The warden threw a party in the county jail
The prison band was there and they began to wail
The band was jumpin’ and the joint began to swing
You should’ve heard them knocked-out jailbirds sing
I was gambling in Havana
You know I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Daddy, won’t you get me out of this
I can’t keep up with what’s been going on
I think my heart must just be slowing down
Among the human beings in their designer jeans
Am I the only one who hears the screams
And the strangled cries of lawyers in love
Prisoners of love
Blue skies above
Can’t keep our hearts in jail
Purple haze, all in my brain,
Lately things they don’t seem the same.
Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why–
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
I said: "Mr. Purple people eater, what’s your line.
He said “It’s eating purple people and it sure is fine -
But that’s not the reason I came to land:
I want to get a job in a rock n roll band.”
If there’s a rockshow,
At the concertgebouw,
They’ve got long hair,
At the Madison Square,
You’ve got rock and roll,
At the Hollywood Bowl…
Every night is a different flight to a different galaxy,
Do a sold-out show, then I hit the road in my starship limousine,
Get so damned tired and uninspired doing all these one-night stands,
It’s a giant leap for rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s too much for just one man.
So you want to be a rock and roll star?
Then listen now to what I say
Just get an electric guitar
Then take some time and learn how to play
I look at you all see the love there that’s sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps.
Who draws the criwd?
Who plays so loud?
Baby, it’s the guitar man…
Well, they gotta pet monkey
He likes to get drunky
And sing boogie woogie
And it sounds real funky
Come on, yo’ time, boy
Sing one monkey
Here we go
I took my baby to the drive-in show,
She turned the speaker down,
And then she turned on the radio,
I watched a silent movie, diggin’ funky sound…
Everybody’s speaking, but you don’t know what they’re saying
You’re just guessing meanings
Interpreting emotion through a window that is broken
We’re just testing feelings
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
It’s oh so quiet
Shh shh
It’s oh so still
Shh shh
You’re all alone
Shh shh
And so peaceful until
You fall in love
Zing boom
The sky up above
Zing boom
Is caving in
Wow bam
You’ve never been so nuts about a guy
You want to laugh you want to cry
You cross your heart and hope to die
Oh hot diggity, dog ziggity, boom what you do to me
It’s so new to me, what you do to me
Hot diggity, dog ziggity, boom what you do to me
When you’re holding me tight
Well, I try and try to forget you girl,
But it’s just so hard to do,
Every time you do that thing you do.
Remember you’re a Womble.
Remember me as a sunny day
Please darling, remember me as a good thing
Remember me when you drink the wine
Remember me as a good thing
Remember me as a big balloon
Don’t forget me darling