BOB SEGER SYSTEM lyrics - Death Row

Here I am, oh my time's rolling slowly by

21 years old, waiting on my turn to die

Every minute Lord, every minute seems like five

And if it wasn't for the window,

I'd wonder if the world outside was alive

Yeah, smokin cigarettes, drinkin' coffee

And waiting on my last meal, I try to pretend



I try to pretend but this cell is much too real

Oh, I should have left that chick alone

I curse the day, I curse the day she was born, now

Oh the old men they tell me

they tell me love is akin to hate

but before I die, I just gotta get it straight now



Crush out my cigarette, throw away my coffee and scream

Ahhhhhhh, I don't wanna die

Oh, I don't wanna die



Oh, it's too late they'll be comin' for me soon

It's too late to pray, and anyway, God can't see this room

I'm startin' to sweat now, It won't be long now

I can see

They're gonna put me in that chair

They're gonna put me in that chair and that's how the end's gonna be

Yeah, it's gettin cold, it's gettin colder

And I'm startin' to scream, Ahh I don't wanna die

Don't leave me here to die

LORETTA LYNN AND CONWAY TWITTY lyrics - Lead Me On

(Leon Copeland)



Once I made a promise that I'd never lead you on

But I feel the yearn to love you even though I know it's wrong

You'll have to take my hand and lead me slowly through the door

I'll be wrong in what I'm doin' I can't refuse you anymore

Lead me on and take control of how I feel

I can't do this on my own cause it's against my will

I need love warm and tender in a way I've never known

If you want me I'll go with you but you'll have to lead me on

[ steel ]

Lead me on and take control...

PRINCE lyrics - The Marrying Kind

If U leave her now

Ur never gonna 2 c her again - Never

Now she's gonna need a shoulder 2 cry on

She's gonna need a friend

She's gonna need a pillow case v something 2 put those tears on

And Eye've got some purple satin lacys

1 second later than the second U gone



She' gonna miss U at first

But then she's gonna buy me things

That's when Eye'm gonna lay her

'cross my piano stool and sing 2 her



[Chorus:]

Honey, Eye tried 2 tell him

That U were the marrying kind

A faithful 1-man-woman

The best he would ever find

Eye guess he wasn't trying 2 hear that

So there ain't nothing left 2 say

Eye tried 2 tell him if U run 2 me

Eye won't run away



If U leave her now

U'll never get another glimpse

Eye'm going 2 lace her with enough ice to recap the polls

There might b another solar eclipse

She's gonna find-

-bath water hot enough 2 b touched (oh, man. porkchop is hurtin')

Eye'm gonna put her on the same diet Missy went on

U know she eat 2 much

Tonight, she's gonna miss U at first

But then she'll get used 2 me

All of the tricks Eye would try

2 make her take this ring and make love 2 me



[Chorus]



Run away

Don't run away

DIANA ROSS lyrics - All Of My Life

(Michael Randall)



All of my life

I have walked alone

In search of a star

You are that star

You're the one I've waited for

You're the one I've waited for



All of my life

There's a song to sing

A chorus for two

All that love can bring

I'll share here with you

You can make it all come true



So darling

All of your life to share

Is all I'm asking

All of the minutes and the years

All of your happiness

And sometimes all your tears



So darling

All of my life to share

Is all I give you

All of the flowers in the field

We'll walk together through the sunsets and the years



So darling

All of my life to share

Is all I'll give you

And all of the flowers in the field

We'll walk together through the sunsets and the years

All of my life

There's a song to sing

A chorus for two

All that love can bring

I'll share here with you

You can make it all come true



So darling

All of my life to share

Is all I'm asking

All of the minutes and the years

All of your happiness

And sometimes all your tears



So darling

All of my life to share

Is all I give you

All of the flowers in the field

We'll walk together through the sunsets and the years



So darling

All of your life to share

Is all I'm asking

DEAN MARTIN lyrics - For Me And My Gal

The bells are ringing for me and my gal

Oh the birds are singing for me and my gal

Well everyone's been knowlin' to a wedding there goin'

And for weeks they've been sewing every Susie and Sal



They're congregatin' for me and my gal

While the parson's waitin' for me and my gal

And sometime I'm gonna build a little home for two three or four or more

In love land for me and my gal



And sometime I'm gonna build a little home for two three or four or more

In love land for me and my gal

THE CHURCH lyrics - Magician Among The Spirits

Far across the water, far across the sea

Magician among the spirits, the next delivery

And the scene is set up by the boy who lost his mind

A certain smell of ether as machines unwind



Universe of distant stars chilling in its failings

With planets spinning deep in space parading all its flavors

We sit and stare into the night and contemplate forever

Slip away into your dreams, conclude that we may never



Out and past the harbour where the sharks dream in the waves

Magician among the spirits is drowning in a cave

As Solomon's my witness, as Gabriel is my guard

Garden of the lovely ones or the devil's back yard



Hand of God has sprinkled jewels inside the velvet ceiling

Filling up our unsure hearts with wonder, awe and feeling

All the eyes are staring down and glitter like small children

Their secrets kept, but lost in thought, looking at what fueled them



Singing about the old times, sepia and faded

Magician among the spirits the past has been invaded

Robert Houdini in the distance, we look up through the water

See the comet's silver trail, see the planets falter



Vastness of science, eternal night shrouded in dark mazes

Runes and tunes and frequencies flowing through their phases

Your air or cover, wind is dead, consequences endless

Speed of light in empty time, no borders to defend us



Walking in the wilderness with my pale sister

Magician among the spirits, I said how much I missed her

Jackson on the slipstream, he's moving all around

Chasing tiny orphans, following the sound, following the sound



Fragile and delirious, cannot understand it

Magician among the spirits, Electra and Miranda

Passed you in a corridor, you were drinking Grenadine

Drinking liquid happiness, your tears could not be seen, tears could not be seen



Violent sun propels its rays to seek out beings breathing

Ancient craft that waltz the maze of metal shells beneath me

And dust that swirls, of reddened clouds, and floats above the surface

Deserted landscape slip away, forgotten secret purpose



Thin film of moisture, condensing on the screen

Magician among the spirits, are you with us, Christine?

Do you really remember the boy I used to be?

With you every single night in February



All this ectoplasm, believe in ghosts

Magician among the spirits, lord of hosts

Here we are tonight, we're speaking to the light

Magician among the spirits, make it alright



[Steve speaks in Swedish here. Translation follows.]

"Magician!, magician!, my star!

From where on earth do you look out, into outer space!

I am in a forest heather!

You shall not find me again!

Farewell my daughters, I'll see you soon!"

SANTANA lyrics - Day Of Celebration

(C. Santana, C. Thompson & T. Lindsay)



Freedom, freedom

Get up stand up, let's celebrate



Freedom, talking about freedom

This is the time for redemption



Freedom, don't you want freedom for everybody

This is the time for liberation



Freedom, don't you want freedom for your children

This is the day of celebration



Let's celebrate, I said let's celebrate, we're gonna celebrate

Celebrate, oh yeah

HELLOWEEN lyrics - Twilight Of The Gods

[Insania 20 14]



We'we thrown away our former gods

Controlling our day

We have created better ones

So we control the way



We are the ones with the power

To hold down the enemy

Our gods are perfection

And they are protecting our lives

We still need some more of them

To be safe from the other side

As long as we're stronger

Nothing will happen to us



Fireflash in the night

Just an evil dream

Holy war in the sky... never



[Insania 20 16]



Error in store 103

We watch the sun at night

The pretty gods we're built ourselves

Now terminate our lives

Silicone brain powered voices

Are crying "attack" tonight

Our gods are now fighting

In anger, burning our world

Doomsday has come

And there is no place to hide away

The future is over

And there is no turning back

Fireflash in the night

Now reality

Holy war in the sky...



[Chorus:]

Twilight of the gods

Insania's dead and gone

Another world was born

But the twilight soon will come



[Solo]



Fireflash in the night

Now reality

Holy war in the sky...



[Chorus]

ALICE COOPER lyrics - Headlines

Do a show

Save a child

Raise a million bucks

That'll last a while

Fight at parties

Buy a horse

Lose a couple

Win that big divorce



I wanna be in the headlines

Anything to be in the headlines



Saw my chance

Made my break

Took the biggest float

In the Rose parade

Got jailed

No disgrace

A hundred million people

Saw my face



Called a conference

With the press

Announced my marriage plans

In a wedding dress

Climb a building

At six-below

On New Year's Eve

Without a stitch of clothes



I wanna be in the headlines

Anything to be in the headlines

As long as they spell my name right

I hope that they catch my best side



Popped out

From a cake

At the President's ball

What a big mistake

Fifty guns

Aimed at me

I was nearly killed

But what publicity

Nominated

Something big

Stole the hottest scene

Says the Globe And Trib

Porno movie

Comes to light

But I was starving then

So that's alright



I wanna be in the headlines

Anything to be in the headlines



As long as the spell my name right

Hope that they catch my best side

Keep my sidewalk status star bright

Feel free to walk on me tonight

Just don't spit on me.



Headlines, headlines,

Headlines, headlines,

Headlines, headlines,

Headlines.

GARY MOORE lyrics - Johnny Boy

When I hear that wind blow

All across the Wicklow mountains

Is it you, I hear a calling

Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy



When I look to the west

All across the River Shannon

I can still see you smiling

Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy



When the leaves have turned to brown

And winter's due

As I watch the sun goes down

I'll think of you



When I hear that wind blow

All across the Wicklow mountains

Sure it's you, I'll hear a calling

Johnny boy, oh Johnny boy

DOLLY PARTON lyrics - I'll Remember You As Mine

(I'll remember you forever I'll remember you as mine)

Let's pretend tonight that it's the same as always

Let's go back just the little ways in time

Let's fill this one last night with lasting mem'ries

Let's me remember you as mine

Hold me close pretending it's still me and you love

And let me be the only thought that's on your mind

Let's pretend that you don't really have a new love

Oh no let me remember you as mine

I remember you as sunshine that gave lights to my world

I remember you as gentle as this night

I remember you as heaven that let me hold a little while

I remember you whether I remember you as mine

When you leave my arms then I will be alone love

Hold me close love me gently one last time

I won't ever picture you with no one else love no I remember you as mine

I remember you as sunshine...

As mine as mine

STEPPENWOLF lyrics - Born To Be Wild

Get your motor runnin'

Head out on the highway

Lookin' for adventure

And whatever comes our way

Yeah Darlin' go make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space



I like smoke and lightning

Heavy metal thunder

Racin' with the wind

And the feelin' that I'm under

Yeah Darlin' go make it happen

Take the world in a love embrace

Fire all of your guns at once

And explode into space



Like a true nature's child

We were born, born to be wild

We can climb so high

I never wanna die



Born to be wild

Born to be wild

BOB DYLAN lyrics - I'd Hate To Be You On That Dreadful Day

Well, your clock is gonna stop

At Saint Peter's gate.

Ya gonna ask him what time it is,

He's gonna say, "It's too late."

Hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.



You're gonna start to sweat

And you ain't gonna stop.

You're gonna have a nightmare

And never wake up.

Hey, hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.



You're gonna cry for pills

And your head's gonna be in a knot,

But the pills are gonna cost more

Than what you've got.

Hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.



You're gonna have to walk naked,

Can't ride in no car.

You're gonna let ev'rybody see

Just what you are.

Hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.



Well, the good wine's a-flowin'

For five cents a quart.

You're gonna look in your moneybags

And find you're one cent short.

Hey, hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.



You're gonna yell and scream,

"Don't anybody care?"

You're gonna hear out a voice say,

"Shoulda listened when you heard the word down there."

Hey, hey!

I'd sure hate to be you

On that dreadful day.

PAUL MCCARTNEY lyrics - Single Pigeon

Single Pigeon Through The Railing

Did She Throw You Out

Sunday Morning Fight About Saturday Night



Single Seagull Gliding Over Regent's Park Canal

Do You Need A Pal For A Minute Or Two

You Do?

Me Too, Me Too, Me Too

I'm A Lot Like You

Me Too, Me Too, Me Too

I'm A Lot Like You



Did She! Turf You Out In The Cold Morning Rain Again

Me Too, Me Too, Me Too

I'm A Lot Like You

Me Too, Me Too, Me Too

I'm A Lot Like You



Sunday Morning Fight About Saturday Night

GRATEFUL DEAD lyrics - Dear Mr. Fantasy

Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to make us all feel happy.

Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom

Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy.



You are the one who makes us feel glad

Please don't be sad to take up the straight life you had

We wouldn't have known you all these years.



Dear Mr. Fantasy play us a tune, something to treat us happy.

Do anything to take (keep) us out of this gloom

Sing a song, play guitar, make us happy.

JOHN PRINE lyrics - Loose Talk

(Freddie Hart and Ann Lucas)



So long we've been married

Life's burdens we carried

Though faith kept us humble and made our love true

But plans that we make up

Someone seems to break up

Oh, darlin', what else can we do?



We may have to leave here

To find peace of mind, dear

Someplace where we can live a life of our own

I know you love me And happy we could be

If some folks would leave us alone



When I go out walkin'

There's lots of loose talkin'

They say we're unhappy, and we'll drift apart

But darlin' it's not true

Because I still love you

And I do with all of my heart



They say you are leavin'

That you are deceivin'

But you tell me they say the same about me

Oh, but we'll show them they're wrong

That loose talk can do harm

And hope that the truth they will see



We may have to leave here

To find peace of mind, dear

Someplace where we can live a life of our own

I know you love me

And happy we could be

If some folks would leave us alone

If some folks would leave us alone

ANTHRAX lyrics - Armed And Dangerous

Trapped up inside here, like lions in a cage

I've been a mark of injustice

Bound by these chains

Can't find a reason, I'm on my own

My destiny waits for a sign from me

I'm leaving alone



I'm out on my way now

It's been so many years

The chase is my lifeblood

I have no more fears



Fire, burns in my veins

Anger, shows on my face

Hatred, it poisons my soul

Look out, I'm about to explode



Evil ones try to destroy us

We're armed and prepared for attack

We'll take on the world with the rebellion

We're dangerous down to the last



Armed and dangerous



Am I evil, or am I insane

The lion inside of me, is no longer tame

A blade in my left, a gun in my right

To beat you within, an inch of your life

GARY MOORE lyrics - After The War

So many came before you,

The prisoners of fate.

A history of bloodshed,

A legacy of hate.

But where will you be standing

When the battles have been won?

Inside your lonely fortress

The battle's just begun.



After the war

Who will you be fighting for?

After the war is over.

After the fire

Is burning to its dying embers.

After the war.



A letter from the draft board,

Put pain to all your dreams.

You're just another number

In military schemes.

They marched you in a uniform

You wore against your will.

With lies of hope and glory,

They taught you how to kill.



After the war

Who will you be fighting for?

After the war is over.

After the fire

Is burning to its dying embers.

After the war.



After the war,

You thought you'd be a hero.

After all that you survived.

If hell was meant for heroes,

You'd surely have arrived.



After the war.

After the war.



After the war

who will you be fighting for?

After the war

who will you be fighting for?

After the fire

is burning to its dying embers.

After the war.

LOS LOBOS lyrics - Prenda Del Alma

(Traditional, arranged by Los Lobos)



?Que hare lejos de ti prenda del alma?

?Sin verte, sin oirte y sin hablarte?

A cada instante intentare de ti acordarme



?Como quitar la esencia de las flores?

?Como quitarle al viento la armonia?

?Como negar que te amo, vida mia?

?Como borrar de mi alma esta pasion?



Al ver que el cruel destino nos condena

Mi bien de que me olvidez tengo miedo

Mi corazon me dice ya no puedo

No puedo mis angustias soportar



?Como quitar el brillo a las estrellas?

?Como impedir que corra el manso rio?

?Como negar que sufrir el pecho mio?

?Como borrar de mi alma esta pasion?

PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED lyrics - Like That

Talk talk talk talk talk



CHORUS



Like that, she did not like that

She did not like that - she never will

Like that, she did not like that

She did not like that - she never will

Just like a woman

Bad boy you should not do that

You penny pincher from rags to riches

And it's a pity so inexpertly

You mixed your roses with your cabbages



CHORUS



Like that. She does not like that

Like that. She did not like that

Just like a woman. And every man

In human nature these snakes and ladders

The fairground noises are messages

Life would be dull and boring

Without the choices of passages

Just like those dancing dervish

We spin in circles we strike up poses



CHORUS



Just like a woman, and every man

Combine those dreams and wishes

On standard clauses and marriages



CHORUS

MANASSAS lyrics - Colorado

I am a man I live alone

Don't much bother me. It won't be long

Come a woman who wants to be near

Me and my mountains, we'll be right here

Colorado



Way back east in the dirt and smog

Courted a woman she had a job

Didn't want to leave her adopted home

Guess she was afraid of bein' alone in

Colorado



Way out yonder in tinsel land

Look around hard you might find a real man

Dark-eyed country girl, tears in her eyes

Needs the music of the wind in the pines

Colorado



Many's the time that I've gone astray

The things I'm thinkin' I seldom say

Guess I'm waitin' for that special girl

The one who loves me and loves my world

Colorado

Colorado

ROY ORBISON lyrics - In The Real World

(Jennings/Kerr)



In dreams we do so many things

We set aside the rules we know

And fly the world so high

In great and shining rings



If only we could always live in dreams

If only we could make of life

What, in dreams, it seems



But in the real world

We must say real goodbyes

No matter if the love will live

It will never die



In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange



I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world



When we were dreaming heart to heart

I wish that we had stayed right there

For when the dreamers do awake

The dreams do disappear



If only we could always live in dreams

If only we could make of life

What, in dreams, it seems



But in the real world

We must say real goodbyes

No matter if the love will live

It will never die



In the real world

There are things that we can't change

And endings come to us

In ways that we can't rearrange



I love you, and you love me

But sometimes we must let it be

In the real world

In the real world

R. E.M. lyrics - I Believe

When I was young and full of grace

and spirited--a rattlesnake.

When I was young and fever fell

My spirit, I will not tell

You're on your honor not to tell



I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract

Explain the change, the difference between

What you want and what you need, there's the key,

Your adventure for today, what do you do

Between the horns of the day?



I believe my shirt is wearing thin

And change is what I believe in



When I was young and give and take

And foolish said my fool awake

When I was young and fever fell

My spirit, I will not tell

You're on your honor, on your honor



Trust in your calling, make sure your calling's true

Think of others, the others think of you

Silly rule golden words make, practice, practice makes perfect,

Perfect is a fault, and fault lines change



I believe my humor's wearing thin

And change is what I believe in



I believe my shirt is wearing thin

And change is what I believe in



When I was young and full of grace

As spirited a rattlesnake

When I was young and fever fell

My spirit, I will not tell

You're on your honor, on your honor

I believe in example

I believe my throat hurts

Example is the checker to the key



I believe my humor's wearing thin

And I believe the poles are shifting



I believe my shirt is wearing thin

And change is what I believe in

LINDA RONSTADT lyrics - Roll Um Easy

(Lowell George)



Well I am just a vagabond

A drifter on the run

And eloquent profanity

It rolls right off my tongue



And I have dined in palaces

Drunk wine with kings and queens

And darling on darling

You're the best thing I ever seen



Won't you roll me easy

So slow and easy

Take my independence

With no apprehension no tension

Walk in, talk in paradise

Sweet paradise



Well I been around this country

From Denver to the oceans

And I never met girls that could sing so sweet

Like the angels that live in Houston

Singing roll me easy

So slow and easy

Play your concertina be a temptress

Darling I'm defenseless



Sing in harmony, in unison

Sweet harmony

Gotta hoist the flag and I'll beat your drum



Sing in harmony, in unison

Sweet harmony

Gotta hoist the flag and I'll beat your drum



Woah roll me easy

So slow and easy

Take my independence

With no apprehension no tension

Walk in, talk in paradise

Sweet paradise

NANCI GRIFFITH lyrics - From Clare To Here

(Ralph McTell)



Four who shared this room and

We were caught up in the crack

Sleeping late on Sundays

And we never got to Mass



[Chorus:]

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long way from Clare to here

It's a long, long way

It get's further by the day

It's a long, long way from Clare to here



When Friday comes around

We're only into fighting

My Ma would like a letter home but

I'm too tired for writing



[Chorus]



It almost breaks my heart

When I think of my family

I told them I'd be coming home with my

Pockets full of green



[Chorus]



The only time I feel alright

Is when I'm into drinking

It can sort of ease the pain of it and it

Levels out my thinking



[Chorus]



I sometimes hear the fiddles play,

Maybe it's just a notion

I dream I see white horses dance upon

That other ocean



[Chorus]

NEW YORK DOLLS lyrics - Pirate Love

You've got to walk that walk

You've got to talk that talk

You've got to be that girl

In the diamond world

C'mon cut me so fast



Pirate love

Is what I'm looking for

Pirate love

Is what I'm wanting for

I never ever

needed it so bad

Yeah!



Well the blood's running cold, ain't it

All the mommies are praying

Little girls are saying 'no'

And big girls always want more



Pirate love

Is what I'm looking for

Pirate love

Is what I'm wanting for

I never ever

needed it so bad

Yeah!



Well I'm locked in all these getups

Everybody seems too cruel

I can't tell who's who

Without a bag of voodoo



Pirate love

Is what I'm looking for

Pirate love

Is what I'm wanting for

I never ever

needed it so fast

Fast!

Fast!



Pirate love

Is what I'm looking for

Pirate love

Is what I'm wanting for

I never ever

needed it so bad

Yeah!

JOAN BAEZ lyrics - The 33rd Of August

(J. Baez)



Today, there's no salvation, the band's packed up and gone

Left me standing with my penny in my hand

There's a big crowd at the station where the blind man sings his song

But he can see what they cant understand.



[Chorus:]

Its the thirty-third of August and I'm finally touching down

Eight days from Sunday finds me Saturday bound.



Once I stumbled through the darkness, tumbled to my knees

A thousand voices screaming in my brain

Woke up in a squad car, busted down for vagrancy

Outside my cell as sure as hell, it looked like rain.



But now I've got my dangerous feelings under lock and chain

Guess I killed my violent nature with a smile

Though the demons danced and sang their song within my fevered brain

Not all my God-like thoughts, Lord, were defiled

STEVIE WONDER lyrics - If You Really Love Me

And if you really love me won't you tell me..

And if you really love me won't you tell me..

And if you really love me won't you tell me..

Then I won't have to be

Playing around



You call my name

Oooh so sweet

To make your kiss incomplete

When your mood is clear

You quickly change your ways

Then you say I'm untrue

What am I supposed to do

Be a fool who sits alone waiting for you



But if you really love me won't you tell me..

But if you really love me won't you tell me..

And if you really love me won't you tell me..

Then I won't have to be

Playing around



I see the light of your smile

Calling me all the while

You are saying baby

It's time to go...

First the feeling's alright

Then it's gone from sight

So I'm taking out this time to say



Oh if you really love me won't you tell me..

Oh if you really love me won't you tell me..

And if you really love me won't you tell me..

Then I won't have to be

Playing around no

Playing around no

Hey yeah

Goofin' around no

Oh baby

Playing around no

Let me know how you feel baby

Hey oh baby

Playing around no

PORTER WAGONER AND DOLLY PARTON lyrics - Somewhere Along The Way

(Dolly Parton)



Somewhere along the way we drifted apart

As we walked the road of love we lost our way

Now it's too late to start all over for there's no turning back

We lost each other somewhere along the way mhm

Somewhere along the way we neglected one another

Our careless steps have led us to the end

Oh and all we can do now is just feel sorry for each other

Cause once love has died it won't ever live again

Somewhere along the way we stumbled and oh and we fell

Love is not a game for fools to play

We both played and we both lost now we're both sorry and both to fault

We lost that love somewhere along the way mhm

JOHN FOGERTY lyrics - The Old Man Down The Road

He take the thunder from the mountain, he take the lightning from the sky,

He bring the strong man to his begging knee, he make the young girl's mama cry.



You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run;

You got to hidey-hidey-hide, the Old Man is down the road.



He got the voices speak in riddles, he got the eye as black as coal,

He got a suitcase covered with rattlesnake hide, and he stands right in the road.



You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump up run away;

You got to hidey-hidey-hide, the Old Man is down the road.



Aaah!



He make the river call your lover, he make the barking of the hound,

Put a shadow 'cross the window, when the Old Man comes around.



You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again;

You got to hidey-hidey-hide, the Old Man is down the road.

The Old Man is down the road.



Aaah!

You got ta, you got ta, you got ta, hidey-hidey-hide!

