And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through,
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart,
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows…
And everybody knows
Everybody seems to wonder what it’s like down here
I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around,
Everybody knows this is nowhere.
He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land.
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Doesn’t have a point of view.
Knows not where he’s going to.
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
You and me ain’t no superstars
what we are is what we are
we share a bed some popcorn and t.v., yeah.
Well, I like T.V., 'cause it shows me what the world’s all about
And I watch endlessly, every car chase, every fatal shoot-out
I wanna be like Starsky & Hutch, and those
Sweet Charlie’s Angels say ‘Look, but don’t touch’
Well, Sherlock Holmes
Sam Spade got nothin’, child, on me
Sergeant Friday, Charlie Chan
And Boston Blackie
No matter where she’s a hiding
She’s gonna hear me a comin’
Gonna walk right down that street
Like Bulldog Drummond…
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai”
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, “Ben-Hur”, space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo
But I don’t want to land in New York City
Don’t want to land in Mexico
Don’t want to land in no Three Mile Island
Don’t want to see my skin aglow
Don’t want to land in Comanche Sky Park
Or in Nashville, Tennessee
Don’t want to land in no San Juan airport
Or the Yukon Territory
Don’t want to land in no San Diego
Don’t want to land in no Buzzard’s Bay
Don’t want to land on no Ayatollah
I got nothin’ more to say
Bonzo goes to Bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea,
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me,
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy,
Pick up the pieces…
I fall to pieces
Each time I see you again
I fall to pieces
How can I be just your friend?
Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant
Playing with the queen of hearts,
knowing it ain’t really smart
The joker ain’t the only fool
who’ll do anything for you
Laying out another lie,
thinking 'bout a life of crime
That’s what I’ll have to do
to keep me away from you
Liar!
I have sailed the seas
Liar!
From Mars to Mercury
Liar!
I have drunk the wine
Liar!
Time after time
If you keep on tellin’ me those lies
Still goin’ out with other guys
There’ll come a day I’ll be gone
Take my advice, won’t be long
Liar, liar, pants on fire
Your nose is longer than a telephone wire…
When she says, oh that she wants only me
Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends ?
When she says, oh that I’m like a disease
Then I wonder how much more I can stand…
Well, I guess I should stick up for myself
But I really think it’s better this way :
The more you suffer,
The more it shows you really care
Right ? Yeah!
And if I ever lost you, how much would I cry?
How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky?
Eight miles high, and when you touch down
You’ll find that it’s stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where you’re going
Are somewhere, just being their own
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Folks all seem to drift on by
Tell me true friend am I high
Am I high please don’t lie
Or have my legs been rubberized
Tell me true friend am I high
Was it that gage that incited my rage
Or was it the booze that got me so confused
Perhaps that cocaine caused me to exclaim
As I fell to the floor give me more give me more
No no no no I don’t take it no more
I’m tired of waking up on the floor
No thank you please it only makes me sneeze
And then it makes it hard to find the door
I want a new drug - one that won’t spill.
One that don’t cost too much
or come in a pill.