Other John Hiatt Lyrics

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A Kick Outta Nothin'

She puts her hairspray on with a lit cigarette in her mouth
She takes her fingernail polish off driving down the river route
And even though it ain't against the law
Dressin' up like a day-glo Barbie doll

CHORUS:
My babe, she gets a kick outta nothin', my babe
She gets a kick outta nothin', my babe
She gets a kick outta nothin', kick outta nothin', my babe

All she ever got outta high school was the fifth degree
Since she couldn't keep her skirts hangin' far enough below her knees
And even though they never kicked her out
She gets a bad kick laughing about it

CHORUS

She's old school
Like Tiki torches 'round a swimming pool
My babe, she might jump in
Well the tv crackerjack with a ___?

We're gonna have a couple of kids and dress 'em up like hippies someday
Name 'em Love and Rainbow n' send 'em on their merry way
Maybe someday they'll figure out
What their their mama was laughin' about

CHORUS THREE TIMES

Across The Borderline

There's a land so I have been told
Every street is paved with gold
And it's just across the borderline
And when it's time to take your turn
There's one lesson that you must learn
You could lose more than you'll ever hope to find

When you reach the broken promised land
And every dream slips through your hands
Then you'll know it's too late to change your mind
'Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline

Up and down the Rio Grande
A thousand footprints in the sand
Reveal a secret no one can define
The river flows on like a breath
In between our life and death
Tell me who's the next to cross the borderline

When you reach the broken promised land
When every dream slips through your hands
Then you'll know it's too late to change your mind
'Cause you pay the price to come so far
Just to wind up where you are
And you're still just across the borderline
And you're still just across the borderline

All That Love

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

(No lyrics available)

Ain't That Crazy

I don't like this, I don't like that
I live in a closet with a baseball bat
Man, ain't that crazy?
Well, ain't that crazy?

I've been gone too long
With my head all wrong
Well, ain't that crazy

I got a little woman, Washington DC
And forty nine others are waiting for me
Man, ain't that crazy?
Well, ain't that crazy?

Well, too much love
Will make a man wear gloves
Well, ain't that crazy

Well, I've been fishing in my bath tob
You just wack 'm on the head with a glof club
Yes I've been doing it all, without doing a thing
I've been around the world without leaving a ring
And all I've got to sing is
Ain't that crazy?

Pom pi dop di....

I don't wear shoes without my hair
Hell I don't own no underwear
Man, ain't that crazy?
Well, ain't that crazy?

Well this dude ain't done
But I'm having fun
Well, ain't that crazy?

I don't like pickles, and that's the truth
So you can just remove your pickles from my roof
Well, ain't that crazy?
Well, ain't that crazy?

You can bet your [gurkings??]
I don't like working
Ain't that crazy
Yea de lay hi ...
You can bet your [gurkings??]
I don't like working
Ain't that crazy

Ambulance Chaser

I've had enough of this pillow talk
I can't say mama 'cause i can't learn to ball?
That out of his accident
You never know which way that victim went

Ambulance chaser
Follow that siren untill you decide on me
Ambulance chaser
We'll save love at the next emergency

All this anger and all these tears
It's all that i can get out when you come near
So justice that i can face
Even though you were already on my case

Ambulance chaser
Follow that siren and wrapped up around a tree
Ambulance chaser
We'll save love at the next emergency

BRIDGE:
Well love gets unethical
When lover's get technical
When we get just what we deserve

We could argue just for the sport
We might argue this claim right outta court
One little insurance squeeze
So hard to pull off down on your knees

Ambulance chaser
Follow that siren untill you decide on me
Ambulance chaser
We'll save love ..
we'll save love ..
we'll save love ..
.. at the next emergency

Any Single Solitary Heart

You've lost that love before
You never closed that door
This time it's hurting' for
- the last time

Only the lonely knows
The pain of letting go
Before you say no
- to my advise

Just ask any solitary heart
Why the winter night is longer
How love can fall apart
When the world keeps getting colder
Where teardrops start
Just ask any single solitary heart

Don't ask the start above
Cause they've never been in love
They'll just remind you of
- the first time

When you had confidence
In love's sweet innocence
Now you have evidence
- that love can be unkind

Just ask any solitary heart
Why the winter night is longer
How love can fall apart
When the world keeps getting colder
Where teardrops start
Just ask any single solitary heart

Just ask any solitary heart
Why the winter night is longer
How love can fall apart
When the world keeps getting colder
Where teardrops start
Just ask any single solitary heart

Anybody's Dream

Flowers are still growing
Where a garden used to be
I still look the same to you
You the same to me

I still like my whiskey
Aw and you still love to dance
You won't drink and I won't move
No one takes a chance

Nothing ever changes
Everything's still wrong
You still live with the seven dwarves
I still live in songs

Someone reads the papers
Oh and someone makes the news
I'm still dumb enough to say
I'm still in love with you

Well old friend are like old habits
You leave 'em anywhere
So they don't have to pick you for a wife
But just like that old habit
You know I'm always there
If you should ever want to change your style

I still got no money
Honey I still got no sense
You still walk in through the gate
And I still climb the fence

And you still want a baby
Oh and I still feel thirteen
No one really gives a damn
For anybody's dreams

So oceans lay between us
Full of laughing whales
And we both wait on separate shores
For a wind to fill our sails

And no one has the courage
To make it all come true
Yeah and I'm still dumb enough to say
I'm still in love with you
Yeah and I'm still dumb enough to say
I'm still in love with you
Still
Still
Still
Still
In love with you

Baby For Life

Well you can play with my toys babe
But don't you play with my mood
I'm a half-carved (?) man-child boy
But my mama ___(?)

Now if you wanna go play undressing
Well i can dress you up as sharp as a knife
And you can strip down a block
My little peacock
Rather be your baby's wife

I'll be your baby for life (7 x)

We don't need money just get out of this place
Before some nightmare daycare aupair gets up in my face
Honey we can load up my wagon
Don't forget the bottom wise
And if you say i do
Oh baby i will too
Or even do do if you ask me twice

I'll be your baby for life (7 x)

I call you angel
You can call me buckaroo
I always wanted a nickname
Baby you can have one too
Ooh baby me and you

Yeah we could throw up a gather
Anyway we wanted to
And hold on to each other
Everything is turning to poo poo
Yeah we could be our own parents
And saving all those stress and strive
And when we're old enough
For that mid-life stuff
We won't have to rub the cradle twice

I'll be your baby for life (etc)

Big Fine Car

I got no money for a set of wheels
And how I acts and how I feels
The bitchy women living in this town
They want some big wheels to roll around

Oh, I would sell my soul for
An automatic with a cruise control
And out by the lake underneath the stars
She could learn to love my

CHORUS:
Big fine car
My big fine car
With the top down baby there you are
In my big fine car

And all I got's the leather on my shoes
I'm into leather baby how 'bout you
That's okay I didn't think you were
Maybe naugahyde maybe fake fur

Oh, I would lose my shirt for
Dual exhausts and fender skirts
And out by the golf course, under par
She could learn to love my

CHORUS

Ever since I was a little boy
I hung one wish upon a star
That God would come and take these silly toys
And deliver me one big fine car

And you can talk older and wiser now
And about your love that's gonna last
But there's one thing I've known since I was ten years old
Women, they just wanna go fast

In big fine cars
In big fine cars
With the top down baby there you are
In big fine cars
I just got to have a big fine car
A big fine car...

Blind Faith

I know you don't know what you're doing to me
With looks like yours baby, you don't have time to think
Couldn't picture yourself looking through me
You don't see me saying prayers
You just take another drink
But I think your big green eyes could make me holy
I'm a sinner baby
and I, I could be baptized in the - of your -
I feel the power of loving (??)

CHORUS:
It's a religion with me baby I've got blind faith
A missionary position babe I've got blind faith
blind faith blind faith

Talk is cheap babe, but I think you could sell me
'bought the farm when I heard your body speak
Burning bushes could not anymore than tell me
when you talk in that tongue babe my knees getting weak
And I don't wanna see you crying on my shoulder
Don't wanna hurt you baby
And I just wanna -- up tight
to squeeze all the little light before the night gets any older

CHORUS

You tell me it's blasphemy but I got faith in something
Please God au naturale it keeps my backbone jumping
Layin' on the floor with Tipper Gore but let me be explicit
Gimme this thing girl in the flesh now let's do something with it

CHORUS

Bound By Love

Bound by a love that lives
Bound by a love that gives
Bound by a love that kneels
We are bound by the love we feel

Bound by a love that needs
Bound by a love that bleeds
Bound by a love that heals
We are bound by the love we feel

We have seen it all unwind
From a troubled mind
From one love to mine
Been called up from county line
You and me baby bound by love

Bound by the weak and strong
Bound by an ancient song
Bound by two rings of steel
We are bound by the love we feel

Bound by the family one
Bound by daughters and sons
Bound by one wish we deal
We are bound by the love we feel

These are bonds that set us free
For all to be who they long to be
Hats held high for all to see
You and me baby bound by love

I said bound by a love that needs
Bound by a love that bleeds
Bound by the love that heals
We are bound by the love we feel

Cane Breaks

I met a preacher down by the cane breaks
He said he had a devil right buried (?) inside
hotel lining (?) a struck about cane breaks
You should have seen the preacher jumping on by

Double devers they're hiding in the bushes
Take the paint ball you're gonna get hurt
Before you driving keep her in the forest
Don't you want to take another look

Down at the cane breaks
Down at the cane breaks
Selling that snake oil jumping on a claim stake
Well down by the cane breaks
Lines are being drawn
And the Choctaw and the Chickasaw they're all gone

This ain't your land, this ain't your people
What are you doing walking these woods
A trade and sickness for blood and whiskey
Callin' it progress, callin' it good

Men of the clock, men of the ivories (?)
Jimmy Lee Swaggart has got Jerry Lee shook
Down at Mississipee the sea ain't rubble
That is the devil until you take another look

Down at the cane breaks
Down at the cane breaks
the horse stops pounding like a headache
Down at the cane breaks
You can't buy a thrill
Cause you're spending all that matches under the hill

Ghosts are sleeping down at the cane breaks
And their hearts have turned to stone
And alligators they're crying our babies
That's the bayou of Pierre Crowns (?)

