1. SOME GIRLS WANDER
BY MISTAKE
2. FIRST AND LAST
AND ALWAYS
3. FLOODLAND
4. VISION
THING
5. SINGLES
SOME GIRLS WANDER BY MISTAKE
1969
Well alright!
It's 1969 ok
We got a war across the USA
There's nothing here for me and you
We're just sitting here with nothing to do
There's nothing here for me and you
Another year with nothing to do
Now last year I was 21
I didn't have a lot of fun
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
Now I'm gonna be 22
So, oh my, I'll boohoo
CHORUS
Well it's 1969, Baby
Well it's 1969, Baby
It's 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9-teen 69
Teen 69 [repeat x3]
Yow! [repeat x3]
ADRENOCHROME
We'll turn away in a passive decision
We'll take the steps through the unmarked door
A look back for another collision
But the boys of the spires
Are boys no more
Not black and red boys
Frightened by the night
By the Catholic monochrome
The Catholic girls now
Stark in their dark and white
Dread in monochrome
The Sisters of Mercy
High tide
Wide eyed
Sped on adrenochrome
For the Sisters of Mercy
Filled with
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead on adrenochrome
We had the power
We had the space
We had a sense of time and place
We knew the words
We knew the score
We knew what we were fighting for
For the freedom
The time to choose
But time to think
Is time to lose
The signals clash
And disappear
The shade too loud
And the sound unclear
For the
High tide
Wide eyed
Dread in monochrome
Denied in spite
Disliked in monochrome
Panic in their eyes
Rise
Dead and monochrome
The Sisters of Mercy
Spite
On adrenochrome
The way is clear
The road is closed
The damage done
And the course
Imposed you
You turn away in a passive decision
You take the steps through the unmarked door
A look back for another collision
But the boys of the spires
Are boys no more
repeat 2
ALICE
She stays presseda against the wall so
She can see the door
In case the laughing strangers call and
Crush the petals on the floor
Alice in her party dress she
Thanks you kindly so serene she
Needs you like she needs her thanks to
Tell her that the world is clean to
Promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines brigth and
Tell her she can have it all
Today
Pass the crystal spread the tarot
In illusion comfort lies the
Safest way the straight and narrow
No confusion no surprise
Alice in her party dressed to kill she
Needs you like she needs the pills to
Tell her that the world's okay to
Promise her a definition
Tell her where the rain will fall
Tell her where the sun shines brigth and
Tell her she can have it all
Today
Today
Alice
Don't give it away
ANACONDA
Baby buy an anaconda
Baby buy a thing to wear
She go walking she go crawling she go sliding through the air
She go talking warm and fashion she go talking debonair but
See her face turn to a mask
And passion turn to she don't care
She will she will let it take her breath away
She will she will let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way
She will she will blow away
Baby hit the rush hour traffic get a ride to anywhere
Baby buy the number three she pay the man she pay the fare
Baby hit the wild blue yonder on the mainline on the slide
Steal to feed the anaconda will not see the suicide
She will she will let it take her breath away
She will she will let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way
She will she will blow away
Baby finger on the trigger baby shot formaldehyde
Turn into a marble figureturn the matter dead inside
Turn into a China doll go maybe to the final ride
Baby go where I don't follow baby on the other side
She will she will let it take her breath away
She will she will let it take her life away
Let it wrap itself around her til it kill her in its way
She will she will blow away
BODY ELECTRIC
Through the cables and the underground now
The faceless breathless calls
This is Babel, sensurround now
This place is death with walls repeat x3
Too much contact, and no more feeling
The Sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walks on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall x2
Crawling to the corners where the idiot children call
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall
repeat 1
Too much contact, and no more feeling
The Sound around them all
Acid on the floor so she walks on the ceiling
And the body electric flashes on the bathroom wall x3
See the body flashing on the bathroom wall
BURN
Burn me a fire in a reptile house in the
Colour and the carnage fall me down my
Face in the fire in the reptile house and the
kissing and the colour come crashing down
In the fire in the reptile house and the
Colour and the carnage fall me down my
Face in the fire in the reptile house and the
kissing and the colour come crashing
Down down down
Down around me
Down down down
Down around my face
In the fire in the reptile house in the...
FIX
Love for the party, love for the nation
Love for the fix and for the fabrication
Love for the corpse, for the corporation
Love for the death and the defecation
Romance and assassination
Give me love for the genocide
Give me love
FLOORSHOW
The bodies on the naked on the low damp ground in the
Violent vhour to the violent sound and the
Darkness the blinding the eyes that shine and the
Voices and the singing and the line on line
This is the floorshow the clapping hands
Animal flow from the animal glands in the
Violent hour to the violent sound going
round and around and around and
I feel the bite I feel the beat I see the dancing feet
I feel the ligth I feel the heat I see the new elite
I see the final floorshow I see the western dream
I see the faces glow and I see the bodies steam
See them shimmy see them go
See their panted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go
This is the floorshow the last ideal it's
Populist got mass appeal the
Old religion redefined for the
Facile futile totally blind
Mundane by day insane at night
pagan playing in the flashing light in the
violent hour to the violent sound going
Round and around and around and around and
bodies on the naked on the low damp ground
In the violent hour to the violent sound and the
Darkeness the blinding the eyes that shine and the
Voices singing line on line
See them shimmy see them go
See their panted faces glow
Slow slow quick quick slow
See those pagans go go go go go
GIMME SHELTER
Oh, see the storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
[repeat]
Yeah
Oh, see the fire is sweeping
Down through the streets today
Burning like a bright red carpet
Another fool who lost the way
Rape. Murder.
