Get It
I on the tube and what do I see A whole lotta people cryin' "Don't me" They their crooked little fingers ar everybody else Spend all their time feelin' for themselves of this, victim of that Your momma's too thin; your too fat Get it Get it All this whinin' and and pitchin' a fit Get it, get over it You say you been the same since you had your little crash But you might feel if I gave you some cash The I think about it, Old Billy was right Let's kill all the lawyers, 'em tonight You don't to work, you want to live like a king But the big, bad world doesn't owe you a Get it Get it If you don't want to play, you might as well split Get it, Get over it like going to confession every time I hear you speak You're makin' the of your losin' streak call it sick, but I call it weak You drag it around like a and chain You wallow in the guilt; you in the pain You wave it like a flag, you wear it a crown Got your mind in the gutter, everybody down Complain the present and blame it on the past I'd like to find your child and kick its little ass Get it Get it All this bitchin' and and pitchin' a fit Get over it, get it Get it Get it It's gotta sometime, so why don't you quit Get it, get over it
Will Keep Us Alive
I was All alone against the world You were For a place to and lonely Now you've me the will to survive When we're hungry...love will keep us Don't you Sometimes just gotta let it ride The world is Right before eyes Now I've you no more emptiness inside When we're hungry...love will keep us I die for you Climb the mountain Baby, there's I wouldn't do I was All alone against the outside You searching For a place to and lonely Now you've me the will to survive When hungry...love will keep us alive When we're hungry...love will keep us we're hungry...love will keep us alive
The Girl Yesterday
It wasn't reall sad the way they good-bye Or maybe it just hurt so bad she cry He packed his things, walked out the door and away And she became the from yesterday He took a across the sea To some land She stayed at home and to understand How someone who had so close could be so far away And she became the girl yesterday She doesn't know what's She know what's wrong She only the pain that comes from waiting for so long And she count the teardrops That she's cried while away Because she knows in her heart That be back someday The on in the window; she's waiting by the phone Talking to a memory that's coming home She dreams of his returning and the things that he say But she'll be the girl from yesterday Yeh, she'll always be the girl from
Learn To Be
It's just another day in As you to your bed You'd give anything to Those voices ringing in head You you could find happiness Just that green hill You thought you would be But you will- Learn to be We are like sheep without a We don't how to be alone So we wander this desert And up following the wrong gods home But the flock cries out for And they keep answering that And one starry-eyed messiah a violent farewell- Learn to be to be still Now the flowers in garden don't smell so sweet Maybe you've The heaven at your feet There are so many In all these we send (We asking) How do I get out of do I fit in? Though the world is and shaken Even if heart is breakin' It's waiting for you to And someday you to be still Learn to be You keep on runnin' Keep on
Sunrise
It's another tequila Starin' slowly 'cross the sky, said He was just a hand Workin' on the dreams he to try The go by Ev'ry night when the sun down Just lonely boy in town And she's out 'round She wasn't another woman And I keep from comin' on It's been so Oh, and it's a feelin' when It comes to dealin' friends It never Take another shot of why the right words never come You get numb another tequila sunrise,this old world still the same, frame, mm...
Hotel
On a desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a light My head grew heavy and my grew dim I had to for the night There she in the doorway; I heard the mission And I was to myself, 'This could be or this could be Hell' Then she lit up a candle and she me the way There were down the corridor, I thought I heard say... Welcome to the California a lovely place Such a face of room at the Hotel California Any of year, you can find it here Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the bends She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls How dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. dance to remember, some dance to forget So I up the Captain, bring me my wine' He said,'We had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine' And still voices are calling from far away, Wake you up in the middle of the Just to hear say... to the Hotel California Such a lovely Such a face They livin' it up at the Hotel What a nice surprise, bring alibis on the ceiling, The pink on ice And she said 'We are all prisoners here, of our own device' And in the chambers, They gathered for the The it with their steely knives, But just can't kill the beast Last I remember, I was Running for the I had to find the passage To the place I was 'Relax,'said the man, We are to receive. You can any time you like, but you can leave!
Wasted
Well baby, there you With your head, down in your hand Oh, my God, you believe it's happening Your baby's gone, and you're all and it like the end. And back out on the street. And you're to remember. How will you start it You don't what became. You don't care much for a touch, But you can't your man. You never thought be alone this far the line And I know what's been on your afraid it's all been wasted time The leaves have got you thinking about the first time that you You didn't the boy too much, no, no you just the boy to well, Farewell So you from day to day, and you dream tomorrow, oh. And the go by like minutes and the shadows to stay So you take a little to make them go And I could done so many things, baby If I only stop my mind from wondrin' what I left and from worrying 'bout theis wasted time Ooh, love has come and gone Ooh, and the years keep on I remeber what you told me before you went out on own: "Sometimes to it together, we got to leave it alone." So you can get on your search,baby, and I can get on with And maybe someday we will find , that it really wasted Mm,hm Oh hoo, ooh, ohh, Ooh,ooh, mm
Maids All In A Row
Hi there, How are it's been a time My, but we learn so and heroes, come and go and leave us as if we're to know why Why do we up our hearts to the past? and why must we up so fast? And all you wishing well with your someone should you a rose with love a friend, nice to here from you And the comes to a close are the ribbons and bows Things to remember to go Pretty all in a Row Oh, oh oh, oh......
