KINGDOM COME lyrics - You'll Never Know

Recalling memories of love with you

Such simple innosence of love we knew

We held each other crying tears of happiness



And then the winds of change began to blow

The voice of destiny said I must go

My tears could fill an ocean trying to forget

My love could move a mountain ever since we met



[Chorus:]

You'll never know

How much I have loved you, so

You'll never know, just how much it took to go

But soon you won't be crying tears of loneliness



[Chorus]



You'll always shine

Like the stars above you do

THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT lyrics - I Don't Wanna Go Home

Go back home you damn fool

Surely you know you can't win

You should never have come near this place

You should have stayed on the outside, Lookin' in



It's too late to turn back

Nobody asked you to try

But they blinded you with diamonds

And all the money that money can buy



And I'm so afraid of being on my own

But I don't wanna go home



You can't win you damn fool

You drank all the wine from the cup

And your painted lady's gone now

And you're way back on the downside, Lookin' up



You can't catch the monkey on your back

Nobody asked you to try

But for every heart they held a spade

And you lost more than money can buy



And I'm so afraid of being on my own

But I don't wanna go home



I'm like a washed up rag

Tattered and torn

I wish I'd never been born



And I'm so afraid of being on my own

But I don't wanna go home



I'm like a down and out just blowin' my horn

Oh I don't wanna go home



I'm like a washed up rag

Tattered and torn

I wish I'd never been born

FAITH NO MORE lyrics - Collision

Collision

My mission



When the dawn breaks

With a handshake

Relaxed and feelin' great



Screeching...head on

I'm needing a head on



All the day's plans

All the shaking hands

Beepers and suntans



Screeching...head on

I'm needing a head on



Collision

My mission

B. B. KING lyrics - Let's Straighten It Out

(Benny Latimore)



Sit yourself down, girl

And talk to me

Tell me what's on your mind

Don't keep saying

Everything's ok, baby

'Cause if it was, girl

You wouldn't be crying



You've been tossing and turning

In your sleep lately, baby

Sitting around crying all day long

Now how in hell do you expect me

To understand, baby

When I don't even know what's wrong



Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out, baby



Well the last five nights

When we went to bed

Oh I could tell something wasn't right

When you turned your back

And you covered your head, baby

You didn't even say goodnight



Now if you're tired

And you don't wanna be bothered, baby

Just say the word

And I'll leave you alone

Instead of lying there

Crying your eyes out

You and me oughta be getting it on



Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out, baby

Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out

Please let's straighten it out, baby

Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out

Let's straighten it out now, baby

PATTY LOVELESS lyrics - Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

And I know I'm goin' home.



Snow flake's a-fallin'

My old heart's a-callin'

Tall pine's a-hummin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'.



Can't you hear them bells ringin', ringin'

Joy, don'tcha hear them singin'

When it's snowin', I'll be goin'

Back to my country home.



Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

And I know I'm goin' home.



White candle's burnin'

My old heart's a-yearnin'

For the folks at home when

Christmas Time's A-Comin'.



Can't you hear them bells ringin', ringin'

Joy, don'tcha hear them singin'

When it's snowin', I'll be goin'

Back to my country home.



Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

And I know I'm goin' home.



Holly's in the window

Home where the wind blows

The cane foam's a-runnin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'.



Can't you hear them bells ringin', ringin'

Joy, don'tcha hear them singin'

When it's snowin', I'll be goin'

Back to my country home.



Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

And I know I'm goin' home.



Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

Christmas Time's A-Comin'

And I know I'm goin' home

CHAKA KHAN lyrics - Stormy Weather

(Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen)



Don't know why

There's no sun up in the sky

Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together

Keeps raining all the time



Life is bare

Gloom and misery everywhere

Stormy weather

Just can't get my poor old self together

I'm weary all the time, the time

So weary all of the time



When he went away

The blues walked in and met me

If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me

All I do is pray

The lord above will let me

Walk in the sun once more



Can't go on

Everything I had is gone

Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together

Keeps raining all the time

Keeps raining all of the time



I walk around,

Heavy-hearted and sad

Night comes around

And I'm still feeling bad

Rain pourin' down

Blinding every hope I had

This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad



Love, love, love, love

This misery will be the end of me



[Bridge]



When he went away

The blues walked in and met me

If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me

All I do is pray

The lord above will let me

Walk in the sun once more



Can't go on

Everything I had is gone

Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together

Keeps raining all the time, the time

Keeps raining all the time

PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS lyrics - Hi, Hi, Hi

Well, When I Met You At The Station

You Were Standing With A Bootleg In Your Hand.

I Took You Back To My Little Place

For A Taste Of A Multicoloured Band.

We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi,

The Night Is Young.

She'll Be My Funky Little Mama,

Gonna Rock It And We've Only Just Begun.



We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi

With The Music On.

Won't Say Bye-Bye Bye-Bye Bye-Bye Bye-Bye

'Til The Night Is Gone.

I'm Gonna Do It To You, Gonna Do It,

Sweet Banana, You'll Never Give Up.

We're Gettin' Hi Hi Hi In The Midday Sun.



Well Well, Take Off Your Face,

Recover From The Trip You've Been On.

I Want To Lie On The Bed,

Get You Ready For My Polygon.

I'm Gonna Do It To You, Gonna Do It,

Sweet Banana, You've Never Been Done.

Yes, I Go Like A Rabbit, Gonna Grab It,

Gonna Do It 'Til The Night Is Done.



We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi With The Music On.

Won't Say Bye-Bye Bye-Bye Bye-Bye Bye-Bye

'Til The Night Is Gone.

I'm Gonna Do It To You, Gonna Do It,

Sweet Banana, You'll Never Give Up.

We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi, We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi,

We're Gonna Get Hi Hi Hi In The Midday Sun.

VAN MORRISON lyrics - Ordinary People

Ordinary people just don't comprehend

Ordinary people just don't seem to comprehend

The thing you feel they don't even know about

Cut yourself, that never did you no good

You cut yourself, that never did you no good

Nobody watching you, you gotta take care of yourself

Real thing....



When I came down your avenue

Blew you every

Blew you every which way

When I came down your avenue

Bloo hoo hoo you ever which way

Nobody watching you, you gotta take care of yourself



Ordinary people they just don't seem to comprehend

No they don't

Ordinary, everyday people just don't, just don't seem to comprehend

No they don't

Then you feel they don't, they don't, they don't even

Even, even know, even know about..

CHAKA KHAN lyrics - Woman In A Man's World

(A. Kastner and L. J. McNally)



It's a losing game I play

In a dog eat dog, show biz town

I've got a dream of my own

And I carry my own weight

But still they try to drag me down



[Chorus:]

I'm a woman in a man's world

I'm a woman in a man's world



So I'm fool enough to say

That a woman's place is in the home

Working twice as hard

For the same reward as any man, yeah



[Chorus]



For my very own

It'll make me strong if I don't give in

Cause the harder the fight

Oh, the sweeter the prize I'm sure to win

BETTE MIDLER lyrics - Paradise

There is a land I know

where lovers go and flowers grow

forever more;

where time is standing still

and lovers fill the quiet places

by the shore.



We will cross the rainbow

to a place where we'll be free,

and he'll give his love to me.

So I wait for the day

when he takes me away to



Paradise.

He'll take me by my hand.

We'll walk along the sand.

It's never-never land.

Whoa-oo, whoa-oo, whoa.



We'll build a castle there

where we can share the happiness

we've waited for.

Where white flamingos fly

a-way up high and play above

the ocean floor.



We will climb a mountain

to see our wonderland.

Maybe know you'll understand

why I wait for the day

when he takes me away to



Paradise.

He'll take me by my hand.

We'll walk along the sand.

A never-never land.

Whoa-oo, whoa-oo, whoa.



I'll stand by him,

do right by him

and I swear that I would die for him.

Ohh, die for him.



Paradise.

He'll take me by my hand.

We'll walk along the sand.

It's never-never land.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.



Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'll stand by him,

do right by him.

Oh, yeah. Oh-oh, oh, yeah.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.



I'm gonna stand, I'm gonna stand by him.

Gonna do right, gonna do right by him.

Oh-oh, oh-oh, yeaeaeaeaheah.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. . .

RANDY NEWMAN lyrics - Roll With The Punches

They say that people are livin' in the street

No food in their belly, no shoes on their feet

Six black children livin' in a burned-up room

One bare light bulb swinging

Little black kid come home from school

Put his key in the door

Mr. Rat's on the stairway, Mr. Junkie's lyin' in his

Own vomit on the floor

You gotta roll with the punches, little black boy

That's what you got to do

You got to roll with the punches

Tap it baby



There's all these boring people, you see 'em on the TV

And they're making up all these boring stories

About how bad things have come to be

They say "You got to, got to, got to feed the hungry"

"You got to, got to, got to heal the sick"

I say we ain't gotta do nothin' for nobody

'Cause they won't work a lick, you know

They just gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will

Gonna have to roll with them

They gonna have to roll with the punches, yes they will

It don't matter whether you're white, black or brown

You won't get nowhere putting down

The old Red, White and Blue

Tap it baby. Alright.

