Todd Rundgren

A million old soldiers will fade away But a dream goes on forever I'm left standing here, I've got nothing to say All is silent within my dream A thousand true loves will live and die But a dream lives on forever The days and the years will go streaking by Bu...

It's a long time and a long way to go What was once mine isn't mine anymore All my fears you would not find me All behind me It's a long way and a long time to come When our hearts stray and the troubles begun I'll forget it if you make me Please just take me...

Did you see the color of the water coming out of the tap? Did you hear the chatter of the hammer When you're trying to nap? There's nothing on the counter at the A&P store The bank don't even bother now to open It ain't pretty, pity Abandon city Eve...

It must feel pure to be so sure About every little thing But there's no cure for that angst of yours That tugs at you like a string Because you're afraid, afraid to know To know the answer 'Cause you're afraid that it will burn You're afraid to learn A nervous...

They say I don't think enough About the afterlife Of what's below and above It's all in black and white They say there's only one kind of love You have to choose just right They say there's ony one kind of love In the afterlife Kiss it all goodbye In the afte...

See Ms. Malone She spends another quiet evening alone Sits in her study and stares at the phone And a bell in her head will ring All the children sing All the dancers start to sway in time The orchestra begins to play Somebody pours the wine The sun and moon...

Smiles, all smiles like the sweet light of the sun rise I'm in love with something in your smile All smiles waiting for the love you gave me When you do I just can't help but smile You never have to shed a tear Just remember that I'll always care And when I'm...

Who's that on the racks again? A portrait of a crazy man Trying to make a living off an elpee's worth of toons A picture of a soul in pain Trying to change the world with an elpee's worth of toons There's something at the heart of it that's simply awful A ma...

Kid's kind of dirty and a light on you But talk, talk, talk is all you can do You want to know how to play a game of show and tell But you're just not getting off on yourself When you got to get a message through It's not what you do It's your attitude...

Laura, I saw you open in LA There's something I gotta say Laura, you know it's really been such a long, long time And you know Laura, I knew you'd make it good someday And you knew it anyway Laura, I know that maybe this is the wrong, wrong time But Laura whe...

Like a fly batters itself against a window Time and again and again it senselessly blunders Up and down the length of West Broadway The bag lady wanders Fifty cents rent goes pretty far When you live in a subway car One stop's the same as another Even son of...

I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day Ever since I was a tiny boy I don't want no candy I don't need no toy I took a stick and an old coffee can I bang on that thing 'til I...

It's been easy until now But you'll likely question how You have traveled far, it's true But there's much more left to do For it's time to pay the toll And we never know the sum of what we owe You can't go back from where you came You must move on and face the...

No catch, no strings None of the usual things I'm happy just to lay and look Let's throw out the book Now we're off the hook And please just be nice to me Won't you be nice to me So tired, so sad So sick of being had By everyone who comes along Would it be so...

Please don't look at me that way, I can hardly say what I have to say, There is nothing that I haven't told to you That I didn't believe you knew. I am thinking of another time I could feel you thinking that you were mine, Now I hold out my hands 'til my arms...

Beloved infidel, where are you hiding now? Will you return to me once you've been disavowed? All the many battles you fought on my behalf Now your memory fades like a photograph False gods they will erect offerings they will burn I am lost in meditation...

I was born this very morning And my brother he was also born, In our first nine months we learned to speak And we have been listening since early morn. I love no one but my brother Who spent those months with me I hate no one and no other has so far hated me B...

Stick to your guns Diamonds are a girl's best friend Nobody knows the trouble this poor boy's seen People will believe anything Man on the run Always gets it in the end Nobody cares 'cause nobody shares his dream People don't believe anything Everything is ch...

Black maria, you scare me so I feel as though my heart stop dead You're a liar, this I know I watch you go around my head Oh, I'm going down slow You scare me so Oh, you never let go You scare me so Gay deceiver, my eyes they burned My insides turned, my bra...

Don't be sad now Get up and start again Though it's bad right now It takes a while to mend Keep your eyes Upon the other side Nobody cries When they know nobody died We all feel it too No one needs to change places with you Take two pills and go to bed If you...

The streets, the signs are pointing all one way But you don't realize just what they say You may fight, you may run, you may know what you've done It makes me feel so sad to think what I might've had I watch the stars, I watch the sun, now I watch for anyone B...

If you want to cry You can always find something to cry about It's so easy to be wise Over someone else's tears But you have a gift That the rest of us just can't live without And it's something in your voice When you tell us how you feel 'cause we've...

Boat on the charles Train on a spur down by the riverside The door's open wide Planes in a line just seven miles away They leave every day And someone's always going south A guy with a truck here about is going new year's eve Why don't you leave Why don't I l...

Beefsteak charlie says to porky the pig "i can see the party lights Someone's throwin' a bash and it sure looks big Down at the slaughterhouse tonight." Say, let's get together and hit the buffet You might as well stuff yourself, They'll only throw it away Ol...

A handful of nothing is all that I need It contains plus and minus everything The odd combinations are what make up The world that you see before you In one hand I hold what people call good The rest I hold in the other But these are just symbols to the perfec...

Sleeping at night in a plaster board box Scratching the earth with the nails on my fingers And the ground pukes up rocks and rocks and more rocks And when the seeds finally reach the ground It's all been for nothing I hear the cries of children at night I wat...

Look at this empty face, Look at this broken frame I have been no other place And you know I've heard no other name. How can you keep me so? How can I let it go? I look the worst that you've ever seen Is it too much to ask what that's supposed to mean? You've...

Saw you once and you looked so sweet Saw you twice and I felt complete Three times thought I'd get some peace Dozen times and there's no release And I was already gone And life goes on in white and black Cloaking the stealth of your attack The tendrils creep...

The rain washes away and purifies It washed down the flesh we catered for And we who sell so much and wanted more The crows will come and peck away our eyes Perhaps (...) It drove us to these tides from which we swing Like (...) starlings on the wing Like hors...

We can't play this game anymore, but Can we still be friends? Things just can't go on like before, but Can we still be friends? We had something to learn Now it's time for the wheel to turn Things are said one by one Before you know it's all gone L...

Time marches on I learn to crawl, I learn to walk You couldn't stop me from running Stop me from running Before I heard my name Before I learned to talk I knew I was running to something Running to something Into the arms of my god Time marches on And I awake...

I had a vicious thought, a vicious thought Like you never had a vicious thought before Like you never in your life had a vicious thought before Not once in your life Cast the first stone, cast the first stone Let the righteous among you cast the first stone...

Don't take yourself too seriously There are precious few things worth hating nowadays, And none of them are me I was only trying to say how things used to be 'til we grew up and we all went our separate ways Looking for our own paths to immortality This is ho...

Half of me wants to knock you out Half of me wants to tell you that I'm sorry, so sorry Meanwhile, half of the world wants to scream and Shout at half of the world Just like you and i Just another fact of life We plan and we scheme 'til there's nothing left of...

We can't turn back the clock But we can chant for love Let's cut the idle talk so we can Chant for love We always have the time to quarrel About such problems as money and war Let's put it off until tomorrow Who needs another dose of sorrow? It don't necessi...

One more game, one more chance One more orchestrated song and dance He'd be up front and speak his peace And ask for her time To put their heads together And try to make the knot unwind And it strikes home that it's time to make his move Or it's time to turn a...

