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LYRICS to our 21st century set, because Stacy asked for them. :)
GARBAGE
Dark & rainy morn, quiet on the side streets.
Early workers rising, lights against the night.
The rest of us are sleeping.
? up on the roof top.
Puddles froming on the ground.
A distant rumble sounds.
Punch a time clock, start up a cold truck.
Thermos full of coffee. Streets before the dawn.
Big city ghost town. All right all night greasy spoon.
Cops and crazies roaming. Ride through darkness morning.
Banging clanging cans and bottles smashing
Lifting dumping tons of waste each morning
Rotting stinking food unused for eating
???? Machine mouth opens hungrily
Residential silence shattered. Window rattle, bleating
Dogs begin to bark. Angry sleepers open wide
Cats go under bed. Quickly move from house to house
Small can into large, dump large can into garbage barge.
TOUGH GUY IN THE LAB
Tough guy in the lab,
battling the test tubes.
Tough in the lab
manipulates the genes.
Hard-nosed, mean, and ornery,
he's building a new world.
Old man sees the modern age
as weakened and absurd.
Eats his with white rats.
Sleeps upon the floor.
Doesn't cut his toenails,
and won't walk out the door.
Hasn't left in ten years.
The government pays his bills.
Building a new master race
that smiles when it kills.
Tough guy in the lab,
battling the test tubes.
Tough in the lab
manipulates the genes.
Hard-nosed, mean, and ornery,
he's building a new world.
Old man sees the modern age
as weakened and absurd.
The project is top secret.
The Pentagon is mum.
Rumors leaking to the press
are stamped out one by one.
Lies
Lies are getting me, lies are getting me down
Lies are all over, lies are all over town
Lies what they’re doing, lies what they’re doing to me
Lies if you could, lies if you could see.
If you’d look in your head for one minute
You’d know what a fool you are
Never thinking about long term effects
You’re going crazy all by yourself.
Size it up and maybe you will see
Your kinda problem is a great big problem to me
With your loose tongue wagging like a dog
Gonna get lost just running in your own fog
Lies are getting me, lies are getting me down
Lies are all over, lies are all over town
Lies what they’re doing, lies what they’re doing to me
Lies if you could, lies if you could see.
Lies what they’re doing
Oh Lies what they’re doing
Oh Lies what they’re doing
Oh Lies what they’re doing, to me
What Happened to Me ?
The questions come when I ask myself; What happened to me?
The wandering Pilgrim blessed in the Holy Trinity
Who looked on high and hoped to see, God’s face
And then found his faith, so easily replaced
What ideas create meaning, for all the world to share?
Beyond the sales and sports and flags and the facade of care?
How many times has the moment seemed so right?
Before the whisper of hope fled back into the night?
What things in life did I hold so dear?
The prospect of a better world, I saw so clear
Faith in God, then faith in Marx, then faith in humankind
Displaced by cynics and scammers and wars, fought by the blind
Painting A Picture
Painting a picture that has something to say
I want to talk to you, but the words slip away
It’s not that I’m shy, you know I’ve Been here before
I choose from my palette, but I can’t paint the door
It’s been such a long time since loves come around
My heart was so broken, I can still here the sound
Of glass hitting concrete, a blender on high
When the rain started falling, I thought I would die
I want to move forward, I want love to grow
My heart isn’t willing, my heart still says no
The eclipse of the moon, the sun and the stars
It seemed so much simpler when seen in the cards
I haven’t much time, the pace is so swift
I’ve been in a lifeboat that just wants to drift
The sea is too large too lonely too cold
Throw me a line and I will try to
Bad Gossip
Am I invisible? Have I disappeared?
You look at me and think I'm pretty weird.
Playing my heart out but you don't care.
Mouth half open you stand and stare.
How long has this been going on?
All you want is the same.
Stupid. Song.
You're so modern in your trendy clothes.
You're a cow with a slaughterhouse ring in your nose.
The snobs say “JUMP!”, you're in the air.
Think for yourself, if you dare.
How long can this go on?
All you want is the same.
Stupid. Song.
Discover Your Feet
Whacha gonna do when the oil's all gone
Park your car on the front lawn
Back on our feet again Feet to earth again
In the future We can walk now
Freeways are breezeways ? where traffic flowed
Fossils for the future where a Studebaker rode
Signs all ? slid off the California Hills
Refuge from a set by Cecil B DeMille
Abandoned hot rods? in the sun
parked forever with the radios on
ragtop flapping waving in the wind
used to fold back, let the stars in
Hubcaps shining On wheels that never turn
When we gonna lose Will we ever learn
Going nowhere nothing even goes ?
End of an era
That's the way it goes.
Once it goes, it's gone.
No drive in movie on a Saturday night,
no cruisin' for burgers, race to beat the light
Back on my feet again
Feet to earth again
In the future
We can walk now
Hopstepping crosstown wind in your face
Watch out for that ? robot with a can of mace
No more flat tire no more red light?
End of an era
That's the way it goes.
Once it goes, it's gone
Wacky Dog
Known to us as Peetie
When we’re little watching TV
With that circle ‘round you eye
What a little cutie pie
Grown up now to be a tough guy
Bite you hard sometimes you die
When he’s walking down the street
Everybody moves their feet
Mother and son, Daughter and dad.
Your own Mom’s out, your Dad’s long gone
You’ve got your dog to keep you strong
Keep you strong, right or wrong
You know that dog is gonna keep you strong
Wacky Dog it’s not your fault that you’re wound up in a somersault
Mouth that’s meant to eat a meal
Are now jaws with teeth of steel.
Wacky Dog it’s not your fault that you’re wound up in a somersault
Mouth that’s meant to eat a meal
Are now jaws with teeth of steel.