Michael Schenker

I been thinking
I can't hold you
Another sign aboveDoctor, doctor
Tell me what to do
I got heartbreak in my pocket
I got sunlight next to youDoctor, doctor
Will the difference be adjourned
Could I help 'em only standing
Could I be the one to doDoctor, doctor
What ??? you
I been round by the river land
Where the sun burns burns bold and
All he ever [track "skips"] next to you[Music fades out, then back in]Any wanna gonna man of wanna buy a taking you down
I was thinking of you
Round about wanna gonna sayAny other bonna down a on ya all the time that you wanted
I was all in the grave...I was down the ground

* In a dance band competition fox-trotting with my girl
Dance, dance, dance all night
Dance your life away
High geared razzle dazzle, recession is the trouble
Dance, dance, dance all night
Dance your life away

Thirty hours on the floor and twenty partners left
Dance, dance, dance all night
Dance your life away
Feel so tired it must be a week
Nearly on my knees
Dance, dance, dance all night
Dance your life away

**
California, you always seem to have the sun
But I never really got near to it
And you try your hand at anything you know
Just to try and earn a dollar

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High flyers, wailing birds
I'm so far out to sea
Ships are passing every night
Oh, all my boyish dreams And your every melody
With the sea tides tossin' free
Never, never holdin' back
Rock and rollers drift by
(instrumental)
Turn to summer, goes so fast
Seems I'll never see you
One weekend and a photograph
Oh, all my boyish dreams

* Cold run "Speed Highway" was the place where we'd all go
When our nerves were razor sharp, and we'd all let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll, let it roll
Let it roll

** Our machine's geared up, and we're really layin' it down
Layin' it out, let it roll

When these wheels get rollin'
Let 'em roll right over you
'Cause I'm well greased down, and I'll always win it through
Let it roll, let it roll
Let it roll
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* Cold run "Speed Highway" was the place where we'd all go
When our nerves were razor sharp, and we'd all let it roll
Let it roll
Let it roll, let it roll
Let it roll

** Our machine's geared up, and we're really layin' it down
Layin' it out, let it roll

When these wheels get rollin'
Let 'em roll right over you
'Cause I'm well greased down, and I'll always win it through
Let it roll, let it roll
Let it roll
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Saturday night, we're all on the lookout for some thrills
Try to catch the band's last song
Backstage pass really showin' out
Feel that's where I belong

Sittin' down with all the big stars at the bar
I really have a rock vocation
From monopedemania to schizophrenia
Rise to any situation

* of old lost love, where will you go
When the show is over
Nobody wants to know

**
We need to feel
Something that's real
'cause you're losin' from the start
So be careful with your heart

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Partners in the next bed and they're dancing cheek to cheek
Can't understand their highbrow conversation
Yes, you're pretty, who needs a pretty face
With a hot lips reputation

* Repeat

* Try to make some changes really on the line
Given your religion, never ever time
All the jokers laughing, queens upon the floor
Don't misunderstand it, baby needs some more

Lovin' up some ransom, weapon and a gun
Just your education, hard to understand
Will the teenage lesion make a mark on you
Make a big tome status,
then we run them through

** Mother Mary could you
ever really feel the same
And would you try to understand a
wild colonial boy

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* Try to make some changes really on the line
Given your religion, never ever time
All the jokers laughing, queens upon the floor
Don't misunderstand it, baby needs some more

Lovin' up some ransom, weapon and a gun
Just your education, hard to understand
Will the teenage lesion make a mark on you
Make a big tome status,
then we run them through

** Mother Mary could you
ever really feel the same
And would you try to understand a
wild colonial boy

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*
Lady love to hang on
Played it like a real intellectual
Sweet sister your still shaking
And your tragedy is never ending
Silver shoes you're wearing
Every window there you've ever stared in
Over my head, over my head

Sidewalks of the city
Every theater there you've ever played
Your comic book impersonations
Louise Fazenda and Buster Keaton [+++]
Over my head, so it's all

** Out in the street for just one more matinee
Yes, your vaudeville carries on
So put a smile in front your man can see
Yes, your vaudeville carries on

solo

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[+++]Note: Michael Pincher verified this line with Mogg.
Louise Fazenda, an American vaudeville actress, made 134 movies between 1913-1935, but the only one I could find that involved film legend Buster Keaton was "Slippery Pearls." Fazenda was married to director Hal Wallis ...

*
Lady love to hang on
Played it like a real intellectual
Sweet sister your still shaking
And your tragedy is never ending
Silver shoes you're wearing
Every window there you've ever stared in
Over my head, over my head

Sidewalks of the city
Every theater there you've ever played
Your comic book impersonations
Louise Fazenda and Buster Keaton [+++]
Over my head, so it's all

** Out in the street for just one more matinee
Yes, your vaudeville carries on
So put a smile in front your man can see
Yes, your vaudeville carries on

solo

** Repeat
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Repeat

[+++]Note: Michael Pincher verified this line with Mogg.
Louise Fazenda, an American vaudeville actress, made 134 movies between 1913-1935, but the only one I could find that involved film legend Buster Keaton was "Slippery Pearls." Fazenda was married to director Hal Wallis ...