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
[repeat]
Yeah
[repeat verse one]
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Love, sisters
It's just a shot away
Shot away
Shot away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
War, children
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
Rape. Murder.
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Rape. Murder.
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
[repeat previous three x2]
[repeat love chorus]
War, children
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away
Kiss away
HEARTLAND
Lay me down the long white line
Leave the sirens far behind me
Paint my name in black and gold
My heart my flame my heart my road
My heartland fade across the line
Heartland sing the faces shining
In the failing failing failing
Heartland make the places mine
Clearly now the past mistakes
The giant steps we had to take
The path that ever promise made to
Die in dream dissolve and fade
CHORUS
My heartland heartland heartland [repeat x3]
Behind the lines a face that glimmers
Still looking for a face that shines
In the promise in the places
I'm going to make them mine
CHORUS [repeat x40]
HOME OF THE HITMEN
The sun shines on the aluminium
I guess this must be the home of the hitmen
KISS THE CARPET
She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure
I was certain
And I said yeah
Yeah
She got red eyes
She wear dust
I went over over over
I went bust
I kissed I kissed the carpet
I climbed the curtain
I was sure
I was certain
But I said
Next time I look before I
Kiss the carpet should I
Kiss
Kiss
Kiss
LIGHTS
The light shines clear through the sodium haze
The nigth draws near and the and the daylight fades
Ignore the voices discard the day
For the brand new darkness for the brigth new way
Hit
There have been better plans but
None that I could ever understand
Emerald signal the green on black the
Lights say move say never lock back and so I
Find another place where I've never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green where the
Emerald glistens through the darkness again where the
Emerald glisten through the rain
The light shines clear through the sodium haze
The nigth draws near and the and the daylight fades but there's a
Voice in the distance quiet and clear saying
Something that I never ever wanted to hear
There have been better plans but
None that I could ever understand I see the
Emerald signal the green on black I see the
Lights say move say never lock back and so I
Find another place where I'll never been seen
Find another place where the red turns green where the
Emerald glistens through the darkness again where the
Emerald glisten through the rain rain rain and I'm
Happy here
In the rain
PHANTOM
Instrumental...
TEMPLE OF LOVE
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another but still the same
For the wind will blow my name across this land
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the temple of love - shine like thunder
In the temple of love - cry like rain
In the temple of love - hear my calling
In the temple of love - hear my name
And the devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the sunlight died and the night above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside
You run for cover in the temple of love
You run for another, it's all the same
For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain at hand
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water, sounds of
Crying, weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and only air remains
In the temple of love - shine like thunder
In the temple of love - cry like rain
In the temple of love - hear the calling
In the temple of love - is falling down
In the temple of love - shine like thunder
In the temple of love - cry like rain
In the temple of love - hear my calling
In the temple of love - hear my name
In the black sky thunder sweeping under
Ground and over water, sounds of
Crying, weeping will not save your
Faith for bricks and dreams for mortar
All your prayers must seem as nothing
Ninety-six below the wave when
Stone is dust and only air remains
Only haven you can trust
And the devil in a black dress watches over
My guardian angel walks away
Life is short and love is always over in the morning
Black wind come carry me far away
With the fire from the fireworks up above me
With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain
You run for cover in the temple of love
I shine like thunder, cry like rain
And the temple of love grows old and strong
But the wind blows stronger, cold and long
And the temple of love will fall before this
Black wind calls my name to you no more
In the temple of love you hide together
Believing pain and fear outside
But someone near you rides the weather
And the tears he cried will rain on
Walls as wide as lovers' eyes
In the temple of love - shine like thunder
In the temple of love - cry like rain
In the temple of love - hear the calling
In the temple of love - is falling down
THE DAMAGE DONE
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
Somebody tell me about the ...
I need to know about the ...
Somebody tell me about the perfect bomb
The royal valley of a Blitzkrieg Bop
Somebody tell me how to use my gun tools
Kiss the napalm in the afternoon
I saw the film, I saw the place
I live to work for the killing sake
When I think you're knocked, when the radio died
And the rhythm played from every side
See the rubble and the damage done
See the debris and the damage done
See the wreckage and the damage done
See the film, see the damage done
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the 4th floor.
(This is the image, this is the place)
Somebody tell me about the rhythm of the dance floor
(This is the way the world will end)
Somebody tell me about the ...
(The waltzing man have dancing eyes)
I need to know about the ...
(This is the way the world will end)
Me I'm lost and the radio's dead
Now I'm relaxed and the radio's dead
The rhythms gone, the radio's dead
And the damage done inside my Head Oh.
VALENTINE
The razore bites and the shriek subsides
He arches clutching at his sides
Across the floor across the tiles
The man is dead and the razor smiles
A shiny love song a quick a quick incision
Cut him down on television
A people come to this
Beyond the age of reason
A people fed on famine
A people on their knees and
A people eat each other
A people stand in line
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my Valentine
For a million empty faces
For a million hollow smiles
Cancer for my education
Watch the body hit the files
Waiting for another war and
Waiting for my Valentine
WATCH
Here's the story
No time to lose (like the present)
Now I've lost my friends
Now I've lost friends
It's not my party,
Never will be
Feeling out-of-place,
I'm not happy
A touch of the storm cloud...
Roughage in a comradeship and conversations
Conversations, everything's so run-of-the-mill
We stand still...
And time slips back,
And time slips back...
