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Every light is burnin’
In a house across town.
She’s pacin’ by the telephone
In her faded flannel gown.
Askin’ for miracle,
Hopin’ she’s not right,
Prayin’ it’s the weather
That’s kept him out all night.
And the thunder rolls.
And the thunder rolls.

The thunder rolls
And the lightnin’ strikes.
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night,
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls.

She’s waitin’ by the window
When he pulls into the drive
She rushes out to hold him
Thankful he’s alive
But on the wind and rain
A strange new perfume blows
And the lightnin’ flashes in her eyes
And he knows that she knows
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

The thunder rolls
And the lightnin’ strikes.
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night,
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls.

She runs back down the hallway
To the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol
Kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror
He won’t do this again
Cause tonight will be the last time
She’ll wonder where he’s been

janie's got a gun
janie's got a gun
dog days just begun
now everybody is on the run
tell me now it's untrue
what did he put her through?
he jacked a little bitty baby
the man has got to be insane
they say the spell that he was under
the lightning and the thunder
knew that someone had to stop the rain

run away
run away from the pain yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
run away
run run away yeah yeah yeah

janie's got a gun
janie's got a gun
her dog days just begun
now everybody is on the run
what did her daddy do?
it's janie's last i.o.u.
she had to take him down easy
and put a bullet in his brain
she said cause nobody believes me
the man was such a sleaze
he ain't never gonna be the same

i seen you knocking at my cellar door
i love you baby can i have some more
gone gone the damage done

i hit the city and i lost my band
i seen the needle take another man
gone gone the damage done

i sing the song because i love the man
i know that some of you don't understand
milk blood to keep from running out

i seen the needle and the damage done
a little part of it in everyone
but every junkie's like the setting sun

i'm fixing a hole where the rain leaks in
and stops my mind from wandering
where it will go
where it will go

i'm fixing the cracks that ran from the door
and kept my mind from wandering
where it will go

and it really doesn't matter
if i'm wrong i'm right
where i belong i'm right
where i belong
see the people standing there
who disagree and never win
and wonder why they don't get in my door

traveling in a fried out combie
on a hippie trail, head full of zombie
i met a strange lady she make me nervous
she took me in a made me breakfast
and she said

do you come from the land down under?
where women glow and men plunder
can't you hear can't you hear the thunder?
you better run you better take cover

buying bread from a man in brussels
who was 6 foot 4 and full of muscle
i said do you speak my language?
he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
and he said

i come from the land down under
where women glow and men plunder
can't you hear can't you hear the thunder?
you better run you better take cover

living in a den in bombay
with a slack jaw and not much to say
i said to the man are you trying to tempt me?
because i come from the land of plenty
and he said

do you come from the land down under?
where women glow and men plunder
can't you hear can't you hear the thunder?
you better run you better take cover

momma, just killed a man
put a gun against his head
pulled my trigger now he's dead
momma, life has just begun
but now i've gone and thrown it all away
momma ooh ooh
didn't mean to make you cry
if i'm not back again this time tomorrow
carry on
carry on
as if nothing really matters

too late
my time has come
sent shivers down my spine
body's aching all the time
good bye everybody
i've got to go
gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
momma ooh ooh
i don't wanna die
sometimes i wish i'd never been born at all

an action seeker on an empty street
just an alley creeper light on his feet
a young fighter screaming with no time for doubt
with the pain and anger can't see a way out
it ain't much i'm asking
i heard him say
gotta find me a future
MOVE OUTTA MY WAY

i want it all
i want it all
i want it all
and i want it now

listen all you people come gather round
gonna get me a gameplan
gonna shake it to the ground
just give me what i know is mine
people do you hear me
just give me a sign
it ain't much i'm asking
if you want the truth
here's to the future
for the dreams of youth

i want it all
i want it all
i want it all
and i want it now

i'm a man with a one track mind
so much to do in one lifetime
not a man for compromise and where's and why's and living lies
i'm living it all
and i'm giving it all
to you

it ain't much i'm asking if you want the truth
here's to the future
hear the cry of youth

i want it all
i want it all
i want it all
and i want it now

come gather round people wherever you advertise
and admit that the 60's sells chryslers and fries
and accept it that money don't talk but it lies
if your bottom line is worth saving
then you better start skimming all the anthems we've known
for the stocks they are exchanging