Was a fast tough woman loved to play the clown
You won't do nothin' about it
Break a good boy's resistance down
Know she's got a pistol
Laid it down on me
She said shoot, shoot, shoot it boy
You gotta shoot it for me
Convinced me that she was worth it
Never knew I was her kill
And two 45's would do the trick and pay the bills

*Know she's got a pistol
Laid it down on me
And she said shoot, shoot, shoot it boy
You gotta shoot it for me

** I've really got to get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here now

solo

Holding out in my hotel room police they finally come
Had her as the prosecution, and my prints upon the gun

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Was a fast tough woman loved to play the clown
You won't do nothin' about it
Break a good boy's resistance down
Know she's got a pistol
Laid it down on me
She said shoot, shoot, shoot it boy
You gotta shoot it for me
Convinced me that she was worth it
Never knew I was her kill
And two 45's would do the trick and pay the bills

*Know she's got a pistol
Laid it down on me
And she said shoot, shoot, shoot it boy
You gotta shoot it for me

** I've really got to get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here
Gotta get a fast ride out of here now

solo

Holding out in my hotel room police they finally come
Had her as the prosecution, and my prints upon the gun

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Kids gettin' tired, hangin' around
So fuck sure thinkin' aloud
Can't get it in, can't get it out
Sure ain't enough and there ain't no doubt

Can't stop a train with just a smile
Stop me at the start only for a while
Hole in my pocket, hole in my arm
Al that's left when life's lost its charm

This could be for us just any other day
Come on girl, we've really got to get away
It's the only chance you'll ever heve to change

Kids gettin' tired, hangin' around
So fuck sure thinkin' aloud
Can't get it in, can't get it out
Sure ain't enough and there ain't no doubt

Can't win or lose when there's little left to choose
Now 'til next year it'll always be the same
The black back streets and people
Who don't kniow your name
Go with the wind, it'll only carry us away

I really tried my hardest just to make you understand
(what) it feels like to a boy, when he don't feel like a man
But you gave me so much money
And you would not understand
I realize I hurt you, so I stay just as I am

*
But the whole world keeps on turnin'
Yes, the whole world keeps on turnin'
But the whole world keeps on turnin'
I just roll along

There's been one too many mornings
And one too many years
One of life's delinquents
Who just can't take the pace

We found out the hard way
I hope you understand
That my life is just my habit
And I had an overdose

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I used to try, I used to try
Used to cry, oh I used to cry

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I thought you'd listen to my reasoning
But now I see, you don't hear a thing
Tried to make you see how it's gotta be
Well it's allright

All or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing, for me

Things could work out just like I want them to, yeah
If I could have the other half of you
Yes you know I would if I only could
I said it's allright

All or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing, for me

I ain't telling no lies, so don't you sit there and cry, mama yeah

All or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing, for me, for me, for me,
All or nothing, need it, all or nothing, all or nothing, I gotta, I gotta, keep on
All or nothing, I need it so bad, all or nothing, I want it right now,
All or nothing for me, for me, for me, c'mon
All or nothing, gotta have it now, all or nothing, I need it so bad
All or nothing, for me, for me, for me,
All or nothing, gotta gotta, all or nothing, need it so bad,
All or nothing, for me, for me, for me come on
All or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing, I gotta I gotta for me
All or nothing, all or nothing, all or nothing, for meeeeeeeee

(all right, ooh uh, oof, mmm, jesus I wish I hadn't worn these tight trousers!)

Oh Belladonna, never knew the pain
Maybe I'm crazy, maybe it'll drive me insane
The open letter just carelessly placed
And your moving silence,
the tea so delicately laced

* Out of reach, out of touch
How you've learned to hate so much
Out of reach, out of touch
How you've learned to hate so much

Came from passion, and you gave it a name
The fingers of poison like needles in the drivin' rain
So smile discreetly as you watch with such grace
Now I must slip away, but can you forget my face

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Fast as light our jets were burnin'
On the road a distant siren song
Hands upon my engines growin'
Vincent's[+++] deep throat breathin' out so strong
I can hold her, can you roll her
Ride her like there's no tomorrow
Siren's song sure is growin' stronger

Run down, low down, don't feel tired
Take no orders, don't get fired
I waste away cruisin' along