I believe if I was all alone I would be better off in a world my own I'd forget I ever knew of you And this dream every night that you put me through We walk along a Hollywood sea And you dance once again with me We are close, we are friends And our love nev...

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm Mmm mmm mmm You better come on In my kitchen Babe, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors Ah, the woman I love Took from my best friend Some joker got lucky Stole her back again You better come on In...

You want more, and still more, Until you get more than you ever bargained for. Now it's plain, clear as rain, I've seen your symptoms many times before. Lying on your bed of pain What will you have now? What are riches untold in a life without compassion?...

I remember, but I don't remember I was captured, I was hypnotized Look away from the cool fire Look away, you could burn your eyes Take it easy, 'cause it's much too easy To surrender, to be drawn inside Look away from the cool fire Look away 'cause you might...

Keep your head and everything will be cool You didn't have to make me feel like a fool When I tried to say I feel the way that I do I want to talk with you And make it loud and clear Though you don't care to hear But couldn't I just tell you the way I feel? I...

It's good to be the king, I've heard it said That's why I let you put a crown on my head Hoping that I'll never be forced to fake Actions that I'll never have to take I let you think I was a better man With pretty words about how true I am Humbly pretending t...

I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees I went to the crossroad, fell down on my knees Asked the Lord above "Have mercy, now save poor Bob, if you please" Yeoo, standin' at the crossroad, tried to flag a ride Ooo eeee, I tried to flag a ride Didn't nob...

Well, I've heard it I've heard it all I've heard it all before I don't need no gypsy I don't need no crystal ball Since you started messin' 'round on me, darlin' Now the phone's ringing off the wall And everybody says it's over I got a broken heart c...

She is benediction She is addicted to thee She is the root connection She is connecting with he Here I go and I don't know why I fell so ceaselessly Could it be he's taking over me... [chorus:] I'm dancing barefoot Heading for a spin Some strange m...

Don't quit your day job Corporate-cry baby A bit wiser and a whole lot older, feelin' bolder Suckin' up to the last stockholder with a Golden parachute slung over your shoulder Jacked-up-be-boy Another fool got stuck in the whirlpool Lookin' for a fast break,...

Dear God, hope you got the letter, and I pray you can make it better down here I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer But all the people that you made in your image See them starving on their feet 'Cause they don't get enough to eat from God I can't...

Girl the last time I saw you, you were crying my name When I put you on the spot, will you still feel the same Show me some determination Show me the measure of your dedication I need to see just a reflection of your inspiration Don't you break down on me, do...

Who's that knockin' on my door? Who's that rising up from under the floor? I know. I can hear that demon roar, But I don't care, I ain't gonna hear it no more. I don't care, I paid my dues last year, Have no fear, now it's time that I clear out of here. Just...

In this life I've seen everything I can see woman I've seen lovers flying through the air Hand in hand I've seen babies dancing in the midnight sun And I've seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above I've seen old men crying at their own grave sides A...

Talk, you can talk, but if you ask me take All your big words and put them together What good will they do when the long day is through Does anybody love you? Do you think that anybody's in love with You can dress up or dress down as you Gaze in the mirror,...

I've done some bad things This I know If I can't change things Tell me so It does no good to break your toe on the wall I know you're angry That's all right I said I don't care Well, I lied But I don't care who wins the fight after all As long as you don't hur...

Long-lost, gone I can tell by the way you carry on And it's now I see After all of this time what it's done to me Can't you see? I can't go free If you make me watch you cry one more time Once more I walk away, once more I hear you say Once more please try to...

Don't you ever listen? Don't you ever learn? The hand may find you It's time to take a turn You think this life is something strange You're ready for another change But don't you ever learn? Don't you ever listen? Don't you ever learn? The world is on fire Yo...

I'm bleeding I don't think I can go on I'm dying My last breath has come and gone Pity the man Searching in the sky Looking for a sign from above And he never caught a glimpse of What he's worthy of Don't sit and wait For the world on a plate It's not a stroke...

Here we go Comin' at ya Tell everyone that I am sorry, truly sorry For all of the wrongs I done I never meant to hurt nobody, no Lord, I never want to do no wrong I have lied, I have begged and I have cheated And I know my ship won't be coming in As I lay me...

I'm gon' get up in the mornin' I believe I'll dust my broom I'm gon' get up in the mornin' I believe I'll dust my broom Girl friend, the black man you been lovin' Girlfriend, can get my room I'm gon' write a letter Telephone every town I know I'm gon' write a...

As the sun rises in the east As the wind blows the fog across the sea As the hand of man creeps across the face of the world Caught in a web of glamours Persian perfume and oriental eyes Yogi in knots and sufi wise Master sublime and swami high Through in some...

I am the emperor of the highway I wield the universal will One might chance to overlook on my divineness Unless I'm sitting in the imperial poupe de ville I am the emperor of the highway Strapped with foolish mortals such as these I need never indicate my inte...

Consider the riddle that is man From his perch at the top of darwin's ladder Though the rules he little understands Plays at life as if it really mattered When before all our eyes A parading of lies And reality splatters But we have dreams, wonderful dreams W...

We're on the road again Leavin' our load behind us Put a new message on the answer phone That they can't find us The tickets are in my pocket The shuttle is right on time Everyone meets at the departure lounge Half an hour we leave the ground Let's go get a...

When your life gets too lonely It might help to feel me in your heart I remember you happy, but thought it Unfair that we are apart And it's gonna be all right 'cause everlasting love Will get us through the night There's a new day that's dawning It brings wit...

I remember, I remember What life was like in the yard 'Cause you can't ever think about dying And it just makes a person get hard I keep wondering if my friends feel like I do I don't know how someone could stand it To go through what I'm now going through S...

The day is done, the blinds are drawn The sound of afternoon is gone The corner store has locked it's door And everyone has left for home When their sleepy little heads Settle snug inside their beds You and I will stay and watch the sun fade away The balladee...

You know, wishing won't make it so Hoping won't do it, praying won't do it Religion won't do it, philosophy won't do it The supreme court won't do it, The president and the congress won't do it The un won't do it, the h-bomb won't do it, The sun and the...

"It doesn't help matters when prime time TV Has Murphy Brown. I know it's not fashionable To talk about moral values, but we need to do it..." It started on a Labor Day A chance for us to get away Everyone in the house And year by year things moved around But...

I'm Mr. Blowy Founding fathers and mothers left us a mandate We've got to separate the Church and the state So get your head straight before it's too late And you drop it in the plate, you must appreciate Jesus and money make a man speak in tongues Scream ou...

I look at you and go mad With thoughts of things that I'd do If one chance I had to show you What this man really wants to do When I'm through, you would say It's been done never that way And I know you can learn something new every day And it feels so good...

I feel too good to go to work today I need a little more time so I can stay this way (Let's go for a ride on the circle line) Couldn't you use a day in the sunshine (Mustn't let your bank payments get behind) The bills may pile up, I just brush them off my min...

Can't you see? She don't want you around no more Can't you see That her hand's pointing at the door? Feet don't fail me now How could anyone stay? Anyone could see It's time to go away Time to take a powder Open up your eyes But it feels like my legs Have be...

Numb is the word when I get like this Still out of touch, still couldn't feel a kiss, a kiss Bells going off, but I can't say why Trapped in the house with the walls And the roof on fire, on fire Flames rise higher, fever broke Fever broke as you watche...

