If Mars had life on it
I might find my wife on it
My life’s in jeopardy
Murdered in cold blood is what I’m gonna be
I ain’t been home since Friday night
And now my wife is coming after me
I was there to match my intellect on national TV
Against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD.
I was tense, I was nervous, I guess it just wasn’t my night.
Art Fleming gave the answers, but I couldn’t get the questions right.
I lost on Jeopardy
While the wheel is spinning, spinning, spinning
I’ll not dream of winning
Fortune or fame
While the wheel is turning, turning, turning
I’ll be yearning, yearning
For love’s precious flame
It’s a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of any eye my soul is turning
In your hand, in your hand
Are you going away with no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Could have loved you better, I didn’t mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
Softly, I will leave you softly
For my heart would break if you should wake and see me go
So I leave you softly, long before you miss me
Long before your arms can beg me stay
For one more hour or one more day
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
Let’s have a war
So you can go and die!
Let’s have a war!
We could all use the money!
Let’s have a war!
We need the space!
Let’s have a war!
Clean out this place!
Oh, oh, oh, it’s a lovely war,
Who wouldn’t be a soldier, eh?
Oh, it’s a shame to take the pay
Well
I
don’t wanna be a soldier mamma, I don’t wanna die
Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
Do it in the name of heaven
You can justify it in the end
There won’t be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgment day
On the bloody morning after
One tin soldier rides away
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
If there’s a new way, I’ll be the first in line
But it better work this time
Well, it’s going to take some time this time
Time in New England
Took me away
To long rocky beaches
And you by the bay
We started a story
Whose end must now wait
It’s your life
And you can do what you want
Do what you like
But please don’t keep me waiting
Please don’t keep me waiting
Cause I’m so tired
Tired of waiting
Tired of waiting for you
Making love and breaking hearts
It is a game for youth
But I’m not waiting on a lady
I’m just waiting on a friend
I’m just waiting on a friend
All I want to do is have a good time now I’m blue
You won’t boogaloo
Run down to Tramps, have a dance or two, ooohhh
You’re breakin’ my heart
You’re tearing it apart but fuck you
Back off, Boo-ga-loo
What d’yer think you’re gonna do
I got a flash right from the start