Timbuk 3

Sunshine, sugar, love and happiness
Love turned up at her doorstep
Box of candy in his hand
Said let's go walking in the sunlight
She said "Sorry, I just can't"
She said "Sunshine is dangerous
Sugar can be poison
And love, well that's obvious
Beware of too much happiness"

Sunshine, sugar, love and happiness
She said "Love, please be patient
Life's not all sweetness and light
With every dawn comes devastation
For all us creatures of the night"
That's why I say "Sunshine is dangerous
Sugar can be poison
And love, well that's obvious
Beware of too much happiness"

It's so easy to say
Just give your heart away
But I already gave
And what's left I'm saving for a rainy day

Now the sky is partly cloudy
Hazy shadows brush the sand
And you can hear them softly singing
As they go walking hand in hand
They go "Sunshine is dangerous
Sugar can be poison
And love, well that's obvious
Beware of too mouch happiness"

Life is good, knock on wood

A hundred lovers dressed in red
A hundred lovers lying in my bed
A hundred lovers, my big suprise
A hundred lovers peer through her eyes

A hundred lovers, that's what I said
A hundred lovers dance in her head
Demons taunt her, spirits guide her
A hundred lovers all inside her

She's 23 goddesses, a couple of Queens
Half a dozen sirens of the silver screen
And 69 bathing beauties lying in the sun
A hundred lovers rolled into one

A hundred lovers all looking fine
A hundred lovers all mine
A hundred lovers with all their charms
A hundred lovers lie in my arms

She's 23 goddesses, a couple of Queens
(Latifah and Divine)
Half a dozen sirens of the silver screen
(Oh so fine)
And 69 bathing beauties lying in the sun
A hundred lovers rolled into one

A hundred lovers lie in my arms

I don't wanna dance and strip
Or make your backbone slip
I don't wanna bump and grind
I just wanna funk with your mind

I don't wanna tie you up
I don't wanna treat you like a pup
You know I'm not that kind
I just wanna funk with your mind

You're so macho, you're so cocksure
I say okay, let's play doctor
You're so brave won't you let me
Attempt a little amateur brain surgery now

I don't wanna curl your hair
And I don't wanna touch you there
I wouldn't wanna make you go blind
I just wanna funk with your mind

I don't wanna pump your percolator
And I don't wanna fix your carburetor
I'm not that mechanically inclined
I just wanna funk with your mind

You're so macho, you're so cocksure
I say okay, let's play doctor
You're so brave won't you let me
Attempt a little amateur brain surgery now

I don't wanna take pictures of you
I never wanted just a paper view
I wanna see how you are really designed
I just wanna funk with your mind

they read you Cinderella
you hoped it would come true
that one day your prince charming would come rescue you
you like romantic movies
and you never will forget
the way it felt when Romeo kissed Juliette
and all this time that you've been waiting
you don't have to wait no more
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that

I never make a promise
I don't intend to keep
so when I say forever
forever's what I mean
I'm no Casanova
but I swear this much is true,
I'll be holding nothing back
when it comes to you
you dream of love that's everlasting
well baby open up your eyes...

I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
if you give me a chance, I can love you like that

if you want tenderness
I've got tenderness
and I see through to the heart of you
if you want a man
who will understand
you don't have to look very far

I can love you, girl I can (I can love you love you)
oh baby oh...
I can love you like that
I would make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
be all that you need
show you you're everything that's precious to me
I can love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything (you're everything to me)
love you like that
I can make you my world
move heaven and earth if you were my girl
I would give you my heart
my heart my heart my world
show you you're everything

Down at guilty party headquarters
It's always guilty party time
Where penance is the price of passion
And passion is our only crime

We must rise up from the darkness
Steaming from these city streets
Run-off swirling all around us
Snaking its way down to the sea

We'll stage a demonstration
And call on every dove
To pass the legislation
To legalize our love
Legalize it
Legalize our love

Why must we shy from the camera
Turn our heads and cover our eyes
Why must we hide from our children
As if they've all been deputized

Calling all our fellow criminals
The lovers who are still at large
All our fellow sex offenders
Let us stand and face the charge

Stage a demonstration
And call on every dove
To pass the legislation
To legalize our love
Legalize it
Legalize our love

They're so concerned
That this love might infect us
They're so concerned
They want to protect us
Standards of decency
Condoms for H.I.V.
But what will protect us
>From prejudice and bigotry

Down at guilty party headquarters
It's always guilty party time
Down at guilty party headquarters
Passion is our only crime

I can get so cynical sometimes
See the dark side of every silver lining
But you cut through the negativity
When you do the things you do to me
Oooh, I can't get cynical
Oooh, I can't get cynical about you

If you were anyone else I might suspect
I'm just another whom in time you will reject
A home improvement project
An object for your pleasure
But something tells me
We have found a lasting treasure
Oooh, I can't get cynical
Oooh, I can't get cynical about you

I can get cynical enough to make you mad
I can get cynical about your mom and dad
I can be bad you know as well as I do
But I'm no cynic when it comes to loving you
Oooh, I can't get cynical about you
Cynical, I can't get cynical about you

