BOYS
PROMISED LAND
SONG FOR G
SHE'S ALRIGHT
LOSIN CONTROL
CHECK IT OUT
9 O'CLOCK
TEAR IT DOWN
SHAME
ROCK AND ROLL
BLUE METAL CHROME
POPMUSIC
FUNCTION OF THE EYE
BIG PARADE
SUZY
REPEAT THE WORD
THIS IS IT
THE GIRL LOOKS ALRIGHT (AND SO DO I)
LORRAINE
CALLING HEAVEN
THE WAR
THE BALL
PERFECT SIN
THE GREAT PARTY SONG
ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?
YEAH YEAH
GUN
BOYS
Shake down your worries and let yourself go
Get in the car now and drive down the road
And never a moment, never a moment of doubt
Your up on the way, come on scream and shout
Boys, they'll make it allright
Boys, they'll make it alright
Boys, they'll make it alright
They take up your time and fill up your life
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Come take your head now and let your hair down
Burn down your castles and take up your crown
And never a moment, never a moment of doubt
The dream's to real, the noise too loud
Boys, they'll make it alright
They take up your time and fill up your life
Oh why, why don't you cry
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
Fools gold, silver dreams and life ain't what it seams
PROMISED LAND
Sometimes I like it easy, sometimes I like it slow
Sometimes I like it sleasy, sometimes I just don't know
Sometimes it's ok, sometimes, sometimes it's never enough
Sometimes I like to kick some, sometimes I like some love
sometimes, sometimes
Someday I could be famous . . . a rock and roll star
Oh, and everybody loves what you do and hates what you are
Someday it's not so easy, today it's not quite right
Someday I think I would, today I think I might
Someday, someday
And nothing seams to move me anymore
And nothing seams to move me anymore
And nothing seams to move me anymore
Somebody sometimes someday will take you by the hand
The things you kept . . . purple and just shoot you to the promised land
Sometimes it's ok, sometimes
Sometimes it's never enough, sometimes I need to kick some
Sometimes I need some love
Sometimes, sometimes
And nothing seams to move me anymore
And nothing seams to move me anymore
And nothing seams to groove me anymore
SONG FOR G
Well who would like to be me
Not you, not me
He, I would like to be you if I only thought I could
And we could be you, like dog's and children too
But your love and my luck
It grown until the . . .
SHE'S ALRIGHT
The rules that you made, the . . . that you break
The questions you asked, the tears that you cried
The doubt in your eyes, the answers you left
The lies that you life, the reasons you give
There all wearing thin
And it makes no sense don't try to bend
the reasons you're on your own
Cause when there's no way out and your down and out
Life seams a lonely place, and time starts to show it's face
She's alright, she's alright
She never let's me down
She's alright, she's alright
She never lets me down
She's always around
She never let's me down
I could see the change is coming, I could never turn my back
And when I saw the brand new morning, I choose the night instead
Don't let me down, don't let me down
The rules that you made, the . . . that you break
The questions you asked, the tears that you cried
The doubt in your eyes, the answers you left
But it makes no sense don't try to bend
the reasons you're on your own
Cause when there's no way out and your down and out
Life seams a lonely place, and time starts to show it's face
She's alright
I could have have said all the things you wanted
I could have given all the things you needed
I could have played all these things, she wanted me to be
Should have rided that big white horse and mean while . . . fairy tales
. . .
. . .
Don't let me down, don't let me down.
I need you now, don't let me down
LOSIN CONTROL
You're such a sick little girl
You're sick, you're slick
You're such a sick little girl
You're mad, you're bad
You're such a . . . little girl
And I'm losin control, again
Yeah I'm losin control, again
No cure no pay, we're all gone go some day
Big . . . small talk, why don't you all take a walk
And I'm losin control, again
Yeah I'm losin control, again
Everything is new and to . . . head
Too many things in my head, oh everything is moving too fast
Too many fights too many dreams too many lost too high the costs
Fastlane slowburn, I stick my face in the dirt
Hard work no sweat, please can I go back to bed
And I'm losin control, again
Yeah I'm losin control, again
Oh Everything is new and to . . . head
Too many things in my head, oh everything is moving too fast
Too many fights too many dreams too many lost too high the costs
CHECK IT OUT
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out
Check it out, check it out
Take this road, take this life or better . . . the worse
I take my hands right of the wheel, head first in the dirt
And I'm open for suggestions and I'm closed for the day
If you go with the flow all your life you're gone end up down the grade
And you can point your finger all your life put up your . . . head
But you know I'm having much more fun than you will ever have
Take a walk through misery lane, don't play to play
Well take a chance today, he don't fade away
Oh yeah !
