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you won't take my love for tender
you can put your money where your mouth is but you're so unsure I could be a miser or a big spender but you might get much more than you bargained for check not or checkmate class not or classmate so beautiful and fortunate you're the one who hates to love but he's the one who loves to hate and he can fix you awful good because he is the neighborhood you can get money for blood blood money for doing no good better tell me now you made your selection are your ready for correction 'cause the wages of sin are an expensive infection they'll make you bankrupt better pay off now don't interrupt I'm so in love and I'm so sincere just like a well-known financier you know I've never been corrupt I'll pay you a compliment you'll think I am innocent you can total up the balance sheet and never know if I am a common thief you won't take my love for tender |
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| 2. |
| 3:14 |
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born in the middle of the second big baby boom
those noisy boys just might have spoken up too soon now I'm looking for a little girl I wonder where she's gone big money for families having more than one *opportunity, opportunity this is your big opportunity to shop around, follow you without a sound what ever you do now, don't turn around don't turn around what ever happened to the pride of the nation they say they're waiting till they break formation she was sittin' pretty on a velvet cushion but her bedroom eyes were like a button she was pushing she said when they get to dover they'll be taking over said I'll come to her defense then she'll pull me over *Repeat I'm in the foxhole I'm down in the trench I'd be a hero but I can't stand the stench the fitness institute is for the general motor man the holo house of beauty wouldn't stand a chance with them the chairman of this board'll use a compliment collector I'd like to be his funeral director *Repeat please don't turn around please don't turn around don't turn around don't turn around don't turn around |
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| 3. |
| 1:58 |
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trying to be too bad
trying to talk too tough trying to jack the lad you think you've had enough *but he's not the man you think that he can be I just don't know why you can't see that he is only the imposter that he is only the imposter never been this far always been too smart and you know how all boys are they're really girls at heart *Repeat when I said that I was lying I might have been lying never let me hear you say you're not trying this is your big decision hope you're not disappointed he's got double-vision when you want him double-jointed and he's not the man you think that he can be I just don't know why you can't see he'll only bring you souvenirs it's only going to end in tears and he is only the imposter and he is only the imposter |
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| 4. |
| 1:58 |
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this must be the place
second place in the human race down in the basement now I know what he meant secondary modern where there won't be a problem 'til the girls go home this is the hand that you never shook you never gave me the chance that I took secondary modern where there won't be a problem 'til the girls go home is it out of the question between you and me is it pleasure or business or a bag of the three nobody makes me sad like you now my whole world goes from blue to blue secondary modern where there won't be a problem 'til the girls go home secondary modern where there won't be a problem 'til the girls go home 'til the girls go home 'til the girls go home |
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| 5. |
| 3:02 |
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cheap cut satin and bad perfume
showtime is almost here tears stop by your strength caught you laughing up your sleeve sniggering in your beer seen the bottom of a lot of glasses but he's never seen love so near he'd seen love get so expensive but he'd never seen love so dear *now I know that you're all king horse between tenderness and brute force now I know that you're all king horse between tenderness and brute force she can turn a pot of sixpence in the mouth and trouser set hit the till ring the bill never spill a sip and still she knows the kind of tip she is going to get a lot of loose exchanges precious little respect but if someone else is weakened that's the best that you can expect *Repeat so fine knit a fabric so fine a fabrication from comic books to tragic to the art of conversation meanwhile back in some secluded spot he says will you please and she says stop if I ever loose this good thing that I got I never want to hear the song you dedicated tonight you see I knew that song so long before we met that it means much more than it might *Repeat |
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| 2:05 |
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if there's anything that you want
if there's anything that you need there's no need to be miserable it talks and it's persuasive possession, possession, possession now you're sending me your best wishes signed with love and vicious kisses you lack lust you're so lackluster is that all the strength you can muster possession, possession, possession even when we are out of touch now I know that I've seen too much seen to much so all I see is that I'm back to pack may case is closed my case is packed I'll get out before the violence or the tears or the silence possession, possession, possession |
