I don’t have a drinking problem
'cept when I can’t get a drink
And I wish you’d have known her, we were quite a pair
Where can a soldier get himself a drink
Forget the noise forget the stink
And the opium is running pretty low
Because when the pain comes back
I don’t want to know
And my belly is craving,
I got a shakin’ in my head,
Feel like I’m dyin’ and I wish I was dead.
If I lived till tomorrow that’ll be a long time,
But I’ll reel and I’ll fall and rise on cod’ine
And it’s real, and it’s real, one more time.
Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, Sister Morphine, when are you coming round again?
She messed around with a bloke named Smokie
She loved him though he was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
and showed her how to kick the gong around
The people of the town are strange
And they’re proud of where they came
Well, you’re talkin’ 'bout China Grove
Oh-oh-oh, whoa-oh, China Grove
And when I get excited
My little China girl says
Oh baby just you shut your mouth
She says : sh-sh-shhh
You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother
(Shut your mouth)
But I’m talkin’ about Shaft
She got the goldmine (she got the goldmine)
I got the shaft (I got the shaft)
They split it right down the middle, and then they give her the better half
Well it all sounds sorta funny, but it hurts too much to laugh
She’s got a way about her
Don’t know what it is,
But I can’t live without her.
Love is only loneliness
divided by another
Perhaps love is like the ocean, full of conflict, full of pain
Like a fire when it’s cold outside, thunder when it rains
If I should live forever and all my dreams come true
My memory of love will be of you
Oh, I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain
I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
Smoke on the water
And fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
God gave Noah the rainbow sign
And then he said “It’s the fire next time”
I ran to the rock to hide my face,
But the rock cried out: “No hiding place!
No hiding place down here!”
I do the rock!
I said if I was smart that I would
Save up for a piece of string
And a rock to wind the string around
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I rock all day in a garbage can
I’m a rock ‘n’ roll man
That’s what I am