1.Night Work
When I was a young boy I pretended I had a job
My daddy said 'Pretty woman,
Mama married into the mob'
I dreamed one day I'd be livin' off the system for free
But dreams come true,
honey welcome to my reality
And I sleep all day and wake myself in the shadows
(Time to get up, gotta get up)
Gotta catch that train by midnight for the
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Punch that clock and break all the numbers
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Weekday 9 to 5 shift is over
I didn't have a penny
No, I couldn't cut a check with a blade
I used to have the shakes
But now they're good at getting me played
I sleep all day but I break my back in the moonlight
(never enough, it's never enough)
Gotta cash that check by midnight for the
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Punch that clock and break all the numbers
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Weekday 9 to 5 shift is over
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Punch that clock and break all the numbers
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Weekday 9 to 5 shift is over
And when the whistle blows
And your body can't take it no more
You gotta keep on movin', remember
This is what you asked for
Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-night work
Na-na-na-na-na-na-night work
Night work
Gotta do the night work
Night work gotta do the night work
Weekday 9 to 5 shift is over
2.Whole New Way
I gave passes to the boarder,
gave my bags straight to the porter
Gave my Zippo as a guiding light
I see smoke upon the water,
said the sailor to the daughter
Well I think I need a rubber tonight
And with everybody watching from the top of the sky
A neon bolt of lightening hit me where I found my stride
I found a whole new way to love you
I've got a big surprise
I can't see your eyes but I think you'll like it too
I found a whole new way to love you
My sneak up from behind is gonna blow your mind
But if not this time, we're through
It gets lonesome in the darkness even when I
dance with partners
With the DJ playing Leather and Lace
I'll take anything you give me
'cause I know that God forgives me
It's no accident expensive taste
So when everyone got home
I got your tail between my legs
We can talk about relationships but
there's better things to fill your head with
I found a whole new way to love you
I've got a big surprise
I can't see your eyes but I think you'll like it too
I found a whole new way to love you
My sneak up from behind is gonna blow your mind
But if not this time, we're through
Love and leave it, you take it when you need it
You gotta give and take, ignores the breaks
And baby, they're are not enough ways
You gotta gimme some, get some
Ooh, I found a whole new way to love you
Ooooooh I've found a whole new way to love you
I found a whole new way to love you
I've got a big surprise
I can't see your eyes but I think you'll like it too
I found a whole new way to love you
My sneak up from behind is gonna blow your mind
But if not this time, we're through
3.Fire With Fire
You can see that you're being surrounded
From every direction
And love was just something you found
To add to your collection
It used to seem we were number one
But now it sounds so far away
I had a dream we were running from
Some blazing arrows yesterday
You said, 'Fight fire with fire Fire
with fire Fire with fire
Through desire, desire -sire, desire
Through your desire.'
Now the city blacks out the sun
That you know is rising
You can show me
the work that you've done
Your fears have been disguising
Is it just me or is everyone
Hiding out between the lines
What will we be when we come undone
Just a simple meeting of the minds?
And we'll fight fire with fire Fire
with fire Fire with fire
Through desire, desire -sire, desire
Through your desire
We'll fight fire with fire Fire
with fire Fire with fire
Through desire, desire -sire, desire
Through your desire
Underneath your skies
There's a million lights
Burning brightly just like fireflies
It's cold and heaven surrounds you from
every direction
'Cause there's someone
behind every hand Is she out there
That you've made a connection
And now we're free to be number one
The morning isn't far away
I had a dream we were holding on
and tomorrow as we come today,
we come today
And now we're free to be number one
The morning isn't far away
I had a dream we were holding on
and tomorrow as we come today,
And we'll fight fire with fire Fire
with fire Fire with fire
Through desire, desire -sire, desire
Through your desire
We'll fight fire with fire
Fire with fire
Fire with fire
Through desire, desire -sire,
desire Through your desire
4.Any Which Way
Dancing on the speakers
Are you beaking with the tweakers?
