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Wake up in the morning with a head like 'what's you done?'
This used to be the life, but I don't need another one
You like cutting up and carrying on you wear them gowns
So how come I feel so lonely when you're up getting down?
So I'll play along when I hear that special song
I'm gonna be the one that gets it right
You'd better move when you're swinging 'round the room
Looks like the magic's only ours tonight
[CHORUS]
But I don't feel like dancin' when the old Joanna plays
My heart could take a chance but my two feet can't find a way
You'd think that I could muster up a little soft shoe gentle sway
But I don't feel like dancin' no sir no dancin' today
I don't feel like dancin', dancin'
Even if i find nothing better to do
Don't feel like dancin', dancin'
Why'd you pick a tune when I'm not in the mood?
Don't feel like dancin', dancin'
I'd rather be home with the one in the bed till dawn with you
Cities come and cities go just the old empires
When all you do is change your clothes and call that versatile
You got so many colors it'd make a blind man so confused
So why can't I keep up when you're the only thing I'd lose?
I'll just pretend that I know which way to bend
I'm gonna tell the whole world that you're mine
Please understand when I see you clap your hands
If you stick around I'm sure that I'll be fine
[CHORUS]
You can't make me dance around
But your two-step makes my chest pound
Just lay me down
As you float away into the shimmer lights
[CHORUS]
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This town was built on muddy stilts
By the lunatic parade
It rains like Revelations
Gonna wash these freaks away
Some girls wanna hold your hand
And some girls like to pray
Well my girl takes her drinks
With dust and rusty razor blades
As I Live between these covers
I wanna tell her that I have it
When she chokes me in the
Backseat of her riverboat 'cause
She's My Man
And we got all the balls we need
When you taste that pavement
You're amazed
She smells your sympathy
So bye bye ladies
May the best queen hold the crown
For the most bush sold on the levee
My my, how word gets around
She strangles for a good time
And she kills my self-control
She's my man, don't be too sad sonny
'Cause she'll never be your woman no more
Someday soon, this dank lagoon's
Gonna sink right into hell
They'll hide you from Big Ida
At the Sho' Enough Hotel
The Ladies od the evening's just
A tombstone in your bed
Well my girl eats a wounded preacher
'tween two loaves of bread
I know she's up to something, But how can I run when she's just
Keel-hauled twenty-one to nothing
I'll stay next to the steel coal oven 'cause
[CHORUS]
All you need's just a fist of a tear-stained bunny
When the good ship comes to town
Who said love's a bitch'll sit next to me honey
Because this old boat's gonna run aground
I don't want to be the burden
Or your jealous bastard
I don't wanna be the Tarzan of your next epic disaster
[CHORUS]
She's my man, can't you feel her comin'
She's my man, she's gonna keep you runnin'
She's my man, she's gonna teach you something
She's my, She's my man.
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It's not easy having yourself a good time
Greasing up those beds and betters
Watching you make dough for leisure
Fuck and kiss you both at the same time
Smells like something I'd forgotten
Curled up, died and now it's rotten
I'm not a gangster tonight
Don't want to be a bad guy
I'm just a loner baby
And now you've got in my way
I can't decide whether you should live or die
Though you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
No wonder why my heart feels dead inside
Sold and bought and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride
It's a bitch convincing people to like you
Why stop now for me you quitter
If lies were cats you'd be a litter
Pleasing everyone isn't like you
Dancing jigs until I'm crippled
Slug ten drinks I won't get pickled
I've got to hand it to you
You play by all the same rules
It takes the truth to fool me
And now you make me angry
I can't decide whether you should live or die
Though you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
No wonder why my heart feels dead inside
Sold and bought and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride
Oh I could throw you in the lake,
Or feed you poisoned birthday cake,
I wont deny I'm gonna miss you when you're gone
Oh I could bury you alive
But you might crawl out with a knife
And kill me when I'm sleeping that's why.
I can't decide whether you should live or die
Though you'll probably go to heaven
Please don't hang your head and cry
No wonder why my heart feels dead inside
Sold and bought and petrified
Lock the doors and close the blinds
We're going for a ride
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No pussyfootin' or that look of surprise
Can't hide the holes in your eyes or cover up that bitter smile
All the birds can see that your heading south
That mirror deep in your mouth reflects you running on for miles
When you cut the lights out think of me
When you cut the lights think of all the things you can't see
But are they real?
