MIDNIGHT TRAIN
(music: Fatal Flowers / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op de Fatal Flowers en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
Bought a ticket to this train
God knows I paid my price
I don't mind going on this trip
Any evening but not tonight
I'm going down
Time is closing in on you
Anytime now this train will move
It's too late to reconsider
Here's one battle you're gonna lose
I'm going down on a midnight train
Everybody's friendely and everybody's smiling
Now everybody wants to have a little chat
Everybody just needs to get their price
And we're the action so it seems
Please do you love me, please don't hate me
Please like the song I'm spitting out now
Please do you love me, please don't hate me
It feels like a sellout and I think I'm going down
I'm going down on a midnight train
Screaming noises, screaming voices
Lights shining in your eyes
Please let the curtain call my bluff
'Cause this is just a bunch of lies
I'm going down on a midnight train
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CRYING OVER SIN
(music: Erwin Wolters and Marco Braam / words: Erwin Wolters)
verschenen op de Fatal Flowers en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
I know a story of a man, what did he do? I just don't know
He was walking in the park, and so he was a single man
He had gone too far and now you wan't him back again
He had gone too far and now you need him as your friend
I know a story of a man, why did he die? I just don't know
Guess he was digging in his heart, and so he was a single man
He had gone too far and now you wan't him back again
He had gone too far and now you need him as your friend
Everybody wanna set you free now
Everybody wanna look at you now
Everybody wanna set you free, but it's too late now
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BILLY
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op de Fatal Flowers en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums en als single
Billy is crying and hundreds of people surround him
Billy is crying and evryone around him is smiling
He knows he should be out there laughing with them
But he just can't force a smile upon his face
He tries so hard and wants so much but today he can't adjust
He doesn't want to hurt her but he knows that he does
Cry on, cry on little Billy
Billy is crying but it doesn't keep the sun from shining
Billy is crying but it doesn't keep the band from trying
And all the songs keep spinning through his head
And he'd loved to sing along, but it's just that
Rotten kind of feeling makes the words stuck in his throat
He knows she's out there somewhere crying on her own
Cry on, cry on little Billy
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FATAL FLOWER
(music and words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op de Fatal Flowers en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
She isn't scared of peoples eys
She doesn't really wonder why
People stop and stare when she goes by
She isn't out to break your heart
She can't help it when it starts
But she knows just how to put an end to it
She's a fatal flower, boy
And don't you try to pick her
The moment that you break her stalk
She's bound to break your heart
Sometimes she still thinks of his eyes
And of all his little lies
And the way he used to hold her close
She's quite lonely now and then
Sometimes she really needs a friend
But she know it will go up in smoke again
She takes him home because he's got such a funny smile
Ahe turns around and sees love shining in his eyes
She really likes him but she's scared of things to come
So it's time to say goodbye, time to move along
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WE THOUGHT THEY LOVED YOU
(music and words: Marco Braam)
verschenen op de Fatal Flowers en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
He had no sense of knowing your troubles ahead
We thought that you and your people almost shared the same bed
Looking at you lying there dead as can be
Your incrowd is laughing as if there is nothing to feel
We thought they loved you
Well was it worth it now fears came true
The sacrifice you gave was the last you could do
The immortal one is dead now, it has come to an end
A new one will arise, is that the way it was meant?
We thought they loved you
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WHO LOVES THE SUN
(music and words: Velvet Underground)
verschenen als B-kant van de Billy single
Who loves the sun
Who cares that it makes plants grow
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart
Who loves the wind
Who cares that it makes breezes
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Not everyone
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Who loves the rain
Who cares that it makes flowers
Who cares that it makes showers
Since you broke my heart
Who loves the sun
Who cares that it is shining
Who cares what it does
Since you broke my heart
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Not everyone
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Sun
Sun
Sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Not everyone
Pa Pa Pa Pa
Who loves the sun
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LITTLE MAN
(music: Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
unreleased
Switch on the telly
and let the world pass by
Switch off your mind
and have another bite
It isn't you that makes it happen
you that holds the weapon
It isn't you that fires the shot
It isn't you that makes the blood flow
You that makes the world go
Oh you can't really do a lot?
