You can’t stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
Take the cold from snow, tell the trees, don’t grow,
Tell the wind don’t blow, 'cause it’s easier.
No, you can’t stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
Take the spark from love, make the rain fall up
'cause that’s easier to do.
Rock 'n roll is here to stay,
It will never die
It was meant to be that way,
Though I don’t know why
I don’t care what people say,
Rock 'n roll is here to stay
She’s the rock that I lean on,
She’s the sunshine of my day,
And I don’t care what you say about her,
She took me in and made me all I am today…
She’s my rock…
A winter’s day in a deep and dark December
I am alone
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow
I am a rock
I am an island
All alone am I ever since your goodbye
All alone with just a beat of my heart
People all around but I don’t hear a sound
Just the lonely beating of my heart
All alone
By the telephone
Waiting for a ring
A ting-a-ling
I’m all alone every evening
All alone feeling blue
Wondering where you are
And how you are
And if you are
All alone too
But when I dial the telephone
Nobody’s home
All by myself
Don’t wanna be
All by myself
Anymore
Anyway, we cut a hit and toured a bit,
With the song he said he couldn’t use.
And now he calls, and begs and crawls,
It’s telephone Deja Vu.
We got percentage points and lousy joints,
And all the glitter we can use, mama,
So, huh, don’t call us, we’ll call you!
Hello, Central, give me No Man’s Land
My Daddy’s there, my Mama told me
She tip-toed off to bed
After my prayers were said
Don’t ring when you get the number
Or you’ll disturb Mama’s slumber
I’m afraid to stand here at the 'phone
'Cause I’m alone
So won’t you hurry
I want to know why Mama starts to weep
When I say, “Now I lay me down to sleep”
Hello, Central, give me No Man’s Land
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain’t the way to have fun
Open up the window
Let some air into this room
I think I’m almost choking from
The smell of stale perfume
I turned 21 in prison,
Doing life without parole,
No one could steer me right,
Mama tried, Mama tried…
Mama tries hard to pretend
Things will get better again
Somehow she’s keeping it all inside her
But finally the tears fill our eyes
And I know that somewhere tonight
She knows how much we really miss her
Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight
Someone’s thinking of me, and loving me tonight
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
And the dreams that you dream of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
And the dreams that you dream of
Dreams really do come true
Someday, I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where trouble melts like lemon drops
High above the chimney top
That’s where you’ll find me
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side?
Don’t know what’s comin’ tomorrow,
Maybe it’s trouble and sorrow;
But we’ll travel the road, sharin’ our load,
Side by Side.
Me and you and a dog named Boo
Trav’lin’ and a-livin’ off the land
Me and you and a dog named Boo
How I love bein’ a free man
Don’t leave me, I cried
Don’t take that airplane ride,
But you locked me out of your mind,
And left me standing here behind…
He sort of smiled and kissed me goodbye
The tears were beginning to show
As he drove away on that rainy night
I begged him to go slow
But whether he heard, I’ll never know
Look out! Look out! Look out! Look out!
I felt so helpless, what could I do?
Remembering all the things we’d been through
In school they all stop and stare
I can’t hide the tears, but I don’t care
I’ll never forget him (the leader of the pack)
So kiss me and smile for me,
Tell me that you’ll wait for me,
Hold me like you’ll never let me go.
‘Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane,
Don’t know when I’ll be back again,
Oh babe, I hate to go.