Tales From The Planet Earth

The Riptides Tales From The Planet Earth Lyrics
1.Hung Up

See the girl with the high-tops on
Leather jacket with the little pink thong
She's tearing up my heart like it was last year's Valentine
It's the girl with the bubblegum walk
Plaid skirt with the knee-high socks
She's hanging in my thoughts yeah, but you know that I don't
mind

I don't know just what it is that I'm doing now
My heart keeps on clouding up my brain
I don't know just who it is that I'm trying to fool
My confidence is circling the drain

And now I'm Hung up, I'm hung Up, I'm hung up on you
I'm hung up, I'm hung up, I'm hung up on you
I'm hung up, I'm hung up, I'm hung up on you
So why do you hang up on me?


2.She Gets Around

Everybody's got a different take why That Girl isn't right
With her low esteem and her shattered dreams, she's on the town
tonight
She'll try it once, she'll try it twice, she'll do it all again
There is no more of the Girl Next Door that we knew way back
then

She gets, she gets around - She gets, she gets around
I wonder what happened to, that girl we thought we knew, now

Drunken Mom, broken home, Dad's doing five to ten
And all the styles in the beauty aisle can't hide the life that
she's had
She's done it once, she's done it twice, she'll do it all again
There is no more of the Girl Next Door that we knew way back
then

She gets, she gets around - She gets, she gets around
I wonder what happened to, that girl we thought we knew, now
She gets, she gets around - She gets, she gets around
Little girl who's on the run, she's finally come undone

We're all in the gutter but we still can look at the stars
We wanted to help her, but she took things way too far


3.I Go Mental

I get kind of crazy when you go away
I kind of lose my marbles when I don't see you for days
I'm not all that stable when we're not in touch
I go a little loco when we can't hang out that much

I don't think that I'm acting too obsessive
I know that you will always be true
But it happens every time, you take over my mind
(Baby) I go mental when I think of you

I get all distressed when you go out of town
I lose all my sanity when I know you're not around
I get temperamental when you don't come by
I have trouble reasoning I can't figure out why

I don't think that I'm acting too possessive
but I guess that depends on your point of view
But it will happen again, you take over my brain
(Baby) I go mental when I think of you

I go mental, look what you've done to me
I go mental, I need some therapy


4.Omega Man


5.Dial M For Murder


6.Two Minute Penalty


7.Stranger In The House

This message will self-destruct soon
Please listen to the instructions
Never let him come and play on our side of the street
Dead drops and covert Ops, he's trained in his deceit

Your orders have now come through
It's clear what you must do (now)
His silence is deafening, the laces have been tied
Black arts and poison darts, your practice is applied

Cause he's the spy who came in from the cold
He's the agent who's story's never told
He's the one who'll exploit all your ties and use them for
himself
He's the stranger in the house


8.Shell Shock


9.I Can't Have A Merry Christmas

I want snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree
I made a list, but all I want, is you right here with me
Baby, baby - it ain't right, we're not together on Silent Night

Cause I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry Christmas without you

I braved the malls and decked the halls, and hung the Christmas
lights
I heard you won't be coming home, now It's not such a Wonderful
Life
Baby, baby - just in case, I hung your stocking by the fireplace

Cause I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry Christmas without you

Baby don't you cry this Christmas
I'll be waiting and dreaming just of you
We're apart but you melt my heart through & through

I want snow, and mistletoe, and presents by the tree
I made a list, but all I want, is you right here with me
Baby, baby - it ain't right, we're not together on Silent Night

Cause I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry
No I can't have a Merry Christmas without you


10.Call Me


11.Tattletale

You better be careful with that girl, the one who broke my heart
She went around and told the town things that tore us apart
Like all of our kept secrets, and all the fine details
Oh, she's a little Tattletale

Don't tattle, don't tattletale on my heart


12.Shit Outta Luck

We're on a bus we're at our desks, in the check-out lines
We're taught to chase our parent's dreams and things will turn
out fine
We go to school, can't pay our bills - the future's not so
bright
We all know the Kids ain't alright

We work our jobs we punch the clock, vote and pay the rent
We put our faith in Democracy, and in the President
The passerby just gets in line - blind leading the blind
We wave as the world passes by

Now it's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out
of luck
It's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out of
luck

Who do we blame? What is the cause? Could it be you & me?
We've paved the way for The Decline with our complacency
We're walking dead on Doctor's meds, with one foot in the grave
A United State of Decay

Now it's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out
of luck
It's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out of
luck
It's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out of
luck
It's too late, it's too late, Whoa-oh - cause we're shit out of
luck

We can't take this anymore
We can't stand it no more
No we can't take this anymore
We can't stand it no more