Oh boy you could through the heart of the nation
Take your history books to town
Well they got in glory of gold again stations
Don't you wanna take another look around

Down at the cane breaks
Down at the cane breaks
Men are shaking hands it's feeling like an earthquake
Down at the cane breaks
The sheet is getting torn
And those red white and blue babies are being born

Come On Up

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

(No lyrics available)

Confidence Man

Well, I lost you at the border
When you crossed it
Had your number, baby
But I lost it
I know your love
Was just a flimflam

Well, you can't pull the wool over me
'cause I'm a confidence man

I can talk old ladies
Out of all of their money
I can talk young girls
Into calling me honey
You can talk all you want, baby
But I got fast hands

You're a real soft touch
But I'm a confidence man

I know your mother
Taught you how to bake a cherry pie
And read a book
Your daddy taught you how to tell a lie
And not get shook

Let me tell you somethin', baby
You better learn
If you're gonna con the con man
You're liable to get burned

Now, now, now
We were stretched out on the floor, baby
It's all elastic
But you stretched it too tight and it snapped like plastic
And the pieces went flying across the badlands

No discouraging word could be heard
'cause I'm a confidence man

Now, maybe Chicago
Is where you're bound
But love is a cheap perfume
It hangs around
And you roll the dice
Now let the bet stand

Well, you can't pull the wool over me
'cause I'm a confidence man

Do I Get What I Want

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

(No lyrics available)

Don't Talk That Talk

Don't talk that talk might not walk out the door
Don't talk that talk might not walk out the door
Don't talk that talk don't spill the beans
Don't air that grievance don't vent that spleen
Don't talk that talk might not walk out the door

Don't say that say you might not play tonight
But it don't just say that say it might not play tonight
Let discretion be the better part
The holding of your tongue the art
Don't say that say you might not play the night

Some girls have a way of talking, too
And you ah better say let it all hang out
Some girls have a way of looking through you
Buddy you can't tell me what they are talking about?

Don't whisper sweet nothings might turn into something someday
Buddy don't whisper sweet nuttin's might turn into something someday
Don't whisper sweet nothings in her ear
Might be exactly what she wants to hear
Don't whisper sweet nothings might turn into something someday

Don't talk that talk might not walk out the door
Don't you talk that talk might not walk out the door
Don't talk that talk mister put a lid on it
Well if it's got to come out... well Shakespeare write her a sonnet
Don't you talk that talk might not walk out the door

Everybody's Girl

Everyone here's touched her body
Everybody here has read her mind
A real nice girl, a real nice party
Everybody had a real good time
But how come she gets so lonely
How come I can't give her what she needs
How come my girl is everybody's girl
When she's the only one for me

We used to sit home in the evening
Staring at the cruel TV light
Socially, we had our problems
But otherwise we were alright
But now she just wants to go to parties
And hit on every man she sees
How come my girl is everybody's girl
When she's the only one for me

Oh I get so angry
When she carries on that way
Oh well I get so angry
I just might hurt her some day
Every now and then she tells me
She still loves me just the same
But when we come home from those parties
She still has to ask my name
I tell her all them boys don't love her
She just laughs and slaps her knee
How come my girl is everybody's girl
When she's the only one for me
When she's the only one for me

Everyone's Crazy Tonight

There's snow on the cars and the roof tops
There's ice on this ballroom floor
And the curious one is explaining his gun
To the midget asleep by the door

And Saly keeps dancing in circles
And Larry has got a knife
And the lovers are nervous
And sex is just service
And Billy can't find his wife

And everyone's crazy tonight
Everyone's crazy tonight

The music is spreading like rumours
And the humor is lost in your smile
And as the saxophone just sings
Well it won't change a thing
You'll be smashed in little while

So let's raise a glass to Thanksgiving
Let your eyes (?) we've been living right
Punch-drunk dreamers
wearing bright streamers
Take off your wounds and fight

Everyone's crazy tonight
Everyone's crazy tonight

So here's to the frozen land search
And here's to the flame in your eyes
Here's a six-pack going
Christ is it snowing
God I can hear them cry

Everyone's crazy tonight
Everyone's crazy tonight
Everyone's crazy tonight
Everyone's crazy ... crazy tonight

Fast Life

Well nowadays they got socks that don't even smell
And restaurants that spin around on tops of big hotels They got shirts that don't wrinkle, and babies that don't cry
And ovens are cooking turkey without without batting an eye

And it's a fast life
Oh mama, it's a fast life
Well you can love your neighbour and shoot your wife
Oh mama, it's a fast life

Yeah the man in a basement is trying to sit still
He's got his digital watch and a table full of bills He's trying to figure it out on his pocket computer
He's got a wife, three kids and a motor scooter

And it's a fast life
Oh mama, it's a fast life
Well you can shoot your neighbour and blame it on your wife
Oh mama, it's a fast life

BRIDGE:
Going faster, oh mama, it's like ice flying out of the dark
Going faster, semi-colon, comma and a question mark

You got your man on the street, you got your man on the go
You got your liberated woman, to keep us all on our toes You got your kids getting nervous and waiting for a sign
While we wizz like a bullet past the end of the line

And it's a fast life
Oh mama, it's a fast life
Well you can bury your children and marry your wife
Oh mama, it's a fast life

Well it's a fast life
Oh mama, it's a fast life
Well you can love your neighbour and shoot your wife
Oh mama, it's a fast life

Gonna Go Out And Love Somebody  

You been doing me wrong you been telling me lies
Some other man been putting that look in your eye
You been coming home all rearranged
Someone's been picking your peaches and messing with your terrain

You gave me breakfast in bed you never done that before
It ain't the breakfast I want honey that's for sure
You don't give me no sugar in my coffee cup
Because some other joker been using your sugar up

CHORUS:
I'm gonna say goodbye to you
and then I tell ya what I'm gonna do
I'm gonna go out and love somebody
I'm gonna go out and love somebody
I'm gonna go out and love somebody
Any ol' body but you

You say your grandmother's sick and you'll be spending the night
Well I seen grandmother the other day and she looked alright
You're gonna meet that man in some cheap hotel
and that's a hell of a way to help your grandmother get well

CHORUS TWICE

Gone

I woke up in a sweat reaching for a cigarette
All choked up all you get is gone
What I said I wouldn't know
All she said I gotta go
The room all red burning slow
Gone

Gone like unwritten history
Gone like human bravery
Gone but she left this memory
She's gone gone gone

Her impression on the sheet
Bed still warm air still sweet
No possessions out on the street
And gone

She tied me up in a bow
til I could not let her go
We interrupt we interrupt this show
She's gone

Gone like dust upon the wind
Gone like virtue gone like sin
Gone like your last shot of gin
She's gone gone gone

Morning pours into this room
Draw the curtains seal the tomb
Your heart is sore your fate is doomed
She's gone

Gone like elephant ivory tusks
Gone like the black rhinoceros
No she no me no we no us
She's gone gone gone

Gone

Heart To Heart

(from the album Songs From The Night Before, by Fred Koller)

(written by John Hiatt and Fred Koller)

How can I possibly know what's wrong,
When you don't open your mouth?
You've been giving me the silent treatment
Ever since we headed south.
Mile by mile, I read the signs.
Is there something that we left behind?
Town by town, the wheels spin around
In the back of your mind.

CHORUS:
We need a heart to heart.
You and I can't see anything eye to eye.
We're together, but we're miles apart.
We need a heart to heart.

You know we never did nothin' before
We couldn't talk about.
If I'd known this was the road to nowhere
I might have took a different route.
Side by side, starin' straight ahead,
Have you heard a single word I said?
The road is gettin' rough,
I believe I've had enough
Of feeling like I've been misled.

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Are we any closer?
Is it getting anywhere?
Your head on my shoulder,
Is anybody there?
Wait a minute baby, think back to the start.
I can't believe we came this far just to watch it all fell apart.

CHORUS
We need a heart to heart.
We need a heart to heart.

