Great White Album

Found myself inside an empty room
Waiting for the beast to make a move
Riding through the TV air
The devil makes his playground anywhere

One day, little baby, don't you be surprised but I'll be gone
You know that's true

Meantime all my friends are coming down
Overshooting exits out of town
Trapped in cans inside of traffic stacks
As the bright lights call them back
To Psycho City
To Psycho City

Aome day if the smoke clears from your eye
You'll recognise your helter skelter life

One day, little baby, you're going to realise right from wrong
It'll come right you

Meanwhile as the band is going on
Double crossing dodges get it on
Complicating every little fact
Don't ever turn your back
On Psycho City
On Psycho City

Some day as I make my way by song
I'll find out where I should belong
Jump my wheels right off the twisted track
'Cause I'm never going back
To Psycho City
To Psycho City
To Psycho City
Psycho City

Brown skinned woman been trading rough, scars across her thigh
Tell me, little honey, ain't you afraid to die?
All night long I give it up, I give it to her good
She likes to be a servant to the kings of Hollywood

Her fascination, ride the wild side, she's so bad, wild soul
Your explanation isn't going to change my mind
Try to understand the things that you do but this game is nearly out of time

You think that this is loving
But, baby, you're just running
Always up to something
Girl, you got it coming
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you

Hey, hey, hey, now, here it goes, right between the eyes
Let this be a lesson, a caution to the wise
Shake, shake, shake, yeah, shake that thing, the devil he don't know
He's about to get a woman who'll make his bones feel old

Sweetest temptation, oh yeah, your wild side, so bad, wild soul
A moment's hesitation is a waste of time
You got to head rush, baby, from all the ties that bind

You think that this is loving
But, baby, you're just running
Always up to something
Girl, you got it coming
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you

Baby, this ain't loving
Nowhere left for running
Ain't no more discussing
Can you see it coming?
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you

You think that this is loving
But, baby, you're just running
Always up to something
Ain't no more discussing
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you

Baby, this ain't loving
Nowhere left for running
Girl, you got it coming
Oh you got it coming
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you
Tell you what I'm going to do
I'm going to step on you
Tell you what I'm going to do

I see you bleed the feelings you close up
I know the pain that you hide
Baby, please don't be no close out
Stay with me through the night, through the nightmare

Needle Street ain't no answer
Can't dream a heartache away
Let the need be your master
All of your dreams fade away

Everything you want
Everything you want
Anything you want
Anything you want
You can find it right here

Oh no, don't go
Down to the midnight motel
Oh no, don't go
Can't find no heaven in hell

There's the silence that comes in the morning
Leaves you screaming at the wall
As you sit there in your easy chair
Chasing demons at a crawl

Oh no, don't go
Down to the midnight motel
Oh no, so low
Down at the Old Rose Motel

When you feel that you'll never find
Somewhere you'll be safe to lie
Just take a look over here
Together we'll rise in a morning glory

Anything you want
Anything you want
Everything you want
Everything you want
You can find it right here

Don't go, don't go
Down to the Old Rose Motel
Oh no, don't go
Down to the midnight motel

Well I've been drifting alone in the night
I've had the blues for you so long
I've been down, I've been confused
Searching for an answer, baby, one that I can use

Lying here in the morning light
Promises fade like the dreams of the night
My old love you don't come no more
Bring me loving, baby, like you did before

Was it the time?
Was it someone on your mind?
Was it love just for a while?

Maybe some day when the hurting is gone
Baby, some way love will stay on
Maybe some day we will do no wrong
I know we can make it all right, babe, if we try
Maybe some day

I've been thinking, darling, of all the times before
When I needed loving why did it walk right out the door?
Do I hold you too hard, baby, jealous you don't stay?
I guess that's loving you, darling, I know no other way

Is it the time?
Is there someone on my mind?
Is it love once in a while?

Maybe some day the need will be gone
Maybe some way I'll find to move on
Baby some day there's a way to belong
Maybe I'll find it today, baby, our way
Maybe some day
Baby, some day

Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye

Remember, baby, dreams we shared
We ran with crazies, lived on solid air
Do you remember, lady, who you used to be?
Did you become the stranger, baby, you or me?

I guess you were just trying
To keep our love alive
But, baby, all your lying
Just took it for a ride

A man of constant sorrow under an evil eye
Baby, when it's over the truth is first to die
I believe in magic, fire that binds a band
Baby, there's no magic in hiding sleight of hand

I guess that I was trying
To keep myself alive
But then there's no denying
I was losing all my pride

Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye
Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye

I guess you were just trying
To buy some peace of mind
But, baby, there's no buying
Eyesight for the blind

Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye
Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye
Hey, hey, baby, no more lies
Hey, hey, baby, this is the big goodbye

Hey, hey, momma, well, my box don't play
My strings is rusted, they're all frayed away
Hey, hey, what now, my drive is shot
I'm all tied up inside a misery knot

Ain't no dancing, got no tango feet
I'm jamming traffic down on my Love Street
Now I don't know what I ought to do
I've lost the lock on my groove with you

So what now, honey, so I'm screwed up too
But I can't fit without my piece of you
Without your touch I won't pull through
I burn a fever like a hoodoo stew

Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need love to break its stranglehold
Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need a love to bring me out of the cold

Well, there ain't no words that I know to say
To make it better, lord, in any way
Sister, sister, my need is you
This heart is hoping you can treat it too

See my blood's on fire, yet I feel so cold
Baby, touch me make this feeling go
Can't you see what you need to do?
Ifeel better when I'm touched by you

Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need love to break its stranglehold
Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need a love to bring me out of the cold

Little baby, don't you slip away
Your love in motion takes my pain away

Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need love to break its stranglehold
Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need a love to bring me out of the cold

Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need love to break its stranglehold
Doctor me, baby, down to my soul
I need a love to bring me out of the cold

I don't want the rap that you're laying, don't give me no abuse
I don't want no motor mouth jiving another lame excuse
I don't want my head to keep saying, baby, what's the use?
I don't want no patter no way, I want you

I don't want no momma san praying, to strip me to the bone
I don't want no hustle today, leave my vibe alone
I don't want to worry about nothing, there's nothing I must own
I don't want to deal that way, I want you

I love loving, loving is fine
Why no love? Why waste your time?
Got to give it some way, can you hold out alone?
Just a little loving, it's all right, let it go

I don't want another dog making another big pretence
I don't want to be brought down on a capital offence
I don't want no pressure drop, baby, don't make it so intense
I don't want no promise no way, I want you

It's only loving, baby, get it back down the road
Yes, it comes back like a magic mother load
Make a loving man, make him know it's all right
That giving love going to get us through the night

I don't want the song you keep playing, all lovers are insane
I don't want my heart to be breaking, I want you
I don't want the trouble of loving and here it comes again
I don't want the game you like playing, I want you

You leave home 'cause it brings you down
There's no attention from a sleepy midwest town
Make your way to the centre stage
A spotlight makes it justifiable rage
It's reinvention as celebrity
Don't touch just look at me

I said oh no never trust a pretty face
Oh no never trust a pretty face

You said, baby, put your trust in me
When darkness falls Ii will always help you see
Stole the key from tomorrow's door
You had all but you only wanted more
Sold your soul for the company
You went and took advantage of me

I said oh no never trust a pretty face
Oh no never trust a pretty face

A silent face in a magazine
You learned to lie as you sell the world a dream
Listen now for the drop of a name
A stepping stone on the stairway to fame
I only saw what I wanted to see
I let my heart make a fool out of me

I said oh no never trust a pretty face
Oh no never trust a pretty face
Oh no never trust a pretty face
Oh no oh no never trust a pretty face

Free me from this restless curse
That follows me through the dark
Bring back an innocence
A strength to fill my heart
In this world of emptiness
That I have come to know

Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
When the promise is broken
When your eyes open
Then the wind whispers and sighs
Love is a lie

My bird of paradise
Coloured in blues and gold
She's got a soul on ice
And calculation cold
This bird of avarice
Has left me now I know

Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
When the promise is broken
When your eyes open
Then the wind whispers and sighs
Love is a lie

So breathe a last and broken sigh
Oh silent night come now to me
And if I dream of light
Come down and be with me
And in the dark we will not see

Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
Love is only a lie, only a lie, only a lie
When the promise is broken
When your eyes open
Then the wind whispers and sighs
Love is a lie

Only a lie

Been thinking now what I should do, I got to decide
Just waiting here on the likes of you, my Thursday child
I'll face the music that I hear in my head as the night rolls by
Song of a drifter lost to the road trying to reach for the sky

Got to get on the road
Got a long way to go
Got to get on home
Got to get on the road
Got a long way to go
Got to get on home

So nothing lasts and I can't change I been this way too long
Love burns so fast when you see the flame you got to let it shine on
God only knows it's hard to find a place to belong
And as you grow to find your way you have to move on
So I go my way like a shadow at night like a name on the wind
I'll sail away to an ocean of love let the tide roll in

Got to get on the road
Got a long way to go
Got to get on home
Got to get on the road
Got a long way to go
Got to get on home
Got to get on the road
Got a long way to go
Got to get on home

Like a river running out of the snow
Down to the ocean i'll go
Like a river with a soul of its own
I got to let my love flow

Got to get on the road
Fot a long way to go
Fot to find my way back home
Got to find my way my way home
Been such a long time

When the truth is found to be lies
And all the joy within you dies

Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love

When the garden's flowers, baby, are dead
Yes, and your mind your mind is so full of red

Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love

Your eyes, I say your eyes may look like his
But in your head, baby, I'm afraid you don't know where it is

Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love

Tears are running running down your breast
And your friends, baby, they treat you like a guest

Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love

It was your father who trained you
And your mother who brained you
To be so useless and shy?
Well i just replaced them
And tried not to break them
Because you can stand up if you tried
Well, I want to see your face
When your knees and your legs
Are just going to break down and die

And who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Are you in control or is it driving you insane?

If I could wave a magic wand
Then maybe you'd change back to being a blonde
And your skirt would come down, it would cover your feet
If I said, "It's not camp
To wear tiffany lamps"
You'd be thrown right out in the street

And I wonder who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Are you in control or is it driving you insane?

You could stand on your head
Or maybe sing in bed
If I said it was the thing to do
If you're in with the faces
And their getaway places
'Cause they don't take no notice of you
Well, the trendy pace setters will just called you a pain

'Cause I want to know who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Who's driving your plane?
Are you in control or is it driving you insane?

Well, mama took the road that hits a highway home from home
Yeah, I travel light, you travel faster on your own
And I never saw the need to see what I was missing
Never want a plan there was no mission

But that's all right 'cause, baby, I'm your rolling stone
Rolling in the crew where the river gets going
Running like a wind in a hurricane blowing

Living on rock and roll
Living on rock and roll
Living for the day
In my own sweet way
Living like rocker
Living on rock and roll

I ain't no star and sure as hell ain't James Dean
But my soul's my own and I still believe a poor man's dream
There's a danger that's simple, the taste of love and tripping
When you've got the itching it's never easy quitting

But that's all right, I got my heaven, love my Jones
I thank you for the day and your sweet sweet loving
But now it's time to go, got to hit the ground running

Living on rock and roll
Living on rock and roll
Living for the day
In my own sweet way
Living like rocker
Living on rock and roll

Living on rock and roll
Living on rock and roll
Living for the day
In my own sweet way
Living like rocker
Living on rock and roll

Well I'm a wasted rock ranger
I live the life of danger
On the road to find a higher high
I don't need no one's affection
All I need is my injection
An out of tune Les Paul'll get me by

I've been doing gigs since I was ten
I really can't remember when
I ever had a dollar to my name
My ears are blown, my eyes are red
I got big holes inside my head
Snorting too much crystal and cocaine

I have bennies with the breakfast toast
Quaaludes with the evening roast
Assorted snorts of powder in between
I don't think a day's gone by
That I wasn't drunk or high
It's the only way I keep my sanity

From Kegger's Den to Hooterville
My flaming tricks have topped the bill
A thousand empty bottles earn my name
Endless trains of one night stands
Sharing stages with half arsed bands
And all the local groupies lay the same

Well I could have had a paying job
Working for some fucked up slob
Wife and family true security
But I left that shit behind
For that heavy metal grind
'Cause rock and roll is in my blood to stay among other things

Hey, you're a wasted rock ranger
You'll live life of danger
Sing this song and follow it till the end
When you reach number one
You can overdose for fun
And go and visit Jimi and his friends

Hey, you're a wasted rock ranger
You'll live a life of danger
Sing this song and follow it till the end
When we reach number one
Hey, we'll all overdose for fun
And we'll hang out with Jimi and his friends