there's something happening here
what it is is an ad for a beer

i guess you'd say what can make me feel this way
my beer, my beer, my beer
talking bout my beer

songs that sell soaps and sell cars and sell lifestyles
anthems of freedom now corporate sieghiels
songs that bring back all those sweet memories
thanks mitsubishi and who needs trees

when i'm downsized, lost my healthcare
when i'm feeling sad
i simply remember my favorite songs
and then i don't feel so

bad about ads and my culture they're taking
bad about products that didn't need making
bad that they're buying the soul of my youth
to sell me their s*** well it's slightly uncouth

when i'm lonesome or nostalgic
feel i'm gonna cry
i simply remember my favorite songs
and then i break down and buy

i'm goin up the country where a man can be free
goin up the country where a man can be free
i'm going to someplace where there's no goddam pepsi

i sit around and watch the tube but nothing's on
change the channels for an hour or two
twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
i'm sick of all the same old s***
in a house with unlocked doors
and i'm !%%@#ing lazy

bite my lip and close my eyes
take me away to paradise
i'm so damn bored i'm going blind
and i smell like s***

peel me off this velcro seat and get me moving
i sure as hell can't do it by myself
i'm feeling like a dog in heat
bored indoors from the summer street
i locked the door to my own cell
and i lost the key

bite my lip and close my eyes
take me away to paradise
i'm so damn bored i'm going blind
and i smell like s***

i've got no motivation
where is my motivation
no time for motivation
smoking my inspiration

Dear mother,
Can you hear me whining?
It's been three whole weeks
Since that I have left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
Cause now it seems that I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone

Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it the slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through
a wasteland I like to call
my home
Welcome To Paradise

A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go

Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through
a wasteland I like to call
my home
Welcome To Paradise

i returned a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the expiration date
i came back as a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the date stamped on myself

did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket?
and was everybody dancing on the casket?
now it's over i'm dead and i haven't done anything that i want
or i'm still alive and there's nothing i want to do

i will never say the word procrastinate again
i'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed
i didn't apologize for when i was eight
and i made my younger brother have to be my personal slave

did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket?
and was everybody dancing on the casket?
now it's over i'm dead and i haven't done anything that i want
or i'm still alive and there's nothing i want to do

so i won't
sit at home
and you won't
see my head in the window
and i won't
be around
ever anymore
and i'll be up there on the wall at the store

i returned a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the expiration date
i came back as a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the date stamped on myself

did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket?
and was everybody dancing on the casket?
now it's over i'm dead and i haven't done anything that i want
or i'm still alive and there's nothing i want to do

now it's over i'm dead and i haven't done anything that i want
or i'm still alive and there's nothing i want to do

aboard a craft bereft of oar
i float upstream to find lenore
abducted by a bandit or a queen from some forgotten war

and mindful of his larval craze
the rhinothropic microgaze
ignored it and to my amazement moved to paris in twelve days

this is the work of the guelah papyrus
stranded for a moment on the ocean of osiris
absorbing all she can for every member of her clan
expanding exponentially like some recursive virus

she take me on i never fail
to ride on the redundant rail
cause though i know she's switched a track there's always one to take me back

and through the bedroom door intrude
a fretful frown to spoil the mood
cause though i never really stand that tall
she tilt my frame she watch me fall

this is the work of the guelah papyrus
stranded for a moment on the ocean of osiris
absorbing all she can for every member of her clan
expanding exponentially like some recursive virus

so maybe i could be a fly
and feed arachnid as i die
and view the ritual from within the silken tunnels that they spin

and through the bedroom door intrude
a fretfull frown to spoil the mood
cause though i never really stand that tall
she tilt my frame she watch me fall

this is the work of the guelah papyrus
stranded for a moment on the ocean of osiris
absorbing all she can for every member of her clan

this is the work of the guelah papyrus
stranded for a moment on the ocean of osiris
absorbing all she can for every member of her clan

well here i am again in this mean old town
and you're so far away from me
where are you when the sun goes down
you're so far away from me

so far away from me
so far i just can't see
you're so far away from me
you're so far away from me

i'm tired of making love babe all alone
when you're so far away from me
tired of making out on the telephone
cause you're so far away from me

you're so far away from me
so far i just can't see
you're so far away from me
you're so far away from me

