Brian Setzer Collection:1981-1988

Brian Setzer Brian Setzer Collection:1981-1988 Lyrics
1.Bobby's Back

Well come on.......
Won't ya come on man I hear that Bobby's back for me from
upstate
He learned his lesson so they say
Well I guess we'll wait and see
He's got a new corvette he says
It does a 120 and he says
He's got some catchin' up to do
Some crazy scores to settle
When I first heard Bobby's back
The first thing that I though of
Was how his cheap life up and left with some guy she just met
I don't think that I knew again
Man did that chill right through him
The only thing he ever loved just left with his life's paycheck
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was the last in line
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All my life
He was a friend of mine
Bobby's face looked pale and thin
As if some ghost kept holding him
When he asked my what was new
I wasn't quite sure what to say
How can everybody stick their bloody fingers in my face
I almost cried and said my shutup
Baby cause I'd been used to
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was a losing kind
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
Never had peace of mind

I shook him hard said listen man
You can't go back in time again
I'll never tell the day I die
That I see two fall down Bobby's eyes
Four or five years had gone by when I read about how Bobbie died
He smashed his car into a wall
Messed up on drugs and alcohol
Another brother met a stray
Well I'll be damnd if I go that way
Just say a little prayer for him
He lived a life of just can
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
All his life
He was the last in line
Bobby's back
Baby for good this time
Bobby's gone
He was a friend of mine


2.When The Sky Comes Tumblin' Down

I used to search for the idle girl
The perfect little prettiness
I used to search for the idle world
Don't ever think it don't exist
So many times I been so afraid
So many ways I felt so betrayed
We get together on a Saturday night
And watch the whole world cave in
Little girl I want to know what you look got in a man
Is he tall, dark, and handsome with continental tan
She said
I just want to be around when the big one hits the ground
I don't want to make a sound when the sky comes tumblin', sky
comes tumblin' down
I used to worry about the job that I had
I barely made enough to survive
And man I worried bout the life that I lived
Sometimes I barely made it home alive
But now I don't need to worry
No need to rush
There's no needy to hurry
You don't need a new job
You don't need a new wife
You don't need to go far in your lief
Little girl I want to know what you look got in a man
Does he have allot of money, even more then you can spend
She said
I just want to be around when the big one hits the ground
I don't want to make a sound when the sky comes tumblin', sky
comes tumblin' down

I used to play in a dead end band
I always had it up on my own
But now I play in a skeleton band
Nothing but skin and bones
I know I don't sedation
I got my daddy ducked for radiation
We get together on a Saturday night
And watch each others hair fall out
Little girl I want to know what you look got in a man
Does he shed allot of records with his head up on his hand
I just want to be around when the big one hits the ground
I don't want to make a sound when the sky comes tumblin', sky
comes tumblin' down
I don't want to make a sound when the sky comes tumblin' down


3.She's Sexy + 17

Hey man........I don't feel like going to school no more
Me neither, can't let ya go, no way dadio, yea
I aint going to school, its much to early for me
Well listen man, I aint going to school no more
It is much much to early for me
I don't care about reading, writing, arithmetic, or history
I'm gonna walk to the corner and meet my little Marie
I'm gonna walk to the corner and meet my little Marie
Well she's the only girl in this whole world who understands me
Well she's sexy and 17, my little rock a boat queen
Thats a little bit I seen, got to let off a bit of steam
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body
Johnny and Eddie and Me and Jeena and Jerry
Are gonna do a little number on the teacher when she turns her
back
We're gonna cut outta class take the girls by the railroad track
Well it's a Friday Miss Baniac you gotta hear
Just a dollar ticket and 25 cents a beer
They played the rock and roll music like it hasn't been rockin'
for years
Well she's sexy and 17, my little rock a boat queen
Thats a little bit I seen, got to let off a bit of steam
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body
Guitar Ride.......
Well when I feel that rockin' heat
I can't sit still up out of my seat
Come on baby jump around your feet
Can't learn nothin in school they don't teach you on the street
Woah Woah Woah Woah baby I like your style
Woah Woah Woah Woah baby I like your style
You don't care what the other kids say you go wild
Well your sexy and 17, my little rock a boat queen
Thats a little bit I seen, got to let off a bit of steam
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body
Dig that sound and shake it around your body, body, body


4.Rock This Town

written:B. Setzer

Well, my baby and me went out late Saturday night
I had my hair piled high and my baby just looked so right
Well, pick you up and ten, gonna get you home at two
Your mama don't know what I got in store for you
But baby that's all right we're looking as cool as can be