cause you're just a little man
it doesn't mean you can just wash your hands off it again
cause you're just a little man
it doesn't give you the right to turn your face the other side
switch on the telly
and let the world pass by
switch off your mind
and have another bite
you were just a part of a far to big a system
there was nothing you could do
you didn't put him up there
you weren't in the party
It wasn't you that finally killed 6 millions jews
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DEEP INSIDE
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums, als B-kant van de Well Baby
single en als 12" promo in Amerika
I ain't a man of too many words
And there are things I find hard to say
So when you misread me baby time after time
Well I know I got myself to blame
'Cause I want a little of this and then a little of that
And sometimes I'm happy with the things that I have
Ooh and sometimes baby I just don't know
And sometimes I wonder baby does it show
Sometimes I walk home late at night
I wanna have everything that ain't mine
And sometimes I can just look at the sky
And let the whole world pass me by
Ooh and I wanna stay out all night, I wanna see the sun rise
I couldn't care less wheter I live or die
He do you know, I said baby does it show
Baby, baby do you know
Baby do you know about the things I try to hide
And do you know about the things that are goin' on deep down inside
Sometimes my mind wonders off
And I wonder does it show
And sometimes I just can't get enough of you
And I wander do you know?
Hey do you know, I said baby does it show
Baby, baby do you know
Baby do you know about the things I try to hide
And do you know about the things that are goin' on deep down inside
Baby do you know about the things I try to hide
And do you know about the things that are goin' on deep down inside
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GOOD ENOUGH
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
The moment that you walk away
You should hear, hear the things they say
'Cause they're not the same as when they knock on your door at night
On the way back from an unsuccesful night in town
They remember that you're around
And that you like anything better than bein' lonely
They'll talk about love, say that it's allright
But tomorrow girl won't be like tonight
Walkin' out when daylight brakes
And you listen to the stories he fakes
And he sure's gone give you a call one of these days
And one of these days you'll meet him again
And he'll be walkin' hand in hand
But it won't be you who's walking by his side
They'll talk about love, say that it's allright
But tomorrow girl won't be like tonight
'Cause tommorow they'll talk about you
Say you're nothing but a filthy whore
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BALLROOM
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
If it hadn't been raining that night
You wouldn't have been lookin' for a place to hide
You never would have known about this guy
And all his tricks that made you lie
If it hadn't been raining that night
You wouldn't have been lookin' for a place to hide
And I, I wouldn't be out here in the corner of this ballroom
Wonderin' bout you and about the things you're doin'
If it hadn't been raining that night
You wouldn't have been lookin' for a place to hide
And I, I wouldn't be listening to this seedy speed queen
Wonderin' if she's ever gonna stop talkin'
Ooh and sometimes I blame it on the rain
Yeah, 'cause sometimes it eases the pain
If it hadn't been raining that night
You wouldn't have been lookin' for a place to hide
But you would have left me anyway
'Cause there were no reasons left to stay
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NOWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
I thought I saw the signs arrive
Through a haze of misty incidents
But I only got you crying
And I know I messed it up again
Now I got nowhere to lay my head
Nowhere to lay my head
Crossin' the streets on a hot summer night
There's sweat on my back and you all over my mind
Well I'm just lookin' for a place to lay my head
And I better find one soon now 'cause I'm running out of gas
Won't you please come back
Won't you please come back
Won't you please come back
Sittin' in my room countin' shadows on the wall
Tellin' myself I don't need you at all
But then I close my eyes and it happens all again
And my heart takes a walk baby right through my brain
Won't you please come back
'Cause I got nowhere to lay my head, nowhere to lay my head
I don't wanna discuss now whether who's wrong or right
I don't wanna get into some stupid little fight
I just want things the way just like they were before
And I want it now baby 'cause I can't take no more
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YOUNGER DAYS
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums en als single
I've been sitting here talkin' to this guy I used to know
And he's been tellin' me all those stories, 'bout a long time ago
It makes you wanna go back to those places
You used to stroll along each night
It makes you realise that these are times long gone by
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
