Concrete Blonde

L.A
Who'da thought
Right smack dab in the middle of what
With the belching buses
And broken bones
DEVIL POUR ME ANOTHER SHOT
Hey, hey
L.A.
Who'da thought

L.A.
After closing when it's down to me
And the same old souls
Well Johnny's all right if you buy him a gin
He'll tell you his stories about Errol Flynn
He even danced with Marilyn!
No way!
Thats what they say
DEVIL POUR ME ANOTHER SHOT!
Hey, hey
L.A.
Who'da thought

Up through the cracks
Up through the broken glass
In the hot red light of a black and white
Roses grow

Roxy is in tonight
She's styling around in her fishnet tights
And she's got more life at 65
Than the teenage boys she keeps up all night
Heavy metal
Young hard cock
What, can't you handle that kind of talk?
The strippers here they really rock
DEVIL POUR ME ANOTHER SHOT
Hey, hey
L.A.
Who'da thought

Up through the cracks
Up through the broken glass
In the hot red light of a black and white
Roses grow
Up through the glass (Up through the glass)
Up through the broken glass (Up through the broken glass)
In the hot red light of a black and white (In the hot red of a black and white)
Roses grow
Roses grow
Roses grow
Roses grow....

Today I went and bought myself a bottle
Like we used to do
Reminded me of you
Today I saw a train roll by the river
Blowing off the steam
Reminded me of me

That's when I threw the bottle in the river
That's when I started running for the train
There's nothing that you need I can't deliver
Carry me away
Carry me away

Make it seven-oh-nine California time
Whoever said it was a small world was either a liar
Or a fool
'Cause it's not true
And any promise we make is as easy to break
As the plastic people on your wedding cake
So says you
But you know, I do

I hear you thinking
From far away
If you keep on lying and crying and trying and drinking
I'm gonna carry me away
Carry me away

If you think about me
From far away
I hope you find it with me or without me
Carry me away
Carry me away
Carry me away
Carry me away
Carry me away
Carry me away.

The Little Conversation
Is Over Very Soon
And I watch in admiration
From my corner of the room.
They shine on you with starry eyes...
They rain a friendly storm.
Like kids around a Christmas tree
And then you smile all nice and warm

The Little Conversations
If I tried my very best
you know I never could say anything
In twenty words or less.
Somewhere, sometime, down the line
someday I may confess,
and tell you all, that's all

The Little Conversations
On me are very rough
They leave me all in pieces
You know there's never time enough
like a book with missing pages
like a story incomplete
like a painting left unfinished
it feels like not enough to eat.
Starvin'

these little conversations
well for me they'll never do
now what am I supposed to do with
broken sentences of you?
i'll stay in my corner 'cause
that's all that i can do
and let the others speak for me.
Little Conversations
Are We.

Well, outside in the hall there's a catfight
It's well after midnight
I guess I'll be allright
I'm laid out on the floor
Drunk and ppor
How much longer how much more

Rock me to sleep
Strong & deep.
The screaming cats they give me the creep
But aside from all that I feel no pain
Staring up at the ceiling stains
...Neon in the window
...Sirens far away
...News on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy
birthday

They're at it again next door
This whole floor I swear
They're out to drive me crazy
Not right now I'm high as a cloud I'm soft and gray and lazy
..Smoking Out the window,
...feeling far away
...News on the radio happy birthday happy birthday happy
birthday

Fly me
out the window.
Somewhere far away
News on the radio, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday.

My eyes are jaded and complicated,
tired of the liars and the masqueraded
Who steals our innocence away,
like a thief in the night?
Who took away our faith in what we know to be right?
That was another world, then
that was another time
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime.

Whatever became of the child I was
I never want to lose her no
I won't give her up
and now my heart is harder,
my skin is getting tougher and tougher
That was another world then
That was another time
You can never go back to the place where love is blind
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime

Whatever became of our sweet blind love
As long as we could be together it was more than enough
Now we're all grown up and we need so much
I never knew that the price would go up as such
That was another world then, then
That was another time

Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
Well you can never go back to the place where love is blind.
You can never go back to the scene of a perfect crime.

part the dark and chase it gone
you're the sweet and sunny one
as bright as any star tonight.
You smile like a beam of light
you can
show me a ray
show me a ray
show me a ray
show me a ray of
Sun.
Just until the morning comes
I'm the gray and cloudy one
Raining for so long, so long
Like a candle blowing in a storm
but you can
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
Show me a ray
of
Sun.

Maybe it's just a phase
The days and the nights
And the nights and days
Of all the tossing and turning
And churning and burning
Inside my brain
Or maybe I'm finally insane
But I don't know what I believe anymore
It's like I'm caught in some revolving door
Going over and over
And over and over and

Teach me how to pray
Tell me what to say
Help me
Help me
Help me find my way

I never could play their game
You know that all your faces look the same
And I won't give up
Won't give in
You know I never want to be like them
Well, I'm ticking away like time
You know I'm out of sync
And I'm out of my mind
You know I used to know a truth from a lie
Just by looking in their eyes

Carry me away
Further and further
And further every day
Help me
Help me
Help me find my way

I'm hanging by a thread
And the waves of confusion
Break down on my head
And when I think of all the things you said
Well, the words fall dead

Higher every day
A price I swore I'd never pay
Help me
Help me
Help me find my way
Help me find my way.

You don't believe in love
You don't believe in hatred
Put your money in the bank
It's the only way to save it

You try to make a buck
But you haven't made a penny
You need a little luck
But you know you won't get any

You don't believe in God
You don't believe in glory
You've got a brother in the clinic
Tells the same kind of story

If he had another life
He'd know what would be waiting
If he had another soul
He could sell it all to Satan

You don't believe in war
You don't believe in Jesus
Got a sister in New York
She knows how she pleases

Walking the streets
On the south side of the city
Trying to make ends meet
Isn't that a pity...for money

You go crazy
You get tossed
You go running around
Until you know you're gonna fall off
He knows what you need he, knows how much, how much you want

Knock familiar,
Welcome in,
Can't believe that you let him
introduce you as a friend.
But you're always polite
in case you need him again
No not again,
No not again.

Can't believe the way I see you
Run, Run, Run,
Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, Run, Run,
Are you having fun?
Run-

Hands are shaking. Lips are cracked
You swore (I heard you swear) that you were
Never coming back, but...
one more time. Just one more night
and once again, you lost the fight
fight
So fight a little harder now.

Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, Run, Run
Can't believe the way you need to
Run, Run, Run
Are you still as young as you started
When you started to run?

Can't believe the way I see you
Run, Run, Run,
Can't believe the way you bleed when you
Run, Run, Run,
Are you having fun?
Run, Run, Run,
'till you drop.

There's a green plaid jacket on the back of the chair
It's like a moment frozen forever there
Mom and Dad had a lot of big plans for their little man
So proud
Mama's gone crazy 'cause her baby's cut down
By some teenage car chase, war out of bounds
It was the wrong place, wrong time, wrong end of a gun
Sad

(Shoot)
Shoot straight
(Shoot)
From the hip, ya'll
(Shoot)
Gone forever in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been
It could have been your brother
(Shoot)
Shoot straight
(Shoot)
Shoot to kill, yeah
Blame each other, well, blame yourself
You know, God is a bullet
Have mercy on us everyone

They're gonna call me sir, they'll all stop picking on me
Well, I'm a high school grad, I'm over five-foot-three
I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D.
They'll see
He didn't have to use the gun they put in his hand
But when the guy came at him, well, he panicked and ran
And it's a thirty long years 'fore they'll give him another chance
And it's sad, sad, yes, sad

(Shoot)
Shoot straight
(Shoot)
From the hip, ya'll
(Shoot)
It's all gone in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been
It could have been your mother
(Shoot)
Shoot straight
(Shoot)
Shoot to kill, ya'll
Blame each other, blame yourself
You know, God is a bullet
Have mercy on us everyone

(Shoot)
Shoot straight
(Shoot)
From the hip, ya'll
(Shoot)
Gone forever in a trigger slip
Well, it could have been
It could have been your mother
(Shoot)
John Lennon
(Shoot)
Dr. King, yeah
Harvey Milk, and all for goddamn nothing
God is a bullet
Have mercy on us everyone

God is a bullet
Have mercy on us everyone.

Chorus:
It's a man's, man's, man's, man's world
But it wouldn't be nothing
Without a woman or a girl
Man made the cars
To take us over the road
Man made the trains
To carry his manmade load
Man has made everything
That he possibly can
He's busy making money
To buy from other men
Chorus
Man made the electric light
To take us out of the dark
Man made the boats on the water
They say Noah made the Ark
You man have made everything
That you possibly can
You're so busy making money
To buy from other men
Chorus
Lost
Well, he's lost
In his wilderness
Well, he's lost
Lost in his bitterness
Chorus
Man said he love the little bitty baby girls
And the little bitty baby boys
Tries so hard to make them happy
With his manmade toys
Man's making everything
That he possibly can
Busy making his almighty money
To buy from other men
Chorus

When you turned out the light
And walked out the door
I said to myself
What did I come here for?

