Operator, well, let’s forget about this call
There’s no one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time
Oh, you’ve been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime
Operator, can you help me, help me if you please.
Give me the right area code and the number that I need.
My rider left upon the midnight flyer,
Singin’ like a summer breeze.
Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
I’m goin’ to Graceland; Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, I’m goin’ to Graceland.
Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America
Kathy, I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I’ve gone to look for America
Oh, we come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age’s most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
Oh, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right, it’s all right
You can’t be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow’s going to be another working day
And I’m trying to get some rest
That’s all I’m trying to get some rest
When everybody’s fast asleep,
I start to creep
Through the shadows of the moonlight,
I walk my beat
Better close your window tight,
I might come in for a bite
Oh yeah
Fred went to the movies every Saturday night
Liked to watch TV and a Western fight
Paid his taxes most every year
And on a hot summer day why he drank a little beer!
Exciting Mediocre Fred!..Mediocre Fred
Well the days went by all dull and gray
and he didn’t think much and had little to say
And when the full moon rose
He’d climb over the moat
FIND SOME PEOPLE SLEEPING
AND HE’D BITE THEIR THROAT!
Mediocre Fred! Mediocre Dull Fred.
You came throwing colours,
All around my blacks and grays,
While I stood in wonder you just opened up my days.
Let me tell you what you did to me,
I want to shout the news.
You came throwing colours 'round my blues,
You came throwing colours 'round my blues.
And he said, “Stick out your tongue.”
Then he put on 42 1/2 tabs of brown acid that he still had from his Woodstock days.
Sprinkled a little peyote on her tongue, just for good measure.
She saw all kinds of colors! Lemon yellow, orange orange, cherry red, kaleidoscope eyes!
The world was on fire!
You’re one bridge I’d like to burn
Bottle up the ashes, smash the urn
I’m charged up
Don’t put me down
Don’t feel like talking
Don’t mess around
I feel mean
I feel OK
I’m charged up
Electricity
I send your name
up into the sky
And the wind blows it back into my face
You see, even nature
reacts on me
And all my electricity
will make it across your sea
With every wave the sea makes
My body gets weaker
and weaker… and weaker…
You see, even nature
reacts on me
And all my electricity
will make it across your sea
And provides you
with my love
I wanna love you every day and every night:
We’ll be together, with a roof right over our heads!
We’ll share the shelter of my single bed;
We’ll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the bread.
We’ll share the shelter of my single bed
Tears before bedtime,
There’ll be trouble tonight.
I don’t wanna talk about it anymore,
I don’t wanna have another fight
Saturday night’s alright for fightin’.
I wonder if those changes
Have left a scar on you
Like all the burning hoops of fire
That you and I passed through
You’re a bluebird on a telegraph line
I hope you’re happy now
Well if the wind of change comes down your way girl
You’ll make it back somehow
And love lies bleeding in my hand
It’s hell to think of you with another man
I was playing rock-n-roll and you were just a fan
But my guitar couldn’t hold you
So I split the band
Love lies bleeding in my hands
I been out catting, pussyfooting around
Til the break of dawn
Found me knocked out flat on my head.
Some feline beauty waved her tail my way
And I just had to stay.
I couldn’t get the blood off my hands!
She made my eyes bug out,
My tail stand up,
And she aint even in heat for a month!
What’s new, pussycat? Whoa-oh-oh-oh
She dances through the street
Like the flame of a fire,
Everybody’s hypnotized, everybody perspires.
Even little children cry,
Grown men shout,
The dogs bark, the lights go out out, out…
Big electric cat.