Now if you're living on memories to long stars living on you
They'll put the warnings on your head and you sure it feels good
But soon they'll hear you when you're eyes, there was now way to see
Tripple fix, your right or wrong that's no fantasy
Take a walk through misery lane, don't play to play
Well take a chance today, he don't fade away
Oh yeah , oh yeah, oh yeah !
Check it out, check it out, check it out
Imagine baby me and you waking up in an all white room
Listening to the rustle of our clothes
Trying in the morning sun, yeah come on
Seeing your body next to mine, just one more question comes to mine
Would the world be a better place if we all dress up in lace
Imagine all the songs come true
Imagine baby me and you
naked on a white grand, it isn't hard to do
I could point my finger on my life
But that won't chance the fact that all I need is to feel like you
Enjoy what I have
Take a walk through misery lane, don't play to play
Well take a chance today, he don't fade away
Oh yeah , oh yeah, oh yeah !
Take a walk through misery lane, don't play to play
Go take a chance today, he don't fade away
Take a walk through misery lane, don't play to play
Well take a chance today, he don't fade away
Oh yeah , oh yeah, oh yeah !
Check it out, check it out
9 O'CLOCK
It's 9 o'clock in the morning when the phone starts to ring
Hands from the machine takes one good look at me and says:
"I'm not in"
I guess he killed himself last night, the machine was right again
The stars recorde who, and who isn't in
Me, I stick my fingers in my ears cause I don't want to hear ten little maybe's
knocking on my door, squeking little voices shouting:
"Can we please come in ?"
We've got a truck loaded down and some eternal sin
The fat lady on my TV says, she'll eb right back
Don't you worry hony, I'm not going anywhere today
TEAR IT DOWN
Well hello hello so many people I know, think I know or want to know
An there are the one's you don't want to know at all
Oh and all these apleased people think I share about the latest grace
Man as if I care and anyway I'm just here to dance
Which would be a lot easy if you could just let go of my ears, please
She wants to know how I feel, wants to know how I think
Wants to know about every story I've ever been in and after 20 minutes or so, she even wants my name
Oh and I'm just keeping up appearances and keeping up a smile
Not in my head every once in a while waiting for my que
Oh could somebody please call in a . . .
I don't need your sympathy, I can do without your worried smile
Please don't tell me how to life, I know just how to live my life
And I don't need your advice
Now I'm not doing much at all, but I'm doing what I can
Excuse me for not having a masterplan, oh and excuse me sir you're blocking my sun
I know deep in my heart it doesn't mean a thing
The things that we say or the songs that we sing
But it keeps me from wandering of
Yeah, but I wouldn't mind, I wouldn't mind for take it cause sometimes your holding for so long man you start mistaken for your home
And you're mind is always aching and your heart turns into stone
And you're friends, they're all making a living so few making a life
And there's just so much to give and so much to hide, just tear it down
I don't need your sympathy, I can do without your worried smile
Please don't tell me how to life, I know just how to live my life
And I don't really think I need any advice from you, thank you very much
Cause I don't need your sympathy, I can do without your worried smile
Please don't tell me how to life, I know just how to live my life
And I don't need your advice cause I'm . . .
I'm waiting for you, I got nothing to lose no one else to turn into
SHAME
Today I'll try, tonight I'll lie
Tomorrow we know the truth will show
There's nothing I could tell you that could change your life
There's nothing I could do that would make it right, oh wrong
I could have tried, I could have lied
I could have smiled and close my eyes
I could hang my head in shame
I would do it all again
You can call me mad, call me names
Whatever you say it's all the same
It's just not my game
Don't ask me why, don't ask me when
The reasons I give would not make sense
There nothing I could tell you that could change your life
There's nothing I could do that would make it right, oh wrong
I could hang my head in shame
I would do it all again
You can call me mad, call me names
Whatever you say it's all the same
It's just not my game
Today I try, tonight I'll lie
Tomorrow we know the truth will show
I could hang my head in shame
I would do it all again
You can call me mad, call me names
Whatever you say it's all the same
It's just not my game
ROCK AND ROLL
When I was a young boy at the age of 3
My father asked my mother "would you merry me ?"