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| 2:18 |
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now those newsprints all over your face
well maybe that's why I can read you like a book just when I thought I was getting my taste a bite I go and lose my appetite look at the man that you'd call uncle they'd like to sink their teeth in to you for the pride and the pleasure and the privilege of having you if I say you're the one do you think that I'm serious you get that kind of talk from older men if I say I love you then I must be delirious so why are you trying to put my temperature up again look at the man that you'd call uncle having a heart-attack 'round your ankles when you wake up with x-rated eyes when you wake up still shaking how could I apologize as your check you affects and you check your reflection I'm so affected in the face of your affection look at the man that you'd call uncle having a heart-attack 'round your ankles I could swear I could promise that I'll always be true to you but we may not live to be so old I could even say I'm going to do something new to you now the girls I see just leave me cold look at the man that you'd call uncle |
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| 8. |
| 3:01 |
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tears on your blackmail
they turn to ransom a point of the fingernail says you're so handsome *clowntime is over time to take over while others just talk and talk somebody's watching where the others don't walk clowntime is over a voice in the shadows says that his men know he don't step back as expected he's otherwise an unprotected *Repeat almost too good to be true who do you? What do you do? Why do you do? Everybody's hiding under covers who's making lovers' lane safe again for lovers *Repeat |
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| 9. |
| 2:13 |
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you're sending me tulips mistaken for lilies
you give me a look that the function is silly you turn my head till it roll down the brain-drain if I had any sense now I wouldn't want it back again new amsterdam it's become much too much 'til I have the possession of everything she touches 'til I step on the brake to get out of her clutches 'til I speak double dutch to a real double duchess down on the main spring listen to the tick-tock collect all the faces that move in your lot twice-shy and dog-tied because you've been bitten everything you say now sounds like it was ghost-written back in london they'll take you to heart after a little while though I look right at home I still feel like an exile somehow I found myself down at the dockside thinking about the old days of liverpool and rotherhide transparent people who live on the other side living a life that is almost like suicide |
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| 10. |
| 2:30 |
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Some things you never get used to even though you're
feeling like another man. There's nothing that he can do for you to shut me away as you walk through. Lovers laughing in the amateur hour, holding hands in the corridors of power, even though I'm with somebody else right now. High fidelity. Can you hear me, can you hear me, can you hear me? High fidelity. Can you hear me, can you hear me, can you hear me? There's a new kind of dedication. Maybe you'll find it down in the tunnel. Maybe I got above my station. Maybe you're only changing channels. Even though you're nowhere near me and I know you kiss him so sincerely now. Even though the signal's indistinct and you worry about what silly people think, who just can't wait to feel so frozen out? I bet he thinks that he was chosen out of millions. I suppose he'll never know about High fidelity. Can you hear me, can you hear me, can you hear me? High fidelity. Can you hear me, can you hear me, can you hear me? |
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| 11. |
| 2:07 |
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I'm the living result
I'm a man who's been hurt a little too much and I've tasted the bitterness of my own tears sadness is all my lonely heart can feel I can't stand up for falling down I can't stand up for falling down simple though love is still it confused me why I'm not loved the way I should be now I've lived with heartaches and I've roomed with fear I've dealt with despair and I've wrestled with tears I can't stand up for falling down I can't stand up for falling down the vow that we made you broke it in two but that don't stop me from loving you I can't stand up for falling down I can't stand up for falling down |
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| 12. |
| 1:56 |
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I was looking at the black and white world