And he keeps on talkin' about these glory days you had
And you know you had your fun, but it wasn't quite like that
It makes you wanna run from those places
You used to stroll along each night
It makes you realise that these are times long gone by
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
No use tryin' to hold on to a feeling
Feelings chance and time, ooh well time won't pass you by
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
Your younger days have sailed with the tide
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WELL BABY (PART 1 & 2)
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums en als single
Sleep tight little girl, daddy's watching over you
He's gonna kill your mummy first, and then he is gonna kill you too
And then he'll lay down in his bed put his .44 against his head
And no one's gonna trouble us no more
Sun sets there's a knock on my door
Warden says got no time no more
Just another fight, another lie
And another lonely day that's gone by
Well baby I can't wait for the day when we meet again
And baby, just maybe they'll let me out this spring
And I'll go running for that station and take the first train home
Everyday there's another grey suit
Tellin' me stories that I know ain't true
About you and the kids and the way you died
Mum and dad came to see me today
Daddy says he's got nothing to say
And mummy just stares she's got this funny look in her eyes
Sun rises there's a knock on my door
Warden says got no time no more
I get to smoke one last cigarette
But he knows I don't smoke, never have
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GIMME SOME TRUTH
(music and words: J. Lennon)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
Money for dope
Money for rope
I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now
I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth
No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap
It's money for dope
Money for rope
Ah, I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
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BLACKSPOT
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
Hey girl now you look real cute
The way that you go through all those books
Does it make you feel any better
Does it chance all your looks
Does it tell you, you can love me
Does it say you can hate me too
Does it tell you what you think about me, in a month or two
Hey boy you got pushed around a lot in school and in the yard
Does it make you feel any better to get back at them at last
And you tell me you hate the things, you loved a month ago
And you wanna tell me how come, what makes you think I wanna know
What makes you think people take you seriously
You're just another blackspot on another white sheet
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FOR CHRIST SAKE
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
If you're feelin' lonely and blue
You don't know in the world just what to do
Just tune into the voice of God
And you'll feel happy on this spot
If your Jewish, perverted or gay
Don't think twice, start to pray
'Cause you're very likely a commy as well
Ooh brother you will burn in hell
I've seen your love too many times
I've seen them hurt, I've seen them scared, I've seen them die
I've seen your look too many times
Ooh for Christ sake dump 'em all
If you listen to jazz or rock
Sister you're insulting your god
So throw away that satanic lp
And buy yourself our latest release
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HERE'S YOUR SONG
(music and words: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op de Younger Days en Fatal Flowers\Youngers Days albums
I love the way you play that guitar
Just keep it goin' and you'll be a real star
And one of these days give or take a year
We'll reach for the top, have another beer
I love the way you play those tunes
Just keep it goin' and we'll be there real soon
Your last song it made my wife cry
Just write me another and we'll reach for the sky
Well how do you like it so far now
Do you think it's allright could it please the crowd
Do you think it's ok, hey mr. DJ you wanted a song
Well have it your way (cause)
Here is your song, I'm sure you know what to do with it
I'm sure you'll find some space for it
Just p p p put it up your emulator
Well here it is, a nice bridge, cute vocals and all
There's only one thing that we miss
C'mon give me a little rock 'n roll guitar
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JOHNNY D. IS BACK!
(music and words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album en als B-kant van de Movin' Target single
Remember the man and his golden tunes
The way he moved his ass
Well have I got news for you
Stop the presses Johnny D. is back!
He's rollin', rollin' and rockin' too
Come and see the man the legend
Bring your children, bring your parants too
Down in the gutter no money no hopes
The worst I've ever seen
I told him straight no liquor no dope
And I swear to God Johnny D. is clean
The crowd is wild, you're back at the top
Come on boy let me fix you up
The only chance you'll ever get
It's showtime now Johnny D. is back!