Back to the garden,
Time slips back
Back in the dark rooms
Time slips back
Back in the dark room
Back to the dark age
Put me on the rack
We stand still
Time slips back
Recount movements
Recount movements
Watch us grow
Watch us fall from grace
Watch us fall flat on our face
But you always fall on your feet
Tell me how you always
Fall on your feet
Tell me how
Tell me how
Tell me how
Oh tell me how
FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
And she came to look for me
Sold me name and innocence
Took my key
And told me to follow her
Down from igor with her bangles and her reference
One from the church from the valley of the
Well she wanted a haven and a place to hide
So I gave her an alibi took her inside but
A rock and a hard place await for for me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
Everything I ever did right or wrong
Hid out of sight where I belong, belong
And I didn't have the heart to tell her
Why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but
Cause and effect go hand in hand with
The devil may care but I don't mind and I
Thought she'd never quite understand so I
Left her there that night but will she
Find me? I don't think so, no
When you go, you go alone
And I'm gone.............
far away [x4]
And I didn't have the heart to tell
Why
And there wasn't a part of me that
Didn't want to say goodbye but...
CHORUS [to fade]
AMPHETAMINE LOGIC
Watch them do
The falling over
Watch them do
The standing still
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s...
(Women) and the women come and go
(Talk) talking about me like they know
(Men) bougth and sold
And the world keeps turning
People cold
And people burning
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s...
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s...(amphetamine logic)
Hit up
Steel in hand
Lit up
Like candles burning
Like Catherine wheels turning on
Nothing but the knife to live for
One life all I need
Give me one good reason
Give me more s...(amphetamine logic)
BLACK PLANET
In the western sky
My kingdom come
So still
So dark all over Europe
And I ride down the highway 101
By the side of the ocean headed for sunset
For the kingdom come
For the...
chorus
Black
Black planet
Black
Black world
repeat
Run around in the radiation
Run around in the acid rain
On a
Black
Black planet
Black planet hanging over the highway
Out of my mind's eye
Out of the memory
Black world out of my mind
Still so dark all over Europe
And the rainbow rises here
In the western sky
The kill to show for
At the end of the great white pier
I see a...
chorus
Run around in the radiation
Tune in
Turn on
Burn out in the acid rain
On a...
chorus repeat to fade
FIRST AND LAST AND ALWAYS
See a body and a dream of the dead days
A following lost and blind
Living far from here
Tomorrow is hard to find
And it seems like twenty five years of
Promises and give me more
Scenes of a hand-me-down in
Dresses heard before
CHORUS 1
First and last and always: 'til the end of time
First and last and always: Mine [echo]
Maybe it's not so easy
Maybe it's a way to long
Say, say you'll be by me
When the evidence comes along
CHORUS 2
First and last and always: My calling, my time
First and last and always: Mine [echo]
My calling
My time
See a place and a dream of the dead days
A following lost and blind
Cross my heart with silver
Here's the key behind
Seems like twenty five years of
Ever after ever more more more
Seems I wore this face for you
Far too long before
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 1 [x2 and fade]
MARIAN
In a sea of faces, in a sea of doubt
In this cruel place your voice above the maelstrom
In the wake of this ship of fools I'm falling further down
If you can see me, Marian, reach out and take me home.....
CHORUS
I hear you calling Marian
Across the water, across the wave
I hear you calling Marian
Can you hear me calling you to
Save me, save me, save me from the
Grave...
Marian
Marian, there's a weight above me
And the pressure is all too strong
To breathe deep
Breathe long and hard
To take the water down and go to sleep
To sink still further
Beneath the fatal wave
Marian I think I'm drowning
This sea is killing me
CHORUS
Was ich kann und was ich koennte (What I can do and what I could
do)
Weiss ich gar nicht mehr
(I just don't know anymore)
Gib mir wieder etwas Schoenes (Give me something
beautiful again)
Zieh mich aus dem Meer
(Drag me from the sea)
Ich hoer Dich rufen Marian (I
hear you calling Marian)
Kannst Du mich schreien hoeren ? (Can you hear me calling?)
Ich bin hier allein
(I am here alone)
Ich hoer Dich rufen Marian (I
hear you calling Marian)
Ohne Deine Hilfe verliere ich mich in diesem Ort
(Without your help I am lost in this place)
CHORUS
[repeat Marian til end]
NINE WHILE NINE
And it's passing strange
And I'm waiting for the train
Caugth up on this line again
And it's passing slowly
Killing time but it's
Better than living in what will come and I've
Still got some of your letters with me and I
Thought sometimes or I read to much
And I think you know let's
Drink to the dead lying under the water and the
Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the
Lipstick on my cigarettes
Frost upon the winow pane
Nine while nine and I'm waiting
For the train...
She said do you remember the time when angels
Do you remember a time when fear
In the days when I was stronger
In the days when you where here she said
When days had no beginning
While days had no end when
Shadows grew no longer I
Knew no other friend but you where wild...
Frost upon these cigarettes
Lipstick on the winow pane and I've
lost all snese of the world outside but I
Can't forget so I call your name and I'm
Looking for a life for me and I'm
Looking for a life for you and I'm
Talking to myself again and it's
So damn cold it's just not true and I'm
Walking through the rain
Trying to hold on waiting for the train and I'm
Only looking for what you want but it's
Lonely here and I think you knew and I'm
And I'm waiting
And I wait in vain
Nine while nine and I'm waiting for the train...
