1. DOWN AT THE CROSSROADS

Let me tell ou a story, it’s been told a hundred times
I think Robert Johnson was the first man
To strike a deal and sign the dotted line
It's about a boy, becoming a man, learning what it's like to loose
Everything he had he was willing
To trade for a lifetime of women and booze

He went west of the river, following the railroad tracks
He was looking for an evil dealer;
You know there ain't no turning back

Welcome to the crossroad, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroad, it's all for rock'n'roll

He got a funny feeling, felt like somebody watching him
Out came a man in a three piece suit with a friendly crocodile grin
He said "Sign on the line and your dreams will come true"
He signed and then the paper burned
"Think of this as a favour to you but one day
I'll want a favour in return"

He went back to the city, became a singer in a band
Got a record deal he was sitting pretty, everything was going to plan

Welcome to the crossroad, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroad, it's all for rock'n'roll

Fame and fortune's come so easily
Now i have got such a bad case of insasiable greed
I don't think that life could get any better than this
All because a deal was made at the crossroads in Memphis

And so twenty years passed, and he forgot about the covenant made
Until a man knockned on his mansion door,
Dressed in a tailored suite of Suede
The man had a familiar style, he had the smile of a crocodile
He held a contract and said
"Boy it's time to go to hell because your soul is mine"

So that completes the story of our tragic hero's demise
Can you work out where we learnt to sing?
We can be your guides
And take you to the crossroads, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroads it's all for rock'n'roll
Welcome to the crossroad, bargain with your soul
Down at the crossroad, it's all for rock'n'roll


2. BETTER OFF DEAD

Twisted words and avatars, just part of your disguise
Stalking chat rooms instigating a terror enterprise
You're evrething that i despise yeah

What can i do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you're sick in the bead
I don't care what daddy made to you
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Lunatic terror architect
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
your therapist and momma even said
You're better off, you're better off... dead!

I hear you screaming i'm not the ennemy through a veil of black tears
You're your own private eye and you're my nightmare engineer
Called the cops but they didn't show,
They're more efficient in the videos
If this was SVU or CSI
That bitch would be in prison right about prime time
Bitch i hope you die

What can i do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you're sick in the bead
I don't care what daddy made to you
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Lunatic terror architect
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
your therapist and momma even said
You're better off, you're better off... dead!

We are surfing a cultural tidal wave called the internet
And what brilliance has this digital age brought us?
Well you can have quick answer to stupid questions
But what if those questions involve other people's personal affairs?
Well if you want them answered then
I guess you'd turn to a social network
Like myspace, facebook, twitter...
I mean that's a stalkers paradise right there
Just grab some random photos, make up a name
And you're ready to pass judgement on people
And anonymously fuck with their lives

What can i do to get my message through?
I think you're sick, you're sick in the bead
I don't care what daddy made to you
So just admit you need a straight jacket
Lunatic terror architect
I think you're sick, you're sick in the head
your therapist and momma even said
You're better off, you're better off... dead!

You're better off dead bitch


3. PARTY'S OVER

Everybody knows Jimmy the Jackal is trouble with a capital L
For loser or laughable or down right lazy
Can you tell I know hime well?
He likes to kiss and tell about his girlfriend
She's like a piano
When she's not upright then she's grand
Than how the story goes

oh oh oh oh
I said didn't you know that the party's over
Didn't you know, you're not welcome to come over
Come on come on, the party's over
Get your ass our of there don't come back over

Jenny was a classic case of insecurity
You know she'd over compensate
The way she'd drss was a lesson in anatomy
A definite social disease candidate
If she smiles you should run and hide
Or kiss your clen bill of health goodbye
So now you know she's got what doesn't show
that how the story goes

Get out! Right now!
Don't you know the party is over?


4. NOW A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

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5. TV'S JUST A MEDIUM

Welcome to a little game that makes me insame
Say hello to the folks at home, tell us boy what is your name?
What's your job? and tell us where you're from
We don't care, but we still keep that TV on

Channel change, same old show
Just a movie that went straight to video
Go switch your stereo on and

turn it up
Why don't you turn it u? Right on up?
turn it up
Why don't you turn it u? Turn the rock right up!

Once again I'm bored as hell; I'm still stuck to the couch
Soapy sit-coms and the game shows I can live without
Television's just a medium, cause it's not rare or even well done

Everyday, same TV
Justa nother movie, straight to DVD
Go get your Rock'n'roll CD

turn it up
Turn it up, how bout you turn it up
I got a great idea for you
Turn it out
Why don't you turn it out? Turn it out night up!


5. LOST FOR WORDS

Close your eyes lay your head upon my shoulder
And don't you cry, I promise you when we get older
I'll still be your friend, and lover till the end
Please don't let us fall apart
I can't express it cause

na na na I'm lost for words
Darling you are my whole world
na na na I'm lost for words
Be my girl

So hold on tight follow me to the end of the earth
I'm surprised that you're giving all that your worth
I'm still be your friend, and lover till theend
Please don't let us fall apart
Wish i could tell you but

There's something that I've been meaning to tell you babe
And I know it's bad timing
Sorry girl I've got to go home again
We've been up and down this road together
With you girl I couls stand any weather
Listen to me when i say
I don't think i could ever let you get away

na na na I'm lost for words
Darling you are my whole world
na na na I'm lost for words
You're my girl
Darling you're my whole world
na na na I'm lost for words
Yes you are, you'll always be my girl


7. SYDNEY IN THE SUMMERTIME

Could wind blows bout to freeze your soul
The quick silver says 30 below
You shiver shake till your body aches
And your teeth chatter our of control
Summer lovers say try a holiday, I won't go to L.A.
Dreams of paradise and those barbour lights

Let me go back one more time
Sydney in the summer time
Take me back to summer time
Signey in the summer time

Do you want some body heat cause i'd share with you
Don't be so coled and loose the attitude
This is not a game but if it's all the same
Then i've got something for you to do
Summer lovers say have you seen LA? I'll never go that way
Dreams of paradise and those barbou lights

Remember good times on that barbour cruise
Champagne in my head tasted good
Luna Park was smiling at me
Let that lunatic supervise our party tonight
It's alright... look at the viex!

Sydney in the summer, never had a better time
Sydney in the summer, summertime
Take me back, take me back to summer time
Signey in the summer time


8. SOMETIMES

Pressures getting higher he could feel it knowk him to the floor
The cold war in his head was screaming silence like never befire
He went outside to pray for rain
Needed to wash away those sins and pain
He cried "I'm going, I'm leaving
No time to think about sens or reason"

He hit tie road to find himself because
He'd always lived for someone else
A feedback loop had become his life
With a determined lease on bad advice
There's no support there's no rewind
He knows he can't turn back the clock this time
His old friends drifted far away
All he's git's a hope for yesterday

Sometimes, you need a change of scene
Sometimes you got to change the situation
You know what I mean?
Sometimes you need a change of scene
Sometimes, sometimes, I just wanna scream

Faiths a siren melody swimming against the tide he can't break free
Loosin out he cannot breathe, cause everybody wants him to beleive
Faith may not be on his side, but you cannot blame a gay for trying
Friends they sometimes drift away,
Yeah I waved to hom that day, now

Sometimes, you need a change of scene
Sometimes you got to change the situation
You know what I mean?
Sometimes, you'll learn and realise
That what you want's not what you need

Thirty two degrees on a sunny day and a change has taken place
Sometimes you don't need reasons to celebrate
The trouble's disappeared
And the storm has gone and the sun shines in it's place
Sometimes you don't need reasons to celebrate

Sometimes, you get to take a break
Sometimes, take time to celebrate
Sometimes celebrate your like, it's not too late to celebrate

Sometimes, you need a change of scene
Sometimes you got to change the situation
You know what I mean?
Take a holiday, it's time to make a change
So live life you wanna
Don't let them step right on ya and don't you stay the same


9. MONEY TALKS, IT SAYS GOODYE

Exotic, dancer, come and talk to me
I'll buy the drinks honey sit on my knee
Back room, show time, let's make the number three
Got me thinking, I've noticed

Nothing is free except bad advice, every thing's got it's own price
Nothing is free here is paradise, get your cash and take my advice

You know money talks and it's say goodbye
My money talks and it's say goodnye
My money talks when it says goodbye
My money, my money talks when it says goodbye

Tame me down town where the girls can be found
Worth every penny it's flesh by the pound
Searching hunting, I'm high and on the prowl
Got me thinking, I've noticed

Nothing is free except bad advice, everyone's got it's own price
Nothing is free here is paradise, get your cash and take my advice
If you dare

And it's alright, my credit card's paying for me tonight
That feels good, hey honey!
Can I get another drink over here, and ah, what's your name?


10. LET'S GO CRAZY

wake up, feeling fine, it's s Sunday afternoon
I went down when the sun came up
With my head spinning round the room
alrigt all night, last night you looked so right
I just wished that I'd introduce my self but you left too soon
There was no meeting now I keep dreaming

Let's just go and run away together
We'll go crasy, cause I'll be chasing after you forever
We're just crazy

Get together nervously a seedy hotel paradise
A bunk bed what a comedy, and not to mention over priced
Sex life, high life, been waiting for you my whole life
I know you were meant for me and yes I know I've only met you twice
Forgive my directions this must seen shameless

I'm going crazy for you baby you're divine
I hope you feel the same inside
I'm going crazy for you baby you're divine
Say you're mine, just say you'll be mine

If you want a perfect life you've got to get it your own way
I lose my perfect wife and yes I know it sounds cliché
I love her vulpine waistline, she's my partner in crime, my little feline
Together forever, I love to hear her whisper

Le'ts just go to run away together
We'll go crazy I'll be running after you forever
We're just crazy


11. HOLD ON

Lightning strikes, and thunder crashes
The storm in your head's raining from your lashes again
A flickering street lamp lights your way home
You know the way, but feel lost and alone
You get home walk through the door
Try picking up your broken heart off the floor
Turn the lights on, talk to no one
Watcg the TV like you're grieving
Then fall asleep... and then you wake up

And walk around an empty appartment
You pour a drink, here's cheers ti the silence again
A fluoro light it bathers your psyche
Photo albums reflects all that had been
Waiting for something, you're wishing the phone would ring now
Feeling jaded and bitter, are you a fighter? or a Quitter ?

Hold one, to what you beleive,
Hold on, it's all that you need
Hold on, hold on for me please
Baby just holds on to what you beleive,
Hold on for me

You lie awake, you're scared of tomorrow
Don't know wich road, you're destined to follow
You reminisce, about all the good times
Where did they go? Honey just look for the signs
Waiting for something that you're missing
You want to feel alive, you'll try anything
Feeling jaded, you feel bitter
Are you a fighter ? Or are you a quitter ?

Hold one, to what you beleive,
Hold on, it's all that you need
Hold on, hold on for me please
Baby just holds on to what you beleive,

Take a look at you now
Holding your head up and you're walking so proud
Now your heads flying high with the clouds
You're living the dream and not just dreaming of living any old how


12.TAKE IT LIKE A MAN

You know my mother told me but I as a little boy
It's about time that you grew up son, and threw away your toys
I ried and cried and i could'nt beleive
That life could be so cruel, and oh so mean
It was a lesson that I could'nt forget, but it didn"r change a thing

Well when I was an adolescent the teacher said to me
That I was the worst child that he ever did see
They tried to dominate me into submission
But they cound'nt bring me down, now the wheel's going to turn

Try to break me, they said "he'll never learn"
I said
"Don't forsake me cause you necer know when the tables will turn"

Stand up and take it like a man
Stand up take it if you can
Stand up take it like a man
Stand up and take it, just take it like a man

Wgen i turned 17 I thought that everthing would change
But i quickly realised that the difference was the same
The teachers turnes into police, the pencils became guns
Now educations called suppression, the playground's called a slum

Try to make me conform when will you learn?
I said "don't mistake me
it's just a matter of time before your neighborhood burns"

Daddy always said to me "boy just do the best you can
In every situation stay on your feet and take it like a man" yeah

Stand up, take it,
Stand up, take it like a man
Stand up, take it,
Stand up, take it like a man if you can

Stand up and take it like a man
Stand up take it if you can
Stand up take it like a man
Now you're a man son, start acting like one
Separate yourself from the crowd
Stand up and take it like a man now