Random Song Lyrics Thread

[Pariah]

Say!
Do you know who I am?
Someday
Maybe you'll understand

 

Hey!
You who walk on my Land
Here

You are welcomed again

 

Sometimes I get frightened
By voices that I hear without feeling
Coming through like visions
Of hungry lions out for the call

 

Hey!

While you exploit my land
Wait!

Let me give you a hand

 

Sometimes I get frightened
By words that I read without meaning
Caught up on a mission
Of misled angels lost in their fall

 

Say! Do you know who I am?
Do you know who I am?

 

And as the story goes
Lemur voice echoes
Does anybody know?
If you are one of those

 

And the voices screaming
Pearce the skin and reach one's heart

 

Take me, take me just as I am
Let me, let me be who I am

Take me, take me just as I am
Take me just as I am
Let me be who I am
Let me be who I am

[Pariah]

I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
And all of the dreams that come true
So surprising how it catches you

 

I wanna learn more about me
I've been sinking like a setting stone
And now the dreams are realising it's true
That's why I wanna learn about you

 

I wanna know more about life
And things that can fly in between my mind
I wanna change all that I dream about
My waking and my so many lives, oh my

 

I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
Just let me, let me come through
I'll give you my heart, my life for life
 

 

She gives me love

(What happened)
When love had gone away

(To this song)
When the pressure came so fast

(We once knew so well?)
She give me love

(Signed promise)
Long distance runaround

(For moments)
And in between the pressure

(Caught within the spell)
I was summoned

 

How did we dance on the south side of the sky

(A river, a mountain to be crossed)
We saw the flags flying on the moon

(The sunshine in mountains sometimes lost)
And thru the gates of delirium so fast
Believing in the light was a beginning

 

Only to believe in you
Only to believe in you

 

She give me love
When I was losing fast
I was awakened by the dream
She was the love for me
The first and last
And all that I remembered was the roundabout

Only to believe in you

(In and around the lake)
Only to believe in you

(In and around the lake)

 

 

Who was the first to show
The moon at night
Is never so far away
We are the first to define the
Languages of love

 

Who was the first to learn
The universal consciousness divine
We are the first to discover
This day in our time

 

And when the history of science
Re-writes itself each day
We are living in days of wonder, Simon says

So wonderful true believer
So wonderful I'm alive
Just take this world of life

Each day at a time

 

So up this universal
Combinations of the word
I'll try so hard to fulfill my belief

Take me I'm a love you
I'm a love you
No change in my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth

 

I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite a while
I wanna learn more about me
We haven't spoke in quite a while

 

So up this universal
Combinations of the word
So up this universal
Word of love

Take me I'm a love you
I'm a want you
No need to change my mind
I'll walk with you to the end of the earth

 

I wanna learn more about you
We haven't spoke in quite while
I wanna learn more about me

 

 

Only when you looked
Did I realise
Someone broke into your life
How we hurt and never show it

 

Come into my world hold me
In your arms
There's a mystery to the touch
How it heals so
When we're broken

 

I believe that all the fear you've had
Can gently fly away

We experience we hold together
Lost in one embrace

 

We will love forever

This eternity
For in this love, I'm alive, I'm alive

 

Only when you spoke
Did I realise
How you understand this life

How you help me
With your eyesight

 

Only when we touched
Did it all come true
How you understand my life
How you helped me with your light

[Cancer]

Move, down the road I go
Move, down the road I go
There's mud in the water
Roach in the cellar
Bugs in the sugar
Mortgage on the home
Mortgage on the home

There's garbage on the sidewalk
Highways in the back yard
Police on the corner
Mortgage on the car
Mortgage on the car
Move, down the road I go

They're selling independence
Actors in the White House
Acid indigestion
Mortgage on my life
Mortgage on my life
Move, down the road I go

Ramble tamble
Ramble tamble
Ramble tamble

[Pariah]

I can learn to resist
Anything but temptation
I can learn to coexist
With anything but pain

I can learn to compromise
Anything but my desires
I can learn to get along
With all the things I can't explain

 

I can learn to resist
Anything but frustration
I can learn to persist
With anything but aiming low

 

I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don't know

 

You can surrender without a prayer
But never really pray
Pray without surrender
You can fight
Fight without ever winning
But never ever win
Without a fight

I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don't know

 