NO TIME TO CRY
It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frigthened
Just like you
And I get frigthened too
But it's
No time for heartache
No time to run and hide
No time for breaking down
No time to cry
Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hands that feeds you
It's just like Adam says it's
Just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find, it's
Just like always here again, it's
No time for heartache
No time to run and hide
No time for breaking down
No time to cry
Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some night I still can sleep and the
Voices pass with time and I keep
(Everything will be alright)
(Everything will turn out fine)
(Some night I still can sleep and the)
(Voices pass with time and I keep)
No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear and I
Keep no time to cry, it's
No time for heartache
No time to run and hide
No time for breaking down
No time to cry
POSSESSION
Carrion child,
Prey for me,play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your
Head, home to me, so much dreaming
Some say I'm growing cold and
Taking over
Nothing, cuts, two ways.....
Possession: taking over
Stand these pictures on your shelf
And wear your heart upon my sleeve,
Wear a dress that you can see through,
See yourself inside;
I'll be your imagination,
Tear apart what you believe,
Make a mess of your conviction,
Take away my pride and leave,
Nothing, but the debris,
Cuts, two ways,
Carrion child,
Prey for me, play your
Wild card, see the house come down around your
Possession: taking over.....
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake;
Possession: taking over.....
Somehow the fact takes over, and the fiction coming through,
Somehow I do my crying breaking down for you,
This way doubt takes over, contradiction coming through,
This way I do my lying, making up and making out for you.....
Possession: taking over
Child (nothing)
Prey for me (but the debris)
Play your wild card (cuts two ways)
Some say I'm growing cold and
Taking over.....Down around your
Head (nothing)
Home to me (but the debris)
So much dreaming, see the house come down around your
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: taking over.....
Possession: shake shake shake shake shake shake shake
Possession: taking hold
SOME KIND OF STRANGER
And yes I believe in what we had
But words got in the way
And only yesterday
As I was leaving
Lord knows I've tried to say but I've
Heard a million conversations
Going where they've been before
Seen the way that careful lingers
Undecided at the door
CHORUS
And all I know for sure
All I know for real
Is knowing doesn't mean so much
When placed against the feeling
The heat inside
When bodies meet
When fingers touch
All my words are secondhand and
Useless in the face of this
Rationale and rhyme and reason
Pale beside a single kiss
And I've heard so many things I
Fail to understand at all
I'd settle anytime for
Unknown footsteps in the hall outside
CHORUS
Because the world is cruel and
Promises are broken
Don't try to tell me
Anything don't try to tell me
You'll be true to me you know the
Real truth is never spoken
And I know the world is cold but
If you hold on tight to what you
Find you might not mind too much though
Even this must pass away and
Memories may last for years but
Names are just for souvenirs
Some kind of angel let me
Look into your eyes
Don't give me whys and wherefores
Reason or surprise
I don't care for words that don't belong
And I don't care what you're called
Tell me later if at all
I can wait a long long time
Before I hear another love song
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
I think you're beautiful
Some kind of angel come inside
Come here I think you're beautiful
My door is open wide
Some kind of stranger come inside
WALK AWAY
And in the summer when the clouds show through
I migth go the same way to if
You and I could talk together
Well what am I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together
Then with always close around and
Now you gaze toward the doorway
When the weather comes falling down
And When the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay would you
Choose to walk would you choose to stay would you
walk walk walk away away away
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay would you
Choose to talk would you choose to stay would you
walk walk walk away
Though when the day is nearly
Through I migth see the same way too if
You would name the things that bring you
Down on me so I could say it's
Not quite true if you don't really
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I migth clear you
Mind and you won't have to go so
So when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay would you
Choose to walk would you choose to stay would you
walk walk walk away away away
FLOODLAND
1959
Living as angel in the
Place that I was born
Living on air
Living in heaven
Giving the lie down, the line
To the
There's my heaven
And I know
Wich way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine
Wich way the wind blows
In nineteen fifty-nine
And the wind blows still
And the wind blows wild again
For a little child can never kill this clean
This way
And it feels like me today
Tell me
Do you feel the same
Isabelle?
Or do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?
...Do you feel like nineteen fifty-nine?
And the wind blows wild again
And the wind blows wild
In nineteen fifty-nine
In fifty-nine
Isabelle
Do you, do you feel the same?
Come with me
Like a child
Like another gun
Like homeless, restless, known to none,
Like way beyond the line
Like it never was
In nineteen fifty-nine
COLOURS
You reap what you sow
Put your face to the ground
Here come the marching men
Your colours wrapped around
DOMINION
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
When I close my eyes
When I look your way
When I meet the fear that lies inside
When I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say, say, say
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine
In the light of the fact
On the lone and level
Sand stretch far away
In the heat of the action
In the settled dust
Hold hold and sway
In the meeting of mined
Down in the streats of shame
In the betting of names on gold to rust
In the land of the blind
Be...king, king, king, king
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Come a time
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine
In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day
When I close my eyes
When I look your way
When I meet the fear that lies inside
When I hear you say
In the heat of the moment
Say, say, say
Some day, some day, some day, -Dominion
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
I say mine
DRIVEN LIKE THE SNOW
Still night, nothing for miles,
White curtain come down,
Kill the lights in the middle of the road
And take a look around...
