Smack, crack, bushwhacked
Tie another one to the racks, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
What if I ride? What if you walk?
What if you rock around the clock?
Tick-tock. Tick-tock
What if you did? What if you walk?
What if you tried to get off, baby?
Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Hey kids, shake a leg
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
Maybe you did. Maybe you walked
Maybe you rocked around the clock
Tick-tock. Tick-tock
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Hey kids, shake a leg
Maybe you're crazy in the head, baby
Ollie, ollie
Ollie ollie ollie
Ollie ollie in come free, baby
Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Smack, crack. Shack-a-lack
Tie another one to your back, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
Maybe you did. Maybe you walk
Maybe you rock around the clock
Tick-tock. Tick-tock
Maybe I ride. Maybe you walk
Maybe I drive to get off, baby
Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby
I will try not to breathe
I can hold my head still with my hands at my knees
These eyes are the eyes of the old, shiver and fold
I will try not to breathe
This decision is mine
I have lived a full life
and these are the eyes that I want you to remember. Oh.
I need something to fly over my grave again
I need something to breathe
I will try not to burden you
I can hold these inside
I will hold my breath until all these shivers subside
Just look in my eyes
I will try not to worry you
I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me
I shudder to breathe
I want you to remember. Oh
I need something to fly
over my grave again
I need something to breathe
Baby, don't shiver now
Why do you shiver now?
I need something to fly
over my grave again
I need something to breathe. Oh. Oh
I will try not to worry you
I have seen things that you will never see
Leave it to memory me
Don't dare me to breathe
I want you to remember. Oh
I need something to fly
over my grave again
I need something to breathe
Baby, don't shiver now
Why do you shiver now?
I need something to breathe
I want you to remember
This here is the place where I will staying
There isn't a number, you can call the pay phone
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time
If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more
If I don't pick up, pick up
The sidewinder sleeps, sleeps, sleeps in a coil
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
There are scratches all around the coin slot
Like a heartbeat, baby trying to wake up
But this machine can only swallow money
You can't lay a patch by computer design
It's just a lot of stupid, stupid signs
Tell her
Tell her she can kiss my ass, then laugh and say that you were only kidding
That way she'll know that it's really, really, really, really me
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Baby, instant soup doesn't really grab me
Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial
A can of beans or blackeyed peas, some Nescafe and ice
A candy bar, a falling star, or a reading from Doctor Seuss
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
The cat in the hat came back
Wrecked a lot of havoc on the way
always had a smile and a reason to pretend
But their world has flat backgrounds and
little need to sleep but to dream
The sidewinder sleeps on his back
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her
Call me when you try to wake her up
Call me when you try to wake her
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her
I can always sleep standing up
Call me when you try to wake her
We've got to boogie, boogie, move on this one
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand. Oh, no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
Well, everybody hurts, but sometimes everybody cries
And everybody hurts, sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
Everybody hurts
You are not alone
(Instrumental)
Readying to bury your father and your mother
What did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder why did you bother
Distanced from one, blind to the other?
Listen here my sister and my brother
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder why did we bother
Distanced from one, deaf to the other
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah we were altogether
Lost in our little lives
Oh. Oh. Ah
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, oh, but sweetness follows
Monty this seems strange to me.
The movies had that movie thing
But nonsense has a welcome ring
And heroes don't come easy.
Now, nonsense isn't new to me
I know my head, I know my feet
But mischief knocked me in the knees
Said, Just let go. Just let go
I saw the ocean meet the man
I saw you buried in the sand
A friend was there to hold your hand
Said, Walk on by
So, I went walking through the street
I saw you strung up in a tree
A woman knelt there said to me
Said: "Hold your tongue, man, hold your tongue"
You don't owe me anything
You don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath]
For the silver screen
That nonsense doesn't mean a thing
they tried to bust you in a sting
But virtue isn't everything
So, don't waste time
Now, here's a rhyme that you can steal
Put this on your reel to reel
Mischief threw a rotten deal
Monty's laying low, man
He is laying low
Just let go
Just let go
You don't owe me anything
You don't want this sympathy [waste your breath]
Don't you waste your breath [waste your breath]
Monty this seems strange to me
These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us v
Them years, wrecking all things virtuous and true
The undermining social democratic downhill slide into
Abysmal lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool
They hypnotised the summer
Nineteen seventy-nine
Marched into the capital
Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready, heartless, and labeled
Super U.S. citizen, super achiever, mega ultra power dosing, relax
Defense, defense, defense, defense
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two too, too
How to be what you can be, jump jam junking your energies
How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoe
They amplified the autumn
Nineteen seventy-nine
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass
T.V. tells a million lies.
The paper's terrified to report anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon
I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this
So, fuck you, man (Fuck 'm)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
If they weren't there we would have created them
Maybe, it's true, but I'm resentful all the same
Someone's got to take the blame
I know that this is vitriol
No solution, spleen-venting
But I feel better having screamed, don't you?
They desecrated winter
Nineteen seventy-nine
Capital collateral
Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready, heartless, and labeled
Super U.S. citizen, super achiever, mega ultra power dosing, relax
Defense, defense, defense, defense
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Keys cut, three for the price of one
Nothing's free but guaranteed for a lifetime's use
I've changed the locks
And you can't have one
You, you know the other two
The brakes have worn so thin that you could hear
I hear them screeching through the door from our driveway
Hey love, look into your glovebox heart.
What is there for me inside? This love is tired
I've changed the locks. Have I misplaced you?
Have we lost our minds?
Will this never end?
It could depend on your take
You, me, we used to be on fire
If keys are all that stand between
Can I throw in the ring?
No gasoline
Just fuck me kitten
You are wild and I'm in your possesion
Nothing's free so, fuck me kitten
I'm in your possesion
So, fuck me kitten
Mott the Hoople and the game of Life
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Monopoly, Twenty one, checkers, and chess
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Let's play Twister, let's play Risk
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
See you heaven if you make the list
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Andy are you goofing on Elvis?
Hey, baby. Are we losing touch?
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Moses went walking with the staff of wood
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Newton got beaned by the apple good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Charles Darwin had the gall to ask
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now, Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey, Andy are you goofing on Elvis?
Hey, baby. Are you having fun?
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Here's a little agit for the never-believer
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a little ghost for the offering
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Here's a truck stop instead of Saint Peter's
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mister Andy Kaufman's gone wrestling, wrestling bears
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey Andy did you hear about this one?
Tell me, are you locked in the punch?
Hey Andy are you goofing on Elvis?
Hey baby, are we losing touch?
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
If you believe they put a man on the moon, man on the moon
If you believe there's nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago
Turned around backwards so the windshield shows
Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse
Still, it's so much clearer
I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
I'm not sure all these people understand
It's not like years ago
The fear of getting caught
Of recklessness and water
They cannot see me naked
These things, they go away
Replaced by everyday
Nightswimming, remembering that night
September's coming soon
I'm pining for the moon
And what if there were two
Side by side in orbit
Around the fairest sun?
That bright, tight forever drum
Could not describe nightswimming
You, I thought I knew you
You I cannot judge
You, I thought you knew me
This one laughing quietly underneath my breath
Nightswimming
The photograph reflects
Every streetlight a reminder
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
Deserves a quiet night
Hey now, little speedyhead
The read on the speedmeter says
You have to go to task in the city
Where people drown and people serve
Don't be shy. Your just deserve
Is only just light years to go
Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
Ocean storm, bayberry moon
I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
Nothing is going my way
The ocean is the river's goal
A need to leave the water knows
We're closer now than light years to go
I have got to find the river
Bergamot and vetiver
Run through my head and fall away
Leave the road and memorize
This life that pass before my eyes
Nothing is going my way
There's no one left to take the lead
But I tell you and you can see
We're closer now than light years to go
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
Fall into the ocean
The river to the ocean goes
A fortune for the undertow
None of this is going my way
There is nothing left to throw
Of Ginger, lemon, indigo
Coriander stem and rose of hay
Strength and courage overrides
The privileged and weary eyes
of river poet search naivete
Pick up here and chase the ride
The river empties to the tide
All of this is coming your way