i have run i have crawled
i have scaled these city walls
these city walls
only to be with you

but i still haven't found what i'm looking for

my sweet one, i call you my sweet one
you're my only true sweet one
with my all i call you my sweet one
from far away i say your name

oh with you i'd travel thick
and with you i'd also travel thin
and all the spaces in between
i'd travel with you
you're my sweet one

but for now i must sit here and ponder the yonder
herbivores ate well cause their food did never run

my sweet one, i call you my sweet one
you're my only true sweet one
with my all i call you my sweet one
from far away i say your name

if you're ever unsatisfied with the way life's treatin you
you know you can count on me to take good care of you
i love you honey oh yes i do you know that's true of course
and if your dog or cat ever died i'd bye you a ewe

my sweet one, i call you my sweet one
you're my only true sweet one
with my all i call you my sweet one
from far away i say your name

brett is in the bathtub
making soup for the ambassadors
and i am in the hallway
singing to the troubadours
and the kings are all lined up outside the gate
and the autumn bell is ringing but they'll just have to wait

where is the joker?
have you seen him around
with his three coned cap
that he wears like a crown
have you seen his striped stockings
and heard his sad tales
about the kids under the carpet
and the purple humpback whale

here come the ambassadors
they show up one by one
brett is tasting all the soup
to see if it is done
and wendy is on the windowsill
waiting to be let in
and we're all in the bathtub now
making bathtub gin

and the kings stormed the hallway
they climbed up through the gate
they didn't mean to be impolite
but they just couldn't wait

here comes the joker
with his silly grin
he carries a martini
made of bathtub gin

here comes the joker
we all must laugh
cause we're all in this together
AND WE LOVE TO TAKE A BATH!!

the fish that played the ponies

once upon a time there lived a fish
the king of the fish
the king of the fish was not happy
he wanted to be more than just to be the king of the fish
he wanted to be king of the whole ocean
he wanted power over the wales, porpoises, giant sea tortoises
mollusks, crustaceans, and all the underwater plant life
and he wanted to own all the salt in the ocean
he was a big fat pig of a fish
his greed angered the ocean
but the ocean knew the fish would never succeed

then the fish learned to walk on the land
he stood upon the shore and laughed at the ocean
he climbed trees and he learned the secret of fire
he took a job as an investment banker
and spent a lot of time at the racetrack playing the ponies
the ocean swore revenge

then one day, the fish was vacationing in the caribbean
sunbathing on the beach
laughing at the ocean
a giant wave came and swallowed the little fish up and he drowned
this is the fable of the fish that played the ponies
it is important to keep in mind that in this story
the fish is not meant to symbolize christ

well i left my job in my home town and i headed for the smoke
got a rock and roll band and a fast right hand
goin straight to the top
nothing's gonna stop us, no nothing

so if you've got the dollar, we got the sound
you put it up and we'll put it down
if you've got the money we've got the song
gonna boogie woogie all night long
yeah boogie

i've got holes in my shoes
i've got holes in my teeth
i've got holes in my jeans
i can't get no sleep
trying to make a million

and i've got patches on the patches
on my old blue jeans
well they used to be blue
when they used to be new
when they used to be clean

and i've got a momma
who's a hummer
whose keeping me alive
while i'm in the band doing drinking with the boys
she's working 9 to 5
knows her place that woman

just you wait
one of these days see me driving round town
in my rock and rolls royce with the sun roof down
and my bottle of booze no summer time blues
shouting out look at me in my rock and roll voice

but it ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire
no it ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire
ain't no fun waiting round to be a millionaire

hello howard how you doing friend?
my next door neighbor
oh yeah?
get your !%#!$#! jumbo jet offa my airport!

i ain't gonna work on maggie's farm no more
no i ain't gonna work on maggie's farm no more
well i wake up in the morning
fold my hands and pray for rain
got a head full of ideas that are driving me insane
it's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
i ain't gonna work on maggie's farm no more