It don't help to be one of the chosen
One of the few, to be sure
When the weels are spinning around
And the ground is frozen through, and you're
Driven, like the snow
Pure in heart
Driven together
And given
Away to the west
A white dress
'Til the river don't run
A black dress
'Til the sun don't shine no more
Where the sky meet the ground
Where the street fold round
Where the voice you hold don't
Make no sound, look,
Snow on the river and two by two,
Took a lot to live a lot like you, I don't
Go there now, but I hear they sung
Their "Fuck Me And Marry Me Young"
Some wild idea and a big white bed, now
You know better than that, I said,
Like a voice in the wind blows little crystals down
Like brittle things will break before the turn
Like lipstick on my cigarette
And the ice get harder over head
Like think it twice but never never learn...
And the mist will wrap around us
And the crystal, if you touch it...
And the cars
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the people that drive
Lost in the drift
Are there
And the cares I've
Lost in the drift
Are there
Their, ours,
Lost in the drift
Are...
Driven
Driven together
And driven
Apart
FLOOD I
And her hallway
Moves
Like the Ocean
Moves
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Trying to write it down
Fitting in hard with harder to come
Trying to fight it
Down the river there's a ship will carry you
Down river down stream
Down the river there's a ship will carry the
Dream
Dream of the flood
Down the river there's a ship will carry the
Dream of the flood
And her hallway...
As the water comes rushing over
As the water comes rushing in
As the water comes rushing over
Flood...Flood...
Push the glass, stain the glass
Push the writer to the wall
It may come but it will pass
Some say we will fall
Dream of the flood...
Flood...
And her hallway...
Oh, maybe, in terms of surrender,
On a backcloth of lashes and eyes
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and ashes and ashes
And ashes and ashes and lies...
And her hallway...
Like...
As the water comes rushing in
As the water comes rushing over
Sitting now in this bar for hours
While these strange men rent strange flowers
I'll be picking up your petals in another few hours
In the metal and blood, in the scent of mascara
On a backcloth of lashes and stars
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
And ashes and ashes and second hand passion
And stolen guitars
And her hallway...
As the water comes rushing in
Like the sea
As the water comes rushing over
Dream of the flood
In a flood of your tears, in sackcloth
and ashes and ashes
and ashes and ashes
and ashes and ashes
and ashes and ashes and lies...
As the water comes rushing in, rushing in
At the head of the river
At the source of the sea
And her hallway...
Like...
Flood...
FLOOD II
And her hallway
Moves
Like the ocean
Moves
And her hallway
Moves
Like the sea
Like the sea
She says no no no no harm will come your way
She says bring it on down, bring on the wave
She says: nobody done no harm
Grace of God and raise your arms
She says: place it and it's a place to stay
This, this is the way it was
This, this is the way it is
When the water come rushing, rushing in
She says
She says anytime
Raise your arms
Flood
And her hallway
Like...
Like...
Like a million voices call my name
Like a million voices calling
Not now, not ever again...
Sitting here now in this bar for hours
Strange men rent strange flowers
Seconds to the drop but it feels like hours and I
Think I'm going to...going to...
This, this is the way it was
This, this is the way it is
When the water come rushing, rushing in
She says
She says anytime
Raise your arms
Flood
And her hallway...
She says
She says anytime
Raise your arms
Flood
LUCRETIA MY REFLECTION
I hear the roar of the big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of the big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city nad disspossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdome, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take direction,
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me...
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, the don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel
I don't feel
I don't feel
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done...
I hear the roar of the big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down...
We got the empire, now as then,
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...
MOTHER RUSSIA
We serve an old man in a dry season
A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun
Dreamers of sleepers and white treason
We dream of rain and the history of the gun
There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia
A white house in a red square
I'm living in films for the sake of Russia
A Kino Runner for the DDR
And the fifty-two daugthers of the revolution
Turn the gold to chrome
Gift...nothing to lose
Stuck inside of Memphis with the mobile home, sing:
Mother Russia,
Mother Russia,
Mother Russia rain down down down
Mother Russia,
Mother Russia,
Mother Russia rain down
NEVER LAND
A fragment
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a
Ticket to Syria
I had everything within my reach
I had money and stuff
Each and every call
Too much but never enough
Tear it up and watch it fall
THIS CORROSION
Gimme the ring, kissed and toll'd
Gimme something that I missed
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems...
Kill the king, when love is the law,
And the we'll turn round...
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call?
On the loan and on the level
...Still on the floor
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, chiold and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to hauch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me...please...
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for Giwing Away?
Got a song for me?
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bleed all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold
Tjhe highered hand
On heart
Hand Of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
TORCH
And now the torch
And shadows lead
Were it not so black and not so hard to see
How can it help you when you don't know what you need
How can anybody set you free?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch
For me?
And what if I gave you the key
To the doors of your design...
Lit the corridors of desire?
Where if not so black
And not so hard to see
What use to you then any fire?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Carry the torch for me?
Would he walk upon the water
If he couldn't walk away?
And would you
Would you carry the torch for me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
Would you carry the torch
For me?
VISION THING
DETONATION BOULEVARD
On Detonation Boulevard...
Through the angel rain
Through the dust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
Just tell me where the manholes steam
A little girl waits on my station
With a new machine
On Detontion Boulevard...
I got wrecked out here
In a Eldorado
I got wired, white-walled
This hot wired sedan
I caugth something weird in Encenada
I've a brother in sort in Torquemada
Long distance information
Disconnect me if you can
On Detontion Boulevard...
Pink noise, white noise
And a violent whining sound
It burns inside this car
No cops, no signs, no left, no right
No stops, no turning round
Well you can run but you can't ride
You won't get far
On Detontion Boulevard...
Bang bang
On Detontion Boulevard...
Through the angel rain
Through the dust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
I'll take the same
I got fuel for the transformation
I'm a naked flame
On Detontion Boulevard...