We found a little place that really didn't look half bad
I had a whiskey on the rocks and change of a dollar for the
jukebox
Well, I put a quarter right into that can
But all it played was disco, man
Come on pretty baby, let's get out of here right away

We're gonna rock this town
Rock it inside out

We're gonna rock this town
Make 'em scream and shout

Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock
We're gonna rock 'til we pop
Gonna roll 'til we drop
Rock this town
Rock it inside out

Well, we're having a ball just tearing up the big dance floor
Well, there's a real square cat, he looks 1974
Well, he looked at me once, he looked at me twice
Look at me again and there's gonna be a fight
We're gonna rock this town
Rip this place apart

We're gonna rock this town
Rock it inside out

We're gonna rock this town
Make 'em scream and shout
Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock
We're gonna rock 'til we pop
Gonna roll 'til we drop
Rock this town
Rock it inside out

We're gonna rock this town
Rock it inside out
We're gonna rock this town
Make 'em scream and shout
Let's rock, rock, rock, man, rock
We're gonna rock 'til we pop
Gonna roll 'til we drop
Rock this town
Rock it inside out

We're gonna rock this town
Rock it inside out
We're gonna rock this town
Rock it inside
Yeah, we're gonna rock this town
Tear it up
We're gonna rip it down
Rock this town
Rock it inside out


5.The Knife Feels Like Justice

So you think that you have found a better life then you should
live
And you are through giving it all away, wish there was something
I could say
By the time you looked into the mirror and saw someone else
looking back
I wish I could find the words but there's nothing that even
comes close
Cause there aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
When the sun dies down and the air grows cold
And the moon plays tricks through the night
But I low like a snake out of sight
All you got is no other life
You wanna laugh say i'm insane
Don't ever since to come in from the rain
I don't know why I keep myself
To even try
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
Slip away
Slip away
Slip away

So you think that you won me over
By setting me on fire
When the sound of your beating heart
And your burning heart desire
By the time I looked at your reflection and saw someone else
lookin back
It's a shame things happened that way cause there's no one that
even comes close
And there aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right
through me
There aint nobody ever looked at me without looking right by me
And you can't go on when the knife feels like justice
I said you can't go on when the blade tears inside you
You can't go on when the knife feels like justice


6.Chains Around Your Heart

It's a late cool autumn evening
And the sunset melts into night
With a v-twin throbbing beneath me
And my head's spinning allright
Ritchie and me we started as kids
In a rock 'n' roll band on the street where we lived
It's a long hard ride till the morning
As the trees and wind start to sing

Chains around your heart that bind
Break away and leave them behind

Well once there was a time in this rock 'n' roll dream
This here town would be rip apart at the seams
Now I'm out of money and Billy's out of work
Eddie's pushin' pencils for the county clerk
Everybody's job is getting pushed out of town
Life is just knockin' 'em down
Boyhood dreams are run into the ground
Long dark shadows hang over this town

Cast away the chains that bleed
Break away and I leave you free

Take my hand come leave with me
As nighttime fades away
we'll ride the hills and desert sand
Cross the barren land

All the families have all gone
Their jobs went before them I'm sure
They knocked down the corner barber shop
And put up a super triple level parking lot
There once was a time you could vote for a man
Who wouldn't try and stick a gun in your hands
So cut out all your talkin'
And make love with me through the night

Chains around your heart that bind
Break away and leave them behind
Just leave them behind
Just leave them behind


7.Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

I don't want to go to sleep and toss and turn all night
I don't want to look up and see shadows I believe all right
Don't want to get lost on a road so long
Your legs get tired and you fall to the ground
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Don't want to get drunk just to sleep at night
My head starts spinning a triple with wine
Don't want to get up and go to work each day
Come back home on my knees and prey
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I wonder where you are
Are you satisfied
To go through life with a chill in your soul
And a memory that lives by your side
Don't want you no more heard enough one day
So take me on down where that Rock and Roll plays
Don't want you to vow how could you lie
With all my life I called you daddy
On the boulevard of broken dreams

I wonder where you are
Are you satisfied
To go through life with a chill in your soul
And a memory that lives by your side
Don't want you no more heard enough one day
So take me on down where that Rock and Roll plays
Don't want to get lost on a road so long
Your legs get tired and you fall to the ground
On the boulevard of broken dreams
On the boulevard of broken dreams
On the boulevard of broken dreams


