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What Did Jackie Wilson Say?
There's no use running when there's nothing left to fear
Seems like something may be about to happen here
I've got my black tourmaline and I've done no wrong
I'm rolling on like a song that ain't about to go on too long
I've got my '60's headphones on and you can't bring me down
I ain't joining this circus I'm on the way uptown
There's a smile in the songs before the world ate itself
I wanna go back there dig a party up from this hell
(Chorus)
Listen back, what did Jackie Wilson say?
I wonder what Jackie would have to say today?
Sad so many don't understand what I'm saying
Six tom fill pops a funk brothers groove outta James
Now the too cool cats flyin on all their colorful fixes
Trying to rock like Chuck but there's just no heart in the mixes
(Chorus)
When there's nowhere to go, you can always call it home
You can stand out on the highway 'til your new road comes along.
(Chorus)
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Not Digging Any Graves These Days
I'm digging a brand new babe
Not necessarily the home we've made
I tell them all to dig your own grave
I'm not digging any graves these days
Grateful for the sunshine streak
There's the blue in every eye I meet
I tell them all you gotta dig your own grave
I'm not digging any graves these days
Wishing wells are running dry
You can fill them with a tear from your eye
So quick to spot a new goodbye
Not digging any graves these days
Grateful for the sunshine streak
There's the blue in every eye I meet
I tell them dance in the Monterey rain
I'm not digging any graves these days.
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One Man Band
03:15
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One Man Band
Everybody else is happy in their old time bands
Here I been jaded sitting on my hands
Getting older and balder til there's no use to try
Missing the beat 'til I sink and die
The fish in my tank will start a band before me
Come on now people won't you set me free?
(Chorus)
Come on!
Well I don't like to hire because it costs too much
Chances are the songs will lose the personal touch
Old man like me can't make it cool in the scene
Even though if only they'd known where I've been
Tired of always hearing I'm a one man show
It takes three to get ready and a go cat go
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
Get someone on the upright someone on the fiddle
someone on the drum to keep it straight down the middle
someone on the steel and someone on the strings
someone on the side who can play anything
Everybody else is happy in their old time bands
Here I been jaded sitting on my hands
Getting older and balder til there's no use to try
Missing the beat 'til I sink and die
The fish in my tank will start a band before me
Come on now people won't you set me free?
(Chorus)
Sure beats sitting here playing all alone
Life is on pause I'm a rolling stone
(Chorus)
Everybody else is happy in their old time bands
Here I'm alone sitting on my hands
(Chorus)
It takes three to get ready and go cat go
Tired of always hearing I'm a one man show
(Chorus)
Sure beats sitting here playing all alone
Life is on pause I'm a rolling stone
(Chorus)
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Man On The Street
03:17
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Man On The Street
Let me tell you a story
about a man on the street
he didn't feel sorry
because his clothes weren't clean
He never talked to strangers
and kept his eyes on the ground
he was aware of any danger
and he kept what he found
(Chorus)
When the sun didn't shine he was in his room
When he seemed out of place he played a tune
and when the man felt down he played the blues
oh yeah.
Well he got what he wanted
and he wondered what he got
when the food was rotten
he made sure he threw it out
when he bought something
he said "keep the change"
and he worked for nothing
or low wage
(Chorus)
When he saw a thief
who was committing a sin
he brought 'em to the police
and the reward was his
he wasn't no old cheat
but he sure was mean
he was a man on the street
and his clothes weren't clean
gleamin clean
gleamin clean
(Chorus)
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Mr. Brown
02:42
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Mr. Brown
There's a stranger on your street and he ain't complete to your eye so you knock him down
He's got a way to help you maybe baby you don't care you just want him gone
(Chorus)
Mr. Brown, he is my friend
he's kinder than you
and he won't build fences
learn his song
know his story.
Everybody's the same but some have brains and others care for themselves
Others play comparison games and make up names and never knock themselves
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
There's a stranger on your street and he ain't complete to your eye so you knock him down
He's got a way to help you maybe baby you don't care you just want him gone
(Chorus)
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Nice People
02:46
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Nice People
I remember when I was down and out
told myself there was no way out
yesterday I saw my broken body curse
turn away from the mirror and you know what's worse?
people stalking in disguise
pushing me around trying me out for size
but what saved me was when I found out
there was always nice people
(Chorus)
Oh, Nice people!
They take you by and by
There ain't no good news like nice people
they take you for everything but a ride
Hooked up with a girl whose family was kind
Gave me work and money and a sense of style
Got a job driving her old man's bus
ever since then I been happy
Never had so much to sing about
Me and Audrey kept that spirit up
Nothing makes me want to give this up
What a life with nice people!
(Chorus)
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Turn Around (Circles of Zerbin)
If she comes back to hurt me again
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
She don't give at all like he takes
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
I'm playing the stranger to her face
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
Life just ain't going away
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
I'm enjoying my life all alone now
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
no hindsight to tell me I'm wrong
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
out rolling joints with the boys
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
just something I do to enjoy
I'll turn around she'll turn around I'll turn around
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Song For Her World
03:17
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Song For Her World
I'm feeling let down
by all that matters to me
the tricks are in the books to read
It's up to me to fiddle around
Find the chapter just to see
if I can take this journey
she says the fear is in my eyes
but it's never in my soul
(Chorus)
Soul Soul
in my soul oooh
Oh oh
in my soul oooh
It's only up to her now
Take the debt learn from mistakes
spinning wheels don't spin forever
quite the same way
she'll go alone and find a friend
who'll blow their money on her cure
I will serenade the silence
with the song for her world
(Chorus)
World World
For her world oh
yeah
(Bridge)
Crime is when you trade your passion for a lonely disguise
you must be real to be never fooled by the urges inside
ooh
I'm feeling let down
but that don't matter to me
the desolation disappears
it's all the better for her world
I'm feeling let down
but that don't matter to me
the desolation disappears
it's all the better for her world
(Chorus)
World World
For her world oooh
World World
for her world ooooh
world world
for her world ooooh
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The Past Lovers
02:15
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The Past Lovers
She wonders how he's doing
what he's up to and where he's been
She don't want to know his new lovers
because the sandman ain't taken her in
She knows him more than he knows himself
what his heart is running on
(Chorus)
Sunday shadows
moonlight flowers
always carry him home alone
he worships pictures past and wonders
where the future goes
where the future goes
He's been on his own so long
his pain is evident to me
Comfort is the trick he plays the part
can't make a scene
She's so pretty full of flowers
tears still fall like rain
(Chorus)
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In Your Dream
01:30
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In Your Dream
I know you've been asking
how I feel in your dream
In your dream I can't see
I can't cry
how can I feel?
