Let’s talk about old friends

Let’s talk about anything

but what’s really going on

Let’s talk about old friends

Let’s talk about heroes

Let’s talk about heroes

Strong men, wise men

Some I’ve even known

Let’s talk about heroes

Ooh, Somebody told a lie

Tears fall down

Tears fall down

Somebody hurt you

Somebody hurt you

Somebody hurt you

Go on and search but

there’s no reason to be found

Somebody hurt you

Let’s talk about Sharon

Let’s talk about Sharon

I bet I know some things

she wishes I didn’t know

Let’s talk about Sharon

Let’s talk about old friends

Let’s talk about heroes

Let talk about Sharon

Let’s talk about old friends

Birds and bees, chimpanzees

Buzzing round my head, swinging from trees

She’s a deep dish pie - a precious flower

Wrapped like candy, primped and powdered

While the creepers creep and the willows weep

In the dead of the night I’m counting sheep

All night long I toss and turn

I wonder what it’s gonna take to learn

What makes the monkey dance (repeat)

We got brand new drugs for the same old blues

Satellites peaking into your room

A machine to tell me if your lying

sheep for cloning - eggs for frying

I can meet for lunch with the man on the moon

Do almost anything I want to do

Makes no difference where you go

Everybody’s got a theory but nobody knows

What makes the monkey dance? (repeat)

I’ve peaked through keyholes on my knees

for clues to life’s mysteries

From day time soaps to late-night cable

Round the corner - under the table

I’m looking for a love that can’t be named

Looking for a love than knows no shame

Big or round, short or tall

I got to get it or nothing at all

What makes the monkey dance? (repeat)

on the pavement

Money in the bank

I ain’t gonna save it

Jenny’s coming by

Hope she makes it

Jenny’s coming by

Sure hope she makes it

It’s a summertime thing

Summertime thing

There’s a party next door

sounds like it’s cooking

I poked my head over the wall

Took a look in

There was a five piece band

They was really rockin’

Looked like some kind of family reunion

Hey - It’s a summertime thing

Summertime thing (repeat 3x)

That summer heat has

got me feeling lazy

The air is warm

and the sky is hazy

People getting down

getting crazy

People getting down, getting stupid

getting crazy

Hey – It’s a summertime thing

Summertime thing (repeat 4x)

Go ask your dad for the

keys to the Honda

Can your sister come along

how could she not wanna?

Put the Beach Boys on

wanna hear Help Me Rhonda

Put the Beach Boys on

wanna hear Help Me Rhonda

Roll down the sides

We’ll drive to the delta

Take off our clothes

and jump into the river

Ain’t nobody around

Ain’t nobody gonna see us

Take off your clothes

jump into the river

Hey - It’s a summertime thing

Summertime thing (repeat 3x)

you’d be my driving wheel

I’d carve your name into my hood

to see how it would feel

That’s how much I need your love

If you were my daffodil

I’d turn my prayer to rain

Bring sun upon the hillside

Sugar to the cane

That’s how much I need your love

If you were a pussy cat

with fuzzy pussy hair

I’d put you in my pocket and

take you everywhere

That’s how much I need your love

That’s how much I need your love

If there’s any doubtin’

the kind of fool I am

I’d swim across the ocean

write your name there in the sand

That’s how much I need your love

That’s how much I need your love

I took the road less traveled

in a suicide machine

I went the extra mile

to see where it would lead

Wound up in a picture show

I thought would never end

A mask upon on my face

countin’ back from ten

That’s how much I need your love

That’s how much I need your love

I can tell by how you walk

I know you been to college

I can tell by how you talk

Take off those glasses girl

let me feel your pain

Take off those glasses girl

I wanna feel your pain

Elouise Elouise Elouise

Where on earth you going?

Been down at the gym

trying to be all I can be

A little discipline’s

all you really need

Got a condo in Modesto

with a heated swimming pool

Talkin’ condo in Modesto

with a heated swimming pool

Elouise Elouise Elouise

Where on earth you going?

I wanna take you higher…

Tell me true

Are you where you wanna be?