Did you have a good time
Drinking whiskey and ryhme
And did you want to be
Bonnie and clyde?

What goes on in your mind,
What goes on in your head?
Who did you think I would be
Ha, well you got me instead.

You think there's some connection
That I'm your female reflection
But no...

I can be loyal
And (a) I can be true
But that's for somebody else


And it will never be you.

You think we're predetermined
But babe you're learning
Way to slow...

But it seems such a long time ago.

[er, something that sounds like "go, fishman" right before the solo]

(oh...) he can see things
You'll never know how to see.
He's three times the man
You'll never know how to be.
I'll do anything he wants
And I'll go anywhere
He wants me to go.

And if that isn't love
Then I guess I'll just never know.

But it seems a long time ago...

Happy New Year!
(Happy nowhere!)
Where are you going?
(Slow, I don't care where...)
Where?
(Oh, I'll get there)
I WILL get there
Monday, one step
Tuesday, two
I'd crawl on my hands and knees to you
Wednesday, three
Thursday, four
I'd break in windows
I'd kick in doors
Friday, walk until I fell
By the side of the road
Too tired to tell where I was
(Where were you?)
I don't know...
(Where was I?)
I
I wanna be your friend again
One, two, three o'clock
It's too late to start
Too late to
(Stop)
Five, six, seven, eight
I'm walking steady
I'm walking straight
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
You're important to me
(You're important to me)
Night and day and day and night
If I can, I will make things right
I
I wanna be your friend again
I'm sorry
(sorry)
For the things I wish I hadn't said
I'm sorry
(sorry)
For the things I wish I hadn't done
I'm sorry
(sorry)
For the way I wish I hadn't been
I'm sorry
(sorry)
Hello?
Hi. Oh, it's only me...
(Oh yeah, be cool. Tell him. It's the women who loves him more than life
itself. That's what you really want to say.)
Well, you know.... It just popped into my head... thought I'd give you a
call...
(Oh yeah, you've been waiting all day; getting up the nerve all month.)
Oh... I'm fine. Fine.
(Oh, fine. You are not fine! You eat, sleep, think him, twenty-four hours
a day.)
Oh you are? Oh good, I'm glad.
(You are not glad! You hope he burns in Hell with this woman! You're not
happy. Go on, tell him!)
Oh, everything's going great. Really great.
(It is not going great! You are miserable twenty-four hours a day. All you
can do is think about this man, and you haven't even got the nerve to tell
him what you really think.)
Yeah, yeah, I gotta go, too. Yeah, I've got a lot... lot of stuff to do.
(Don't lie! You haven't got anything better to do, and you know it, than be
with him!)
Yeah. Take it easy. Bye.
(Oh, take it easy. Once again, you didn't say anything you really think!)
I
I wanna be your friend again
I
(sorry)
I wanna be your friend again
I'm sorry
(sorry)
For the things I wish I hadn't said

Say it's been too hard
Say it's been too long
You say it's all too much
The thrill has long been gone
Well I thought you could
Yes I thought you could
And you thought you could too


But it's a place and time
Where the years behind are piled up high
But never mind
It's time to crash and burn or fly
And I thought you could
You know I thought you could
You know I thought you could too

Go to sleep now
Go on dream away
Isn't easy, is it babe?
And I hope
And I dream
And I pray
That sometime
We'll find a way

Some say easy come
Some say easy go
Some say time flies by too fast
Some say it drags on all too slow
Well I thought you could
You know I thought you could
And I thought I could too

But, if you never find
The heart to start all over again
Remember I was one
Who tried to be a friend to you ... I
Well, I know I tried
Yes, you know I tried
And I know you tried too

Go to sleep, now
Go on dream away
Is it easy, is it babe?
And, I hope
And, I dream
And, I pray
That sometime
We'll find a way

Go to sleep, now
(Go to sleep, now)
Go on dream away
(Go on dream away)
Is it easy, is it babe?
(Is it easy, is it babe?)
And, I hope
And, I dream
And, I pray
That sometime
We'll find a way

been on the bus
since a quarter to one
i'm bakin like a chicken
on the bus in the settin sun
home home home
under the window
is that a shot or a car
i don't know i dont know i dont know

city smoke and city choke and crackin open
i hear the city screaming
i hear the city screaming
24 hours all night all day
the city hums and boils and cracks and beats away
?(stow)? them around stick em over a fire
no wonder everybody's strung up tighter than a god damn piano wire

city smoke and city choke and crackin open
i hear the city screaming
i hear the city sream
crack the whip and
mr. jack knife
we are doing the trip on the corner underneath the street light late night
oneof the home boys just take it on home sweet home
well you can blow your own self away
but leave the rest of us alone

the city die and city cry and you and I say
i hear the city screaming
i hear the city screaming
i hear the city screaming
i hear the city screaming

