby at the autumn dance
Dancing with her new boyfriend
Saw my baby in her new beau's car
She's the pride of any man

Now I don't mind and I don't cry
Cause I'm living on a mountain top
The wind might blow through the cracks at night
And I know she ain't never coming back

I don't mind and I don't cry
I'm living in a log pine shack
My shotgun keeps me warm at night
And I know she ain't never coming back

Saw my baby at the autumn dance
She was dancing with a big ring on
Saw my baby in her new beau's car
She's the pride of any man

Saw my baby at the bridal shop
She was looking for a wedding dress
Saw my baby at the dry goods store
I'm so glad she ain't never coming back

Now I don't mind and I don't cry
Cause I'm living on a mountain top
The wind might blow through the cracks at night
And I know she ain't never coming back

I don't mind and I don't cry
I'm living in a log pine shack
My shotgun keeps me warm at night
And I know she ain't never coming back

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation, yeah

I hate my generation
I picked it up and threw it away
I hate my generation

It's alright
It's alright

I hate my generation
Now that I said it
I feel liberated
I hate my generation now

I hate my generation
I offer no apologies
I hate my generation now

It's alright
alright
alright

I hate my
I hate my
I hate my

I'm a little rocket ship
I'll take you on a little trip
We'll leave this planet far behind

I'm a little tired of it
and you're a little weary I can tell
yeah yeah

Well I'm a little rocket ship
And you are Queen Andromeda
of all the stars
those with names
and those in clusters

You are on account of the infinite
So can't you see
that I'm a little rocket ship

I'm a little rocket ship
I'll take you on a little trip
And leave this planet far behind

Do you suppose that they've been here?
I don't know, but I've been there.
Do you wanna come along?

I'm a little rocket ship
and you are crowned with them magnificent
all the stars
those with names
and those in dingy drag bars

They plead with you not to go
to Pleiades or Scorpio
and I'm a little rocket ship

Cigarettes and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June

I'm sitting on the Caf?Xeno's steps
With a book I haven't started yet
Watching all the girls walk by...

Could I take you out?
I'll be yours without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

And if the sound of this it frightens you
We could play it real cool
And act somewhat indifferent

And hey June why'd you have to come
Why'd you have to come around, so soon?
I wasn't ready for all this nature
The terrible green green grass
And violent blooms of flowered dresses
And afternoons that make me sleepy

But we could wait awhile
Before we push that dull turnstile
Into the passage

The thousands they have tread
And others sometimes fled
Before the turn came

And we could wait our lives
Before a chance arrives
Before the passage

From the top you can see Monterey
Or think about San Jose
Though I know it's not that pleasant

And hey Jim, Kerouac
Or so he likes to say.
Lucky bastard

He's sitting on the cafe Xeno's steps
With a girl I'm not over yet
Watching all the world go by

"Boy you're looking bad
Did I make you feel that sad?
I'm honestly flattered."

But if she asks me out,
I'll be hers without a doubt
On that Big Dipper

Cigarettes, and carrot juice
And get yourself a new tattoo
For those sleeveless days of June...

I'm sitting on the Caf?Xeno's steps...
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet
I haven't got the courage yet

Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you
Where ya going to?
If you want me let me take you

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

Whatcha looking for?
If you want it I will find it.
Yeah whatcha looking for?
If you want me let me find it.

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

And I feel fine
I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine

'Cause in my life
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in
Except for you
I got nothing to believe in

I feel fine
Yeah I feel infe
I feel fine,
I feel fine,
Yeah I feel fine
Yeah I feel fine
I feel fine,
Yeah I feel fine

This is the Golden Age
It's hard to imagine
With the way I feel today
That this is the Golden Age
The Golden Age

Somewhere I failed
Somewhere I lost you
In a black crowd of crows
And shiny things
I can't remember

This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
The Golden Age

It seems like I'm high
But baby I'm crawling
In the unbearable days
I threw away
But I should have savored
The flaxen light
Off of the dying wheat
Your rye whiskey mouth
And your dandelion teeth

This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age
This is the Golden Age

Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up

Well the year of the redneck mama
It was announced by the sign of a comet
Hanging in the sky at 3 AM
Again and again again and again
and I say

100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up

Well the year of the redneck mama
It was announced by the sign of a comet
Hanging in the sky at 3AM
That's right!
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
Let's pick it up
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
100 flower power maximum
Let's pick it up

We went down
to the old part of town
by the stinking canal
and the cotton mill

Under a ghetto palm
with her bicycle shorts on
with a gesture she said to me:

"I really must confess
I'd like to get undressed
with you."