Bang bang
DOCTOR JEEP
Everybody shouts on I love Lucy
PeeWee reads the evning news
A pre-owned song or a second hand Uzi
Everybody got a job to loose
Here come the golden oldies
Here come the Hizbollah
Bussinessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
Meanwhile...
I like Cal and his dog napalm
I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb
Everybody got one, I want mine
You can order it up on channel nine
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
There was a time but it's long gone
Janie got a crush on the Viet Cong
Burning through downtown Saigon
Me, I'm sold - down the Mekong
Meanwhile, in the Shearton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
Guns and cars and accidents
The threatened witness my defence
You can sell one another for fifteen cents
Well bye-bye mother, it's common sense
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
Everybody shouts on I love Lucy
PeeWee reads the evning news
A pre-owned song or a second hand Uzi
Everybody got a job to loose
Here come the golden oldies
Here come the Hizbollah
Bussinessmen from South Miami
Humming AOR
Meanwhile, in the Sheraton
Doctor Jeep plays on and on and on
I WAS WRONG
You say stay and never leave
You say meant forever
I could believe you, but I don't
You say we're almost alone together
All alone
You say
You say you will
I know you won't
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing
In a world where where people shout
I don't want to talk it over
I don't want to talk it out
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor
Isn't that what friends are for ?
Pin looks great on other people
That's what they're for
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
You say stay and never leave
You say meant forever
I could believe you, but I don't
You say we're almost alone together
All alone
You say
You say you will
I know you won't
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
In a bar that's always closing
In a world where where people shout
I don't want to talk it over
I don't want to talk it out
I was quite impressed until I hit the floor
Isn't that what friends are for ?
Pin looks great on other people
That's what they're for
I was wrong
I was wrong to ever doubt
I can get along without
I can love my fellow man
But I'm damned if I'll love yours
MORE
Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
I want more
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
(And I need all the love I can get)
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
D'you get scared to feel so much ?
To let somebody touch you ?
So hot, so cold, so far so out of controll
Hard to come by, and harder to hold
Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
(And I need all the love I can get)
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
There are aprts of me that don't get nervous
Not the parts that shake
You won't get what you deserve
You are what you take
Learning to cry for fun and profit
I'm not done yet
Counterfeit dollars or the English Zloty
Anything that I can get
Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don't know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
One thing I know
I want more
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
(And I need all the love I can get)
(And I need all the love that I can't get to)
All the love that you can get
All the love
That I can't get to...
RIBBONS
I'm lying on my back now
The stars look all to near
Flowers on the razor wire
I know you're here
We are few
And far between
I was thinking about her skin
Love is a many splintered thing
Don't be afraid now
Just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Here eyes were cobalt red
Her voice was cobalt blue
I see no purple light
Crashing out of you
So just walk on in
(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)
Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard the scratching on the door
I tried to tell her
About Marx and Engels, God and Angels
I don't really know what fore
But she looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
She looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in
Tie a red red red red red red ribbon
Love is a many splintered thing
Tie a red red red red ribbon
Don't be afraid
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
(Incomming...)
(Incomming...)
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
Flowers on the razor wire
Just walk on in...
SOMETHING FAST
All the things
We never needed
I don't need them now
All the things we ever did
Were always confidential
And hidden from me anyhow
You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of the slows down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
God know everybody needs
A hand in their decision
Some of us are not so sure
I seen his own held out
For a ride on television
I think he's still in Baltimore
You can stand all night
At a red light anywhere in town
Hailing maries left and right
But none of the slows down
I seen the best of men go past
I don't wanna be the last
Gimme something fast
VISION THING
Twenty-five whores in the room next door
Twenty-five floors and I need more
I'm looking for the can in the candy store
Two thousand Hamburg four
And colours I anin't seen before
It's a small world and it smells funny
I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money
Take back what I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
in a long black car
With the prettiest shit
From Panama
When the sirens wail
And the ligths flash blue
My vision thing come
Slamming through
It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
Slamming through
Slamming through
What do we need to make our world come alive ?
What does it take to make us sing ?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive ?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing
Another black hole in the killing zone
A little more mad in the methedrome
One blinding flash of sense
Just like the president's
Well, I don't mind
Out of my mind
Blizzard king
Bring it on home
It's a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade
And a vision thing
And a vision thing
And a...
Sha la la la
What do we need to make our world come alive ?
What does it take to make us sing ?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive ?
One million points of light
One billion dollar Vision Thing
Sha la la la
WHEN YOU DON'T SEE ME
When you don't see me...
It's not a matter of going to grow
It's not a matter of time or how I feel
I'm throwing off the shadow of a better man now
What you see is what you never had
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disapear
When you don't see me...
Oh, it's kind of different when you're there
You can't lease the peace of mind
You bougth a mask, I put it on
You never thougth to ask me
If I wear it when you're gone
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disapear
When you don't see me...
You never learned
You bought me
I turned
You couldn't let me move
I guess, I don't deny, I don't disprove
What you see is what you lost
If I was you I wouldn't try
Get real
Get another
I don't exist when you don't see me
I don't exist when you're not here
What the eye don't see won't break the heart
You can make believe when we're apart
But when you leave I disapear
When you don't see me...