Are you ready to be challenged?

Are you ready to be free?

Free to make the kind of life

I know that you deserve

Free to make the kind of life

I think you know what I’m talking about

Elouise Elouise Elouise

Where on earth you going?

Mama I’m flyin’

No other love

Mama I’m flyin’

I can go

I can go anywhere

No other love

can take me there

ooh

(repeat)

the ambulance

She’s completely nude

standing on the fence

She’s about to fly

Phone the doctor quick

She’s a house on fire

whenever she gets lit

I’m laughing

with nothing up my sleeve

Here come that gal of mine

like a storm across the sea

She broke my heart

when she pawned my ring

Then she stole it back

What will tomorrow bring

Mercy, vengeance,

Lord above

How can I

refuse her love?

I’m laughing

with nothing up my sleeve

Here come that gal of mine

like a storm across the sea

There’s a Ph.D.

on the radio

Says the next of kin

is the last to know

She grabs the dial

jumps up on my lap

Starts to lick my face

like a Persian cat

Hear me laughing

with nothing up my sleeve

Here come that gal of mine

like a storm across the sea

like he does every year

on the day he came into the world

It makes him feel like Richard Gere

But it always fades too fast

Now he’s staring down his past

Run Primo Run

Twenty years had come and gone

since they made that one mistake

On paper it was beautiful

An old man and a safe

Now he’s got two little girls

He’s living in another world

Run Primo Run

Sonny saw the old man’s face

He just couldn’t let it go

Plans go south and people die

Nobody has to know

Then Sonny he got saved

A confession Sonny gave

Run Primo Run

Sonny called out of the blue

wired to the law

The barbecue was in full swing

When Primo took the call

Primo ran to his toolshed

Sirens, lights flashing red

Run Primo Run

Run Primo Run

who walked round in a trance

A lot like Sissy Spacek

at that homecoming dance

Her father was religious

Mother was too

She yearned to be a model

Had issues with food

Last I heard of Chloe

someone saw her on TV

Preaching the power of hypnosis

and aroma therapy

Darby was my sister’s friend

a fashion paranoid

She wore a winter coat all summer long

and made a lot of noise

about conservites and demigods

and how we should be scared

We dropped LSD at Disneyland

She left me stranded there

I hitched back to the valley

with a Dr. Leopold

who sermonized computers

have come to steal our souls

ooh baby ooh baby

I bow down and pray to every woman I see

I bow down and pray to every woman I see

Bela served me coffee

She kept her biscuits warm

I never saw her even once

out of her uniform

Kady had an ugly dog

she swore would never bite

Followed that girl everywhere

never left her side

She said, “baby baby baby

crawl out of your shell

I wanna show you something

If you promise not to tell”