The bigots and the breeders on the scene
The night don't last forever
So get your shit together
Open arms are never what they seem
I don't need a doctor
Just a simple love concocter
To slide to my side so civilly
No time for commitment
When I receive your shipment
Oh I need express delivery
Any which way
Any which way
Better take me
Any which way you can
Any which way
Any which way
Better take me
Any which way you can
Don't need reservations
No identification
To give me your relations
Sting me like a bee
I want you to funk me
Your battleship has sunk me
You dip me and you dunk me
Set my body free
Any which way
Any which way
Better take me
Any which way you can
Any which way
Any which way
Better take me
Any which way you can
You know baby
When I was taking
my pantyhose out of their egg this evening
I thought: I'm going to find that man
that is the right shade of bottle tan
A man that smells like cocoa butter and cash
Take me anyway you like it
In front of the fireplace
In front of your yacht
In front of my parents
I don't give a damn baby, just take me
Any which way,
any which way, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way you can
Any which way,
any which way, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way
You better take me, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way
You better take me, any which way you can
Ah any which way you can
Ah any which way you can
Any which way, any which way
You better take me, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way
You better take me, any which way you can
Any which way, any which way
(Any which way, any which way, any which way you can)
You better take me, any which way you can
(Any which way, any which way you can)
Any which way, any which way
(Any which way, any which way, any which way you can)
You better take me, any which way you can
(Any which way, any which way you can)
5.Harder You Get
You're digging deeper
Love is a creeper
I know the reaper on a first name basis
It ain't Steven
It isn't Adam
I got some apples,
if you want them you can grab them
And what I really wanna do tonight is toughen you up
The harder you get
The harder I sweat
Now I'm too wet
To want it all
Beating my trunk
The faster you're done
Can't have one
You want them all
Hell is my heaven
A loaded weapon
Don't point that thing at me unless you plan to shoot
My room is darker
Than any color
I'm not your baby and I'll never be your mother
And what I really wanna do tonight is toughen you up
The harder you get
The harder I sweat
Now I'm too wet
To want it all
Beating my trunk
Faster, you're done
Can't have one
You want them all
You're sensitive to light
We're conjuring the night
You stand up with pride
Attempting to walk
You won't stabilize
Of what's become a life
Stop crying like a child
You got what you want!
You got what you want
And what I really wanna do tonight
Is toughen you up
The harder you get
The harder I sweat
Now I'm too wet
To want it all
Beating my trunk
Faster, you're done
Can't have one
You want them all
6.Running Out
One two three four give me more
Cause I think we're going down
What you need it for?
Pass the wealth around
We're going right back to the borderline
Now you just save yourself
I'm on my own
No use to no one else
Cause I every time I think I'm fine
You keep on dreaming up
A hundred different ways
to cause hysteria
Am I insane, am I blind?
I just can't seem to trust
Too many regulations
coming back at ya
We're running out
Of money
Of love
Of luck
We're running out
Of language
Of fame
Of bread
We're running out
Something tells me that I'm fine
But when I get enough
Another one wouldn't be too much
And still I chew it up and spit it out
It's too big to swallow
Got enough for everyone
So here we go
Ohh, let's see how far that we can run
before this gig is over
I hear the warning sign
on everybody's stereo
Do you love, what do you like
What would you do for more?
You kept on dancing underneath the
burning floor
We're running out
Of money
Of each other
Of confidence
We're running out
Of drugs
Of patience
Of air
We're running out
We're running out
Of money
Of love
Of luck
We're running out
Of language
Of fame
Of bread
We're running out
Of money
Of each other
Of confidence
We're running out
Of drugs
Of patience
Of air
We're running out
7.Something Like This
I just need to hear that song again
Oh there I was standing all alone
When you came dancing
Very very near me
Why'd you have to go and disappear?
And if they play that song maybe
You'll come dancing back to me
I can't remember any words
There's a verse and after it goes
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
No I don't feel like going home
Oh, there's no chance
I'm leaving here solo
How will I ever find
a way to track you down?