Heavy Tears  

(© 1976)

One day you're happy, the next day you're blue
You feel like the whole world's coming right down on you
There ain't nothing wrong, but then there ain't nothing right
It's just the kind of thing that keeps you up all night

CHORUS:
Heavy tears in your eyes
Lord, don't they hurt you when you cry
Heavy tears in your eyes
And when they hit the ground
Don't they make a terrible sound

Maybe she loves you, and maybe it's a joke
And maybe that fire was just a whole lot of smoke
You don't feel warm, but then, you don't feel cold
You're just getting weary, you're just getting old

CHORUS

And your mind can't take this worry
And your heart feels underfed
Maybe you'll wake up tomorrow
Or maybe you'll just stay in bed

Don't call the doctor and ask his advice
'Cause he's felt the same way himself, once or twice
There ain't no cure for the tear in your eye
You just got to sit there you just got to cry

CHORUS

Here With You

I'm sitting here and the fire's gone out
Trying to figure what it was I was thinkin' 'bout
Oh my head lift up but my heart is so clear
It takes a silly girl like you to put me here
Oh but i don't wanna leave
Don't wanna be retrieved oh no

I don't wanna go
I'm happy to be
Whatever is me
Here with you

It's a crazy place that world down there
Loves me here wanna have in your underwear
Oh my goodness
But it's alright I guess it's good
To feel confused and misunderstood
Oh but tonight tonight tonight
Bought some magic and some light
A smile on the face

This ain't just any place
I'm happy to be
Whatever is me
Here with you
Here with you
Here with you

Well the peoples come and the peoples go
Was something up their sleeves or something in between they told
Well you live here a while, then you go somewheres else
You ain't got long to make a fool of yourself
Don't wonder who you are
You're just a falling star
With nowhere to go
So take it slow

I'm happy to be happy to be
Whatever is me
Here with you
I'm happy to be happy to be
Whatever is me
Here with you

High  

Agnes was a beauty, nothing on her mind
I held her body to me, she's not the hurtin' kind
Fantastical and unkown, like a star up in the sky
That Indiana limestone coolin' off as we got high

High as high as a water tower high
High as a pop fly high
High as a sunflower high
High as the wild geese that home can cry
We were gettin' high
We were gettin' high

Swimmin' in that quarry, swimmin' to the moon
A nautical safari with Venus and Neptune
We plunged the depths they dug our kin reaching for the sky
Gasping for that oxygen ya trade for gettin' high

High as a water tower high
High as a name across the sky
High as the final hour high
High as the wild geese that home can cry
Yeah we were gettin' high
Yeah we were gettin' high

I pieced this all together chartin' out my youth
Like a map of stars or weather well sometimes it is the truth
We explode into existence with a universal sigh
Two kids out on a summer night doin' nothin' but getting high

Hold on Time

CHORUS 1:
Hold on time, hold on time
Please don't say we're through
Hold on time, hold on time
Love slipped away on you

CHORUS 2:
Down that line, down that line
And outta my mind it's true
hold on time, hold on time
Forgot to take away my blues

Yesterday my whole life past before me
I thought that I dreamin'
The future was so bright
Had to turn off the light
And go to bed

And I woke up with one last lover
Dished her I don't need another sign

CHORUS 1

When you think you got a good thing going
Your good thing just gets going
And it never turns around
to see the candle last so he don't have to cry

Growing on don't make it better
trying too hard you'll never let her outta your mind

CHORUS 1
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 1

Down that line, down that line
Tipping like a snake skin cube___?
Hold on time, hold on time
Forgot to take away my blues

Hey time, hold on

I Got Your Number

(written by Fred Koller, John Hiatt & Al Anderson;
from the album Party Favors, 1988, by Al Anderson;
from the album Where The Fast Lane Ends, 1990, by Fred Koller)

Well, I called information and I asked them to look
Cause your name wasn't listed in the telephone book
The operator told me it's a private line
But it starts with a seven and it ends with a nine
I begged and I pleaded, operator tell me more
She said first you've got to tell me what you want it for
And when I told her that I was in love with you
I got your number
And when I told her that I was in love with you
I got your number

So I picked up the receiver and I got the dial tone
I pushed the seven numbers hoping you'd be home
I couldn't wait to tell you what was on my mind
But I heard a busy signal at the end of the Iine
I waited half a minute and I tried it again
If you don't hang up I'm gonna have to bust in
Don't you know baby I'm in love with you
I got your number
Don't you know baby I'm in love with you
I got your number

All my love is on the line
Got the number, gonna make you mine
Gonna find out before I'm done
I'm gonna reach out, reach out, and touch someone

Now there's another busy signal and it's getting late
What we've got here is a failure to communicate
I'd do anything just to get to you
Hang it up baby and Iet me through
It's a real nice invention but at times like this
I can say it so much beller with just one more kiss

Don't you know baby I'm in love with you
I got your number
Don't you know baby I'm in love with you
I got your number

I Only Love You

Well every time your heart flutters
I feel just like a golf putter
Baby baby it's a hole in one
Little girl you know you're so much fun

CHORUS 1:
You're so good under your hood
You're so tough I can't get enough of your love
Yeah, it's so neat keeping the beat
under your sheets like a parakeet
Hip to hip lip to lip baby let me feel your backbone slip

CHORUS 2:
I said I I love love you you only
I said I only love you
I said I I love love you you only
I said I only love you

Yeah, every time you turn off the light
Well I feel just like a Boy Scout knife
Putting up a tent my dear
Are there any little Brownies here?
Mm mm good, they understood
How nutritious hey be more vicious
Yeah it's so nice doing it twice
Once in the morning with no warning
Hip to hip lip to lip baby let me feel your backbone slip

CHORUS 1

Okay,
Oh yes I dig your snappy patter
Let me be your baseball batter
Round the base here I come
Good golly Miss Molly it's a home run

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 1

I'll Be Coming Through (Call Me)

When the streets are on fire in your neighbourhood
And they take away your mind
And your homey says you got a wear a fez
Ride a funny little motorbike

When your oysters ain't rockafella
And your bank notes overdue
You just call me, baby call me
Yes and I'll be coming through

When welfare check starts bouncing
And the crack don't get you stoned
And your baby comes home from playschool one day
With a beeper and a cellular phone

And your butt starts looking like a book shelf
Yeah you could lose a verse or two
You just call me, baby call me
Yes and I'll be coming through

Call me and I'll be coming through for you
Thick or thin baby, lose or win
There's nothing I wouldn't do

When the worse life has to offer
Starts to get the best of you
You just call me, baby call me
Yeah and I'll be coming through

When your pimp keeps all the money
And your mama won't keep your kids
And your lover boy he finds another toy
And he leaves you like your daddy did

When your last stark realization
Was just a little too stark for you
You just call me, baby call me
Yes and I'll be coming
Call me, baby call me
Yes and I'll be
You just call me, baby call me
Yeah I'll be coming through

I'll Get Out Of Here

This is a song that waves to my youth
Now's no reason to tell the truth
But I'll get out of here
I'll get out of here
Just one more of those stolen cases
And I'll get out of here

This is what America said
We'll write about you when you're dead
But I'll get out of here
I'll get out of here
I've been talking to my face it said (?)
I'll get out of here

Every time I stand
I hit the ceiling fan
Every time I move
Just one more joker with thunder proves

Hey little girl she lifts my hand
Along to Harry Houdini land
Cause I'll get out of here
I'll get out of here
Just one more of those stolen cases
And I'll get out of here

This is a song that waves to my youth
Now's no reason to tell the truth
But I'll get out of here
I'll get out of here
Just one more of those stolen cases
And I'll get out of here
Just one more of those stolen cases
And I'll get out of here

C'mon baby... mmm...mmm...hmmm

If I Can Love Somebody

The smiling ghost who left me here
Is laughing in the wind
And the tables are a-turning
All their backs on me again
But I'll get out alive
If I can just hold on 'til then
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody like you

And Broken Hearted Boulevard
Has played so hard with me
The stranger falls in love
With every woman that he sees
But some day I will rise above
My struggle to be free
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody like you

And like a ship out in the night
Well, I need that guiding light
Many oceans have I sailed
And some day I'll get it right
And like a never ending weed
I'm gonna live the dreams I seed
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody like you If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody
If I can love somebody like you

Let It All Go  

I knew a guy who was mad at his best friend
Stayed that way for twenty years, and
I don't know why he can't seem to make amends
Tears in his eyes you know the pain doesn't end

CHORUS:
You got to... let it all go
Oh, you got to... let it all go
Talkin' about let it all go
So it don't burn a hole in your heart

I knew a girl who left home in a hurry
Something to prove and bridges to burn
Her parents' dreams soon turned into worry
Angels taught that girl what she needed to learn

CHORUS

I swear to God, man it don't come easy
Kicking myself most of the time
I need help to keep the wheels greasy
Keep that train whistleing on down the line

CHORUS

You got to let it all go
(So it don't burn a hole in your...)
Let it all go
(You got to take control of your...)
Let it all go
So it don't burn a hole
In your heart

Let It Slip Away

Love only stays for a little while baby That's what I said cause I was scared
Too scared to say what you mean to me baby
Too afraid to show how much I cared

Feel love well I couldn't be here
So you just packed up and said goodbye
I feel love but now it's too late
And all I do is cry

CHORUS:
Cause I know that your memory lingers
I think about you night and day
I know from the tips of my fingers
I had your love but I let it slip away
I had your love but I let it slip away

Could not have your heart any day pretty baby
You could be here now and it's killin' me
I'm standing all alone in the way pretty baby
In the way of love that was meant to be

I know cause your memory lingers
I think about you night and day
I know from the tips of my fingers
I had your love but I let it slip away
I had your love but I let it slip away

Feel love well I couldn't be here
So you packed it up and said goodbye
I feel love but now it's too late
And all I do is cry

CHORUS TWICE
CauseI know that your memory lingers
I think about you night and day
I know from the tips of my fingers
I had your love but I let it slip away
I know that your memory lingers
I think about you night and day
I know from the tips of my fingers
I had your love but I let it slip away
I had your love but I let it slip away

Love Gets Strange

Well I said what I wanted to say
But the words just got in the way
Maybe we can never work it out
Seems like all we ever do is scream and shout
And your drift is getting harder to catch
This love it's like a wrestling match
Do we do it til our kisses feel
like two big cuts that will not heal

CHORUS:
Babe, there ain't no window open
No hoping for a sudden change
And there is no door to get out of before this love gets strange
And loves gets strange

We used to wonder what it's all about
But I just wanna take this garbage out
Maybe underneath the moonlight sky
I could come up with one reason to lie
We took it all for better or worse
Though we didn't take a look at it first
We were blinded by the brightest light
Just to be on our knees in the dark tonight

CHORUS

Most spring we were doing our thing
Summer came the heat was to blame
The tears you cry and the autumnal sky (?)
And the cold winter chill baby --- you still

We said what we wanted to say
But the words just got in the way
Baby we could never work it out
Seems like all we do is scream and shout
And we're frozen in this shadowy world
Silouhettes of a boy and a girl
You were never ----
til they get so big you can't see them at all

And babe, there ain't no window open
No hoping for a sudden change
And there is no door to get out of before this love gets strange

Malcolm Was Right

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

Appalachian back porch
Library of Congress
We have nothing to offer
They just happen to be hearing it Okay!?

Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, where are you tonight.

Well I wake up in the morning
I head up to the barn
Looking for a manger
Where the sheep are newly shorn

I grab a little lambie
By the haunches and I say
C'mon little lambie
Let me have my way

Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, where are you tonight.

On the streets of Old Las Vegas
Bakein' in the sun
Spending all my money
On the whores and twenty one.

Trying to make my skin dark
Trying to hide the tan
But the white ass the blue eyes
Connect me to the man

Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Where are you tonight.

I'm a remnant of the rat pack
A robber on the trail
Know everything about you
Yeah I learned it all in jail

You never showed us mercy
My ass is white as snow.
Before I leave you brother
There's something you should know

Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Malcom was right the Devil is white.
I say, Where are you tonight.

Meet Me Halfway

Love is a river that's floodin' in the pools
Each wants to make it to the other side
Before that bridge starts burning
I think we're missing a face where love ___?
Though our hearts have gone open wide
The hardest part is learning

You don't give up, just give and take
You got to work around these little heartaches
The question is love, that's the answer to this riddle
When noone phones the line (?) or will you meet me in the middle
Just meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll meet you there

I know your mama think she's got the best solution
Girl we got to work this out
And I believe the rhythm
We got to start out our own counter revolution
Baby open up and talk about
Put it on the table

You don't give up, just give and take
We got to work around these little heartaches
The question is love, that's the answer to this riddle
When no one phones the line (?) or will you meet me in the middle
Just meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll meet you there

BRIDGE:
Come on and meet me halfway, halfway to heaven
We've been to hell and back about a hunderd times eleven
Meet me halfway, baby please hold me
There ain't twice enough love and half enough to worry

You take my hand in this land of understanding
Shinin' like a distant light
A mothership is comin'
Heaven on earth is a state of mind that's handin'
Handin' us this dream tonight
Can't you hear these motors hummin'

There ain't no tellin' how far we can fly
The fourth dimension on this rocket ride
The question is love, that's the answer to this riddle
When no one phones the line (?) or will you meet me in the middle
Just meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll come on
Meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll want you
Meet me halfway, a whole hundred and ten
Fifty times two well that's a hundred percent
Just meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll
Meet me halfway, baby, hey come on baby
Meet me halfway, baby, hey I'll be there

Mercy Doesn’t Know My Name

In the morning I'm libel to wake up in a cold sweat
From a bad dream about something I ain't been caught doin' yet
Oh, Mercy doesn't know my name

Been runnin' in and outta trouble ever since I was a kid
I'm either up against the law or underneath a garbage lid
Whoa, mercy doesn't know my name

From a high school detention
To the boss man's will
I need to find an invention
I've got some rumors to kill
And, mercy doesn’t know my name
Mercy doesn’t know my name
Mercy doesn’t know my name

I've had a gun up to my back, I've had my foot down to the floor
I've asked a hundred questions just to know less than I did before
Whoa, mercy doesn't know my name

I had a sweetheart in the sixties, but I guess she blew her mind
I had an elevator door close on my necktie one time
Whoa, mercy doesn't know my name

And I can't find my chicken
And my sweet iced tea
Lord, this habit I'm kickin'
Keeps kickin' back on me
And, mercy doesn’t know my name
Mercy doesn’t know my name
Mercy doesn’t know my name

I love to get __? in the mountain __? and God for scuttlebutt
but I had to bend, pull and mutilate just to see which end was up
Whoa, mercy doesn't know my name

I got big pieces of the sky floating in my soup de jour
Ya know it used to be a fly babe, but it must've took the cure
Whoa, mercy doesn't know my name

And I'm starved for affection
And they gave me serious pills
I need a love injection
I got some feelings to kill
And, mercy doesn’t know my name
Mercy doesn’t know my name (7 x)

Mexican Lover

Aaiiee, Wipe that guacamole off your fingers
And take those two tortillas from your eyes
The scent of his bean taco must it linger? Wooo
And remind me of the tears I have to cry?

Now you went down south of the border last evening, ai la la lai ...
And you did not go down there to see your mother
Well your hair is full of taco shells
And you brought back a chihuahua as well
Well I can always tell when you've been seeing your Mexican lover

Well is it that much better than me?
Well - obviously
You've been shouting ole all day and I'm not surprised. Sheesh..
Enchiladas all over your skin
Tequila down your chin
He's been dipping his burrito in your hot tamale pie

Quit dancing on my hat, quit acting silly. And really,
at least you could pretend that you still care,
  that's the least you could do
Suggesting that for dinner we have chili, oh really,
That ain't exactly my idea of hiding your affair

Someone's been nibbling your nachos my lovely senorita, ai la la la ...
And you talk like Freddy Fender's your long lost brother
Well my name is not Miguel
And, I've got no little sister to sell
But, I can always tell when you've been seeing your Mexican lover
Yes darling, I can always tell when you've been seeing your Mexican lover

ai la la la ... ai la la la ... aaiie.. ai la la la ... aaiiee, ai la

Midwestern Town

I'm a kid from a corn field
Went through the wind shield
Wound up in this West coast town
I sing for my dinner
In a barroom where sinners
Wait for Jesus to buy the next round

And as I get older
the spotlight gets colder
And sad songs are taking their toll
The cities are fallin'
The Midwest is callin'
What's left of this Hoosier boy's soul?

Well I'm just a Midwester
So fill'er up Chester
I'm goin' home
'Cause Dorothy and Toto
And Grandpa's DeSoto
Is the only life I've ever known

I'm just a Midwester
And that's right you guessed 'er
I'm gettin' my feet on the ground
You can have the East and West coast
Just lean me on a lamppost
In a little Midwestern town

Land of the hustle
I'm losin' my muscle
Glories of ghosts in the breeze
I long for some neighbors
And honest day's labors
And the wind through the sycamore trees

Maybe we're backwards
And stupid as blackbirds
That light on the telephone line
But we hear your callin'
Frantic and fallin'
The Midwest will stand when you've all lost your mind

And I'm just a Midwester
So fill'er up Chester
I'm goin' home
Cause Dorothy and Toto
And Grandpa's DeSoto
Is the only life I've ever known

Well, I'm just a Midwester
And that's right you guessed 'er
I'm gettin' my feet on the ground
You can have the East and West coast
Just lean me on a lamppost
In a little Midwestern town
You can have the East and West coast
Just lean me on a lamppost
In a little Midwestern town

Mine By Daylight

Have you heard 'bout the work little darlin'
We've been workin' hard our way
Makin' three to five on Friday
Spend the weekend gettin' paid
Give us calls, we give new ____?
I gives calls, your mama too
Tonight I wanna call you something
Mind if that's alright with you

All the love you can spend
Let me be your man
Hold on real tight

You'll be mine by daylight
Mine by daylight
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
We'll be kissin' in the moonlight
Gonna get it alright
Say let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
Daylight, daylight
Daylight, daylight

Let's go up to twelfth and fourth
And maybe drive a bike (?) to you
Down the road for a cup of coffee
Maybe a little somethin' sweet
Speakin' of that sweet thing baby
Will you be my sweet delight
I can't wait to hear you call me
Your sweet sugar daddy tonight

Babe I have a plan
First we make a stand
If we make love, all night

You'll be mine by daylight
Mine by daylight
Let me love you all night
Mine by daylight
And we're kissin' in the moonlight
I wanna get it alright
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
Daylight, daylight
Daylight, daylight

Here's a tip for the baby sitter
Turn the news and shove the shades
I got love that ain't no quitter
Guaranteed and not run away
Put me through the hottest water
Spend all day on the tumble-drier (?)
When I walked your daddies daughter
Down the isle girl this was why

All the love you can stand
Let me be your man
Hold on real tight

You'll be mine by daylight
Mine by daylight
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
Oh kissin' in the moonlight
Yes we're gonna get it alright
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight

You'll be mine by daylight
Mine by daylight
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
Kissin' in the moonlight
Yes we're gonna get it alright
Let me love you all night
You'll be mine by daylight
Daylight, daylight
Daylight, daylight

Modern World

I'm still young
Give me that gun
Come over to my house and ask me what's wrong
You don't fit
Is that it
Modern machinery for a modern song

Feet in the night
He's pressin' so tight
He feels so guilty for dragging you along
he wants to seal
Whatever you feel
Modern machinery for a modern song

I got this metal detector
I can sense that steel plate in your head
You go tell the director
In this scene we all play dead

CHORUS:
Oh lover it's a modern world
This is a modern song
Oh lover it's a modern world
This is a modern song

What's wrong with you
Is that true
Sorry to hear that you stayed for too long
Take off your pants
I wanna dance
Modern machinery for a modern song
Yeah

It's your guess
I confess
I've been up on this cross for too long
Betrayed by a kiss
And I'm pissed
Modern machinery for a modern song

I got this metal detector
I can sense that steel plate in your head
You go tell the director
In this scene we all play dead

CHORUS TWICE
Oh lover it's a modern world
This is a modern song (5 x)

Mother Earth & Father Sky

Well I was sitting on a rock
Thinkin' 'bout the way things been around
I was cleaned(?) more than shocked
When I discovered that the clock was winding down

Who could have noticed the way we spend our time?
Frozen in self-pity waiting for a sign
Change to our confidence
Running from the weight(?) and with fears

CHORUS:
Mother Earth & Father Sky
Listen to your children cry
Does it all come down to nothing is that right?
Brother Sun and Sister Moon
Well we all been born too soon
And are we squashed between the darkness and the light?
Mother Earth & Father Sky

Oh it's then some stars (?)
And electricians heave their kites up in the wind
Or put make-up on their scars
Or let lightning strike the butterfly they ___(?)