That face will be revealed
Nobody's callin' that payphone in your mind
I wonder just what they find but that line's busy all the time
I ain't got nothng but your seed on my face
You'll put them babies to waste without your finger in the pie
[CHORUS]
My mama told me one thing I'll remember till I die
The one you want the most will be the one that you defy
The times they're gonna love you
Like stitches in the scar
You can never run from trouble
'Cause these ain't no place that far
[CHORUS]
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Another constellation dies
Do what you want cause it's your own sky
Just call me when the phone stops ringing
Thanks for coming by
I'm just glad I'm on your good side
Where it's smouldering and freezing
It's never all that easy to decide
This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
'Cept I'll be looking after my own world
You just keep on saving the day
I'll try to stay but it's in vain when you're far
I'm on the run to wherever you are
And that's the nature of the chase
You fall so far behind you end in first place
Pass the torch this time we're running
To each's own regret
There's no harm in playing hard to get
Boundlessness deceives me
And baby you may turn the corner yet
This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
'Cept I'll be looking after my own world
And you just keep on saving the day
I'll try stay but it's in vain when you're far
I'm on the run to wherever you are
I'm on the run to wherever you are
To wherever you are
To wherever you are
To wherever you are
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When you're standing on the side of a hill
Feeling like you did to be done
Here it comes
A strawberry spot
Chasing away the sun
Don't let those precious moments fool you
Happiness is getting you down
A rainbow never smiles a place
It's just a candy coloured frown
You were going on at half past seven
Now it's going on a quarter to nine
All the angels want to know
Are you lost or treading water
And you're going on your fifteenth bender
But you've only got a matter of time
Yes we've all got seeds to sow
Not everyone's got lambs to slaughter
When the night wind starts to turn
Into the ocean breeze
And the dew drops sting and burn
Like angry honey bees
That is when you'll hear this song
Falling from the sky
Whoa, happiness today to all
We were born to die
Sometimes you're filled with the notion
The afterlife's a moment away
You want to tell someone the way that you feel
But then you ain't got nothin to say
You fight for freedom from devotion
A battle that'll always begin
But somebody giving you piece of advice
By the way you're living in sin
Now there's never gonna be an intermission
But there'll always be a closing night
Never entertain those visions
Lest you may have packed your baggage
First impressions are cheap auditions
Situations are long goodbyes
Truths so often live in doormen
Good luck walks and bullshit flies out
Deathly headlights guide your way
You know the place is right
When the treetops sing and sway
Don't go to sleep tonight
That is when you'll see the sign
Luminous and high
Whoa, tomorrow's not what it used to be
We were born to die
Whoa, happiness today to all
We were born to die
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You say you see what's under me
That the glass has washed away
But you're the one who's colour's gone
From love to dirty grey
Questions come alive in the middle of the day
(Over and over again)
Watch me start a fire in the middle of your shade
(That's why I'm telling you boy)
Kiss you off my lips
I don't need another tube of that dime store lipstick
Well I think I'm gonna buy me a brand new shade of man
Kiss you off my lips
It's standing room only for a piece of my pigment
So excuse me a minute while I supply demand
Kiss you off these lips of mine
Kiss you off for a custom shine
Pissed yours truly off this time
That's why I ain't just kissing you I'm kissing you off
I'm kissing you off
Spare this child your sideways smile
That crack in your veneer
Some blue broad will spoil your run
It just takes patience dear
They rush you for your life but you'll never beat the game
(Over and over again)
Flush you like a guy but the gamble's all the same
(Oh no we'll take the time for me)
Kiss you off my lips
I don't need another tube of that dime store lipstick
Well I think I'm gonna buy me a brand new shade of man
Kiss you off my lips
It's standing room only for a piece of my pigment
So excuse me a minute while I supply demand
Kiss you off these lips of mine
Kiss you off for a custom shine
Pissed yours truly off this time
That's why I ain't just kissing you I'm kissing you off
I'm kissing you off
Kiss you off my lips
I don't need another tube of that dime store lipstick
Well I think I'm gonna by me a brand new shade of man
Kiss you off my lips
It's standing room only for a piece of my pigment
So excuse me a minute while I supply demand
Kiss you off these lips of mine
Kiss you off for a custom shine
Pissed yours truly off this time
That's why I ain't just kissing you I'm kissing you off
I'm kissing you off
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Some people such awful things
Don't understand that simple people
She don't need those diamond rings
Even though they look so tasteful
Sleazy parties, so important, single fortune, high class apartments
Wanted to..Woohoo..cause she feel so good
It's not a threat to nobody, in fact the people they should