I've been hurt I've never been so hurt Yes, and only you know why But I would be far more hurt if we had to say good bye When I think that it's all or nothing I tell myself True love does not demand fidelity If there's one sacred place always in your heart f...

When you hit your note It's like you had no choice I can't resist distraction's web When you use that voice On a crowded stage I play soliloquy I'm at the center of the earth When you gaze on me The familiar ring of the native drums Sometimes I hardl...

You could be my everything, you almost have it all You'd be perfect but you've got one fatal flaw We could live so happily, the envy of them all But that'll never happen cause you've got one fatal flaw And all my friends they look at me Say 'she's a ten' and...

Oh the law is the law For no man wrote the law They who would change the law just abuse it Oh the law is the law There is no justice outside the law But if you know the law, you can use it If you will, then you will For nothing can withstand your will As your...

I never was bothered by bad dreams They never made me afraid But then I never did dream I'd wake up And find me in the freak parade. I guess I had to find out the hard way I shouldn't have been so proud 'Cause here I'm the main attraction Of every giggle in t...

We're free We're male We're twenty-one Free, male, and twenty-one Free, male, and twenty-one It's not enough to be twenty-one and free It's not the same as male and twenty-one Free, male, and twenty-one This is such a fine distinction The career that we've b...

It's never your fault, sweet mother That I was raised in the days Of the house-husband craze But the taste of your loving udder Was replaced by another Dried cow puss and rubber And now a hunger still thrives A hunger that I've never satisfied I'm fumbling th...

I remember the world of tomorrow I remember the world of tomorrow I'm supposed to drive a flying car I'm supposed to have a house on Mars I'm supposed to live 200 years I'm supposed to live, I'm supposed to live in The future is now I remember the world of...

If it's dangerous, illegal, sick, strange, or obscene You can get it from the man if your money is green He says, "You can have it" He knows once you get it You won't be satisfied But the things that my brothers try to do to their brains The thought makes my b...

Gaya's crying, can't you hear her crying Like a whisper, oh so very soft and low If you listen, underneath the status quo Will she still be friends and once again Pardon our ignorance? Can we make ammends so near the end? Is there no second chance? No one...

Nearly everyone I know claims to have heard your voice And every time they do, I know I should rejoice Because one day I'm sure you'll break your silence And speak just to me But I feel like time's running out My heart is, my heart is filling with doubt And g...

If you know how to catch a mouse The world will beat a pathway to your door But since the first one's found our house I can appreciate the saying more I don't know What they expect to find I don't know I can't make up my mind They say he's got a special gift...

I love the colorful clothes she wears And the way the sunlight plays upon her hair I hear the sound of a gentle word On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air I'm picking up good vibrations She's giving me excitations Good bop bop, good vibrations Bo...

I like the noise and I like the smell And where the lead ends up, what the hell I've got a gun So you be the robber and I'll be the cop Cowboy saloons where someone gets dropped GI Joe goin' over the top I don't much care as long as I pop pop pop my gun You be...

Meeting people along my way Seemingly I am among they But in reality of things What my dreaming always brings Happenings ten years time ago Situations we really know But the knowing is in the mind Sinking deep into the world of time Looking in a room I see T...

Come to me, she said, my girl I must teach you of the world It is full of hungry men Who will drag you to their den But their feelings they won't share And of yours they do not care And they think that they're so smart But they're not Men are stupid, men are...

Whenever i I close my eyes Then I don't mind being the way I am But whenever I try Explaining why I know I never can Now that it's Gone, paths I used to travel Gone, things I used to handle Gone, once I had a choice what to be But then God kissed me And I lo...

My child, I had a visitation in my sleep last night Something was calling to me from a blinding light And told me not to fear it, hear it It said, "it's time to make the world a little wiser. There are enough destroyers and criticizers. The world needs a heal...

Listen, listen Listen to the voice, The voice is an illusion Listen to the voice, Don't let the words confuse you 'cause you need something to concentrate on, Concentrate on me You need something to meditate on, Meditate on me Listen, listen Listen...

Where you are going You cannot take your body You are on a journey, The baggage is too heavy You can leave your legs behind you, You will learn to fly You can leave your arms behind you, You will touch the sky You can leave your head behind you, You are thoug...

Listen, listen Listen to the cry Of a world that's calling to you Listen to the cry Of the helpless souls that need you Though you may have trepidation You can not refuse You will find your own salvation In the path you choose Listen, listen Listen to the voi...

It's like a normal times square day on 42nd street I feel like trashing some windows and crunching some feet I watch society crumble and I just laugh (hee hee) They soon will see what it's like to be the other half But I'm trying Said I'm trying to forge...

I got to keep movin', I've got to keep movin' Blues fallin' down like hail, blues fallin' down like hail Umm mmm mmm mmm Blues fallin' down like hail, blues fallin' down like hail And the days keeps on worryin' me, There's a hellhound on my trail, Hellhound...

Hello, it's me I've thought about us for a long, long time Maybe I think too much but something's wrong There's something here that doesn't last too long Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine Seeing you Or seeing anything as much as I do you I take fo...

Hello, it's me I've thought about us for a long, long time Maybe I think too much but something's wrong There's something here that doesn't last too long Maybe I shouldn't think of you as mine Seeing you Or seeing anything as much as I do you I take for grant...

I've been watching how you dance Watching how you smile Watching how you carry yourself around in a crowd And watching what you say You've got something that's a secret to the average eye You've been saving something nobody's seen until now In a hideaway I'm n...

I have visions, I have visions of a happy land And in this happy land, happy land There is still one unhappy man Because of all the things he wants There is always something he can't have It's like a siren singing, like a church bell ringing I can feel you win...

Hodja please show me how to spin now Hodja please show me how you do it All the other boys are laughing at me again now Hodja please show me how you do it Whenever I talk they don't hear a thing And everyone laughs when I sing Hodja, please show me how to spi...

I'm not afraid to bend my back I'm not afraid of dirt But how I fear the things I do For lack of honest work My family is lost to me They could not bear the hurt To see the state their boy is in For lack of honest work I hold no blame for anyone 'twas I who d...

Some happy day, after I'm long gone away Someone will make you see You were in love with me And know what it's like to be Where I'm standing now And then you'll find me somehow You better hope I'm around when you need me You know I won't be around when you ne...

Mom's old fashion cooking Caviar and champagne A meal at mcdonald's Nothing fills a man when he's hungry for love Give him love, make him feel all right Give him love, help him sleep at night Give him love, give him one more bite He's hungry for love (give him...

Yesterday I just saw the one you left behind, yesterday I could tell that he was hurting for you Sad, but he can't deny it There was nothing else he could do He was one of the many struck by it Hurting for you Finish before it started It's the only thing left...

Well I saw you today and realized How I missed my peace of mind I feel your breath in my ear But late at night it's you I always think about That little girl inside of you I once knew I should have known better Still the smell of you was on my face But you wer...

Sometimes it's hard to look up under The times we're going through I scratch my head and stare and wonder How to face the day anew But it gives my life a bit more meaning To feel in love with you, so heavy I don't want to weigh you down, oh baby I don't want t...

The reason that I signed up Is the reason that I hate it I know she's made her mind up I just don't know how she's made it And my dial-up screen has locked me Into a touch tone tune monotony Because some snot-nosed pube has blocked me out And I wait And I wai...