And though the thought
had never really crossed my mind
Oh that was a line
So I went along.

We ran out
Under the turning leaves
The fetid earth
it was damp and cool
Well Autumn's feeble light
on her salty neck
all innocence, it was lost

I really must confess
I am feeling quite distressed
My stars are always crossed
And I have always taken
more than I have given back,
and as a matter of fact,
I've given nothing up

Cold summer wheat
It sways in the breeze
till it fades in the autumn
to brown

Cool summer grass
it beckons and calls
and I lie here with you
in my heart

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
at all

Birds take to the sky
they never alight
they circle around
forever

Now I tried but I failed
to hide and disguise
this one simple
sentiment

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
No No

I can't forget you
I can't forget you
I can't forget you
at all
No No

It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.
It's been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.
She claps her hands and snaps her fingers
Knows my name but calls me Ginger
Been a long time since I had Sweet Thistle Pie.

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

It's been a long time since I've been so very low.
It's been a long time since I've been so very low.
When I was young, you were no stranger
Around the world and slipped through my fingers,
It's been a long time since I've been so very low.

Hey Hey Hey Yeah

Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie
Sweet Thistle Pie

I'm so fucking sick
I'm the king of the world.
I'm a genius of useless stuff

Some people they gotta work
Well I just hang around.
A dreaming' up useless stuff

So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
and I feel like a hag please shut me up.
Girl would you like to live my life
And I'll be with you tonight
and I'll be your useless stuff

Now everybody wants to be our friend
So we act real Zen,
and hang around with movie stars

So if I call you from time to time
I said my life is such a drag
and I feel like a hag, kick me in the ass.
Girl would you like to live my life
And I'll be with you tonight
and I'll be your useless stuff
yeah I'll be your useless stuff
Can I be your useless stuff

You can still come and bring me coffee in the morning.
You can still come and make me chicken fried steak.
Or you can live your life with whomever you please to
As long as someone takes good care of me.
You know I don't mind.

How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job?

You could still come and bring me those fancy pastries.
You can still come and crawl into my bed.
Or you can live your life with whomever you please to,
As long as someone takes good care of me.
You know I don't mind.

How can I live without you
if it means I gotta get a job

And it's a long long way to the top
But when you come down
It's one headlong rush

You've got an itch to scratch
The shiny bits of light
Hanging like stars
Hanging like stars

And Mary says you're such a restless soul
My bicycle spaniard
My magyar of cold

You've got an itch to find what's best left lost and cold
My bicycle spaniard
My poor restless soul
My bicycle spaniard
My poor restless soul

So we were standing, like the last rock band on the planet
Of vapor trails and alpine skies
It's all green fields, yellow flowers, and brown liquor
Oh brown liquor

Bug's got a job in the Catskills
Met some fraulein along the way
Took her home, but then she had an episode
Though it did disturb him, he was strangely compelled

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

So we were standing around, fading in and out of fashion
While Amerikids dug Eurobeats
Well we know all of the doormen and other bartendresses
And there ain't nothing that you got that we don't need
Did I say that right?

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

Seven days when I've been waiting
Seven days and seven nights
Seven days when I've been dreaming
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing
Of the real thing

Gonna make you a star
And show the world your green, green eyes
See your smiling face
Everywhere, everyplace

We could turn it upside down
We could turn it inside out
We'll give you everything
Things that you'd never need,
Things that you'd never dream
Things like eternity
Gonna make you a star

Make you a star
Make you a star

Gonna make you a star
You stare down at the emptiness
You shake us from our poisonous
Slumbering and stuttering
So start and stop the fall
Coarse masses down the hall
Blow you through the door
Into a million bits
We'll reassemble it
That's how we'll make a hit
Gonna make you a star

Make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Make you a star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star
Star

You come across the James River
For a needle and a spoon
Would you come across the James River
To be my woman again
To be my woman again

You come across the old lee bridge
For a dollar fifty in change
Would you come across the James River
For this heart of gold
For this heart of gold

You go and work for Ms. Kitty
For a decent rate of pay
Would you come across the James (River)
To be my woman again
To be my woman again

You keep a pistol in your left boot
A brush and comb in your purse
Would you come across the James (River)
To be my woman again
To be my woman again