Some can hear them out there take another breath
So let's shiver hungry lightning 'n' put the Christian to his death
Outside the redeemer there's blood on everybody's hands

CHORUS

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE

My Love Is Strong

They say every man must bend
Even when he's burning at both ends
Some big meat(?) end up in jail
Other snakes they just eat their own tail

I work hard baby that's alright
I'm just looking for a little daylight
You know how much I loved you
W'all night long if you want me to

Baby my love is strong
Baby my love is strong
You can find yourself another Samson
Cut off all his hair
Little girl I'll still be there
Cause my love is strong
Baby my love love love love is strong
Let me hold on to you, my love is strong

Some lonely hearts they cannot speak
They just struggle 'till it makes some weak
Just the silence inbetween two trains
Is louder than all of their rattling chains

Love brings some men right to their knees
- you know I see it time and time again,
But baby your love has lifted me
(Other bumps?) angry crouds
Well I don't have to sound so loud

Just in case you didn't hear me, I said
My love is strong
Baby my love is strong
You can find yourself another joker
Cut off all his (hair?)
Little girl I'll still be there
Cause my love is strong
Baby my love love love love is strong
Hold on to me girl, my love is strong

I tell you my love is strong
Lo-lo-lo-ve
Baby my lo-lo-lo-love is strong
Baby my love is strong

New Fingerprints

I started out in alleys smoking cigarettes and rollin' bones
Stealing penny candy n' rattling pay telephones
Stole my first car at twelve and drove it to my eighth grade class
By the time I was fourteen brother I was outta gas
I drove a hot spot in Dallas one time (?)
And it didn't need a nickel to a dime
But the punishment never fit the crime
'til last night last night

CHORUS:
I stole some lovin' now I need new fingerprints
I touched her everywhere doctor it's my only defence
She'll be looking for me alright
I gotta go another night tonight
Doctor I stole some lovin' now I need new fingerprints

Now I never took nothing that I couldn't turn over fast
And every job I pulled I swore that it would be my last
But somewhere in the back of my mind I heard that glory train
I kept thinking I was one job away from fortune and fame
When you come from where I do
It's a way to have them notice you
I never bit off more than I could chew
'til last night last night

CHORUS
She was all over me with a scent that lingers
Just one touch from my magic fingers
I stole all the love that she would give me
I stole her love and she was right there with me
Steal it bad (?)

I need to take me a long vacation
I need to change my name and my destination
You know she couldn't prove a word and have me burn for perjury
But doctor I need the miracle of modern surgery
I just wanna make my getaway
Ain't no justice in the world today
Doctor never thought I'd have to pay
'til last night last night

CHORUS

New York Had Her Heart Broke

On that fiery day
When the towers gave way
New York had her heart broke

And many heroes died
Trying to save someone inside
When New York had her heart broke
New York had her heart broke

And we were there that day
And I don't know what to say
Except New York had her heart broke

In a million years
She couldn't cry more tears
No, New York had her heart broke
New York had her heart broke

And the daylight fell dark
F16's over Central Park
When New York had her heart broke
We were dazed in the streets
From the blood and dust and heat
Oh, New York had her heart broke
New York had her heart broke

And the world changed that day
Forever some will say
Well, New York had her heart broke
But like a lover she will rise
Once again to touch the skies
Yeah, New York had her heart broke
New York had her heart broke

Ah, but she will rise
Again

No Business

Yes, I'm lonely-hope you don't catch it
Don't want to be down where I last behaved
I broke his heart now I can't patch it
This time it's grave

I kept track of all the love that I gave him
And on paper, well, it looked pretty good
He left a note that said he couldn't stay here
As if I could...

CHORUS:
I guess my love's got no business,
No business calling his name
I guess my love's got no business,
No business, nobody to blame

One of these days I thought we'd get it together
After all that boy was made for me
But all he left me was a mouth full of feathers
Little bird got free

He always said my love was one sided
I tried to keep up with supply and demand
But there was one way that pie was divided
It was a big piece plan

CHORUS
Well, now I'm getting desperate, baby, getting illegal
I got the law doggies on my trail
The hawk's out and I could use an eagle
To go my bail

You say you're itching baby, so go ahead and scratch it
But if it jumps off, don't look at me
You swore to God that I couldn't catch it
But your dog's got fleas

CHORUS

No Place In History

(written by Al Anderson and John Hiatt.
From the album Pay Before You Pump, Al Anderson, 1996.)

Well we thought the love is gonna save us
Yeah we knew that it would never help
So we brought up all the holes they gave us
Chewing up their fingernails

But the river kept right on flowing
Till it ended up in the sea
With the two of us never knowing
That we were never meant to be
We got no place in history

Yeah they got a face with old [???] heroes
You can even buy a souvenir
But for us one and one make zero
It's as if we were never here

Guess we couldn't take the heat of battle
Just the time got the best of me
You were riding high in the saddle
And what happened is a mistery
Cause we got no place in history

CHORUS:
No place, no place, no place,
No place in history
No place, no place, no place,
No place in history

No place, we lost the feeling
And now can't get it back
No place, the pain is peeling
An empty room there's a ????

[???] every part that you come through here
To the dust and what used to be
No silent live, no love, no fusion
They won't even buy the memory
Cause we got no place in history

CHORUS TWICE

Yeah, we got no place, no place, no place,
No place in history
No place, we got no place, no place,
No place in history

On The Run

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

(No lyrics available)

One Step Over The Line

(For an early version see That's The Matter With Me.)

When I look into your eyes
See the world cut down to size
Baby don't apologize
For taking me one step over the line

When I touch your secret skin
Babe I know it ain't no sin
I feel you starting to give in
Now let's go one step over the line

I know it's just your daddy's car
Your daddy never went this far
Baby, we know who we are
Let's go one step over the line

I can feel you're driving legal
We can make those tires squeal
Ooo I like the way it feels
Taking it one step over the line

One step forward and two steps back
It's for the birds now baby
I'm talking cave walking, in the black
Crossing that line and I don't mean maybe

I hear they buried lover's lane
In a sea of tears and blame
Let's you and me go up in flames
Baby, one step over the line

They're drawing boxes on the ground
Just to make us look down
What we gotta do is look around
Take it one step over the line
One step over the line, c'mon baby
One step over the line

Baby, gotta keep on moving (Baby c'mon over)
Gotta keep it grooving (Just one step baby)
C'mon let's go baby (Just don't look down, baby)
And take it one step over the line

Just are you willing
This love is thrilling
It's only time we're killing
Let's take it one step over the line

We gotta find a direction, baby
Don't need no protection, baby
Let's make that connection, baby
Take it one step over the line

Just one small step for mankind
One giant step for us
C'mon girl
One step over the line

Please Call Home

(incomplete lyrics)

Well I thought you were in Houston
Or maybe San Antone
And I'm up here in Nashville
Hung up on the phone
Calling all day on _______?
Baby please call home

It's not a new invention
It's no man I believe
Who's MCI is ____?
Any long distance call for me
Just pick up the telephone, girl
And dial it once for me

You know my number
six, one, five, you know it baby
three, eight, nine, don't drive me crazy
four, five, seven, don't leave me hangin'
ten, eleven, don't call me swanky (?)
Just anything you want me to say
Baby please call home

You know I'm sorry for the fight girl
Yes I'm sorry for the wreck
I meant to pay that repair bill
I didn't mean to bounce the check
Please call home babe
I miss you please_? dial my name

Please call home
You know my number
Please call home
I know her number
Five, nine, four (?) don't save it baby
_____ don't _____?
I say anything you want me to say
Just baby please call home

You've been in trouble after highschool
Ever since your mama died
We tried to act like nothin' happened
And baby girl that's just a lie
Now what we really need to do
It's sit and cry cry cry

You know the number
six, one, five, you know it baby
three, eight, nine don't drive me crazy
four, five, seven don't leave me hangin'
ten, eleven, don't call me swanky (?)
I say anything you want me to say
Just baby please call home

Real Emotion

You spend most your life tryin' to cover for being ashamed
It was nothing you done but no matter you still took the blame
Torn from your family and tied to the wheel
Possessed by the sense of your own senselessness
In pretending that nothing was real

And you had you some women you never knew nothing about
Well you talked your way into their hearts and you drank your way out
And you thought that their dreaming could live with the lie
That girls don't need daddies and big boys don't cry
So you covered your heart with your head
And you laid in their beds 'til love withered and died

CHORUS:
Real emotion, you never could show
Real emotion, just couldn't let go
Of emotion, the real emotion is a soul
Oh-oh, oh-oh

Now you carve and you chisel and you render your image of men
Then you live like a ghost in the back of the mirror in your hand
And you made an impression in all you have faced
'Cause you wanted approval, you wanted their love
Though you told us that you didn't care

And you trumped up your own self-importance beyond all belief
Then you lived with the fear they'd find out though it'd be a relief
And kisses were fire that burned to your soul
And you spread some desire you just couldn't control
So you covered your heart with your head
And you laid in her bed 'til she shivered with cold