Every day I hear the news Seems like people worship pain All your oprahs and donahues They just can't explain As you reap you shall sow I looked high I looked low Now I know that I love my life I love my life I said me and my creator We got a funny love thin...

It was late last night I was feeling something wasn't right There was not another soul in sight Only you, only you So we walked along, though I knew there was something wrong And the feeling hot me oh so strong about you Then you gazed up at me and the...

The visitors were never seen They missed my monologue between But I think you know The letters came, the letters went The last reply was never sent But I think you know I can't explain what's in my brain That tells me where to go But I think you know For I wo...

I want you the right way I want you, but I want you to want me too Want you to want me too Just like I want you I give you all the love I have baby, and get nothing in return Your love is all I crave It's too bad, it's too sad You don't want me now I want y...

I went to the mirror this morning I looked in the mirror instead The first thing to come into focus The first thing to come into focus Was a face wrapped all around my head There's something sticking out of the middle I guess it's my nose, I suppose I just do...

I'm in the clique, I'm in the clique I'm really slick, I know every trick And I can get a chick, 'cause I'm in the clique. Get your greasy hands off the guitar, Get your slimy seat off the drums, Go and take a chair in the corner, And wait until your time com...

(in a whisper: yeah, sing the song Bro') If the sun refused to shine I don't mind, I don't mind If the mountains fell in the sea Let it be, it ain't me All right, 'cause I got my own world to look through And I ain't gonna copy you Now if six turned out to b...

If I have to be alone Then I should make my mind serene After all you're born alone, you die alone You might as well spend every moment in between alone But if I have to be alone Then it will be on my own terms I can never talk about it, ever show it Even tho...

Someone stuck me on the losing side Everything is someone else's fault We're not good enough for me to care And the mantra is "Too much effort, there's never time" And your sole solution is a high pitched whine It's not red-hot coals, it's not busted glass Th...

Imagination I am what I am and that's all that I am I tell myself I have no demands, I don't have a plan To sell myself Every day's the same old song Go along and get along Nothing's ever right or wrong What is hell? The same old smell The sme old situat...

I can feel, I can tell I can feel, I can tell, I can see Something is changing To me change is no stranger I don't run, I don't hide I don't run, I don't hide, I don't fight What fate arranges I don't think about danger If it was meant for me I'd know just whe...

Power changes hands in the unseen worlds 'cause in '75 something comes alive Watch the silver cup and the golden rod Silently listen and it shall be revealed I was born to fly higher, Born to stand where I'm standing now Basking in the light of the neon fire A...

Here we are again, The start of the end But there's more I only want to see if you'll give up on me But there's always more There is more International feel And there is more Interplanetary deals But there is more Interstellar appeal Still there is more Unive...

Before we go any further I'd like to show you all a game I made up This game is called sounds of the studio And it can be played with any record including this one You can play it, uh, with - you can even play it with your favorite record You may be surprised...

Is it a star, or is it me You say you believe in And the nights When my stage smiles not so wild, and ain't coming easy Can't you see it's me All broken down inside Can't you see it's me All broken down inside Can't you see it's me Honey, you've been dreaming...

There is cause and effect There's a reason I'm so erect There's last night and there's today There's a reason you feel this way Is it my name? Don't miss the boat Barry, don't miss the plane I don't think I can make this scene again Why don't you love me? Is i...

It's true, yes it's true I'm as guilty of this sin as you I lived through it too As you can see It didn't hurt me You must admit you helped a bit (It takes two to tango) No I wasn't alone (It takes two to tango) I remember it still (It takes to tango) Drink a...

(Ooh, ooh, ooh) Do you remember the last time I said If I ever thought of lying I'd rather think of dying instead? And maybe you remember The last time you called me To say we were through How it took a million tears Just to prove they all were for you But t...

Izzat love what I feel when you're in my arms Make me die before I'd do you harm When you're lost I will lead you home If you're cold, you know I'll keep you warm Am I wrong? Or izzat love when I dream there is no one else In the end, who's your friend?...

With friends like these, Who needs enemies? With friends like these, Who needs enemies? With friends like these, Who needs enemies? With friends like these, With friends like these I wanna grind you down to atoms Grind you down to atoms I wanna grind you down...

He found a letter. Someone had slipped it under the door. Said I gotta tell you something, I never told no one before. I know it sounds crazy. I can hardly bring myself to say, But the feeling is oh so strong now, I can't hold out another day. I hope you can t...

He was just fifteen, he was a new trainee He lied about it for the opportunity To defend the border his life was sworn Though not a generation was native born Johnee jingo Johnee jingo He had lost the battle but won the war When the generals said he couldn't...

The blessing of the turtles, the eggs lay on the lawn Paint a pretty picture for me to sit upon The calling of the rabbit, the falling of the hare The hat man then begins to play, a song is everywhere You want the obvious You'll get the obvious Tell them Grou...

We've been waiting so long, We've been waiting so long, We've been waiting for the sun to rise and shine Shining still to give us the will Can you hear me, the sound of my voice? I am here to tell you I have made my choice I've been listening to what's been g...

I got a kind hearted woman Do anything in this world for me I got a kind hearted woman Do anything in this world for me But these evil-hearted women Man, they will not let me be I love my baby My baby don't love me I love my baby, oooohhh My baby don't love m...

The one that showed me kindness Was the one that taught me kindness Though I did not recognize it Still I might have died without it And when I awakened It was too late to thank her If I live someday I'll make repayment And show someone the kindness she showed...

Yesterday a postman Delivered to me The pictures that I've longed to see A special place A wheel in the sky Half a mile wide Will they have a place for me Up in space I'm on my way to l5 I want to stay in l5 I'm about to empty My savings account Hope I have...

It's the last fair deal gone down, Last fair deal gone down, It's the last fair deal gone down, good lord, On that Gulfport Island Road. Ida Belle don't cry this time, Ida Belle don't cry this time, If you cry 'bout a nickel, you die 'bout a dime, She wouldn'...

It's the last ride Our little game is over It's the last ride It's time to take you home And we can't cry 'cause we seen it coming No use running, take it slower It's a dangerous drive I'm afraid to arrive But I strive to survive More a fool than alive I thoug...

Everyone is mine, No one left behind and there's more Wait another year, Utopia is here and there's always more 

Duty calls the faithful few The infidel must pay his due For your family we will provide You will fill them with empty pride And for you many virgins wait Say your prayers, accept your fate Liar Liar liar liar Liar liar liar And with every lying breath You se...

Submitted for your inspection The evolutionary erection Of primitive man But before we explore the question of his sense of style We must point out his predilection To cover his glands Brothers, we've been led to believe That between adam and eve There was no...

Puff we now ourselves with pride Swelling outward far and wide For God Herself is on our side With heaven's plan for the motherland "All right, all right ladies, Settle down now, settle down" Now, the usual formalities Everyone, hold all your questions pleas...

You got to ease into line, boy But once I hit the open road I'll be sailing off and on my own You and me in my GT With those little red lights in front of me When I go to heaven, you know that's where I want to be Would you please fill it up, boy I'd like to...

You could be my everything, you almost have it all You'd be perfect but you've got one fatal flaw We could live so happily, the envy of them all But that'll never happen cause you've got one fatal flaw And all my friends they look at me Say 'she's a ten' and...