The floor is where I'll stay and
Ask somebody if they see
Someone shaking tambourines
Two feet that never touch the ground
Searching til I've found your moves go
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
I'm so lonely I could die
I got someone like you in mind
Oh to love me 'stead of passing by
When my heart beats it goes
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
Something like this (goes)
Something like this (goes)
Over and over like a robot you go
8.Shin Like Cat
You got my good good lovin'
within your grasp
Don't let it throw you
There's a million million
ways to skin this cat
So let me show you
I got a brand new hook
to hang your hat
Tell me baby baby just where you at
There's a million ways
ways to skin this cat
So let me show you
And if you get it right
Get it right
I'll love you til my ninth life
My beauty was a beast
before I got to know you
This kitten has a lion's roar
And she will roll you
You're not the first tom
to walk my floor
So get around the block
a few times more
And keep scratch scratchin'
at my back door
And I will show you
That if you get it right
Get it right
I'll love you til my ninth life
That if you get it right
Get it right
I'll love you til my ninth life
Come here kitty kitty
Skin this cat
Come here kitty kitty
Skin this cat
Come here kitty kitty
Skin this cat
Come here kitty kitty
Skin this cat
9.Shin Tight
And when you get tired
of holding me tight
Remember it's how I stay alive
When we come down
off our high for the night
You don't let go
And if you're feeling too close
Then we're doing all right
Got you under my clothes
Take you out tonight
Take you out tonight
You're so skin tight
You're never close enough
You're so skin tight
Wrap me in your love
So skin tight
Nothing else sliding
between you and me
What's symbiotic will always be
Surrounding each other for eternity
And we won't let go
So it gets a little hot
But the temperature's right
I'll take everything you got
Cause you're always in my sight
Yeah, you're always in my sight
You're so skin tight
You're never close enough
You're so skin tight
Wrap me in your love
So skin tight
You're never close enough
You're so skin tight
Wrap me in your love
Anything less
Too far away
I can't peel it back
Can't peel it back
Can't peel it back
Cause your skin tight
Fit me like a glove
Skin tight
Wrap me in your love
10.Sex And Violence
Oh, I need a witness to
see the mess I've made
There's a broken lampshade,
ashtrays, burnt floors, beds unmade
Eyes sleeping if you are dream,
dream of what I'm doing
To you, undo you,
I'm through with you until I need a round of
Everytime I spend myself it never runs too low, woah
I can't escape my need for
Sex and violence
Never meant you see them hand in hand
One is with the other
The softest touches, deeper than the ocean
Give it to me faster, feel it, feel it
Sex and violence
Who is gonna make you cry?
(Sex and violence)
Oh, I was a real man stealing all the trade
I was strong and self-made, well-paid,
so groomed, persuasive
You were walking home that night,
too kind to be illusive
Where do you live? What do you give?
Who are you with?
And how you getting home?
Does everybody know right now
exactly where you are? Woah
Step inside's a step too far but
Sex and violence
Hit me with a lover, burns so bright
And one is just the other
Sweetest tastes, never gonna leave you
Even when it hurts you, breathe it, breathe it
Sex and violence
Never meant you see them hand in hand
One is with the other
The softest touches, deeper than the ocean
Give it to me faster, feel it, feel it
Sex and violence
Hit me with a lover, burns so bright
And one is just the other
Sweetest tastes, never gonna leave you
Even when it hurts you, breathe it, breathe it
11.Night Life
I was a young girl
Knew next to nothing
Living in the suburbs
And my heart was lusting
For a new way
And a new sound
Crawled over my hang-ups
To the underground
I had a breakthrough
I had to shake you
You couldn't come to
To see my point of view
I had a breakthrough
It was my debut
It didn't faze you
But it meant something to me
Night Life
Beneath the surface
Night Life
Some say it's worthless
Night life
It's a state of being
Inside
It's the song you're singing
Night Life
If there's no spirit
Night Life
Then don't go near it
Night Life
It's a high turnover
Inside
You can find your life in the night life
If you are feeling
Like you don't have nothing
Under pressure in a cooker
With your head in the oven
There's a new way
So come on down
Life in limbo will be over
When you're underground
You need a breakthrough
You need to make due
You need to come to
A brand new point of view
You need to break through
And then get wise to
All that is taboo
And you'll be something to see
Night Life
Beneath the surface
Night Life
Some say it's worthless
High Life
It's a state of being
Inside
It's the song you're singing
Night Life
It's the heart you're racing
Night Life
It's the pill you're tasting
Night Life
It's the cash you're making
Inside
You can find your life in the nightlife
Beneath the surface
Some say it's worthless
It's a low-cut ceiling
It's the rush you're feeling
It can break your spirit
If you let them near it
It's the back you're breaking
Are you in it for the Nightlife?
Find your way to hide in the nightlife
You can find your life in the nightlife
12.Invisible Light
At the doors of Babylon
You are my Zion
A pacing tiger
A keeper's cage
Invisible light
Shoots from your eyes
A sign I can see from my high rise
Another castle crumbles
Another monkey falls
Just open up your joy
And let the sailors climb the walls
I thought I saw you laughing
Ten feet in the air
Doesn't matter if they touch you where
they cut you
Can you give me
An invisible light
To keep me alive
Electric all the tension
I can feel it with the fingers
in my mind
Opiate utopia
Gets hotter by the hour
I found you a flower
In a field
Of my invention
Among the tired
Among the poor
Among the broken
The huddled masses
It's your time
Will you answer to a new name?
It changes all the time
I'll call you anything you want
If I can say it's mine
The story's never-ending
Our footprint's been erased
Well here you are
I kiss a feeling
I see your mouth
Though is it really?
An invisible light
To keep me alive
So kinetic this dimension
Can't you feel it bend
your sense of time
|