My life is totally boring without you around
These days, they fade to another
I want you around
So I'd like to say
That I'm better off
I'm happier this way

But my life is totally empty without you around
Well my life is totally boring without you

Well I fell, but you fell much farther
I was envious
Around here, everyone loves you
Cause you are insane
So we started a band
Owe it all to our fans
Went somewhere near the top

My life is totally empty without you around
Yeah my life is totally boring without you

My life is totally boring without you around
These days, they fade to another
I want you around
So I'd like to say
That I'm better off
I'm happier this way

My life is totally empty without you around
Yeah my life is totally boring without you around

My life is totally empty without you around
Yeah my life is totally boring without you

Well is it such a sin to linger with the magazines
I want a chocolate bar or maybe something sweet
I want a stranger with your face
So I followed her to this place
It's been so long
I've been around the world

I say hello to howie
Say hello to spike
'cause the canals in camden are filled with bottles tonight
To watch the ripples fade away
To feel the rain upon my head
So I could say, I've been around the world

And how I wish I was in your apartment tonight
To hear the rain come down, down upon your roof
To see your clothes beside, clothes beside your bed
To lie and listen to your breath
Instead, I've been, I've been around the world

And how I wish I was in your bed tonight
To taste the salt upon, salt upon your neck
To feel your body press, pressing down on me
Instead of being, I've been around the world

Yeah I've been around,
I've been around the world
Yeah I've been around,
I've been around the world

Only when I laugh, does it hurt
The doctor says, please, son, remove your skirt
I'd be glad to comply, but I'm not wearing one
The doctor says, that's strange, nor am I

A scotsman throws a pole into the air
The alderman all vote in some affair
The mayor, he abstained, and ain't that strange
He's still a bachelor, perhaps he's gay

A corpse is laid out neatly on a slab
Professor's working madly in his lab
The assistant files her nails and checks her hair
There's just a hint of danger in the air

There's just a hint of danger in the air
No one is alarmed nor seems to care
Everyone is happy, we're all fine
We all fall in love all the time

Yeah, we all fall in love or from a plane
With the stewardess, she serves us in our dreams
When we wake, we find that it has rained
When it rains, it lulls us back to sleep

So rest your weary eyes and go to sleep
Or rest your weary head and come to me
Move your lips and sing this lullabye
Move your lips and sing this lullabye

Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye
Lullabye

Lullabye
Lullabye
(Fade out)

I'm living up near Fresno
Just up Highway 99
Won't you come and pay a visit
I'm here all the time

I'm still here waiting
Waiting for you girl
I'm still waiting
Waiting for you girl

I could wander up to Phoenix
Get a good construction job
If the sunstroke, it don't kill me
the meth amphetamine will

But I'll still be waiting
Waiting for you girl
I'll still be waiting
Waiting for you girl

I'm still waiting (I'm still waiting)
I'm still waiting
(I'm still) Waiting for you girl

I'm still waiting (I'm still waiting)
I'm still waiting
(I'm still) Waiting for you girl

This once was an ocean
Or should I say an ocean floor
It should all be a desert
And it shall be once more

But I'll still be waiting
Waiting for you girl
Yeah, I'll be here waiting
Waiting for you girl

I'm still waiting (I'm still waiting)
I'm still waiting
(I'm still) Waiting for you girl

I'm still waiting (I'm still waiting)
I'm still waiting
(I'm still) Waiting for you girl

I'm still waiting (I'm still waiting)
I'm still waiting
(I'm still) Waiting for you girl

You're a wild one
Well I was once like you
They couldn't tame you
Kicked you out of the zoo

Drank all of that soda pop
Red candy on your chin
I gave you something to slow you down
Just sped you up instead

You're a wild one
A wild one
You're a wild one
A wild one

You're a wild one
Were you raised by wolves?
Learned their dark secrets
Under the light of the moon?

