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Black Sabbath | Hand Of Doom | /b/black+sabbath/hand+of+doom_20019412.html | Whatcha gonna do?
Time's caught up with you
Now you wait your turn
You know there's no return
Take your written rules
You join the other fools
Turn to something new
Now it's killing you
First it was the bomb
Vietnam napalm
Disillusioning
You push the needle in
From life you escape
Reality's that way
Colours in your mind
Satisfy your time
Oh you, you know you must be blind
To do something like this
To take the sleep that you don't know
You're giving death a kiss, oh, little fool now
Your mind is full of pleasure
Your body's looking ill
To you it's shallow leisure
So drop the acid pill,
Don't stop to think now
You're having a good time baby
But that won't last
Your mind's all full of things
You're living too fast
Go out enjoy yourself
Don't bottle it in
You need someone to help you
To stick the needle in, yeah
Now you know the scene
Your skin starts turning green
Your eyes no longer seeing
Life's reality
Push the needle in,
Face death's sickly grin
Holes are in your skin,
Caused by deadly pin
Head starts spinning 'round
You fall down to the ground
Feel your body heave
Death's hands starts to weave
It's too late to turn
You don't want to learn
Price of life you cry
Now you're gonna die!
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Black Sabbath | Hole In The Sky | /b/black+sabbath/hole+in+the+sky_20019447.html | I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonyms of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
I've seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now I'm living on the profits of pride
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Black Sabbath | I Won't Cry For You | /b/black+sabbath/i+wont+cry+for+you_20019340.html | So you lie awake and think about tomorrow,
And you try to justify the things you've done,
But there's no one here, to hear your tears falling,
When you turn around, you find out, that you're the lonely one.
And it feels like someone's treading on your shadow,
And you always thought that Heaven knows for sure,
And it feels like you're drowning, in your tears.
So I won't cry for you, no I ain't gonna cry for you,
And I ain't gonna lie for you, no I ain't gonna cry for you.
Ain't gonna cry for you.
So you lie awake and think about the sorrow,
Does it really still the fears in your mind,
And you try to realise the things you wanted,
But you take it all for granted and now it makes you blind.
And it feels like someone's treading on your shadow,
And you always thought that Heaven knows for sure,
And it feels like you're drowning, in your tears.
So I ain't gonna cry for you, no I ain't gonna die for you,
And I ain't gonna lie for you, no I ain't gonna cry for you.
Ain't gonna cry
I ain't gonna cry for you, I ain't gonna cry.
So I ain't gonna cry for you, no I ain't gonna die for you,
No I ain't gonna lie for you, no I ain't gonna cry for you,
Ain't gonna cry, ain't gonna cry for you no more,
Ain't gonna die, I ain't gonna die for no more,
Ain't gonna lie, I ain't gonna lie for no more,
Ain't gonna cry, I ain't gonna cry for you no more.
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Black Sabbath | Kill In The Spirit World | /b/black+sabbath/kill+in+the+spirit+world_20019355.html | There's something wrong, there's a chill in the air
And the blood in my vein's running colder.
The Eastern sky is beginning to silver
And the words that you speak start to falter.
The seal is broken, the oath has been crossed,
In the house of the dead there's a taker.
Some say that this is the ultimate sin
When the spirit world turns to the alter.
There's been a kill in the spirit world
There's been a kill in the spirit world
Behold the dead, clutching at fading hands, out of reach forever
"In glory die" calls the voice from the void
You assasin has cursed every spectre
The seal is broken, the oath has been crossed,
And the house of the dead seeks the master
Stretching every muscle, I wait for the end
And the kiss on the wind whispers murder, (murder)
There's been a kill in the spirit world
There's been a kill in the spirit world
There's been a kill in the spirit world
When heaven is closer, it's pleasure and pain
Blood kill in the spirit world ah
Did ya see another in black
Is the blood in your veins running colder?
If ya did, then there's no turing back
As the spirit world turns to the alter.
The seal is broken, the oath has been crossed,
And the house of the dead seeks the master
Stretching every muscle, I wait for the end
And a kiss on the wind whispers murder
There's been a kill in the spirit world
There's been a kill in the spirit world
Oh here it comes, no no no-oh oh
Your seal is broken, the Eastern sky is beginning to silver, oh oh oh.
There's something wrong, there's a chill in the air, ah.
You feel the evil, I feel the evil.
Oh somebody whispers murder.
A kiss on the wind whispers murder
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Black Sabbath | Lonely Is The Word | /b/black+sabbath/lonely+is+the+word_20019366.html | It's a long way to nowhere
And I'm leaving very soon
On the way we pass so close
To the back side of the moon
Hey join the traveler if you got nowhere to go
Hang your head and take my hand
It's the only road I know
Oh! Lonely is the word, yeah yeah yeah!
I've been higher than stardust
I've been seen upon the sun
I used to count in millions then
But now I only count in one
Come on, join the traveler
If you got nowhere to go
Hang your head and take my hand
It's the only road I know
Yeah, lonely is the word
Got to be the saddest song I ever heard
Yeah, lonely is the name
Maybe life's a losing game
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Black Sabbath | Lord Of This World | /b/black+sabbath/lord+of+this+world_20019388.html | You're searching for your mind don't know where to start
Can't find the key to fit the lock on your heart
You think you know but you are never quite sure
Your soul is ill but you will not find a cure.
Your world was made for you by someone above
But you chose evil ways instead of love.
You made me master of the world where you exist
The soul I took from you was not even missed.
Lord of this world
Evil possessor
Lord of this world
He's your confessor now!
You're searching for your mind don't know where to start
Can't find the key to fit the lock on your heart
You think you know but you are never quite sure
Your soul is I'll but you will not find a cure
Your world was made for you by someone above
But you choose evil ways instead of love
You made me master of the world where you exist
The soul I took from you was not even missed
Lord of this world
Evil possessor
Lord of this world
He's your confessor now!
You think you're innocent you've nothing to fear
You don't know me you say, but isn't it clear?
You turn to me in all your wordly greed and pride,
But will you turn to me when it's your turn to die?.
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Black Sabbath | Megalomania | /b/black+sabbath/megalomania_20019448.html | I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
This god is something that I could not control
Where can I run to now?
The joke is on me
No sympathizing god is insanity, yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes
I mixed reality with pseudogod dreams
The ghost of violence was something I seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be,
The dream of my soul
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Well I feel something's taken me I don't know where
It's like a trip inside a separate mind
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
Is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Sting me!
Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Beating the demigod, I'm fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow
Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now
Is there a way that I could pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now?
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!
I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
I've seized my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
I set the trap, but it was me who fell
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, providence of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you yeah
Now I'm free, can't you see
And now instead I won't be led by you now
Free!
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Black Sabbath | N.I.B. | /b/black+sabbath/nib_20527934.html | Oh yeah!
Some people say my love cannot be true
Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal
The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you'll see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
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Black Sabbath | Nightwing | /b/black+sabbath/nightwing_20019356.html | Nightwing has stirred, and taken to flight
The silence is over, he's shattered the night
No other hunter has the power or the grace
He is the master of this place
Tell every creature of the night
The kill is around the bend
So listen my friend
Nightwing flies again
They say he comes for those whose souls are weak
And call his name upon the wind
The night is cold and thick with mystery
Oh I can feel his beating wings
Tell every creature of the night
The kill is around the bend
Nightwing flies again
Tell every creature of the night
The kill is around the bend
Nightwing flies again
Nightwing has stirred, and taken to flight
The silence is over, he's shattered the night
Life ain't for giving and forgiving ain't free
No soul will rest while the hunted run free
So tell every creature of the night
The kill is around the bend
Listen my friend
Nightwing flies again
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Black Sabbath | Peace Of Mind | /b/black+sabbath/peace+of+mind_21064892.html | I wish somebody would empty my head
I am so sorry for the things that I've said
This hopeless feeling that's living inside
I'm just a lonely soul who's trying to find
Some peace of mind
I ain't no hero who's gonna save you
I just say "hi" as I'm passing right through
I ain't that crazy, I'm only here for the ride
So please forgive me while I'm trying to find
Some peace of mind
Read in between the lines
Truth that is neither black nor white
Black nor white
Just give me something real
Broken man still searching for the light
In the night
Caught In the middle as the front line falls
It looks like I don't stand a chance
If only I could turn my life around
Or is this just the circumstance
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Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | /b/black+sabbath/sabbath+bloody+sabbath_20019508.html | You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
You bastards!
Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell
Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dog knows
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you
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Black Sabbath | Selling My Soul | /b/black+sabbath/selling+my+soul_20019432.html | Man of madness who lives in my head
Keeping me awake at night he sits on my bed
He drives me crazy, he won't go away
Playing his game every night and everyday, yeah-ah
My mind feels heavy, my body feels weak
Suicidal thoughts crying out for some sleep
Impending doom is what I'm about
Think I'm going mad without a shadow of doubt
I search for serenity yeah
Is it really out there?
I don't read the holy books 'cause they take me nowhere
I can't hold on yes I'm losing control
I'm paying the price now for... Selling My Soul
Selling My Soul
I search for serenity yeah
Is it really out there?
I don't read the holy books 'cause they take me nowhere
I can't hold on yes I'm losing control
I'm paying the price now for... Selling My Soul
Selling My Soul
Yeah-ah
For Selling My Soul
Yeah-ah
Selling My Soul
Yeah-ah
For Selling My Soul
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Black Sabbath | She's Gone | /b/black+sabbath/shes+gone_20019468.html | I've been gone a long long time, waiting for you
I didn't want to see you go, oh, no, no
And now it's hurting so much, what can I do?
I wanted you to be my wife
The days are passing slowly, since you've gone
Your memories are all I have, yes I have
I sit here waiting but you'll never show
Without you I can't carry on, oh my baby
You said you'd always love me, all of my life
And then you said your last goodbye, yeah, goodbye
Why the sudden changes, why all the lies?