CHORUS:
Ooo..don't you give me them blues
God made you a couple of dancing shoes
But I would rather say Ooo Who Who Ooo Who Who Ooo
Ooo..don't you give me them blues
God loves me cause of my dancing shoes
Let me hear you go Ooo Who Who Ooo Who Who Ooo
When you talk sweet things in my ears
I get so hot inside
A girl model never distances with tears
But tries to run for miles, and I feel those
Mixed emotions, in your heart, guilty feelings that fall apart
Wanted to..Woohoo..lovin' left to lose
And it ain't a threat to nobody and don't try to give me them blues
(Repeat Chorus 7x)
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There's an urgency I'm feeling for the first time
(I don't mind - dodo dodo)
Do we dream about each other at the same time
(All night - dodo dodo)
This might be the only way to talk to you
(That's right - dodo dodo)
Put yours ears to the sound that I'm walking to
(You're mine - dodo dodo)
Is it the party that ain't over till it's through
Is it the wiring that's suddenly a blown fuse
Is it a chemical that makes this moment true
Is it the music that connects me to you (to you-ou)
If there's a way to get together then I'm gonna pay
(One day - dodo dodo)
It's a place where all that matters are the notes you play
(I say - dodo dodo)
It's the pleasure when I'm listening it gets me by
(Won't lie - dodo dodo)
When your singing a particular exit line
(We shine - dodo dodo)
Is it the party that ain't over till it's through
Is it the wiring that's suddenly a blown fuse
Is it a chemical that makes this moment true
Is it the music that connects me to you (to you-ou)
Here I was a waiting
And praying for a muse
Finally I awaken
And you've left me less confused
And maybe now, you would give me now
I'm just in love, in love with your sound
(This business is making my food taste like chickenpox)
(You're groove ain't the only thing burning honey - we've got to set this stuff
on fire)
Is it the party that ain't over till it's through
Is it the wiring that's suddenly a blown fuse
Is it a chemical that makes this moment true
Is it the music that connects me to you (to you-ou)
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Your song it gets me by
Ahh Ah Ah
Ahh Ah Ah
When you're singing I'll be with you till the end of life
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Your song it gets me by
Ahh Ah Ah
Ahh Ah Ah
When you're singing I'll be with you till the end of life
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What will one day
Become of us
We'll grow as grass under their feet
No one here will ever know your name
And you still lie there next to me
If it takes another life
I'll wait for you
On the other side
Everything that comes to me
As good
Belongs to you
I'll count our blessings as I
Wait for you
On the other side
Good luxk and I will see you through
Get used to this
Your're going to be alright
The world goes on with or without me
If I don't ever leave a thing behind
I'll still leave you without me
[CHORUS]
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When you're quiet but your eyes
Are saying everything I need to know
I want to burrow like a sparrow
Dodging alley cats and whiskers
Why do we talk in whispers
Is it painful hearing voices ring
So early in the morning
I've been waiting for the day
Where I can throw away these numbers
That line my dresser drawers and cupboards
Start me over
Life seems so much slower
With your toothbrush by the mirror
Can I make it any clearer
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might tell you tonight that I love you
And you should stay all my life
They'll tell you that you'll maybe make it
If you just cut your clothes and change your hair
But I won't fuss and moan bout what you wear
I feel so much better when I read your dirty letters
Just wear your sweaters in the winter
Cos I wouldn't want you to get cold
I hope that we're together when we old
I would have sold all my possessions
Never took piano lessons
But baby you are grand
And I would learn to play the good notes
And tune you up the best I can
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might tell you tonight that I love you
And you should stay all my life
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might say it tonight
And I just might tell you tonight that I love you
And you should stay all my life
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If you're waiting for your wings but you just got legs
And you're feeding all your chickens but they won't lay eggs
When you open up your drawers and see your janky clothes
Just remember life's in love with you but let's suppose
That God ain't gonna drop you no hundred dollar bill
You're got to question your intentions
'Cause the bad ones kill
Everybody wants the same thing
Everybody wants the same thing
No trading places on the chain gang
It doesn't matter how you swing it
Everybody wants the same thing
When your exit sign is coming could be 'round any bend
Now did you live your life proper did you just pretend
That you knew what you were talking about
Which side was your fence
When the hammer comes down it never makes no sense
Chaos is not a virtue, paranoia loads the bases
Just imagine giant rivers overflowing with their faces
Everybody wants the same thing
Everybody wants the same thing
No trading places on the chain gang
It doesn't matter how you swing it
Everybody wants the same thing
What is it that you want?
