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Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam in a side street near a big canal spend my evenings in the Van Gogh Museum what a dream, Van Gogh Museum Maybe its time to see Tangiers a different life-style, some different fears and maybe I should be in Edinburgh in a kilt in Edinburgh Doin' a modern dance doin' a modern dance Or maybe I should get a farm in southern France where the winds are wispy and the villagers dance and you and I we'd sleep beneath a moon moon in June and sleep till noon And maybe you and I could fall in love regain the spirit that we once had you'd let me hold you and touch the night that shines so bright, so bright with fright Doin' a modern dance doin' a modern dance Shit, maybe I could go to Yucatan where women are women, a man's a man ah, no one confused, ever loses place with their place in the human race Maybe I'm not cut out for city life the smell of exhaust, the smell of strife and maybe you don't wanna be a wife it's not a life being a wife Doin' a modern dance doin' a modern dance So maybe I should go to Tanganyika where the rivers run, down mountains tall and steep or go to India to study chants and lose romance to a mantra's dance I need a guru, I need some law explain to me the things we saw why it always comes to this it's all downhill after the first kiss Maybe I should move to Rotterdam maybe move to Amsterdam I should move to Ireland, Italy, Spain Afghanistan where there is no rain Or maybe I should just learn a modern dance where roles are shifting the modern dance you never touch you don't know who you're with this week, this month, this time of year this week, this month, this time of year Doin' a modern dance you don't know who you're with modern dance I should move to Pakistan, go to Afghanistan Dance, you don't know who you're with dance, you don't know who you're with modern dance And maybe you don't wanna be a wife it's not life being a wife doin' a modern dance you never touch you don't know who you're with Dance, modern dance the roles are shifting dance you never touch you don't know who you're with Dance, modern dance maybe you don't wanna be a wife it's not a life being a wife |
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Why do you talk, why do you waste time
saying the same old thing, it should be a crime You never listen, instead you stammer As though you're interesting, and full of glamour as though you're interesting, and full of glamour Why do you talk so much, why don't you shut up you have nothing to say, you lack Drama It's the same old thing, you'd like to know why Who made the earth move, who made the sky high who made the earth move, who made the sky high Who made your blood red, who made you think thoughts who made you breathe a breath, tell me why do you talk Oh, tell me why do you talk, tell me why do you talk tell me why do you talk Why do you always talk, why do you make sound Why don't you listen, why do you talk so much why don't you listen, why do you talk so much Why don't you shut up, why don't you shut up why don't you shut up, why do you talk so much |
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Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather whiplash girlchild in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Downy sins of streetlight fancies chase the costumes she shall wear Ermine furs adorn imperious Severin, Severin awaits you there I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me different colors made of tears Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather shiny leather in the dark Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart Severin, Severin, speak so slightly Severin, down on your bended knee Taste the whip, in love not given lightly taste the whip, now bleed for me I am tired, I am weary I could sleep for a thousand years A thousand dreams that would awake me different colors made of tears Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather whiplash girlchild in the dark Severin, your servant comes in bells, please don't forsake him strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart |
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Standing on the corner suitcase in my hand Jack is in his corset, Jane is in her vest and me, I'm in a rock 'n' roll band, huh Ridin' in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim you know those were different times Oh, all the poets they studied rules of verse and those ladies they rolled their eyes Sweet Jane, oh Sweet Jane, oh-oh Sweet Jane I'll tell you something that Jack, he is a banker and Jane, she is a clerk And both of them save their monies ha, and when, when they come home from work Ooohhh-wah, sittin' down by the fire, oh-wah the radio does play the classical music there, Jim "The March Of The Wooden Soldiers", all you protest kids you can hear Jack say, get ready, ah Sweet Jane, ah, come on baby Sweet Jane, oh, oh, oh-ah Sweet Jane Some people they like to go out dancing and other people they have to work, just watch me now And there's even some evil mothers, haha well they're gonna tell you that everything is just dirt You know that women never really faint and that villains always blink their eyes, ooohhh And that, you know children are the only ones who blush and that life is just to die But anyone who ever had a heart oh, they wouldn't turn around and break it And anyone who ever played a part oh, they wouldn't turn around and hate it Sweet Jane, oh, wow-woh Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane Sweet Jane, Sweet Jane ... |
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Caught between the twisted stars
the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Columbus to New York Betwixt between the East and West he calls on her wearing a leather vest the earth squeals and shudders to a halt A diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help ward off the fear that he has left his soul in someone's rented car Inside his pants he hides a mop to clean the mess that he has dropped into the life of lithesome Juliette Bell And Romeo wanted Juliette and Juliette wanted Romeo And Romeo wanted Juliette and Juliette wanted Romeo Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus runs a comb through his black pony-tail He's thinking of his lonely room the sink that by his bed gives off a stink then smells her perfume in his eyes And her voice was like a bell Outside the street were steaming the crack dealers were dreaming of an Uzi someone had just scored I betcha I could hit that light with my one good arm behind my back says little Joey Diaz Brother give me another tote those downtown hoods are no damn good those Italians need a lesson to be taught This cop who died in Harlem you think they'd get the warnin' I was dancing when his brains run out on the street And Romeo had Juliette and Juliette had her Romeo And Romeo had Juliette and Juliette had her Romeo I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says "it's hard to give a shit these days" Manhattan's sinking like a rock into the filthy Hudson what a shock they wrote a book about it they said it was like ancient Rome The perfume burned his eyes holding tightly to her thighs And something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was gone |