it seemed so exciting if you'd only put me back to back with that girl when the night's inviting with just a little lighting there'll never be days like that again when I was just a boy and men were men you'd never go from moment to moment you're the living double of a single fiction you're the very colour poets compliment cause you feel the fingers friction it's a freeze frame, still it's real life you don't want to look cause you've seen the film and read the book I was looking at the black and white world trying to name some pin-up in those days she was just a beautiful girl now she's framed and hung up I thought she was younger until I saw her last night in close detail though they all fade away when you're so pale it's more than just a physical attraction starts with a face and ends up a fixation but you're never going to feel a fraction the way it used to work on your imagination when you were looking at a black and white world |
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| 2:39 |
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five gears in reverse
girls looking for the big lift somebody send out for the night nurse please don't stick me on the late shift if you don't know by now nobody's going to tell you if you don't know by now the shock will probably kill you *and if your patience is exhausted and you still cannot decide you're sitting in a garage contemplating suicide and you have no motivation you can't even catch your breath all the business and celebrations is driving you to debt five gears in reverse you think I don't know what I'm doing and at a fashionable first like walking down the road to ruin but if you're safe and sound don't let me interrupt you And if you don't go down How could I corrupt you *Repeat |
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| 2:05 |
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I found america had another corner of my wallet
it's a well kept secret, thought that I had better swallow it thought they'd make me spit out the truth before they find you're lying about your youth *b movie that's all you're to me just a soft-soap story don't want no woman to act on me you can't stand it when it goes to reel to reel to reel to reel I can't stand it when I go on trying, you can't feel all the time there's rule book in pretending there's no one in the wings and everybody's on the make it's not your heart I want to break turn out the lights I'm thinking that I want to go to sleep now but just give me a promise that I'm supposed to keep now I don't want some fool asking me why when I find you're finally making me cry *Repeat |
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| 2:31 |
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somewhere in the distance
I can hear who shot sam this is my conviction that I am an innocent man oh you say I'm unkind I'm being as nice as I can *boys everywhere fumbling with the catches I struck lucky with motel matches falling for you without a second look falling out of your open pocket book giving you away like motel matches I wake with the siren of an emergency though your mind is full of love in your eyes there is a big conceit and you know what I do when the light outside changes from red to blue *Repeat |
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| 2:30 |
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I know I just got to get out of this place
I can't stand any more of that mechanical grace though you say it's only an industrial squeeze it looks like luxury and feels like a disease *oh give it to me, give it to me I don't want to know much about much give it to me, give it to me I need, I need, I need - your human touch left with just a high-school hope on your way to dry dock it's easy to break up with all your senses living in a state of shock I just can't believe I'm responsible for this like a make-up eyes can be made up with a kiss *Repeat oh when I'm talking in tongues I go where you lead I go make a bet oh I need you how I'd like to fix her in a picture of rage how I'd like to catch her when she's acting her age oh but when she's lying stretched out on the floor it's no mystery to me any more *Repeat |
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| 1:49 |
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you say that you'll get him and you run and get your mummy
and you're almost beaten to the punch looking for the man who sold you the dummy and you're almost beaten to the punch laughing at the older guys who say it's just as well saved by the wedding bell almost beaten to the punch you're looking for somebody that you can knock-about you were almost beaten to the punch if you've got a head for figures then you better count me out you were almost beaten to the punch you pull the piece but you soon call it love you go ahead and end up almost beaten to the punch your body speaks so much louder than your voice you let it do the talking so I don't have any choice and now you find that younger guys are putting up resistance and you're almost beaten to the punch you'd better get out now because you'll never go the distance and you're almost beaten to the punch and you'll find a girl and you'll promise her anything even a wedding ring almost beaten to the punch |
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| 2:33 |
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who's this kid with this mumbo-jumbo
living in air-conditioned limbo though they treat him just like a guest living under threat of arrest now that he's finally trying to make some sense he drinks in self-defense give me temptation the son told contempt of authority we'll take you anytime down to the station you say that is all right by me now you're living with the ghost of sophistication now that you're shackled up to the rigmarole with absolute control I see you lying so wide awake after I've given you all that you can take so for heaven's sake give me temptation still you want to succeed so badly finding your life will not be there but you tell me you can take it or leave it sometimes I think that you really believe it you're just itching to break her secret laws as you go from clause to clause give me temptation |