I Tell You Why
at us baby, up all night Tearing our love Aren't we the same two people who through years in the Ahh... time I try to walk away Something me turn around and stay And I tell you why we get crazy, it ain't to right, (try to keep you head, girl) Girl, I get lonely,too You don't to worry Just on tight (don't get caught in little world) 'Cause I you wrong as far as I can see We make it harder it has to be and I can't you why no, baby, I can't you why I can't you why No,no, baby, I tell you why I tell you why I can't you why
New Minute
got up Dressed all in Went down to the And he never came They his clothing Scattered somewhere the track And he won't be on Wall Street in the He had a The of a girl But men get sometimes As unfold One day he some line And he was too much in world But I guess it doesn't anymore In a New York can change In a New Minute Things can get pretty In a New Minute Everything can In a New Minute Lying in the darkness I the sirens wail going to emergency Somebody's to jail If you find somebody to love in world You better hand on tooth and The is always at the door In a New Minute can change In a New Minute can get a little strange In a New Minute can change In a New Minute And in these darkness falls early And people home To the ones they You take a fool's advice And tak of your own One day they're day they're gone I pulled my around my shoulders And took a walk down through the The leaves falling around me The city in the gathering dark On solitary rock A desperate left his mark, "Baby, changed. Please come back." the head makes cloudy The heart very clear The days were so much In the when she was here But I know there's somewhere these dark clouds disappear Until day, I have to believe I believe, I In a New York Everything can In a New York You can get out of the In a New York Everything can In a New York
The Last
She from Providence, the one in Island Where the old world shadows in the air She her hopes and dreams a refugee Just as her came across the sea She heard a place people were simlin' They spoke the red man's way, and how loved the land And they came everywhere to the Great a place to stand or a to hide Down in the bars, out for a time, Can't wait to you all, what like up there And called it paradise I know why Somebody laid the low while the town got Then the chilly winds down Across the through the of the coast, to the Where the pretty play, hungry for to light their way and give things to do Some rich men and raped the land, Nobody 'em Put up a bunch of boxes, and Jesus, people 'em And they it paradise The to be watched the hazy sun, sinking in the sea You can it all behind and to Lahaina like the missionaries did, so many years ago They even a neon sign:"Jesus is coming" Brought the white man's burden Brought the white reign Who provide the grand design? What is and what is mine? there is no more new frontier We got to make it here We satifsy our endless and our bloody deeds, in the name of and the name of God And you can see there, On Sunday They call it I know why You call paradise, it goodbye
Take it
Well, I'm down the road tryin' to loosen my got seven women on my mind, Four that own me, Two that stone me, One she's a friend of mine Take It easy, take it Don't let the of your own drive you crazy Lighten up while you can don't even try to Just find a to make your stand and take it Well, I'm a on a corner in Winslow, and such a sight to see a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford slowin' to take a look at me Come on, baby, don't say I gotta if your sweet love is save me We may and we may win though we never be here again so open up, I'm climbin' in, so it easy Well I'm running down the road to loosen my load, got a world of on my mind lookin' for a lover who won't my cover, she's so hard to Take it easy, take it don't let the of your own wheels make you come on say maybe I gotta know if your sweet is save me, oh oh oh Oh we got it We take it easy
In the
Somewhere out on that horizon Our the neon lights I there must be somethin' better but there's nowhere else in It's in the city When you from day to day City streets don't have pity When you're down, that's where stay In the city,oh,oh. In the I was born here in the With my back the wall Nothing grows, and life very pretty No one's there to you when you fall Somewhere out on that Faraway from the sky I know must be somethin' better And I can't stay night In the city,oh,oh. In the
In The Fast Lane
He was a man He was handsome, and she was teminally pretty She held him up, and he held her for ransome in the of the cold, cold He had a nasty reputation as a cruel They said he was ruthless, they he was crude They had one in common, they were in bed She'd say, 'Faster,faster. The are turnin' red." Life in the fast make you lose your mind, mm Are you with me so Eager for action and bot for the The coming attraction, the of a name They knew all the right people, they all the pills threw outrageous parties, they paid heavily bills. There were lines on the mirror, lines on her She not to notice, she was caught up in the Out every evening, until it was He was too tired to make it, she was too to fight it in the fast lane Surely make you lse mind Life in the fast lane, all the time Life in the lane, uh huh Blowin' and burnin', blinded by They didn't see the sign, took a for the worst. She said, "Listen, baby.You can the engine ring.We've been up and down highway; seen a goddam thing." He said,"Call the doctor. I think I'm crash." "The doctor say comin', but you gotta pay him cash." They went down that freeway, messed around and got They didn't know they just dyin' to get off And it was in the fast lane Life in the lane
Desperado, why you come to your senses? You been out fences for so long now Oh, a hard one I know that you got your These things are pleasin' you Can you somehow Don' you draw the of diamonds, boy She'll you if she's able You know the queen of is always your best bet Now it seems to me, fine things Have been laid your table But you only the ones that you can't get Desperado, oh, you ain't no youger Your and your hunger, they're drivin' you home And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just people talkin' Your prison is walking this world all alone Don't feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won't and the sun won't shine It's hard to the night time from the day You're loosin' all your highs and Ain't it funny how the goes away? Desperado, why you come to your senses? Come down from your fences, open the It may be rainin', but there's a above you You better let somebody love you, before too late