Look at those little shorts he's got on, ladies and

Gentlemen

You can see all the way to Argentina

Get it

So pretty



Let 'em go to Belgium, let 'em go to France

Let 'em go to Russia

Well at least they ought to have the chance to go there

We have talked about the red, we have talked about the blue

Now we gonna talk about the white

That's what we're gonna have to do

Now we had to roll with the punches, yes we did

We had to roll with 'em

We had to roll with the punches

Yes we did

We had to roll with 'em

I don't care what you say

You're livin' in the greatest country in the world

When you're livin' in the USA

Tap it out baby, all right

BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND lyrics - Hands In The Air

I've seen two time losers running everywhere

Shouting and screamin', "I was never there!"

With their hands in the air

Hands in the air



I've seen bad news messengers avoiding kings

Cheating spouses twisting their rings

With their hands in the air

Oooh, got their hands in the air

As guilty as the wind out on the sea

Affecting who we are and who we'll be



There's a desperation, a real despair

Even the good people are starting to declare

I've got my hands in the air

Ah my hands are in the air



They're surrendering, they're giving in

They'll do anything not to go through this again

They've got their hands in the air

Ooh, their hands in the air



And they're sinking in the quicksand like a stone

Broken to the marrow of the bone, oh



The dealers are dividing up their tips

The gamblers, they're all cashin' in their chips



There's a man in the middle of a parking lot

Wondering which way he should go

There's a star on the horizon

Sinking low, low



All you death wish addicts, you corrupters of truth

You killers of the spirit, you marauders of youth

Get your hands in the air

I want to see your hands in the air



If you're selling these lies, these impossible dreams

You can keep on washin' but you'll never get clean

Get your hands in the air

Let me see your hands in the air

DEAN MARTIN lyrics - I'm In The Mood For Love

[Spoken:] Drive through the park slowly, eh Junior



I'm in the mood for love

Simply because you're near me

Funny but when you're near me

I'm in the mood for love



Why stop and think of weather

This little dream might fail

We've put our hearts together

Now we are one and not afraid



If there is a cloud above

If it should rain we'll let it

But for tonight forget it

I'm in the mood for love

ELLA FITZGERALD lyrics - You're My Thrill

You're my thrill

You do something to me

You send chills right through me

When I look at you

'Cause you're my thrill

You're my thrill

How my pulse increases

I just go to pieces

When I look at you

'Cause you're my thrill



Hmmm-nothing seems to matter

Hmmm-here's my heart on a silver platter

Where's my will

Why this strange desire

That keeps morning higher

When I look at you

I can't keep still

You're my thrill

MADNESS lyrics - One Better Day

Arlington house, address: no fixed abode

An old man in a three-piece suit sits in the road

He stares across the water, he sees right through the lock

But on and up like outstretched hands

His mumbled words, his fumbled words, mock



Further down, a photo booth, a million plastic bags

And an old woman filling out a million baggage tags

But when she gets thrown out, three bags at a time

She spies the old chap in the road to share her bags with

She has bags of time



Surrounded by his past, on a short white line

He sits while cars pass either side, takes his time

Trying to remember one better day

A while ago when people stopped to hear him say



Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine

Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes



Now she has walked enough through rainy town

She rests her bag against his and sits down

She's trying to remember one better day

A while ago when people stopped to hear her say



Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine

Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes

Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine

Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes

The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose



Walking round you sometimes hear the sunshine

Beating down in time with the rhythm of your shoes

The feeling of arriving when you've nothing left to lose

JACKSON 5 / THE JACKSONS lyrics - Christmas Won't Be The Same This Year

(Pam Sawyer / Laverne Ware)



Merry Christmas everybody!

[Jermaine:] Yeah, merry Christmas everybody. Big deal.

[Michael:] Hey, man, what's wrong with you, Jermaine?

[Jackie:] Yeah, that's no kind of attitude.

[Marlon:] This only happens once a year.

[Tito:] Hey, fellas, don't bug him. He and his girl just broke up.

So get off his back.

Can't you see there's tears in his eyes?

[All:] Yeah, he's crying, look he's crying!

Don't cry! Don't cry! Don't cry!



Christmas won't be the same this year

Without her loving arms holding you so near

Christmas won't be the same this year (no it won't, now darling)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (no no)



I see the lights but they don't shine for me

I see the presents underneath the Christmas tree

Our house is decorated, friends are clebrating



Christmas won't be the same this year (no no no)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (it won't be the same this year)

Christmas won't be the same this year (the things we used to do now darling)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (it's all over)



The neighborhood kids are having so much fun

Counting off the days till Santa Claus comes

And I see the mistletoe hanging from my door

I wish I could kiss you again like I did before.



Christmas won't be the same this year (no no, oh, oh)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (yeah yeah)

So go on, girl, and have your fun

Don't spoil your time thinking about me

This time next year, my darling dear

Hopefully you'll be having dinner with me



Christmas won't be the same this year (no no no no)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (it won't be the same)

Christmas won't be the same this year (without you darling)

Without her loving arms holding you so near (no no)

[Fade]

DOLLY PARTON lyrics - If Only

(Dolly Parton)



The word "If", just two tiny letters

Says so much for something so small

The biggest little word in existence;

Never answers, just questions us all



If regrets were gold, I'd be rich as a queen

If teardrops were diamonds, how my face would gleam

If I'd loved you better, I wouldn't be lonely

If only, if only, if only



But looking back now I see clearly

With my twenty-twenty hindsight

Oh, but don't think I haven't paid dearly,

'Cause you could be in my arms tonight



If regrets were gold, I'd be rich as a queen

If teardrops were diamonds, how my face would gleam

How I let you go, I swear is beyond me

But if only; ah, if only; oh, if only



I could start over, if I could go back

Have the power to change things

Then I would do that

But I listened to others like a fool,

Oh, shame on me



But if only you would just come back

If only, dare I even ask

Oh, if only

ALICE COOPER lyrics - Vicious Rumours

You feel the knife stuck in your back

You feel it twist and you hear it crack

Can't make a sound for the sudden pain

You wish your blood were Novocaine



You see the smoke and you feel the flak

You're burning up and you're turning black

They say you fell and you hit your head

Your other bun is Whitenbread



Vicious rumours, paranoiac fears

Sonic boomers ringing in your ears

All of this is getting normal now

You'll never go back to your farming plough

Vicious rumours



You're right at home back at William's flat

You heard a sound you turned and shot your cat

Your hands are shaking, everybody sees

And there's a rhythm drumming in your knees



You return into a foreign night

Inside you know something is just not right

Sometimes you duck when you see your pet

Canary turned into a Sabre jet



Shocked consumer...you're just an average guy

Swelling tumor pushing on your eye

And now you know why all the headaches come

And why you're getting progressively numb

Vicious rumours



I've been denied, debriefed, detuned

Sometimes I howl right at the moon

My family treats me gradually

They know my volatility



Vicious rumours, paranoiac fears

Sonic boomers ringing in your ears

And now I know why all the headaches come

And why you're getting progressively numb

Vicious rumours



Vicious rumours [8x]



Who do you think we are [5x]

We don't care [2x]

DOLLY PARTON lyrics - O Little Town Of Bethlehem

O little town of Bethlehem how still we see Thee lie

Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by

Yet in Thy dark street shineth the everlasting light

The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight



O holy Child of Bethlehem descent to us we pray

Cast out our sins and enter in be born in us today

We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell

Oh come to us abide with us our Lord Emmanuel



Yet in Thy dark street shineth...

O little town of Bethlehem how still we see Thee lie

Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by

QUEEN LATIFAH lyrics - Latifah's Law

Alright listen, I'm back again cause that's what you required of

Me steady rhyming, and I'm so sick and tired of

Being forced to put suckers in their place

You make me mad enough to punch you in the face

But I'm not trying, so never sound like I don't bone to pick with you

Show and prove that you can stand on your own two

I speak the poetry, dissing those who keep on quoting me

Try to play me, cease it, you don't know me

So smile in my face, behind my back take a line or two

I'm not an idiot, so who you think you lying to?