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| 2:22 |
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girl I stand accused
people say I love you yeah, I stand accused oh but what can I do you belong to some other guy hope I never have to testify if loving you is a big crime I've been guilty a long time girl I stand accused with no more than a chance yeah I stand accused and I got no defense all I need is a touch from your hand find myself on the witness stand I'd be unable to lie girl I got a love that won't die girl tell the world that I was guilty I wouldn't stand a chance tell the world that I was a victim a victim of circumstance girl knock myself out see if I could explain girl I love you so much that I'm almost insane you disturbed my balance of mind couldn't help what I did at the time I stand accused and I'm guilty baby I always will be I need a witness baby you disturbed my balance of mind couldn't help what I did at the time I stand accused and I'm guilty baby I always will be I need a witness baby I stand accused of loving you so guilty baby, oh yeah I stand accused I s-t-a-n-d a-c-c-u-s-e-d I stand accused, loving you so guilty baby, oh yeah |
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| 3:45 |
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forever it doesn't mean forever anymore
I said forever but it doesn't look like I'm going to be around much anymore when the heat get so tropical and the talk gets so topical *riot act you can read me the riot act you can make me a matter of fact or a villain in a million the slip of the tongue is going to keep this civilian why do you talk such stupid nonsense when my mind could rest much easier instead of all this dumb-dumb insolence I would be happier with him pleasin' ya they say forget her now it looks like you're either gonna be be for me or against me I got your letter now they say I took it from the color that its hate mail trying to be so bad is bad enough don't make me laugh by talking tough don't put your heart out on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff *Repeat |
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| 1:58 |
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There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder
I thought I heard you mention my name, can't you talk any louder ? Don't come any closer, don't come any nearer My vision of you can't get any clearer Oh, i just want to hear girls talk I got a loaded imagination being fired by girls talk But I can't say the words you want to hear I suppose you're going to have to play it by ear Right here and now Girls talk and they want to know how Girls talk and they say it's not allowed Girls talk, if they say that it's so Don't you think that I know by now That the word up on everyone's lips Stick that you're dedicated Though you may not be an old fashioned girl You're still going to get dated Was it really murder ? Were you just pretending ? Lately I have heard you are the living end Girls talk and they wanna know about her Girls talk, they wanna know if I care Girls talk and they wanna know where Girls talk girls talk |
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| 3:47 |
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Tears on your blackmail
A point of the fingernail Says that he's handsome Clowntime is over Time to take cover While others just talk and talk Somebody's watching where the others don't walk Clowntime is over A voice in the shadows Says that his men know He don't step back as expected He's otherwise and unprotected Chorus Almost too good to be true Who do you? why do you? what do you do? While everybody's hiding under covers Who's making lover's lane safe again for lovers? Chorus |
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| 2:18 |
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I'm packing up my memories
And I'm gonna move all out of your heart I'm turning in my keys And I'm gonna move all out of your heart 'Cause there ain't room enough for two In dreams that were made for me and you I'm telling you, it's getting mighty crowded Too crowded for me It's getting mighty crowded I'm gonna take these things of mine And I'm gonna move all out of your life Stop wasting my time And I'm gonna move all out of your life 'Cause there ain't room enough for three In dreams that were made for you and me So you see, it's getting mighty crowded Too crowded for me It's getting mighty crowded I'm saving you the trouble of putting me down Starting on the double, yeah yeah I'm gonna shop around I'm gonna find another heart Where I can live all by myself Gonna find another heart I don't have to share with anybody else 'Cause you don't treat me like you should And hanging around this neighborhood is no good It's getting mighty crowded Too crowded for me, getting mighty crowded I'm packing up my memories, getting mighty crowded Too crowded for me, getting mighty crowded Too crowded for me, getting mighty crowded |
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| 3:26 |
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Do.