What is it that you give?
Where do you plan on finding it?
How do you want to live?
What is it that you want?
What is it that you give?
Where do you plan on finding it?
How do you want to live?
What is it that you want?
What is it that you give?
Where do you plan on finding it?
How do you want to live?
Love is what I want
Love is what I give
Right here's where I'm finding it
That's how I'm gonna live
Love is what I want
Love is what I give
Right here's where I'm finding it
That's how I'm gonna live
Love is what I want
Love is what I give
Right here's where I'm finding it
That's how I'm gonna live
Everybody wants the same thing
Everybody wants the same thing
No trading places on the chain gang
It doesn't matter how you swing it
Everybody wants the same thing
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We're getting nowhere
Where did we go?
Shifting so slowly
Facing the top
Creeping and diving
The palm of my hand
Where we'll soon discover
A soft place to lie
She waits on the bow
Waves break from the south
There's no way to tell her now
She waits but we're getting nowhere
Transistor won't you take my signal
Stand in line beside and hold the wire
Transistor let the new world hit you
Help me reach the stars between your eyes
Transistor
We're shaking the apple
Tasting the ice
Feelings arise and
Feeling surprise
I see a curtain
Beginning to fall
What's good for the captain
Is good for us all
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I've been a movie star
Confused by the film
A plot too complicated for me
Played the policeman
'Cause he knows the drill
He's got to beat the competition away
Ambition, oh so dirty
Keep smiling, and know that they'll never know
Ambition ain't so pretty
That knocking'll open up another door
I've got the cravin'
And you've got it too
It's just an old fashioned kind of position
Sweet aspiration
There's no more time
What's the sense in hanging on when you ain't mine
Give me attention
Be my devine
We may be different creatures but we're pink inside
I am a moving car
With wishes for wheels
Driving at the speed of dissention
How you're connected
Is how you can feel
What accomplishment can do for contention
Ambition, oh so dirty
Keep smiling, and know that they'll never know
Ambition ain't so pretty
That knocking'll open up another door
I've climbed to heaven
And you'll be there too
It's just an old timer incarceration
Grey night opression
What do you say
When you look the other way it ain't me
Give me attention
Be my devine
We may be different creatures but we're pink inside
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Hair baby gets down when she's all grown up
She's acting like her mama won't let her out
I'm asking you to help me find a way
Seems hard but it's impossible for hair baby
I've seen the devil and it looks like that
It's in the house - get on your phone
You've got the trouble where you find it at
You was thinking you was all alone
Get it up before you burst your buttons now
Hair baby don't lounge when she's all turned out
She's mending like her sisters gonna fly her out
I'm asking you to help me find her way
Big money but she's featuring good hair baby
I've seen the devil and it looks like that
It's in the house - get on your phone
You've got the trouble where you find it at
You was thinking you was all alone
Get it up before you burst your buttons now
Whip it, furl it, shape it, whurl it, lift it, curl it
Let it all fall out
Bleach it, blow it, snatch it, grow it, dye it, fly it
Lay it to the side
I've seen the devil and it looks like that
It's in the house - get on your phone
You've got the trouble where you find it at
You was thinking you was all alone
Get it up before you burst your buttons now
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I smelled that smoke when I passed by your door
I fall down to my knees cause I need more
Something's burning up inside
I know that ain't no jolly ride
We'll make do with the slip and slide
Fo' sho'
You give me contact
Contact high
You give me contact
Contact high
Turn the dirt til I can breathe your seed
The flowers on your wind that taste so sweet
Look here Mama, don't be scared
Selfless children love to share
But I'll be damned if I've got enough
For three
You give me contact, contact
Contact high
You give me contact, contact
Contact high
The girl ain't nothin' but rich white trash
With her lips on a jazz bag and hands on cash
Nobody wants to kiss a mushroom stash
That bad
Don't you leave me statued like a stone
I taste you good, the wet lips of your home
Please believe me, for your sake
I won't ask you, I just take
One more fix and I'm gonna break my bones
You give me contact, contact
Contact high
You give me contact, contact
Contact high
You give me....