DARYL HALL AND JOHN OATES lyrics - Serious Music

(Words by John Oates; Music by John Oates, George Bizet)



To play to get rich

And die baroque is wrong

If you write a song for god

Will he sing along

While rows of robot symphonies read on

Is that the way you wanted it played

Manuscripted memories

Sound with no electricity

Concentration line on the face of serious music

Manuscripted memories

Sound but no electricity

Concentration lines on the face of serious music

You brought a bit of jazz to the concert hall

But you won't hear violins at the darkies' ball

Your rhapsody in blue will outlive us all

I wish I was there the night you played it

Manuscripted memories

Sound with no electricity

Concentration line on the face of serious music

Manuscripted memories

Sound but no electricity

Concentration lines on the face of serious music

RICHARD THOMPSON lyrics - Shine On Love

(Richard Thompson)



When I was a boy

I was nobody's joy

I was guilty in love

Guilt, guilt, guilty in love

More fool me

I never could see what I was guilty of



Now you steered me right

And I'm standing in the light

So shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love

Don't slip away

Darkened day

Let it shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love



Like a hand in glove

Now we go together

So shine on love

Ah easing my heart again

Just let me be a part of you



Now my head's on that block

And I'm standing on that rock

So shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love

Well don't slip away

O darkened day

Let it shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love



Like a hand in glove

Now we go together

So shine on love

Ah easing my heart again

Just let me be a part of you



Now you steered me right

And I'm standing in the light

So shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love

Don't slip away

Darkened day

Let it shine on love

Shine, shine, shine on love

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - "I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back"

Louis: Ah, I wish Motorhead would come back. Oh wow, Motorhead. . . Motorhead. . . Where are you Motorhead?

Roy: He's probably getting eaten by one of those ponies

Louis: Yes

Roy: Maybe he's out there playing with motors

Louis: Motors?! Motors? . . . No! no! no!

THE COASTERS lyrics - Searchin'

(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)



Yeah, I've been searchin'

A-a searchin'

Oh, yeah, searchin' every which a-way

Yeah, yeah

Oh, yeah, searchin'

I'm searchin'

Searchin' every which a-way

Yeah, yeah

But I'm like the Northwest Mounties

You know I'll bring her in someday



(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)



Well, now, if I have to swim a river

You know I will

And a if I have to climb a mountain

You know I will

And a if she's a hiding up

On a blueberry hill

Am I gonna find her, child

You know I will

'Cause I've been searchin'

Oh, yeah, searchin'

My goodness, searchin' every which a-way

Yeah, yeah

But I'm like the Northwest Mounties

You know I'll bring her in some day

(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)



Well, Sherlock Holmes

Sam Spade got nothin', child, on me

Sergeant Friday, Charlie Chan

And Boston Blackie

No matter where she's a hiding

She's gonna hear me a comin'

Gonna walk right down that street

Like Bulldog Drummond

'Cause I've been searchin'

Oooh, Lord, searchin', mm child

Searchin' every which a-way

Yeah, yeah

But I'm like the Northwest Mounties

You know I'll bring her in some day

(Gonna find her)

(Gonna find her)

MIKE AND THE MECHANICS lyrics - A House Of Many Rooms

There may be some things about me

Things you don't want to hear

For the rumours that precede me

May be very true I fear



They tell you I will deceive you

I don't know how to care

Though my intentions might be good

There's another darker look beware



When you walk through the door

Hang on to your senses

At best you must assume

It's a house of many rooms



Some rooms are filled with pleasure

Laughter and love and light

All the things you never see

I keep under lock and key at night



When you walk through the door

Hang on to your senses

At best you must assume

It's a house of many rooms



If you love me in the light

Love me in the shadow

I'm afraid you must assume

It's a house of many rooms

A house of many rooms



It's a house that's so unstable

There are those who recommend

If they'd the strength and they were able

It ought to be condemned

I don't agree but I will warn you

At best you must assume

I live in a house of many rooms



Here I'm in the library

Trying to understand

What empowers this behaviour

Degenerates the man

The same apartment later

With the bottle half consumed

I see a house of many rooms



In the parlour I'm your father

Who could ask for more

The bedroom compromise me

With your best friend from next door

In the kitchen being honest

The lounge a lying tongue

Locked in the bathroom

Pretending to be young



The chapel finds me kneeling

Praying for my soul

The painting in the attic

Can't prevent me growing old

Help me live forever

Silent as a tomb

I live in a house of many rooms



Join me at the dining table

Join me at the feast

Join me in the stable

I'm laying with the beast

You're walking in the garden

Oblivious who'd know?

I'm in the cellar ready to explode

LUTHER VANDROSS lyrics - If I Was The One

I see the way he treats you

I feel the tears you cry

And it makes me sad and it makes me mad

There's nothin' I can do, baby

Cuz your lover is my best friend

And I guess that's where the story ends

So I've gotta try to keep it inside

You'll never be, never be mine



[Chorus:]

But if I was the one who was loving you, baby

The only tears you'd cry would be tears of joy

And if I was by your side

You'd never know one lonely night



If it was my arms you were running to

I'd give you love in these arms of mine

If I was the one in your life



If I could have just one wish

I'd wish that you were mine

I would hold you near, kiss away those tears

I'd be so good to you, baby

You're the one I want next to me

But I guess that's just not meant to be

He's there in your life, he's sharing your nights

I'll never be, never be, never be right



[Chorus]



I want to reach out and feel you beside me, beside me

Right here, right now, right beside me baby, baby

And take you in my arms right now

And scream I love you right out loud

And then someday I'll pray I'll find

I'll find the strength to turn to you and say



[Chorus]



If I was the one, if I was the one, the one

If I was the one in your life

ELVIS COSTELLO lyrics - Unwanted Number

You should hear the things that they say about me

They're saying "She's no better than she needed to be"

They don't know that he was kind and strong and tender

And now I'll never be another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

How can I tell them?

How can I express?

How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace



How can I tell them?

How can I explain?

All the love that I never had I found in him



There may be a stain on the family name

And if my father was here I think I know who he'd blame

Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember

And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number



(How can I tell her?

How can I express?

How it felt when he came to my room

And helped me to undress

What can she tell me?

How can I believe

That she really didn't hear me cry

When he wouldn't leave?)



There's a local game where they whisper my shame

They say "He gave her his child

He wouldn't give her his name"



They will torture me from January till September

And soon there's going to be another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted number



And I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

DEAN MARTIN lyrics - Bet-I-Cha

Deep in the dark jungles of Africa

There is a goddess the natives call Bet-I-Cha



Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha

(Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha)

It's a story that's told of a maid that never will fade

The tale of Bet-I-Cha

(Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha)

Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha

She's the song of delight in the night the natives will sing to you

Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha

The wise men say she's a spirit

Whose lover left long ago

But others say she's the music

Of lover's hearts all aglow

She may be moonlight so bright

Or soft winds sighin' at night

No matter where you may find her

She's one part close to your heart



Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha

(Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha, Bet-I-Cha)

It's a story that's told of a maid that never will fade

The tale of Bet-I-Cha



They sing of Bet-I-Cha

They sing of Bet-I-Cha

They sing of Bet-I-Cha

They sing of Bet-I-Cha

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - "It's A Good Thing We Get Paid To Do This"

[Kensington Palace Hotel

1st script reading of "200 Motels"

January 18, 1971]



Mark: It's a good thing we get paid to do this. I could be in L. A., getting reamed, listening to an Elton John album

Howard: Don't even talk about getting reamed. Listen, I've been without female companionship for so long, a career as a Jesuit monk was inviting, Ian is starting to look good to me

George: Must be his green velour socks!

Mark: Just calm down there, Duke. Ever since you left the jazz world to seek fame and fortune in the rock'n'roll industry. . .

Jeff: What do you mean rock'n'roll? This fucking band doesn't even play rock'n'roll, it's all that comedy crap!

Ian: If we play any rock'n'roll we might make some money. I wouldn't mind playing some rock'n'roll, uh, I like classical music too, but that doesn't mean I wouln't enjoy playing rock'n'roll. I mean, it's not very challenging, intelectually, but I wouldn't mind if we did some rock'n'roll. We could vote on it

Jeff: Vote on it, for what? To tell Zappa we wanna play some good music instead of this comedy shit. . . ?

Aynsley: I wouldn't mind playing some more rock'n'roll, it'd be more commercial, sort of heavy, four parts harmony, group vocals and a very heavy beat, that the kids could enjoy it. I think we'd definitely make more money that way

Ian: Maybe after we finish the movie we could play more rock'n'roll

Mark: Yeah! We all quit and form other groups and play more rock'n'roll

Jeff: And more blues, extended blues, blues that's still down and funky, even though you extended it. George knows what I'm talking about, don't you, George?

George: Leave me out of it, I come from the jazz world. I know all about these groups that get formed and disappear, with their extensions waving in the moonlight

Mark: You just calm down there, Duke

Jeff: Maybe we could all form a group, we can elect a leader. . . Howard. . . we can call it Howard Kaylan World.

Ian: We wouldn't have to have any leader

Jeff: We could just jam a lot

Aynsley: There was have to have a really heavy beat and be really commercial so the kids could enjoy it

Howard: I want to get laid! I'm so horny I can't stand it!

Jeff: Listen, if you think for a minute that anybody likes this comedy music we've been playing you're crazy. That's why you don't get laid, who wants to fuck a comedian! None of these girls can take you seriously

Mark: Hey, man, you should be careful talking about that kind of stuff

Jeff: Why, does he listen?

Ian: He always listens, he's always watching and listening to all the guys in the band. I've been in the band for years and I know, he always listens, believe me

Jeff: That's how he gets his material. He listens to us being natural, friendly, humorous and good-natured, then he rips us off, sneaks off in the secret room someplace and boils it in ammonia, and gets it perverted. Then he brings it back to us in rehearsal and makes us play it

Ian: I've been in the group for years and let me tell you that is exactly, that is precisely what he does: He steals all his material

Howard: And the stuff he doesn't steal, Murray Roman writes for him. Listen, without us he'd be nothing!

THE EAGLES lyrics - The King Of Hollywood

Well, he sits up there on his leatherette

Looks through pictures of the ones that he hasn't had yet

When he thinks he wants a closer look,

he gets out his little black telephone book

(He's calling, calling, calling

He's calling, calling, calling

He's calling, calling, calling

He's calling)



"Come sit down here beside me, honey.

Let's have a little heart to heart.

Now look at me and tell me, darlin',

how badly do you want this part?

Are you willing to sacrifice?

And are you willing to be real nice?

All your talent and my good taste,

I'd hate to see it go to waste."



"We gon' get you an apartment, honey.

We gon' get you a car.

(spoken) Yeah, we're gonna take care of you, darlin'.

We gon' make you a movie star.

For years I've seen 'em come and go."

He says, "I've had 'em all, 'ya know.

I handled everything in my own way.

I made 'em what they are today."



After 'while nothin' was pretty.

After 'while everything got lost.

Still, his Jacuzzi runneth over.

Still he just couldn't get off.

He's just another power junky.

Just another silk scarf monkey.

You'd know it if you saw his stuff.

The man just isn't big enough.

BRENDA LEE lyrics - Funny

(Willie Nelson)



Well, hallo there, my its been a long long time

How am I doing, Oh, I guess I'm going fine

It's been so long now,

And it seems like it was only yesterday

Gee ain't it funny how time slips away



How's your new love,

I hope that she's doing fine

I heard you told her that you'd love her till the end of time

Now, that's the same thing that you told me,

Seems like just the other day

Oh, ain't it funny how time slips away



I gotta go now, I guess I'll see you around

Don't know when though,

I never know when I'll be back in town

But you just remember,

What I tell that in time your gonna pay

And it surprising how time slips away

ELVIS PRESLEY lyrics - Poor Boy

(Vera Matson - Elvis Presley)



They call me poor boy, poor boy, poor boy

But I ain't lonesome and I ain't blue

'Cause I could never be a poor boy

As long as I've got a dolly like you



Ain't got a crust, ain't got a cent

Can't buy a jug, can't pay the rent

I got a heartfull of dreams

And a lot of memories

And that's enough for me



Can't buy a house, can't buy a lot

Ain't got a bean, I ain't got a pot

But what I got is a heartfull of

Love and memories

And that's enough for me



Don't have a pig, don't have a cow

I don't have a horse to pull a plow

But what I got is a heartfull of

Love and memories

And that's enough for me

JOHN HIATT lyrics - Crossing Muddy Waters

My baby's gone and I don't know why

She let out this morning

Like a rusty shot in a hollow sky

Left me without warning

Sooner than the dogs could bark

And faster than the sun rose

Down to the banks in an old mule car

She took a flatboat across the shallow



[Chorus:]

Left me in my tears to drown

She left a baby daughter

Now the water's wide and deep and brown

She's crossing muddy waters



Tobacco standing in the fields

Be rotten come November

And a bitter heart will not reveal

A spring that love remembers

When that sweet brown girl of mine

Her black eyes are ravens

We broke the bread and drank the wine

From a jug that she'd been saving



[Chorus]



Baby's crying and the daylight's gone

That big oak tree is groaning

In rush of wind and river of song

I can hear my sweetheart moaning

Crying for her baby child

Or crying for her husband

Crying for that river's wild

To take her from her loved ones



[Chorus 2x]

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS lyrics - Big Girls Don't Cry

Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)

Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry)

My girl said good-bye (my oh my)

My girl didn't cry (I wonder why)



(Silly boy) Told my girl we had to break up

(Silly boy) Thought that she would call my bluff

(Silly boy) But she said to my surprise

Big girls don't cry



Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)

Big girls don't cry (who said they don't cry)



Baby I was cruel (I was cruel)

Baby I'm a fool (I'm such a fool)



(Silly girl) Shame on you your Mama said

(Silly girl) Shame on you, you cried in bed

(Silly girl) Shame on you, you told a lie

Big girls do cry



Big girls don't cry (they don't cry)

Big girls don't cry (that's just an alibi)



Big girls don't cry [repeat and fade]

AC/DC lyrics - Nervous Shakedown

(A. Young / M. Young / B. Johnson)



Freeze said the man cruising the beat

You get your hands up spread your feet

Don't you move an inch I heard him say

Or you'll be doing time until the judgement day

And he said

Don't tell me no lies give me alibis

Cause if you cross my path you'll be doing life

It's a dirty lie

It's a shakedown (and it's a nervous shakedown )

Another shakedown (another nervous shakedown)

Well it's a shakedown ( and it's a nervous shakedown )

We gotta shakedown

Another nervous shakedown



It's lookin' like a set-up



Take a dime said the man you can make one call

You got a one way ticket to the county hall

When then judge looked high and I looked low

When he smiled at me it was a one man show

He said

2 to 5 the jury decides

Double parole if you survive

It's a dirty lie

It's a shakedown (and it's a nervous shakedown )

Another shakedown (another nervous shakedown)

Well it's a shakedown ( and it's a nervous shakedown )

We gotta shakedown

Another nervous shakedown



Lord they're gonna get you this time

And throw away the key



It's a shakedown (and it's a nervous shakedown )

Another shakedown (another nervous shakedown)

You got a shakedown ( and it's a nervous shakedown )

We gotta shakedown



Lord they're gonna get you this time throw away the key



It's a shakedown (and it's a nervous shakedown )

Another shakedown (another nervous shakedown)

You got a shakedown ( and it's a nervous shakedown )

Well it's a shakedown (another nervous shakedown)



Shake it down shake it down (and it's a nervous shakedown )

Well it's a shakedown ( another nervous shakedown )

Shake it down shake it down ( and it's a nervous shakedown )

It's a shakedown

It's a shakedown

On

You

Yes

SIMPLY RED lyrics - You've Got It

This impossible power

A strength that I can't see

There's no way

That I can let you go

Why did I mistake sex

For another sense

Then wanted someone else

To try to tell you no



I think you understand

Oh that you've got it

I try hard but I can't

Oh do without it



I think you understand

That you've got it



This impossible power

Has broken into me

And stolen all the sense

That I had before

Why did I just take

And never understand

The love you've given me

Could've learnt me more



I think you understand

Oh that you've got it

I try hard but I can't

Oh do without it



I think you understand

That you've got it



What made you think

That I'd be true to you

I needed to

Prove it to myself

That I could let you go

What made you think that

I'd be a fool for you

You knew that I was lying

There was something

I was hiding



I think you understand

Oh that you've got it

Well I try hard but I can't

Oh do without it

EURYTHMICS lyrics - Heaven

That's right...