Look out children Mothers hide all the children who lie Lockjaw's coming with a rusty nail He's gonna nail your mouth open wide Look out children Boys and girls who do falsify From the black forest with a hammerhead He's looking for you with a rusty eye In t...

Cruising makes some people get uptight But nothing beats a lonely friday night Friday night, nothing much to do but hang around Think I might just grab myself a cab and head downtown And for hours, I hang around the dance hall crowd I feel like a boor And then...

Love unrequited, robs me of me rest, Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers, Love, nightmare like, lies heavy of me chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers. When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and Repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I c...

Now I guess it's too late to speculate On things as they might have been That given the time, you'd read my mind And know there was love within I could loudly exclaim we felt the same But not in all honesty Now you'll never know How could you know the friend t...

No place to hide And no where to run Nothing you can do because a change must come You can't stop it You got your tail in the air Your head in the ground Money, money, money makes your world go 'round You can't stop it You can't stop, you can't stop, you can...

Sometimes things fall apart That's god's love in disguise And when I break your heart That's my love in disguise When you awake in pain It should come as no surprise I'm not sure I care But it still must be there My love in disguise And all you want are sweet...

And I followed her to the station, with a suitcase in my hand And I followed her to the station, with a suitcase in my hand Well, it's hard to tell, it's hard to tell, when all your love's in vain All my love's in vain When the train rolled up to the station,...

Name your price A ticket to paradise I can't stay here any more And I've looked high and low I've been from shore to shore to shore If there's a short cut I'd have found it But there's no easy way around it Light of the world, shine on me Love is the answer S...

There's an army On the dancefloor It's a fashion With a gun my love In a room Without a door A kiss is not enough In Love my way It's a new road I follow where My mind goes They'd put us On a railroad They'd dearly Make us pay For laughing In their faces And...

I've been burned in my prime The simple things in life Seem so hard to learn sometimes And it takes so long Catch it while you can Too late tomorrow And everyone Said we all know what comes of that Living in your pockets and talking through your hat But it wo...

I've been around the world, I'm going around again I got a new word up, gonna lay it on my friends I'm still too young, I've got these emotions in my blood But when I grow up, gonna be a scientist of love Working on, love science Got to know, love science Sho...

I need something, I need some sweet thing I need something to help me get on, help me get on by Love thing Sometimes I feel like I've been trapped in a container Pushed through a strainer, but I ain't no complainer Think I'm going crazy, there, now I'm insaner...

Real, almost real I could feel the life flow into my veins Done, now it's done I have fallen for the final time I can't get up again Love's a mystery I don't understand Love's supposed to make you glad Tell me why I feel so sad Love's a mystery I don't unders...

Some people don't seem real at all Unafraid of any mountain Sure that the gods won't let him fall Should he fall, he will always get up again If he's hurt, he never shows it If he's wrong, nobody knows it Seems like he never has to try He just must be a lucky...

Crowded world How can I find peace of mind With so many small agendas Pushing at me all the time Button one: you knew I had no time today Button two: you had to push it anyway Button three: then you went and did it again So I counted to ten and right there and...

O Holy Father Divine Provider Grant me my prayer All I desire It's been a long, long time since you faced the truth You haven't heard the voice of god since your wasted youth Faith of your father, holy faith In the dollar almighty and the tithing plate And y...

There's a cloud in the distance Rising from the dunes Ten thousand riders Blaze a trail of ruins No doubt about it They're headed this way Who will protect us on a judgement day? Some are unready, some are unwilling Hiding amongst the women and children Rousin...

Marlene, Marlene You're the prettiest girl I've ever seen Do you care for me at all, Marlene? I care for you And I just don't care who knows it And I guess that means that I love you Marlene (Marlene) Marlene (Marlene) Who'd believe that you're only seventeen...

What's going on Oh, mother, mother There's too many of you crying Oh, brother, brother,brother There's for too many of you dying (too many dying) You know we've got to find a way To bring some loving here today yeah Father,father There's no need to escalate (n...

You got a boy child comin Gonna be a sonofagun 

Everyone asks Are we some kind of lovers? Everyone asks what you're doing with me I know this is not what they want They're afraid you've been blinded But I already know how it's going to be If anyone should ask Say we're mated For as long as this life lasts...

Maybe I'm better off If I never leave this cell Maybe I've lived enough In a world as free as hell (just as free as hell) Where you keep on thinking While it's stinking You enjoy the smell And you lick the bowl as well Love's out there They tell you They sell...

You're prettier than all the world And I'm so proud, I'm so proud, I'm so proud of you 'Cause you're only one fellow's girl I'm so proud, I'm so proud, I'm so proud of you I'm so proud of being loved by you And it would hurt, hurt to know, If you ever were unt...

Close your eyes and plug your ears and turn away I will execute the task without dismay Just leave upon the table what you've agreed to pay Then tell me How do you like me now? How do you like me now? I will do your dirty work Tell me, how do you like me now?...

Have mercy, have mercy baby Have mercy, have mercy on me Well I went to see a gypsy And had my fortune read She said, "todd, your baby's gonna leave you. The bags are packed up under the bed." And I cried... I said, "if you leave me baby, Girl if you put me...

They say you know your way around They say you are a man of the world You say she is a new kid in town You think she's just another girl You get suspicious that something is wrong No explanation why it lasts so long And by the look on your face, everybody kno...

Once there was a boy and girl Boy said "i love you so" Girl said "i'll never leave you" They grew older and left each other 'cause that's the way love goes Then there's a time Seems like you'll never find Someone willing to love you Keep on looking you'll soo...

As jalaludin rumi has prophesied This day This day allah Allah will make his presence known to you There is a miracle in the bazaar There is a miracle in the bazaar There a spirit appeared in flaming green Mamun the madman is cured Praise be to allah Prais...

You say you love me and you thinking of me But you know you could be wrong You say you told me that you want to hold me But you know you're not that strong I just can't do what I done before I just can't beg you anymore I'm just gonna let you pass I'm gonna...

Well, the old man called me to his dying bed There's only one thing in this world I like to see, he said I tried so many times but I've never done it Often made the climb but never reached the summit So I could look down on this pissant little town I took one...

I gave the girls the eye I've given lust a try I'm just an average guy From the neck on down I used to have my fun When all was said and done I only wanted someone From the neck on down Maybe it's one too many mornings after Maybe I'm sick of my own nervous...

I know a place where dreams are born And time is never planned It's not on any chart You must find it in your heart Never Never Land It may be miles beyond the moon Or right there where you stand Just keep an open mind And then suddenly you'll find Never Never...

Let me tell you 'bout the new world order Not the kind to make you run for the border It's a new religion wrapped in a revolution With a proven solution for your mental pollution Cars and gold bars and chains and diamond rings These are the symbols, we want t...

I wanna see your number 1 lowest common denominator You're so hot! What choo got? On the outside I'm a good boy Let me inside 'cause I'm full of joy I don't want to shock you but I'm an electric eel How's that make your denominator feel? Think I'll surprise h...

So few and far between, Here's a mood I've never seen you in. I should have known not to ask you why And set myself up for one big, long cry. Once burned and twice removed Thought I made it now but nothing's proved. Set in my mind not to push too hard, And n...

(One more day) They said we'd be home for Christmas But I'm still here today (One more day) I went to see the first lieutenant He said shut up and wait (One more day, no word) (One more day, no word) (One more day) We don't pick no more trees till the union...