You give me...
You give me...
You give me...
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If anyone was headed for the gates of hell I knew you'd be first
I used to picture your obituary and I wished you the worst
The danger of the playground
The radio said you drowned
I'm sorry almost
Almost sorry
No sympathy is given to the perpetrator charged with the crime
I'm willing to admit that it feels good to be a victim sometimes
I won't ever get to thank you
For the terrible things you said
I'm sorry almost
That you're dead to the world where I hoped you would be
Never imagined you'd live on in me
You gave me destination but I paid for the ride
The place you pushed my dick in left a crater inside
Where I cried (he cried)
Where I cried (you died)
Where I cried from the bruises learned to live with the scars
Now you live in the mirror when I look there you are
You're the shadow on the faces of the people I meet
Have you claimed eternal shotgun in my passenger seat
Well I'm sorry almost
Almost sorry
Sometimes the best design is done by damage
The accident concedes
A rainbow still looks pretty when it bleeds
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How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
I'll show you one more time
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
I'll show you one more time
Hey-ey baby, maybe you can show me your lady
And we can make a lady tonight
Hey-ey baby, maybe you can show me your lady
And we can make a lady tonight
Her name is Barbara (Barbara) Jackson (Jackson)
That is her name
Her name is Barbara Jackson
How do you make a lady
Barbara (Barbara) Jackson (Jackson)
That is her name
Her name is Barbara Jackson
How do you make a lady
"Barbara Jackson is my name
And I don't play no games
I'm just the same
But I'll take the train
My name is Barbara Jackson
And that's what you should call me
My name is Barbara Jackson
But you don't ever call me
But you don't ever call me"
We're making ladies
we're making ladies
We're making ladies
Construct a lady all night
We're making ladies
we're making ladies
We're making ladies
Construct a lady all night
I'm making her from Faberge
I'm making her with fabric
I'll put her in some negligee
I'll conjure her with magic
I'll clean up all her accidents
And paint her with mascera
We'll get along on fancy boats
And ride the riviera
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
I'll show you one more time
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
How do you make a lady?
I'll show you one more time
Hey-ey baby, maybe you can show me your lady
And we can make a lady tonight
Hey-ey baby, maybe you can show me your lady
And we can make a lady tonight
Her name is Cathy (Cathy) Curtis (Curtis)
That is her name
Her name is Cathy (Cathy) Curtis (Curtis)
How do you make a lady
Her name is Cathy Curtis
That is her name
Her name is Cathy (Cathy) Curtis (Curtis)
How do you make a lady
"My name is Cathy Curtis
And I'm so happy to be here
I'm in my fourth year of studying taxidermy
And I love hunting deer
My name is Cathy Curtis
And I'm so glad you get to know me
Um, I know where the girls room is
You don't need to show me
You don't need to show me
You don't need to show me!
[Laughs] It's just me!"
We're making ladies
we're making ladies
We're making ladies
Construct a lady all night
We're making ladies
we're making ladies
We're making ladies
Construct a lady all night
Make me out of Faberge
And make me out of fabric
And put me in the negligee
And conjure me with magic
Clean up all my accidents
And make me wear mascera
You put me in a fancy boat
And ride the riviera
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