Do do do do do. So young, we've discovered. Got them so confused. Don't mind putting the time in. It's shocking. That's what they all say now when we're walking hand in hand As one, you and I. Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, you said it's timed out We've got them hangin' on a string. There's no time for compromises we got that good old thing. So young, so young. (x4) It's wrong to run for cover. We've got them in a spin. You don't mind sticking the sticker in. It's too late. That's what they all say now when we're walking hand in hand As one, you and I. Chorus. Do do do do do. Do do do. Chorus, again. So young, so young. |
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| 2:19 |
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Layin' about, lyin' in bed
Maybe it was something that I thought I'd said With the tempo of today and the temptation of tomorrow I don't know if I could give you anything but sorrow They stay alive this late on Radio Five But the pen that I write with won't tell the truth 'Cause the moments that I can't recall Are the moments that you treasure Better take another measure for measure Losing you is just a memory Memories don't mean that much to me Losing you is just a memory Memories don't mean that much to me Now you're here, I'm here too Could be this easy for me and you Losing you is just a memory Memories don't mean that much to me Losing you is just a memory Memories don't mean that much to me Lyin' about layin' in bed Maybe it was something that I thought I'd said |
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| 1:46 |
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Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue
Must have been a wonder when it was brand new Talkin' 'bout the splendour of the Hoover factory I know that you'd agree if you had seen it too It's not a matter of life or death But what is, what is ? It doesn't matter if I take another breath Who cares ? Who cares ? Green for go, green for action From Park Royal to North Acton Past scrolls and inscriptions like those of the Egyptian age And one of these days the Hoover factory Is gonna be all the rage in those fashionable pages Five miles out of London on the Western Avenue Must have been a wonder when it was brand new Talkin' 'bout the splendour of the Hoover factory I know that you'd agree if you had seen it too It's not a matter of life or death But what is, what is ? It doesn't matter if I take another breath Who cares ? Who cares ? |
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| 3:06 |
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Maureen and Stan were looking for a job
They got songs for every occasion And a little limelight robbery No one will employ them There's nothing to decide So he autographs his overdraft While she goes out of her mind Stuck on the wall with a thousand faces Unwanted posters of the haunted places Roll up for the ghost train Non-stop through the city Step right up and show your face We only want the pretty ones Roll up for the ghost train Non-stop through the city Step right up and show your face We only want the pretty ones Maureen and Stan at the skating rink Looking for the drummer who threw up in the sink Laughing and singing, dressed up like dice Maybe they could freeze to death out there on the ice Look at the graceful way she dances One foot speaks, the other answers Roll up for the ghost train Non-stop through the city Step right up and show your face We only want the pretty ones Roll up for the ghost train Non-stop through the city Step right up and show your face We only want the pretty ones She plays the queen of the fleapit He plays a Spanish guitar He got a black eye from a waitress She's not seeing any stars You can be refused, you can be replaced You can change your name but you can't change your face While they make believe it's just another holiday They turn on each other when they hear that joker say Roll up for the ghost train Non-stop through the city Step right up and show your face We only want the pretty ones Roll up for the ghost train We only want the pretty ones |
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| 3:30 |
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Everything seems so tranquil
Home movies with no subtitles Don't you wish you knew what they were sayin' When the film keeps playin', playin' ? Oh, he's Doctor Luther's assistant He'll close in when he seems so distant Doctor Luther's assistant He'll get on top of you when you lower your resistance Some say he is just a lackey Changing words while the ink is still tacky He's absolutely indispensable He keeps the other boys in suspense Oh, he's Doctor Luther's assistant He'll close in when he seems so distant Doctor Luther's assistant He'll get on top of you when you lower your resistance Luther is locked in a broken-down cinema Watches his wife with his video camera Sees his best boy makin' her grin Out of the kitchen, she's gone with the wind Oh, Doctor Luther's assistant He'll close in, when he seems so distant Doctor Luther's assistant He'll get on top of you when you lower your resistance |
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| 1:53 |
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I was looking at the black and white world
it seemed so exciting if you'd only put me back to back with that girl when the night's inviting with just a little lighting there'll never be days like that again when I was just a boy and men were men you'd never go from moment to moment you're the living double of a single fiction you're the very colour poets compliment cause you feel the fingers friction it's a freeze frame, still it's real life you don't want to look cause you've seen the film and read the book I was looking at the black and white world trying to name some pin-up in those days she was just a beautiful girl now she's framed and hung up I thought she was younger until I saw her last night in close detail though they all fade away when you're so pale it's more than just a physical attraction starts with a face and ends up a fixation but you're never going to feel a fraction the way it used to work on your imagination when you were looking at a black and white world |
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| 2:50 |
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forever it doesn't mean forever anymore
I said forever but it doesn't look like I'm going to be around much anymore when the heat get so tropical and the talk gets so topical CHORUS: riot act you can read me the riot act you can make me a matter of fact or a villain in a million the slip of the tongue is going to keep this civilian why do you talk such stupid nonsense when my mind could rest much easier instead of all this dumb-dumb insolence I would be happier with him pleasin' ya they say forget her now it looks like you're either gonna be be for me or against me I got your letter now they say I took it from the color that its hate mail trying to be so bad is bad enough don't make me laugh by talking tough don't put your heart out on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff chorus |
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