I should have seen it in your eyes
The endless hours of heartache, waiting for you
My summer love has turned to rain, all the pain
The silent emptiness of one sided love
My life means nothing now you're gone, ooh my baby
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Black Sabbath | Sins Of The Father | /b/black+sabbath/sins+of+the+father_20019323.html | I am the crazy man
Who lives inside your head
But I think I'm breaking through the wall
You are the innocent
Convicted of the crime
No one was ever there
To catch you when you fall
I see the diamonds
But you only see the rock
I need to run
But you only crawl
It's time to open up
All the doors that you keep locked
Nobody gives without a take
Let's take it all
You've been twisted into pieces
By the hands of your emotions
How much longer are you gonna pay
For yesterday
Sins of the father
One more crucifixion
One more cross to bear
You're a hole in a photograph
Go on lose it in the city
The city can feel no shame
See the world with electric eye
They call it mystery
But any fool could see
You thought he walked on the water
And if the pain was gone
And you were free to run away
And get out
Would you get out of there
Or do you really care
It's not safe or easy
And maybe when you're gone
You just won't belong at all
You're the only witness
To the murder of an angel
How much longer are you gonna pay
For yesterday
Sins of the father
It's just another crucifixion
One more cross to bear
Go on lose it in the city
Take a look at the world
You've got electric eyes
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Black Sabbath | The Writ | /b/black+sabbath/the+writ_20019452.html | The way I feel is the way I am
I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you
Just to you
What kind of people do you think we are?
Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you
Just for you
The faithful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you
Yeah for you
The shot troopers laying down on the floor
I wish they'd put an end to my running war with you
Yeah with you
Are you metal, are you man?
You've changed in life since you began
Yeah began
Ladies digging gold from you
Will they still dig now you're through
Yeah you're through
You bought and sold me with your lying words
The voices in the deck that you never heard came through
Yeah came through
Your folly finally got to spend with a gun
A poisoned father who has poisoned his son, that's you
Yeah that's you
I beg you please don't let it get any worse
The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you
Yeah curse you
All of the promises that never came true
You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true
Ah, that's true
Are you Satan, are you man?
You've changed in life since it began
It began
Vultures sucking gold from you
Will they still suck now you're through
(Cats, Rats)
The search is on, so you just better run
And find yourself another way
Probably dead, they don't feel a thing
To keep them living for another day
(Rats, Rat)
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a victim of a thing unknown
A mantle picture of a stolen soul
A fornication of your golden throne
A smiling face, it means the world to me
So tired of sadness and of misery
My life it started some time ago
Where it will end, I don't know
I thought I was so good
I thought I was fine
I feel my world is out of time
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't I think I'll lose my mind
I know, I know, I know, yeah yeah I know
Listen to me while I sing this song
You might just think the words are wrong
Too many people advising me
But they don't know what my eyes see
But everything is gonna work out fine
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Black Sabbath | Under The Sun | /b/black+sabbath/under+the+sun_20272607.html | Well, I don't want no Jesus freak to
Tell me what it's all about
No black magician telling me
To cast my soul out
Don't believe in violence
I don't even believe in peace
I've opened the door
Now my mind has been released
Well I don't want no preacher
Telling me about the god in the sky
No I don't want no one to tell me
Where I'm gonna go when I die
I wanna live my life, I don't want
People telling me what to do
I just believe in myself
'Cause no one else seems true
Every day just comes and goes
Life is one long overdose
People try to rule the nation
I can see through their frustration
People riding their real peace
keep on running their rat race
Behind each flower there grows a weed
In their world of make-believe
So believe what I tell you
It's the only way to fight in the end
Just believe in yourself you know you really
shouldn't have to pretend
Don't let those empty people
Try and interfere with your mind
Just live your life
And leave them all behind
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Black Sabbath | Voodoo | /b/black+sabbath/voodoo_20019382.html | Say you don't know me, you'll burn
You can refuse, but you'll lose, it's by me
Say you don't want me, you'll learn
Nothin you do will be new, 'cause I'm through
Call me a liar, you knew
You were a fool, but that's cool, it's all right
Call me the Devil, it's true
Some can't accept but I crept inside you
So if a stranger calls you
Don't let him whisper his name
'Cause it's Voodoo, oh!
Fade into shadow, you'll burn
Your fortune is free, I can see it's no good
Never look back, never turn
It's a question of time 'till your mine and you learn
So if a stranger sees you
Don't look in his eyes
'Cause he's Voodoo!
Say you don't know me, you'll burn
You can refuse, but you'll lose, it's by me
Say you don't want me, you'll learn
Nothin you do will be new, 'cause I'm through
Voodoo!
Bring me your children, they'll burn!
Never look back, never turn!
Cry me a river, you'll learn Voodoo!!
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Black Sabbath | Who Are You? | /b/black+sabbath/who+are+you_20019444.html | Who Are You
Yes I know the secret
That's within your mind
You think all the people
Who worship you are blind
You're just like Big Brother
Giving us your trust
And when you have played enough
You'll just cast our souls
Into the dust
Into the dust
You thought that it would be easy
from the very start
Now I've found you out
I don't think you're so smart
I only have one more question
Before my time is through
Please I beg you tell me
In the name of hell
Who are you?
Who are you?
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Black Sabbath | Wicked World | /b/black+sabbath/wicked+world_20019307.html | The world today is such a wicked thing
Fighting going on between the human race
People give good wishes to all their friends
While people just across the sea are counting the dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
while people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
he doesn't even know who is his father
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Black Sabbath | Young | /b/black+sabbath/young_20594067.html | (Die young)
Go to the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all,
Your back's to the wall
Then chase the sun, n it tears away and breaks you as you run, you run, you
run
Behind the smile, there's danger n a promise to be told, you never get old
Life's fantasy, to be locked away n still you think you're free, you're free,
we're free
So live for today tomorrow never comes
Die young die young
Can't you see the writting in the air
Die young gonna die young
Someone stopped the faith
Go to the wind, though the wind won't help you fly at all
Then chase the sun, n it tears away n it breaks you as you run you run you run
Live for today tomorrow never comes
Die young
Young
Die young
Young die you die young
Young
Die young die young die young die young
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Black Sabbath | Zeitgeist | /b/black+sabbath/zeitgeist_21061002.html | Astral engines in reverse
I'm falling through the universe again
Down among a dead mans vision
Faded dreams and nuclear fissions span
The strings of fear they are holding up the race
The puppets falling to the ground
The love I feel as I fly endlessly through space
Lost in time I wonder will my ship be found
On this sinking ship I travel
Faster than the speed of life
Not so super nova burns
The black holes turn and fade from sight
The strings of fear they hide within the human race
The answers buried underground
The love I feel as I fly endlessly through space
Lost in time I wonder will my ship be found
And very soon
The boundless moon
Will show us light
And as we crash
We'll pray and kiss
And say goodnight
Goodnight
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Black Sabbath | Zero The Hero | /b/black+sabbath/zero+the+hero_10039708.html | Accept the fact that you're second rate life is easy for you
It's all served up on a gold plated plate
And we don't even have to talk to you
Your face is normal that's the way you're bred
And that's the way you're going to stay
Your head is firmly nailed to your TV channel
But someone else's finger's on the control panel
What you gonna be brother - Zero the hero
Don't you want to be brother - Zero the hero
When you gonna be brother - Zero the hero
Impossibility impissibolity mother really a hero
You sit there watch it all burn down
It's easy and breezy for you
You play your life to a different sound
No edge no edge you got no knife have you
Your life is a six lane highway to nowhere
You're going so fast you're never ever gonna get down there
Where the heroes sit by the river
With a magic in their music as they eat raw liver
You stand there captain we all look
You really are mediocre
You are the champion in the Acme form book
But I think you're just a joker
Your freedom life ain't so much of a pity
But the luv-a-duckin' way you're walkin' around
The city with your balls and your head full of nothing
It's easy for you sucker but you really need stuffing
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Blur | Alex's Song | /b/blur/alexs+song_20709979.html | Picked up the girl
And he sailed around the world
Why not?
What else have you got?
If you're not
Anyone that I like
Love Will give me the moon
Whoops
And beyond these voices
And danced on the groove
In a dream forever
Starts when you wake up
Starts when you wake up
Picked up the girl
And he sailed around the world
What?
Oh yeah sorry
Around the world
Why not?
What else has he got?
I don't know
And I know
I don't know
Love will give me the moon
Oh dear
And beyond these voices
And danced on the groove
In a dream forever
Starts when you wake up
Starts when you wake you
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Blur | Ambulance | /b/blur/ambulance_20021079.html | I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of,
No I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of
No I ain't got
Anything to be scared of
?Cos I love you
I was born out of love
It's the only way to come into this world
I know I'm not all there
But I'm getting, getting, getting there
If you let me live my life
I'll stay with you to the end
And I know, lord
I'm nearly there
I want to tell you this
I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of, no
No I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of, no
No I ain't got
Anything to be scared
Cause I love you
I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of
No ain't got
Nothing to be scared of
I ain't got
Nothing to be scared of
No I ain't got
Nothing to be scared
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Blur | Badhead | /b/blur/badhead_20021096.html | So far I've not really stayed in touch
Well you knew as much it's no surprise that today
I'll get up around two from a lack of anything to do
And I might as well just grin and bear it
Cause it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And you have not really stayed in touch
Well I knew as much it's no surprise that today
I'll get up around two with nothing to do
Except get a touch of flu
And I might as well just grin and bear it
Cause it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And in any case I'd rather wear it
It's like a badhead in the morning
And I know
And I might as well just grin and bear it
Cause it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And in any case I'd rather wear it
It's like a badhead in the morning
So I might as well just grin and bear it
Cause it's not worth the trouble of an argument
And in any case I'd rather wear it
Your like a badhead in the morning
And I know
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Blur | Bang | /b/blur/bang_20021016.html | Sitting in an S.D.T.