I know sometimes it's hard to lie but, I mean what can I do
I was born a bastard and I'm . . . too
Well summertime I was just some teen, didn't know much about life
Then you walked in and you showed me just why the winner is always right
I thought love was just a game to play and to enjoy
I know much better now, you shure did make your point
No time to place, no one to blame can you hear it tick
"Welcome to the city" says mr Blue Eyes "I hope you enjoy your time"
"You can use my door and be my righthand"
He, but all I wanted was a friend
And You tell me I let you down and I'm not the loyal kind
Don't you see know when I left, there was not much to leave behind
No time to place, no one to blame can you hear it tick
Well make your move and make your point, there'll be talk out on the street
Well I feel like a red tack future to start bleeding
There's a cling in every you and not me
And all you people who think you know, but you just haven't got a clue
He , I could fill you when I guess but boy do I have better things to do
No time to place, no one to blame can you hear it tick
No time to waste, take a chance cause we're living . . . time
Fold your hand, make a change cup a jive
All you need is to feel the rain in your mouth
Life's a bitch, lovin every inch off it
If you wanna rock and roll, you got to learn to play the game
If you wanna rock and roll, you better smile and change your name
You just say no, but you do mean yes
You do anything your manager says
If you wanna rock and roll, you better learn to play the game
If you wanna rock and roll, you got to play it by the rules
If you wanna rock and roll, you got to wine and dine with fools
You say you do when you know you don't
Say you like it when you know you won't
If you wanna rock and roll, you better learn to say: "fuck you"
BLUE METAL CHROME
She comes in all kind off colours
Comes in all kind off shapes
Oh man, she can swear on the bible, still look like a fake
But sometimes I, sometimes she, sometimes we, we know it's right
Baby you know just where to find me, oh yeah
On the wrong side of the road, the wrong side of the road
Well now, can I be your woman, baby you can be my man
You cab just let it all hang on to me, I just do what I can
But it's allright, yeah it's allright, it's allright, we know it's right, yeah
Baby you know just where to find me, oh yeah
On the wrong side of the road, no grip no control on blue metal chrome
Come a little closer darling, you know I'll do no harm
I can see right through your smile, can you see right through mu charm
Can you take a little action, can you take a little pain
Can you take a little action, can you take a little pain
Can you take a little action, can you take a little pain
Can you take a little action, can you take a little pain
Baby you know just where to find me, oh yeah
On the wrong side of the road, no grip no control on blue metal chrome
Baby you know just where to find me, oh yeah
On the wrong side of the road, no grip no control on blue metal chrome, on blue metal chrome
POPMUSIC
In the crowd everybody is your friend
Sing it out loud and you know it will never end
Yes I believe, and I'll reach out my hand in vain
And we dance until the break of day
Save our souls, give us love, make us whole
Everyone wants to be the king someday
And the king puts a bullet through his brain
And the prince can't remember his own name
And we dance until the break of day
Save our souls, give us love, make us whole
Hallowed by Thy name, give us love and fame
Hail the new hip thing, praise the song and sing
Come on let the beat, kill the memory
Everywhere you're going there is no escape
Anytime, any hour of the day, anyplace, anytime, anywhere
Come on feel the noise, let it loose you girls and boys
Say you believe, drink the wine, kill the priest
Come on feel the noise, let it loose you girls and boys
Say you believe, take the vow, feel the beat
Come on feel the noise, let it loose you girls and boys
Say you believe, eat the bread, kiss our feet
FUNCTION OF THE EYE
I'm not dancing I'm just movin' around
I'm not talkin' I'm just makin' sounds
All around me people do the same, what a shame
You don't look you just blink your eye
Every split second every other lie
I'll close mine if you just dance with me, pretty please
Anywhere I go there's always things I know, I shouldn't really see
Baby would you close my eyes for me
The function of the eye the function of the mind
It's all too clear to me, baby would you close my eyes for me
I don't wanna know and I don't wanna be right
I don't wanna see what should stay inside
I just wanna get on with my stupid life if that's alright
One of these days I'm honna sort it all out
All of the things that we dream about
But right now I just wanna go out and play, come on and sway
BIG PARADE
Come join the big parade, leave home your ball and chain
Yes you are invited
Leave your cool behind, synchronize your mind
Please don't try to fight it
Cause you just might loose, and I think you will
It's all been done before, can I do it just once more
Please, please, please, please, please.
