Lust For Life

Iggy Pop Lust For Life Lyrics
1.Lust For Life

Pop/bowie

Here comes johnny yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And the flesh machine
He's gonna do another strip tease.
Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
I've been hurting since i've bought the gimmick
About something called love
Yeah, something called love.
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.

Well, i'm just a modern guy
Of course, i've had it in the ear before.
I have a lust for life
'cause of a lust for life.

I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a gto
Wear a uniform
All on a government loan.
I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, i'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With liquor and drugs
With liquor and drugs.

Well, i'm just a modern guy
Of course, i've had it in my ear before
Well, i've a lust for life (lust for life)
'cause of a lust for life (lust for life, oooo)
I got a lust for life (oooo)
Got a lust for life (oooo)
Oh, a lust for life (oooo)
Oh, a lust for life (oooo)
A lust for life (oooo)
I got a lust for life (oooo)
Got a lust for life.

Well, i'm just a modern guy
Of course, i've had it in my ear before
Well, i've a lust for life
'cause i've a lust for life.

Here comes johnny yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And the flesh machine
He's gonna do another strip tease.
Hey man, where'd ya get that lotion?
Your skin starts itching once you buy the gimmick
About something called love
Love, love, love
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens.

Well, i'm just a modern guy
Of course, i've had it in the ear before
And i've a lust for life (lust for life)
'cause i've a lust for life (lust for life)
Got a lust for life
Yeah, a lust for life
I got a lust for life
A lust for life
Got a lust for life
Yeah a lust for life
I got a lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life
Lust for life


2.Sixteen

Pop

Sweet 16 in leather boots
Body and soul, i go crazy
Baby, baby i'm a hungry, sweet 16
Funky bar all full of faces
Pretty faces, beautiful faces
Body and soul, body and soul
I give to you
I am an easy mark with my broken heart
Sweet 16
Show you my explosion, sweet 16
Go out to the funky bar
I get hurt, crying inside
'cause everybody's so fine
And they don't need me.
Tell me what can i do, sweet 16
I give you my body and soul sweet 16
I must be hungry 'cause i go crazy
Over your leather boots
Now baby i know...
That's not normal
But i love you, i love you
I love you, sweet 16
(everywhere i go, i love it!!)


3.Some Weird Sin

Pop/bowie

Well, i never got my license to live
They won't give it up
So i stand at the world's edge

Well, i'm trying to break in
Oh no, it's not for me
And the sight of it all
Makes me sad and ill
That's when i want
Some weird sin

Things get too straight
I can't bear it
I feel stuck
Stuck on a pin

Well i'm trying to break in
And i know it's not for me
And the sight of it all
Makes me sad and ill
That's when i want
Some weird sin
That's when i want
Some weird sin
Just to relax with

That's some dumb weird sin
For a while anyway
With my head on the ledge
That's what you get out on the edge
Some weird sin

Things get too straight
I can't bear it
I feel stuck
Stuck on a pin

I'm trying to break in
Oh, i know it's not for me
Well, the sight of it all
Makes me sad and ill
That's when i want
Some weird sin
That's when i want
Some weird sin
Just to relax with
.
That's some dumb weird sin
For a while anyway
With my head out on the ledge
That's what you get out on the edge
Some weird sin
Some weird sin, some weird sin


4.The Passenger

Pop/gardner

I am the passenger
And i ride and i ride
I ride through the city's backside
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight
Singin' la la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la la-la
Get into the car
We'll be the passenger
We'll ride through the city tonight
See the city's ripped insides
We'll see the bright and hollow sky
We'll see the stars that shine so bright
The sky was made for us tonight
Oh the passenger
How how he rides
Oh the passenger
He rides and he rides
He looks through his window
What does he see?
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He see the stars come out tonight
He sees the city's ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
'cause it just belongs to you and me
So let's take a ride and see what's mine
Singing...
Oh, the passenger
He rides and he rides
He sees things from under glass
He looks through his window's eye
He sees the things he knows are his
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He sees the city asleep at night
He sees the stars are out tonight
And all of it is yours and mine
And all of it is yours and mine
Oh, let's ride and ride and ride and ride...
Singing...


5.Tonight

Pop/bowie

I saw my baby, she was turning blue
I knew that soon her young life was through
And so i got down on my knees down by her bed
And these are the words to her i said

Everything will be all right tonight
Everything will be all right tonight
No one moves, no one talks
No one thinks, no one walks tonight

Everyone will be all right tonight
Everyone will be all right tonight
No one moves, no one talks
No one thinks, no one walks
Tonight, tonight

I am gonna love her to the end.
I am gonna love her to the end.
I will love her 'til i die
I will see her in the sky

Tonight, tonight...