CHORUS TWICE

Right Now

You said the tables were turning
Sure enough they turn away
You got out of this one baby
We all had to pay

Don't know who had the last laugh coming but
You took it and it wasn't any joke
I think about how we hurt each other
Make me wanna choke

CHORUS:
Right now, I wanna forget you
Right now, I don't wanna miss you
Right now, I wanna forget you
Right now, right now

I know it's a nasty habit
Spending time shooting up on the past
You might get a kick ever so often
But the kick never lasts

I'm tired of asking questions
And I'm tired of wondering why
You hurt so much ___? living
Just wanted to die

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
I could dwell on how suffering I caused you
And never see my way through it
I'm not watching any hangs
But I don't give a damn what they say
You didn't have the right to do it

One cigarette missing from my packet
You must have thought about it just that long
Then you walked out through the back door
Your blue slippers on

You left them neat right next to each other
On an old chair out in the garage
Underneath the rafters where you were hanging
As if the image weren't enough to know you were gone

CHORUS

Ring A Bell

Ring a bell 'cause a baby child is born
Ring a bell to keep her safe and warm
Ring a bell so she will not come to harm
Ring a bell for the rest of her life

Ring a bell for his grandpa's bravery
Ring a bell for his daddy's strong and free
Ring a bell 'cause his mama married me
Ring a bell for the rest of his life

Ring it long
Ring it clearly
These are two we love dearly

Ring a bell 'cause the world must surely know
Ring a bell 'cause they have so far to go
Ring a bell and let that chariot swing low
Ring a bell for the rest of their lives

She Don't Love Nobody

From my humble point of view
She don't love nobody
Nothin' borrowed, nothin' blue
She don't love nobody

Behind the green eyes I detect
She don't love nobody
A heart no kiss could resurrect
She don't love nobody

All her life, she's been told to hold on tight
There's a man who'll make her his wife
But she's not interested
In anything mama says

She throws passion to the wind
She don't love nobody
She don't give out, but she don't give in
She don't love nobody

And if I could, I'd make her mine
But she don't love nobody
And she would never walk that line
She don't love nobody

And I would give her anything
She don't love nobody
Well I don't think she's a-sufferin'
She don't love nobody

All my life, I've been told to hold on tight
There's a girl to be my wife
But I'm not interested
In anything mama says

I want the girl who does not need
She don't love nobody
She's the one my heart receives
She don't love nobody
No, she don't love nobody
She don't love nobody

She'll Take Anything

She'll take anything, is gettin' laid
Screw them off the bull_? orgasm
She'll settle for a muscle spasm
She can't wait

And she'll take anything, so hang around
Understand it's pure Disneyland
When that woman comes to town

And she'll take anything, it could be you
It could be a hunchback
it could be a Catholic, it could be a Jew

And she'll take anything, your ship's come in
She's talking about romance
She's talking about loose pins
She's talking about skin

And she don't care if you're short and fat
Or living in natural habitats
And she don't care if your underwear
Stands out in a crowd
Cause she ain't proud

And she'll take anything, don't be a fool
You can tell the bartender
You ain't gonna surrender
Keep your eyes on that stool

And she'll take anything, so hang around
Cause I understand it's pure Disneyland
When that woman goes down

Since His Penis Came Between Us

It was a wonderful world
The picture too was bright
There was so much to do on a Saturday night
Plenty of talk during commercials
Sometimes even popcorn in bed

I've been a model provider
You must admit to that
A lovely rented bungalow
Two terrific little cats
Is there something that I might have missed
You haven't heard a word I've said

Since his penis came between us
Since his penis came between us

Well I don't mean to seem angry
But I'm a bit taken back
What did you say his name was
Oh my god, it's not Jack?
That scoundrel's gonna' get a talking to
Tomorrow at the coffee machine

It's always someone you know
In this case my best friend
How could he do this to me
We just played golf last weekend
I've got news for Mr. So-and-so
He won't be teeing of with me

Since his penis came between us
Since his penis came between us

Let's play a little game
Is it bigger than a bread-box
Or shorter than your maiden name
Is it as high as an elephants eye
Is it like mounting some great white steed
I mean this thing you have for him
Shall we say - need ?

Let's turn off the lights, love
It's time for bed
Oh look, there's Johnny Carson
If you rather watch instead
I'm glad that we could have this little talk
Goodnight, and pleasant dreams my love

Singing the Blues

I knocked on your door
The dog let me in
Well, he was so happy
To see me again

The news is not good
The news is not bad
The TV blew up
And the president is mad

I'm glad you were home
It's been a long time
Since I've knocked on your door
And you've knocked on mine

Yes I've been drinking
But not all that much
It keeps me from longing
For your tender touch

I'm sorry I came
I won't stay for long
I just wanna tell you mama
That this is all wrong

I used to be happy
I used to be strong
But I've been singing the blues
Ever since you been gone

Now love is a fire
So I've been told
But nobody tells you
When the fire gets cold

So now I've been burned
And now I've been frozed
And now I am someone
That nobody knows

I'm sorry I came
I won't stay for long
I just wanna tell you mama
That this is all wrong

I used to be happy
I used to be strong
But I've been singing the blues
Ever since you been gone

Sing Me

(By Rusty Weir, from the album Don't It Make You Wanna Dance, 1975)

Sing me to the break a dawn
Oh, oh, but not so long
Lovely lady sing to me
Oh, oh, set me free

Find the minutes of my heart
Oh, oh, the hours start
Take me into where I am
Oh, oh, honey I know you can

Am I dreaming?
Tell me please, can this be true?
Am I sleeping?
Tell me please, am I in love with you?

Jumping into something I don't know
I feel like I got music in my soul
Lovely lady help me find the door
You feel like something I've been looking for
You feel like something I've been looking for

Love and live and everything
Oh, oh, the truth will sing
Play to help me plant the seed
Oh, oh, that's what we need

You gotta sing me to the break of dawn
Oh, oh, but not so long
Lovely lady sing to me
Oh, oh, now set me free

Skin And Bone

You turn to religion
And I turn from the wall
You got saved well praise Jesus
I just faced it all
You go to a church now
And I go home alone
Alive and well in spite of all this skin and bone

You love world that could be
And I hope you always will
I hate the world I live in
And yet I live here still
Flowers come up now and then
From in between the stone
Alive and well in spite of all this skin and bone

BRIDGE:
You talk about the weather
And everything you say is true
Faith is your binoculars
And this is just a fuel burnin' in your eyes
I see the whole of what you're trying to see through
Well take a look at you

The end is coming slowly
Well you can't hardly wait
I was finished long ago
You just got there late
Space between us lengthened
There ain't no telephone
Alive and well in spite of all this skin and bone
Alive and well in spite of all this skin and bone

Skin Game

(from the soundtrack The Border, 1980)

Ay, Amigo ----------------
-- got everything that money can buy
Now it's a place where a face ain't got no name
Down here everybody's playing that ol' skin game
Down in Mexico, mexico
Well a boy can be a man down on Mexico

Down to the river to a rolling fog
I'm the man make you walk the log
Well working on the -- and the price is right
I was looking for a lover I was looking for a fight
Mexico, Mexico
A boy can be a man down in Mexico

REPEAT FIRST VERSE

Sleeping Tight

Well he went west to find his fortune
She went east to find a thrill
He laid drunk beside the ocean
And she laid down with a bottle of pills
When he woke up the sky was falling
And she woke up in a dirty hotel
He bummed a dime from an old beach cleaner
And she thanked a stranger for paying her well
Silent night holy night
Three thousand miles and the bow burned bright
Love so wrong love so right
All you lovers out there
I hope you're sleeping tight

Well he called a friend in San Francisco
And she took a train to Baltimore
He put a hole in his arm that evening
And she put a fist through her mother's door
Well he told himself that he cared for no-one
And she told her mama to leave her alone
He turned blue as he started talking
And she picked up the telephone
Silent night holy night
Three thousand miles and the flame burned bright
Love so wrong love so right
All you lovers out there...
I hope you're sleeping tight

There was a plane from San Francisco
And there was a plane from Baltimore
Routine flights from two big cities
flown a thousand times before
I turned on my television
It seems there was a crash somewhere
Two planes coming across the country
Have collided in the air
Sileny night holy night
Three thousdand miles and the fire burns bright
Love so wrong love so right
All you lovers out there...
I hope you're sleeping tight
All you lovers out there...
I hope you're sleeping tight

Snake Charmer

(from the soundtrack White Nights, 1984)

Bye bye
I Got news for you
It's all right
Bad girl whatya gonna do

My My
Long blond hair
Short black dress
Standing there unimpressed

CHORUS:
She's a snake...charmer, yeah
She's a snake...charmer

I wanna look, I'm a basket case
I get shook
Where to look, to investigate
I'm hooked

Close enough to hear her sighs
Close enough to get a rise

CHORUS

Bad boys checking out
Each others hair style
She ain't gonna last in this room for th reptiles
Hair comes up
blood starts to rush
Music getting
heart to pound
Three drinks and I'm on my knees
I can't think
She says "what's wrong with you"
And I shake
So much more
Now I'm just a little worm

CHORUS THREE TIMES

Snowy Night

He was a gambler
She wore a flower
It was a snowy night
He came from Texas
She'd been to Paris
They stared at the slow fire light

The room it got smokey
He said he'd be leavin'
The storm was no reason to stay
They looked at each other
The bottle was empty
They dreamed that the world went away

CHORUS:
Snowy night
Only__? lovers cast no shadow
Snowy night
In a bar in Colorado

She borrowed a pencil
And wrote on a napkin
And gave him a number to call
He said it don't snow in Texas
He smiled when she told him
Europe is nice in the fall

The wind stopped its howling
People were leaving
She said that she'd better go
He asked if she wanted
A ride to wherever
She said that she did not know

CHORUS

And he was a gambler
She wore a flower
And it was a snowy night
He came from Texas
She'd been to Paris
They stared at the slow fire light

CHORUS

Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me

Some folks live by a big blue ocean
Some folks live in the center of town
Some folks live without any notion
Me I'm just trying to live your love down
I'm just trying to live your love down

I'm not looking for another
I'm just looking to get long gone
To some place no sweet heart has discovered
Some place where memories don't hold on
Some place where memories don't hold on

CHORUS:
Somewhere the ties won't bind me
Whoa someplace that love can't find me
Somewhere the past's behind me
Someplace where love can't find me
Someplace where love can't find me

It's the same old sad situation
Fall in love and it breaks your heart
Surely there's somewhere in this great nation
Where no-one comes together to just to fall apart
No-one comes together just to fall apart

CHORUS

I'm getting nowhere I'm getting nowhere
And gettin' nowhere is gettin' so hard
I wanna go there I wanna go there
Before they throw my heart in a junkyard

Because I don't have another love in me
I can't even let the last one go
Before I do it again please send me
Up to Nova Scotia down to Mexico
Up to Nova Scotia down to Mexico

CHORUS

Spanish Dancing Eyes

Put a candle in your window last night
Waited for me by the August moonlight
I'm fairing to your water__?
And it sure felt right

I took off my shoes and I dusted my prayers__?
I buried my blues in your long brown hair
And I did not see no sign of danger anywhere
That's why I'm singing

CHORUS:
Oh Spanish dancing eyes
Sweet signorita take the love I'm bringin'
Oh Spanish dancing eyes
Love's last angel
I am no stranger
And you don't have to cry

Took a soft wind from the top of a tree
And I felt your spirit blowing closer to me
And I did not need no reason
And I felt so free

I've been through some changes cause that's what I do
But I couldn't change how I feel about you
You found me in a fire, and I found the fire in you
That's why I'm singing

CHORUS

You don't have to cry

Something's Broken

(No lyrics available)

Spy Boy

(from the Lorimar soundtrack Cruising, 1980)

Well it's dangerous out here tonight but a fellow's gotta eat
I see those vampires sucking blood
I hear those dull thuds
I guess it's trick or treat

CHORUS:
I'm a Spy Boy
I'm a Spy Boy

Oh this music is hell
Man why don't you turn it up real loud
I'm a stranger here in town
I hope this is the wrong kind of crowd

Now,
CHORUS

I wear my heart on my sleeve
Just take a look at my flag
I should be up to my knees
Or all the way down the track

BRIDGE:
I want to hurt some one
I want to love someone
I want to be some one
Why do I need some one

Oh the smoke gets in my eyes
Things materialize but I wish I never seen
I know my mama tried so hard to raise a son up right
Just can't keep it clean

CHORUS TWICE

St. Mary

Well the night was cold and rainy and the moon was almost in
He was draining__? from his beated__? line and cursin' at your in___?
The devil on his dashboard and the bible in the trunk
Looking for the one they call St. Mary

Well he crossed the Mason-Dixon line and headed for the north
Even _________? would not change his cause
Flying like an arrow through the heart of his distress
Looking for the one they call St. Mary

Well he heard she was in Oregon, and he heard she was in Maine
From coast to coast he's seen the ghost and now he'd come to claim
The one who set his soul on fire and burned him to the bone
Looking for the one they call St. Mary

Well he walked into a ballroom on the edge of some small town
She was blowing out the candle at a table full of clowns
And while everyone sat laughing she crawled out beneath the smoke
He knew she was the one they call St. Mary

Well ___ his pockets for a match to light the place
It was time to throw some light upon his sane he had misplaced
But before he struck that self-addict__? she dragged him to the ground
He was caught up in the dark they love St. Mary

Well they wrested in the sore dust and the peanuts on the floor
He had her by the ankle as she struggled for the door
His heart felt like a razorblade, his blood ran cold as ice
He knew he found the one they call St. Mary

Well someone lit the candle and the clowns began to cry
She was lying in a heap of flesh with death upon her eye
"You killed the woman in cold blood" they shouted in his ear
And she was not the one they call St. Mary
Now she was not the one they call St. Mary
Oh, she was not the one they call St. Mary

Stand Still

Running down the suckers, never slowing down
Your feet are always moving, but they never touch the ground
Push it to the limit, you're running out of town

Since I met yo baby, everybody knows
You're gonna burn a candle, you better burn it slow
Or you're never gonna make it across the finish line

CHORUS:
Stand still, let me get next to you
Stand still, take off your running shoes
Stand still, this love is long overdue

Living for tomorrow is never out of style
You might get a bit addicted if you stop to run a while
Take it slow and easy, yeah to crawl

CHORUS

It's just a matter of time
Little girl I'm gonna make you mine
Stop running away
And listen to me when I say, stand still

(BREAK)

It's just a matter of time
Little girl I'm gonna make you mine
Stop running away
And listen to me when I say

CHORUS
Stand still
Oh, stand still
Stand still
Oh, stand still
Stand still

Takin' The Long Way Down

Look out with that white horse he's coming at you
Dancin' crazy through some winter night
You're slowing down too fast he's gonna catch you
You're speeding up too slow into the light

Ah his wings are on fire
And he's burning the trail of your desire
And that needle goes in without a sound
And you're taking the long way down

Now you're moving like a turtle on a razor
Now you're laughing like a monkey in his cage
Now you're feeling like you're banging at your savior
And you don't want anyone to turn the page

And the terror in your eyes
Well it's blowing like a cloud across the sky
It's so warm and lost and found
And you're taking the long way down

So look out with that white horse he's coming right at you
Dancin' crazy through some winter night
You're slowing down too fast he's gonna catch you
You're speeding up too slow into the light

Ah his wings are on fire
And he's burning the trail of your desire
And that needle goes in without a sound
And you're taking the long way down
And that needle goes in without a sound
And you're taking the long way down
And you're taking the long way down
And you're taking the long way down
And you're taking the long way down

Tell Her I Miss Her

The sky is too big, my bed is too empty
Stars in the mirror and tears in my eyes
Sisters of darkness with moonlight ____?
And you are the lover I'd long to lay back

I'm frozing up north with a hole in my pocket
I'm living for nothing, I'm singing my dream
You're bound here to stopwatch, I'll stop in the ____
Catch me the first thing to old Tennessee
Catch me the first thing to old Tennessee

If I had my way I'd live in a forest
Write songs for birds and sing on for dreams
But people pay money to listen to music
And someone is handing his guitar to me
Yeah someone is handing his guitar to me

If you see ___? please tell her I love her
I send in my paycheck to lighten her load
Won't you tell her for me well I think of no other
Won't you tell her I miss her when I'm on the road
Won't you tell her I miss her when I'm on the road
Won't you tell her I miss her when I'm on the road

That’s The Matter With Me

(This is an early version of One Step Over The Line !)

Hey...

Baby when I look into your eyes
I see the world cut down to size
With endless possibilities
Oh baby, that's the matter with me
Oh-o baby, that's the matter with me
Hey...

And when I touch your perfect skin
Then I know that it ain't no sin
To echo love's eternity
Oh baby, that's the matter with me
Oh-o baby, that's the matter with me

Yeah....

Oh baby, that's the matter, that's the matter with me
I wanna get a little closer so that I can see
I want the heart of hearts to sound
Just as we're drivin' that Cadillac down

Maybe it's just your daddy's car
But babe you know we've come this far
Way out beyond the wind and trees
Oh baby, that's the matter with me
Oho baby, that's the matter with me

Pretty, pretty baby that's the matter with me
Hey...
Hey...
Hey...
Said Oh-oh baby that's the matter with me
Oh-o baby that's the matter with me
That's the, that's the, that's the matter with me

The Penny Drops

Well I have felt the weight of words
Screaming from your open mouth
But it was love I thought I heard
And not your anger crying out

Oh I could not turn the other cheek
To where the softest blows could land
No, I stood and fought 'till it made me weak
Too weak to take a stand

And the penny dropped like lead on roses
The penny dropped right under my nose
The penny dropped only I couldn't hear it
I was too near it
Oh oh ...

From outside in we tried to change
The look that love denied us
But in our hearts we only strained
Against the knot that tied us

Oh I see it all so clearly now
So clear it blinds me
And sometimes in my darkened room
You're standing right behind me

And the penny drops like lead on roses
The penny drops right under my nose
The penny drops only we can't hear it
We're too near it
Oh oh ...

One year gone and still I grieve
Oh tell me where it hurts you
Was there only pain left to believe
And did I just desert you

'Cause now I fight an enemy
Whom I can barely recognize
Shrouded in your memory
And shot plain through your crazy eyes

And the penny drops like lead on roses
The penny drops right under my nose
The penny drops only I can't hear it
I am too near it
Oh oh ...

