- 1978-05-27-Paradise Ballroom, Boston, MA
01. X Offender
02. Detroit 442
03. A Shark In Jet's Clothing
04. In The Sun
05. (Touched By Your) Presence Dear
06. Denise
07. Fan Mail
08. Look Good In Blue
- 99 Red Balloons
You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, "Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by.
- A Girl Should Know Better
Let me tell you about a boy I know
He thinks he'll get the best of me
He'll try to win my affection
With a fancy selection
of sweet talking _?_?_?_?_
My momma had told me
What my momma done told me
Is what this is leading to
- A Rose By Any Name
Black and red look so good on you
And your walk makes me believe you
Lipstick, rings are on my fingers
Want the night to always linger
Linger, linger, linger
If you're a boy or if you're a girl
I love you just the same
- A Shark In Jets Clothing
I always had my eyes on you but you came from across the line
I had to make good time to see you but you had to pay the fine
All the boys on my side knew that you were the shark
If you were found on the borderline you'd be shot in the dark
Don't wear those clothes again, they don't make it in this crowd
Don't go out D.T.K., you'll wear your best suit in the ground
We're meeting in a neutral zone: the last car on the train
The love you brought shaking up my bones and crawling through our veins
- A Sunday Smile
All I want is the best for our lives, my dear
And you know my wishes are sincere
What's to say, for the days I cannot bare
A Sunday smile, you wore it for a while
A cemetery mile, we paused and sang
A Sunday smile, you wore it for a while
A Sunday smile and we felt true
- Accidents Never Happen
No I don't believe in luck
No I don't believe in circumstance no more
Accidents never happen in a perfect world
So I won't believe in luck
I saw you walking in the dark
So I slipped behind your footsteps for a while
Caught you turning round the block
Fancy meeting in a smaller world, after all
- Already Naked
I could tell that God was in the door
November pushed us to the floor
When our last rain fades
We can still radiate
Remember all the time it took
Remember how you gave me that look
And it's not too late
- Angels On The Balcony
Afterglow in a distant row.
The door is open and the lights are cold.
The children come in here and they dare the ghost, like a fire burning in a stone.
Silent light in the theatre's sky.
Phantom cigarette and a silent cry.
The door swings open and it's cold outside.
Run and hide, run and hide.
They can still see him singing on the corner.
- Atomic
Uh huh make me tonight.
Tonight make it right.
Uh huh make me tonight.
Tonight.
Tonight.
Oh uh huh make it magnificent.
Tonight.
Right.
- Bermuda Triangle Blues
Flight 45, last seen alive on the runway
Leaving for some fun in the hot tropic sun (back next Monday)
And our friends are at the airport
Cousin Bill says, "Enjoy the water sports"
As we fly into the mystery
The film comes on and the Earth recedes
Several hours out - 20 minutes south of Bermuda
The communication's gone - something has to be so wrong
- Call Me
Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your colour chart
I know where you're comin' from
Call me (call me) on the line
- Call Me -
Call me
Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your colour chart
I know where you're comin' from
- Can't Stop Wanting
Racing up to a red light
Came to a sudden stop
And then from out of nowhere
You said that you had enough enough enough
Racing up to a red light
Whats the point
I thought that we had a good connection
But it was completely out of joint
- Cautious Lip
All the way down do it
Another way down
Why yeah
What do you know huh?
I seen you skip that cautious lip
Now tell me this through that cautious lip
You can be bit as I make you it
- Commit
Colour me your colour, baby
Colour me your car
Colour me your colour, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your colour chart
I know where you're comin' from
Call me (call me) on the line
- Contact In Red Square
1 2 3 4
Although I'm young I got a job to do
Hid the microfilm in the lining of my shoe
Call it a business trip
Got to hide inside my trench coat and be clever
I got my papers and a cyanide pill
My Polaroid's a taser in disguise
There's a base in the hills
- D-Day
'Cause now it's D-Day
I'm ready to invade
Make a mess of
What's left of your limited privacy
Yeah, now it's D-Day
Not like those other days
Make a mess-up, you're a dress-up
- Denis
Oh Denis ooh-be-do, I'm in love with you
Denis, ooh-be-do, I'm in love with you
Denis, ooh-be-do, I'm in love with you
Denis, Denis oh with your eyes so blue
Denis, Denis, I've got a crush on you
Denis, Denis, I'm so in love with you
Oh when we walk it always feels so nice
And when we talk it seems like paradise
- Detroit 442
you know he can't be tested
he can't be read or found
urban gray takes breath away he wants to push his pedal to the ground
and the night's what's right
puts him at the wheel
well I eat danger any stranger is all right
feel hot to go like Jimmy O.