One World Whoa, it's our world Yeah, yeah, one world Whoa, it's our world Yeah, yeah When I walk on the street I feel glad I was born Music comes a ringin' out of every door I see faces I know and they give me a sign We got something between us and it feels a...

Onomatopoeia every time I see ya My senses tell me hubba And I just can't disagree I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe It's sort of lub, dub, lub, dub A sound in my head that I can't describe It's sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, drip Ding, dong, crunc...

Hot damn Never dreamed a man could know such speed Never had a chance to fill my need It's just what I always wanted To be the last of a dying breed Said I thought I had my number down I'd seen every scene to hit this town Looks like no one wants to tell you W...

Out of my mind, I must be out of my mind To let a thing like real, real pain, it left me out in the rain, oh wo wo How many times must I keep moving on when I already was there? How many years must I live alone, tie me on your bed of nails (and) Hit me over t...

[Money (That's What I Want)] The best things in life are free But you can keep them for the birds and bees Now give me money That's what I want That's what I want, yeah That's what I want You're lovin' gives me a thrill But you're lovin' don't pay my bills N...

You like to push the envelope If you're gonna stick out your neck Everybody's sure to give you plenty of rope So who am I to object? Don't know what it means to fail You like walking along the edge Feel like you got a guardian angel Follows you around the ledg...

Kindred spirits moving along the spiral I can see you up on another level It's too great a fall And I can't reach you to pull me higher But I don't seem to get much closer or any more far What would you tell me, if I could hear you speaking? If you could touc...

Put down that phone and listen Baby how can you be so unkind If they catch me out of line only one more time I'll be down in the slammer 'fore you count to nine I didn't mean to step out without you And I'm sorry way down in my soul But it ain't easy being on...

I saw you on the street today I could not catch your eye or you'd have heard me say That you look just the same But then I realized We are not even friends and I was so surprised When the teardrops came I'm living in the past Living in the past Living in the...

Well we can't take it this week And her friends don't want another speach Hoping for a better day to hear what she's got to say All about that Personality Crisis you got it while it was hot But now frustration and heartache is what you got (That's why they ta...

If it's stupid enough, it's cool A1-a2-a3 We figure, my daddy and me Things are still the same, it seems As when he lived it in his teens As a kid in school Aaron was a junior, the class of '32 His momma called him angel But everybody knew he was the King ki...

I didn't notice you there Til I felt your breath on my neck hair Now you put me through my paces You don't know what personal space is And not a soul in the room Seems to have your need to share Did you ever stop to wonder Does anybody care? Maybe the ladies a...

Today I am your chariot horse Tomorrow I'm your albatross Suspended by the finest thread No one could ever see And when there's breathing in your ear You put your faith in all you hear But just how deep those feelings go I have no way to know I'll never know...

Come fly with me What are you waiting for Come fly with me Don't waste a minute more I'll give you my prime time I'm saving my prime time for you Give you my prime time I'm saving my prime time for you I'm waiting here For no one else but you Come...

My new fashion is the ultimate reaction Proactivity, proactivity, yeah No more waiting for what fate may be creating Proactivity, proactivity, yeah Keepin' an eye on that karma goin' by Proactivity, proactivity, yeah Ever ready and my gaze is rock steady Proa...

I'll be your fantasy But I won't be your property Love you eternally But I'll never be your property Love from me's not guaranteed Just because you think I'm property I can love you totally And still not be your property Every girl and boy wants to grow up t...

Cut 'em loose Public servant, public slave It's one single slide from the cradle to the grave Can't remember why you're still in the race To be a public servant, public slave You got to know who satan is You know you made him come alive You let the yahoos wr...

Step by step by step by step by Steps grow longer 'til it's just like stepping in another world Feel that pulse that pulse that pulse That pulse go stronger Like a breath line coming from another world Don't want to leave my old world but I can't deny What i...

If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads They might as well be dead if the rain comes When the sun shines, they slip into the shade And sip their lemonade, when the sun shines Rain, I don't mind Shine, the weather's fine I can show you that when it s...

When I was a child I thought as a child I spoke as a child I didn't know better But now I'm a man I look like a man I'm old as a man And I should know better Got my head in the sky And my mind knows what it wants But my body just drags me down And my world is...

I don't know how you feel If you really see And for years I would pray That you'd favor me But for now, please allow One formality Down the road, 'cross the sea Please remember me 

Beat it, beat it, beat your guitar Smash it, smash it, 'til it sees stars Rip it, rip it, rip it to shreds Throw down your axe and then jump into bed Get up, get up, get up and see Revolution on the tv Will you, will you, get your nails dirty Or are you only...

I seen these big shots all come and go Been there myself and there's one thing I know You got to choose your heroes, choose them well They could be leading you straight into Hell Let me be your protection Keep the vampires off your neck Sample your wine and S...

I think I'm gonna love it I think I'm gonna love it Because I know someday someone else will see it my way And then I'll know I was not wrong I know they won't believe it I know they won't believe it They think that I'm no good But I will make myself understo...

Say no more I can feel you whenever you're near Say no more I will know all you want me to hear I am writing with you, of you, love you Say no more I am lost in a river of words Say no more Let this feeling be all that is heard I am by you, with you, of you,...

Old rocking chair It beckons you like a junkie's needle Start thinking feeble Cowardly lion The special today is karma yoga Glued to the sofa Where was I when we lost power? Where was I when lies were spoken? Where was I when evil snuck in? Where was I whe...

Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Secret, secret, secret Se...

Now as the evening sun sets on you healer Your day is over, your light is fading away at last And the wolves howl after the healer Fighting for pieces, bits of his shattered remains All who could know it First they curse you then they warn you so Then they use...

See that girl, watch her dance If I knew her name I wouldn't have to sit on my hands If my mouth don't work I get some help And she don't mind if I don't keep my hands to myself (You're all right) (You put up such a good clean fight) (I'm afraid that you lose...

There goes Todd Yipes! Roll on 10, 11 There ain't a man alive today Who doesn't want to have the world in his hand And everything to go his way And abuse what he don't understand Some people never can be satisfied Less they push somebody else around But I ca...

If I gave you just a bit more time Do you think that you would make up your mind? You can't expect that a flower will grow Until you get around to giving it more Like it's only Something to fall back on Something to fall back on Something to fall back on Li...

Sometimes I don't know I just don't know what to feel Sometimes I don't know what to feel Everything I thought that I knew starts to look so unreal There's a ringing in my head that keeps me awake at night Sometimes I don't know what is right Today I saw a ca...

I am a viking of some note Knuts my name and here I float Out on the sea in a great big boat And I'm the one who beats the drum in time To stroke the oars that drive our galleons on And while we rowed we had our song And we had our god and it may seem odd But...

Open your eyes and see The world I couldn't change for you Reach out your hand and take The world that will belong to you We were on our way to a better day And the spirit was in us all But as time went by we fell by the wayside Maybe you'll be the last to fa...

I didn't just pull into town. This happened right before my eyes. There's something missing in the sound, That so used to satisfy. It may rock, it may roll, but tell me Whatever happened to your soul? It's just a murky, jerky groove. It motivates but it don't...

When I found we could have some brains I was the first in line, cause we were, like Dragging our knuckles along the ground (dragging our knuckles along the ground) Ever since, I've been convinced that every Sacred thought is mine, and you were still Dragging y...