Few times I've been around that track
So it's not just gonna happen like that
Cuz I need no hollaback girl
I need no hollaback girl

you know the day destroys the night
night divides the day
try to run
try to hide
break on through to the other side
break on through to the other side
break on through to the other side

we chased our pleasure here
dug out treasure there
can you still recall
the time we cried
break on through to the other side
break on through to the other side
break on through to the other side

watch out!
you might get what you're after
cool babies
strange but not a stranger
i'm an ordinary guy
burning down the house

hold tight
wait till the party's over
hold tight
we're in for nasty weather
there has got to be a way
burning down the house

here's your ticket, pack your bags
time for jumping overboard
transportation is here
close enough, but not too far
baby you know where you are
fighting fire with fire

all wet
here you might need a raincoat
shakedown
dreams walking in broad daylight
three hundred sixty five degrees
burning down the house

it was once upon a place
sometimes i listen to myself
gonna come in first place
people on their way to work
baby what did you expect
gonna burst into flame

my house
out of the ordinary
that's right
don't wanna hurt nobody
some things sure can sweep me off my feet
burning down the house

no visible means of support
and you have not seen nothing yet
everything's stuck together
and i don't know what you expect
staring into the tv set
fighting fire with fire

love is a burning thing
and it makes a firy ring
bound by wild desire
i fell into a ring of fire

i fell in to a burning ring of fire
i went down down down and the flames crept higher
and it burns burns burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire

the taste of love is sweet
when hearts like ours meet
i fell for you like a child
oh, but the fire went wild

i fell in to a burning ring of fire
i went down down down and the flames crept higher
and it burns burns burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire

them that's got, shall get
them that's not shall lose
so the bible says
and it still is news
mama may have
and papa may have
but god bless the child that's got his own
that's got his own.

and the strong seem to get more
while the weak ones fade
empty pockets don't
ever make the grade
mama may have
papa may have
god bless the child that's got his own
that's got his own

i could be here
i could be in a salad
i could be out of town
i could be in paradise

i could be anywhere
i could be anywhere

i could be near the refrigerator
i could be on the roof
i could be in mesopotamia
i could be back in the salad again

i could be anywhere
i could be anywhere

i could be in transit
i could be in bed
i could be incandescent
i could be in
i could be out
it doesn't matter leave me alone

i could be anywhere
i could be anywhere

i could be back in the salad again...

i'm floating in the blimp a lot
i feel the feeling i forgot
swimming weightless in the womb
i'm bouncing gently round the room
in a minute i'll be free
and you'll be splashing in the sea

i feel no curiosity
i see the path ahead of me
in a minute i'll be free
and you'll be splashing in the sea
we hear a tiny cry
as the ship goes sailing by

free
free

i'm floating in the blimp a lot
i feel the feeling i forgot
i'm floating in the blimp a lot
i feel free
free
free
freeeeeeeee

callin elvis, is anybody home?
callin elvis, i'm here all alone
did he leave the building
can he come to the phone
callin elvis, i'm here all alone

just tell him i called
just to wish him well
let me leave my number
heartbreak hotel
love me tender
baby don't be cruel
return to sender
treat me like a fool

callin elvis, is anybody home?
callin elvis, i'm here all alone
did he leave the building
can he come to the phone
callin elvis, i'm here all alone

i'm locked in a box with a window and a clock
sometimes i can't see
i watch the second hand feeding

time is ticking ticking
the flowers are dripping dripping
and i am awake and i can no longer sleep

all hail to the madman
great murderer great aryan
take all that you need
take my life my song my breed

fires are burning burning
my people are yearning yearning
and i'm locked away to defy and die

i'm locked in a box
with a window and a clock
sometimes i can't sleep
i watch the second hand feeding

time is getting colder colder
i'm getting older older
where is the face that i knew before

i am awake and i can no longer sleep

hot coffee on the dashboard a cold front on the way
last night i was in oregon tomorrow santa fe
up for two days running
i'm feeling tired inside
down to my last dollar but tonight i'm gonna ride

silver spurs and gold tequila
you know they keep me hanging on
pretty girls in old cantinas
give me shelter from the storm
miles that i have traveled
the places i have seen
just won't let me put a saddle on this crazy cowboy dream

a gold watch in my pocket my daddy gave to me
spent his lifetime working for his home and family
i call him on the phone sometimes
i see him when i can
just long enough to check the binds
jump the fence again

silver spurs and gold tequila
you know they keep me hanging on
pretty girls in old cantinas
give me shelter from the storm
miles that i have traveled
the places i have seen
just won't let me put a saddle on this crazy cowboy dream
and i'll never put a saddle on this crazy cowboy dream

just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip
that started from this tropic port
aboard this tiny ship
the mate was a mighty sailing man
the skipper brave and sure
five passengers set sail that day
for a three hour tour
a three hour tour
the weather started getting rough
the tiny ship was tossed
if not for the courage of the fearless crew
the minnow would be lost
the minnow would be lost
the ship took ground on the shore
of this uncharted desert isle
with gilligan
the skipper too
the millionaire
and his wife
the movie star
the professor and mary anne
here on gilligan's isle

He came dancing across the water
With his galleons and guns
Looking for the new world
And a palace in the sun.