Queen Latifah's here to lay the law down

So speed it up or shake it around because it's a showdown

The 45 King is arising, suprising, hypnotising star, he's up to par

So I hope you've prepared yourself for what you're in for

This is Latifah's Law



BMW's and gold rope chains don't impress me

Or get you closer to the point you can undress me

Get skeezed, you nose will bleed, that's how they live life

Prepare to feel the wrath of the giver of all life

Fire and desire make you go a little higher

When I grab the wire of the mic

And get hype, I'm sorry you sound dot

Cause I roll like the homicide squad

You must be broke and, hoping that I'm soft but I'm dope and

Left you in the litter to consider coping with

Life, it's trife yeah, but these things happen

You need to make it better, stop trying to be the mack again

Get a grip on the African way

Cause there's a sucker born every day

Crime's the way for you to see what the Queen saw

And this is Latifah's law



Now DJ Mark made up a beat that he can bring you

And I of course supply the rhyme that you can swing to

The Flavor Unit keeps all, and keeps a way to band

And slides keep the hardcore fall, cause I'm heavy-handed

Whip out a.45 caliber pen and begin

A funky message from beginning to end

Peace be to Africa, can't forget my other land

Won't fulfill my heart unless I speak about the motherland

You say you're living right, but we know it's nonsense

In case you forgot, just check your conscience

At showtime, I blow lines, you don't get yours, I get mine

Your showtimes, you behind, the Queen Latifah divine

Rule number one: don't step across the line that I drew

Number two: don't take credit for something that you didn't do

Number three: check your heart, every man has a call

It's time for me to go, but I'll be back, y'all

PAUL MCCARTNEY lyrics - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

(Lennon/McCartney)



It was twenty years ago today,

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play

They've been going in and out of style

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.

So may I introduce to you

The act you've known for all these years,

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

We hope you will enjoy the show,

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,

Sit back and let the evening go.

Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely,

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It's wonderful to be here,

It's certainly a thrill.

You're such a lovely audience,

We'd like to take you home with us,

We'd love to take you home.

I don't really want to stop the show,

But I thought that you might like to know,

That the singer's going to sing a song,

And he wants you all to sing along.

So let me introduce to you

The one and only Billy Shears

And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

ART GARFUNKEL lyrics - Secret O' Life

(James Taylor)



The secret of life

Is enjoying the passage of time

Any fool can do it

There ain't nothin' to it

Nobody knows how we got to the top

of the hill

Since we're on our way down

We might as well enjoy the ride



The secret of love

Is in opening up your heart

It's okay to feel afraid

But don't let that stand in your way

'Cause anyone knows

That love is the only road

Since we' re only here for awhile

Might as well show some style

Give us a smile



Isn't it a lovely ride

Slidin' down, I'll be glidin' down

Try not to try too hard

It's just a lovely ride



Now the thing about time is that time

Isn't really real

It's just your point of view

How does it feel for you

Einstein said he could never

Understand it all

Planets spinning through space

The smile upon your face

Welcome to the human race



Some kind of lovely ride

I'll be slidin' down

Try not to try too hard

It's just a lovely ride



Isn't it a lovely ride

See me slidin' down, glidin' down

Try not to try too hard

It's just a lovely ride



The secret of life

Is enjoying the passage of time

WOODY GUTHRIE lyrics - Two Good Men

Two good men a long time gone,

Two good men a long time gone

(Two good men a long time gone, oh, gone),

Sacco, Vanzetti a long time gone,

Left me here to sing this song.



Say, there, did you hear the news?

Sacco worked at trimming shoes;

Vanzetti was a peddling man,

Pushed his fish cart with his hands.



Sacco was born across the sea

Somewhere over in Italy;

Vanzetti was born of parents fine,

Drank the best Italian wine.



Sacco sailed the sea one day,

Landed up in Boston Bay;

Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue,

Landed up in Boston, too.



Sacco's wife three children had,

Sacco was a family man;

Vanzetti was a dreaming man,

His book was always in his hand.



Sacco earned his bread and butter

Being the factory's best shoe cutter;

Vanzetti spoke both day and night,

Told the workers how to fight.



I'll tell you if you ask me

'Bout this payroll robbery;

Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory

On the street in South Braintree.



Judge Thayer told his friends around

He would cut the radicals down;

Anarchist bastards was the name

Judge Thayer called these two good men.



I'll tell you the prosecutors' names,

Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane;

The judge and lawyers strutted down,

They done more tricks than circus clowns.



Vanzetti docked here in 1908;

He slept along the dirty streets,

He told the workers "Organize"

And on the electric chair he dies.



All you people ought to be like me,

And work like Sacco and Vanzetti;

And every day find some ways to fight

On the union side for workers' rights.



I've got no time to tell this tale,

The dicks and bulls are on my trail;

But I'll remember these two good men

That died to show me how to live.



All you people in Suassos Lane

Sing this song and sing it plain.

All you folks that's coming along,

Jump in with me, and sing this song.

STEVE WINWOOD lyrics - Put On Your Dancing Shoes

(Winwood/Jennings)



So much going on out there, leaves us hanging in the air

And it's all that we can do to face each day and see it though

Life's a dance, put on your dancing shoes, take a chance



You can't shut your eyes to pain, faces crying in the rain

You can't keep it all inside, you need some way to let it ride

Life's a dance, put on your dancing shoes, take a chance



When you're all over, when you know you've done all that you can do

Put on your dancing shoes, it'll see you through



Voices shouting in the street, life lived to a ragged beat

Someone's world is tumbling down, and who's the saint and where's the clown?

Life's a dance, put on your dancing shoes, take a chance



When you're all over, when you know you've done all that you can do

Put on your dancing shoes, it'll see you through

When time is flying, when you know there's no end to these modern blues

Put on your dancing shoes, it'll see you through

MARILLION lyrics - Genie

(Hogarth/Kelly/Mosley/Rothery/Trewavas)



[One Way Street]



I let the genie out of the box

I let the genie out of the box

I'm scared of everything I am

I let the genie out of the box

I'm scared of opening the can

I let the genie out of the box



I had this recurring dream

I was living another life

In another country

In another time



As I got older the dream began to fade away

Until one day

There she was.. tapping me on my shoulder



She says she's got so much to say

But she's not telling it today

She said "Come back when you're alone"

But I'm not sure I want to know

Cause maybe her road

Is a one-way street

Maybe her road..



I'm scared of everything I am

I'm scared of opening the can

I'm scared of losing who I am

Think I might've taken all I can

I let the genie out of the box



She said there's a house in your mind

An attic of treasure, a forgotten pleasure park

Waiting inside you in the dark

Don't leave it behind

Don't leave it behind



I'm scared of everything I am

I'm scared of opening the can

I'm scared of losin' who I am

Think I might've taken all I can

I let the genie out of the box

I let the genie out of the box

Out of the box

JOAN BAEZ lyrics - Cambodia

(Joan Baez)



We've watched them leaving, seen their ragged flight

Children of the jungle, mothers of the night

A boy of ten by the roadside lies

Hears his future in whispers and cries

And clutching a tiny Buddha charm

A baby dies in his mother's arms



Is there only sorrow in Cambodia?

Is there no tomorrow in Cambodia?



Leaving the graves of your ancestors after a thousand years

Leaving a few belongings after a thousand tears

How come you never left before through bombing, famine and flood?

Are the rivers useless now spilling over with blood?



Is there only sorrow in Cambodia?

Is there no tomorrow in Cambodia?



I hear there are very few children from ages one to five

It takes more than jungle leaves to keep the young ones alive

I hear some of the rice got through the outside's trying to send to you

There you sit in the ruins of war, the doctors are waiting at your door



And we will try and feed you, try and go to you

People of Kampuchea, Cambodia



A little way in from the border in the crowded camps

I've seen mothers giving birth, seen beautiful orphans dance

An old man turns and covers his eyes, he was never supposed to cry

With sons and daughters and home and wife

Taken from him in his autumn life



Should we try and feed you, say hello to you

Old man of Kampuchea, Kampuchea, Cambodia



Call another conference, write another song

Deliver another ton of rice and hope it gets where it belongs

And rival teams of bandits are really the only choice

Even if the people had their bellies filled, even if the people had a voice



And meanwhile, lovers are caught in the crossfire

Children are caught in the barbed wire

Military sinks in the mire

Let me show it to you



Is there only sorrow, only sorrow in Cambodia?

Is there no tomorrow, no tomorrow in Cambodia?