8.Echo Park

I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
I wasn't sure how many times it rang out through the night
I felt the breeze and the hearts through the air
I felt your eyes lookin' right through me
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
Was a summer to remember
You were something to behold
A regular Marilyn Monroe
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night

I used to swim in Echo Park Lake all night
We took our clothes off stayed out half the night
Well come on now
We're gonna do it right
I'll take your hand and we can swim together right now all night
It was summer to remember
You were something to behold
A regular Marilyn Monroe
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night

I felt the breeze and the hearts through the air
I felt your eyes lookin' right through me
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
Well if I wanted to come back
I think there's something you should know
I wouldn't change a thing oh no no no
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night
I heard your voice in Echo Park last night


9.Thing About You

She's got thing about you
Well take it from someone who knows and tries to track you down
And when he finds the girl he's gonna do you wrong
He knows the way you move
The way you smile
He feels the way I do about you
He's got a thing about you, take it from me
He just can't live without you
He's got a thing about
I want to set you free
But I think there's a fire still burnin'' thats the trouble with
you
You're always gettin' burned but it never scars
He knows the way you move
The way you smile
I feel the way he does about you
He's got a thing about you, take it from me
He just can't live without you
He's got a thing about you

You wanna do what's right
Well thats what you tell all your friends but can you trust who
you run to
Well you don't even know what's right for you
I know the way you move
The way you smile
I feel the way he does about you
I've got a thing about you, take it from me
I just can't live without you
I got a thing about you
I got a thing about you
Take it from me
I just can't live without you
I got a thing about you


10.Cross Of Love

Where does it say
All the love that we made must disappear
And who made the rule
That the one who is cruel won't cry the tears
Well we woke up unsatisfied
Got out of bed and said goodbye
But don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love
Don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love
I got down on my knees and prayed to the lord above
Don't leave me now don't you realize
You can't make out of love a sacrifice
Don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love
Who pays the cost
If the love that is lost goes unredeemed
And why should I care
If this cross that I bare is destiny
My heart was pure my love was strong
Forgive me if i've done you wrong
But don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love
Don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love
I got down on my knees and prayed to the lord above
Don't leave me now don't you realize
You can't make out of love a sacrifice
Don't leave me here dyeing on the cross of love

Where does it say
All the love that we made, must disappear


11.Waitin' For Desiree

Told Rene don't spin me around the rain beats on my face
Her kings aint nothin' baby the time to wake
and quench my thirst
Don't you think we all know your good looks
pulled you through
I'm just sittin' here waitin' for Desiree
Drink of wine from a lovin'
cup your face looks all messed up
I don't want to see you clear
I like your picture hard to read
I know I should get happy, my mind's all ready bent up
I'm just sittin' here waitin' for Desiree
I'm waitin' for Desiree

The rules is bad enough
but it's the only station I can get
I turned the TV off but you aint come on yet
You lead a sheltered life
At least that's what I think
And every time that I got up
Fixed myself a drink
Your voice come on out now
And tell me i'm riskin' again
I'm just sittin' here waitin' for Desiree
I'm just sittin' round waitin' for Desiree
I'm just sittin' here waitin' for Desiree
I'm waitin' for Desiree


12.Summertime Blues

Well i'm a gonna raise a fuss
I'm a gonna raise a hollar
Bout workin all summer just to try to earn a dollar
Well the time to go on baby tryin to get a date
Boss says no date son you gotta work late
Sometimes I wonder what i'm a gonna do
But their aint no cure for the summertime blues
Well my mom and pop told me son you gotta make some money
If you want to use the car then go right on next Sunday
Well I didn't go to work told the boss I was sick
Now you can't use the car cause you didn't work a lick
Sometimes I wonder what i'm a gonna do
But their aint no cure for the summertime blues

Gonna take 2 weeks gonna have a fine vacation
Gonna take my problem to the United Nation
Well I called my congress man and he said quote
I would like to help ya son but you're to young to vote
Sometimes I wonder what i'm a gonna do
But their aint no cure for the summertime blues


13.Every Tear That Falls

You act with your heart
I can see your stars
I can see riding through
Well i'm just like you
Every tear that falls I remember
You say what you mean
Even when it hurts
You should know one thing
The fire comes with the stake
Every tear that falls I remember
Every tear that falls I remember

You know your a fool
Thinking back you all
Never feel afraid
Well i'm just like you
Every tear that falls I remember
Every tear that falls I remember
Every tear that falls I remember