Fighting blizzards, ragin' storms
Hold the wheels tight, know I'm born to ramble on
Cruisin' along
But I stop, turn my head around
Sleep until tomorrow, in my arms
In my arms,
Highway lady, lorelei, dream the big time high above
Highway lady, high on wheels make you smile again

How she feels

Found my way to spanish stairs
Small corruption, no one cares I taste a lie
Cruisin' along

Fighting blizzards, ragin' storms
Hold the wheels tight, know I'm born to ramble on
Cruisin' along
But I stop, turn my head around
Sleep until tomorrow, in my arms
In my arms,
Highway lady, lorelei, dream the big time high above
Highway lady, high on wheels make you smile again

Fighting blizzards, ragin' storms
Hold the wheels tight, know I'm born to ramble on
Cruisin' along
But I stop, turn my head around
Sleep until tomorrow, in my arms
In my arms,
Highway lady, lorelei, dream the big time high above
Highway lady, high on wheels make you smile again

How she feels
Highway lady, highway lady highway lady, highway lady

Last train's eleven, it's now quarter past
Why're you tryin' to make the evenin' move so fast
I'm in real trouble but I can't go back home
They locked the doors and I'm left out alone

* You can come to my place and sleep on the couch
Lots of people do it and we won't leave you out
Hard times out on the Street
Hard times, hard to beat

** The painted lies they all hand you
I'm a loser on the road
I'm a loser on the road, yeah

Euston station and it's cold as ice
AlI night specials, they move you on
But me and Ginger over there
We got this thing where we really take care

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** Repeat

I'm a loser, I'm a loser
I'm a loser

Come from the land where
The wheat is still wheat
Where the waters in the rivers is still water
In this land every man lends
A hand when you need it
But your hands are full of life
So you can help yourself and feel it

It's been a long way from the red of my home
From the valleys
And the green plains never ending
Everyone knows that the sun in his land is stronger
And your hands are full of life
If you can only wait just longer

So let it be a small haven big in your heart
Don't let it turn into a nova
Tryin' to climb and climb

Try and forget this place where
I can still find time
To sing in rhyme

Martian landscape,
I'll learn to lie in your arms
Where all the freedom is mine and it comes
Martian landscape,
I'll turn my face to your sun
Where your horizon is mine and it comes

Come from the land where
The wheat is still wheat
Where the waters in the rivers is still water
In this land every man lends
A hand when you need it
But your hands are full of life
So you can help yourself and feel it

So let it be a small haven big in your heart
Don't let it turn into a nova
Tryin' to climb and climb

Martian landscape,
I'll learn to lie in your arms
Where all the freedom is mine and it comes
Martian landscape,
I'll turn my face to your sun
Where your horizon is mine and it comes

Martian landscape
Martian landscape

Said she came from Memphis
You can look but please don't touch
Didn't like rock and rollers
Seemed a bit much too much

* Cause it's the natural thing you feel at the start
Natural blood starts to flow
Yeah, the natural thing, you get at the start
Then she'll never let you go
Hey girl, now does it feel alright Think I'm gettin' through
Don't you think the band's real tight Wait til we start to move

** May sound funny but you gave it to me
I didn't even like it
May sound funny but you gave it to me
And now I got to live without it

I been down to Atlanta
Got to move my feet
Gettin' down for the last encore
With every star she meets

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Why'd you do it, why'd you do it

Something going on at the corner of the block
It's the kids down there
They were startin' to rock
High black fever runnin' everyplace
When the greek kid pulled a knife
And pushed it in his face
Some girl makes it with a lover in the door...
As the ambulance pulls away,
She cries out more

And it's all night long, all night long
On with the action
You need the fastest legs alive
On with the action
If you can't run you ain't survive
On with the action

Mama's boy and teacher's pet...
On with the action
It's down our street, is it in yours yet

All the kids stand laughin'
They never had such fun
Then someone cuts a blind man who just can't make a run
And the queen who's been standin' behind the toilet door
His parents don't like boyfriends, call him a whore
But the minister's starin'
With his Bible in his hand
Was this god's children, he didn't understand

And it's all night long, all night long
On with the action
You need the fastest legs alive
On with the action
If you can't run you ain't survive
On with the action

And it's all night long, all night long
On with the action
You need the fastest legs alive
On with the action
If you can't run you ain't survive
On with the action

A little bit of you runnin' through my bed
Little bit of everything
You know that's what you said

Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love
Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love

And there's your indulgence
And parents try to get you out of these jams
You got that appetite they won't understand

The social life you lead leaves nothin' to desire

Don't wanna see you bleed
But you came on like a liar -repeat

Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love
Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love

And there's your indulgence
And parents try to get you out of these jams
You got that appetite they won't understand

Wrecked myself to love you
All you want is more
One thing you're after
You just try and score

Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love
Try hard, try hard to reason, reasons love

And there's your indulgence
And parents try to get you out of these jams
You got that appetite they won't understand