Still we'll try and feed you, try and show to you

People of Kampuchea, Kampuchea, Cambodia

ANNIE LENNOX lyrics - I Can't Get Next To You

I can turn the grey sky blue

And I can make it rain whenever I want it to

And I can build a castle from a single grain of sand

And I can make a ship sail on dry land

But my life is incomplete and I'm so blue

'Cause I can't get next to you



I can't get next to you, babe

I can't get next to you

I can't get next to you, babe

I can't get next to you



I can fly like a bird in the sky

I can buy anything that money can buy

I can turn a river into a raging fire

I can live forever if I so desire

But I don't want it all these things I can do

'Cause I can't get next to you



I can't get next to you, babe

I can't get next to you

I can't get next to you, babe

I can't get next to you



I can turn back the hands of time - you better believe I can

I can make the seasons change just by the wave of my hand

I can change anything from one to two

The thing I wanna do the most I'm unable to do

I'm an unhappy woman with all the powers I possess

'Cause man you're the key to my happiness

'Cause I can't get to next to you



Ooh you're blowin' my mind

'Cause I can't get next to you

Can't you see these tears I'm cryin'

I can't get next to you

Oh it's you that I need I gotta get next to you

Can't you see these tears I'm cryin'

Can't get next to you



I, I, I, I, I, I, I can't get next to you

I, I, I, I, I, I, I can't get next to you

FAITH NO MORE lyrics - Blood

It doesn't really matter, the things you say to me

Cause if I had a ladder, up there is where I'd be

Outta here where the air is cold, you're messing with my mind

Hey! You do it every time, Hey! And the season comes around

Once more, once more.

It doesn't really matter, the things you try to say

It doesn't really matter, you say 'em every day

Right now just give me more blood

Just give it to me deep red

A flowing river crimson

A flowing river burning with desire

It's great, but I never said how great

Hey, you never really asked, well, I'm asking you right now

So shut up and explain

What's on your mind

In this dark hour

I said it doesn't matter, I can't be that much fatter

And you'll never get as much blood

From a phony Blarney, stone, rock, hard, Granite!?! Solid.

MARVIN GAYE lyrics - My Love Is Waiting

[starting with rapping some credits]



I'm coming straight for your love baby

Like a rocket girl

Been so long

I'm making plans to get back to you

Still I'm wondering what to do

Seems so long yeah

I'll make it up to you

Like a rocket girl

I miss you baby



[Chorus:]

(B. G.) Miss your love

(Lead) And I miss your mind

(B. G.) And your body

(Lead) We had so much love

(B. G) Love to give

(Lead) I need to love your body

(B. G.) Love your body

Here we are

(Lead) In and out of love



I hope we're learning to fall in love anew

Girl I know, yeah

I know your tender lovin' that's why I want you

I need you lovin', yeah

Need your love

And I miss your mind and your body

We had so much love

Love to give

I need to love your body

Love your body



Seems so long

Since you were in my arms

I need to rock you

And hold you all night long

I'm so happy to spend this time with you

So very happy that we might start anew



[Chorus]



Love your soul baby

Love your soul baby

My love is waiting for you

I want to love you again

I need you again



My love,

I want to love you again

I need you again

Been so long

Making all my plans to get back to you

What I'm gonna do?

It seems so long, but I'll make it up to you

Like an IBM and a rocket girl



[Chorus]



When I make you mine, I'll be fine

My love is waiting for you

[Vamp & Fade]

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS lyrics - The Secret Life Of Six

The secret life of six

Means having fun.

When everyone's inside,

He's in the sun.



Six knows how to stand on his head.

Six knows how to stand on his head.

Six knows how to stand on his head.

Six knows how to stand on his head.



And when six pretends he's nine,

He acts older and older.

And when six pretends he's nine,

He wears wiser disguises.



The secret life of nine

Means having fun.

When everyone's inside,

He's in the sun.



Nine knows how to stand on his head.

Nine knows how to stand on his head.

Nine knows how to stand on his head.

Nine knows how to stand on his head.



And when nine pretends he's six,

He acts sunny and funny.

And when nine pretends he's six,

He anounces he bounces.

CARLY SIMON lyrics - The Land Of Christmas (Mary)

(Carly Simon)



Take me into your hands

Make me into your prayer

Take me away to the land of Christmas

And dismiss my fear

Show me the way



You see I need a way to pass

through the pain

Breathe it and bear it and rise up again

Take me away to the land of Christmas

Where I can receive your kiss

Feel the strength in my heart



And wail like a baby

And sail through the storm

Be tender as Mary

With her newborn son



Is feeling small a very good thing?

Is feeling big really very small?

Take me away to the land of Christmas

Where I won't question your love at all



And when I kneel to you

It doesn't mean I'll get the message right

Take me away to the land of Christmas

Where I can't resist surrendering



And I'll wail like a baby

And sail through the storm

Be tender like Mary

With her newborn son

On Christmas morn

Tender as Mary

With her newborn son

10,000 MANIACS lyrics - Gun Shy

(Natalie Merchant)



I always knew that you would take yourself far from home

As soon as, as far as you could go.

By the 1/4 inch cut of your hair and the Army issue green,

For the past eight weeks I can tell where you've been.

For I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me

There was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins.

There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me

You won't meet it with your gun.



So now you are one of the brave few, it's awful sad we need boys like you.

I hope the day never comes for

"Here's your live round son. Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun."

Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me

There was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins.

There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me

You won't meet it with your gun taking aim.

For I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you

And I don't mean to spoil your home coming,

But baby brother you should expect me to.



"Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun."



So now does your heart pitter pat with a patriotic song

When you see the stripes of Old Glory waving?

Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me

There was soldier's blue blood streaming inside your veins.

There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me

You won't meet it with your gun taking aim.

I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you

And I don't mean to spoil your homecoming my baby brother Jude

And I don't mean to hurt you by saying this again,

They're so good at making soldiers but they're not so good at making men.

BAD COMPANY lyrics - Stranger Stranger

There's a crazy moon, a crazy sky, looking down on me

I've been losing track of time

It's been the hardest day, the longest night I've ever spent alone

I can't get you off my mind



You know what I've been missing, do I really have to say

We talk but you don't listen, it's not always been that way, no, she's a



Chorus:

Stranger, stranger - you're not the girl I knew, will you ever be the same

You act like a stranger, stranger - tell me it ain't true

Won't you please explain, why you're so strange



In the morning gloom, this empty room, I can see your face

When I look again, you're gone

Your memory, so close to me, it leaves a trace

Won't you tell me what went wrong



No sign, no words, no warning, we can never be the same, no

When you walked out that morning, you know you left nothing but the blame



I know that you're a - chorus



(Solo)



Oh, you're a - chorus repeats 2x

ELLA FITZGERALD lyrics - Out Of This World

You're clear out of this world

When I'm looking at you

I hear out of this world

The music that no mortal ever knew



You're right out of a book

The fairy tale I read when I was five

No armored knight out of a book

was more enchanted by a Loralei

Then I



After waiting so long

for the right time

After reaching so long for a star

All at once from long and lonely night time

And despite time, here you are



I cry, "Out of this world"

If you said we were through

So let me fly out of this world

And spend the next eternity or two

With you

RAY CHARLES lyrics - Fifty Nifty United States

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies;

Fifty nifty stars in the flag that billows so beautif'ly in the breeze.

Each individual state contributes a quality that is great.

Each individual state deserves a bow, we salute them now.

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies,

Shout 'em, scout 'em, Tell all about 'em,

One by one till we've given a day to ev'ry state in the U. S.A.

Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut;

Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana;

Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan;

Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada;

New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina,

North Dakota, Ohio;

Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas;

Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming,

Al - a - o ming.

North, south, east, west, in our calm, objective opinion,

(name of home state) is the best of the

Fifty nifty United States from thirteen original colonies,

Shout 'em, scout 'em, Tell all about 'em,

One by one till we've given a day to ev'ry state in the good old U. S. A.

LINDA RONSTADT lyrics - A Number And A Name

(Steve Gillette and T. Campbell)



How many times have I read farewell lines

In the things that you never seemed to say

How many times have I read those last lines

And wondered why it ended this way



Words of goodbye and all those loving lines

I must have been blind

And it seems to me a shame

That the number and the name

Both have changed with the passing of time



How you would write about the bright lights

And your words always clouded up my eyes

How you would write about the bright lights

It's a wonder that I never realized

Our race was run now another's just begun

I must have been blind

And it seems to me a shame

That the number and the name

Both have changed with the passing of time



When your letters stopped the tears that I fought

How they came in the flood of memories

When your letters stopped the tears that I fought

How they ran like the rivers to the seas

Each sunny day you slip further away

I must have been blind

And it seems to me a shame

That the number and the name

Both have changed with the passing of time

CHICAGO lyrics - Window Dreamin'

(Written by: Walter Parazaider & Lee Loughnane)



Lookin' out by my window,

Thinking 'bout you all the time,

Wish you were here with me

Right here by my side,

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

Every time I find myself on the road

Miss you holdin' me tight

Flop down in my easy chair,

Makes me feel alright

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

(Bridge)

Gigs are fun, when they're done,

Feel so down, act like a clown,

Company's great, but when it's late,

I'm lookin' for the phone

I feel so alone--so alone

Knowin' the way we both feel,

O know you're always gonna be my friend

Dig, your face, Lord, it's real

Someday I'm never gonna go again,

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

'Cause I'm window, window dreamin'

(Bridge)

Gigs are fun, when they're done,

Feel so down, act like a clown,

Company's great, but when it's late,

I'm lookin' for the phone

I feel so alone--

So all alone

THE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP lyrics - One World

We see the rising forces

Zealots gone awry

Ill fated fools and deceivers

With murder in their eyes



There's no surrender!