ooh baby ooh baby

I bow down and pray to every woman I see

I bow down and pray to every woman I see

Ain’t no mother gonna critize me

I bow down and pray to every woman I see

to the wind and the thunder

Chilled to the bone

Huddled together

You kissed me goodbye

And I called God a liar

We snuck off like thieves

with our backs to each other

After the rain

After the rain

When I think of you

you’re half in a shadow

with a heart on your sleeve

and a chain round your ankle

When I think of you

I can go where I want to

I just close my eyes

and I wish myself back to

After the rain

After the rain

The days fall behind

and I’m back in the saddle

I meant what I said

when I said that I’d follow

you down to the banks

of that old Russian River

Where I took off my boots

and I walked in the water

After the rain

After the rain

She had big hair and an innocent smile

What can you tell me What can you tell me

They say the heart is a wheel

She made my heart a meal

What can you tell me What can you tell me

She threw our future away

the night he jumped out of the cake

What can you tell me What can you tell me

Like a kid on a jungle gym

I watched her climb all over him

What can you tell me What can you tell me

I read it in the paper

I saw your picture too

They dragged Jerome right out of bed

He swore it all was true

I been to the bottom and climbed out again

Getting postcards from people I’ve never met

What can you tell me What can you tell me

She locked all the doors and I couldn’t get out

The preacher was preaching wihout any mouth

What can you tell me What can you tell me

Cupid, play your game Don’t even bother to aim

What can you tell me What can you tell me

Every silver lining is a curse

Anyone who’s ever turned their back on me

Always ends up facing something worse

Something worse

Some kind of nightmare or some kind of curse

Miss Sally Rogers did a little dance for me

Warmed me up and down my crooked spine

Miss Sally Rogers, yes, she’ll dance for anyone

She’ll be yours as easily as mine

She’ll be mine, Miss Sally Rogers never will be mine

So I said Run around, run around, run around, run around Sal

Run around, run around, run around, run around Sal

Sally run around

Last night it was snowing down on Market Street

This morning there’s three bodies in the cold

All the love you’re saving for a rainy day

Won’t be enough to save your wretched soul

Save your soul

Won’t be enough to save your wretched soul

Save your soul

Twenty years ago I saw the president

He rode a silver horse into the crowd

A hundred years ago they might have made him king

Without him brother where would we be now

White night, big city, white night

What do you know

What do you know about

What do you know

What do you know about

What went on thirty years ago?

White night, big city, white night

(Breaking the law in the great big city)

White night, big city, white night

(Breaking the law in the great big city)

What can I do

What can I do about

What can I do

What can we do about

What went on thirty years ago?

White night, big city, white night

Well he held his arms out open wide

He had enemies on every side

But a little man in a fit of rage

Shot him down, made him pay

Oh he held his arms out open wide

White night, big city, white night

White night, big city, white night

White night, big city, white night

(Breaking the law in the great big city)

White night, big city, white night

Doctors get diseases

Criminals make bail

Little girl, little girl

Little boy, little boy, tell me something I don’t know

What makes a lamp a Tiffany

What makes the flower grow

Little boy, little boy

Little boy, little boy, can you play the violin

My daddy’s got a string quartet

and my heart belongs to him

Little boy, little boy

Little girl, little girl, I can tune a baby grand

My heart it sings a symphony

I’m a one-man marching band

Little girl, little girl

Little boy, Little girl

Little girl, Little boy

He came from so far away

He came from so far away, I never saw him drink a drop of water

He came from so far away

Well he told me that his mom was Ginger Rogers

And he said his old man was Fillmore Slim

And he never raised his voice above a whisper

But I leaned in to every word he said

He came from so far away, you wouldn’t even know it if you saw him

He kept a picture of a pigeon in his wallet

Well I dreamed I saw him once on television

And I thought he’d melt the camera with his eyes

When they asked him why he wore a mask in public

He said This is my face, it covers my disguise

He came from so far away

Couldn’t tell a cradle from a coffin

Never even owned a television

And the children, the children ran up to him, and he held them

He came from so far away…

It never went to trial, Montgomery confessed

They say possession is still nine-tenths of the law

Well what possessed you to ask me who shot John

Eddy got probation, went out and robbed a bank

While out at the end of Jackson, Fatty walked the plank

I can hear him laughing still, on the seventh floor

Eddy wrote me a letter and asked me who shot John

Eddy dropped a kite from prison, told me who shot John

I went out last Sunday, ran into Cyril

He said I seen your friend Johnny out running with your girl

They were in the backseat so I climbed into the front

And in all of the commotion, tell me who shot John

There wasn’t anybody there to witness who shot John

Have you seen my baby, I ain’t seen her around

They say I shot my baby, they say I shot her down

She was here for a little while but now, my baby, she gone

They’ve yet to find the body or who shot John

There’s some mistakes that I don’t make, tell me who shot John

Well the truth is out there somewhere, who shot John

I think I’m gonna start a rumor that you shot John

Hold me in your arms and tell me who shot John

Put another log on the fire, who shot John

I hear they’re gonna make a movie

Well one more thing, who shot John?