SINGLES
AFTERHOURS
One more night spent on your mirror
Black Mariah, in your eyes
This stuff so strange and lonely
England fades away
In your eyes
Two O'clock in the morning
Ninety-four degrees
Through the stillness through the heat
The cars go by on fifth and breathing slow
Get up off the floor and angel put your clothes on
It's time for us to go
Let's take a ride
BLOOD MONEY
(Flesh)
(Bone)
(Splinters on the telephone)
(Whispers)
Bullet in the head
Down
Head
Down
Got power to burn
Got means
Got flowers to burn
Between those pretty dreams
Hold out for cover
Hold out your hands to me
For...
chorus
Blood, blood money
Blood, blood money, money, money, money
(Kiss...)
Children - kiss the ring
Children - kiss the blade
chorus
Which hand holds?
Your hand holds?
chorus x2
BODY AND SOUL
All your hidden faces
Your seven veils unfold
Give me forbidden places
All your tales untold
Give me ever and always
Ever and always, body and soul
Heaven and a hope eternal
Over your heart of gold
Sun and sunset
Burning in the flame you hold
Ever and always
Give me ever and always, body and soul
Yesterday
Today
Tomorrow
Body and soul
Give me ever the years you wept inside when cold
All the sins and secrets never cried
All the dreams you kept and the tears you sold, give me
Give me ever and always
Ever and always, body and soul
Your heart your mind your body and
Soul
Soul
Soul
Soul
BURY ME DEEP
Call it superstition Lie beside and
Followed and fell Bury me
Under the falling Deep
Under the spell
Singing
Bury me x2
Spoken in tongues
Of many colours
In the colours of heaven
In the colours of hell
In the cannot
Would not tell
In the broken temple bells
In the ringing
Oh, Marian
I can hear those voices singing
Bury me
Deep
Inside
Lie beside and
Bury Me
Deep
In the spoken
In tongues
Cover me over
Unsung
Unsaid
Not borrowed
Broken and torn
On the bed tomorrow, mourning
Before you sleep
Bury me deep
Bury me
Inside
Lie beside and
Bury me, bury me, bury me, bury me deep
Call it superstition
Followed and fell
Under the falling
Under the spell
Bury me
Deep
Inside
EMMA
We were together since we were five
She was so pretty
Emma was a star in everyone's eyes
And when she said she'd be a movie queen
Nobody laughed
With her face like an angel
She could be anything
CHORUS
Emmaline
Emma
Emmaline
I'm gonna write your name high on the silver screen
Emmaline
Emma
Emmaline
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen
At seventeen
We were wed
And I worked hard to earn our daily bread
And every day
Emma would go out searching for that play
That never, ever came her way
And sometimes she come home and she'd be so depressed
I'd hear her crying in the back room and be so distressed
And I'd remember back when she was five
To the words that used to make Emmaline come alive
It was...
CHORUS
It was a cold and dark December night
When I opened up the bedroom door
To find her lying
Cold and still upon the bed
A love letter lying on the bedroom floor
IT read,
Darling I love you
But I just can't keep living on dreams no more
I've tried so hard not to leave you alone
But I just can't keep trying no more
CHORUS
GOOD THINGS
The cracks appear along the wall wall wall wall wall
See the people stoop back, once stood tall tall tall tall tall
I see the buildings crumble see the empires fall
But I see no more and I don't recall
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Because I see
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good
Nothing but the good things
Well nothing ventured nothing lost
Count the changes count the cost
A reformation so uncertain
Keep your station draw the curtain
Because out there the snipers work the ridges
Building bombs and blowing bridges
Out there on a darkened road
The lines are dead and the cars explode
But in here
There's nothing but the good things
In here
Nothing but the good things
In here
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good good
Nothing but the good things
I see a green sea a pleasant land land land land land
Nothing legal underhand
On the fence or in the sand
Well I take no chances and I take no stand
Against the wall
Against the wire
Against the fall
Against the fire
Against the sale
Against the hire
They say the profits high
But I know the cost is higher
Still I see
Nothing but the good things
Still I see
Nothing but the good things
Still I see here see do talk see
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good good
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good things
Nothing but the good good good good things
No!
KNOCKING ON HEAVENS DOOR
Mama take this badge from me
I can't use it anymore
It's getting dark too dark to see
Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
CHORUS
Knock knock knockin' on heaven's door [repeat x3]
Mama wipe this blood from my face
I'm sick and tired of all this war
There's a long hard feelin' and it's hard to chase
Feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door
CHORUS
Mama put these guns to the ground
I can't shoot them anymore
There's a long black train and it's comin round
Feels like knockin' on heaven's door
CHORUS
ON THE WIRE
Now the ground comes up too fast
Too fast to meet you
In clouds of dust erupting
Thick around your feet, be careful
In the rubble in waiting
Wall to wall where you tread
Now the quick and the dead and the same old
Fates come calling cards away
How do you think it came to pass you
By the hard way by desire
How do you think it came to pass you by?
On the wire
I don't sleep so I don't dream
So I don't wake up frightened
Everything is what it seems if
You look deep enough tonight and
See.....
On the wire
On the wire
On the wire
I will not fall
[repeat]
[repeat x4]
POISON DOOR
Behind the door the poison door we
Search the still hours looking
For a place to hide
Behind the door
Where dreams collide
Behind the door the poison doow
We sit in silence waiting
For a deadly friend
Behind the door
Where ddreams decend
And the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
The shadow smile
And kiss the sky
Behind the door the poison door the
Puppets dance on a burning floor like
Dying flames
Behind the door
Shoot me down again
Behind the door the poison door we
Search the still hours looking...
The shadows smile
But their lips are s...
and the shadows smile
Lips dark and wild
The shadows smile
Kiss your memory goodbye
The shadows smile
And kiss...