That's right...



Heaven



I love to



Just what you need



Heaven



Takes a little time

JIMI HENDRIX lyrics - Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)

Is the microphone on?



Hey, Baby... where do you come from?

Well she looked at me and smiled and looked into Space...

and said, "I'm comin' from the land of a new Rising Sun."

Then I said, "Hey Baby, where ya tryin' to go to?"

Then she says, "I'm gonna spin and spread around Peace of Mind...

and a whole lotta Love to you and you!"



Hey, Girl! I'd like to come along!

Yes, I'd like to come along!

"Would you like to come along?" she asked me.

Yes take me along, right now!



Hey Baby, can I step into your World a while?

"Yes you can," she said, "come on back with me for a while-

we're gonna go cross the Jupiter's sands,

and see all your people one by one!

We gotta help the people out, right now...

that's what I'm doing here, all about."



Yeah! Yeah! May I come along?

May I come along?

May I come along? Yeah! Yeah!

Please take me!

CELINE DION lyrics - If I Could

If I could

I'd protect you from the sadness in your eyes

Give you courage in a world of compromise

Yes, I would



If I could

I would teach you all the things I've never learned

And I'd help you cross the bridges that I've burned

Yes, I would



If I could

I would try to shield your innocence from time

But the part of life I gave you isn't mine

I've watched you grow

So I could let you go



If I could

I would help you make it through the hungry years

But I know that I can never cry your tears

But I would

If I could



If I live

In a time and place where you don't want to be

You don't have to walk along this road with me

My yesterday

Won't have to be your way



If I knew

I'd have tried to change the world I brought to you to

And there isn't very much that I can do

But I would

If I could...

Oh baby... mummy wants to protect you

And help my baby through the hungry years

It's part of me

And if you ever... ever need

Sad shoulder to cry on

I'm just someone to talk to

I'll be there... I'll be there

I didn't change your world

But I would

If I Could!

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA lyrics - Mamma

She came up from the country with a smile for everyone

she left her blue horizon just to find another home

a lonely girl who'd travelled many days

a lonely heart that could not find a way



(chorus)

and she said Momma, it's a hard life now you're gone

Momma, it's so hard to carry on

and I feel I'm a fool who lost it all

you used to make it all so very clear

that life must go on though the end is near

oh Momma, it's a sad and lonely life



A misty morning rider she came wandering through the hills

a wanderin soul appearin over rainy window sills

a loser in her heart, but in her face

a smile for everyone under God's grace



(chorus)



Midnight maiden madness, what to search for in this place

gateway to the city, night sky shadows on her face

a lady lost in nowhere but her stare

leaves the world, her life to start somewhere



(chorus)

B. B. KING lyrics - I Want You So Bad

(B. B. King)



Have you ever wanted someone

And you thought they didn't want you

Have you ever, ever wanted someone

And you thought they didn't want you

You know what you wanted

To say to them, people

But you were afraid she may walk away



Someone like you, baby

Someone like you I ain't never had

Oh someone, someone like you

Someone like you I ain't never had

Maybe I'm asking too much, baby

Oh but I want you, I want you so bad



Oh you look so good to me, baby

Baby, I just got to let you know

Yeah, you look so good

So good to me, baby

I just got to let you know

I wanna keep you forever, baby

I don't wanna ever let you go



So whatever you do, baby

Please leave me a way

To get in touch with you

Oh whatever, ever you do, baby

Please leave me a way

To get in touch with you

I need you so bad, baby

When you leave I'll be so sad

REBA MCENTIRE lyrics - O Holy Night

(Arranged by Reba McEntire)



O holy night

The stars are brightly shining

It is the night

Of the dear Savior's birth



Long lay the world

In sin and error pining

Till he appeared

And the soul felt its worth



The thrill of hope

The weary soul rejoices

For yonder breaks

A new and glorious morn



Fall on your knees

Oh, hear the angels' voices

O night divine

O holy night

When Christ was born



O night divine

O holy night

When Christ was born

When Christ was born



Led by the light

A face supremely beaming

With glowing heart

By His cradle we stand



So led by light

Of the star so sweetly beaming

Here came the Wise Men

From far different lands



A king of kings

Is born, the world rejoices

In all our trials

Born to be our friend



Fall on your knees

Oh, hear the angels' voices

O night divine

O holy night

When Christ was born



O night

O holy night

When Christ was born

DREAM THEATER lyrics - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence: Losing Time / Grand Finale

She dresses in black everyday

She keeps her hair simple and plain

She never wears makeup

But no one would care if she did anyway



She doesn't recall yesterday

Faces seem twisted and strange

But she always wakes up

Only to find she'd been miles away



Absence of awareness

Losing time

A lapse of perception

Losing time



Wanting to escape

She had created a way to survive

She learned to detach from herself

A behavior that kept her alive



Hope in the face of our human distress

Helps us to understand the turbulence deep inside

That takes hold of our lives

Shame and disgrace over mental unrest

Keeps us from saving those we love

The grace within our hearts

And the sorrow in our souls

Deception of fame

Vengeance of war

Lives torn apart

Losing oneself

Spiraling down

Feeling the walls closing in

A journey to find

The answers inside

Our illusive mind

ROD STEWART lyrics - Three Time Loser

(Rod Stewart)



Stand here ev'ry night,

I'm wearin' my number,

but she said wear it,

touching up another fool.

In a jukebox job downin' blues

in her leopard-skin anklehigh boots

while I'm jackin' off

readin' Playboy on a hot afternoon.



I'm a three time loser.

Caught it up in Monterey,

shook it up in East Virginia,

now my friends say it's here to stay.



How dare you have a party

in a Chelsea basement

when the poor excited Jezebel said come outside.

She felt me up and kissed my face,

put her dirty hands down in my pants.

She took all of my money,

left me naked by the silvery moon.



I'm a three time loser.

Caught it up in Monterey,

shook it up in East Virginia,

now my friends say it's here to stay.



Roll away, roll away, all of you women;

I don't think I need you anymore.

There'll be no more doctor's bills,

there'll be no more swallowing pills.

And I've found a woman

that can witness that in blood out of me.



I'm a three time loser.

Caught it up in Monterey,

shook it up in East Virginia,

now my friends say it's here to stay.



I'm a three time loser.

Caught it up in Monterey,

shook it up in East Virginia,

now my friends say it's here to stay.

AEROSMITH lyrics - Walk This Way

backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers

till I talked to your daddy, he say

he said "you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin

then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways"

I met a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder

oh, the times I could reminisce

'cause the best things of lovin' with her sister and her cousin

only started with a little kiss

like this!



seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school

and your feet flyin' up in the air

singin' "hey diddle diddle"

with your kitty in the middle of the swing

like you didn't care

so I took a big chance at the high school dance

with a missy who was ready to play

wasn't me she was foolin'

'cause she knew what she was doin'

and I knowed love was here to stay

when she told me to



walk this way [8x]

just gimme a kiss

like this!



schoolgirl sweetie with a classy kinda sassy

little skirt's climbin' way up the knee

there was three young ladies in the school gym locker

when I noticed they was lookin' at me

I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady

till the boys told me somethin' I missed

then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor

so I gave her just a little kiss

like this!



[repeat second verse, substitute this at the end]

when she told me how to walk this way, she told me to



walk this way [8x]

just gimme a kiss

like this!

THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP lyrics - Mean Woman Blues

(C. Demetrius)



I got a woman mean as she can be

Yeah I got a woman mean as she can be

Sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me, oh oh

A black cat up died of fright

'Cos she crossed my path last night

Pretty baby, I got a woman mean as she can be

Sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me, yeah yeah



(Mean mean woman blues, mean mean woman blues) yeah

(Mean mean woman blues, mean mean woman blues) hey hey I know

(Mean mean woman blues, mean mean woman blues)



Well a black cat up died of fright

'Cos she crossed my path last night

Well I got a, got a woman mean as she can be

Sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me



Hey hey (mean mean woman blues)

Just a little bit softer (mean mean woman blues)

I wanna hear it (mean mean woman blues)

Yeah (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes (mean mean woman blues)

Hey I got to move on (mean mean woman blues)

Hey hey (mean mean woman blues)

Oh oo oh oo (mean mean woman blues)

Oo oo oo (mean mean woman blues)

What'd I say (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes (mean mean woman blues)

Just just just (mean mean woman blues)

Just a little bit softer (mean mean woman blues)

I wanna hear it (mean mean woman blues)

Hum mean (mean mean woman blues)

Mean (mean mean woman blues)



I've got it right now (mean mean woman blues)

Just a little bit louder (mean mean woman blues)

Hey hey hey (mean mean woman blues)

Hey hey hey (mean mean woman blues)

Hey hey yeah (mean mean woman blues)

Yeah yeah yeah yeah (mean mean woman blues)

What'd I say (mean mean woman blues)

Oh yeah (mean mean woman blues)

She's so mean to me (mean mean woman blues)

Every night and day (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes I got to move right on (mean mean woman blues)

I got to move her on (mean mean woman blues)

Hey hey I got to move her on (mean mean woman blues)

Sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me!