In the back room of a bar called the Albion

I could make a Princeton sing like a house on fire for anyone

And I smelled danger every time that you walked by

I felt like Jesus when you’d look me in the eye

You brought me trouble so I brought you some trouble too

You tied a rag around your head, said Meat is murder

I thought about it for a while, I said Love is pain

You said I can give you anything you want boy

Now what’s my name

And I smelled danger every time that you walked by

I felt like Jesus when you’d look me in the eye

You brought me trouble so I brought you some trouble too

I saw a dragon once coming out of the Broadway tunnel

I picked my camera up and I put my camera down

When the last beatnik on earth tapped me on the shoulder

I turned around

And I smelled danger every time that you walked by

I felt like Jesus when you’d look me in the eye

You brought me trouble so I brought you some trouble too

I said Lang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang lang lang

They were seen together everywhere, everywhere they went

And when you passed them on the street

They always took the time to wave hello

They stood up for each other the way true brothers do

And when the left hand lost a thumb the right cut his off too

Ah, but no one could harmonize the way those brothers did, no

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Well the left hand and the right hand, they grew apart

One day it was separate checks, the next day bodyguards

And the years flew by like birds of prey

Not a single word between those two

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Well, now they’re back together, still at each other’s throats

Breaking strings and dropping beats, singing all of the wrong notes

Ah, but no one can harmonize the way those brothers do, no

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

Don’t tell me you don’t need my love

Don’t tell me you don’t want my love

My love, all love

I hear the crowd go wild, all he did was touch his hat

Meanwhile, Carol Doda, stood up and said I won’t be ignored

She showed them everything she had, then she showed them all a little more

Jim Jones in his temple, on Geary Street right next to young Bill Graham

Jim he walked right up to Bill, clicked his heels, said You know who I am

Meanwhile Bugs and Daffy Duck were hitching up the coast to Pismo Beach

While over in the Tonkin Gulf the Navy took a hit or so it seemed

It’s three on, two out, under the lights

Nobody knows who’ll make it home tonight

Laffing Sal said Please don’t go, don’t leave me here alone to make a stand

She looked so faded in the twilight down there where the breakers meet the sand

Someone said to Laffing Sal, Hey Laffing Sal, just what you laughing at?

She said I’m only laughing at myself, keep it down Willie’s up at bat

It’s three on, two out, under the lights

Nobody knows who’ll make it home tonight

Well that was all so long ago, there’s always something else to be against

And the only thing we know for sure is Willie always did swing for the fence

It’s three on, two out, under the lights

Nobody knows who’ll make it home tonight

Yes, it’s three on and two out, under the lights

Nobody knows who’ll make it home tonight

Nobody knows who’ll make it home tonight

They’ll make a broken heart look good as new

Some of them are permanent, some have come and gone

Some are just too delicate to move

In the museum, the Museum of Broken Hearts

In the museum, the Museum of Broken Hearts

There’s a caveman, a soccer mom, a prison guard, a whore

There’s a virgin bride on her wedding day

Anyone who’s lost in love is welcome at the door

Nobody is ever turned away

From the museum, the Museum of Broken Hearts

The museum, the Museum of Broken Hearts

And if you get a little lonely, you’ll always find a crowd

There’s people lined up halfway down the street

The queen of hearts is crying even though she’s made of stone

The curator leans down to wash her feet

In the museum, in the Museum of Broken Hearts

The museum, in the Museum of Broken Hearts

In the Museum of Broken Hearts

The lights went off and the band came on at the Temple Beautiful

She got so excited, Shoo be doo bop wop

So excited, Shoo be doo bop wop

There she stood right next to me at the Temple Beautiful

Her mind was dirty but her hands were clean at the Temple Beautiful

Two guitars, bass and drums at the Temple Beautiful

She got so excited, Shoo be doo bop wop

Manchester United

There she stood right next to me at the Temple Beautiful

Someday there’s gonna be a revolution

Till then you’ll need an iron constitution

The lights came on, it was a whole new world at the Temple Beautiful

I got the gig but I lost the girl at the Temple Beautiful

She got so excited, Shoo be doo bop wop

Manchester United

Her mind was dirty but her hands were clean at the Temple Beautiful

Everybody knew it could not last - Temple Beautiful

And now the future’s here but it feels like the past - Temple Beautiful

Now I don’t remember what happened next - Temple Beautiful

Well we might’ve got high, we might’ve just left - Temple Beautiful

Someday this is all gonna be gone - Temple Beautiful

You took off your mask just to see me cry

Did I dream you up or did you dream me

Is there any place else you would rather be

Halloween was here but now it’s gone

Men in skirts and heels are marching on

Halloween is gone

Is the pain all yours, is the pleasure mine

Don’t you think it fair that we trade sometime

(Think about it, baby)