Why Don't You See Me? By Concrete Blonde
(J. Napolitano)
When you lay down,
Do you hear sounds?
Does the silence have a voice?
What does it say?
What do you hear?
What does it whisper in your ear?
Why don't you hear me?
Why don't you hear me?
When you get up, into the light,
When you come up out of your night,
What do you see?
And do you see?
Or have you lost your sense of sight?
Why don't you see me?
Why don't you see me?
Why don't you see me?
Why don't you see me?
What do you think?
What do you feel?
'Cause this is feeling very real.
And if you feel,
Why can't you say?
Give me a little demonstration.
Can't you feel me?
Why don't you feel me?
Why don't you feel me?
Why don't you feel me?
Are you in love?
Are you in pain?
Are they together and the same?
Where do you go?
Who do you know?
Are you that lonely ghost on the side?
Why don't you see me?
Why don't you free me?
Why don't you feel me?
Why don't you feel me?
Why can't you hear me?
Why can't you hear me?
Why don't you see me?
Why don't you see me?

It is complete, now
Two ends of time are neatly tied
A one-way street
She's walking to end of the line
And there she meets
The faces she keeps in her heart and mind

They say, "Goodbye"
Tomorrow, Wendy you’re going to die
Tomorrow, Wendy you’re going to die

Underneath the chilly gray November sky
We can make believe that Kennedy is still alive
And we're shooting for the moon
And smiling Jack is driving by

And they say, "Good try"
Tomorrow, Wendy you’re going to die
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

I told the priest
Don't count on any second coming
God got his ass kicked
The first time he came down here slumming
He had the balls to come
The gall to die and then forgive us
No, I don't wonder why
I wonder what he thought it would get us
Hey, hey, goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

Hey, hey, good bye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

Only God says, "Jump"
So I set the time
'Cause if he ever saw her
It was through these eyes of mine
And if he ever suffered
It was me who did his crying

Hey, hey, goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
(Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die)
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
(Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die)
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

Hey, hey, goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

Hey, hey, goodbye
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die
Tomorrow, Wendy is going to die

Take a walk out in the rain
Called you time and time again
Everything is wrong
You've gone

Reached the point of no return
The more I see the more I stand alone
I see the end of the line

Were you ever lonely
Mystified and blue
Realizing only
Your number's up
You're through

Had my share of winning
Now's my time to lose
After a fair beginning
The game's up
You're through

Think I'll walk out in the storm
Got no love to keep me warm inside
I see the end of the line

Now's the time to take a dive
Take a magic carpet ride
Everything is wrong
We've gone

If you ever miss me
If I should cross your mind
You know where to find me
I'll be waiting at the end of the line

I go on a date with you
Get me to the party before it's too late
So I can watch all the evil in the room
Get up and dance while he's still fresh

And he's still all in love with his first steady
If not, let me know
Cause I'd rather stay home than go

Shadows, windows
Sorrow like an undertow
Clotheslines, telephone lines

It's a matter of time before they find me
I'm waiting for a sign from one of my kind
I'm waiting for the time to fall behind me
I'm waiting for a sign from one of my kind

Get on the plane
A star in the sky
Down and living and dying inside
Slipping on the wire and jumping off the ledge
I feel like dancing out over the edge

Weeping willow
Weeping on my pillow
Headlines, deadlines

Wine, dine, do a line
Nickel and dime me
I've been waiting for a sign from one of my kind
I'm waiting for the time to fall behind me
I've been waiting for a sign from one of my kind

Oh, no ?
Soon we flew from our cocoon
We go slow

I'm wondering how long until they find me
I've been waiting for a sign from one of my kind
It's a matter of time until they find me
I've been waiting for a sign from one of my kind
Waiting for a sign from one of my kind
Waiting for a sign from one of my kind
Waiting for a sign from one of my kind
Waiting for a sign from one of my kind

Tennessee, Baton Rouge
Dallas, Texas
Coming through
New Orleans, I could stay
But tomorrow I'm on my way

I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home

I been here
I been there
I been nowhere
Everywhere
Mexico, I could stay
Arizona to L.A.

I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home

I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home

I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm close to home (close to home)
I'm getting closer and closer to home