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Satellite's gone up to the skies Thing like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I like to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of Satellite's gone way up to Mars Soon it will be filled with parking cars I watch it for a little while I love to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of I've been told that you've been bold with Harry, Mark and John Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday with Harry, Mark and John Satellite's gone up to the skies Thing like that drive me out of my mind I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on TV Satellite of love satellite of love Satellite of love satellite of Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love Satellite of love ... |
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They call you ecstasy nothing ever sticks to you Not velcro, not scotch tape not my arms dipped in glue Not if I wrap myself in nylon a piece of duct tape down my back Love pierced the arrow with the twelve and I can't get you back Ah, ecstasy ecstasy Ah, ecstasy Across the streets an old Ford, they took off its wheels the engine is gone In its seat sits a box with a note that says, Goodbye Charlie, thanks a lot I see a child through a window with a bib and I think of us and what we almost did The Hudson rocketing with light the ships pass the Statue of Liberty at night They call it ecstasy, ah ecstasy Ecstasy, ah ecstasy Some men call me St. Ivory some call me St. Maurice I'm smooth as alabaster with white veins runnin' through my cheeks A big stud through my eyebrow a scar on my arm that says, Domain I put it over the tattoo that contained your name They called you ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy They call you ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy The moon passing through a cloud a body facing up is floating towards a crowd And I think of a time and what I couldn't do I couldn't hold you close, I couldn't, I couldn't become you They call you ecstasy, I can't hold you down I can't hold you up I feel like that car that I saw today, no radio no engine, no hood I'm going to the cafe, I hope they've got music and I hope that they can play But if we have to part I'll have a new scar right over my heart I'll call it ecstasy Oh, ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy Ecstasy, ecstasy ecstasy |
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They tied his arms behind his back, to teach him how to swim
They put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin They stood over the soldier, in the midst of the squalor There was war in his body and it caused his brain to holler Make the sacrifice, mutilate my face If you need someone to kill I'm a man without a will Wash the razor in the rain, let me luxuriate in pain Please don't set me free Death means a lot to me The pain was lean and it made him scream He knew he was alive He put a pin through the nipples on his chest He thought he was a saint I've made love to my mother, killed my father and brother What am I to do When a sin goes too far, it's like a runaway car And cannot be controlled Spit upon his face and scream: There is no Oedipus today This is no play you're thinking you are in What will you say Take the blue mask down from my face And look me in the eye I get a thrill from punishment, I've always been that way I loathe and despise repentance You are permanently stained Your weakness and indifference and indiscretion in the streets Dirty's what you are and clean is what you're not You deserve to be soundly beat Make the sacrifice, take it all the way There is no ' won't ' high enough To stop this desperate day Don't take death away, cut the finger at the joint Cut the stallion at his mount And stuff it in his mouth |
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Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park And then later When it gets dark we go home Just a perfect day Feed animals in the zoo then later I move to and Then home Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It's such fun Just a perfect day You made me forget myself I thought I was someone else Someone good Oh it's such a perfect day I'm glad I spent it with you Oh such a perfect day You just keep me hanging on You just keep me hanging on You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow You're going to reap just what you sow |
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Holly came from Miami F.L.A.
hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A. Plucked her eyebrows on the way shaved her leg and then he was a she She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side Candy came from out on the island in the backroom she was everybody's darling But she never lost her head even when she was given head She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side and the coloured girls go Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo Little Joe never once gave it away everybody had to pay and pay A hustle here and a hustle there New York city is the place where they said Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side I Said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side - 간 주 중- Sugar Plum Fairy came and hit the streets lookin' for soul food and a place to eat Went to the Apollo you should have seen him go go go They said, hey Sugar, take a walk on the wild side I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side all right, huh Jackie is just speeding away thought she was James Dean for a day Then I guess she had to crash valium would have helped that dash She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side and the coloured girls say Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo |