1. UP AROUND THE BEND

There's a place up ahead and I'm goin'
Just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away, if you're goin'
Leave the sinkin' ship behind

Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend

Bring a song and a smile for the banjo
Better get while the gettin's good
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway
Where the neons turn to wood

Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend

You can ponder perpetual motion
Fix your mind on a crystal day
Always time for a good conversation
There's an ear for what you say

Come on the risin' wind
We're goin' up around the bend


2. HIGH SCHOOL

All the times I spent suffering in school y'know,
Thinking I was so supercool, and baby
All the teachers gave me so much grief,
I wanna blow 'em up just to get some relief

Sister, sister they call me a parasite,
Sister, sister they wanna bury me alive
All day, all week, all term long,
They'd dump on me hoping I'd be gone
Time made me realize,
Why should I be victimized?,
So I took control and decided to teach
I wanna teach highschool, highschool yeah

Listen,
I tell the little buggers what to wear you know,
I show 'em how to set and dye their hair and baby
There'll be no costumes at our swimming pool,
There'll be no ugly girls at my highschool

Sister, sister they call me a parasite,
Sister, sister they wanna bury me alive
All day, all week, all term long,
They'd dump on me hoping I'd be gone
Girls who are very bright,
Must stay in class all night,
and practice their biology
I love to teach highschool,
I need to teach highschool, highschool yeah

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
Time made me realize,
That I could brutalize,
And get revenge with impunity,
If I could teach highschool
A, B, C, D, E, F, G,
How I love anatomy,
2+2 and 3+3,
Students have a ball with me


3. I CAN’T GET IT

So many things that mean a lot,
So many things that I never got,
You can look boy,but you can't touch,
What I don't have seems to mean so much
A beat up Chevy or Mercedes Benz
Should make no difference in the end
But I get mad, baby real upset
'Cos what I want I can never get
They're just like cattle walking down the street
Some get so fat while others never eat
I may be shut out but I ain't finished yet
My mind is blank I take another drink
I'm not destroyed but I'm right on the brink
I sit and count them shot by shot
The little things that I never got
Those uptown ladies on 5th Avenue
It's like I hate them but I want them too
I may be shut out but I ain't finished yet
I don't get it, I don't get it at all
I don't get it, I don't get it at all
Why I can't get it, Why it's a thing I'll never get
Why I can't get it, Why it's a thing I'll never get
A yacht and a Rolls and a private jet,
A dirty blonde in a red Corvette
Wife and kids and a house and a pet,
Those are the things that I can't get


4. UNDERWATER WORLD

Beneath the streets, in the cars, on the trains, or in the underground, I'll be waiting
You can spare a dime, or you're gonna be mine and We're going dancing tonight
In the tunnels underground the subway rats run all around, and hungry
So come and hide, step inside, we're going on a midnight ride
On the subway underground it gets, a little rough, this ain't No tunnel of love
Hurricanes running through my veins, I know that You're lost and alone
And I feel no pain,
In my sea of drains,
In my my underwater world
Welcome to the ocean,
Welcome to the sea,
Welcome to the jungle,
Deep inside of me
Sink or swim, you dive right in and you, Know this ain't no place to mess around in
In my swamp underground the quicksand slowly Sucks you down
Down here I call the shots, like it or not, What you got I'm getting,
You have to come down to my slum
Well Welcome Chum, Now sit down and shut up
Welcome to the ocean,
Welcome to the sea,
Welcome to the jungle,
Deep inside of me
I lay you wide open, For all the world to see


5. DON’T YOU EVER LEAVE ME

Don't you ever leave me baby
Don't you ever leave me now
Don't you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now
The lights are slowly going down
Out on Times Avenue and me
I'm all alone, watching the rain falling down on my face
A crowd of people passing by
I don't think they recognize me
They fade away into the night,
Thats when i think about you
Don't you ever leave me baby,
Don't you ever leave me now
Don't you ever leave me baby,
If you leave me you will kill me now
I start living in the memory of you
I start living in the memory of you
I start living in the memory of you
And the memory of all them things
That you and me used to do
Yeah, and there's one more thing i wanna tell you
I wanna tell you how much i really love you
and i really do
The lights are slowly going down
Out on Times Avenue and me
I'm all alone, watching the tears falling down on my face
a subway train is passing by
Driving into the night
I jump inside cause i ain't got nowhere to sleep, that's when i think about you
Don't you ever leave me baby
Don't you ever leave me now
Don't you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now
I start living in the memory of you
I start living in the memory of you
I start living in the memory of you
And all them funny things
That you and me used to do
You remember, you remember all them things
That you and me used to do
Don't forget, don't bloody never forget
Don't you ever leave me baby
Don't you ever leave me now
Don't you ever leave me baby
If you leave me you will kill me now
I start living in the memory of you,
I start living in the memory of you,
I start living in the memory of you
And the sweet taste of your lips,
And the sweet taste of your body
And the sweet taste of the lips between your legs


6. MILLION MILES AWAY

Took too much of this, had too much of that
But with you I never got enough
I thought there'd never be love in my life
And that's sad 'cos when I think what I could've had
It makes me feel so bad

I smoked a lot of sky, I drank a lot of rain
Anything to ease my pain
But now your touch is all it would take
And that's a shame 'cos I can never come home again

And you're a million miles away
I'll never get a chance to hold you
So my message is the wind
I pray that it gets through to you

Loving you was so easy
And leaving you was so very hard
And now I'm living in this ocean of blue
In the corner of a prison yard I should have listened to you.

And you're a million miles away
I'll never get a chance to hold you

Please don't be thinking of me
Please just forget about me...


7. BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS

All these broken dreams
Have made me see
That I'm strung out, somebody rescue me
Well, do I have to tell you that I love you
Do I have to tell you that I care
Do I have to tell you that I need you to be there

Cos in the middle of the night
When I`m much too weak to fight
You know you're such a welcome sight
In the middle of the night
Yeah

On the boulevard of broken dreams
Yeah I talk so bad and I act so mean
On the boulevard of broken dreams
I gotta get back on my feet

And was it only yesterday
You came my way
Or was it just a while ago

And do I have to tell you you're my lover
Do I have to tell you I'm your slave
And so we have to dance until you`re dancing
On my grave

And my lips are turning white
And my jaw is getting tight
And the sun is burning bright
In the middle of the night
Yeah

On the boulevard of broken dreams
She'll eat your heart and she'll eat your face
On the boulevard of broken dreams
And I gotta get back on my feet

Do I have to tell you that I need you
Do I have to show you that I care
Do I have to lie and steal to have you
Do I have to sell myself somewhere
Then we can dance all night together
You'll be my queen I'll be your slave
And we can stay awake forever
Until we're dancing on my grave

On the boulevard of broken dreams...
Boulevard of broken dreams...


8.BOILER (ME BOILER ‘N’ ME)

Me boiler's walking down the street
High heels, lips of a beauty queen
When I look her in the eyes
I never tell no lies
No, no, no, no, no

Life took a sudden turn
When she made my poor heart burn
I used to be a lonely bloke
I thought romance was a joke
Yeah, yeah, ye, ye, yeah

She's me boiler and I love her so
Never ever gonna let her go
I'm her boy and her toy's in my pants

Ronettes are on the radio
And we always sing along
She's the first bird on me list
She makes me have one off the wrist
Yeah, yeah, ye, ye, yeah

When me boiler starts to scream and shout
I whisper "Doll do leave it out"
I have a booze-up with me mates
And I don't come home 'till late

Me boiler and me
Me boiler and me
Me boiler and me
Me boiler and me


9. FUTURAMA

Wy little lover's gonna be another, copy of Raquel Welch, I'll build her a house and a made named Jill
And spend the rest of my life down in Beverly Hills,
I'll never have to feed her,
And she'll stay pretty all the time,
Oh, yes she will
I love the way she's gonna rock and roll, From the early morning 'til late late night
Non stop rock 'n' bop and she'll never ever die
When I want money she can go to work, As a roadie for Adam Ant
And if he comes on strong he'll be in for a shock, 'Cos she'll open his face and clean his clock
I'll never have to feed her,
And she'll stay pretty all the time
Rock 'n' roll,
My little girl, the best in the world
Softer than steel, she's alarmingly real,
My mechanical girl, my satanical pearl
You're the best in the world,
Wild thing, I think I love you
I'll never have to clean her, And she'll stay perfect all the time (Oh yeah)


10. CUTTING CORNERS

London is grey but it's great in it's way, If you're just barrelling through
You find a first class boiler and she Boils your cares away
Well life is a gas, but the laughs never last, So you add a handful of blues
Now that's a first class ticket if you wanna get away
'Cos if you hang around the greys and browns,
They'll just bring you down
Well it's a useless rap you got to cut the crap
go directly to the things that matter to you

Have to cut corners or fade away
Have to cut corners or fade away
Have to cut corners or fade away
Have to cut corners or fade away

Going through channels in ties and grey flannels,
Just slows everything down,
And when I want a thing,
I want it right away
Going straight for the heart, tears your wardrobe,
Apart, but it wears the other guy down
I may look a mess but
I'm dressed to get my way