I can get cynical about most anything
I can get cynical about this song I sing
It's just so positive it must be really shallow
Flowers on the window ledge, acres lying fallow

I don't believe in your theory of creation
I don't believe that Mary was a virgin
I don't believe in your brother the mystic
That's not being cynical
That's just being realistic
Oooh, I can't get cynical about you
Cynical, I can't get cynical about you

In this world of cynical souls
Actors cast in cynical roles
Thank God I know someone so nice
Who'll give me respite from my greatest vice
Oooh, I can't get cynical
Oooh, I can't get cynical about you

Spin the wheel, shake my chains
I can feel new blood in my viens
They thought we had passed on
Now they'll see we are not yet gone

Up and down the street, it's all over town
Trouble is afoot, we are still around
Tell my friend, Forest Lawn
Sell that plot, we are not yet gone

They think if they just close their eyes
We'll go away
Too bad they just don't realize
We're here to stay

I see you, I see me
Years from here down this road we're on
Everywhere on Earth, down in Babylon
Forces are at work, we are not yet gone

Minutes fly, days go by
Years pass on, we are not yet gone
Oh no, not yet gone
Oh yeah, still around

You never pray for peace
You pray for victory
You never pray for love
You pray for abstinence
Your mind's stuck in reverse
And life keeps getting worse
You say you pray for blessings
But it works just like a curse
You pray for the godless ones
The ones who will not pray
You pray for a savior
Who will blow them all away
You pray on your Bible
You pray on bended knee
And every time you say a prayer
You prey on me, you prey on me

You pray to God each day
That your son won't turn out gay
And your daughter won't bring home
Someone like me
You pray with every breath
You love the Lord to death
You're killing him with your kindness
Don't you see?
You pray He'll crush the enemies
Of your sexual oppression
You pray He'll send a virus
That will teach us all a lesson
And for all the unwed mothers
In this whole knocked-up city
And all the unborn children
Who will never feel your pity
You pray on your Bible
You pray on bended knee
And every time you move your mouth
You prey on me, you prey on me

Shotgun wedding son
Don't forget to kiss the bride
Midnight fahrenheit
Meet you on the other side
Bent like a fan we pose for pictures
Give the man your grim prediction now
Tight spot, don't get caught
Doing what they don't allow

Six pack, happy Jack
Chuggin' down the boulevard
Sure fire gun for hire
Judas with a credit card
Fight for the right to party favors
Pass the bread and stragely flavored wine
Hush Jack, don't talk back
Save it for the firing line

Sci-fi alibi
Explanation coming down
Hot shot astronaut
Master of the runaround
Dots on the map come disconnected
But the crops are unaffected by
Sun spots, dirty thoughts
Dirty words and all they imply

Lab mouse, slaughterhouse
Medicine won't cure my ills
Tongue tied genocide
Words may hurt but silence kills
Saint Johnny wants to be in pictures
No one left to quote the scriptures now
Joystick politics
Kills another sacred cow

Jump shot, acro-bot
Fell into the well of decline
Slam dunk basket hunk
Never tasted sushi so fine
She was a teenage dominatrix
He was the one she loved to play tricks on
Jack and Jill had time to kill
Till all the money was gone

Headline, death-defyin'
Trigger finger still at large
Energizer bunny club
Beats assault and battery charge
Somebody tried to film the feature
Missed the bride and shot the preacher down
Once more round the floor
Spin-drying blood on her gown

Shotgun wedding son
Don't forget to kiss the bride
Midnight fahrenheit
Meet you on the other side

Something's burning, supper is late
The family's waiting patiently by
Something's burning, the bird on the grill
Discovered today a new way to fly
Red hen rising again, out the window she goes
No looking back, no pausing to pack
Her hairbrush or her clothes

Something's burning, starting to catch
Wed like a match to dreams made of wood
Something's burning the little house down
Flames flying round the neighborhood
Red hen rising again, out the window she goes
No looking back, no pausing to pack
Her hairbrush or her clothes

Something's burning, the bird on the grill
Discovered today a new way to fly
At the crackling of the fire
There's a dog who fiercely barks
But he can't drown out the choir of sparks

Kitchen fire! Kitchen fire! Kitchen fire!

Red hen rising again, out the window she goes
No looking back, no pausing to pack
Her hairbrush or her clothes
Something's burning, the bird on the grill
Discovered today a new way to fly

Inside out, I wear my Sunday best
Inside out, I bare my soul in jest
I'm not sick, I'm just all wet
The paint is thick, it's not dry yet

Inside out, my home is on the street
Inside out, I'm not so hard to meet
Some say "Hi" or smile as they pass
Some just look, some just laugh
Some give spare change
Somewhere, no doubt
Some turn their pockets inside out

Inside out, there is no black and white
Inside out, the queen becomes the knight
We're all cut from one design
Not the same, but equally fine
And equally crude, there's no doubt
When viewed from the inside out

Inside out, the hero is a coward
Inside out, a fortress is a flower
Inside out, upside down
Outside in, round and round

Whoever's gonna win
When change comes about
It must begin from the inside out

Inside out, I wear my Sunday best
Insdie out, I've nothing to protest