1.Show Girl
I took a showgirl
For my bride
Thought my life
Would be right
Took her bowling
Got her high
Got myself a showgirl bride
Took a job on the side
In a health shop
Keeps me well
Got my mantra for life
Got my karma
And a showgirl bride
All my life
All her life
All our life
I married a showgirl
That for life
She cant work
In the wintertime
I cant work any time now
Go to libraries all the while
Looking for a notice
Looking for a name
All my life
All her life
All our life
I married a showgirl
That for life
I took a showgirl
For my bride
Sprinkled stardust
On my wife
Took her bowling
Got her high
Got myself a showgirl bride
Don you recognise us？
2.Lenny Valentino
There were mourners on the street
Of every shape and size
The motorcade came down from redondo
Assassins on the corner tried to throw you a line
You dirty-mouth comic rodolfo
Lenny valentino reside
The pope renounced you as the real one
Lazarus decided to rise
The twentieth century had only begun
Ladies adverted their eyes
Lenny valentino reside
John judnich in the bathroom reading the law
Kitty in the hall with your mother
The girls are sick and tired of your blah blah blah
Some beat-kid said there no other
And that lenny
Valentino reside
3.Bailed Out
Your star is descending
Round here blindly
Tell your dancing daughter
That there no room
On the wing
We can bitch
But it ain a tinsel town
Hey! starchild
Cant dance
Left out on a useless limb
This party will start
To drag you down
Slap your face
And pull your hair
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this skin is head
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this thing is dead
I was in traction
Started off smiling
Couldn help laughing
I was astounded when
They caught you unware
And some missionary said
That this week
Weave got to shoot
All the dancing girls
And then replace them
With satellites instead
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this skin is head
Bailed out, bailed out
Bailed out, this thing is dead
Like to see something change
Around here, around there
4.American Guitars
They were failing dutifully
If you e going to fail at all
Failing came more easily
Than it did to us all
And i wanted to be there
See them begin
It was easy to see they were
The best band to be in
I gave up drugging
When you spiked my drink
Stopped freeloading
When i could not get in
I gave up singing
When i was told
I could not dance
Knew my place in the world
When i heard them start
Woke up on sunday morning
With a hole
The size of my pool
Couldn believe
I grown so ugly
Couldn believe
I been so cruel
I should e set back
Thought about their past
East coast to west coast
How they struggled
For their art
Some people
Were born to write
Some people
Were born to dance
Thought i knew my place in the world
Thought i knew my art
Glad to be there, see them begin
It was easy to see
They were the best band to be
American guitars...
5.Junk Shop Clothes
Junk shop clothes
Will get you nowhere
They e out of season
It betrayal with no treason
Junk shop clothes
Will get you...
There is no reason why
Your mother was a seamstress
Claim soutine never spent
A thrift shop dime
In this life
Lenny bruce never walked
In a dead man shoes
Even for one night
Junk shop clothes
Will get you nowhere
No summer pavilion
No shooting season
Junk shop clothes
Will get you...
For the rest of your life
And the sun never shone
On your frame pale and wan
6.Don Trust The Stars
Who cares about
Your mystic lies
Is it a claim to some reality
I found myself barefoot
On stones
I don think
t was meant to be？
I don think
t just had to be？
So how can it be pre-arranged
When there no order anyway
I found myself barefoot
On stone
I don think it was destiny
It wasn in the stars that day
Good fortune smile
On my ascendant star
Take head, small talk
Don trust the stars
I know it insufferable
Visionary can be so vain
To think that somewhere
There a path for you
I know it make
It seem mundane
It makes it all seem
So mundane
Good fortune smile
On my ascendant star
Take head, small talk
Don trust the stars
7.Starstruck
First child
And a showbiz son
Always hide
Where you come from
Mother got out rehab
And i was born
I was starstruck
When i was young
It never to soon
To tread the boards
I was in vaudeville
At age give
My career took
Its first nosedive
Iv？been starstruck
All my life
Starstruck,
Starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck
Can get an agent
For a child star
My act effete and failing
So i moved
To the old backlot
Where i exercise daily
Starstruck,
Starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck
Now youe between
A peak time show
I hear youe now married
She was born to be seen
Not to be carried
Starstruck,
Starstruck over you
Starstruck,
I struck dumb by you
Starstruck,
I struck out my luck
I was always starstruck
8.How Could I Be Wrong
In my role
As a groundbreaker
As a pallbearer
In my past life
As a benefactor
My lost years
As an actor
The stars are brighter
Are lighter
Then they have been
For years
Those stars are tighter
At one time
Ie never seen so many
How could i be wrong？
In my role
As a peacemaker
As a lifesaver
In your room
As a plan hatcher
A soul snatcher
9.Housebreaker
When i first met you
You were not house trained
A backwood trier
The world your oyster
Your time is mine
What yours is mine all mine
There no honour
Among thieves
So we worked together
A varied rich
And famous crime
You had your motives
I had mine
For a soul to find
Little piece rub off on mine
Trinkets, memorabila
Diamonds, for the taking
One mans treasure
Never meant a thing
When i was housebreaking
Took a buckshot landing
From my most famous client
Must have lost it in the fall
Came away emty handed
When i first met you
I was not housetrained
10.Valet Parking
Never saw
Your drivers eyes
Or me on parking street
We were planning
Your demise
Your chauffeur tired
But your still on heat
Downtoen,
Youe burning down
I sick of parking cars...
There are only-
Two people here
Who are worthy
Of your pool
And your place
So stand down now
Stand down
Youe standing down...
Never thought
I see the day
When your pale face
Turned grey
Got no guts, got no fame
Your epitaph
Sorely missed
Your unfaithful slave
11.Idiot Brother
They were hanging on
For grim life
They were clutching
At straws
They were sure
That the ship was at port
They were keen philosophers
They were keen on hurt
They were like
A pair of dumb dogs
Rolling in the dirt
(that ) you and
Your idiot brother
Waiting in the wing
Which one holds up the other
Which one pulls the string
One bite of the apple
One chop at the tree
In your word
As good as your bond
Your stammer, your honesty
You could have it for free
Because nothing works
For no-one
And that won work
For me
Nothing works
For no-one at all
No-one works for free
We were
Getting on famously
I was doing my bit
They got no claim on me
So send me a writ
I was walking
Around your house
In the middle of the night
Home medicine erotica
Is your prescription right？
I want to kill your sister
Witch some business advice
Never question your loyalty
On the telephone line
And what about
Our fat friend
With the golden ear
Upped and left
Turned down
Your best shot
Now youe in arrears
12.Early Years
Early years
Were a shroud man
Only a grey cloud
Shot in the dark
Hanging out
With your dad
His plans for revenge
In some hick-town
Caravan park
Never keep
A good one down
Early years
Were a dreadnought
Waiting to tread board
And my work
Down the pan
Hanging round
By the back door
One foot in
The stage door
Some disaffected
Fly-by man
Got wired by a cable
Got wild on a table
Scared the shit out of me
All for the free state
The snow and
The greasepaint
I left the singing family
13.Home Again
Home again
Housesitting again
Rifle through
Your possessions
And stuff
Things that you
Are ashamed of
Home again,
Housesitting again
Looking through photos
At the back of your drawer
The way you looked
When you were small
Youe safe,
There no prowler
No creeper in your lane
It better than drugs,
It cool
To be in your home again
Home again,
Housesitting again
It just a little bit far
From the main crowd
Reading your poems
When youe not around
Home again
Hospital letter,
A clinic hold
A test that you took
Awaiting results
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