Everytime I'm walkin', down the streets, Some pretty mama start breakin' down with me Stop breakin' down, yes stop breakin' down The stuff I got'll bust your brains out, baby, hoo hoo, it'll make you lose your mind. I can't walk the streets now con, consolate...

Let me take you down 'cause I going to Strawberry Fields Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields forever Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matte...

Gathering in the corner Trying to look discrete We been talking about this all night long Now it's time to hit the streets Are you ready to rumble? Are you just gonna grumble? You might take a tumble But it's time to rumble This is the reason you keep a dream...

I've been living with a lie for so long now, baby I gotta set my soul free, I can't take it no more That's why I gotta Sing and shout it, tell the world about it The truth is sweet I made a promise to myself not to let nobody else Have any sway on the way I l...

Oh Baby, don't you want to go Oh Baby, don't you want to go Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Oh Baby, don't you want to go Oh Baby, don't you want to go Back to the land of California To my sweet home Chicago Now one and one is two Two...

There's a cloud in the sky And it's raining on you Still you try to keep dry But your troubles leak through And you've lost all you could, feeling sad Choose your reveries Keep the good, leave the bad Take a few of these, the sweeter memories Don't forget the...

Water, water everywhere and not a place to stand My foundation rests on bedrock But the bedrock rests on shifting sand Once the mighty jungle gave way to the streets Now the city's a jungle again Every time the cycle completes It's like nothing ever had chang...

In a way, the sun has shone on me Makes it easy to make it hard Take an inch, take a yard, take it all I don't need it at all Any day, the sun could shine on you Makes it silly to make it bad Take it good, take it glad, take it all [Chorus:] Don't you know t...

You're standing in a cornfield, a hat in your hand The wind is whipping at the weathervane You're just a young boy in a big, wide world The days seem to last forever I pull up on the tractor, an old John Deere You smile and offer up some water The clouds are r...

I had such great expectations Of the world's benevolence Of benevolence But I prefer hallucinations 'cause they tend to make more sense Than experience 'cause it was just another sneak attack Of temporary sanity It was a pleasant stay, but now I'm back From t...

Jean did her best Denny worked hard And so together made him a star And he loved her Money changed hands Denny must start Tallying up things close to his heart And he loved her so But we don't always know what to say When they ask you, what do you say? No one...

Just the other day I got a call from a friend "i heard what you been playin' and I think it's a sin Why can't you make a living like the rest of the boys Instead of fillin' your head with all that synthesized noise? " Jackals wait nearby, watching rock and rol...

Drumgoole, my dear, I must admit Your life's been one long pile of shit I must be nuts, at least a bit To want to be involved in it But given the alternative Who knows how we'd be forced to live? When worlds collide, when worlds collide? With you, drumgoole,...

On a day like no other In a time unique, in a place divine Keep your eye on the ikon Shining in the light of eternal mind I went to sleep a blind man But when I awoke I saw The legions of the lonely See their faces, hear them call See how they hang on Each o...

Gather 'round children, I got a tale to tell ya There was a time when I couldn't bust a rhyme Had yet to hit my prime 'Cause my mind was such a young mind And first you got to unwind The mystery of your soul, it's like a black hole The gravity is too thick Yo...

So may people have heard me cry Since that terrible day when you said goodbye So many dark corners have heard me say How the light has gone out since you went away Everyone's heard of how you left me again Everyone's heard about my so-called friend They tell m...

Why, why was I born to know what I must know I can see the sky, but I can't see the ground below Where do I go Falling in a trap where traitors wait Lost love is the bait But the martyr never knows He is caught in a dream of his own When it's over where does...

Weren't you there when the carousel burnt down? The fire and confusion, the smoke and the sound I swear you there when the carousel burnt down We were all around The rings charred and tarnished all over the ground And our heads hung down And we all left town...

Your daddy runs sheep and my uncle runs cattle Nothin' can keep us out of this battle they wage As it burns up the range, 'til no man is left In the saddle Your ranch is upstream and they dammed up the water Thirsty cows scream for my uncle to slaughter The sh...

My great grandfather was a satisfied man Contented in every way Such was the course of his everyday life 'Til he heard of the seven rays (Repeat 3X) Every modern man, in the back of his mind Has a problem to face He wants security for the home in his head All...

My boy I say you're unaware of Things that I am unaware of The things they say behind one's back That you suspect but aren't quite sure of Don't say you haven't noticed The smell of money is all about me I just can't rid myself Of it's overpowering bouquet My...

Oooh I love you Giggle giggle The surf talks Do you love me too? If the surf could talk, I know she'd ask "do you think you're equal to the task? " If the surf could talk, she'd say "beware I love you" So I'd answer very carefully And I'd ask if she'd be the...

I'm unfit for jury duty I know policemen lie like me But to tell... tell the truth I'm just not up to the responsibility 'Cause in my day to day life The ultimate crime is to live in discontent Looking at bad design and wasting my time Growing too corpulent...

Some people tell me that love is a feeling or a possession Somehow it seems so cold And when they say love is sweet does it mean that you eat it? Maybe you drink it, does it fill up an empty hole? I'm lookin' for a love and I may not find it You know it doesn...

Sometimes I wonder if I'm still alive How much abuse can someone stand and survive How long I've waited for this day to arrive When I won't be a fool no more Nobody knows how you push me around Nobody sees how you treat me like I'm your clown I never made a s...

There's a grand old maid across the sea So the story was recalled to me And from dawn 'til dark, you hear her call Down in front of the Wailing Wall And she cries all day, so sad and alone 'Til someone comes along and leads her home Nobody listens, and nobody...

Every time that I fall for that same old trick I punish myself with the same old stick I want to believe it so badly I deceive myself Forgetting reality Ignoring the fact that you're altogether someplace else Forgetting reality But I swear here and now The tr...

I've been wrong I had plans so big But the devil's in the details I left out one thing No one to love me No one to love me No one to love For the want of a nail, the world was lost For the want of a nail, the world was lost For the want of a nail, the shoe w...

Your ship is sinking in a swirling sea The water's rising up around your knees Let's pop the question Is it time to leave? You say maybe You're at the bottom of an avalanche A swift departure is your only chance You say it doesn't make a difference 'cause The...

Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale I got a girl, say she long and tall She sleeps in the kitchen with her feets in the hall Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale,...

If you're bleeding, Then everyone can see you're bleeding They can call for the doctor, Who'll provide what the diagnosis says you're needing Then he'll take away your pain But if your heart, Your heart has been broken And you don't wear it on your sleeve No o...

Walkin' along the sea and thinkin' Deep in a reverie I'm sinkin' Blind to the world, to myself I'm talkin' Schemin' and dreamin', and sleepwalkin' Dreamin' of colors, dreamin' of sounds Dreamin' of things that can't be wrote down Slippin' away so no one will...

I am a little tin soldier That wants to jump into your fire You, are a look in your eye A dream passing by in the sky But I don't understand And all I need is treat me like a man 'cause I ain't no child Take me like I am I got the love that belongs to you Do...

One of them plays a piccolo in my ear Another one makes me smell things that aren't there And they know where to hide And they know everything that's inside Of my head Tiny demons, inside me One of them ties a lasso around my heart Another makes me nod when I...

Time to get up and face it Time to endure that aching Time, I must keep account of Time, the exact amount of My life you've entwined in the game that you've designed To waste my time, my precious time All gone down the drain Now it's time to break the chain To...

