No one knows what it’s like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
Like songs, our warmth fades away
Turns into coldness
Like the words that we say, today
And as the city glows, electric people nobody knows
Electric dreams, nobody shows
When you touch my skin, the feeling is electric
Electric guitar, gets run over,
By a car, on the highway.
This is a crime against the state.
This is the meaning of life.
Yeah, you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
On a moonlight night, you got your dead toad frog
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
The blood and the guts, they’re gonna make you swoon
You got your dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven
C’mon, stink
Father wears his Sunday best
Mother’s tired, she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister’s sighing in her sleep (ah)
Brother’s got a date to keep, he can’t hang around
Our house, in the middle of our street
Our house, in the middle of our street
The next thing I remember
I am walking down the street
I’m feeling all right
I’m with my boys
I’m with my troops, yeah
And down along the avenue
Some guys were shooting pool
And I heard the sound
Of a cappella groups, yeah
Singing late in the evening
And all the girls out on the stoops, yeah
Well, I was stranded in the jungle trying to take in all the heat they was giving.
The night is dark but the sidewalk’s bright and lined with the light of the living.
From a tenement window a transistor blasts.
Turn around the corner, things got real quiet, real fast.
I walked into a Tenth Avenue freeze-out!
Tenth Avenue freeze-out!
Oh, little Johnny Walker took a bullet last night, running from the guitar store.
He took a left down the alley,
Guess he should’ve gone right…
Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
(Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
There’s a man in the funny papers we all know (Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
He lived ‘way back a long time ago (Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
He don’t eat nothin’ but a bear cat stew (Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
Well this cat’s name is-a Alley Oop (Alley Oop, oop, oop-oop)
A long long time ago
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
Happy, clap along if you feel like a room without a roof,
Happy clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth…
Is everybody happy? Well are you happy?
Get a live-in lover, never leave her alone
The lifestyle is impressive, and you’ve moved up a tone
Circulate in circles, leave the centre at home
And happy is this hero, never needing a throne
Happy the man
He lives a simple life
He doesn’t have much, it doesn’t worry him
Where you go - where?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nowhere
And be a simple kind of man
Oh, be something you love and understand
Baby be a simple kind of man
Oh, won’t you do this for me, son, if you can
Truth is simple
But seldom ever seen
Let nothing come between
Simple man, simple dream
Don’t believe the church and state
And everything they tell you
Believe in me, I’m with the high command
Gigantor the space age robot
He’s at, your command
Gigantor the space age robot
His power is in your hand!
One humanoid escapee
One android on the run
Seeking freedom beneath a lonely desert sun
Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode, crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
In the year 5555,
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides,
Your legs got nothin’ to do,
Some machine’s doin’ that for you…
Don’t take it on board
Don’t fall on your sword
Just play another chord
If you feel you’re getting bored
I feel numb
I feel numb