When the merchants hose the sidewalks down

Will the leaves on the trees turn gold or brown

(I don’t know)

Halloween was here but now it’s gone

Men in skirts and heels are marching on

Halloween is gone

It’s gone, it’s gone

Halloween is gone

It’s gone, it’s gone

Rebecca got a nasty streak seven miles long

Rebecca said Don’t ask me why, you wouldn’t understand

My mother came from Omaha, my father, Vietnam

Put your hands together, now pull your hands apart

I said oh oh oh play that song again

Oh oh oh play that song again

Oh oh oh I can hear it all night long

It’s a city full of animals, a city full of thieves

A city full of lovers trying hard to make believe

Put your hands together, now pull your hands apart

I said oh oh oh play that song again

Oh oh oh play that song again

Oh oh oh I can hear it all night long

I’ll still be your lover baby, I’ll still be your friend

Drop me in the avenues, I’ll stumble my way in

You go fight the power, I’m fighting off a cold

I said oh play that song again

Oh oh oh play that song again

Oh oh oh I can hear it all night long

All you wide receivers

Anyone who calls this world their home

When the war is over

I’ll still be your brother

Maybe we can sort the right from the wrong

Let me put it back the way that it was

Let me turn the lights on just because

Love is a hurting thing

But love is the only thing

Anymore

All you American dreamers

All you gay deceivers

Who will cross their hearts and hope to die

Bring your X Ray vision

From the bedroom to the kitchen

I’ve seen it all

You don’t have to be shy

Who will put it back the way that it was

Who will turn the lights off just because

Love is a hurting thing

But love is the only thing

Anymore

All you happy hookers

All you nightclub bookers

Anyone who’s fallen from their throne

There’s a rainbow in the gutter

Dew drops on the shutters

I’m out here in the garden and I’m all alone

(So) Let me put it back the way it was

Let me turn the lights off just because

Love is a hurting thing

But love is the only thing

Anymore

Maybe that’s the reason she lied

Remy said that he was only looking for a friend

The night they asked him up inside

No one knows exactly what went down in that room

How the truth came out or from whose lips

Sometimes it builds up like a dam it bursts

Other times it stumbles and slips

Till it all comes out

Go on and jump and shout

But it’s going to take a war to stop it

Remy said a scar ran down the side of his face

The cop said, “Son, that isn’t enough”

Well, he called himself the Greek but he only spoke French

We met him after hours at the club

Mellissa said she fainted at the sight of it all

She said, Remy had to carry me out

See I’d never seen a gun up close in person before

And the words like honey poured from her mouth

And it all came out

Go on and jump and shout

But it’s going to take a war to stop it

Remy gave a statement with his fingers crossed

He said, I hope this means that I can still vote

When they brought Melissa in she didn’t look at him once

She hung her head and she read from her notes

The Greek faced the camera - didn’t utter a word

He couldn’t speak or even move his head

The prosecutor stood - cracked a joke and he smiled

Said you don’t know it son, but you’re already dead

And it all came out

Go on and jump and shout

But it’s going to take a war to stop it

“I may never even get to see you again”

Remy said, “I ain’t done nothing”