Why don't you write your mother Why don't you call your family They're expecting an answer Spare them your strange behavior What of your expectations Weren't you going to show us all Some new kind of dancer This season's singing savior I'm too far gone, and i...

When you say goodbye To the love that we knew This you can be sure of I will torch on for you I will carry my torch for you When you break somebody's heart Nothing much left to do Howsoever sadly I will torch on for you I will carry my torch for you Somewher...

If your man get personal, want you to have your fun If your man get personal, want you to have your fun Best come on back to Friars Point, mama, and barrelhouse all night long I got women's in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee I got women's in Vicksburg, cle...

I'm gonna find it, I'm gonna find the truth Because it ain't here, it's nowhere near I gotta find it, I gotta find the truth If I lose my mind, well I don't care The truth is in plain contradiction (yeah) The truth is not in this situation (yeah) The truth is...

Why are we racing to be so old? I'm up late pacing the floor I won't be told You have your reservations I'm bought and sold I'll face the music, I'll face the facts Even when we walk in polka dots and chequer slacks Bowing and squatting, running after tidbit...

Baby we can talk all night But that ain't getting us nowhere I told you everything I possibly can There's nothing left inside of here And maybe you can cry all night But that'll never change the way I feel The snow is really piling up outside I wish yo...

Must be a factory somewhere Keeps on cranking them out Seems like they travel in pairs Not worth the trouble but too full of clout Somebody must play his game They get stuck in the here and now Lending and borrowing pain His fist, your face, you kiss the grou...

Can you hear it? Ear against the ground and you'll hear it I can tell a change when I hear it We are tigers Kings of jungles Trapped in cages We forget we once were free! And the average swain Would be contented in his chains Were it not for complainers like...

Is that you? Look who's on the skids this time Bitchin' 'bout her place in line And all you really want is attention 'cause you're like every other girl uptown Who wants to ride her face around And wave about that power you have to put me down And so I'll tel...

City in my head, Utopia Heaven in my body, Utopia It's time for me, for me to go City in my head, Utopia Heaven in my body, Utopia Into the sky, it rises now 

[Chorus:] Walk like a man, and talk like a man. Walk like a man, hey baby, you can call me your man. A little girl asked me what am I gonna' do, When I get old and blue and worn clear through? And I say by that time I ought to be in my prime, I'm gonna' strut...

I woke up this mornin', feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout 'at I got these, old walkin' blues Woke up this mornin', feelin' round for my shoes But you know 'bout 'at I, got these old walkin' blues Lord, I feel like blowin' my woh old lonesome horn Got up t...

Leroy, boy, is that you? I thought your post-hangin' days were through Sunk-in eyes and full of sighs Tell no lies You get wise I tell you now, we're gonna pull you through There's only one thing left that we can do We gotta get you a woman It's like nothin'...

We understand each other Bull! You hear some distant drummer play I think we understand each other Have you no else to offer? Poor boy! I have expenses to defray I hope we understand each other We have a problem Yes, but it's not that we Don't understand each...

I don't keep a lot of secrets But the ones I do will die with me It's not because I'm hiding something A trusted friend I try to be But when every adversary lies in wait to test me My world they would undo And they'd break me down to nothing if they only knew...

Now I lay me down to sleep I'm praying lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake Somebody make a big mistake I'm only just one little man Just usin' up the air Still I'm askin' anyway Lord when I pray, please be there Lord when I pray, please be there Sing...

Earthquake in New York City, the Chrysler Building fell in my yard But when the shit hits the fan, I think I'll have to make my way back to Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard The IRA has just hit London, they blew up half of Scotland Yard But when the shit hit...

When worlds collide, the best of us Won't be here with the rest of us They'll drop before the paint has dried When worlds collide, when worlds collide The young today, I must confess Have lost the path of righteousness By settling for something less The smart...

I've got a great big problem that I can't fix. I think it's quarter to three when it's half past six. Everything's early or way too late. Now I never can remember the day and the date. Never used to be this much trouble before. I used to watch the clock but n...

You can feel the bodies aching You can feel the spirit waisting But it's someone else's children And it's someone else's problem in the end You just go about your business You've got bigger fish frying Someday you might be a witness Someday you may wake up cry...

Who's that man, who's that man? Who told him that he could hold your hand? When I looked him in the eye he ran Who's that man, who's that man? Maryanne, who's that man? There's one thing that you should understand You know many things that go unsaid By the wa...

"hey baby, you're on a subliminal trip to nowhere. You better get your trip together before you step in here with us!" Full moon tonight, everything's all right Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack (Wolfman Jack) If you want yourself a day man, well I don't mind...

It's a woman's world It's a woman's world, a woman's world She was the doe who mothered Bambi I was the brave and magnificent stag Let's not pretend I'm more than handy Now that the pussy cat's out of the bag 'Cause it's a woman's world I was not asked, I was...

Life is always strange You just get used to it Once in a while something reminds you Then your forget about it It's all over... Heard it at the coffee shop And on the radio It's all over... They're talking at the trolley stop And everywhere I go It's all ove...

Suck my breast, I'm the word made flesh Ain't no rest for the word made flesh My lips are moving but I hear no sound It's that same old noise, it's in sensurround Tune yourself up and count yourself down Word made flesh, word made flesh Lord help me rise to...

Worldwide epiphany, epiphany Down in the lowlands to the top of the hill Don't know what's comin', but we know that it will Blind in Benares, deaf and dumb in LA Hiding in Africa, but nobody gets away Give it up one more time for the king of soul Let the good...

You got speed, turn it on What I need to mow my lawn You're my steed I ride til dawn And the main vein bleeds til my strength is gone I'm in the saddle, I'm in the race I try not to ratle but you set the pace When I start to struggle to share your space You st...

You cried wolf once too often You cried wolf, you made me run You cried wolf, I caught you bluffing You'll cry wolf but I'll be gone If you need someone to love You only had to ask Instead you pulled a false alarm Baby, just for a laugh You can have your litt...

Daddy don't like it but mommy still wonders, sweet boy But you're allowed to try it and I point no fingers Sweet boy, but I'm still wonderin' what it means, boy You hold your wrist so limply You don't have to camp around Save all your money, go confess on sun...

Love is infectious and I was a victim The worst case you'd ever see But still I know no doctor or nurse Could cure what you gave to me 'Cause you really, you left me sore (You left me sore) You really left me sore now baby (You left me sore) You messed me up...

I waited all night I smoked a hundred cigarettes I chewed my lip 'til it bled But the phone made not a sound Sometimes I wonder If you ever wonder what's become of little old me But I ain't no baby, I ain't gonna cry but, baby You don't know what's going on i...

You don't need your feet 'cause you know you got wheels You don't need your hands 'cause you know how it feels You don't need your eyes 'cause you know how she looks You don't need your tongue 'cause you know how she cooks But you need your head You don't nee...

Sacrifice! Christ-like sacrifice! Pass that cup to me I will bear the price If the puny and insignificant Are to have a glimpse of peace Then someone much like I myself Almost exactly like I myself Must rise above the rabble By helping them to their knees As t...

Pretty bird with feathers falling Pretty as a lady calling For her pink and midnight lover As she stares into the water And a yellow moon is rising And there can't be no disguising That the pretty bird is dying With a silver arrow lying at its side Rivers of...