Seems to be a question not even worth the asking
And I travel further without a dream
Goodbye
Goodbye
Sweet child
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
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Bad Man's World
02:36
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Bad Man's World
I don't want to be a good guy anymore
I want to live by my own rules
Because the good guys they play hard
I don't want that hand of cards
for the world
Good man's world
I don't want to spend my life in jail
of work of love and dreams that always fail
I wasn't born a millionaire and life is hard til you get there
It's a jail
a good man jail
I don't want to go through life a thief
I just want to steal from me
I'd rather be blind denial can bring a smile
to the world
a madman's world
I don't want to go through my life alone
Wish I'd find some place where I can go and roam
Find the gypsies of my dreams
where no money can make you mean
In my world
Bad man's world
In my world
Bad man's world
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Sweet Suburban
04:17
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Sweet Suburban
Sweet suburban swept away by the city life
She thinks that everything ain't as bad as it seems
Finds out it ain't as good as she expected
Finds out too that it ain't that great to be sweet
She only broke a law or two escaping poverty
She also has some other mouths to feed
Everything she owns is stolen property
She can't accept her parents charity
(Chorus)
Nobody thinks it matters
Nobody thinks it matters
That she's missing out when she knows it's not like that.
Nobody thinks it matters
Nobody thinks it matters
That she's missing out when she knows it's not like that.
Jenny, Queen of the junkyard, loves her fake jewelry
Picks up her meals three or four times a day
from the back step of the nearest local restaurant
maybe she will change her life someday
Sweet suburban not so sweet any longer
her mind is back in the days when she was younger
The government is trying to deport her for her habits
and her friends don't know exactly what spell she's under
(Chorus)
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She Made Me Life A Country Song
It was cold one rainy April morn
When I found my love had gone
She left me oh so unaware
she never said so long
(Chorus)
Oh!
She made my life a country song
one to be sung alone and high
It ain't what she did that was so wrong
it's what happened since that time
She'd already met him when she left me
saying she'd seen better days
with a man she claimed had strong nimble hands
big eyes and a cigarette face
(Chorus)
She called me up with a big great laugh
said Buck was a millionaire
all I could hear before she hung up
was a big rowdy party down there
(Chorus)
The taxman came to grab my car
my job was still on the line
I told him to bill it to rich man Buck
he said, sorry Goodbye
(Chorus)
It's been seven hours and fifteen days
since he took my love away
she's made my life a country song
This song is gonna end today.
(Chorus)
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This Old World Of Make Believe
I'm wondering where to go
Wondering who I know
Who's gonna help me through this land of make believe
I'm dreaming of her touch
I think I dream too much
But there's nowhere in my mind I'd rather be
I'm staying I'm not playing I'm just waiting
No relating Nor mating so frustrating
First one who comes along who wants to get it on
I'll be leaving this old world of make believe
I been battered down crying like a hound
inside I see the long years rolling by
Not much I can do to make a rendezvous
I'm buried in a mountain hung on high
I'm hiding and conniving and reviving
surviving the depriving and contriving
help me through this bind I'll gladly spare the time
to be leaving this old world of make believe
I'm wasting copy pasting all this chasing
and erasing desperation she's been chasing
so help me through this bind
I'll gladly spare the time
to be leaving this old world of make believe
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You Will Be True
03:23
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You Will Be True
The days are getting longer
and I wonder how you're doing
Til we meet again
Was a goodbye kiss I felt in the rain
and words were strained
and waking up alone
gets lonely pretty fast
gets lonely pretty fast
will you be true
like you say you'd do?
oooh
(Chorus)
You will be true like you say you do
You will be true like you say you do
that's what I do when so few come so close to you
That's what I do 'cause I'm close to you
Being with you baby
Is one long beautiful feeling
I never search for sadness
Though that's one thing I think you're stealing
You know I love you
because waking up alone
gets lonely pretty fast
lonely pretty fast
will you be true
like you say you'd do?
oooh
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
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Torn Between Two Lovers
04:32
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Torn Between Two Lovers
(Chorus)
Well she's torn between two lovers and those lovers are tearing themselves apart
Will she wipe away my tears
will she cling to my heart?
In the night I'm alone and I feel my soul inside of me breathing beating out the pain
When I try to get a hold of my life my grip gets loose and it all just slips away
into the wind and I think it's a sin now
(Chorus)
(Bridge)
We don't live in a perfect world
you can't change and you just can't be to blame
and if we lived in that perfect world
I know I'd never have to stay and wait
On a lonely old night
and cry out why
is she...
(Chorus)
(It's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time.)
My eyes are searching distant cliffs quite near the sea where heartaches never flow
Whoever wants to follow me when I take this journey will love me enough to go
and I won't go alone
to where my future lies
(Chorus)
(It's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time - it's just a matter of time)
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