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SECOND CHANCE
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album en als single
Here's another hippy in smoking
Thanking all his pimps and more
How he wished he was only joking
But he knows he's just another whore
He leans back in his limo
His hands caressing gold
Close your eyes and you won't know now
All the stories that are told
Close your eyes pretend your somewhere
Where there ain't nobody who knows your name
Deep blue skies and the sound of laughter
Listen closer and you'll heat em say:
Only once you get a second chance
Tomorrow he'll make the headlines
Tomorrow he'll make it big
Tomorrow it'll be just allright
Tonight he needs a fix
C'mon say thanks to the love generation
This is where it's gotten you now
And there ain't no need for no explanation
No need for answers
Cause you know there's just one truth
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MOVIN' TARGET
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album en als single
Walkin' down the road, fingers pointin' at your back
feel the tension grow, feel the rope around your neck
C'mon down, the hunt has just begun
C'mon down, I'm waiting for the bullet to come
Join the crowd be a part of the show
Everybody is talking but nobody seems to know
C'mon down if you got a taste for blood
C'mon down there's one thing you forgot
I'm a movin' target baby movin' away from you
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THERE WERE TIMES
(music and words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album
Street shine in the evening
Some junkie's waitin' for another time to come
The walls are full of B-movie posters
A hero smiling in the sun
people pas in the morning
Talkin' about the things they either do or chase
The hero looks down at the body
The same old smile around his face
There were times I still recall
There were fights we tought we'd won
There were dreams that seemed so real
There are wounds that just won't heal
Came running to the city
Must have been 68 or 69
Had my guitar right beside me
And I held my head up high
I met Suzanne at a party
She had deep brown eyes, cutting through my soul
It all seems so long ago now
Won't you please take me home
There were times when nothing mattered
People chance and dreams get shattered
There were friends you thought you'd keep
Just one way out, when you're in too deep
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ROUND AND ROUND
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album
There's people who tell me that it's a sin
There's people who say it's worth everything
And I'm stuck in the middle
With a whole lot of doubt
Not going in and not going out
You gimme this and I'll give you that
I give you a smile and you give me head
And then you want my mind and you need my soul
But all you get is some rock 'n roll
Round and round it just spins around
And there ain't no tellin' where it's bound
One says go and the other says no
Where it's going no one knows
Sunday evening a glass of wine
Switch on the tv and you're feeling just fine
And than the phone rings as you got into bed
Some guy's shouting you're already dead
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THE DANCE
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album
I got no hope
No love
No heart
No life
No dreams to share
I got no answers, don't ask me questions
'Cause I got no time to spare
Tell me about your life, your plans
Your problems and your friends
Then tellme just how many times
Did you make it with a man?
It gets you down
It gets you down
When you still know the dance,
But you can't remember how
Have you heard the circus is in town,
Come and see the monkies jump
They'll go up and they'll go down,
They'll do whatever you want
And when the show is over
You can feed them compliments
Caress their hairy ego's shake their hands
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ROCK AND ROLL STAR
(music and words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album, als single en als promo in Amerika (12" vinyl en CD)
The blue light hits hard in the lonely night
I guess I should have turned it off,
But I'm just too doggone tired
Stuffin' a sandwich down my throat,
Can't even bare the thought of food
'Cause there's nothing elso to do
I walk into this bar and try to get myself a drink
And up walks this girl (she says:)
Hey you wanna know what I think?