Ooo - you know we gotta stop it now



One world

We're gonna make it through

One love

Only way we're gonna see it through

One heart

You know we gotta find our way

One world

Only thing that's gonna save the day



Impending darkness warning

It's written on the sky

Stone-hearted sultans and schemers

Indoctrinate the lie



There's no surrender!

Ooo - you know we gotta stop it now



One world

We're gonna make it through

One heart

Only way we're gonna see it through

One love

You know we gotta find our way

One world

Only thing that's gonna save the day



The charge of virtue calling

Exterminate the swine

This time of conscience befalls us

It's here we draw the line



There's no surrender!

Ooo - you know we gotta stop it now



One world

We're gonna make it through

One love

Only way we're gonna see it through

One heart

You know we gotta find our way

One world

Only thing that's gonna save the day



One world

We're gonna make it through

One love

Only way we're gonna see it through

One heart

You know we gotta find our way

One world

Only thing that's gonna save the day

BONNIE TYLER lyrics - Cryin' A Little

(Jennifer Blake)



As the warm sun kissed the springtime

And the clouds drifted away

You'd walk along a sandy beach

Another endless day



As the summer turned to autumn

Nights were drawing in so near

Evenings laying by the fire

Love was truly here



[Chorus:]

And now you're cryin' a little

What happened girl - What happened girl

Did they destroy your perfect world

And now you're cryin' a little

What happened girl - What happened girl

Did they destroy your perfect world



As the fall changed into winter

It took her breath away

Nights were long and bitter cold

She saw the light of day



With the end of all four seasons

Oh things have moved so fast

A romance that was her's forever

Has melted with the past



[Chorus]



The love that you crave for

...Won't come so easily, no

All seasons change

...And so do we



[Chorus]

ROD STEWART lyrics - Downtown Train

(Tom Waits)



Outside another yellow moon

has punched a hole in the night time mist

I climb through the window and down to the street

I'm shining like a new dime

The downtown trains are full

full of all them Brooklyn girls

They try so hard to break out of their little worlds



You wave your hand and they scatter like crows

They have nothing that'll ever capture your heart

They're just thorns without the rose

Be careful of them in the dark

Oh if I was the one you chose to be your only one

Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now



Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

Every night, every night its just the same

On a downtown train



I know your window and I know its late

I know your stairs and your doorway

I walk down your street and past your gate

I stand by the light of the four way

and watch them as they fall, oh baby

They all having their heart attacks

They stay at the carnival

But they'll never win you back



Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

Every night, every night its just the same

You leave me lonely

Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

All my dreams, all my dreams fall like rain

On a downtown train



Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

Every night, every night its just the same



Will I see you tonight on a downtown train

All my dreams, all my dreams fall like rain

On a downtown train

On a downtown train

All my dreams fall like rain

On a downtown train

BEACH BOYS lyrics - Ballad Of Ole' Betsy

(Brian Wilson/Roger Christian)



Betsy, Betsy, ahhhhh



She was born in '32, and was she ever pretty

She rode a freight train west, all the way from Detroit city

Betsy's seen more places than I'll ever hope to see

Betsy's been more loyal than any friend could be



With some she traveled fast, with others it was slow

Betsy's seen them all, she'd seen them come and go

She must have had some others before I finally met her

And now that she's all mine, they'd better just forget her

Betsy was a lady and that she will remain

Betsy took some beatings but she never once complained



She had a classic beauty that everyone could see

I was the last to meet her, but she gave her life to me

She may be rusted iron, but to me she's solid gold

And I just can't hold the tears back

'Cause Betsy's growing old

IRVING BERLIN lyrics - When The Curtain Falls

[1st verse:]

[She:] I have a cute idea for a play

[He:] Tell me about it, do

[She:] It's just a story of ev'ryday

[He:] Nothing today is new

[She:] There isn't much to my little plot

[He:] I'm sure it's more than you say

[She:] Maybe you will not like it a lot

[He:] Tell me about your play



[Refrain:]

In the first act

A girl and boy appear

In the second act

Their fam'lies interfere



A row is started

They're broken-hearted

And soon they're parted

For one long year



In the third act

The lovers meet again

And before they take

Their curtain calls



We see them spending

A happy ending

In the last act

When the curtain falls



[2nd verse:]

[She:] What do you think of my little play?

[He:] I think it simply great

[She:] Somebody may produce it someday

[He:] I'll bet you just can't wait

[She:] I wonder what the critics will say

[He:] I'm sure 'twill fill them with joy

[She:] I'd love to be the girl in the play

[He:] I'd love to be the boy

JOAN BAEZ lyrics - The Trees They Do Grow High

(Traditional)



The trees they grow high,

The leaves they do grow green

Many is the time my true love I've seen

Many an hour I have watched him all alone

He's young,

But he's daily growing



Father, dear father,

You've done me great wrong

You have married me to a boy who is too young

I'm twice twelve and he is but fourteen

He's young,

But he's daily growing



Daughter, dear daughter,

I've done you no wrong

I have married you to a great lord's son

He'll make a lord for you to wait upon

He's young,

But he's daily growing



Father, dear father, if you see fit

We'll send him to college for one year yet

I'll tie blue ribbons all around his head

To let the maidens know that he's married



One day I was looking o'er my father's castle wall

I spied all the boys as playing with the ball

My own true love was the flower of them all

He's young, but he's daily growing



At the age of fourteen, he was a married man

At the age of fifteen, the father of a son

At the age of sixteen, his grave it was green

And death had put an end to his growing

JOE COCKER lyrics - Maybe I'm Amazed

Baby, I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time,

And maybe I'm afraid of the way I leave you.



Maybe I'm amazed at the way you pulled me out of time,

You hung me on the line.

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.



Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand.



Baby, I'm a man,

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.



Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

Oh, oh, oh,

Oh, oh, oh, oh,

Oh.



Baby, I'm a man, maybe I'm a lonely man

Who's in the middle of something

That he doesn't really understand.



Baby, I'm a man,

And maybe you're the only woman who could ever help me.

Baby, won't you help me to understand?

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh.



Maybe I'm amazed at the way you're with me all the time,

Maybe I'm afraid of the way leave you.



Maybe I'm amazed at the way you help me sing my song,

Right me when I'm wrong-

Maybe I'm amazed at the way I really need you.

BONNIE TYLER lyrics - Give Me Your Love

(Ronnie Scott & Steve Wolfe)



I can't help if the world is going crazy

And the headlines get more frightening everyday

Just as long as I'm in there with you baby

It's okay, it's okay



Give me your love

Give me more than enough

Oh baby I need you now [3x]



I don't usually talk about my feelings

But with you there's such a lot I want to say

And as long as your the one that I believe in

It's okay, it's okay



Give me your love

Give me more than enough

Oh baby I need you now [4x]



And as long as your the one that I believe in

It's okay, it's okay



Give me your love

Give me more than enough

Oh baby I need you now [8x]

FREDDIE MERCURY lyrics - There Must Be More To Life Than This

(Freddie Mercury)



There must be more to life than this

There must be more to life than this

How do we cope in a world without love

Mending all those broken hearts

And tending to those crying faces



There must be more to life than living

There must be more than meets the eye

Why should it be just a case of black or white

There must be more to life than this



Why is this world so full of hate

People dying everywhere

And we destroy what we create

People fighting for their human rights

But we just go on saying c'est la vie

So this is life



There must be more to life than killing

A better way for us to survive

What good is life, in the end we all must die There must be more to life

than this



There must be more to life than this

There must be more to life than this

I live and hope for a world filled with love

Then we can all just live in peace

There must be more to life, much more to life

There must be more to life, more to life than this

SMOKIE lyrics - Away In A Manger

Away in a manger no crib for a bed

The little lord Jesus lay down his sweet head

The stars in the bright sky looked down where he lay

Little lord Jesus asleep in the hay



The cattle are a-lowing the baby he awakes

But the little lord Jesus no crying he makes

I love you ohhh Jesus look down from the sky

And stay by my side until morning is nigh



Be near me Lord Jesus I asked you to stay

Close by me forever and love me I pray

Bless all of the children in your tender care

And keep us all together to live with you there

LIONEL RICHIE lyrics - Truly

Girl, tell me only this

That I'll have your heart for always

And you want me by your side

Whispering the words I'll always love you



And forever I will be your lover

And I know if you really care

I will always be there



Now I need to tell you this

There's no other love like your love

And i, as long as I live,

I'll give you all the joy

My heart and soul can give



Let me hold you

I need to have you near me

And I feel with you in my arms

This love will last forever



Because I'm truly

Truly in love with you girl

I'm truly head over heels with your love

I need you, and with your love I'm free

And truly, you know you're alright with me

FRANK ZAPPA lyrics - Billy The Mountain

[includes quotes from Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major (Edward Elgar), Johnny's Theme (Paul Anka), Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder (Crawford), O Mein Papa (Paul Burkhard), Over The Rainbow (Harburg/Arlen), Star-Spangled Banner (Smith/Key), Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Stephen Stills)]



One, two, three. . .



BILLY the Mountain

BILLY the Mountain

A regular picturesque

Postcardy mountain

Residing between lovely

Rosamond and Gorman

With his stunning wife ETHELL,

A tree!

A tree!



BILLY was a mountain

ETHELL was a tree

Growing off of his shoulder



BILLY was a mountain

(BILLY was a mountain!)

ETHELL was a tree

Growing off of his shoulder

(ETHELL was a tree growing off of his shoulder)

(hey, hey hey!)



Billy had two big

Caves for eyes,

With a cliff for a jaw

That would go up 'n down,

And whenever it did,

He'd puff out some dust,

And hack up a boulder

(HACK!)

Hack up a boulder

(HACK! HACK!)

Hack up a boulder

(HACK! HACK! HACK!)

Up a boulder



Now, one day, now I believe it was on a Tuesday, a man in a checkered double-knit suit drove up in a large El Dorado Cadillac, leased from BOB SPREEN. . .



("Where the freeways meet in Downey!")



. . . And he laid a HUGE, BULGING ENVELOPE right at the corner of BILLY THE MOUNTAIN, that was right where his 'foot' was supposed to be.



Now, BILLY THE MOUNTAIN, he couldn't believe it! All those postcards he'd posed for, for ALL OF THOSE YEARS, and finally, now, AT LAST, his Royalties!



Royalties!

Royalties. . .

Royalties!

Royalty check is in, honey!



Yes, BILLY THE MOUNTAIN was RICH! Yes, and his eyeball-caves, they widened in amazement, and his jaw (which was a cliff), well it dropped thirty feet!



A bunch of dust puffed out! Rocks and boulders hacked up, (hack! hack!) crushing 'The LINCOLN'!



I gave him the money

He acted real funny

He hocked up a rock and

It TOTALLED my car!



Oh, do you

Know any trucks

Might be bound for THE VALLEY?

I don't wanna stand here

All night in this bar

(Dear Lord)



I don't wanna stand here

All night in this bar

(No shit!)



I don't wanna stand here

All night in this bar!



By two o'clock, when the bars are already closed down, BILLY had broken 'THE BIG NEWS' to ETHELL. And with dust and boulders everywhere, BILLY, choked with excitement, announced. . .



"ETHELL, we're going on a VACATION!"



Yes, and they WERE going on a vacation! (Oh, and ETHELL, ETHELL, ETHELL, like every little woman, she of course was very excited! She creaked a little bit, and some old birds flew off of her.) BILLY told ETHELL they were going to. . . Yes! They were going to NEW YORK!



"ETHELL, we're going to. . . New York!"



But first they were gonna stop in LAS VEGAS. . .



It's off to LAS VEGAS

to check out the lounges

Pull a few handles,

And drink a few beers,

(Oh, ETHELL!)



ETHELL, my darling,

you know that I love you!

I'm glad we could have a

Vacation this year!

(Oh, NEET-O!)



Glad we could have a

Vacation this year!



They left that night, crunchin' across the Mojave Desert. . . their voices echoing through the canyons of your minds (POO-AAH!)



"ETHELL, wanna get a cuppa cawfee?"



(Howard Johnson's! Howard Johnson's!

Howard Johnson's! Howard Johnson's!)



"Ahhh! there's a HOWARD JOHNSONS! Wanna eat some CLAMS?"



The first noteworhty piece of real estate they destroyed was EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE. . .



And TO THIS VERY DAY, 'Wing Nuts' and Data Reduction Clerks alike, speak in reverent whispers about that fateful night when TEST STAND #1 and THE ROCKET SLED ITSELF. . . (We have ignition!) . . . got LUNCHED! I said LUNCHED! (Lunched!) By a FAMOUS MOUNTAIN-IN and his SMALL, WOODEN WIFE.



"Word just in to the KTTV News Service undeniably links THIS MOUNTAIN and HIS WIFE to drug abuse and pay-offs as part of a San Joaquin Valley SMUT RING! However, we can assure parents in the Southern California area that a recent NARCOTICS CRACK-DOWN, in Torrance, Hawthorne, Lomita, Westchester, Playa Del Rey, Santa Monica, Tujunga, Sunland, San Fernando, Pacoima, Sylmar, Newhall, Canoga Park, Palmdale, Glendale, Irwindale, Rolling Hills, Granada Hills, Shadow Hills, Cheviot Hills, will provide the SECRET EVIDENCE the Palmdale Grand Jury has needed to seek a CRIMINAL INDICTMENT, and pave the way for STIFFER LEGISLATION, increased FEDERAL AID, and AVERT A CRIPPLING STRIKE of Bartenders and Veterinarians throughout the INLAND EMPIRE. . . "



WITHIN THE WEEK, Jerry Lewis had hosted a Telethon ("Wah wah wah, nice lady!") to raise funds for the injured (injured. . . ) and homeless (homeless. . . ) in Glendale, as BILLY had just levelled it, and, a few miles right outside of town, BILLY caused a 'Oh Mein Papa' in the Earth's crust, right over the SECRET UNDERGROUND DUMPS (right near the 'Jack-In-The-Box' on Glenoaks) where they keep the POOLS OF OLD POISON GAS, and OBSOLETE GERM BOMBS, just as a FREAK TORNADO cruised through. . .



Yes, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon when little Howard Kaplan was sitting on his porch ( "Toto. . . !") just playing ( "Come on, Toto. . . !") and having a nice time with his little accordion ("Toto. . . !"), and this weird wind came up ("Toto. . . !"), direct from Glendale ("Toto. . . ! Toto. . . !"), blowing these terrible germs in his direction ("Come here, Toto. . . !"), and all of this caused ("Toto. . . !") by a huge mountain ("Aunty Em!")!



"Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly. . . "



. . . sucking up two thirds of it (SUCK! SUCK! SUCK!) for UNTIMELY DISPERSAL over VAST STRETCHES of WATTS!!!



Now, unless I misunderstood, it was right outside of Columbus, Ohio when BILLY received his NOTICE TO REPORT for his INDUCTION PHYSICAL. Now, lemme tell ya, ETHELL said, now ETHELL, ETHELL said she wasn't gonna let him go!



"I'm not gonna let you go, BILLY!"



"THAT'S RIGHT! We now have CONFIRMED REPORTS from an INFORMED ORANGE COUNTY MINISTER, that ETHELL is still an ACTIVE COMMUNIST, and it is This Reporter's Opinion that she also practices (COVEN!) WITCH-CRAFT!"



It was about this time that the telephone rang inside of the SECRET BRIEFCASE belonging to THE ONE MORTAL MAN who might be able to stop all of this senseless destruction and save 'AMERICA HERSELF'! (And I'm sorry to disappoint some of you, it was not Chief Reddin) This one MAN was STUDEBAKER HOCH, fantastic new SUPER HERO of the CURRENT ECONOMIC SLUMP.



(Oh) Now, some folks say he looked like (he was like, he was like) ZUBIN MEHTA (Zubin Mehta); still others say (others say he), bullshit, honey (bullshit, man) he's just another greasy guy who happened to be born next to the Frozen Beef Pies at BONEY'S MARKET. (Others say he was just a, just a) Still others say, John, piss on you, Jack! (crazy Italian) He's just a crazy Italian who drove a RED CAR. You see (nobody knows for sure 'cause he was so), nobody ever really knew for sure, because STUDEBAKER was so-o-o-o-o-o mysterious (mysterious) . . .



HE WAS SO

(He was so, he was so!)

MYSTERIOUS!



HE WAS SO

(He was so, he was so!)

MYSTERIOUS!



'Cuz when a person gets to be

Such a HERO, folks,

And MARVELOUS BEYOND COMPUTE,

You can never REALLY TELL

About a GUY LIKE THAT

(Whether he's really a NICE PERSON

Or if he just SMILES A LOT),

(What?)

Or if he has a son named 'PINOCCHIO',

Or what?



Whether he's really a NICE PERSON or if he has a son named 'PINOCCHIO' or what?



Some men say he could FLY

Some men say he could SWIM

Others say he could SING (like NEIL SEDAKA),

And all the girls in FLUSHING

Would be AMAZED of HIM

(Two, Three!)

AMAZED of HIM!

(Amazed!)

(Amazed!)



Time passes. . .

January, February, March, July. . .