The sky
TEACHERS
I met a man who lost his mind
in some lost place I had to find.
"Follow me" the wise man said,
but he walked behind.
I walked into a hospital
where none was sick and none was well.
When at night the sisters left
I could not walk at all.
Some girls wander by mistake
into the mess that scalpels make.
Are you a teacher of the heart?
We teach old hearts to break.
I met a woman long ago,
her the black that black can go.
Are you a teacher of the heart?
Soft, she answered, "No."
I met a girl across the sea,
her hair the gold that gold can be.
Are you a teahcer of the heart?
"Yes, but not for thee..."
Well, I spent my hatred every place-
on every work, on every face.
Is my passion perfect? No.
Do it once again.
Oh, teachers are my lessons done?
And I cannot do another one.
And they laughed, and laughed, and laughed and said,
"Child, are your lessons done?"
Well, I was handsome and I was strong
and I knew the words of every song.
Did my singing please you?
"No, the words you sang were wrong..."
TRAIN
Train [x3]
Take a last decision and the cars to move it
Past information
Tunnel vision and the scars to prove it
Everybody got a reservation
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go
Take a walk downtown to where the victims go
Take your shadow to the end to the very last window
Everybody got friends got shot upside and over
Down the line
Everybody got assignations
I got mine
Take a one-way ticket to the chain-reaction
Out a hole between the ground and sky
Make a railway track for the main attraction
Cross my heart and take a ride
Far beyond the black horizon
Beyond the things you know
Everybody got a destination
Everybody got a place to go
YOU COULD BE THE ONE
All gods children give good phone
I called Jesus, he's not home
So I'm so pleased to talk to you
Trees and walks I love them too
Threatened species they adore me,
Flower children never bore me
But all the this you share
Are better left unsaid
When you can give me there
And run your fingers through my hair
CHORUS
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneWe can meditate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneLet's call it fate
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneTo get your flowers pressed
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, You could be the oneJust get undressed
I'm so glad to find you here
Mystic people they're so dear
I don't like the rest
Your signs the best
Whatever it is
I'm most impressed
I don't need to understand
The laying on of hands
I'm in a hurry to get my collar straight
Life is short and I can't wait
But don't worry about the state
Of this pretty little thing in the armour plate
CHORUS
I'm so pleased that you believe
Just open up a little let the good times in
We're, going fo a ride
Destiny can't be denied
But all those precious things are better left unsaid
When you can keep me here
And run your fingers though my hair
CHORUS
Love, is all you need.
GHOSTRIDER
Ghostrider, motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's lookin' so cute
Sneakin' round round round in a blue jumpsuit
Ghostrider motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's a-blazin' away
Packin' stars stars stars in the universe
Ghostrider motorcycle hero
Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' the truth
America, America is killin' its youth
Bebebebebebebe he's a-screamin' away
America, America is killin' its youth
America, America is killin' its youth
Ghostrider
Ghostrider
HEY JOE
Hey Joe,
where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe,
where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
I'm goin down to shoot my ol' lady,
I caught her messin' `round with another man.
Hey Joe,
I heard you shot your lady down,
Hey Joe,
I heard you shot your lady down,
Shot her down town.
Yes I did, I shot her.
'Cause I caught my woman foolin 'round
JOLENE
Jolene Jolene Jolene Jolene
I'm begging you please don't take my man
Jolene Jolene Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can
CHORUS
Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green
Your smile is like a breath of spring your voice is soft as summer rain
And I cannot compete with you Jolene
He talk about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name Jolene
And I can easily understand
How you can easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me Jolene
CHORUS
Well you could have your choice of man
But I could never love again
He's the only man for me jolene
I have to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
Whatever you decide to do
Jolene
CHORUS
LOUIE LOUIE
Fine little girl, she wait for me.
I sail a ship across the sea.
On the ship, you know, I'm all alone.
And I don't know when I'm gonna make it back home.
(chorus)
Singing...
Louie, Louie- Oh, baby, we gotta go
Louie, Louie- Oh, baby, we gotta go, now...
Three nights and days I sailed the sea.
I think of my girl constantly
On the ship, I dream she's there.
I smell the roses in her hair.
(chorus)
I see Jamaica in the moon above
And I will soon be with my love
I'm gonna take her in my arms and then
I tell her I will never leave her again.
PURPLE HAZE
Purple haze- all in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same...
Acting funny, but I don't know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky.
SISTER RAY
Duck and Sally inside
They're cooking for the Down Five
Who's staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy looking up her Pig Pen
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Just like Sister Ray said
Rosie and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her Brewster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her sailor
????? in pink and leather
He said he's here from Alabama
He wants to know the way to earn a dollar
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks and shoots it between 3:00 and 4:00
He aims it at the sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Ah, you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
By the way, have you got a dollar?
No I haven't got the time time
She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong
She's too busy sucking on my ding-dong
She does it just like Sister Ray said
Now who is that knocking
Who's knocking at my chamber door
Now could it be the police?
They're gonna take you for a ride ride
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Theres a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven
And when she gets there she knows
If the stores are closed
With a word she can get what she came for
There's a sign on the wall
But she want's to be sure
Cause you know sometimes words have
No meanings
In a tree by the brook there's a songbird
Who sings sometimes
All of our thoughts are misgiven
There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tone
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those
who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
And it makes me wonder
If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May-queen
Yes there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Your head is humming and it won't go
-In case you don't know
The pipers are calling you to join him
Dear lady can you hear the wind blow
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind
And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll