Unreleased Songs

You Am I Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Ken (The Mother Nature's Son)

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Andy Kent, Tim Rogers

You've lived on beans and rice
And fell for Jesus Christ
And if your pants are nice

Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun

Maybe start a TV show
A service in day-glo
Watch your ethics grow

Mother Nature's kid
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell

Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun

You've never tasted hell
'Cause Judas signed you well
And if the story sells

Mother Nature's kid
Just keep the money hid
As if you never did sell

Mother Nature's son
Never made sense until you begun
To play the kids for fun


2.Nifty Lil' Number Like You

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

One, two, who the hell are you?

It was the hottest night in town surely for years
They were hookin' up the TV's outside the bars
Sweet mahoo

Moon hit my eye like a big ol' scarlet pie
And I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you
Yeah, I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you

Now how did you smile when you were five?
What trouble did you get your good own-self into at night?
Hoo

How did you flirt in that debutant skirt?
What a catch I dream, a nifty lil' number like you
I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you

Her hair falls out behind just like a long black limousine,
Teasing with the life, you know this boy could only dream
Now I got a mosaic life with nothing to decide

I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you
I wanna be on down with a nifty lil' number like you

Now my back's all broke and my brain's turned to sour mash, yeah
From who stole the soul and bagged that greasy cash
But as soon as I hear that telecast my reds all turn to blue

And I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you
Yeah I'm gonna lay on down with a nifty lil' number like you

Her hair falls out behind just like a long black limousine
Teasing all my life, you know this boy could only dream
Now I got a mosaic life with nothing to decide

I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you
I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you

You know it's killin' me sweet
But what'm I gonna do about it?
You know it's killin' me sweet
But what'm I gonna do without it?

That sweet bourbon and dry
Sit on down, get your toe wet
Bite my lip and I'll make you my wife

Her hair falls out behind just like a long black limousine
Teasing all my life, you know this boy could only dream
Now I got a mosaic life with nothing to decide
With nothing to decide, with nothing to decide

Falls out behind just like a long black limousine,
Teasing all my life, You know this boy could only dream
No shit Sherlock, she makes my shingles rock

I'm all away with a nifty lil' number like you
I'm wanna lay on down with a nifty lil' number like you

I'm gonna bed on down with a nifty lil' number like
Oh damn, nifty lil' number like
Bed on down with a nifty lil' number like you


3.'Til the Clouds Roll Away

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Oh my darling, oh my sweetness, I'm such a damn mess
I could be knocked right out by the sway of your dress
But my vision's writing cheques that my chest just can't cash
Yeah, I'm a high plains dreamer, a royal pain in the ass

Oh, my sweet sugar dumpling, what do I put you through
As I'm dusting for prints, yeah, on who cursed me blue?
Yeah, it's a roadside confession, a cry in the rain
Well, me help me get up 'til the clouds roll away

So gently she sways as the support band plays
Well, me help me get up 'til the clouds roll away

He needs a clean shirt and a payoff, some place he ain't been
With a thunder crack for loneliness, shot from a dream
Yeah and I'll kiss you like a fugitive and dance till you say
Well, me help me get up 'til the clouds roll away

So gently she sways as the support band plays
Well, me help me get up 'til the clouds roll away

She turns the corner like a priest turns the page
Each second's breathless, watching you play

Oh my baby, oh my sweetheart, my sweet ruby gal
There's some things you should know about your old man
He's lost high and drifting in between the waves

Lift him with the elements then drown them again
But your smile's his redemption, a-coolin' the flames
He's gonna push 'em 'til the clouds roll away

So gently you sway as the support band plays
Well, me help me get up 'til the clouds roll away


4.One Trick Tony

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Well, I gave up drinking for a whole half week
To see how the story ended
Two left feet and a set complete
Of the ivories newly-stained white

One Trick Tony took himself out for lunch
To celebrate the feel of his suit
If this disguise played through from the back of the room
Even for the last of the wine

Singin' now
Well, here's to your daughters
'Cause the curves and corners
Make my mind go slow
So bring the ol' sun down, we're coming out

You can never go back home
You can never go back home
When your plans all turn to dust, yeah
You gotta sing from your guts

She asked me, 'How can you write all them sad, sad songs?
Celebrate the lonely and the lame?'
I said, 'The joy in you, I just couldn't compute
'Gainst a rhythm and a good chord change'

One Trick Tony took himself out for drinks
Fought the poetry and smoke
To ease on back in the drink
From the back of the Russian tea wrote
For me now

Well, here's to your daughter
'Cause the curves and corners
Make my mind go slow
So bring the ol' sun down, we're coming out

You can never go back home
You can never go back home
When your plans all turn to dust, yeah
You gotta sing from your nuts

Well, here's to your daughter
'Cause the curves and corners
Make my mind go slow
I'm gone, I'm gone

You can never go back home
You can never go back home, oh sing it now
You can never go back home
You can never go back home
When your plans all turn to dust, yeah
You gotta sing from your nuts


5.The Wrong Side Now

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Could you have a clue just what you're doing to me?
You know me far too well, it's a sting
And life is a carnival but we're the next unmentioned
You picked a fine, fine way to say goodbye
As if that's the only trick to the prize

I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
And I could never learn
You wanna play, you get burned

You taught me the stiff defenses but you kept the secrets
And you with the patience of a clock
Now I'm wound up so tight and sleep's cold comfort
The days so long but bittersweet
The time on my hands slips, trips up my feet, oh

I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
And I could never learn

I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
And I could never learn
You wanna play, you get burnt

I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
Yeah and I could never learn

I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now
I'm on the wrong side now

And I could never learn
(I could never learn)
And I could never learn
(I could never learn)
You wanna play, you get burned


6.City Lights

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

You know the street where I live nestles five miles from town
I go walking at night, guided by the crown
That sits on the buildings, craning from high
Take me out, take me out to see those city lights

You can treat me like garbage, reject my staring so graphic
That needs your attention or the just psychopathic
And there ain't no lothario on the sly
I walk in a dream with those city lights

I know you can see through each line that I use
So I'll poleaxes the syntax and rhyme
The trams in the neon sway to a torch song
At sunset and I'm alive

I just need to know somewhere there's drunks and some kissin'
Romance and rock band but something I'm missing
And I don't wanna be anywhere but on the edge
Of the river with you and those damn city lights

You know the street where I live nestles five miles from town
And it just don't swing unless you're 'round
So I walk to the water and dream with your smile
Just you and me, just you and me and our city lights


7.Ribbons And Bows

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

A long ago and what's his name
Yeah, spilled out on the road like a bucket of rain
You know I didn't come to 'cause she knows my mind
It's 'cause she stones my soul a sleep at a time

Lay down your ribbons and bows
And let your hair hang greasy and low, and oh
On a sparkling cushion we lie, it's like
Like a new state of mind
Yeah, it's a new state of mind

She was the newest mama in the shortest skirt
(Hey, ain't askin' her to know my mind)
I promise never again to tell how it hurt
(Your tears are mine)

Yeah, but as my mind goes dancing
While the gin picks the tune
Hitch your ride to my wagon
I'll bring you the moon

Lay down your ribbons and bows
And let your hair hang greasy and low, and oh
On a gift shop cushion we lie
It's like, like a new state of mind
Yeah, it's a new state of mind

Lay down your ribbons and bows
And let your hair hang greasy and low, and oh
On a sparkling cushion we lie
It's like, like a new state of mind
Yeah, it's a new state of mind

Lay down your ribbons and bows
When they beat me down I got a joint where we can go, and oh
On a gift shop cushion we lie
It's like, like a new state of mind
(It's a new state of mind)

Yeah, it's a new state of mind
(It's a new state of mind)
It's a new state of mind
(It's a new state of mind)
It's a new state of mind


8.Nuthin's Ever Gonna Be The Same Again

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Oh, sweet ruby girl
Put your arms 'round my neck and ring like a bell
Meet me Rosita, kiss me Carika
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again, hey

Now look at those two just dancing there
The ordeal over in the old town square
This crisp white shirt won't sweep up the dirt
And nuthin's ever gonna be the same again

Oh, sweet ruby girl
Put your arms 'round my neck and ring like a bell
Meet me Rosita, kiss me Carika
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again, hey

Yeah, now listen to that song he's a-tryin' to shout
With the Cuban heel boots and his ass hangin' out
A sound so ancient, so meat and potatoes, yeah
But nuthin's ever gonna be the same again

Oh, sweet ruby girl
Mama's kisses taste like caramel
Meet me Rosita, kiss me Carika
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again

Oh, nobody understands a word we're sayin'
If there's somethin' crumblin' like a fruitcake, sugar
Then keep drinkin' it, get the interpretatin'

If the poem's all sore you get that, learn to play guitar
Quit that phrasing and parading and get that ass outta the bar
But learn how to swing and get their hands off their things
Yeah, nuthin's ever gonna be the same again

No bottle of wine just don't hit me the same
Unless it softens the frame around, oh, that face
I learn how to swing and get my hands off my things, yeah
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again, sugar
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again
Nuthin's ever gonna be, hey, hey

Oh, sweet ruby girl
Mama's kisses taste like caramel
Meet me Rosita, my precious Carika
Nuthin's ever gonna, hey, hey, hey

Oh, sweet ruby girl
Put your arms 'round my neck and ring like a bell
Now my stomach's tight and I'm as thirsty as hell
But nuthin's ever gonna be the same again
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again
Nuthin's ever gonna be the same again


9.Open All Night

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

It's been a long day
And you're still retarded
And can't get started
And your perfect toes
Just won't sit still

A hundred reasons
Just to lie down faceless
And leave no traces
Of the fortune
Wrapped up in your head

And no one knows
Just how you could
Turn upside down
Yeah, anything upright
Let nothing pass you by

Oh yeah, it's what you show
If you're in a hurry
I'll dress you slow
Oh yeah, each night
Nothing passes you by

Your credit's good here
You'll always find a seat
Leave the keys out
Leave the light on
We're open all night

You never thought
That folks could dig
Their teeth in
Just to see
If you could fight
Or if you'd cry

And all because
You gave your teacup
Tor the kissing
Now it's there
For the kicking
But you just can't raise
Your eyes goodbye

And no one knows
Just how you could
Turn upside down
Yeah, anything upright
And nothing passes you by

Oh yeah, it's what you show
If you're in a hurry
I'll dress you slow
Oh yeah, each night
Nothing passes you by

And your credit's good here
You'll always find a seat
Leave the keys out
Leave the light on
We're open all night

Oh yeah, now you know
I'm in a hurry
You dress me slow
Oh yeah, each night
Nothing passes you by

Your credit's good here
You'll always find a seat
Leave the keys out
Leave the light on
We're open all night

Leave the keys out
Leave the light on
We're open all night


10.Flagfall $1.80

Lyricist:Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley

If I'm so unpopular out on the highway
Why is everybody waving at me?
See if they even knew ya
Wouldn't you find that a little peculiar?

Six pack, cheaper domestic to keep
The council's road works protected
Mopping up puke for
All the high school kids getting soaking
Ripping off stickers off dashboards
Preventing me from smoking

We ain't going west of the city
But I'll take you to the station
'Cause your girlfriend's pretty
Six pack, cheaper domestic to keep
The council's road works protected

I can get you where you want
Start at $1.80 add the extra
But for that late night AM talk back line
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
If you don't mind

I can get you where you want
Start at $1.80 add the extra
But for that late night AM talk back line
Don't use my mirror for your hairdo
If you don't mind.


11.Gone, Gone, Gone

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Been living underwater
But I sure dug the sea
But no-one could hear me out
When I leaned back to scream

Coming through the shelves, to live in the dirt
To keep from the sun, to keep from getting hurt
Gettin' gone

You got a lot to learn
Ah, got a lot to learn from getting
Gone, gone, gone

Been feeding on contributions
From the folks on the bridge
Throw the scraps on out
When they need a trip

So I flap my tail and give a high-pitched squeak
Just so they could leave me in between the rocks to sleep
Gettin' gone

I wasted so much time that I
Oh, wouldn't swap the line of getting
Gone, gone, gone

You got a lot to learn
Ah, got a lot to learn from getting
Gone gone gone

I don't know where the sadness starts
'Cause I'm so happy I could die
Just give me long enough to live
Yeah, and it's only when I fly

I wasted so much time that I
Oh, wouldn't swap the line of getting
Gone, gone, gone

You got a lot to learn
Ah, got a lot to learn from getting
Gone, gone, gone


12.Jewels & Bullets

Lyricist:Russell Hopkinson, Kent Andy Charles, Rogers Tim Adrian

Every word they sling you
Hits like your folks have never been kind
And the jewels on your apron
Could use some calamine
Ugly girls and pit-faced boys
All hunch and join in the line

Got the shoe that you lived in
And the towel that you dried in
And there's a drink you can drown in
So choose a blanket to die in

Spill a drink on his front and salsa on the plans
For a mall and high rise
'Cause there's only so much of string
That patrons can pull and unwind

You're the shoe that they lived in
And you're the towel that they dried in
And there's a drink you can drown in
They got the blanket you'll die in

Choke on the towel you can die in


13.Deliverance

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Yeah I ain't consistent, some collar crime
I won't call you regular, no, I'll wait till I'm blind
Yeah until I'm blind
I think of you off and on, you sure you can't hear
Each message I send ya, oh so silent and clear?
But this coin says I luv ya
And see ya on the other side

I've been up all night with a head full of neon
I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh

You drink to remember, yeah, you drink to forget
Just like writing songs, like a letter never sent
Yeah and I never sent em on
But it's a shout in the backyard, a punch in the sky
A love unconditional to straighten my spine
But this coin says I luv ya
And don't wait 'til the other side

I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Just give me deliverance and an old friend to lean on
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh

I'm sorry sorry sorry sorry, for
I'll make it back again
But this affliction ain't temporary
It's where I began
Yeah, yeah but I save my skin
So hit that old four-and-a-half chord, oh oh, shit again

I've been treating my friends just like holds or keys
You don't know you need them, oh yeah, till you're down on your
knees
And I'm down here on my knees

Cause I've been up all night with a head full of neon
Yeah give me deliverance and an old friend to lean on
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-ohhhhhh
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
Hey yeah
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah


14.When You Know What You Want

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

When you know what you want
The winds at your back, yeah
And time's your friend
It'll push you out like the tide
Drag you in and kiss you at the end

When you know what you want
You keep your head up, yeah
You look at the sun
You stop hiding beneath fringes
He only, he who just lingers on and on

Just keep that voice on your shoulder
That steers you out of the corners
That night won't swallow you up
When you know, when you know
What you want

When your mind's made up
You wake up with the jump, yeah
Your shoulders can drop, you out run the demons
The cramps you just leave them
Choking in your dust

And when you fall down exhausted
You sleep you don't force the day to cave in
Sleep is there to hug ya, caress and to drug ya
On it you can depend

So keep that voice on your shoulder
That steers you out of the corners
That night won't swallow you up
When you know, when you know
What you want

Yeah, keep that voice on your shoulder
That steers you out of the corners
That night won't swallow you up
When you know, when you know
What you want

When you know what you want
The winds at your back, yeah
And time's your friend
It'll push you out like the tide
Drag you in and kiss you at the end

When you know what you want


15.Bring Some Sun Back

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

I just don't know how to talk to you
There ain't much that I want to get through
Just stare at you in silence that's okay
Like a dog outside your window in the rains

You're horse mounts so high that I can't see
The distance that I fall each time you leave
Without the sentences that keep you quiet
And stop me at the line

So go on out in that heat so familiar
Just go on and bring some sun back with you
Bring some sun back with you, yeah
Go on out and bring some sun back with you, yeah

Could you give me just a minute of me needs?
You've seen me at my worst in its degrees
The garbage growing deep around my toes
Got nothing going for me but my nose

I got a thing going with old Jesus Christ
He keeps me up from sleeping straight at night
And I need to tell you something about the baggage
If I can find the language

'Cause she walks like a cello in good vibrations
Metered and deadly 'til I can't help but cave in
Bring some sun back with you, yeah
Go on out and bring some sun back with you, yeah

I'm speaking rhythms and rhymes
And meters and times that I should understand
But this big old tongue should have stopped, not begun
That's why I do not what I say, that stuff can't give me away

So go on out in that heat so familiar
Just be sure to bring the sun back with you
Bring some sun back with you, yeah
Bring some sun back with you, yeah
Bring some sun back with you, yeah


16.Arse-Kickin' Lady From The North-West

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

Well, she breeze down through my hotel room
Like an interstate truck in the rain
She said she cut her teeth on skinny Jim's
There aint no scales mapping out I just wanna play

She's spun me a really good story
Never let the truth get in the way
And that's the reason I'm still
Standing here today

She said she came down from
The north-west of town
In a '63 Holden EJ
With potato from Kentucky
And a fresh bag of Luckys
And a Bowie compilation tape

She's spun me a real good story
Never let the truth get in the way
And that's the reason I'm still standing here
The reason I'm still standing here
The reason I'm still standing here today

I left my brains in Hong Kong
Left my wallet in a two dollar shirt
And I remember every goddamn minute with you
Just like a minute in a movie that hurts

She spun me a real good story
I never questioned anything that she said
And that's the reason she's still standing here
The reason she's still standing here
The reason she's still standing here today

I listened to a real good story
Never let the truth get in the way
And that's the reason I'm still standing here
The reason she's still standing here
The reason we're still standing here today


17.Who Put the Devil in You?

Lyricist:Rogers Tim Adrian

I got too much on my mind
Yeah, so play that thing in a different style
Caught on a hook and a line
Yeah, thicken, use and drive me outta my mind

So I'm down, so punch me in the decals
And see which of my teeth tells
The honor of thieves, hard to prove
But who put the devil in you?

I got too much on my mind
I cross my chest to keep myself in line
Willing the water from wine
I've wasted years looking for somewhere to hide

Lookin' down, just kick me where the sun shines
And now we're on for hot times
And bashin' out to hammer the blues
Yeah, who put the devil in you?

I'm finding out where my head's at
Like loose change in a laundromat
It chews me through
From Dallas Crane to Motley Crue, oh

Yeah, but I know just why I'm masquerading
And why my tracks is fading
And bash out to hammer the blue
Who put the devil in you?

I hit on the speed in my shoe
Now who put the devil in you?

'Cause you know we're going out there again
I'm just throwing my trust to the wind
We're gonna beat this damn thing to the end
And then kiss it off, hey


18.Words of Sadness

Lyricist:Tim Adrian Rogers

Well, can you help me find them?
The words for sadness now
All my explanations leave me
Like dirty water out from a cloud

I'm leaning out the window
That teases with shifting scenes
But the air that used to fill my lungs
Has now got me on my knees

So nuzzle up close to my ear
Whisper something golden, strong and clear
'Cause I need to know them words for sadness now
Oh yeah, oh yeah

So I throw my words around like
A kiss at a Christmas do
But I'm losing ground in between the rounds
Give me a hook to hang my blues

So nuzzle up close to my ear
Whisper something golden, strong and clear
'Cause I need to know them words for sadness now
Oh yeah, I need to know them words for sadness now

Yeah, I'm out punching blind
It's driving me mad
So I bash out a three chord wonder, yeah
'Cause the only thing that we had

Nuzzle up close to my ear
Give me something golden, strong and clear
Because I need to know them words for sadness now
'Cause I need to know them words for sadness now
Oh yeah, I need to know them, the words for sadness now

That makes me a losin', boy
That makes me a losin', boy
You sure can win, poor losin', boy
You better win for losin', boy


19.Jaimme's Got A Gal

Jaimme's got a girl
Don't think things are gonna be the same
He ain't coming out and drinking tonight
I think he's gonna change his name

We can't work it out
He ain't punching walls anymore
I ain't gonna wake up now
Find you on my floor

A game's a game, you don't want it being the same
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it
And if it's true, it just ain't my place to say
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it

Phone sure sounds dead
My pockets sure feel tight
The things I promised not to do with you today
I sure need to tonight

But it's all working out
Just like they said it would be
You ain't gonna fall on my floor
From now on it's just we three

A game's a game, you don't want it being the same
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it
And if it's true, it sure ain't my place to say
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it

Yeah, a game's a game
It sure ain't my place to say
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it

Yeah, a game's a game
I don't want it being the same
But you sure ain't like you were yesterday
But go on and try it

Just go on and try it
Just go on and try it


20.Satisfied Mind

Get the lead on out 'cause it's my round
And I punched the van 'cause I lost the sound
And then I fell on down, oh yeah
I ain't old enough to have walked the line
But I've circled this room for the twenty fifth time

For a fortunate son, I'm such a jealous guy
Got a bone to pick, I dunno why
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey, hey yours for ten
I fell on down, I'm gonna do it again

What I gave away and what I left behind
Swallowed history like a five an' dine
And then I fell on down oh, yeah
Y'all knew the guy he was the king of the kids
Threw his trophies to the sky
As he jumped from the bridge, yeah

For a fortunate son, I'm such a jealous guy
Got a bone to pick, I dunno why
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey, hey, yours for ten
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again

And if you're looking for the guy who can see
With some of these damn apologies
A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Hey, hey yours for ten
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again

Hey, hey, your foot down
I fell on down I'm gonna do it again
Hey, hey, get on up
I fell on down, I'm gonna do it again

A bottle o' wine and Patsy Cline
But what would I do with a satisfied mind
Oh yeah, what would I do?


21.Sugar

Sugar, sit a while
Come and rest your feet
It's been a long long while
Since you were been close to me

Let's polish of a few underneath the sky
It's pulling all its faces
You wanna stand real quiet
And see just what it brings
We've been running too much
Need to miss out on a few things

If we just get it on
Tease and treat me wrong
Birds do it, bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again
Get me on my feet again

Swinging like a tire
Princess off the beat
Telephone wires with all
Explode at your feet

I'm running out of blood
But I'm never cold
But I need to jump those fences
Holding neath the show

'Cause I see just what I need
So drag this boy on over
Let him fall real deep

If we just get it on
Tease and treat me wrong
Birds do it, bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again
Get me on my feet again

Sugar, I'm a mess
But it's where I wanna be
I wanna burn out with a smile
That cuts right through my teeth

Everyone gets rained
Rained on just the same
But lately its been soaking
Us right to the veins
And we're running out of time
So drag this boy on over
And keep him til its light

Can we just get it on?
Tease and treat me wrong
Them birds do it, them bees do it
Drop right down to my knees to do it
Just get me on my feet again

Just get me on my feet again
Just get me on my feet again
Get me on my feet again


22.Doug Sahm

Give me a call
When yer strung out or when you're bored
Been so long and heavy
But now you think I'm ready

Lean on me, lean on me
Give it a try, it won't hurt
Leave it with the papers
And the capers and the dirt

Had a friend who died today
Got a long distance call
Who knows what or when or how
But what I'd do to see his face now

Lean on me, lean on me
Wham bam, doug sahm
Get my brains from a garden plant

You ain't got the truth in the line
Stick with the ones who never
Get put out by the fire

I never was one for pictures yeah
You could hang up on the wall
Start 'em up here in my head

Wait for them to fall
Let's go get wrong, real, real gone
Raise a toast to the Polaroid ghost
And let some water fall