On the shore lay Montezuma
With his coca leaves and pearls
In his halls he often wandered
With the secrets of the world.

And his subjects gathered 'round him
Like the leaves around a tree
In their clothes of many colors
For the angry gods to see.

And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on.

Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones.

And they carried them to the flatlands
But they died along the way
And they built up with their bare hands
What we still can't do today.

And I know she's living there
And she loves me to this day
I still can't remember when
Or how I lost my way.

He came dancing across the water
Cortez, Cortez
What a killer.

You take me in
no questions asked
you strip away the ugliness
that surrounds me
are you an angel
am I already that gone
I only hope
that I won't disappoint you
when I'm down here
on my knees
And sweet
sweet
sweet surrender
is all that I have to give

it was five years come this august
she remembers well the day
the day the fever got him
and took him far away

far away from always knowing
that the love they shared was true
far away the fiddler's bowing
the grass forever blue

it was in the dead of winter
when her man first caught the chill
and he said he heard the angels singing
"cabin on the hill"

through the springtime he was groaning
"the good times are past and gone"
in the summer she was moaning
"old lover please come home"

and she stands out in the midnight
and the moonlight all aglow
she prays to carter stanely
won't you please tell bill monroe
rather be in some dark hollow
or some dark deep shady grove
than to be a bluegrass widow

after all the jacks are in their boxes
and the clowns have all gone to bed
you can hear happiness standing on down the street
footprints dressed in red
and the wind whispers mary

a broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterday's life
somewhere a queen is weeping
somewhere a king has no wife
and the wind cries mary

the traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow
and shine their emptiness down on my bed
the tiny island sags downstream
cause the life that lived is dead
and the wind screams mary

will the wind ever remember
the names it has blown in the past
but with its crutch, its old age and its wisdom
it whispers no, this will be the last
and the wind cries mary

I want to live,
I want to give
I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.
It’s these expressions I never give
That keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.
Keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.

I’ve been to hollywood
I’ve been to redwood
I crossed the ocean for a heart of gold
I’ve been in my mind, it’s such a fine line
That keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.
Keeps me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.

Keep me searching for a heart of gold
You keep me searching for a heart of gold
And I’m getting old.
I’ve been a miner for a heart of gold.

About this planet, there is something I know
There’s a very big difference between above and below
A friend foe, or bro, leave your body on the floor
Let your spirit fly away like the soul of a crow

Here, above land, man has laid his plan
And yes, it does include the ku klux klan
We got a government so twisted and bent
Bombs, tanks and guns is how our money is spent
We got v.d., heroin, greed and prostitution
Tension, aggravation, l. ron hubbard solution
Not to mention hard-core chemical pollution
If you think you’re just away, you’re in a mental institution
And that’s a heart felt shame
cause everyone’s crazy, everyone’s the same
So, why should only larry, curly and moe be to blame?

Time now to take you to a different place
Where peace lovin’ whales flow through liquid outer space
A groovin’ and a glidin’ as graceful as lace
Never losing touch with the ocean’s embrace
Diviner than the dolphin, that there is none
cause dolphins just like to have a lot of fun
No one tells them how their life is run
And no one points at them with a gun
They have a lot of love for every living creature
The smile of a dolphin is a built in feature
They be movin’ in schools but everyone’s the teacher
Someday mister dolphin, I know I’m gonna meet you

...

Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waitin’ for me
My lover stands on golden sands
And watches the ships that go sailin’.

Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watchin’ for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms I’d go sailin’.

It's far beyond the stars
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon.

We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'.

I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet … I know we'll meet … beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before.

Happy we'll be beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'.
No more sailin' …
So long sailin' …
Bye, bye sailin'...
Move on out, captain …
So long, ensign …