That's when the bum matron comes
To lock you in your chair
So scream along at the top of your lungs
Shout and shake your hair

Cause you're a wild one
A wild one
You're a wild one
A wild one
You're a wild one
A wild one
You're a wild one
A wild one

You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one

You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one
You're a wild one

Hold of myself
Just trying to get a hold of myself
Scaring my friends, just trying to get a hold of myself

Sabotage all I set out to do
I can't imagine how that looks to you
Just don't go away, just trying to get a hold of myself

Got me a dog, I think it's time I got me a dog
To be my little pal, I think it's time I got me a dog
Last one I had got hit by a car
Kept right on going and I took it real hard
Now it's time to move on, I think its time I got me a dog

Ah, oh, oh oh oh
Ah, oh, oh oh oh
Ah, oh, oh oh oh

Fork in the road, I think we're coming to a fork in the road
Take it from me, I know we're coming to a fork in the road
I miss the days when you could laugh at yourself
You rip my heart out when you don't want my help
Take it from me, we're coming to a fork in the road

Hold of myself, just trying to get a hold of myself

Where are my God's green grasses?
Yellow blue fishes of the sea
Where are you, my sweet darling?
My sweet darling, I'll drown in misery

And on the golden days of summer
Robbed from Pharoah's ancient tombs
And the silver hours, they are mashed and sour
My sweet darling, where have you gone?

Past the dead and awkward factory
Anthracite grey on cobblestone
And the sooted flowers, on gentleman's towers
My sweet darling, where have you gone?

Now I, I want out of the circus
Since the girl in the blue sparkly dress
On one knee, I confessed
Put an end to that exchange of glances

Now I, I want out of the circus
That old gang of dwarves
Sometimes, they're downright feral
When they, they've been around that old beer barrel

The old lion's teeth
Seems like a smile to me
With some sweet relief
I just stick my head in

Now my tale, it's too ordinary
For anyone to care at all
Not like the man repeatedly struck by lightning
When he bears his scars, we all know

When he bears his scars, he's a star

G-D
G-C(7)-G(7)-C-G-D-C-D-G-D
(ending:D-C-D-G)

The devil will send demons to fly around your wedding day
Yeah, the devil will send demons to fly around your wedding day
Don't send no invitation, I don't have much to say

Well, I heard about your man, and I will laugh at him sometime
Yeah, I heard about your man, and I will laugh at him sometime
Cuz I can see his sad day coming when your lies will burn him blind

Well, I'm standing in the churchyard, standing here without a sound
Yeah, I'm standing in the churchyard, standing here without a sound
Wishing I'd been born the kind of man could go in and shoot you down

The devil will send demons to fly around your wedding day
Yeah, the devil will send demons to fly around your wedding day
Well they'll strike you down at midnight, and a-carry me away

D-G-D-D-Em-A-Bm-A-D-G-D-Em-G-D

D We sang Halle-G-lujah, has it stopped D raining?
Though the D priest had stopped be-Em-lieving a long time a-A-go
And his com-Bm-panion began to A laugh at the i-D-rony o' G that
And we D walked along in Em an un-G-confortable D silence

Yeah Bm ha- ha- ha- A hallelu-D-jah
Bm ha- ha- ha- A hallelu-G-jah D

St. Patrick led the sailor into the wasteland
A herd of swine surrounded them one day
It was the answer to their prayers, a sure sign that God, he cared
But McCarthy disagreed: it's not that simple

So hallelujah
hallelujah

The fisherman, he rode the city's river
The dirty water rose through sorry planks
And the vandal Moranjou? 'pon Gay St. heard the news
They commissioned him to rise up from the cobbles

Yeah Bm ha-A-llelu-D-jah
Bm ha-A-llelu-D-jah
Bm ha-A-llelu-G-jah D

Intro & break:
E-d-c#m-a7
E-d-c#m-a7

E I left my cinder-d-ella at the c#m payphone, a7 with a pocket full of dimes
E I get the d feeling she's still re-c#m-searching, gonna a7 leave me behind
F# when she comes g# to a see me
When she comes g

Chorus:
E my cinder-d-ella, a gone in a g day b-g
E maybe it's d better, a ? g stay b-g
Ebullets? and d breakdowns, a break-ups like g lead b-g
E my cinder-d-ella, a my cinder-g-ella

E-d-c#m-a7

My days are numbered, I'm feathered and plundered, can't say that I mind
It might happen? time?


When she comes to see me
Yeah when she comes

Chorus 2:
E my cinder-d-ella, a gone in a g day b-g
E maybe it's d better, a ? g stay b-g
E bullets? and d breakdowns, a break-ups like g lead b-g
E my cinder-d-ella, a my cinder-b-ella

C#m (oooh) a my cinder- b my cinder- my cinderella
C#m (oooh) a my my my my my my b my my my

Break

F# when she comes g# a
When she comes g

Chorus (ad libbed) x2 (fade on second)