6.Success

Pop/bowie/gardner

Here comes success (here comes success)
Over my hill (over my hill)
Here comes success (here comes success)
Here comes my car (here comes my car)
Here comes my chinese rug (here comes my chinese rug)
Here comes success (here comes success)

In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
I'll think of you (i'll think of you)
In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
I will be true (i will be true)

Sweetheart, i'm telling you (sweetheart, i'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)

Here comes success (here comes success)
Oh, hurray success (hurray success)
Here comes success
Hurray success
Oh, oh success (oh, oh success)

Can't help myself ( i can't help myself)
I got to...got to...got to.....(got to...got to...)
I can't stand it (got to...got to...got to.......)

Here comes my face (here comes my face)
It's plain bizarre (it's plain bizarre)
Here comes my face (here comes my face)
Out of the crowd (out of the crowd)

Sweetheart, i'm telling you (sweetheart, i'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (here comes the zoo)

In the last ditch (in the last ditch)
Here comes success (here comes success)
Here comes success (here comes success)

I'm gonna do the twist (i'm gonna do the twist)
Oh, i'm moved and i'm wiggged (ooo ooo, i'm wigged)
I'm crazy. i'm gonna, i'm gonna go crazy. (oh baby i like it!)
Let's blast off!

Alright, baby, let's blast off (oh, baby let's blast off)
Blast off on success (blast off on success)
Oh, you slay me (oh, you slay me, baby, ooo)(oh, you slay me,
baby)
I'm gonna do the twist (i'm gonna do the twist)
I'm gonna hop like a frog (i'm gonna hop like a frog)
I'm gonna go out on the street and do anything i want (i'm gonna
go out on the street and do anything)
Oh, shit!
Oh, shit!


7.Neighborhood Threat

Pop/bowie/gardner

Down where your paint is cracking
Look down your backstairs buddy
Somebody's living there and
He don't really feel the weather
And he don't share your pleasures
No he don't share your pleasures
Did you see his eyes?
Did you see his crazy eyes?
And you're so surprised
He doesn't run to
Catch your ash
Everybody always
Wants to kiss your trash
And you can't help him
No one can
And now that he knows
There's nothing to get
Will you still place your bet
Against the neighborhood threat
Somewhere a baby's feeding
Somewhere a mother's needing
Outside her boy is trying
But mostly he is crying
Did you see his eyes?
Did you see his cray eyes?
And you're so surprised
He doesn't run to
Catch your ash
Everybody always
Wants to kiss your trash
But you can't help him
No one can
And now that he knows
There's nothing to get
Not in this place
Not in your face
Will you still place your bet
Against the neighborhood threat
Now that he knows
There's nothing to get
Nothing to get
Not in this place
Not in your face
Will you still place your bet
Against the neighborhood threat


8.Fall In Love With Me

Pop/bowie/sales/sales

You look so good to me
Here in this old saloon
Way back in west berlin
A bottle of white wine
White wine and you
A table made of wood
And how i wish you would
Fall in love with me
You look so good to me
Standing out in the street
With your cheap fur on
Or maybe your plastic raincoat
And your plastic shoes
They look good too
Standing in the snow
You're younger than you look
Fall in love with me
Fall in love with me
How i wish you would
A table made of wood
And a bottle of white wine
And you-and a bottle of
White wine and you
And when you're standing
In the street and it's cold
And it snows on you
And you look younger
Than you really are
I wish you would
Fall in love with me
I wish you would
Fall in love with me
I wish you would
Fall in love with me
I wish you would
Fall in love with me
Yeah
The way your eyes are black
The way your hair is black
The way your heart is young
There's just a few like you
Just the kind i need
To fall in love with me
Oh and you look so good
Yes you look so good
A bottle of white wine
A cigarette and you
Here in this saloon
White wine and you
I wish you'd fall in love with me
I wish you'd fall in love with me
'cause there's
Just a few like you
So young and real
There's just a few like you
So young and real
Fall in love with me
Fall in love with me
Fall in love with me
Fall in love with me
I wish you would
You look so good
When you're young at heart
There's just a few like you
You're young at heart
Won't you
Come to this old saloon
Come to my waiting arms
A table made of wood
And i will look at you
'cause you're so young and pure
And you're young at heart
You're young at heart
A bottle of white wine
And when you're tumbling down
You just look better
When you're tumbling down
You just look finer