I think your music is great
But I like you even better
How about the two of us
Makin' some noise together
Well I don't know, I really don't know now
She says well I'm gonna kill myself,
If i don't make it with you
So you follow her home, I mean what can I do
Jonathan he's a rock and roll star
Didn't make it but that's the way things are
Well we had a lot of fun
But there's something I gotta do
Now don't start yellin'
'Cause you know I won't be hurtin' you
You look real cool
But I knew you were the screaming type
Well it's goodbye to the world honey
And welcome to the hype
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TOO FREE
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Henk Jonkers)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album
Standing around you could feel them whisper
That they always had been right
And now happened what they needed,
The day you died
And there were tears for the tunes,
That the organ played
And there were tears for the words,
That the preacher said
I remember when they first started hatin' you
It was the day they found out,
They were never gonna get on through
And all the stories meant to scare,
They had no effect on you
'Cause you were:
Too free in your ways, unlike the rest
Too free in your ways and it couldn't last
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DEAR FRIENDS
(music: Henk Jonkers and Richard Janssen / words: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op het Johnny D. Is Back! album
Well I'm so glad you could make it
I'm so glad you could come
You must be pretty busy
There's always work to be done
Maybe you'll get lucky, and get your face on tv
There ain't nothing like a funeral;
Food and drinks for free
Tears get shed and stories get told,
Oh what more can you do
And there goes old Frank headin' for the booze
He always kind of hated me, why I never knew
But I'm sure that even my funeral
Is gonna get a bad review
Say goodbye dear friends,
'Cause today the story ends
Say goodbye dear friends,
Oh until we meet again
All them pretty girls they all stand in line
Minds on vacation, bodies doin' overtime
And all them v.i.p.'s tryin' so hard to make it work
Small time heroes, big time jerks
Say goodbye dear friends,
'Cause today the story ends
There ain't no use sticking around,
You see hey I'm heaven bound
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NO EXPECTATIONS
(music and words: Jagger/Richards)
verschenen als B-kant van de Rock And Roll Star single
Take me to the station
And put me on a train
I've got no expectations
To pass through here again
Once I was a rich man
Now I am so poor
But never in my sweet short life
Have I felt like this before
You heart is like a diamond
You throw your pearls at swine
And as I watch you leaving me
You pack my peace of mind
Our love was like the water
That splashes on a stone
Our love is like our music
Its here, and then its gone
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HOW MANY YEARS
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album en als single
Remember the time when you were such a pretty little girl
Now you and all your friends, you wanna rule the whole world
Well let me tell you baby, I liked you just the way you were
Without all your power and your diamonds and your pearls
How many years will it take you to see
That all of your dreams have been washed down the sea
Alone and confused and a long way from home
Chasing rainbows that are already gone
You were only sixteen when you left home,
With a suitcase full of dreams
Now what have we got, a bitter old lady
With a briefcase full of schemes
You party in Spain, you're dancin' in China
You're all over the middle east
But back home lady, your sons are dyin' in the streets
Push your luck, use your charms
Spend a little money, do a little harm
There are tears in your eyes baby, at the right time
But you can close 'em pretty easy, when you need a lie
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SOME DAY
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
He was gonna make it, though things were kinda slow
But is was bound to happen, everybody told him so
Now he walks the streets of Amsterdam, looking for a buck
And he'll tell you even Jesus Christ one day ran out of luck
Some day the wind will call your name
And things will never be the same
When you hear that wind call your name
Everybody loved her, she was the prettiest girl around
And she was gonna do this movie in some faraway foreign town
Now she walks the streets of Paris, shouting at the sky
And she'll tell you Jesus loves her 'cause he told her so last night
Now listen don't just pass 'em by
When you meet 'em on the street
'Cause I knew them very well
When they were fools like you and me
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FUNKY STREET
(music and words: Arthur Conley)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
One, used to be the shotgun
Two, used to be that bad boo-a-loo
Three, used to be the swinging sing-a-ling
Four, used to be the funky four gonna see
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
From Atlanta Georgia, there moving down to the border
Every boy was dancing, ran with somebody's daughter
We're groovin in the city
We got to get down with it
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
Jump up and down and move all around
Bend your knees halfway to the ground