You ain't got the truth in the line
Stick with the ones who never
Get put out by the fire


23.You Scare Me

You couldn't have took it any harder
You couldn't have put it anymore sweet
But every bone of yours for picking
Is every bone they picked of meat

Now you're loaded, lonely and on her mind
Now you're loaded, bloated but it's only 'til next time

When every cut on the wall becomes a curse
Cut yourself real deep before they get in first
Take each good word like a crucifix

Now you're loaded, lonely and on her mind
Now you're loaded, bloated but it's only 'til next time
You scare me blind

Can't help but take each day as another call
To arms in the hero victim's cause
And every bone you left out for picking
Is gonna stick in the throat of everyone
That you never called

It's only, loaded on her mind
It's only, loaded but it's only 'til next time
You scare me blind


24.End O' The Line

I'm sweating bullets for breakfast
Slipping outta my range
Another night on a meat hook
Just trying to pickle my brain

Why the hell are you running?
And what are you standing for?
A lightweight with the baggage
Slung out the door

So roll us on up in shrink-wrap
It sounds like a good place to hide
'Cause heads and tails, it's a night on
We'll be there 'til the end of the line

I asked out the back to find a word in a cloud
Told me something that I already knew
Now if you're waiting for luck
To come and touch you up

You better wear yourself a good-looking suit
Don't you come around asking
'Cause I ain't got an answering mind
I'm gonna get real damn familiar
With something with ice

So set us on up in the corner
And throw over that bottle 'o wine
'Cause heads and tails it's a night on
We'll be there till the end of the line
We'll be there till the end of the line
We'll be there till the end of the line

Don't expect us now to understand
Or trust in the way that it feels
Chasing up the coins into the ocean
And chopping up the carriages
To fight the locomotion alright

I had a win in Kansas
A birthday in North Albany
The most ungrateful tourist
You ever dragged an old friend to see


25.Beautiful Girl

Hey you, put your chewing gum in my fist
And pass the last over of your drink
I've known you long enough to know
Yeah, I'm in deep and it shows

I met her on grand final day
And from sixteen thousand miles away
Yeah, I knew I was in trouble deep
Past me boots

You think it's so hard
Alone in the world
Yeah, well, just try keeping up
With a beautiful girl

Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl

So I strayed
(Keep your head in the sky)
Til' my fingers all burnt in a sneeze
(Leaving nothing behind)

And I'm holding by the skin of my teeth
She got me grinning like a karaoke king
Without a clue on how the thing begins

And that's where the hell, I'll reside
In between the width of her smile
So if you spy me just let it be
I'm far beyond what you knew of me

You think it's so hard
Alone in the world
Yeah, well, just try keeping up
With a beautiful girl

Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl

You're never alone
It's you against the world
You're the uninvited oyster
Next to the pearl
The best lesson I learned

Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Me, keep up with that beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl

Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl
Keepin' up with a beautiful girl


26.Kick A Hole In The Sky

Walks like a crooked tooth
And sleeps with a Dexedrine smile
Keeps finding the holes where old memory can go
And wash it down, liquefied

Keep that old door swinging
'Cause you can be the freeloader
When it's closing time
When it's closing time

What you gonna do? It's nothing to see
But something's got you down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts
And it ain't falling down by degrees
I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky

Your walls are plastered with ham-fist drunks
And pagans wrapped in denim and smoke
So tell me what chance did you happen to dance
With the step that kicked your feet in the boat?

Loose band on the radio
All static and clashing a hob-nailed hint
You're never losing ground
It's just the way it sounds

What you gonna do? It's nothing you see
But something's got you down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts, yeah
And it ain't falling down by degrees

I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky

You cover me like the sunshine kisses the day
But a pulse starts in my gut now
And it's gonna make us pay

What you gonna do? It's nothing to see
But something's got you down on your knees
I'm crawling through the dirt to see where it hurts
And it ain't falling down by degrees

I think I'm gonna die
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
Trying to kick a hole in the sky
From trying to kick a hole in the sky
Oh, bring it on