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS lyrics - It's Not My Birthday

Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

When this grey world crumbles like a cake

I'll be hanging from the hope

That I'll never see that recipe again



As I walk, I think about a new way to walk

As I think, I'm using up the time left to think

And this train keep rolling off the track

Trying to act like something else

Trying to go where it's been uninvited



It's not my birthday

It's not today

It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me?

When the word comes down, "Never more will be around"

Though I'll wish you were there, I was less than we could bear

And I'm not the only dust my mother raised



So, I'm rattling the bars around this drink tank

Discreetly I should pour through the keyhole or evaporate completely

But there'd be no percentage, and there'd be no proof

And the sound upon the roof is only water



And the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid

And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent

When this grey world crumbles like a cake

I'll be hanging from the hope

That I'll never see that recipe again



It's not my birthday

It's not today

It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me?

When the word comes down, "Never more will be around"

Though I'll wish you were there, I was less than we could bear

And I'm not the only dust my mother raised

I am not the only dust my mother raised

BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY lyrics - Summertime

Summertime, time, time,

Child, the living's easy.

Fish are jumping out

And the cotton, Lord,

Cotton's high, Lord, so high.



Your daddy's rich

And your ma is so good-looking, baby.

She's looking good now,

Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,

No, no, no, no, don't you cry.

Don't you cry!



One of these mornings

You're gonna rise, rise up singing,

You're gonna spread your wings,

Child, and take, take to the sky,

Lord, the sky.



Until that morning

Honey, n-n-nothing's going to harm you now,

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Don't you cry,

Cry.

SKID ROW lyrics - Frozen

(Bolan, Snake)



As I stare into the fire

All my thoughts go up in flames

Here I stare into the fire

I'll be waiting on the rain



The box I keep myself in, closes out my air

So I build a fire, so I can sit and stare



[Chorus:]

Can it be I'm frozen

Can it be I'm frozen

Can it be I'm frozen

Can it be I'm frozen



As I stare into the weather

My eyes drying from the cold

As I stare into the weather

I sense my thoughts growing old



[Chorus]



I listen to the prophets predict the stem of tides

I stare into the weather that's keeping me inside



[Chorus]



As I stare into the fire

Will the prophets change my mind

While I stare into the fire

All the colors treat me kind



I'll dust away the fallings the winter leaves for me

I'll stare into the fire and set tomorrow free



[Chorus]

CHICAGO lyrics - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

Your love, lifting me higher

Than I've ever been lifted before

So keep it it up

Quench my desire

And I'll be at your side, forever more



You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me)

Higher (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)

I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on (love keeps lifting me)

Lifting me (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)



Now once I was down hearted

Disappointment was my closest friend

But then you came and it soon departed

And you know he never

Showed his face again



That's why

You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me)

Higher (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)

I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on (love keeps lifting me)

Lifting me (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)



[Instrumental Interlude]



I'm so glad, I've finally found you

Yes, that one, in a million girl

And now with my loving arms around you

Honey, I can stand up and face the world



You know your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on lifting (love keeps lifting me)

Higher (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)

I said your love (your love keeps lifting me)

Keep on (love keeps lifting me)

Lifting me (lifting me)

Higher and higher (higher)



Now sock it me

SINEAD O'CONNOR lyrics - Watcher Of Men

(O'Connor)



Why did I not die at birth?

Expire as I came from the womb?

Why were there knees to receive me?

Or breasts to feed me?

Why was I not like babies

Who never saw the light?

Who lie with kings and counsellors

Who rebuild ruins for themselves



And where rest

Those whose strength is spent

Where small and great are alike

And the slave is free of his master



Oh watcher of men

Do you have eyes of flesh?

Is your vision like man?

Are your years the years of man?

U know that I'm not guilty

And that none can deliver from your hand.



Also u know that u have deeply wronged me oh

And u have fenced me in

You made it so nobody knows me

And I'm an outsider to them



When I accused you, you wouldn't speak

I said you tore up my hope like a tree

But I spoke without understanding

Of things beyond me which I did not know

And now I've heard you with my ears

And I've seen you with my eyes

Therefore I recant and relent

Being but dust and ashes

BEACH BOYS lyrics - Don't Back Down

(Brian Wilson)



The girls dig the way the guys get all wiped out

With their feet in the air you can hear 'em shout

They're not afraid (don't back down, don't back down)

Not my boys (don't back down, don't back down)

They grit their teeth, (a-oo) they don't back down



Don't back down

You gotta be a little nuts

Don't back down

But show 'em now who's got guts

Don't back down

Don't back down from that wave



With their feet full of tar and their hair full of sand

The boys know the beach like the palm of their hand

They're not afraid (don't back down, don't back down)

Not my boys (don't back down, don't back down)

They grit their teeth (a-oo) they don't back down



Don't back down

You gotta be a little nuts

Don't back down

But show 'em now who's got guts

Don't back down

Don't back down from that wave



When a twenty-footer sneaks up like a ton of lead

And the crest comes along and slaps 'em upside the head

TheyХre not afraid (don't back down, don't back down)

Not my boys (Don't back down, don't back down)

They grit their teeth (a-oo) they don't back down



Don't back down

You gotta be a little nuts

Don't back down

But show 'em now who's got guts

Don't back down

Don't back down from that wave



Don't back down...

JIMMY BUFFETT lyrics - Twelve Volt Man

I never got a grip in penmanship

Could never make those small l's flow

Seldom found the trick to arithmetic

Three plus two be faux pas

But ask for some palm trees

Or tales from the South Seas



I never had the clout to knock one out

But hitting was the name of my game

Standing on third as the coaches conferred

So close to my first claim to fame



Just give me the steal sign

And I'll make home plate mine

And I just might turn some heads



Sometimes I may get a little drastic

Sometimes I just let my feelings show

Sometimes I may be a bit sarcastic

Most times that's the way the story goes



Now I know this Joe down in Mexico

He went there to work on his tan

For years he's been plugged into blenders and songs

They call him the Twelve Volt Man



He don't need no charge card

Just give him a die-hard

And he'll make sparks fly round your head

Or just ask for some palm trees

Or tales fromthe South Seas

And I'll make sparks fly round your head

Round your head

In your head

In your head

METALLICA lyrics - Seek & Destroy

(James Hetfield / Lars Ulrich)



We are scanning the scene

in the city tonight

We are looking for you

to start up a fight

There is an evil feeling

in our brains

But it is nothing new

you know it drives us insane



Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy



There is no escape

and that is for sure

This is the end we won't take any more

Say goodbye

to the world you live in

You have always been taking

but now you're giving



Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy



Our brains are on fire

with the feeling to kill

And it will not go away

until our dreams are fulfilled

There is only one thing

on our minds

Don't try running away

`cause you're the one we will find



Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Running,

On our way

Hiding,

You will pay

Dying,

One thousand deaths

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

Searching,

Seek and Destroy

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN lyrics - Gaia

(Olivia Newton-John)



I am your mother - born of the sun

I gave you shelter - what have you done?