I can learn to close my eyes
To anything but injustice
I can learn to get along
With all the things I don't know

[Pariah]

Grim faced and forbidding, their faces closed tight
An angular mass of New Yorkers
Pacing in rhythm, race the oncoming night
They chase through the streets of Manhattan
Head first humanity, pause at a light
Then flow through the streets of the city

 

They seem oblivious to a soft spring rain
Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky

 

The buildings are lost in their limitless rise
My feet catch the pulse and the purposeful stride

 

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city

 

Wide angle watcher on life's ancient tales
Steeped in the history of London
Green and grey washes in a wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of Westminster
Wistful and weathered, the pride still prevails
Alive in the streets of the city

 

Are they oblivious to this quality?
A quality
Of light unique to
Every city's streets

 

Pavements may teem with intense energy
But the city is calm in this violent sea

 

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city

[Pariah]

All around that dull gray world
From Moscow to Berlin
People storm the barricades
Walls go tumbling in

 

The counter-revolution
People smiling through their tears
Who can give them back their lives
And all those wasted years?

 

All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

 

All around that dull gray world
Of ideology
People storm the marketplace
And buy up fantasy

 

The counter-revolution
At the counter of a store
People buy the things they want
And borrow for a little more

 

All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

 

Do we have to be forgiving at last?
What else can we do?
Do we have to say goodbye to the past?
Yes, I guess we do

 

Do we have to be forgiving at last?
What else can we do?
Do we have to say goodbye to the past?
Yes, I guess we do

 

All around this great big world
All the crap we had to take
Bombs and basement fallout shelters
All our lives at stake

 

The bloody revolution
All the warheads in its wake
All the fear and suffering
All a big mistake

 

All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

 

Do we have to be forgiving at last?
What else can we do?
Do we have to say goodbye to the past?
Yes, I guess we do

 

All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

 

All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

 

All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

[Cancer]

Cuckoo

 

Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They think we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
(Hey)

 

Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey)
I have no place to stay (Hey)
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey)
My love has flown away (Hey)
My tears have come and gone (Hey)
Oh, my Lord, I have to roam (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)

 

Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by a tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)

 

Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)

 

Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time
Time

 

Oh
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by a tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)

 

Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)

 

Time
Time
Time
Time
Yeah

[Pariah]

Up where you hide away
The buildings are tall
Nobody looks at the view
None of your consequences
Dare to be small
It's a lonely situation
But you said you’d take it till you knew

 

The glory of winning
Face to face, we steal from each other
The glory of winning
Can't erase the sadness of losing you

 

Now all you idolise
Is concrete and clay
Where only egos can grow
And each ambition
Is a step on the way
Till you join that congregation
In a place reserved for thosе who know

 

The glory of winning
Face to face, wе steal from each other
The glory of winning
Can't erase the sadness of losing you

 

You’re playing to win
You'll never give in
You're counting on victory
Now figures and schemes
Are haunting your dreams
And they are the means
To take you away from me

 

The glory of winning
Face to face, we steal from each other
The glory of winning
Can't erase the sadness of losing you

 

The glory of winning
Worlds apart, we steal from each other
The glory of winning
Leaves my heart the sadness of losing you

[Pariah]

Living life for today
Who cares what lies ahead now?
Like a new religion
Is this real?

 

Green Lights and Blue Skies
Follow, follow your dream
Green Lights and Blue Skies
Colour, colour your dream

Watching sounds in stereo
Morphing into monochrome
Pictures on the big screen
Is this real?

 

Creatures take the dance floor
Bodies moving close to mine
Acid pumps through my brain
Is this real?

 

Green Lights and Blue Skies
Follow, follow your dream
Green Lights and Blue Skies
Colour, colour your dream

 

Green Lights and Blue Skies
Follow, follow your dream
Green Lights and Blue Skies
Colour, colour your dream

Walk out of this fever
Zombies ever close to me
Holy fire, what is this?
Is this real?

[Pariah]

So here I am my precious one
I sit, reflect and try to understand my life
For now my pretty bird has flown
To find a freedom of her own

 

This is the evening of my day
I have been thoughtful and alone for some time
For are there things I could have changed?
What is the difference that I could have made?

