A Perfect Day, Elise

He got lucky one time
Hitting with the girl in room 509
She turned her back on him facing the frame
Said, "Listen Joe, don't you come here again".
White sun scattered all over the sea
He could think of nothing but her name 'Elise'
God is the sweat running down his back
The water soaked her blonde hair black
Its a perfect day Elise
He got burned by the sun
His face so pale and his hands so worn
Let himself in room 509
Said a prayer, and cried, 'It's a perfect day Elise'

A Girl Like Me

Hot skin in the night
And the hour when the animals are born
Crimes of passion are committed

Take me to the morning light
Take me to your leader

It took a girl like me
To bring you to your knees
It took a girl like me

You were my heart
You are my only heart
But this cold air is killing me
And as we make love
The silence, the silence
Trying to find a thread of a failed romance

It took a girl like me
To bring you to your knees
You take a girl like me

I strained my face towards the sky
You put your hand over my mouth
Oh take me, take me to the frozen north
Skating, falling, falling down, down, down
Into icy water

I'll be what you want me to be
To bring you to your knees
Your lover, your daughter
We'll move in slow motion
Falling down, down, down
Into icy water
You took a girl like me

I might never leave this room again
Shut myself inside the old photographs
Faded light of a young girl
Patterns, shadows on the walls
Painted ladies
They look a lot like me

It took a girl like me
To bring you to your knees
You took a girl like me

97 Degrees

It's already done
I'm down on my knees
Look what you done
You've made a fool out of me

It's already too late
You've given me the taste

Look what you've done
There's no turning round
I forget today
I couldn't turn it down

It's all in the details
No reason, just face

You'd better give me some
Of the magic stuff
It's all in the thought
I'm burning up
I'm burning up

It's 97 degrees
Look what you've done
You've ruined everything

You better hurry up
With that magic stuff
It's all your fault
I can't get enough

66 Promises

66 promises
Fell from your lips
66 kisses
To rest on my child fingertips
66 lovers
To come till I tell
66 positions to
Take on this well-worn trail

66 magicians
Delivered the goods
Documented our marriage
For some silent film in Hollywood

Is it not what you thought it would be?
Was it not what you wanted it to be?
Was I not what you thought I would be?
Is it not what you wanted it to be?

60 mouths talking
But making no sense
Of life and of liberty
And the pursuit of happiness
Waiting for something
To smash a few holes
In the wall of good fortune
And the windows to a outer world

And 66 promises
And came in a kiss
Provided a meaning
Now I see how it really is

And it's not what I thought it would be?
And it's not what I wanted it to be?
And it's not what I thought it would be?
And it's not what I wanted it to be?

50 Foot Queenie

Hey
I'm one big queen
No one can stop me
Red light, red green
Sat back, I'm watching
I'm number one
Second to no one
No sweat, I'm clean
Nothing can touch me

Tell you my name
F U C K
50 ft Queeny
force 10 hurricane
Biggest woman
I could have 10 sons
10 gods 10 queens
10 ft and rising

Hey, I'm the king o' the world
You'd better hear my song
You come on, measure me
I'm twenty inches long

50 ft queeny

Glory, glory
Lay it all on me
50 ft Queeny
50 and rising
U bend ova
Cassa nova
No sweat I'm clean
Nothin' can stop me

Hey, I'm the king 'o the world
- 50 ft Queeny -

30

Over my body the shadows played
It wasn't night and it wasn't day
Counting something, what have I found?
Thirty diamonds in my hand

Thirty miles, the world unfolds
Thirty miles, a pot of gold
I often think of America

I often dream of shooting a gun
Thirty years, I'm still a child
Looking for something in a smile

Thirty miles, the world unfolds
Thirty miles, a pot of gold
Listen here, in my song
Thirty miles won't be long

Thirty diamonds, birds of fire
Sparkle like the summer sky
Thirty diamonds, thirty miles
Looking for something in your smile

I'm looking for something in your smile
I'm looking for something in your smile

Zaz Turned Blue

Zaz had red hair
He didn't care
He always laughed aloud
He wasn't proud
Just a real easy guy
Wouldn't tell a lie
But then one day
Zaz turned blue

Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
When Zaz turned blue

One night in the park
For a lark
Zaz let Steve Brown
Fool around
Steve squeezed his neck
Figured what the heck
But Zaz hit the ground
He was down

Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
When Zaz turned blue

After high school
Zaz was cool
He worked on cars
And went to bars
And then one day
He went away
And became a marine
At the age of eighteen
But he didn't want to fight
Didn't do it out of spite
And he didn't want to die, no
He didn't want to die
And he seemed kind of strange
Could it be that he'd changed
On that night in the park
When he fainted in the dark

Zaz didn't die
Lucky guy
There were no parades
How the glory fades
Now he shoots lots of pool
And as a rule
Wears a silly grin
On his chin
It all started when

Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
Zaz turned blue
What were we supposed to do?
When Zaz turned blue

Your Last Friend In This Town

Well, my clothes are my badge of business
My associates are satellites
My product's all that you deserve
The last ditch my merchandise
The only shelter you have found
I'm a rumour goes round
And I'm your last friend in this town

Saw you coming from miles away
Whites of your eyes as clear as day
I'm a voice fading in from the general hum
You wouldn't believe things I have done
I'm the only safety net around
You slipped and you're going down
And I'm your last friend in this town

Last friend now
In this town

Well, one day you'll learn how to read a face
When you find your final resting place
And when you've learnt all the tricks of the trade
In my image, you'll be made
You'll be out in the hunting ground
Preying on weaknesses you've found
With your last friend in this town

Yell Hollow

Carve yourself another tongue drum
Beat upon yourself
You find that you're resonating some?
Yell hollow

Float down this river
Make out like a pleasure boat
Make out like your day delivers

You might be someone's politician
You might be someone's wife
You might think you're someone's ticket to Eden
I think you done nothing with your life

Carve yourself into another totem
Believe it of yourself
You reckon you're filled with something?

You might be someone's politician
You might be someone's wife
You might think you're someone's ticket to Eden
I think you done nothing with your life
Yell hollow

Will´s Song

Silly boy
Have you no place to wait for me?
Wait outside
Through the window, look and see
I am here
Sitting straight up in this chair
Figuring
How a boy like you could care

I'm a girl
With a rose upon each cheek
Lady love
That a boy like you would seek
I just need
Here a bit to hold my thought
Where you can't, where you can't
See a way it could be bought

I am here
I'm a girl
I just need
Had a will

I am easy
It's too hard to say no
A request
Helps decide where I should go
Have I a will
Of my own?
It's gone away, it's gone away
To the assertive one

I am here
I'm a girl
I just need
Had a will

You deserted me one day
But I don't mind
I worked so hard to be safe
A waif here (let it rest, okay)
Happily blown out to sea

Why D'ya Go To Cleveland

Baby
Oh man, why d'ya do it?

My dead end love affair
Turned me to alcahol
Took me to 'big nowhere'
Took me to 'out of town'

I was just seventeen
He had a motor car
Gave me a wedding ring
Gave me a rubber doll

Man i believed him
And what he say about Cleveland
My American dreamboat
Dreamland Ohio
He said one day I'd be something

My dead end love affair
Drove me to seek out god
Turned me from beaty queen
Turned me to alcahol

Man i believed him
And what he say about Cleveland
My American dreamboat
Dreamland Ohio
He said one day I'd be something

Why d'ya have to go down there?
Why d'ya have to go down there?

He'd say someday I'd be
Someday I'd be something

We´re Making War

We're making war, lover
We are not getting on
I will not change to keep the peace
You won't admit you're wrong
I've got a bellyful of grudges and I will not let them out
The wreckage of your previous life
You will not sort it out

The dirt we keep on raking
The giving up, the taking
And we keep on making war, darling

The stand off is coming
The wounds should heal without a scar
But the stitches keep on breaking
And you keep on phoning
And I keep on moaning
And we keep on making war

Sweetheart, destroying our best laid plans
I will not explain myself and you refuse to understand
Our friends all become traitors as we wave our piece of paper
The ammunition's loaded
And the troops are at the border
But I might be bluffing
And you might be faking
But we keep making war

Water

Pulled the pin
Look at that guy
Count to three
Writing postcards
His arm twist like a cat's spine
Nothing on his mind
Closed his eyes and hummed
I'm confused and thirsty
Waited to explode
He got orangeena by his side
Waited to feel fine
You speak English?
Well he weren't holed up in no bunker you know
What a dummy
Just walking the bank
21 and never been unbuttoned
Watching the river go
Yeah - he was already lost
Past a queen in crocodile shoes
Still gave me a drink of course
Square-toes from out of town
Was going to ask him if he wanted
Past a fridge on wheels forgetting the news
Something in it and
Past a wrinkled breast that's
To send me a card from this little island
Going to brown
But he stood up brushing lunch
Pulled the pin
From his shirt
Count to three
And I'm already back at work
He arch his back into the sun
Look at that jerk
Saw Lawrence on the water
On Lawrance on the water
He felt the water run
He make me wanna run
He waited to explode
He make me put my head in my hands

Wang Dang Doodle

(W Dixon)

Tell automatic Slim
Tell razor totin' Jim
Tell butcher knife toting Nanny
Tell fast talking fanny
We're gonna pitch a ball
Down to the union hall
We're gonna romp and trump till midnight
We're gonna fuss and fight till daylight
We're gonna get your wang dang doodle all night long

Tell cooda-crawling Ray
To tell abyssinia Ned
To tell old pistol Pete
To tell everybody he meets
Tonight we need no rest
We're gonna really throw a mess
We're gonna knock down all the windows
We're gonna kick down all the doors
We're gonna get your wang dang doodle all night long

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

Tell fats and washbone Sam
Everybody gonna jam
Tell shaking boxcar Joe
We got sawdust on the floor
Now tell Peggy and Colin Die
We're gonna have a heck of a time
Now when the fish scent fill the air
There'll be snuff juice everywhere
We're gonna get your wang dang doodle all night long

All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long
All night long

Uh Huh Her

Rejection
Rejection
Rejection

Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her
Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her

The valley is crying
Don't ask me why it's grieving

Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her
Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her

I fail to see
All with my tears
I drown the fears
You will remember, remember me

The valley, it's crying
The valley is grieving
He's leaving, abandoning me

Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her
Don't marry uh huh huh
Don't marry uh huh huh her

I fail to see
All with my tears
I drown your fears
You will remember, remember me