Wednesday. . .

August. . .

Irwindale. . .

. . . 2:30 in the afternoon, Sunday, Monday. . .

Funny Cars!

Walnut!

Friday

City of Industry. . .

Big John Mazmanian!



So when the phone rang

In the secret briefcase,

A strong masculine hand

With a Dudley Do-Right wristwatch

And flexy bracelet

GRABBED IT

And answered

In a deep, calmly assured voice:



"So. . . ah. . . yeah, yeah, hello already. . . what? . . . Well, yeah? . . . Ah, are you kidding. . . ? You're not kidding. . . a mountain. . . ? With a tree growing off of its shoulder. . . ? Aw, you're fulla shit, man. . . ah, listen, by the way, before I go on; did you get those white albums I sent ya with the pencil on the front. . . ? Yeah. . . ? Yeah, you should move some of those for me, we're having a lot of. . . listen, so kiss little Jakee on the head. . . and, ah, how's your wife's hemorrhoids? Oh, that's too bad. . . Listen. . . so you've got a mountain, with a tree, listen, causing. . . oh, my! Well, let me write this down. . . sorta take a few notes here. . . yeah. . . ? To El Segundo, huh? Causing UNTOLD DESTRUCTION? (my baby, my baby) Wanted for DRAFT EVASION? An expense account? And per diem, too?"



SOME MEN SAY HE COULD DANCE!



They said he could DANCE, and, of course, THEY were right! Ladies and Gentlemen, this is it: THE STUDEBAKER HOCH DANCING LESSON & COSMIC PRAYER FOR GUIDANCE featuring Aynsley Dunbar, hit it!



Hey! Twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly, twirly!

Fillmore, Fillmore, Fillmore, Fillmore. . . Hey!



RIGHT HAND FROM THE HEART-UH

LEFT HAND FROM THE HEART-UH

RIGHT HAND FROM THE HEART-UH

LEFT HAND FROM THE LEFT SHOULDER

TO THE HEART-Uh



Fillmore, Fillmore, Fillmore, Fillmore. . .



NOBODY can DANCE like STUDEBAKER HOCH! So many rumors have spread about STUDEBAKER HOCH! (A rumor. . . a rumor. . . ) Consider this rumor (a rumor. . . ), which was published (a rumor. . . ) about three weeks ago in ROLLING STONE!



Oh, it's gotta be true!



STUDEBAKER HOCH can write THE LORD'S Prayer on the head of a pin!



"NO!"



Do-do-do-do-do,

Doot-doot-do DO DO DO!

Do-do-do-do-do,

Doot-doot-do DO!

etc.



(I'm so HIP!)



BEEF PIES!



He was born next to the BEEF PIES,

Underneath JONI MITCHELL'S autographed picture,

Right beside ELLIOT ROBERTS' big Bank Book,

Next to the boat

Where CROSBY flushed away all his stash

And the cops

Got him in the boat and drove away

To THE CAN

Where Neil Young slipped another disc



FROZE-ing by the PIES!

FROZE-ing by the PIES!

FROZE-ing by the PIES!



(And that was the main influence on HIM!)



The influence of a Frozen Beef Pie!



Boldly springing into action, he phoned his wife (who ran a modeling school), WHEREUPON HE. . . yes, HE ran around the back of 'THE BROADWAY' at Hollywood Boulevard and Vine to see if he could find himself some big large, un-used cardboard boxes (no shit!)



After which, he hit up the RALPH'S on Sunset for some 'AUNT JEMIMA SYRUP', some 'KAISER BROILER FOIL', and a pair of blunt scissors! Hey-hey!



Yes! Yes, and in the parking lot of RALPH'S, where "no prizes are lower prizes than RALPH'S," in the parking lot of RALPH'S (in between a pair of customized trucks where nobody was looking), he cut out some really, really, really NICE WINGS, and he covered them thoroughly with foil!



Thorough-LY wi-TH (e-e-e-e-e) FOIL-L-L!



Then he took those 'WINGS' and wedged one under each of his powerful arms and sneaked into a telephone booth. . .



YES!! Yes! And then he SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR! And he pulled down his blue denim policeman type trouser pants, and he spread even amounts of AUNT JEMIMA maple syrup all over the inside of his legs!



Soon the booth was filling with flies!



(Help me, help me, help me!)



He held open the legs of his boxer shorts so they could all get in (Yes! Yeah!), and when each and every one of those little cocksuckin' flies had gone into his pants, and they were lapping up all that maple syrup, he bent over and he put his head between his legs and he said in a very clear, impressive, RON HUBBARD-type voice. . .



"NEW YORK!"



. . . and the booth and everything lifted up, out of the parking lot, and into the sky!



STUDEBAKER HOCH

YEAH, YEAH

STUDEBAKER HOCH

STU-DE-BAKER HOCH!



STUDEBAKER HOCH

YEAH, YEAH

STUDEBAKER HOCH

STU-DE-BAKER HOCH!



He's coating his legs

With AUNT JEMIMA syrup up and down!



His shorts'll be filled with flies

That will be buzzing all around!



Stoodlabaker Hoch:

He's really outa sight!

Stoodlabaker Hoch:

He does it every night!

Stoodlabaker Hoch:

He treats the flies all right

STOODLA-BAKER HOCH

That's why they never bite, hey!



(Please to New York!

Fly to New York!)



He could be a DOG

Or a FROG

Or a LESBIAN QUEEN!



(Fly to New York!)



He could be a NARK

Or a LADY MARINE!



Or he might play dirty!

He's OVER THIRTY!

(Getting old? Say! I don't know!)



His peculiar attire

And the flies he require

Keep leading him on

'Cause ETHELL is gone

They keep leading him on

'Cause ETHELL is gone

And THE MOUNTAIN she's on



And speaking of mountains, we'll join STUDEBAKER HOCH on the edge of BILLY THE MOUNTAIN's mouth. Take it away:



"Ah. . . ya, ya, ya, hey-ah BILLY, ah, listen. . . I've come to REASON with you! Our GREAT COUNTRY needs you in the Armed Forces! Your NUMBER came up. . . you can't go on running like this forever."



Oh! But ETHELL just shook her twigs angrily, but STUDEBAKER HOCH, calm, cool, collected, and UN-ferturbed, continued. . .



"Ya, well listen, you (cough cough) . . . listen, you COMMUNIST SON-OF-A-BITCH! You better get your ass down there for your fuckin' physical, or I'll see to it that you get used for FILL DIRT in some impending New Jersey MARSH RECLAMATION. . . and your girl-friend there will wind up disguised as a series of brooms, primitive ironing boards (or a DOG HOUSE) . . . get the (cough, cough), GET THE PICTURE?"



Yeah, well, BILLY just laughed:



"HO, HO, HO! If they think they're gonna draft ME, they're CRAZY!"



Unfortunately, because STUDEBAKER HOCH was standing on the edge of BILLY THE MOUNTAIN's mouth when the giant mountain laughed, STUDEBAKER HOCH lost his footing and fell, screaming, two hundred feet into the rubble below!



"Aaahhhhh. . . oh fuck, I'm gonna need a TRUSS. . . "



Oh, listen, that only goes to show you, and it'll show you once again that. . .



A Mountain is something

You don't wanna fuck with

You don't wanna fuck with

Don't fuck around

(Don't fuck around)



Don't fuck with BILLY (No!)

And don't fuck with ETHELL

(You saw what just happened

To the guy with the flies!)



DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!

DON'T FUCK AROUND!



With



Biddilly, Biddilly

Biddilly, Biddilly, Biddilly



BIDDILLY

THE

MOUNTIN-INNNNNNN!



(Eddie, are you kidding?)



Eddie, are you kidding?



FZ: Oh, I forgot to mention this is where we take our intermission, we'll see you in a few minutes. . .

(Thank you!)

FZ: We'll be back!

THE MONKEES lyrics - Merry Go Round

A lone carnival voice

Sings tunes of nobody's choice,

And on a vacant lot,

Some one just forgot,

Standing all alone,

Turning on its own.



Weary, merry go round,

Grows slowly into the ground,

And faded circus acts,

Sorrow broke their backs,

And their sadness cries

From their staring eyes.



Still small children come

And bring your harm of play,

Spirits all alive

To drive the ghosts away.



Useless merry go round,

Tomorrow they'll tear you down,

To build the parking lot

If it lives or not,

It was just a toy,

All it brought was joy.

MANOWAR lyrics - The Warrior's Prayer

- Grandfather, tell me a story!

- Alright, go and get your storybook

- No, no, not one of those, a real story!

- A real story?

- Yes, tell me about when you were a boy.

- Well, then I shall have to take you back

With me, a long way in time...



It was my thirteenth year on a cold winter's

Day, as I walked through the enchanted forest,

I heard the sound of horses and men at arms,

I felt compelled to walk on and find the place

Of these sounds, and when the forest did clear

I was standing, waiting. I thought to myself,

For whom or for what are they waiting?

Suddenly a gust of wind came up from the north.

There appeared a lone rider, holding a sword

Of steel. Then from the south came another,

Bearing a battle ax. From the east came a third,

Holding a spiked club. And finally, from the west,

A rider who wielded a great hammer of war.

With them came their soldiers of death, followed

By an army of immortals. They were few in number,

But the look in their eyes told all who beheld

Them that they would leave this day only in

Victory or death. And there was a great silence...



My heart began to pound, storm clouds filled

The sky with darkness, rain came, and the four

Winds blew with such anger that I held fast to

A tree. I watched the four riders raise their

Weapons into the air. Without warning, screaming

Their war cry. They led the attack, down to

The battle they rode. They met the armies of

The world with a mighty clash! I could feel

The ground shake, the earth drank much blood

That day! Each of the four, was unto himself,

A whirlwind of doom!!!!!!!!!!

When the smoke did clear, many thousands

Were dead. There was much blood and gore.

Their bodies lay broken and scattered across

The battlefield, like brown leaves blown by

The wind. And I saw the four ride together

To the top of the hill, while below them the

Soldiers of death assembled, all those who

Would now swear allegiance to them. And the

Four spoke the words of the warriors prayer:



Gods of war I call You. My sword is by my side.

I seek a life of honor, free from all false pride.

I will crack the whip with a bold mighty hail.

Cover me with death if I should ever fail.



Glory, Majesty, Unity

Hail, Hail, Hail



And as I stood and looked on, I heard the

Armies of the world hail them without end, and

Their voices of victory carried long and far

Throughout the land!



- Well that's it. Did you like the story?

- Yeah, it was great!

- Oh Good, I'm glad. Now off to bed with you.

- Grandfather?

- Yes?

- Who were those four men?

- Who were they? They were the Metal Kings!!!!!!

POWER STATION lyrics - Someday, Somehow, Someone's Gotta Pay

I will protect you

Nothing can hurt you

No storm clouds gathering terrify



I am a mountain

Surrounded by your love

You are a mountain that dreams are made of



We fight for love

We fight for love

Fight for love



Somewhere... somehow... someone

Somewhere... somehow... someone



I fight with fire

As I watch them conspire

To blow my world apart



Between the light

And the endless night

You will always be in my heart



We fight for love

We fight for love

Fight for love

We fight for love



Somewhere... somehow... someone

Somewhere... somehow... someone

[4x]

HERMAN'S HERMITS lyrics - Mother-In-Law

(Toussaint)



Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



The worst person I know

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

She worries me so

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



If she leave us alone

We would have a happy home

Sent from down below



Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



Sin should be her name

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

To me they are about the same

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



Everytime I open my mouth

Then she tries to put me out

How could she stoop so low



Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



I come home with my pay

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law

She ask me what I made

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law



She thinks her advice is a constitution

If she would leave that should be the solution

And don't come back no more



My mother-in-law, mother-in-law....

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER lyrics - Bright Morning Star

Last night I dreamed my head was in a fever

Last night I dreamed it never was so far

To reach a shore of safety and redemption

And to gaze upon a bright morning star



I dreamed I was by friends all but abandoned

I dreamed I was alone but for my scars

And blinded by the tears that fell like water

No more to see my bright morning star



The streets of dreams never looked this lonely

The streets of dreams never felt this hard

I heard my voice barely of a whisper

As the clouds denied a bright morning star



Sometimes this life is no more than a moment

And sometimes the light is lost unto the dark

But courage hears the sound of dawn approaching

And each our own bright morning star



I woke to find every window open

I woke to find the heavy door ajar

And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop

And gazed once more on a bright morning star



I walked outside and every bird was singing

As I found again my bright morning star

GRATEFUL DEAD lyrics - Viola Lee Blues

The judge decreed it, the clerk he wrote it.

Clerk he wrote it down indeed-e

Judge decreed it, clerk he wrote it down

Give you this jail sentence you'll be Nashville bound



Some got six month some got one solid.

Some got one solid year indeed-e

Some got six month some got one solid.

But me and my buddies all got lifetime here



I wrote a letter I mailed in the air, Mailed it on the air indeed-e

I wrote a letter I mailed in the air.

You may know by that I've got a friend somewhere

SWEET lyrics - Solid Gold Brass

(Connolly/Priest/Scott/Tucker)



Heart of a woman

But she's a child

Something inside that's gonna drive you wild

You, you go take a walk

I don't need that kind of talk

'Cause I'm a man not a mother



Solid gold brass got a mean streak

And it's running through my veins

Solid gold brass gotta green streak

And it's going to my brain

But she helps me hang on in there

Solid gold brass



Stars in her eyes

She'd playin' her game

Smooth words and T birds

Her only claim to fame

Hey, just watch what you say

Don't talk about her that way

You know I said I'm a man not a mother



Solid gold brass got a mean streak

And it's running through my veins

Solid gold brass gotta green streak

And it's going to my brain

And she helps me hang on in there



Solid gold brass got a mean streak

And it's running through my veins

Solid gold brass gotta green streak

And it's going to my brain

And she helps me hang on in there

Solid gold brass



Heart of a woman

But she's a child

Something inside that's gonna drive you wild



Solid gold brass got a mean streak

And it's running through my veins

Solid gold brass gotta green streak

And it's going to my brain



Solid gold brass got a mean streak...

RICK SPRINGFIELD lyrics - Ordinary Girl

(Springfield)



I see her there in her plain print dress and her fading youth.

Something about her opens up my soul,

something about her speaks the truth,

when the sky is falling..

She makes the world go away baby and I tell the truth

There's a plainness and a sameness to her

touch oh yeah and it's beautiful.



I love an ordinary girl

Oh she's just an ordinary girl



I say I love you I know it's just an ordinary sound

We make love in our ordinary house

yeah it's built on common ground and we know it baby

We go out walking on an friday night in Ordinary Town

There's a sameness and a plainness to it all

Oh yeah and it's beautiful



Another day, another battle

We shake the cage, our sabers rattle

Nothing that matters comes easy

and nothing that comes easy ever really matters



Oh (everything I am) she's an ordinary girl (anything I plan)

I love her (for everything that I stand).

She's an ordinary girl (I'm just an ordinary man)

Oh she's (in everything I do) Just an ordinary girl

(in everything that's true) I love her (in everything I plan)

She's an ordinary girl (I'm an ordinary man)

QUEENSRYCHE lyrics - Fear City Slide

I feel like I'm rising,

As everything falls away.

I feel old like the cold wind

Blowing outside today.



Got my finger on the trigger and no one cares.

When they find me face down in the river

Will they just leave me there?



Hang on, don't let go!

Just hang on! Don't let go!



Come on, come on

Gotta take a ride,

Fear City slide.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Leave your head outside,

You've built a lie.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Let's take a ride!

Last chance @ suicide.



Will anyone remember?

Will they learn from my mistakes?

Sometimes it takes a lifetime of pain to change.



I'm closing on the edge here and you've heard it all before...

But what good did any of my life bring?

What was it really for?



Hang on don't let go!

Just hang on and don't let go!



Come on, come on

Gotta take a ride,

Fear City slide.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Leave your head outside,

You've lived a lie.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Let's take a ride!

Last chance @ suicide.



Take me to the top of the sky... and

Let me look down...

The long mile down.

When will the darkness end?



Hang on, don't let go!

Just hang on and don't let go!



Come on, come on

Gotta take a ride,

Fear City slide.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Leave your head outside,

You've lived a lie.

Last chance @ suicide.



Come on, come on

Let's take a ride!

Last chance @ suicide.

WET WET WET lyrics - More Than Love

Every morning takes a chance, it might not come around

So it's maybe coming later

A preacher man on my t. v.

Says he's got the streets for me

And prays you write the letter

Heavenly father tell me how it's gonna be

So that I can try to make it better

Restless bars, you and I suppose they are

For blowing it all away

That's why I say



It takes more than love to get it on

You know it takes more than strength to carry on

It takes more than words to get it wrong

It takes more than love to get it on



Making us crazy, burnin' our bridges

Taking them out one at a time

Goodbyes you know don't come easy

Did you wanna go, for the thrill of it all

Why d'you wanna go cause you had no reason

For blowin' it all away



It takes more than love to get it on

You know it takes more than strength to carry on

It takes more than words to get it wrong

It takes more than love to get it on



Ships are sailing and you know your aim is true

The figureheads have broken in your mind

You paint yourself a picture, and it turns to black and white

And settle with the people one more time



It takes more than love to get it on

You know it takes more than strength to carry on

It takes more than words to get it wrong

It takes more than love to get it on

[To Fade]