 

And in my final hour
I face my nemesis
Of my damnation
Or my redemption

There is no victory
But through surrender
Then we may learn to live

In the affirmative
And find the joy to give
These are reflections of my life

 

And so the question that I ask:
"Could I have changed, can change occur, in such single mind?"
Did I act just for myself
Or let my conscience be my only guide?

 

And in my final hour
I face my nemesis
Of my damnation
Or my redemption

There is no victory
But through surrender
Then we may learn to live

In the affirmative
And find the joy to give
These are reflections of my life

 

Reflections (of my life)

[Pariah]

Remember the days gone by, when we fell in love
Everything that we had been dreaming of
All of our prayers were answered
Nothing was left for chance, and
Nothing was in our way

Remember the lonely nights and the telephone
Comforting words to you when you're all alone
Always a hand to soothe you
Always a word to move you
I never questioned why...

Under the sky I hold you
Under the azure sky
And with this ring of gold, you'll
Love me until you die

Till you die

Till you die

I just hadn't noticed where all the time had gone
I abandoned my hopes and dreams, and I carried on
Now it's too late to save it
I guess you had better face it
I've come to say goodbye...

Under the sky you hold me
Under a blood red sky
And of the vow you told me
Was it a total lie?

Did you lie?
Did you lie?

All hope has gone, will your world carry on...
Can you live with yourself anymore?

Under the sky you hold me
Under a blood red sky
And of the vow you told me
Was it a total lie?

Did you lie?
Did you lie?

[Pariah]

The road to hell is paved with gold
From where I stand it's clear
The story of my life unfolds
And all I have at last is here

 

My mask concealed no treachery
Your heart was on your sleeve
I removed your veil of innocence
With no intention to deceive

 

Our trust was built on promises

And all that I held dear

 

You were the one who stole my heart
When it was yours for free
And then your life was torn apart
And it was plain to see

How far I'd fall, a chasm deep

Beyond belief
And now I'd give it all

To catch a thief

 

Your character was plain to see
I stumbled then I fell
Your silver words spelled tragedy
Although you seemed to wish me well

 

Then what I gave so easily

Someday you will repay

 

You were the one who stole my heart
When it was yours for free
And then your life was torn apart
And it was plain to see

How far I'd fall, a chasm deep

Beyond belief
And now I'd give it all

 

You took away my will to live
I took all that you had to give
Now I have nothing, I have nothing to lose
But the pain and misery of losing you
And I really cannot see me pulling through

 

My story ends not here I see
Your debt is overdue
I need no mercy, take my life
'Cause now my heart belongs to you

 

We can rebuild our lives again

And our reward is here

 

You are the one who holds my heart
I give it willingly
You turned my whole life inside out
And now it's plain to see

I had to fall in love so deep

Beyond belief
And yes, I have it all

 

You are the one who holds my heart
I give it willingly
You turned my whole life inside out
And now it's plain to see

I had to fall in love so deep

Beyond belief
And yes, I have it all

To catch a thief

[Pariah]

This is our destiny
There's no eternity
I need security
You turn your back on me

 

I gave my life to you
So what a thing to do
Just how can you pursue
A life with yourself?

 

And when you see the end
On what can you depend?
There's nothing left that you
You can lean on

 

When you did that to me
It felt like purgatory
Oh! What a place to be
Devil or deep blue...

 

You, you had the time of your life
Me, I stand alone
You, you had the time of your life
Me, I stand alone

 

What was your fantasy?
It's just too plain to see
That same old imagery
Is fading away

 

There's nothing more to do
Whatever happened to
All the things we planned
When we walked hand in hand?

 

And when you see the end
On what can you depend?
There's nothing left that you
You can lean on

 

When you did that to me
It felt like purgatory
Oh! What a place to be
Devil or deep blue...

 

You, you had the time of your life
Me, I stand alone
You, you had the time of your life
Me, I stand alone

 

This is our destiny
There's no eternity
I need security
You turn your back on me

 

I gave my life to you
So what a thing to do
Just how can you pursue
A life with yourself?

 

And when you see the end
On what can you depend?
There's nothing left that you
You can lean on

 

When you did that to me
It felt like purgatory
Oh! What a place to be
Devil or deep blue...

 

You, you had the time of your life
Me, I stand alone

[Pariah]

Too bad you're crazy

Too bad you're looney as hell

So long, it could have been swell together

 

Too bad you're whacko

(Whacko)

How sad your marbles are gone

(All gone)

We could be dancing 'til dawn

But you're too weird for words

 

How did you get so strange?

You were such a beautiful kid

Now you are so deranged

Was it mom and daddy?

Something they did?

 

Too bad you're loco

(Too bad)

You should be locked in a cell

(How sad)

You're great, but hey, what the hell

You're crazy

 

You're off the deep end

(Bon Voyage)

Your life's a practical joke

(Quel domage)

I'd bail you out but I'm broke

Your brain's completely fried

 

Life's just a party trick to you

Clown jokes and lots of whoop-de-doo

It's time to put that on the shelf

(Loving you is a three ring circus)

 

You do look fetching

(Too bad)

It could be catching

(Egads)

 

I'm a little bit crazy

Just a little bit crazy

I'm a little bit crazy myself...

[Pariah]

From the Bible to the popular song
There's one theme that we find right along
Of all ideals they hail as good
The most sublime is motherhood

 

There was a man though, who it seems
Once carried this ideal to extremes
He loved his mother and she loved him
And yet his story is rather grim

 

There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex
You may have heard about his odd complex
His name appears in Freud's index
'Cause he loved his mother

 

His rivals used to say quite a bit
That as a monarch he was most unfit
But still in all they had to admit
That he loved his mother

 

Yes, he loved his mother like no other
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother
One thing on which you can depend is
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is

 

When he found what he had done
He tore his eyes out, one by one
A tragic end to a loyal son
Who loved his mother

 

So be sweet and kind to mother now and then have a chat
Buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat
But maybe you had better let it go at that

 

Or you may find yourself with a quite complex complex
And you may end up like Oedipus
I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus
Than end up like old Oedipus Rex

[Cancer]

[Verse 1]
Well, you wake up in the mornin'
You hear the work bell ring
And they march you to the table
You see the same old thing
Ain't no food upon the table
And no pork up in the pan
But you better not complain, boy
You get in trouble with the man

 

[Chorus]
Let the Midnight Special
Shine a light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine a light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine a light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine a ever lovin' light on me

 

[Verse 2]
Yonder come miss Rosie
How in the world did you know?
By the way she wears her apron
And the clothes she wore
Umbrella on her shoulder
Piece of paper in her hand
She come to see the gov'nor
She wants to free her man, lord

 

[Chorus]

 

[Verse 3]
If you're ever in Houston
Well, you better do the right
You better not gamble
And you better be white
Oh the police will grab ya
And the boys will beat you down
The next thing you know, boy
Oh! You're in the bayou and drowned

(reference)

 

[Chorus, twice]

 

Edited October 29, 2023 by Cancer

[Pariah]

You gave me too many chances
Now it's drivin' us apart
I keep on runnin' with the boys girl
But then you knew that from the start

 

It must keep building up inside you
'Cause you never let it show
I know I'm hanging on the edge now
But I won't let go

 

I never meant to hurt you
But something was on my mind
Just give me one more chance
We can make it this time

 

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

 

If you gave me three wishes
I'd throw two of them away
I've seen that look in your eyes girl
I'd use the last one this way

 

We've been from rags to riches
But your love can't be bought
I'm just a junkyard dog, girl
Who's afraid to being caught

 

You're standing in the shadows
Watching everything that I do
And I know the way things must look
It couldn't be further from the truth

 

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

 

Remember how it used to be girl
Makin' love like it's the last time
We held each other close
Not knowing what we'd found
You felt the pounding of my thunder
As your rain was pouring down

 

I never meant to hurt you
But something was on my mind, yeah
Just give me one more chance
We can make it this time

 

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

Stay away

Stay away from my heart

[Pariah]

Before gas and TV
Before people had cars
We'd sit around the fires
Pass around our guitars

 

Remembering songs
When my daddy was home
He'd play along
On the spoons and a comb

 

We'd go with the flow
When the weather was fine
Sometimes we'd go
Collecting scrap iron

 

And we'd sit around the fires
Pass a bottle of wine
In the tales of the road
Since time out of mind

 

If heaven's like this
Well, that's okay with me
Where the living is fine
And living is free

 

If heaven's like this
Well, then here's where I'll be
On the edge of the field
On the edge of the world
Before gas and TV

[death tribble]

Hava nagila
Hava nagila
Hava nagila
ve-nismeḥa
 

Hava nagila
Hava nagila
Hava nagila
ve-nismeḥa

Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah
ve-nismeḥa

 

Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah
Hava neranenah
ve-nismeḥa
 

Uru, uru aḥim !
Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ

Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ
Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ
Uru aḥim be-lev sameaḥ

Uru aḥim, uru aḥim !
Be-lev sameaḥ

[Pariah]

Tried to amend my carnivorous habits
Made it nearly seventy days
Losin' weight without speed, eatin' sunflower seeds
Drinkin' lots of carrot juice and soakin' up rays

But at night I'd have these wonderful dreams
Some kind of sensuous treat
Not zucchini, fettuccini, or bulgur wheat
But a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat

Cheeseburger in paradise
Heaven on earth with an onion slice
Not too particular, not too precise
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

Heard about the old-time sailor men
They eat the same thing again and again
Warm beer and bread, they say, could raise the dead
Well, it reminds me of the menu at a Holiday Inn

But times have changed for sailors these days
When I'm in port, I get what I need
Not just Havanas or bananas or daiquiris
But that American creation on which I feed

Cheeseburger in paradise
Medium rare with Muenster'd be nice
Heaven on earth with an onion slice
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french-fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god almighty, which way do I steer?

For my cheeseburger in paradise
Makin' the best of every virtue and vice
Worth every damn bit of sacrifice
To get a cheeseburger in paradise

 

To be a cheeseburger in paradise
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

 

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french-fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well, good god Almighty, which way do I steer?

[Pariah]

Now they make new movies in old black and white
With happy endings, where nobody fights
So if you find yourself in that nostalgic rage
Honey, jump right up and show your age

 

I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
The Boston Blackie kind
A two toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

 

I remember bein' buck-toothed and skinny
Writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
Oh I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too

 

Then it's Bandstand, Disneyland, growin' up fast
Drinkin' on a fake I.D.
Yeah, and Rama of the jungle was everyone's Bawana
But only jazz musicians were smokin' marijuana

 

Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too

 

Then it's flat top, dirty bob, coppin' a feel
Grubbin' on the livin' room floor (so sore)
Yeah, they send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge
But all you want to do is learn how to score

 

Yeah, but now I'm gettin' old, don't wear underwear
I don't go to church and I don't cut my hair
But I can go to movies and see it all there
Just the way that it used to be

 

That's why I wish I had a pencil thin moustache
The Boston Blackie kind
A two-toned Ricky Ricardo jacket
And an autographed picture of Andy Devine

 

Oh, I could be anyone I wanted to be
Maybe suave Errol Flynn or the Sheik of Araby
If I only had a pencil thin moustache
Then I could do some cruisin' too

 

Yeah, Bryl-cream, a little dab'll do yah
Oh, I could do some cruisin' too

[Pariah]

A long long time ago there was a volcano
Living all alone in the middle of the sea
He sat high above his bay watching all the couples play
And wishing that he had someone too

 

And from his lava came this song of hope that he sang
out loud every day for years and years

 

I have a dream I hope will come true
That you're here with me and I am here with you
I wish that the earth, sea, and the sky up above-a
Will send me someone to lava

 

Years of singing all alone turned his lava into stone
Until he was on the brink of extinction
But little did he know that living in the sea below
Another volcano was listening to his song

 

Everyday she heard his tune her lava grew and grew
Because she believed his song was meant for her
Now she was so ready to meet him above the sea
As he sang his song of hope for the last time

 

I have a dream I hope it will come true
That you're here with me and I am here with you
I wish that the earth, sea, and the sky up above-a
Will send me someone to lava

 

Rising from the sea below stood a lovely volcano
Looking all around but she could not see him
He tried to sing to let her know that she was not there alone
But with no lava, his song was all gone

 

He filled the sea with his tears and watched his dreams disappear
As she remembered what his song meant to her

 

I have a dream I hope will come true
That you're here with me and I am here with you
I wish that the earth, sea, and the sky up above-a
Will send me someone to lava

 

Oh, they were so happy to finally meet above the sea
All together now their lava grew and grew
No longer are they all alone with aloha as their new home
And when you go and visit them this is what they sing

 

I have a dream I hope will come true
That you will grow old with me, and I will grow old with you
We thank the earth, sea, and the sky we thank too
I lava you
I lava you
I lava you

[Pariah]