Tighten up your panties boy

Loosen up your wig

You better pray nobody finds you

Now Mellissa’s got a family and a government job

(And) No one ever mentions the past

Sometimes she lays awake in the middle of the night

Wondering how long can this fairy tale last

Me I took a train to the border that night

I spend a little time in Berlin

Sometimes I think I’ll give Mellissa a call

But I wouldn’t know where to begin

Till it all comes out

Go on and jump and shout

But it’s going to take a war to stop it

It rises up inside of me

Anyone can toss a coin

Anyone can take a chance

There’s a crystal that bends the light

Breaks the chain of a endless night

They’ll tell you that it’s all in vain

It’s not in vain

Sing! A broken melody

Bring! Your troubles home to me

Anything! You can tell me anything at all

There’s a bloodstain on my shirt

A white sombrero in the dirt

Now he thought he what it was all about

He didn’t know

And there’s a dog that had no bark

It showed it’s teeth then it bared its heart

Now you see that little dog

He runs right to me when I call

Sing! A broken melody

Bring! Your troubles home to me

Anything! You can tell me anything at all

(Now) there’s a girl who brings me tea

Every day at half past three

Sometimes she’ll hang around

Other times she won’t

(And) there’s a story that’s often told

About a man who turns to gold

I’ve heard that story too

People love to talk

Sing! A broken melody

Bring! (All) Your troubles home to me

Anything! You can tell me anything at all

‘cause I like the view

Here she comes

down the avenue

Oh no, it’s Felony Glamour

(listen boys)

You wind her up

She never stop

She go ballistic

In the beauty shop

Oh no, it’s Felony Glamour

Show me the money

Show me the blood

Take me to the river

Down to the river of love

She got a pony she like to ride

Straight through the mirror to the other side

Ride on!

Ride on! Felony Glamour

I stop to see her on my way out of town

Three bed-sheets later and I’m still hanging ‘round

Oh no, Felony Glamour

Show me the money

Show me the blood

Take me to the river

Down to the river of love

Show me the money

Show me the blood

Take me to the river

Down to the river of love

She write the chorus

She write the verse

She mixed this record

In a bombed out church

Oh no, talking about Felony Glamour

I hear she’s living

With a man with no legs

He’d like to roll me around

And make me beg

I did what she said

She turned the music up real loud

It was The Talking Heads

Didn’t matter where we were going

Made no difference to me at the time

It takes me back when I hear that song

Makes me feel warm inside

Ford Econoline!

Ever since the beginning of the world

The beginning of time

Somebody said that the road was his

Somebody said, “No, it’s mine”

Some folks are born ‘neath a sign on the road

Close enough to turn and leave it all behind

Fall together like the Rock Of Gibraltar

Guitars and drums inside

Ford Econoline! Ford Econoline Ford Econoline

Chris-crossed the country in two tone job

It was a 1985

Mile after mile we was burning oil

We couldn’t keep it alive

Laid out flatter than a Chinese rug

When she went her way I went mine

All these memories like dirty plates

Stacked up in the sink of time

Ford Econoline! Ford Econoline

I would be saying prayers all of the time

I wouldn’t think to whom they’re addressed

I’d have my mouth on the mystery’s breast

Little boy blue in the corn with his horn

Pouring out music the day he was born

Son of a gun and his holster in love

He can’t remember what he is made of

Teenage Maria is caught in the door

Not understanding what her body’s for

Suddenly all of the pieces align

Sick to her stomach she feels like she’s flying

Man with a magazine over his face

Wishes that he was in some other place

Life is a waiting room for all those who wait

So much of it’s terrible but all of it’s great

Now if I was a baby I could be blessed

I would sing true love right out of your chest

I’d get the paper and get myself dressed

I’d keep my mouth on the mystery’s breast

The heart of a dog

What kind of creature is that?

The river of life

Changes course every morning

Well we stood on the banks

We stared at the sun

I felt you take hold of my hand

When you took off your dress

I couldn’t believe my good fortune

Oh oh oh! I’m laughing on the inside

Yeah! I’m crying out loud

Well we planted our flag

At the top of the hill

Now it’s a hole in the ground

When they turned on the hose

It felt like a drop in the ocean

I robbed myself blind

To pay myself back

I thought that I could make it alone

Til you said goodbye

To the sound of the sirens approaching

Oh oh oh! I’m laughing on the inside

Yeah! I’m crying out loud

Oh oh oh! I’m laughing on the inside

Yeah! I’m crying out loud

Oh oh oh! I’m laughing on the inside

Yeah! I’m crying out loud