Your heart's in turmoil - my world's in pain

I need to turn you back home again



I am a woman - I am the rain

And like your father - I feel the betrayed

What you are doing - can be undone

You know the answers - tell everyone



Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

Whose fate's in jeopardy

Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

That's the part you fail to see



I am the forest - now I'm a tree

The air is dirty - I cannot breathe

My streams run empty - my tears run dry

My children call me - don't let us die



Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

Whose fate's in jeopardy

Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

That's the part you fail to see



I love my children and I've been your home

But I'll survive this - if I'm alone

I'm survivor - but you will be gone

Let's start a new world - from this day on



Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

Whose fate's in jeopardy

Respect me

Respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

That's the part you fail to see



For it is you not me

That's the part you fail to see



Oh respect me

Oh respect me

I need you to protect me

For it is you not me

That's the part you fail to see

SUZANNE VEGA lyrics - Big Space

He said you stand in your own shoes

I said I'd rather stand in someone else's

He said you look from your direction

I said I like to keep perspective



Close to the middle of the network

It seems we're looking for a center

What if it turns out to be hollow?

We could be fixing what is broken



Between the pen and the paperwork

There must be passion in the language

Between the muscle and the brain work

There must be feeling in the pipeline



Beyond the duty and the discipline

I know there's anger in a cold place

All feelings fall into the big space

Swept up like garbage on the week-end



Between the pen and the paperwork

There must be passion in the language

Between the muscle and the brain work

There must be feeling in the pipeline



All feeling

Falls into the big space

All feeling

Swept into the

Avenues of angles



Between the pen and the paperwork

I'm sure there's passion in the language

Between the muscle and the brain work

I know there's feeling in the pipeline

CARLY SIMON lyrics - Coming Around Again

(Carly Simon)



[From the film "Heartburn"]



Baby sneezes

Mummy pleases

Daddy breezes in

So good on paper

So romantic

But so bewildering



[Chorus]

I know nothing stays the same

But if you're willing to play the game

It's coming around again

So don't mind if I fall apart

There's more room in a broken heart



You pay the grocer

Fix the toasted

Kiss the host Good-bye

Then you break a window

Burn the Souffl©

Scream the lullaby



I know nothing stays the same

But if you're willing to play the game

It's coming around again

So don't mind if I fall apart

There's more room in a broken heart



And I believe in love

But what else can I do

I'm so in love with you



I know nothing stays the same

But if you're willing to play the game

It's coming around again

[Repeat and fade]

DIO lyrics - Straight Through The Heart

Hanging from the cobwebs in you mind

It looks like a long, long way to fall

No one ever told me life was kind

I guess I never heard it, never heard it all



Living in a world of make believe

I can hide behind what's real

But wearing your emotions on your sleeve

And they all know what you feel



And here it comes again

Straight through the heart

Straight through the heart



Oh, never tell a secret with your eyes

It's the eyes that let you down

Tell a little truth with many lies

It's the only way I've found



Oh here it comes again

Straight through the heart

Straight through the heart



Shout to the wind

How can you hurt me this way

Oh once it begins

It looks like it's coming to stay



Hanging from the cobwebs in your mind

It looks like a long, long way to fall

No one ever told me life was kind

I Guess I never heard it, never heard it all, no!



But here it comes again

Straight through the heart

Straight through the heart

Straight through the heart



Here it comes again

Straight through the heart

In the middle of the heart

Now don't stand still, they'll get you

Right through your heart



And here it comes, here it comes again

Straight through the heart

FRANK SINATRA lyrics - Like A Sad Song

(J. Denver)



[Recorded September 27, 1976, New York]



Usually in the morning I'm filled with sweet belonging,

And everything is beautiful to see.

Even when it's raining, sounds of heaven singing

Is simply joyful music to me.

Sometimes I feel like a sad song,

Like I'm all alone without you.

So many different places, a million smiling faces,

Oh life is so incredible to me.

Especially to be near you and how it is to touch you,

Oh paradise was made for you and me.

Sometimes I feel like a sad song,

Like I'm all alone without you.

I know that life goes on just perfectly,

And everything is just the way that it should be,

Still there are times when my heart feels like breaking,

And anywhere is where I'd rather be.

Oh, and in the nighttime, I know that it's the right time,

To hold you close and say, I love you so.

To have someone to care with, someone I could share with,

And that is why I wanted you to know,

Sometimes I feel like a sad song,

Like I'm all alone without you.



[instrumental]



Sometimes I feel like a sad song,

Like I'm all alone without you.

Sometimes I feel like a sad song,

Like I'm all alone without you, without you.

SIMPLE MINDS lyrics - Seeing Out The Angel

Voice leading to voices

Last song that the land sings

In colourful breathless emotional sea

Leaving us in this way



Seeing out the angel

From the shadow of a day

That stands alone and crying young

Singing fascination

For the twist in anxious days

That stand alone and crying young

See out the angels

For the rescue pools of life

That stand alone and crying young



Rescue by the first light

Receiving us with these tears

Feeling your gaze in the back of my eyes

Leaving worlds this way



In voice leading to voices

Last song that the land sings

In colourful breathless emotional sea

Leaving us this way



Seeing out the angels

Singing fascination...

VINCE GILL lyrics - Workin' On A Big Chill

Here comes the weekend

Sure could use some relaxation to shake these blues

Fill up the cooler with a little good cheer

Hand me my sun shades

I'm checkin' out of here



I'm workin' on a big chill

Lord I'm workin' on a big chill



Hook up the camper, head for the lake

Sit on my tailbone, them fish can wait

Pick up my baby, she's going too

A little skinny dippin', Lord is good for you



I'm workin' on a big chill

I'm workin' on a big chill



Now we ain't leavin' till the suds are gone

Call everybody, there's a party going on

Come Monday morning it's back to the grind

Come on baby, let's have a good time



We'll be workin' on a big chill

We'll be workin' Lord on a big chill

We'll be workin' on a big chill

We'll be workin' baby on a big chill

W. A.S. P. lyrics - I Don't Need No Doctor

I don't need no doctor

'Cause I know what's ailing me

I don't need no doctor

'Cause I know what's ailing me (yes, I do)

All I need is my baby

You don't know I'm in misery

I don't need no doctor



I don't need no doctor

My prescription tells me that

I don't need no doctor

My prescription tells me that

I don't need no doctor

All I need is my baby

You don't know I'm in misery

I don't need no doctor



Well, the doctor said I need the rest - ooh, ooh

He put me on the critical list - ooh, ooh

Keeping me safe from harm - ooh, ooh

All I need is her sweet charm - ooh, ooh

He gave me a medical option, that wouldn't do

Ooh, yeah, my motion, oh, yeah, no doctor, no

I don't need no doctor

NEW YORK DOLLS lyrics - Lonely Planet Boy

It's hard,

It's so hard



And it's a lonely planet joy

When the song from from the other boys

That's when I'm a lonely planet boy

And I'm tryin, Baby for your love



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Oh, you pick me up

Your outta drivin in your car

When I tell you where I'm goin

You're always tellin me it's to far



But how could you be drivin

Down by my home

When ya know, I aint got one

And I'm, I'm so all alone



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Oh it's a lonely planet joy

When the song from your other boys

That's when I'm a lonely planet boy

And I'm tryin, I'm cryin, Baby for your love



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Oh, It's so lonely



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Oh can't you hear me callin

I'm a thousand miles away

And I don't wanna stay

I'm thinkin words I gotta say



Cus I wanna be there witcha

And I know what to bring

I remember, from the days

You got over, everything



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Oh it's a lonely planet joy

When the song from your other boys

That's when I'm a lonely planet boy

And I'm tryin, I'm cryin,

Can't ya see I'm diein

Baby, for your love



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah



Now you are lonely

THE ANIMALS lyrics - Gin House Blues

(Henderson/Troy)



Stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

I said, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

You know I'm beggin' you, somebody give me my gin.

Stay away from me, unless you wanta big fight

Stay away from me everybody, unless you wanta get involved in a fight

I'll fight the army and the Royal navy if I don't get some gin tonight

Hey, when I'm feeling high, everythings all right

Hey, when I'm feelin' high, everything is really all right

Gin is gonna be my wife for the rest of my life

Give me my gin

I can get a drink of gin, well, almost any old time

I can get myself a drink of gin, yeah,

Yeah, well, almost any old time

If I can't get myself a drink of gin

I guess I'll have to settle for red wine

I said stay away from me, unless you wanta start a fight

Yeah, stay away from me everybody unless you wanta start a big fight

I'll fight the army and the navy if I don't get myself some gin tonight.

Now now now, listen to me baby, hey, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in my sin

Whoa, stay away from me everybody, 'cause I'm in the sin baby

I'll fight the army and the navy

Somebody, somewhere, give me my gin.