Waiting for an underground train
To rumble underneath my feet
Bang goes another day
Where it went I could not say
Now I'll have to wait another week
When all is said and all is done
What was said was never done
Don't panic, it's not really worth your while
Bang goes another year
In and out of one ear
Everybody's doing it, so do it too
[Chorus]
I don't need anyone
But a little love would make things better
But a little love would make things better
Sitting on the early bus
Passing through the morning rush
It makes no difference that I'm not with you
Bang goes another year
In and out of one ear
Everybody's doing it, so do it too
[Chorus]
I don't need anyone
But a little love would make things better
I don't need anyone
But a little of your love can make things better
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Blur | Bank Holiday | /b/blur/bank+holiday_20021049.html | Grandma has got new dentures
To eat the crust on pizza
Been taken out by her daughter
Because she thought she ought'a
The kids are eating snickers
Because they're so delicious
Then there's sticky fingers
And mother looses her knickers
[Chorus]
Bank holiday comes six times a year
Days of enjoyment to which everyone cheers
Bank holiday comes with a six package beer
Then its back to work a.g.a.i.n.
Bar-b-que is cooking
Sausages and chicken
The patio is buzzing
The neighbors they are looking
John is down the fun pub
Drinking lots of lager
Girls and boys are on the game
All the high streets look the same
[Chorus]
Back to work a.g.a.i.n.
[Chorus]
Bank holiday
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Blur | Battery In Your Leg | /b/blur/battery+in+your+leg_20021080.html | This is a ballad for the good times
So put a battery in your leg
Put a rock beat over anything
Get it stuck there in your head
You can be with me
I got nothing to rely on
I've broken every bone
Everybody's stop believing
But you know you're not alone
You can be with me
This is a ballad for the good times
And all the dignity we had
Don't get het up on the evil things
You ain't coming back
You can be with me
If you want to be
You can be with me?
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Blur | Battle | /b/blur/battle_20020974.html | Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
Completion Search
Here I love the bow
See me walk on down to
Adorn myself, it's a new song glory
Cos. see me, what do you think of now?
Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
Can turn your sights
kill until sub-zero
see me oh it turns you on
All my gawe
It's the end of your
Take your last one now
Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle, Battle
Battle Someone. . .oooh
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Blur | Beachcoma | /b/blur/beachcoma_20709984.html | The point at which you looked at me
Has always being part of my brain
Now my mind is in a whirl
And it seems
I am not the same
My dear and special friend
There's never a point at which we ever loved
I'm in mine, and mine is fine
I'm wrapped up in shining days
Blackbirds in summer time
They find a low
I end up being you
My dear and special friend
There's never a point at which we ever loved
The point at which I looked at you
Has always being part of my brain
Now my mind is in a whirl
And it seems
I am not the same
My dear and special friend
There's never a point at which we ever loved
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Blur | Beetlebum | /b/blur/beetlebum_20020985.html | Beetlebum
What you've done
She's a gun
Now what you've done
Beetlebum
Get nothing done
You beetlebum just get numb
Now what you've done
Beetlebum
And when she lets me slip away
She turns me on all my violence is gone
Nothing is wrong
I just slip away and I am gone
Nothing is wrong
She turns me on
I just slip away and I am gone
Beetlebum
Because you're young
She's a gun
Now what you've done
Beetlebum
She'll suck your thumb
She'll make you come
Coz, she's your gun
Now what you've done
Beetlebum
And when she lets me slip away
She turns me on all my violence is gone
Nothing is wrong
I just slip away and I am gone
Nothing is wrong
She turns me on
I just slip away and I am gone
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Blur | Best Days | /b/blur/best+days_20021000.html | Bow bells say goodbye to the last train
Over the river they all go again
Out into leafy nowhere hope someone
Waiting out there for them
Cabbie has his mind on a fare to the sun
He works nights but it's not much fun
Picks up the London yo-yo's, all on their own down Soho
Please take me home
Other people wouldn't want to hear you
If you said that these are the best days of their lives
Other people would turn around an d laugh at you
If you said that these were the best days of our lives
Trellick Tower's been calling
I know she'll leave me in the morning
In hotel cells listening to dial tones
Remote controls and cable moans
In his drink he's been talking
Gets disconnected sleepwalking back home
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Blur | Black Book | /b/blur/black+book_20154316.html | Put away my black book
Throw it on the fire
Getting out the side door
You are my one desire
Baby when you hold me
I feel see you're everything
Baby when you touch me
I need nothing no more
Put away my black book
Put in on the fire
Don't give up on me Lord
Take my spirit higher
Nothing can behold me
Don't put me on the fire
Baby when you hold me
I will see no fear
Baby when you touch me
You see it in my eyes
Put away my black book
Put it on the fire
I've made up my mind
I got nothing to hide
I've made up my mind
I got nothing to hide
Give me my soul [Repeat: x7]
Give you my soul
Give me my soul
Give you my soul [Repeat: x10]
Give you
Give you my soul [Repeat: x4]
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Blur | Blue Jeans | /b/blur/blue+jeans_20021028.html | Air cushioned soles
I bought them on the Portbello Road on a Saturday
I stop and stare awhile
A common pastime when conversation goes astray
And don't think I'm walking out of this
She don't mind
Whatever I say, whatever I say
I don't really want to change a thing
I want to stay this way forever
Blue, blue jeans I wear them every day
There's no particular reason to change
My thoughts are getting banal, I can't help it
But I won't pull out hair another day
And don't think I'm walking out of this
She don't mind
Whatever I say, Whatever I say
I don't really want to change a thing
I want to stay this way forever
If you don't mind
Whatever I say, Whatever I say
I don't really want to change a thing
I want to stay this way forever
You know it's to be with you
Don't give up on me yet
Don't think I'm walking out of this
She don't mind
Whatever I say, Whatever I say
I don't really want to change a thing
I want to stay this way forever
If you don't mind
Whatever I say, Whatever I say
I don't really want to change a thing
I want to stay this way forever
You know it's to be with you
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Blur | Bone Bag | /b/blur/bone+bag_20709992.html | When you see in see you dancing
Own reflection was never bent
Be a man can shaking bone bag
One day up is another down
I don't want to hurt you, no not ever
No not ever
This is my street, I stay here and sleep
You're outside on sunny days
Nicotine flow stops a pain grow
Stay a while, so nearly there
I don't want to hurt you, no not ever
No not ever
This is my street I stay here and sleep
You're outside on sunny days
Be a man can shaking bone bag
One day up is another day
I don't want to hurt you, no not ever
No not ever
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Blur | Bugman | /b/blur/bugman_20020975.html | I am an ex offender
They let me out in the summer
I think I was in a coma
I didn't know what to do
Oh no
You go hang around go round
I'll watch myself hang on
Look out for the Bugman
You go hang around around
I'll watch myself hang on
Look out for the Bugman
I got no sent of existence
I know the nodding dogs
I go out in the city
I stay away from the bugs
Oh yeah
You go hang around around
I watch myself hang on
Look out for the Bugman
You go hang around around
I watch myself hang on
Look out for the Bugman
The bu uh uh ug man
I go out in the city
I stay away from the bugs
Oh yeah
na na na na na oh oh...
I go out in the city
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Blur | Chinese Bombs | /b/blur/chinese+bombs_20020986.html | He makes an inner arm block
Then kicks off from behind
The lights they go off
But he can fight blind
Cause he got the touch
But he won't live long
Cause he comes from Hong Kong
Where people are strong
Chinese bombs, millions jump,
Chairman's junk USA
Won't somebody, won't somebody
Sink this place
Got a cab to go to Soho
The dragon says go
Let everyone know
You got the touch
You come from Hong Kong
Where people are strong
And you won't live long
Chinese bombs, millions jump
Chairman's junk, USA
Won't somebody, won't somebody
Bruce Lee comes to save the day
Bruce Lee comes to save Chinese way
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Blur | Cowboy Song | /b/blur/cowboy+song_20525704.html | Gonna sail a bird like a private jet
You're the one, you're the one
In my head, oughta get us clear
You'll find a song before too long
I've got a healthy feeling,
A sleepy feeling, a sleepy feeling
Today is gone, the day is gone, today is gone
Go to a store, to the golf floor
A cowboy's song, a cowboy's song
You're the one, you're the one
A cowboy's song, you're the one
I've got a healthy feeling,
A sleepy feeling, a sleepy feeling
It's all gone, today is gone, it's all gone
I've got a sleepy feeling,
A new slept feeling, a sleepy feel
It's all gone, today is gone, today is gone
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Blur | Dan Abnormal | /b/blur/dan+abnormal_20021003.html | Meanie Leanie come on down
Come and entertain the town
It's friday night and we're all bored
Time's been called there is no more
Time's been called it's such a bore
Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan watches T.V.
The meanie Leanie stays up late
Mopes around gets in a state
He the killer in your arcade
Killing gangstas ready made
Cause that is where the future's made
Tele port me
Dan went to his local burger bar
I want McNormal and chips
Or I'll blow you to bits
Give us it
It's the miseries at half past three
Watching video nasties
He has dirty dreams while he's asleep
Dan's just like you and me
He's the Meanie Leanie
Dan Abnormal not normal at all
It's not his fault we made him this way
He'll imitate you try to ape you
But it's not his fault Dan Abnormal's me
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Blur | Death Of A Party | /b/blur/death+of+a+party_20020988.html | The death of the party
Came as no surprise
Why did we bother?
Should have stayed away
Another night
And I thought "Well, well"
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf
The death of the teenager
Standing on his own
Why did he bother?
Should have slept alone
Another night
And I thought "Well, well"
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf
Another night
And I thought "Well, well"
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf
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Blur | Dizzy | /b/blur/dizzy_20021099.html | I pump poison
Into my body
To forget
That I am me
feels good
Wonderful
I forget I have feelings at all
You're dizzy
I floated up
Fifteen miles high
Stuck my head through
All the holes in our sky
I looked out across the universe
And thought of you
You're dizzy
And I am dizzy too
I became lunatic
With rolling eyes
Squirming on the ground
Frozen in ice
Called to my mother
Said "Mother, please
Feed me before the sky
Falls in on me"
You're dizzy
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Blur | Down | /b/blur/down_20709975.html | You and me we try
to change
We try so hard it's all the same
I'm just waiting for it to begin again
Ahhhh
I'm forgetting who I am
That makes me wonder who I am
Trying so hard to find sense when there's none at all
Ahhh
Down
Staring at the sun all day
If you stare too long you get burned away
Now there's nothing left of me so have it all
Ahhh
Forgetting again I blame
My past has just faded away
Now I can tell you everything there is to know about
Ahhh
Down
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Blur | Dying Isn't Easy | /b/blur/dying+isnt+easy_20710175.html | This isn't the first time
I've left it too late
To get on top
I made that mistake
To be with someone
Never find what you need
We don't bail out
And I can't sleep.