Everybody come close your eyes and dig
The new breed comin' your [way]
Wailin', groovin', movin' baby it's just all, a matter of letting it go
Go ahead now, make it all wortwhile just make it happen
Leave your hiding place and join the big parade, yes you are invited
It's up to you, just say you will
There's problems all around, tonight I can't be found
I'm hiding in this pool of lust, flashes to flashes, dust to dust
SUZY
Suzy says she'd like to die, cause she's feelin' kind of homesick
Points a finger at the sky says; There's a hole I need to fix
Then she gives me a thousand year old smile
That makes me stop and wonder why
I guess it's good to have a home
Suzy, she's wonderful, Suzy she's beautiful, Suzy she's loveable
Suzy says it's time to say goodbye
Every where she goes there's people, hopin' beauty might rub off
Suy says they love to know me, but they know not howe to love
Suzy's got a few good friends, who don't mind to pay the rent
For the rooms inside her head
When the evening falls, she's alone in the park
Where she talks to the stars, and I'm sure they talk back
All the way home I could still hear her laugh
REPEAT THE WORD
Take the pill and make the kill my friend
And I'll show you live never has to end
And I'll show you worlds you have never been
Show you colours you have never seen
You're the person I'd like to meet if you were me
You could tell me where to look and I could be you and me
There's nothing here you don't already know
Takes a boy to remind a man I suppose
Repeat the word
Repeat the word right after me
Repeat it till you see it take a shape
Repeat it till you see the background fade
Repeat it till it makes your stomach turn
Repeat it till you feel your consiounce burn
Take the pathway don't look left or right
Follow it down until you see the light
Repeat the word
THIS IS IT
Baby whispers words of wisdom softly in my ear
But I've seen the film and read the book and the reason that we're here
Is not your Reader's Digest vision of the world you know
She's killing me softly with her song of endless this and that
And I wish that I could change the station cause it drives me ma
To sit here watch the grass grow on the love that we had
You better grab it while you can, it be gone before you know it
Hey! This is it, take your pick, would you please stop wasting my time
just take it or leave it behind
Tomorrow knows if today's the day that will wipe out yesterday
But I don't really have the time to sit back and wait
You can take it as it comes, can't you see it's here and now
THE GIRL LOOKS ALRIGHT (AND SO DO I)
I wake up deceiving, I walk home believing
Something's got a hold on me today
I know you're inside me, just waiting to fight me
I welcome the challenge that you bring
Come on baby kill the lights, I'll show you half my life tonight
Go hit the strobes and just come float my way
Believe it's true, and I will do the same
The girl looks alright and so do I
Come fix me a daydream, I'll buy you an icecream
Come hold my hand and I'll pretend the same
Help me find the door to yesterday when all we did was play
LORRAINE
The morning dew has just set in and you've stayed awake all night
A thousand million thoughts were buzzing
And you don't seem to feel alright
Today I'll take my riflegun and shoot out all your lights
For you don't seem to take the day
And you don't want to leave the night
When you're out on your own, and your friends have all gone home
Do you feel you can ever stand the strain
And the question inside makes you feel it shoots at sight
I will stand in front of you to stop the rain
My sweet Lorraine
Today I'd like to know if you will ever feel alright
For if not I will take my gun and shoot out all your lights
Don't use your memories to fill the void inside your head
Just take my dancing shoes and kill the thought instead
CALLING HEAVEN
Calling Elvis, come down and help us
Give us a reason, to keep on pleasin'
Margin's getting smaller, everybody's talking big
If there's a heaven, Elvis, won't you come down quick
And show us the way
Calling heaven, nothing ever happens
I'm tired of fighting, give me thunder and lightning
Send me down your horsemen, set my world ablaze
I need to have some answers, open up the graves, and let the horns play
If there's anybody out there, please pick up the phone
I've got a thousand twenty questions and I really need to know
The answer to one
THE WAR
There's someone at my frontdoor raising his voice:
Is there anybody home ?
Now there's a question I like
Kept me up and I've been thinking all night long
Summertime gonna cut my hair now, ask a friend to die it red
Spend my days watching girls in the park; I'm just trying to fill my head
Yes I hate to admit but I miss you like hell miss you everyday
And yes I hate to be asked cause everytime they do
I don't know what to say
I need someone to come and save me
When I'm wrapped up in my world
Need someone to poke a finger in the places where it hurts
Baby it's driving me mad I need your warm hands back on my head
Hear you say: It's alright, alright
I felt myself slipping back I could feel the old man grab me by the throat
He slowly squeezed out the air made me look like a fool
Chokin' every word
I know tonight I lost the fight, pulled blankets way over my head
Had the old man stand quard at the door
Checked for ghosts under my bed
Baby it's drivin' me mad
And I don't think I can take it anymore
Hey old man can we cease the war
THE BALL
I'm a loaded gun baby, yes I guess I'm all fucked up, can't make it stop
Last night I smashed my room baby, didn't really make a change
It's just rearanged
Hey was that you, I think it was, must have been yeah
And I see them dancin' on my wall, can I please join the ball
Can I bring my lady too, can I?
And I can feel the people stare, but baby I don't care
If it's allright with you, we're gonna dance the whole night through
It's been some time now baby
But I know you're still around, making sounds
Yes I'm sick baby, sick of everything I am now and then
Hey hurry up let's join the band, the music starts
Come, take my hand
And I see them dancin' on my wall, could I please join the ball
Could I bring my lady too, can I?