The Real One

The spark of light you take for granted
Righteous light and disenchanted
But you both said you'd call it livin'
Her heart undressed that's what she's givin'

CHORUS:
Better hold on to your baby
Don't let her love slip away
She's the real one
The real one

Here is your big picture postcard
There ain't no big picture look hard
Can't you see the little pieces
And see her smile like Mona Lisas

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
The shift in your hoots
If you fell in cahoots
With those girls in their space suits shifting further and further away
You'd given up hope
When she threw you a jump rope and said
"Look up from your microscope boy to come on out and play"

Love is here and she's delighted
Love is here and you're invited
Party lights and wishing fountains
Flying kites or moving mountains

CHORUS
She's the real one
The real one
The real one

Think It Over

I ain't the only guy ever made you come
Ever made you tired with a firin' gun
I ain't the only man with his heart in his throat
I wanna spit it out, spit it out, spit it out
I love you, before I choke

I don't want you to be any more than I see in my arms tonight
Think it over but let your heart win
Think it over but baby let me in, let me in, let me in

Well you did the jurk, but it didn't fly
Oh it didn't work baby don't ask why
I don't care about your past we ain't living there
You could've rode in, robbed a bank, and raped a clerk
Oh baby I don't care

And I don't want you to be any more than I see in my arms tonight
Think it over but baby let me in
Think it over but let your heart win, heart win, heart win
Hey

When I lay you down when you've soaked off me (?)
Babe it's the sweetest sound than any memory
I get fifty thousand watts when I touch you girl
And in the aftershock, aftershock, aftershock
Oh baby it's a wonderful world

And I don't want you to be any more than I see in my arms tonight
Think it over but let your heart win
Think it over but baby let me in, let me in, let me in
Think it over...

Thinkin' Of You

(from the album The Best of Tracy Nelson - Mother Earth, 1996, by Tracy Nelson, ft. Down So Low)

Sometimes I get to thinking 'bout old times
And how we made our love in midnight moon
I ease myself by getting to my own mind
And see if I can still recall a tune

CHORUS:
I must admit, I love those days
And everyone along the way
And I still love precious memories of you

Sometimes I see me drifting through your eyes
And follow every highway to your heart
And other times I see you in my sky
Then in every star that falls apart

CHORUS

Sometimes I feel I'm ready to beg
And wake you up and take you back
And wind the love that fills the moments of our lives

This Fire Is Burning

You take the last train
And I'll be there
With a rose in my teeth
Just a flower for your hair
I don't know nobody
That looks as good as you
To me it's true
And if they did
Well I wouldn't care

Your crazy eyes
Are like a light to me
Make a dumb man tough
By the things that a blind man sees
Lead me to your hallway
After all these years
Ain't got no tears
Just a smile for you
And a hug ol key___?

Yes you've seen a lot
but you hit the spot
I'd been turning to
True love's hard to find
but I guess mine is overdue

So come lay with me
In ya daddy's arms
Are you asking fast (__?)
Little girl just false alarms
This fire is burning
Right is in the sun
My little one
You turn off the light
And I'll keep you warm

This fire is burning
Right is in the sun
My little one
You turn off the light
And I'll keep you warm

Too Late

(from the soundtrack The Border, 1980)

It's too late for tear drops turning around
You make me beg like a dog on this cold cold ground
There'll be no forgiveness for all that you see
You're just a hole to crawl out of there's no sympathy

It's too late and it's too bad, too bad
No inbetween either you're living in a nightmare
or living in a dream
Run outta chances, run outta time
You're running outta money going outta your mind
Your coldest cut goes right down to the bone
Everybody's out for murder and you're in it all alone
And there ain't no mercy in the hands of fate
When your time has slipped away
You'll see you've made your place too late

And the coldest cut goes right down to the bone
Everybody's out for murder and you're in it all alone
And there ain't no mercy in the hands of fate
When your time has slipped away
You'll see you've made your place too late

Two Hearts Like Ours

Y'know I never took pleasure too personally
Never took this love thing to heart
I guess I should've stood up on my own two knees
Begged her not to let it all start
But I never saw her coming she worked it just right
Ooh yeah
A long shot in the dark rang out
And the next thing I knew we were laughing in the daylight

CHORUS:
Two hearts like ours should never
Be left alone together
The danger's in the meeting
As two hearts like ours start to beating (?)

I used to get my kicks like a hit and run
Just a little worse ______
I never lived for a kiss til you planted one
Now I can't catch my breath
It's like I spent my whole life just waiting for you
Yeah you
Just when I thought I was all grown up
You got me swapping 'bout old times (?)
Like a little kid in grade school

CHORUS

Spray painting initials
On the freeway bridges and signs
To make it official
I'm hers she's mine

CHORUS

Up Against The Big Sky

Always looking over your shoulder
Wondering where you come from
Running away, well that just gets older
Older than the burning sun

Looking for a face out in the desert
Something written in the sand
Lift up your eyes, heaven is before you
You're walking through the promised land

CHORUS:
Up against the big sky
Oh to spread those wings and fly
Up against the big sky
Up against the big sky

Mother and father, sister and brother
They have all let you go
The weight of your longing, well it's less than a feather
Out where the cold winds blow

You've known all along where you were going
Fate is an open hand
The seeds that you've sown, well you know what you're knowing
You're going through the promised land

CHORUS

BRIDGE:
Never knew that you needed somebody
Never knew anybody was there
It lifted up your heart in the darkness
Just like a prayer

CHORUS TWICE
Up against the big sky Up against the big sky

We Make Spirit (Dancin' In The Moonlight)

We go down that boat house
And drink the papa's wine
I talk to the mama
And she said papa he don't mind

CHORUS:
So come on, come on, come on
We make spirit dancin' in the moonlight
We make spirit dancin' in the moonlight
We make spirit dancin' in the moonlight
We make spirit dancin' in the moonlight

Papa got the fish full
Mama coco ____?
Papa get too drunk to feed
Mama got some more of that jambo

CHORUS

Mama said papa's crazy
He's always been that way
Mama take the chance on him
Look like papa's getting stable

CHORUS

We go down that boat house
And drink the papa's wine
I don't fool the mama
She said papa he don't mind

CHORUS

What Did I Do

(From Never Mind The Polyps.)

Won't even give me two lines bigger
Read between
Got tight as a radio silenced
U Boat Submarine

You ran deep for a minute
And then the shot rose out.(?)
Come out and fight like a woman
You can start crying now.

What did I do to make you so blue.
What did I do to make you so blue.

You're the center of attention baby
Well I am too
Can't seem to get no further
Than our own point of view

Thought we had a little breakthrough
When you looked my way
You looked like you wanted to kill me
Yeah, you just might do it some day.

What did I do to make you so blue.
What did I do to make you so blue.

Got drunk with your father
Farted in church
I drop kicked the cat
Or something even worse

I fed the kids popcorn
For dinner last night
I got no alibi
It was me all right

But what did I do to make you so blue.
What did I do to make you so blue.

What did I do to make you so blue.
What did I do to make you so blue.

When You Cut Me I Bleed

Keep it in mind
Don't throw your weight around
Everything's so heavy in this God-damn town
They go off the bridge
They laugh in the wind
There's only one hole you could put me in

CHORUS:
'Cause when you cut me I bleed
Red river of meat
All over your gold
When you cut me I bleed
And in a frenzy you feed
Until I am yours

You push and you pull
And then you confess
You can't really take all this tenderness
If I was a saint
You might understand
How dull it can get just being a man

CHORUS

A rose in your teeth
A knife in your purse
You dance for your victim then you play nurse
You keep me in bed
'til everything heals
And you wanna know how a true love feels

CHORUS

Where Is The Next One Coming From

Well I had a job, but I got laid off
Had a heart, but it got too soft
Had a girlfriend, but she lied
Had a friend, but my friend he died

One too many drinks an hour ago
All I want now is just one more
Where it hits me, baby, I don't care

Where is the next one coming from?
Where is the next one coming from?

Some folks say that it's just one thing
Gonna make 'em dance, gonna make 'em sing
Got a little there, got a little here
Gonna check 'em all, all off my list

All I know is I don't get enough
All I get is this old sweet stuff
And when I do, baby, I don't care

Where is the next one coming from?
Where is the next one coming from?

BRIDGE

Where is the next one coming from?
Where is the next one coming from?

All I want is my belly full
'cause it's a natural thing for an animal
Lord, I tried to give and take
All I got was a big headache

Than at once, she didn't come down
Talk like a fool, and he dressed like a clown
Someone he loved could'a put him there

Where is the next one coming from?
Where is the next one coming from?

I was ready to find it
Where is the next one coming from? (5x)

Wreckless Lover

(incomplete lyrics)

Say you gotta whole lotta things to do
Well I don't doubt it baby
Got a mind like a Burma Shave sign it's true
What about it baby

Every night I saw you tell me where to go
Hit night___? get there
Yes and no no no no
Love is in that person
Love gets on your nerve
I'm not faking anymore more more more

You you you make me struggle
You you you don't need the covers
Cause you you you don't want no other
You

Say I touched too much what you feel
And there's no satisfaction
I got a list of each little kiss you steal
Now I want some of the action

Every other day you say you'll be okay
I'm getting closer
Well I'm just like a stranger
Love is on the lib___?
And love is in the hip___?
And can say so___?
You can point out that danger

You you you make me struggle
You you you don't need the covers
Cause you you you don't want no other

And when we're outta breath
You light a cigarette
It's just another complaint__?
You get so serious
When I get curious
You say those____? need a ___?

You you you make me struggle
You you you don't need the covers
You you you make me struggle

You you you make me struggle
You you you don't need the covers
You you you make me struggle

You Never Told Me You Were Gonna Go

You should have been a gypsy
With a diamond in your tooth
You could have told my fortune
You could have told the truth

About the roses in the tumbstones
And the passon in my eyes
But you had to go and tell me
That true love never dies

And now I'm crying on your suitcase full of clothes
You never told me you were gonna go

Go down to the station
Catch a ride to anyplace
This ain't no vacation
Whip that tourist of your face

Now this time you left forever
And forever's where you're bound
And I won't be there to catch you
As You fall from town to town

Now I'm still crying for a love I used to know
You never told me you were gonna go
You never told me you were gonna go

You Never Told Me You Were Gonna Marry  

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