You left me
Just when I needed you
You set me back
Just when I thought I got back
(Whistle, Do do do's, La la la's)
Just when I thought I got back.
This is the last time
I make this mistake
Can't see the stars
Yeah it's too late
To be with someone
Never find what you need
We don't bail out
Yeah I can't sleep
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Blur | Fade Away | /b/blur/fade+away_20021070.html | They stumbled into their lives
In a vague way became man and wife
One got the other they deserved one another
They settled in a brand new town
With people from the same background
They kept themselves busy
Long hours left them dizzy
Now when he's in she's out
All you ever do is fade away
They are not making plans
Because now they understand
All you ever do is fade away
He noticed he had visible lines
She worried about her behind
Their birth had been the death of them
It didn't really bother them
Now when she's in, he's out
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Blur | Fool | /b/blur/fool_20021019.html | Sorry, but I don't understand
The things you say they make no sense at all
Funny but I think that you mean them all
This time don't you
I know that you think I'm a fool
But couldn't you try to forgive a fool
One more time
Sorry but I'm not really listening
I've got my mind on something else if I'm here
If I'm here at all
I know that you want me to go don't you
But it's not as easy as it seems
I know that you think I'm not here at all
But I'm just as fed up as you
I know that you want me to leave
I'm amazed at how cold you can be
Well may my weak and insipid soul grow stronger in your absence
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Blur | Fool's Day | /b/blur/fools+day_21071137.html | Wake up straight, caught out by the sun.
On the first day of April.
Out of bed, thought there was a plane crash.
But I'm sure that I was
Dreaming
TV on, of course caffeine.
A science of submission again
Another day, on this little island, just a bell hangs on.
Porridge done, I take my kid to school past the pound shop, Woolworth's
Under bridge, where the subway the daytime, and the Westway flies by
Then on my bike, down the Ladbroke Grove, to the forthcoming dramas
A studio, and a love of all sweet music, we just can't let go
Let go, let go, let go, let go
So meditate, on what we've all become, on a cold day in springtime
Civil war, is what were all born into, raise your left hand, right, sing.
Don't capitulate to the forces of the marketplace, they've long departed
Consolidate, the love we have together, on a cold day in springtime.
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Blur | For Tomorrow | /b/blur/for+tomorrow_20021033.html | He's a twentieth century boy
With his hands on the rails
Trying not to be sick again
And holding on for tomorrow
London ice cracks on a seamless line
He's hanging on for dear life
And so we hold each other tightly
And hold on for tomorrow
[Chorus]
La, la la l-la, la, la la, l-la l-la la-la-la
La, la la l-la, la, la la, l-la l-la la-la-la
La, la la l-la, la, la la, l-la l-la la-la-la
Holding on for tomorrow
She's a twentieth century girl
With her hands on the wheel
Trying not to be sick again
Seeing what she can borrow
London's so nice back in your seamless rhymes
But we're lost on the West way
So we hold each other tightly
And we can wait until tomorrow
[Chorus]
We're trying not to be sick again
And holding on for tomorrow
She's a twentieth century girl
Holding on for dear life
And so we hold each other tightly
And hold on for tomorrow
(Jim stops and gets out of the car
Goes to a house in Emperor's Gate
Through the door and to his room, and then he puts the TV on
Turns it off and makes some tea
Says modern life is rubbish)
I'm holding on for tomorrow
(Then Susan comes into the room
She's a naughty girl with a lovely smile
Says, 'let's take a drive to Primrose Hill
It's windy there, and the view's so nice.'
London ice can freeze your toes, like anyone, I suppose)
You're holding on for tomorrow
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Blur | Fried | /b/blur/fried_20021101.html | Oh you are so very strange
Sometimes I think you've gone insane
Twisted hearts you've gone insane
In this giddy world
Couldn't you begin to go
Where odd lines we hardly know
Couldn't you put in a goal
Just for me
Did I say I want to know
Talking about a goal
Would you please leave me alone
Can't you see I want to be on my own
Oh, I would like to give you your head
Just to see if you are dead
Oh, I'd like to get into that pretty head
And it would amuse me just to see
How you feel about me
How you feel about always getting fried
Did I say I want to know
We're talking about a goal
Would you please leave alone
Can't you see I want to be on my own
Can't you see I want to be on my own
Oh,I'm going to fly [Repeat: x 3
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Blur | Gene By Gene | /b/blur/gene+by+gene_20021084.html | I got a brain in left hand drive
I don't asleep other side
I ride a bullet like I'm Steve McQueen
Each town I intervene
A gram of keef and the barn is jumping
It's alright we got time
Got a radio hit in mind
Can't see am I blind
Every night and day
In the U.S.A?..I DELETE MYSELF
Got to know you gene by gene
You're my jellybean
Get out the shower
And I'm force 15
I'm dead I'm clean
Fatboy and the barn is jumping
It's alright it's just tight
GOT to GET into A better Business
DEEP down Happiness
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Blur | He Thought Of Cars | /b/blur/he+thought+of+cars_20021072.html | Moscow's still red
The young man's dead
Gone to heaven instead
The evening news says he was confused
The motorways will all merge soon
Lottery winner buys the moon
They've come to save us
The space invaders are here
He thought of cars
And where, where to drive them
And who to drive them with
And there, there was no one, no one
There's panic at London Heathrow
Everybody wants to go up into the blue
But there's a ten year queue
Columbia is in top gear
It shouldn't snow at this time of year
Now America's shot gone
And done the lot
He thought of planes and where,
Where to fly to
And who to fly there with
And there, there was no one, no one
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Blur | High Cool | /b/blur/high+cool_20021020.html | When you come here
Which you sometimes do
Don't think that I really want you to
When you come here
Which you always do
Don't think that I expect you to
Is that all I give you
You talk too much
Which you sometimes do
Don't think that I really want you to
And you talk too much
But you always do
Don't think that I really need you to
Is that all I give you
Is that all I give
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Blur | I'm All Over | /b/blur/im+all+over_20021107.html | I always knew that there would be someone somewhere
Who had it in for me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
I'm the only one
I'm hanging around
Going nowhere
Waiting for it to happen to me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
You're the only one
I always knew that there would be someone somewhere
Who had it in for me
I always knew that there would be no-one nowhere
Who was anything like me
I'm all over
All over
All over
You're the only one
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Blur | I'm Fine | /b/blur/im+fine_20709978.html | Your man is always flaming
He's hitting his head against the wall
He do it to you
He do it again, he knows to do
I've always found you complicated
A boy tried to shut you up
I do what I do
I do it again, again, again
And I'd like you to know
It's alright
There's a world around us
I need you to know
I'm alright
No need to worry about me
'Cause I'm just fine
Your man has lost his meaning
Smash his head against the wall
He do it to you
He do it again
He's coming back to you
You give me the strangest feeling
You shut me of myself
You do it to me
Then you do it again
Then you do it again
Then you do it again
Then you do it again
And I'd like you to know
It's alright
There's a world around us
I need you to know
I'm alright
No need to worry about me
'Cause I'm just fine
I'm just, I'm just fine
And I'd like you to know I'm alright
It's a world around us
I need you to know
I'm alright
No need to worry about me
'Cause I'm just fine
I'm just fine
I'm just fine
I'm just fine
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Blur | I'm Just A Killer For Your Love | /b/blur/im+just+a+killer+for+your+love_20020990.html | I heard a man who had no lungs
He took me in and made me lunch
He told me how I'd lost my friend
He smiled at me it was the end
I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I cut my hair off in the road
I take my coat off dropped my load
I wipe my hands on the grass
Cause I know that nothing ever lasts
And I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
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Blur | Into Another | /b/blur/into+another_20709974.html | It starts feeling now
It makes no inference of difference
It still won't see it's his
Faint from lack of air
It makes a whistle with a twistle
But no one can hear
I didn't stay long
I had to go away to stay
As long as I could
So I'm happy here
Cause here is where the heart is
I know you think that too
Into another
You and me
Am I dead?
Sleep in Harlow's bed
Into another
You and me
Am I dead?
Sleep in Harlow's bed
Listening to our tune
With headphone and volume on
I can read your lips
And in a clinical term
"I hear," it said
"Everything is beautiful, but nothing hurt"
Into another
You and me
Am I dead?
Sleep in Harlow's bed
Into another
You and me
Am I dead
Sleep in Harlow's bed
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Blur | It Could Be You | /b/blur/it+could+be+you_20021009.html | Churchill got his lucky number
But tomorrow there's another
Could be me could be you
No silver spoon
Sticky teeth they rot too soon
You've got to have the best tunes
Or that's it you've blown it
All we want is to be happy
In our homes like happy families
Be the man on the beach with
The world at his feet
Yes, it could be you
The likely lads
Are picking up the uglies
Yesterday they were just puppies
Beery slurs now life's a blur
Telly addicts
You should see them at it
Getting in a panic
Will we be there
Trafalgar Square?