And I can feel the people stare, but baby I don't care
If it's allright with you, we're gonna dance the whole night through
And I see them dancin' on my wall, could I please join the ball
Could I bring my lady too, can I?
And I can feel the people stare, but baby I don't care
If it's allright with you, we're gonna dance the whole night through
PERFECT SIN
You don't have to tell me baby, you don't really have to show
'Cause if it's right I don't really need the reasons
And if it's wrong I just don't wanna know
It's not that hard read you my baby, when it's writen all over your face
Hey you can't expect to life forever darling
Give me your hand and we'll die with grace
Let me walk through your dreams
Let me be the one that you want me to be
Now baby . . . you if you that you never give in then you never be free
Don't ask me just where we're going
And I won't ask you where've you been
We could never life together darling
We might die in perfect sin
Let me walk through your dreams
Let me be the one that you want me to be
Now baby . . . you if you that you never give in then you never be free
Let me walk through your dreams
Let me be the one that you want me to be
Now baby . . . you if you that you never give in then you never be free
THE GREAT PARTY SONG
Oh gee there's a great party tonight. Now if all the wannabees could
just clear the stage to make room for people who got something else to say
then: 'we can play the Stones better than the Stones can play the Stones'.
Now there's a life achievement for them. Some cops in a 1977 leather jacket
got out in from my earground telling me: 'you've just seen the future of
Rock and Roll'. And yes I'm afraid it's right.
Alone in the backroom I kneel down and pray
Please dear old God get me out of this place
There must be a cloud that nobody wants
I'll be back in today
Now I'm on my way to the bar. Stumblin' to the politicaly correct
heavely legged and poorly dressed . . . wanna be like Iggy Pop, make a
million bucks get their dick sucked and still be respectable to all their
friends. Yeah get a lady shave man.
Alone in the backroom I kneel down and pray
Please dear old God get me out of this place
There must be a cloud that nobody wants
I'll be back in today
Outside I can still hear the hymns of silver and golden spawning through
the walls as I try to make my way home. Just around the corner there's a
tramp having a real polite conversation with a pile of garbage. Well how
do you do, you must be in the business too
Alone in my own room I kneel down and pray
And I can just feel the whole world moving away
I'm here on my cloud and I'm fading away
You see me some day
ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC?
It's cold outside
And the paints peeling of of my walls
There's a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette
Now the light fades out
And I wonder what I'm doing in a room like this
There's a knonk on the door
And just for a second I thought I remembered you
So now I'm alone
Now I can think for myself
About lettle deals and s.u.'s
And things that I just don't understand
A white lie that night
Or a sly touch at times
I don't think it meant anything to you
So I open the door
It's the 'friend' that I'd left in the hallway
'please sit down'
A candle lit shadow on a wall near the bed
You know I hate to ask
But are 'friends' electric?
Only mine's broke down
And now I've no one to love
So I find out your reason
For the phone calls and smiles
And it hurts and I'm lonely
And I should never have tried
And I missed you tonight
It must be time to leave
You see this means everything to me
YEAH YEAH
Everybody is going somewhere
Everybody is making sure they got something to talk about
Everybody is going places
Everybody is leaving traces on the clean window paine
Me, I'm just keeping still, trying to look through
And maybe I'm in your way, but I'm sure that you are too
And I say YEAH !
I'm gonna burn another joy stick
I wanna fall in love with a hippy chick
She'll be everything I like to be
Late at night she'll pick the stars and I get stuck in the first three bars of the love song I try to sing
Well I never give up trying, but I can hear it call again
I'm looking over my shoulder and I put down my pants
And I say YEAH !
I'm gonna be in the middle of a hurricane
Gotta take two seconds to blow away this house of yours build no remorse
Gotta be the one to ride the wave
I'll be coming down to sweep away the walls around your little town
I'll never give up trying if I don't make it somehow
I see you in another thousand years from now
And I say YEAH !
GUN
....son, won't you lent me your gun
I need confidence in an ordinary way
....son won't you give me your gun
I need confidence in an ordinary way
Take my eyes and stuff em .....
I don't wanna see the things I did wrong before
Just lent me your ways
Wintertree will you watch over me
I need one good friend, while I'm away
Wintertree will you walk down with me
I said I need one good friend, that is here to stay
Take my ears and stuff em ....
I don't wanna here the things I just thought before
Just lent me your ways
....son, ....son
Take my eyes and stuff em .....
I don't wanna see the things I did wrong before
Just lent me your ways
....son, ....son
