Rise up to the shining
Live long, live now
Rise up to the shining
Don’t be blind by fools again
'Cause I fooled around, fooled around, fooled around
Fooled around, fooled around, fooled around, fell in love
Step off the train all alone at dawn
Back into the hole where I was born
The sun in the sky never raised an eye to me
The blood on the trax and must be mine
The fool on the hill and I feel fine
Don’t look back 'cos you know what you might see
So Sally can wait, she knows it’s too late as we’re walking on by
Her soul slides away, “But don’t look back in anger”, I heard you say
Lay down, Sally, no need to leave so soon
I’ve been trying all night long just to talk to you
There’s not a lady in the land
That’s half so sweet as Sally,
She is the darling of my heart
And she lives in our alley.
Twenty-four years just waiting for a chance,
To tell her how I feel, and maybe get a second glance,
Now I’ve got to get used to not living next door to Alice…
How can I ignore
The girl next door?
Oh, I don’t know why she’s leaving, or where she’s gonna go
I guess she’s got her reasons, but I just don’t wanna know
'Cos for twenty-four years I’ve been living next door to Alice
Alice?? Who the fuck is Alice???
All the young girls love Alice
Tender young Alice they say
Lady Samantha glides like a tiger
Over the hills with no one beside her
No one comes near
They all live in fear
But Lady Samantha, she sheds only tears
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
And he’s watching us all with the eye of the tiger
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire
like a diamond-eye Jack
From a jack to a king
From loneliness to a wedding ring
I played an ace and I won a queen
And walked away with your heart
I’m a joker, I’m a smoker
I’m a midnight toker
I get my lovin’ on the run
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo
Sittin’ downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
So let’s get to the point
Let’s roll another joint
Let’s head on down the road
There’s somewhere I gotta go
<Never mind…>
And I forgot the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet’s so hard to find
What are the words? Oh, nevermind
Don’t know, don’t know, don’t know, oh no
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well.
Well, you don’t know me.
(no you don’t know me)