So don't worry
If it's not your lucky number
Because tomorrow there is another
Could be you, could be me
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Blur | Jubilee | /b/blur/jubilee_20021054.html | Jubilee slouches in the settee
He's losing all will to move
He gone divy too much telly
He watching 24 hours of rubbish
He got butane he got plastic bags
His eyes are going square oh yeah
He no raver just anti social
He not going to cut his hair
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen, he not mean
Enough
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen,he not keen on
Being like anyone else
Jubilee's dad billy banker
He thinks his son is a slob
He should get out more stop scabbing
He really should go and get a job
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen
He not mean enough
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him where to go
But he just don't get out enough
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him talk to girls
But he's just too spotty
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen
He not keen on being like anyone else
So he just plays on his computer games
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen
He not mean enough
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him where to go
But he just don't get out enough
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him talk to girls
But he's just too spotty
He dresses incorrectly, no-one told him seventeen
He not keen on being like
Anyone he's not being like
Anyone jubilee's not like
Anyone else
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Blur | Let's All Go Down The Strand | /b/blur/lets+all+go+down+the+strand_20709994.html | One night, half a dozen tourists met together in Trafalgar Square
A fourth nights tour on the continent was planned
And each had his portmento in his hand
Down the Rhine they ment to have a picnic to Joan siad I must decline
The boys are being advised by me
Stay away from Germany
What's the good of going down the Rhine
Chorus:
Let's all go down the strand
Let's all go down the strand
I'll be leader, You can march behind
Come with me and see what you can find
Let's all go down the strand
Oh what a happy land
That's the place for fun and noise
All amoung the girls and boys
So let's all go down the strand
One day 5 and 20 convicts
Satted by their 20 little cells
The bell then sounded ding-a-ding-a-dong
To exercise the prisoners came along
Buggler Ben exclaimed to Jacks The Warden
To me sir, It's very strange
The men are tired of going round
Round and round the same old ground
I purpose we make a little change
Repeat chorus
Gray crowds gathered round to welcome
Shackleton returning from the poll
The Lord Mayor welcomed all the galant crew
And said my lads, I've got a treat for you
Come with me, The mansion house awaits you
A banquet shall be supplied
But a towering, grumbling mood
Said we don't want any food
Then he turned to Shackleton and sighed
Repeat chorus (x2)
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Blur | London Loves | /b/blur/london+loves_20021055.html | A malady has taken him over
Coughing tar in his Japanese motor
The lights are magic
And he feels lucky
And he's got money
Shoots like an arrow, oh
London loves
The mystery of a speeding car
London loves
The misery of a speeding heart
It's love you like and everyone's at it
And words are cheap when the mind it elastic
He loves the violence
Keeps ticking over
So sleep together
Before today is sold forever
London loves
The way people just fall apart
London loves
The way you just don't stand a chance
London loves
The misery of a speeding heart
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
London loves
The mystery of a speeding car
London loves
The misery of a speeding heart
London loves
The mystery
Oh, hey, hey
London loves
The way people just fall apart
London loves
The way we just don't stand a chance
London loves (always London loves!)
The speeding heart
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Blur | Lonesome Street | /b/blur/lonesome+street_21096920.html | [Verse 1]
What do you got?
Mass produced in somewhere hot
You'll have to go on the Underground
To get things done here
And then you have
[?] service done
This is a place to come to, or, well, it was
I know a hot spot
Crossing on the guillotine
[Chorus]
And if you have nobody left to rely on
I'll hold you in my arms and let you drift
It's got to be that time again
And you, you will be over soon again
[Verse 2]
So get yourself up, get past [?] on your way
There's nothing to be ashamed of
Taking off again
The 514 to East Grinstead
You've set me off
[?]
And talking types will let us down
Talk, talk on your arse all night
You wanna be there
[Bridge]
Step inside the tarmac ride
To the land that time forgot
Oh, we're just gonna go there
Cracks inside the tarmac ride
To the land that crime forgot, oh no
[Outro]
And if you have nobody left to rely on
I'll hold you in my arms and let you drift
Going down to Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
Going down to Lonesome Street
Lonesome Street
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Blur | Look Inside America | /b/blur/look+inside+america_20020991.html | Good morning lethargy
Drink pepsi it's good for energy
The bath's on, smoke in the bedroom
Sore throat and on my neck a nasty bruise
And where it came from, well I don't know
But we played last night, it was a good show
Got the play out, second rate chat show
It's a nation wide deal, so we gotta go
Chap from the company says it will be alright
Got an add on KRO
And there's an in-store tonight
Well I built things up
And then I let them go
Got to get time share on the radio
Look inside America, she's alright, she's alright
Sitting out the distance
But I'm not trying to make her mine
Looking for America
With its kooky nights and suicide
Where the TV says it's alright
Coz' everybody's hung up on something or other
Steppin' off in 20, so the driver says
I should sleep tonight
But I think I'll watch videos instead
Annie Hall leaves New York in the end
Press rewind and Woody gets her back again
And the whole world could have passed through me
But I don't know if it means much to me
Look inside America
She's alright, she's alright
Sitting out the distance
But I'm not trying to make her mine
I'm looking for America
With its kooky nights and suicide
Where the TV says it's alright
Coz everybody's strung out on something or other
And the whole world
Could have passed through me
But I don't know if it means much to me
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Blur | Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club | /b/blur/moroccan+peoples+revolutionary+bowls+club_20021087.html | The trees are spinning oxygen
They're the rockets we should fear
If we go and let them off then we will disappear
Then we will disappear, surely we will disappear
The road is hot and dusty
The desert needs a beer
But if we go and blow it up then we will disappear
Then we will disappear, surely we will disappear
If we go and blow it up then we will disappear
We will disappear surely
We will disappear
We will disappear
We will disappear
We will disappear
We will disappear
We will disappear
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Blur | One Born Every Minute | /b/blur/one+born+every+minute_20709976.html | Here we go (here we go) here we go again
Dirty knickers pop music vodka and gin
Your knees are sore you must?ve been in the wars
There's something to celebrate in our lives and
here's where it begins
Oh well see how we've grown
One is born every minute
you're never never alone
One is born - every minute of the day
Dosey clocks to cause the volatile tots to
Sleep together if or never we're on this then
Oh here we go, here we go, here we go again
Dirty knickers pop music vodka beer and gin
Oh well see how we've grown
One is born every minute
you're never never alone
One is born - every minute of the day
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Blur | Out Of Time | /b/blur/out+of+time_20021090.html | Where's the love song to set us free
Too many people down
Everything turning the wrong way round
And I don't know what life would be
If we stop dreaming now
Lord knows we'd never clear the clouds
And you've been so busy lately that you haven't found the time
To open up your mind
And watch the world spinning gently out of time
Feel the sunshine on your face
It's on a computer now
Gone to the future way out in space
And you've been so busy lately that you haven't found the time
To open up your mind
And watch the world spinning gently out of time
And you've been so busy lately that you haven't found the time
To open up your mind
And watch the world spinning gently out of time
Tell me I'm not dreaming
But are we out of time
We're out of time
Out of time
Out of time
Out of time
Out of time
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Blur | Parklife | /b/blur/parklife_20021058.html | Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur
Of what is known as
(Parklife)
And morning soup can be avoided
If you take a route straight through what is known as
(Parklife)
John's got brewers croop he gets intimidated
By the dirty pigeons, they love a bit of him
(Parklife)
Who's that gut lord marching?
You should cut down on your porklife mate, get some exercise
All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife
Know what I mean?
I get up when I want except on Wednesdays
When I get rudely awakened by the dustman
(Parklife)
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea
And I think about leaving the house
(Parklife)
I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too
It gives me a sense of enormous well-being
(Parklife)
And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge
There will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it
All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their Parklife
Parklife
(Parklife)
Parklife
(Parklife)
It's got nothing to do with
Vorsprung durch technique you know
(Parklife)
And it's not about you joggers
Who go round and round and round
(Parklife)
All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their Parklife
All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their Parklife
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Blur | Polished Stone | /b/blur/polished+stone_20021117.html | Now I fall to the ground
I can't get up, well never mind
I know you'll pull me up by my bones
And say I'm sand to polished stone
Today's gone and it won't be long
Before we fall asleep and forget what we've done
We won't get up 'cause today is fun
We're alone
Now you bite my tongue
And when the alcohol's gone
I won't feel a thing
So you can't carry on
Today's gone and it won't be long
Before we fall asleep and forget what we've done
We won't get up 'cause today is fun
We're alone
It's numb
It's numb
It's numb
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Blur | Song 2 | /b/blur/song+2_20020996.html | Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
Woo-hoo
I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No
Woo-hoo
When I feel heavy-metal
(Woo-hoo)
And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo)
Well, I lie and I'm easy
All the time but I'm never sure
Why I need you
Pleased to meet you
I got my head down
When I was young
It's not my problem
It's not my problem
Woo-hoo
When I feel heavy-metal
(Woo-hoo)
And I'm pins and I'm needles
(Woo-hoo)
Well, I lie and I'm easy
All the time but I am never sure
Why I need you
Pleased to meet you
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Yeah yeah
Oh yeah
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Blur | Song 2 (Original Lyrics) | /b/blur/song+2+original+lyrics_20956148.html | You try then suffer
Unemic birth-er
Gets in the way-ey
He never earns her
Wohoo
'Cause he did run it easy
Wohoo
If I will do the same
Wohoo
'Cause you're sick and you're easy
All that you get when you ever say
'Cause you're never
pleased to see me
I never taught her
And 'cause how easy
She's not my problem
It's not my problem
Wohoo
'Cause I know what my name is
Wohoo
And I go on again
Wohoo
If you ever regret it
You don't say what you never deem
'Cause you're never
pleased to see me
Oh Yeah x4
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Blur | The Universal | /b/blur/the+universal_20021012.html | This is the next century
The Universal is free
You can find it anywhere
Yes, the future has been sold
Every night we are gone
And to karaoke songs
We like to sing along
Although the words are wrong
It really, really, really could happen
Yes, it really, really, really could happen
When the days seem to fall straight through you
Just let them go
No one here is alone
Satellites in every home
The Universal is here
Here for everyone
Every paper that you read
Says tomorrow is your lucky day
Well, here's your lucky day
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Blur | Tracy Jacks | /b/blur/tracy+jacks_20021062.html | (Tracy Jacks) works in civil service
(Tracy Jacks) it's steady employment
(Tracy Jacks) it's a golfing fanatic
(Tracy Jacks) but his put is erratic
(Tracy Jacks) saw a harley street doctor
(Tracy Jacks) who prescribed healthy living
(Tracy Jacks) but he's getting past forty
(Tracy Jacks) and all the seams are splitting
Everyday he got closer
He knew in his heart he was over
I'd love to stay here and be normal
But it's just so overrated
(Tracy Jacks) left home without warning
(Tracy Jacks) at five in the morning
(Tracy Jacks) got on the first train to walton
(Tracy Jacks) and stood on the seafront
(Tracy Jacks) threw his clothes in the water
(Tracy Jacks) and ran around naked
(Tracy Jacks) got stopped by the police
(Tracy Jacks) and escorted back home
Everyday he got closer
He knew in his heart he was over
I'd love to stay here and be normal
But then it's just so overrated
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
And then it happened on a Tuesday morning
Tracy Jacks bulldozed down the house he lived in
Saying it's just so overrated
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Tracy Jacks
Everyday he got closer
He knew in his heart he was over
I'd love to stay here and be normal
But it was always overrated
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Blur | Trimm Trabb | /b/blur/trimm+trabb_20020984.html | I got no style
I'll take my time
All those losers on the piss again
I dose dose away
That's just the way it is
That's just the way it is
I've got trimm trabb
Like the flash boys have
And I can't go back
Let it flow, let it flow
I sleep alone
I sleep alone
That's just the way it is
Just the way it is
Just the way it is
Just the way it is
Just the way it is
That's just the way it is
I got trimm trabb
Like the flash boys have
And I can't go back
Let it flow, let it flow
I sleep alone
I sleep alone
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Blur | Trouble In The Message Center | /b/blur/trouble+in+the+message+center_20324528.html | I am the message centre
Local and direct
Room to room
An operator
(No calls today, dear
They'll just have to wait, dear)
I call
And I collect
(So just strike him softly
Away from the body)
You're made up too shiny today
There's so much trouble
Your thoughts are just
Pissing away
It's so much trouble
I am a manager
And I am in control
As the local delegator
(No calls today, dear
They'll just have to wait, dear)
I offer no guarantee at all
(So don't take it lightly
You passed your sell-by date)
You're made up too shiny today
It's so much trouble
Your thoughts are just
Pissing away
It's so much trouble
A new typeface
A new day
It's so much trouble
You can't remember ten minutes ago
It's so much trouble
Too much trouble
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Blur | Uncle Love | /b/blur/uncle+love_20270093.html | Uncle Love just got a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
Tomorrow he says the doctor comes
With a drink to make him lazy
Did you realize that Uncle Love's
Got an eight ball in his hand
Everything sticks to you like glue
But it just makes you lazy
You should hear what they say
About you everyday
You should hear what they say
Uncle Love's going to get you
Uncle Love just got a message from God
That you are driving him crazy
Everything sticks to you like glue
But it just makes you lazy
You should hear what they say
About you everyday
You should hear what they say
Uncle Love's going to get you
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Blur | Under The Westway | /b/blur/under+the+westway_21005946.html | There were blue skies in my city today
Everything was sinking
Said snow would come on Sunday
The old school was due and the traffic grew
Upon the Westway
Where I stood watching comets lonesome trails
Shining up above me the jet fuel it fell
Down to earth where the money always comes first
And the sirens sing
Bring us the day they switch off the machines
'Cause men in yellow jackets putting adverts inside my dreams
An automated song and the whole world gone
Fallen under the spell of the distance between us when we communicate
Still picking up shortwave
Somewhere they're out in space
It depends how you're wired when the night's on fire
Under the Westway
Now it's magic arrows hitting the bull
Doing one eighty still standing at last call
When the flags coming down
And the Last Post sounds
Just like a love song
For the way I feel about you
Paradise not lost it's in you
On a permanent basis I apologize
But I am going to sing
Hallelujah
Sing it out loud and sing it to you
Am I lost out at sea
'Til a tide wash me up off the Westway
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Blur | We Have A Technical | /b/blur/we+have+a+technical_20711391.html | We have a random on the west side
Personality malfunction
He says I can't give you anything at all
Just a room with a bad view of you
He sent a letter to a downstat
Saying sorry that I missed you
But I can't think of anything to do
He's addicted to the time track
Oo-oo-oo, we have a technical (x2)
He's in the hotel where they all go
Saying me, I've lost my memory
It's so surprising just how quickly things can end
Like a hero on a platform of friends
This table is so crowded
With people that I don't know
And I never really turn my thoughts on you
So the image breaks down again
Oo-oo-oo, we have a technical (x2)
I suppose it's very shady
At least until the lights go out
Advertising posters on the wall
And the young ones singing softly
Do they ever come back (do they ever come back)
Or is it always at the wrong time (is it always at the wrong time)
I could crawl around the floor just like I'm real
And move a hand in front of my eyes
Oo-oo-oo, we have a technical (x6)
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Blur | When The Cows Come Home | /b/blur/when+the+cows+come+home_20021048.html | Good morning
Wake up
Wake up with purpose and polite efficiency
Stuff vitamin pills down your half guarantee
A kiss and cuddle with a lucky girl
You get fed and watered
Makes your hair curl
And when the day draws in
You put on a record
Put on something gentle
And wait for the cows to come home
Wake up a little voice says
Do you eagerly
You mustn't let yourself sink financally
Don't listen to the accusation that you're tight
You could be the first man on your street to get it right
And when the day draws in
You going to go into waltz time
For once it was good time
Wait for the cows to come home
Ha da de da da
Ha da de da da
Ha da de da da
Ha da de da da da
Wake up in porpuse and polite efficiency
So you get fed and watered with good company
And when the day draws in
You go into waltz time
Wait for the cows to come home
All your life
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Bob Dylan | 4Th Time Around | /b/bob+dylan/4th+time+around_20021421.html | When she said, "Don't waste your words, they're just lies,"
I cried she was deaf.
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
Then said, "What else you got left?"
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, "Don't forget,
Everybody must give something back
For something they get."
I stood there and hummed,
I tapped on her drum
And asked her how come.
And she buttoned her boot,
And straightened her suit,
Then she said, "Don't get cute."
So I forced my hands in my pockets
And felt with my thumbs,
And gallantly handed her
My very last piece of gum.
She threw me outside,
I stood in the dirt where ev'ryone walked.
And after finding I'd forgotten my shirt,
I went back and knocked.
I waited in the hallway, she went to get it,
And I tried to make sense
Out of that picture of you in your wheelchair
That leaned up against--
Her Jamaican rum
And when she did come, I asked her for some.
She said, "No, dear."
I said, "Your words aren't clear,
You'd better spit out your gum."
She screamed till her face got so red,
Then she fell on the floor,
And I covered her up and then
Thought I'd go look through her drawer.
And when I was through
I filled up my shoe and brought it to you.
And you, you took me in,
You loved me then, you never wasted time.
And I, I never took much,
I never asked for your crutch
And I don't ask for mine.
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Bob Dylan | A Satisfied Mind | /b/bob+dylan/a+satisfied+mind_20021501.html | How many times have you heard someone say
If I had his money I'd do things my way
Hmm, but little they know
Hmm, it's so hard to find
One man in ten with a satisfied mind.
Hmm, once I was wading in fortune and fame
Everything that I dreamed of to get a start in lifes game
But suddenly it happened
Hmm, I lost every dime
But I'm richer by far with a satisfied mind.
Hmm, when my life is over and my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones I'll leave there ain't no doubt
But one things for certain
When it comes my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind.
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Bob Dylan | Ain't Gonna Grieve | /b/bob+dylan/aint+gonna+grieve_20275479.html | By Bob Dylan
Well, I ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
And ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Come on brother, join the band,
Come on sisters, clap your hands,
Tell everybody that's in the land,
You ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Well, I ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
And ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Brown and blue and white and black,
All one color on the one-way track,
We got this far and ain't a-goin' back
And ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Well, I ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
I ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
We're gonna notify your next of kin,
You're gonna raise the roof until the house falls in.
If you get knocked down get up again,
We ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Well, I ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
I ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
We'll sing this song all night long,
Sing it to my baby from midnight on.
She'll sing it to you when I'm dead and gone,
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more.
Well, I ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
Ain't a-gonna grieve no more, no more
I ain't a-gonna grieve no more
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Bob Dylan | All Over You | /b/bob+dylan/all+over+you_20238880.html | By Bob Dylan
Well, if I had to do it all over again,
Babe, I'd do it all over you.
And if I had to wait for ten thousand years,
Babe, I'd even do that too.
Well, a dog's got his bone in the alley,
A cat, she's got nine lives,
A millionaire's got a million dollars,
King Saud's got four hundred wives.
Well, ev'rybody's got somethin'
That they're lookin' forward to.
I'm lookin' forward to when I can do it all again
And babe, I'll do it all over you.
Well, if I had my way tomorrow or today,
Babe, I'd run circles all around.
I'd jump up in the wind, do a somersault and spin,
I'd even dance a jig on the ground.
Well, everybody gets their hour,
Everybody gets their time,
Little David when he picked up his pebbles,
Even Sampson after he went blind.
Well, everybody gets the chance
To do what they want to do.
When my time arrives you better run for your life
'Cause babe, I'll do it all over you.
Well, I don't need no money, I just need a day that's sunny,
Baby, and my days are gonna come.
And I grab me a pint, you know that I'm a giant
When you hear me yellin', "Fee-fi-fo-fum."
Well, you cut me like a jigsaw puzzle,
You made me to a walkin' wreck,
Then you pushed my heart through my backbone,
Then you knocked off my head from my neck.
Well, if I'm ever standin' steady
A-doin' what I want to do,
Well, I tell you little lover that you better run for cover
'Cause babe, I'll do it all over you.
I'm just restin' at your gate so that I won't be late
And, momma, I'm a-just sittin' on the shelf.
Look out your window fair and you'll see me squattin' there
Just a-fumblin' and a-mumblin' to myself.
Well, after my cigarette's been smoked up,
After all my liquor's been drunk,
After my dreams are dreamed out,
After all my thoughts have been thunk,
Well, after I do some of these things,
I'm gonna do what I have to do.
And I tell you on the side, that you better run and hide
'Cause babe, I'll do it all over you.
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Bob Dylan | Ballad Of Donald White | /b/bob+dylan/ballad+of+donald+white_20155910.html | My name is Donald White, you see,
I stand before you all.
I was judged by you a murderer
And the hangman's knot must fall.
I will die upon the gallows pole
When the moon is shining clear,
And these are my final words
That you will ever hear.
I left my home in Kansas
When I was very young,
I landed in the old Northwest,
Seattle, Washington
Although I'd a-traveled many miles,
I never made a friend,
For I could never get along in life
With people that I met.
If I had some education
To give me a decent start,
I might have been a doctor or
A master in the arts.
But I used my hands for stealing
When I was very young,
And they locked me down in jailhouse cells,
That's how my life begun.
Oh, the inmates and the prisoners,
I found they were my kind,
And it was there inside the bars
I found my peace of mind.
But the jails they were too crowded,
Institutions overflowed,
So they turned me loose to walk upon
Life's hurried tangled road.
And there's danger on the ocean
Where the salt sea waves split high,
And there's danger on the battlefield
Where the shells of bullets fly,
And there's danger in this open world
Where men strive to be free,
And for me the greatest danger
Was in society.
So I asked them to send me back
To the institution home.
But they said they were too crowded,
For me they had no room.
I got down on my knees and begged,
"Oh, please put me away,"
But they would not listen to my plea
Or nothing I would say.
And so it was on Christmas eve
In the year of '59,
It was on that night I killed a man,
I did not try to hide,
The jury found me guilty
And I won't disagree,
For I knew that it would happen
If I wasn't put away.
And I'm glad I've had no parents
To care for me or cry,
For now they will never know
The horrible death I die.
And I'm also glad I've had no friends
To see me in disgrace,
For they'll never see that hangman's hood
Wrap around my face.
Farewell unto the old north woods
Of which I used to roam,
Farewell unto the crowded bars
Of which've been my home,
Farewell to all you people
Who think the worst of me,
I guess you'll feel much better when
I'm on that hanging tree.
But there's just one question
Before they kill me dead,
I'm wondering just how much
To you I really said
Concerning all the boys that come
Down a road like me,
Are they enemies or victims
Of your society?
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Bob Dylan | Ballad Of Hollis Brown | /b/bob+dylan/ballad+of+hollis+brown_20021599.html | Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
Hollis Brown
He lived on the outside of town
With his wife and five children
And his cabin brokin' down.
You looked for work and money
And you walked a rugged mile
You looked for work and money
And you walked a rugged mile
Your children are so hungry
That they don't know how to smile.
Your baby's eyes look crazy
They're a-tuggin' at your sleeve
Your baby's eyes look crazy
They're a-tuggin' at your sleeve
You walk the floor and wonder why
With every breath you breathe.
The rats have got your flour
Bad blood it got your mare
The rats have got your flour
Bad blood it got your mare
If there's anyone that knows
Is there anyone that cares?
You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
Your empty pocket tell you
That you ain't a-got no friend.
Your babies are crying louder now
It's pounding on your brain
Your babies are crying louder now
It's pounding on your brain
Your wife's screams are stabbin' you
Like the dirty drivin' rain.
Your grass is turning black
There's no water in your well
Your grass is turning black
There's no water in your well
Your spent your last lone dollar
On seven shotgun shels.
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Your eyes fix on the shortgun
That's hangin' on the wall.
Your brain is a-bleedin'
And your legs can't seem to stand
Your brain is a-bleedin'
And your legs can't seem to stand
Your eyes fix on the shortgun
That you're holdin' in your hand.
There's seven breezes a-blowin'
All around the cabin door
There's seven breezes a-blowin'
All around the cabin door
Seven shots ring out
Like the ocean's pounding roar.
There's seven people dead
On a south Dakota farm
There's seven people dead
On a south Dakota farm
Somewhere in the distance
There's seven new people born.
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Bob Dylan | Belle Isle | /b/bob+dylan/belle+isle_20021513.html | One evening for pleasure I rambled to view
The fair fields all alone
Down by the banks of Loch Eiron
Where beauty and pleasure were known.
I spied a fair maid at her labour
Which caused me to stay for a while
And I thought of a goddess to beauty
Bloomin' bright star of Bright Isle.
I humbled myself to her beauty
"Fair maiden, where do you belong ?
Are you from heaven descended
Abiding in Cupid's fair throne ?".
"Young man, I will tell you a secret
It's true I'm a maid that is poor
And to part from my vows and my promise
Is more than my heart can endure.
Therefore I remain at my service
And go through all my hardship and toil
And wait for the lad that has left me
All alone on the banks of Belle Isle".
"Young maiden I wish not to banter
It's true I come here in disguise
I came here to fulfill our last promise
And hope to give you a surprise.
I've known you're a maid I love dearly
And you've been in my heart all the while
For me there is no other damsel
Than my bloomin' bright star of Belle Isle".
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Bob Dylan | Beyond Here Lies Nothin' | /b/bob+dylan/beyond+here+lies+nothin_20837239.html | Oh well, I love you pretty baby
You're the only love I've ever known
Just as long as you stay with me
The whole world is my throne
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothing we can call our own
Well, I'm moving after midnight
Down boulevards of broken cars
Don't know what I do without it
Without this love that we call ours
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothing but the moon and stars
Down every street there's a window
And every window made of glass
We'll keep on loving pretty baby
For as long as love will last
Beyond here lies nothin'
But the mountains of the past
Well my ship is in the harbor
And the sails are spread
Listen to me, pretty baby
Lay your hand upon my head
Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothing done and nothing said
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Bob Dylan | Beyond The Horizon | /b/bob+dylan/beyond+the+horizon_20538898.html | Beyond the horizon, behind the sun
At the end of the rainbow life has only begun
In the long hours of twilight 'neath the stardust above
Beyond the horizon it is easy to love
My wretched heart's pounding
I felt an angel's kiss
My memories are drowning
In mortal bliss
Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or Fall
Love waits forever for one and for all
Beyond the horizon across the divide
'Round about midnight, we'll be on the same side
Down in the valley the water runs cold
Beyond the horizon someone prayed for your soul
I'm touched with desire
What don't I do?
I'll throw the logs on the fire
I'll build my world around you
Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game
Every step that you take, I'm walking the same
Beyond the horizon the night winds blow
The theme of a melody from many moons ago
The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime
Beyond the horizon I found you just in time
It's dark and it's dreary
I ponder in vain
I'm weakened, I'm weary
My repentance is plain
Beyond the horizon o'er the treacherous sea
I still can't believe that you've set aside your love for me
Beyond the horizon, 'neath crimson skies
In the soft light of morning I'll follow you with my eyes
Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone
Beyond the horizon right down to the bone
It's late in the season
Never knew, never cared
Whatever the reason
Someone's life has been spared
Beyond the horizon the sky is so blue
I've got more than a lifetime to live lovin' you
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Bob Dylan | Black Crow Blues | /b/bob+dylan/black+crow+blues_20021148.html | I woke in the mornin', wand'rin',
Wasted and worn out.
I woke in the mornin', wand'rin',
Wasted and worn out.
Wishin' my long-lost lover
Will walk to me, talk to me,
Tell me what it's all about.
I was standin' at the side road
Listenin' to the billboard knock.
Standin' at the side road
Listenin' to the billboard knock.
Well, my wrist was empty
But my nerves were kickin',
Tickin' like a clock.
If I got anything you need, babe,
Let me tell you in front.
If I got anything you need, babe,
Let me tell you in front.
You can come to me sometime,
Night time, day time,
Any time you want.
Sometimes I'm thinkin'
I'm too high to fall.
Sometimes I'm thinkin'
I'm too high to fall.
Other times I'm thinkin' I'm
So low I don't know
If I can come up at all.
Black crows in the meadow
Across a broad highway.
Black crows in the meadow
Across a broad highway.
Though it's funny, honey,
I just don't feel much like a
Scarecrow today.
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Bob Dylan | Blind Willie Mctell | /b/bob+dylan/blind+willie+mctell_20021263.html | Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, "This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem. "
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie Mctell
Well, I heard the hoot owl singing
As they were taking down the tents
The stars above the barren trees
Were his only audience
Them charcoal gypsy maidens
Can strut their feathers well
But nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie Mctell
See them big plantations burning
Hear the cracking of the whips
Smell that sweet magnolia blooming
(And) see the ghosts of slavery ships
I can hear them tribes a-moaning
(I can) hear the undertaker's bell
(Yeah), nobody can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie Mctell
There's a woman by the river
With some fine young handsome man
He's dressed up like a squire
Bootlegged whiskey in his hand
There's a chain gang on the highway
I can hear them rebels yell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie Mctell
Well, God is in heaven
And we all want what's his
But power and greed and corruptible seed
Seem to be all that there is
I'm gazing out the window
Of the St. James Hotel
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie Mctell
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Bob Dylan | Blowin' In The Wind | /b/bob+dylan/blowin+in+the+wind_20021159.html | How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can really see the sky?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan's Blues | /b/bob+dylan/bob+dylans+blues_20021588.html | Well, the Lone Ranger and Tonto
They are ridin' down the line
Fixin' ev'rybody's troubles
Ev'rybody's 'cept mine
Somebody musta tol' 'em
That I was doin' fine
Oh you five and ten cent women
With nothin' in your heads
I got a real gal I'm lovin'
And Lord I'll love her till I'm dead
Go away from my door and my window too
Right now
Lord, I ain't goin' down to no race track
See no sports car run
I don't have no sports car
And I don't even care to have one
I can walk anytime around the block
Well, the wind keeps a-blowin' me
Up and down the street
With my hat in my hand
And my boots on my feet
Watch out so you don't step on me
Well, lookit here buddy
You want to be like me
Pull out your six-shooter
And rob every bank you can see
Tell the judge I said it was all right
Yes!
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Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan's Dream | /b/bob+dylan/bob+dylans+dream_20021589.html | While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.
With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn.
By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.
With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.
As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.
How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I've never seen again.
I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.
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Bob Dylan | Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag | /b/bob+dylan/bob+dylans+new+orleans+rag_20151228.html | By Bob Dylan
I was sittin' on a stump
Down in New Orleans,
I was feelin' kinda low down,
Dirty and mean.
Along came a fella
And he didn't even ask.
He says, "I know of a woman
That can fix you up fast. "
I didn't think twice,
I said like I should,
"Let's go find this lady
That can do me some good. "
We walked across the river
On a sailin' spree
And we came to a door
Called one-oh-three.
I was just about ready
To give it a little knock
When out comes a fella
Who couldn't even walk.
He's linkin' and a-slinkin',
Couldn't stand on his feet,
And he moaned and he groaned
And he shuffled down the street.
Well, out of the door
There comes another man.
He wiggled and he wobbled,
He couldn't hardly stand.
He had this frightened
Look in his eyes,
Like he just fought a bear,
He was ready to die.
Well, I peeked through the key crack,
Comin' down the hall
Was a long-legged man
Who couldn't hardly crawl.
He muttered and he uttered
In broken French,
And he looked like he'd been through
A monkey wrench.
Well, by this time
I was a-scared to knock,
I was a-scared to move,
I's in a state of shock.
I hummed a little tune
And I shuffled my feet
And I started walkin' backwards
Down that broad street.
Well, I got to the corner,
I tried my best to smile.
I turned around the corner
And I ran a bloody mile.
Man, I wasn't runnin'
'Cause I was sick,
I was just a-runnin'
To get out of there quick.
Well, I tripped right along
And I'm a-wheezin' in my chest.
I musta run a mile
In a minute or less.
I walked on a log
And I tripped on a stump,
I caught a fast freight
With a one-arm jump.
So, if you're travelin' down
Louisiana way,
And you feel kinda lonesome
And you need a place to stay,
Man, you're better off
In your misery
Than to tackle that lady
At one-oh-three.
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Bob Dylan | Broke Down Engine | /b/bob+dylan/broke+down+engine_20021644.html | Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel,
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel.
You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.
Been shooting craps and gambling, momma, and I done got broke,
Been shooting craps and gambling, momma, and I done got broke,
I done pawned my pistol, baby, my best clothes been sold.
Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,
Lordy, Lord.
I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees,
I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees,
I ain't cryin' for no religion, Lord, give me back my good gal please.
If you give me back my baby, I won't worry you no more,
Give me back my baby, I won't worry you no more,
Don't have to put her in my house, Lordy, just lead her to my door.
Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,
Lordy, Lord.
Can't you hear me, baby, rappin' on your door?
Can't you hear me, baby, rappin' on your door?
Now you hear me tappin', tappin' across your floor.
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drive at all,
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drive at all.
What make me love my woman, she can really do the Georgia Crawl.
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no whistle or bell,
Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no whistle or bell,
If you're a real hot momma, come take away Daddy's weeping spell.
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Bob Dylan | California | /b/bob+dylan/california_20168716.html | By Bob Dylan
I'm goin' down south,
'Neath the borderline.
I'm goin' down south,
'Neath the borderline.
Some fat momma
Kissed my mouth one time.
Well, I needed it this morning
Without a shadow of doubt.
My suitcase is packed,
My clothes are hangin' out.
San Francisco's fine,
You sure get lots of sun.
San Francisco is fine.
You sure get lots of sun.
But I'm used to four seasons,
California's got but one.
Well, I got my dark sunglasses,
I got for good luck my black tooth.
I got my dark sunglasses,
And for good luck I got my black tooth.
Don't ask me nothin' about nothin',
I just might tell you the truth.
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Bob Dylan | Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? | /b/bob+dylan/can+you+please+crawl+out+your+window_20021634.html | He sits in your room, his tomb with a fist full of tacks
Preoccupied with his vengeance
Cursin' the dead that can't answer him back
You know he has no intentions
Of looking your way, unless it's to say
That he needs you to test his inventions.
Please crawl out your window
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you
You can go back to him any time you want to.
He looks so truthful, is this how he feels
Trying to peel the moon and expose it
With his business-like anger and bloodhounds that kneel
If he needs a third eye he just grows it
He just needs you to talk or to hand him his chalk
Or pick it up after he throws it.
Please crawl out your window
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you
You can go back to him any time you want to.
He looks so righteous while your face is so changed
Are you frightened of the box you keep him in
While his genocide fools and friends rearrange
Their religion of the little ten women
That backs up their views but your face is so bruised
Come on out the dark is beginning.
Please crawl out your window
Use your arms and legs it won't ruin you
How can you say he will haunt you
You can go back to him any time you want to.
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Bob Dylan | Can't Help Falling In Love | /b/bob+dylan/cant+help+falling+in+love_20021353.html | Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you.
Shall I stay, will it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you?
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes, some things were meant to be.
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you.
Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling, so it goes, some things were meant to be.
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you.
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Bob Dylan | Catfish | /b/bob+dylan/catfish_20021265.html | Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound.
"Strike three," the umpire said,
Batter have to go back and sit down.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm
But the old man wouldn't pay
So he packed his glove and took his arm
An' one day he just ran away.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Come up where the Yankees are,
Dress up in a pinstripe suit,
Smoke a custom-made cigar,
Wear an alligator boot.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Carolina born and bred,
Love to hunt the little quail.
Got a hundred-acre spread,
Got some huntin' dogs for sale.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Reggie Jackson at the plate
Seein' nothin' but the curve,
Swing too early or too late
Got to eat what Catfish serve.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
Even Billy Martin grins
When the Fish is in the game.
Every season twenty wins
Gonna make the Hall of Fame.
Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.
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Bob Dylan | Chimes Of Freedom | /b/bob+dylan/chimes+of+freedom_20021149.html | Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll
We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing
As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds
Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight
Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
An' for each an' ev'ry underdog soldier in the night
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
In the city's melted furnace, unexpectedly we watched
With faces hidden while the walls were tightening
As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin' rain
Dissolved into the bells of the lightning
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an' forsakened
Tolling for the outcast, burnin' constantly at stake
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail
The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder
That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze
Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder
Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind
Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind
An' the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Through the wild cathedral evening the rain unraveled tales
For the disrobed faceless forms of no position
Tolling for the tongues with no place to bring their thoughts
All down in taken-for-granted situations
Tolling for the deaf an' blind, tolling for the mute
Tolling for the mistreated, mateless mother, the mistitled prostitute
For the misdemeanor outlaw, chased an' cheated by pursuit
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Even though a cloud's white curtain in a far-off corner flashed
An' the hypnotic splattered mist was slowly lifting
Electric light still struck like arrows, fired but for the ones
Condemned to drift or else be kept from drifting
Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail
For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale
An' for each unharmful, gentle soul misplaced inside a jail
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught
Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended
As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look
Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended
Tolling for the aching ones whose wounds cannot be nursed
For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse
An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe
An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
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Bob Dylan | Christmas Island | /b/bob+dylan/christmas+island_20855179.html | How'd ya like to spend Christmas
On Christmas Island?
How'd ya like to spend the holiday
Away across the sea?
How'd ya like to spend Christmas
On Christmas Island?
How'd ya like to hang a stocking
On a great big coconut tree?
How'd ya like to stay up late
Like the islanders do?
Wait for Santa to sail
In with your presents in a canoe
If you ever spend Christmas
On Christmas Island
You will never stray for everyday
Your Christmas dreams come true
How'd ya like to stay up late
Like the islanders do?
Wait for Santa to sail
In with your presents
In a canoe
If you ever spend Christmas
On Christmas Island
You will never stray
For everyday
Your Christmas dreams
Come true
On Christmas Island
Your dreams come true
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Bob Dylan | Clean-Cut Kid | /b/bob+dylan/clean+cut+kid_20021359.html | Everybody's asking why he couldn't adjust
Adjust to what, a dream that bust?
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did.
They said what's up is down, they said what isn't is
They put ideas in his head that he thought were his.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made him a killer
That's what they did.
He was on the basketball team, he was in the marching band
When he was ten years old he had a watermelon stand.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did.
They said, "Listen boy, you're just a pup"
They sent him to a napalm health spa to shape up.
They gave him dope to smoke, drinks and pills
A jeep to drive, blood to spill.
They said, "Congratulation, you got what it takes"
They sent him back into the race without any brakes.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did.
He bought the American Dream but put it in doubt
Only game he could play was Russian Roulette.
He drank Coca-Cola, he was eating Wonder Bread
He ate Burger Kings, he was well fed.
He went to Hollywood to see Peter O'Toole
He stole a Rolls Royce and drove in a pool.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did.
He could've sold insurance, owned a restaurant or bar
He could've been an accountant or a tennis star.
He was wearing boxing gloves, took a dive one day
Off the Golden Gate Bridge into China Bay.
His mama walks the floor, his daddy weeps and moans
They gotta sleep together in a home they don't own.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
That's what they did.
Everybody's asking why he didn't adjust
All he wanted was somebody to trust.
They took his head and turned it inside out
He never did know what it was all about.
He had a steady job, he joined the choir
He never did plan to walk the high wire.
They took a clean-cut kid
And they made a killer out of him That's what they did.
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Bob Dylan | Clothes Line | /b/bob+dylan/clothes+line_20021565.html | After a while we took in the clothes,
Nobody said very much.
Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants
Which nobody really wanted to touch.
Mama come in and picked up a book
An' Papa asked her what it was.
Someone else asked, "What do you care?"
Papa said, "Well, just because."
Then they started to take back their clothes,
Hang 'em on the line.
It was January the thirtieth
And everybody was feelin' fine.
The next day everybody got up
Seein' if the clothes were dry.
The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed,
Mama, of course, she said, "Hi!"
"Have you heard the news?" he said, with a grin,
"The Vice-President's gone mad!"
"Where?" "Downtown." "When?" "Last night."
"Hmm, say, that's too bad!"
"Well, there's nothin' we can do about it," said the neighbor,
"It's just somethin' we're gonna have to forget."
"Yes, I guess so," said Ma,
Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet.
I reached up, touched my shirt,
And the neighbor said, "Are those clothes yours?"
I said, "Some of 'em, not all of 'em."
He said, "Ya always help out around here with the chores?"
I said, "Sometime, not all the time."
Then my neighbor, he blew his nose
Just as papa yelled outside,
"Mama wants you t' come back in the house and bring them clothes."
Well, I just do what I'm told,
So, I did it, of course.
I went back in the house and Mama met me
And then I shut all the doors.
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