OUTLAW MAN
I came out of the fifties now that's when men were men
I am like the red red rooster, always cooping hens
I guess that I'm a rarity some call a dying breed
I am a macho bronco stallion call me Mr Seed
I'm a rocker I'm a rocker
I'm a rolling stone
I'm a rocker I'm a rocker
I'm one big bone
I'm a rocker I'm a rocker
Motorcycle man - love don't fit in a can
When you're talking Elvis,well I saw him yesterday
He touched me on the shoulder and asked me if he could play
I buttered up my ducktail'put on my long black drape
I polished up my Bonneville to make those girlies gape
I'm one of lifes miracles
I have my fate in my hands
I see my colours before me
I am the outlaw man
Jimmy Dean was riding next to me and Steve McQueen
And we're burning up the street now
And we're looking pretty mean
I'm not living in the past and I'm not history
I'm here to set the records straight, unlock this mystery
QUICKSILVER
RIDER
I see the ravens eyes, and I see thev light
I saw the the gold rush San Francisco nights
I am the reader,a palmist fly
I can see the future, I can testify
I knew Attilla, I met Genghis Khan
Drank with Napoleon, held Nelson in my arms
Quicksilver rider medicine man
A sign of faith children of the damned
Quicksilver rider salamander man
Prophets of the guises with the world in his hands
I've known love I've known pain
Death and sorrow the mighty and the slain
I was created in 10BC
The sign of life the sign of seed
I met Moses, I know Jezebel
Partied with Nero and Rome burned and fell
Rattlesnakes heads and voodoo dolls
It's old religion like ole creole
I am the dust of time and space
Your darkest nightmare without a face
I saw sunrise from Enola Gay
Sat down with Ghandi and started to pray
SERENITY
( DO WHAT ! )
Baby
we're not looking for eternity
So smile now while you're looking for this serenity
He
dosses out here in doorways
Caught between wars
Tells us something is coming, won't reveal more
She shuffles up close beside him
And kisses his ear
I guess all our time is running
Running on fear
And
it goes around around around again
Like a magic circle till it comes to the end
Baby we're not looking for eternity
So smile now while you're looking for serenity
Out
from the marble palaces kings and queens
Will rejoice their importance of being
Their importance of choice
And as they swung Mussolini like a chime in the breeze
The pope blessed his children in a sea of sleaze
And
it comes around around around again
Like a magic circle till it comes to the end
Baby we're not looking for eternity
So smile now while you're looking for serenity
And
it still flowers in springtime
Dogs howl at the moon
Now the funeral is leaving to the general's own tune
All the rich and the famous
The don't know who I ams
The jokers and the jugglers
Even the prince of Siam
And
it goes around around around again
Like a magic circle till it comes to the end
Baby we're not looking for eternity
So smile now while you're looking for serenity
Baby
little faith hope and charity
So smile now while you're looking for serenity
Baby we're not looking for eternity
So smile now while you're looking for eternity
Baby little faith hope and charity
Baby we're not looking for eternity
DEAD
MAN WALKING
Enemy
is at the door
Enemy within.
Dressed up in the strangest clothes,
Smells of drinking Bombay gin.
(muffled conversation)
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
And his shadow's cold and long.
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
Taking it in before his time is gone.
Father was a Russian G.
Irish mother crazy.
I see summer wind in fall.
When grown men cry like babies.
(muffled conversation)
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
And his shadow's cold and long.
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
Taking it in before his time is gone.
Wish I never had to leave.
Wish I'd never known.
Wish I could stay here forever.
Watch my garden grow.
(muffled conversation)
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
And his shadow's cold and long.
There's a dead man walking (dead man walking)
Taking it in before his time is gone.
There's a dead man talking (dead man talking)
And his shadow's cold and long.
There's a dead man talking (dead man talking)
Taking it in before his time is gone.
(Dead man walking)
There's a dead man walking.
(Dead man walking)
Dead man walking
(Dead man walking)
Dead man talking
There's a dead man walking
(Fade out of chorus)
SHADOW
DANCER
I
am back in the circus oh hustling days
I look at the world in a rose coloured haze
Cramp tight bodies jive and girate
Bump and grind to the rhythm of fate
And we spun in the sunlight
Of our long summers day
We kissed the heavens now
It's still a beautiful day
Back on my wall shadow dancer
My hammer headed friends and the puppet girls call
Back on my wall shadow dancer
The dance is coming back, back in my world
Married a model from old Hong Kong
Came to England just a singing my song
This love in a letter sure didn't last
Stamped her passport never saw her arse
And we spun in the sunlight
Of our long summers day
We kissed the heavens now
It's still a beautiful day
Unlucky
in life, unlucky in love
No special blessing from above
Fools and horses come to my door
I am the stranger who sleeps on the floor
....And then we all fuck off.
SOMEONE'S
GONNA HAVE TO PAY (NO REVOLUTION SONG)
American
beauty came up and spoke
She touched her toes and we shared a joke
Taxi's, limos, power boat glides
Jet skies, mensa, babes without a ride
You know the revolutions gone now
There's no revolution song
Somewhere down the line
You know on one of God's good days
Can you hear me, someone's gonna have to pay
Moonshot's rockets nineteen sixties cool
Sonny Boy Williamson, Pope John Paul
The Congo to Vietnam
The Beatles to the Stones
Is nobody left who's gonna shake those bones
All of the misfits all of the scars
All of life's promises bottled in jars
There's a hum and a howl. lovers on the run
Tell me what's on offer from the government scum
Rats will get richer and the dirt beg for more
Crumbs on the table for the world of the poor
News of self worship fresh from Hollywood
The pigmies of poison, don't know bad from good
SEA
OF FAITH
Say
siaynara darling this time goodbye
No bon voyages, it's time to fly
I can see the breakdown coming
Like a twisted wreck
Let's save ourselves the sorrow
Before we hit the deck
From the high plains to the border
All across the land
From the flying of the flag
To lovers kissing hands
You can cover me in roses put nickels on my eyes
There be no tomorrows, no more goodbyes
Sea of faith where did she go
Little diamonds how you shine and glow
Looking at the future I don't know
I am just here to watch the river flow
A street full of whispers, rings like a chinese gong
A room full of would be's whose lives gone wrong
The blues don't exist now just to cleanse your soul
They were made to wake you up
Not to dig a hole
It's something of a tragedy
It would make you weep
When you kiss your love goodnight
Now I see why lovers leap...
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