I took off for a weekend last month just to try and recall the whole year
All of the faces and all of the places wonderin' where they all disappeared
I didn't ponder the question too long, I was hungry and went out for a bite
Ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinkin' all night

 

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

 

Reading departure signs in some big airport reminds me of the places I've been
Visions of good times that brought so much pleasure makes me want to go back again
If it suddenly ended tomorrow I could somehow adjust to the fall
Good times and riches and son-of-a-b*ches I've seen more than I can recall

 

These changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
Through all of the islands and all of the highlands
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

 

I think about Paris when I'm high on red wine I wish I could jump on a plane
So many nights I just dream of the ocean, god I wish I was sailin' again
Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me and I know that I just can't go wrong

 

With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of my running and all of my cunning
If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane
If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane

Edited November 14, 2023 by Pariah

[death tribble]

Même si un jour à Knokke-le-Zoute
Je deviens comme je le redoute
Chanteur pour femmes finissantes
Même si je leur chante "Mi corazón"
Avec la voix bandonéante
D'un Argentin de Carcassonne
Même si on m'appelle Antonio
Que je brûle mes derniers feux
En échange de quelques cadeaux
Madame, oh madame, je fais ce que je peux
Même si je me saoule à l'hydromel
Pour mieux parler de virilité
À des mémères décorées
Comme des arbres de Noël

Je sais que dans ma saoulographie
Chaque nuit pour des éléphants roses
J'rechanterai ma chanson morose
Celle du temps où je m'appelais Jacky

Être une heure, une heure seulement
Être une heure, une heure quelquefois
Être une heure, rien qu'une heure durant
Beau, beau, beau et con à la fois

Même si un jour à Macao
J'deviens gouverneur de tripot
Cerclé de femmes languissantes
Même si lassé d'être chanteur
J'y sois devenu maître chanteur
Et que ce soit les autres qui chantent
Même si on m'appelle le beau Serge
Que je vende des bateaux d'opium
Du whisky de Clermont-Ferrand
De vrais pédés, de fausses vierges
Que j'ai une banque à chaque doigt
Et un doigt dans chaque pays
Et que chaque pays soit à moi
Je sais quand même que chaque nuit

Tout seul au fond de ma fumerie
Pour un public de vieux chinois
J'rechanterai ma chanson à moi
Celle du temps où je m'appelais Jacky

Être une heure, une heure seulement
Être une heure, une heure quelquefois
Être une heure, rien qu'une heure durant
Beau, beau, beau et con à la fois

Même si un jour au paradis
Je deviens comme j'en serais surpris
Chanteur pour femmes à ailes blanches
Même si je leur chante alléluia
En regrettant le temps d'en bas
Où c'est pas tous les jours dimanche
Même si on m'appelle Dieu le Père
Celui qui est dans l'annuaire
Entre Dieulefit et Dieu vous garde
Même si je me laisse pousser la barbe
Même si toujours trop bonne pomme
Je me crève le cœur et le pur esprit
À vouloir consoler les hommes
Je sais quand même que chaque nuit

J'entendrai dans mon paradis
Les anges, les saints et Lucifer
Me chanter ma chanson d'naguère
Celle du temps où je m'appelais Jacky

Être une heure, une heure seulement
Être une heure, une heure quelquefois
Être une heure, rien qu'une heure durant
Beau, beau, beau et con à la fois

[Pariah]

After two thousand came two thousand and one
To be the new champions we were there for to run
From springtime in Arizona till the fall in Monterey
And the raceways were the battlefields and we fought 'em all the way

 

Was at Phoenix in the morning I had a wake-up call
She went around without a warning put me in the wall
I drove Long Beach, California with three cracked vertebrae
And we went on to Indianapolis, Indiana in May

 

Well the Brickyard's there to crucify anyone who will not learn
I climbed a mountain to qualify I went flat through the turns
But I was down in the might-have-beens and an old pal good as died
And I sat down in Gasoline Alley and I cried

 

Well we were in at the kill again on the Milwaukee Mile
And in June up in Michigan we were robbed at Belle Isle
Then it was on to Portland, Oregon for the G.I. Joe
And I'd blown off almost everyone when my motor let go

 

New England, Ontario we died in the dirt
Those walls from mid-Ohio to Toronto they hurt
So we came to Road America where we burned up at the lake
But at the speedway at Nazareth I made no mistake