Now move it to the east, move it to the south
Turn around and kiss your partner on the mouth
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
Sweet soul music is in the air
People are coming from everywhere
Coming from the east, coming from the west
Dancin to the one that they like the best
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
Four, everybody got to hit the floor
Three, come on baby go with me
Two, used to be that bad boo-a-loo
One, got to have just a little fun
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
Get on funky street
Digging the funky beat
Down on funky street
That's where the grooviest people meet
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BETTER TIMES
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album en als single
There's a girl in a blue dress on an empty dance floor
A boy in a white mess, goin' out the back door
And there is you and me and how I wish it could be
But the world won't allow a single kiss
And I'm gonna wait for better times, better times
No sweeter lie than time
Friday night I got into a fight
And I cut my baby with a sharp razor blade
I turned around and to my surprise she was:
Bleeding love all over the place
Lyin' at your doorstep baby
I cut my wrists with a sharp razor blade
Oh won't you please open up your door and I'll be
Bleeding love all over your place
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PLEASURE GROUND
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
There's a bitter rain, an acid pain raging through my head
(and) when I close my eyes there's too many fights
Too many questions asked, too much said
See the pretty little girl walkin' down my street, spring in her eyes
She looks my way, gives me a smile
Asks me for some money to buy some time
Ahe says: baby, don't walk away, c'mon take my hand
And you're pretty little grey, grey world will turn to green and red
Hand through my hair, voice in my ear sayin':
"Baby don't you wanna be my queen tonight?"
I'm not here to make a living, not here to make new friends
But I truly sympathize
Dancin' bodies on the floor, love it ain't nothing more
But just another tune to dance to
Next time around let me take you down to the pleasure ground
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A REAL GOOD LIFE
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
Here she comes just a-lookin' so good
And she knows just what to do
She can't be from this world, she's from my neighbourhood
She know's I'll be here every day
Tied to this bed with a ball and chain
She can't be from this world, "she's from another planet"
Yeah, well she don't look too green to me
I got friends and family, I got a real good life
But when I'm all alone
I can close my eyes and pretend she's mine
Here she comes such a little tease
But she knows just how to please
And when she turns her head, I know I'm only halfway dead
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SHE'S DOIN' FINE
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
Here she comes, there she goes
How it's done, nobody knows
She'll act like your sister, care like your wife
Before you know it she is a part of your life
She showed up in the city 'bout three months ago
In two weeks time she was running the show
She knows all the places all the faces in town
She knows when to leave and when to stick around
And when you ask her how she's been
She'll tell you 'bout the people she's seen
'Bout the latest craze and all the parties last night
She's doin' just fine
Here she comes, there she goes
She's all dressed up for her late night show
I said: hey lady I'm a married man
She says: no preacher tells me where to lay my hands
(And) at night when she is all alone
She's watching Jimmy on the late night show
She'll shed some tears but still it's a wonderful life
She's doin' just fine
She's a walking, talkin' lie, but who needs the truth all the time
She's doin' just fine
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BURNING
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
You wanna play, you want some fun
Take a trip right to the sun
Come on in, give it a try
Feels like the world's greatest guy
Let the boy kill the man, 60 bucks burning in my hand
There's a red light on your left, a blue light on your right
The white light always gets you from behind
Feel the fever start to glow
It gets you down before you know
I don't want you to understand, 60 bucks burning in my hand
Burning, burning, burning in my hand
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RAGE OUT
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
Rage out on you
I want my baby dressed in black
Silver buttons all around her neck
They sure had taste back in those good ol' days
Now there's a price to pay
There's somebody on my screen tonight
There's some voice on my telephone
But I don't wanna share it all this time
I want my own private show
Don't need your name, your number, don't want your fake I.D.
Don't wanna know about your mean ex-lover
Kill me tomorrow, love me tonight
I want my baby dressed in white, virgin look in her eyes
I just wanna have it all this time, and I'll pay any price
Now all you boys and girls across the world
Watcha' gonna do when you hear the news
That everything is back to normal again
Will the world go crazy?
Don't need your name, your number, don't want your fake I.D.
