Tell me the tales that to me were so dear
Long, long ago, long, long ago.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
Tell me lies
Tell me, tell me lies
Oh no-no, you can’t disguise
You can’t disguise
No, you can’t disguise
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
Tell me something good
(Tell me, tell me, tell me)
Tell me that you love me, yeah
Tell me something good
(Tell me, tell me, tell me)
Tell me that you like it, yeah
Woke up this morning feelin’ fine
There’s something special on my mind
Last night I met a new girl in the neighborhood, whoa yeah
Something tells me I’m into something good
I woke up in a Soho doorway
A policeman knew my name
He said, “You can go sleep at home tonight
If you can get up and walk away”
I staggered back to the underground
And the breeze blew back my hair
I remember throwin’ punches around
And preachin’ from my chair
Last thing I remember, I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man, “We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave”
You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down
Thing’s ain’t been the same
Since the Blues walked into town
But you’re one in a million
You’ve got that shotgun shine
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes
Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Biting on a bullet, pulling out all of his hair
Now, Shotgun Willie’s got all of his family there
Well, you can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say
You can’t make a record if you ain’t got nothing to say
You can’t play music if you don’t know nothing to play
North side, east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he’s the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy,
Floy doy, floy doy, floy doy.
Floy, Floy, Floy
Floy Joy!
You’re the man.
I know I’ll never own you Floy
But see me when you can.
You all, everybody
You all, everybody
Acting like you’re stupid people
Wearing expensive clothes
Seems like everybody’s waitin’
For the new change
Come around, come around
Come around, come around
Waitin’ for the day when the king, queen of shows
Singing, round, singing round, singing round
Singing round, singing round, singing round for everyone
Yeah do it
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
‘Cause the battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times, they are a-changin’
There been times that I thought
I couldn’t last for long
But now, I think I’m able
To carry on
It’s been a long
A long time coming, but I know
A change gon’ come
Oh yes, it will
We lived happily forever, so the story goes,
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold.
But we’ll try, best that we can,
To carry on.
Come Sail Away – Styx
They lived for a while in a
Very nice style
But it’s always the same in the end
They got a divorce as a matter
Of course
And they parted the closest
Of friends
Then the king and the queen went
Back to the green
But you can never go back
There again
She left her neighborhood, in which everyone was filthy rich
She left her parents’ home and strayed with a vagabond who made
Vows of love she’d never heard, and she believed his every word
She left no forwarding address, just took her youth and happiness
As with the boy she vanished in, the secret sweetness of their sin
Wednesday morning at five o’clock
As the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes down the stairs to the kitchen
Clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside, she is free
She, … (we gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (we gave her everything money could buy)
I got to have you baby
Don’t you say that you don’t care
I got to have you baby
Don’t you say that you don’t care
Any way you want it baby
I’ll settle for a back door love affair