Don't wanna know about your mean ex-lover
Kill me tomorrow, love me tonight
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SPEED OF LIFE
(words and music: Fatal Flowers)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album
I'm no fool, I know where I'm going
I'm just bad company, sometimes
But if you think you got me all figured out
Well I guess you're in for a surprise
Time takes a toll on me sometimes
And I know all the reasons, but I just can't make it rhyme
(And) my time runs out, and I could scream and shout
I'm getting strangled by the speed of life
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BOTH ENDS BURNING
(words and music: Bryan Ferry)
verschenen op het Pleasure Ground album en als single
Please don't ever let me down
'Cause you know I'm not so sure
Do I have the speed to carry on
Burn you out of my mind, I know
You're a flame that never fades
Jungle redīs a deadly shade
Both ends burning, will the fires keep
Somewhere deep in my soul tonight
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Now my course is plain as day
Running bold across to play
Both ends burning with a strange desire
That feeds the fire in my soul tonight
I will dance the night away
Living only for today
Both ends burning while you're counting sheep
Hell-- who can sleep in this heat this night?
Tell me will I ever learn?
It's too late, the rush is on
Both ends burning and I can't control
The fires raging in my soul tonight
Oh will it never end?
Put your foot around the bend
Drive me crazy to an early grave
Tell me what is there to save tonight
Both ends burning
Burning
Burn
Keep on burning till the end, until the end
Keep on burning till the end, the very end
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6th AND MAIN
(words and music: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op Younger Days - The Definitive Fatal Flowers
Well the streets are empty and shining
Everybody's hidding from the rain
Oh, and I'm looking for a ride
On the corner of 6th and main
Well she asked me where I was going
I looked away and she asked me once again
So I told her I was meeting a friend
On the corner of 6th and main
Now I'm watching all the cars that pass me by
Red lights fading in that lonesome night
But no mather where they'll take me
She always be there on my mind
Well she's been like an angel, she don't understand
That me and heaven's angels have never been close friends
So tell her that I'll love her
Tell her that I'll be back some day
Tell her that I'll meet her
On the corner of 6th and main
Now I'm watching all the cars that pass me by
Red lights fading in that lonesome night
But no mather where they'll take me
She always be there on my mind
Well she's been like an angel, she don't understand
That me and heaven's angels have never been close friends
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HALFWAY
(words and music: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op Younger Days - The Definitive Fatal Flowers
Jesus hear my prayer
I'm halfway down the stairs
I wouldn't mind going up
But I just don't seem to know which direction to go
Jesus....
It's been a long time since
I used to say my evening prayer
And you made all my...
Well I don't need no bibble to tell me what's teh truth
And I don't need no friends to tell me what to do
And I don't need no woman to make me feel blue
And I don't need you to tell me I'm a liar to
Another day has passed away
The sun comes up in burning flames, leaving me to blame
But there ain't nothing you can do or say
When the feeling has just gone away
There is nothing that remains
Well I don't need no bibble to tell me what's teh truth
And I don't need no friends to tell me what to do
And I don't need no woman to make me feel blue
And I don't need you to tell me I'm a liar to
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JUST A GIRL
(words and music: Richard Janssen)
verschenen op Younger Days - The Definitive Fatal Flowers
You're ridding the road, your hands tight to the wheel
90 miles an hour cause you like the way it makes you feel
Oh you don't care where you going
Can't remember why you left
There's an old dream behind you
And a new one right ahead
Step on the gas now, and run every red light
All of this time now, she was there waiting for a ride
And she askes you, what's the problem
And you wonder how she knows
And she askes you, why you're speeding
When you got nowhere to go
Don't you wonder where she's going
Where she's heading where she's from
She says, every hiway has got a place called home
Got a place called home
Your driving for hours
And it seems like you've know her all your life
When you get to the crossroads
She just lookes at you and smilles
....
But you know this is goodbye
Cause you never stop you're wondering
And you'll only make her cry
Still you're on the streets at night
And you're crying out her name
You wonder how this could happen agian
She's just a girl, just passing by
She's just a girl, but you know that's a lie
She's just a girl, she's got the sun in here eyes
She's just a girl, but you know that's a lie
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