- Die Young Stay Pretty
Die young, stay pretty.
Deteriorate in your own time.
Tell 'em you're dead and wither away.
Are ya living alone or with your family?
a dried up twig on your family tree?
Are ya waiting for the reaper to arrive?
Or just to die by the hand of love?
- Doom or Destiny
Clear as a bell and an echoing shell
Clear as a pane of glass
I realize, I can't revise
As clear as a big blue sky
Through and through it all
You're trying to stall
It's clear as a crystal ball
As the facets are bold in platinum and gold
- Dragonfly
Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences
of the forty planets, satellites, moons, stars,
and any other inhabited orbs
with contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex,
the only inter-galactic race.
This year's event promises excitement to surpass all previous races.
As many of you fans already know the route or track of the orbits, glides, etc.
has been increased by 5,000 million kilometers
- Dreaming
When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure, a movie or a measure
I'll have a cup of tea
And tell you all my dreaming, dreaming is free
Dreaming, dreaming is free
- English Boys
When I was 17
I saw a magazine
It had those English boys
Who had long hair
When I was on my own
They moved into my town
And I just called 'em up
And they'd be there
- Faces
Faces cracked for reason beyond recognition.
His space is at the Palace.
He sleeps for twenty five cents.
Now he's wiping headlights, windshields with an old rag.
It ain't nine to five.
Down and dirty, he's an old tramp.
He poses like a dead man.
The night train passes by. Money's not the answer for princes and dancers.
- Fade Away And Radiate
Ooh baby, I hear how you spend night-time:
Wrapped like candy in a pure blue neon glow.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Ooh baby, watchful lines vibrate soft in brainwave time.
Silver pictures move so slow.
Golden tubes faintly glow.
- Fan Mail
I set my hand to writing you, it drifted off the page
I sold my one vision, for a piece of the cake
I haven't ate in days
For unspoken value aesthetic and charm
I'd smile at you sideways
But the lighting is wrong
I'm taking a picture and counting the cost
While the bells in my ears keep ringing
- for your eyes only
Don't look over my shoulder, I'm trying to read.
Remember these intimate moments; don't forget my privacy.
We both have our orders and a trick up the sleeve.
There's no use pretending you're asleep...
The subject was roses: quine geology.
Deliberate notice you're taking of me.
Caution and danger are not family.
- forgive and forget
In the beginning, in the days before time, the light was alive with the essense of power.
And from that power were born beings who lived on the edge of eternity.
And they spread their wings and soared through the ancient air.
And the beating of their wings made the winds.
And from the winds came the seas.
And from the sea came the life of the earth.
Nature's cast upon the sea the winds of past, of promise be.
- Funky Town
Gotta make a move to a
Town that's right for me
Town to keep me movin'
Keep me groovin' with some energy
Well, I talk about it
Talk about it
Talk about it
- Golden Rod
As sure as anything
As sure as I can be
That 99 %, pure as Ivory
I caught the scent, followed the smell of it
Couldn't ignore it
Hey, why did you pick on me?
What's that pretty flower I see?
- Good Boys
Satellites are falling down tonight
I see you far away
I'm floating into this inescapable bliss
Changing light
I know the symptoms of
I got myself to blame
I'm needing you
- handing on the telephone
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
- Hangin on the Telephone
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
- Hanging on the Telephone
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store?
- Heart of glass
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find much o' mistrust
Love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
It seemed like the real thing but I was so blind
Much o' mistrust
- here's looking at you
as I sit staring into this liquid amber
ripples move out to the edge of the glass
is that really your reflection in there?
I just wanna jump into the warm depths
and be there with you
one more time
oh alright
hit it boys
- Horizontal Twist
twist it, turn it, bang it, burn it
take it, bake it, twirl it, fake it
warm it, wake it, twist it, make it
shake it, smoke it, stroke it, choke it
show it, blow it, dirty Joe it
dance around and Sheryl Crow it
hell it, jail it, sell it, tell it
mess it up and jingle bell it
- I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No
You got ants in your pants, I don't understand, I don't trust the flick of your eyes
You're a viper and love's a fever
You said something profane and went for a vein but in spite of your delicate touch
I should have known as much. I'm a bleeder
I didn't have the nerve to say no
I didn't have the nerve to say no
You caught me surprised and my will resigned. Torture the minds of them all
- I Know But I Don't Know
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know
I know but I don't know
I give but I don't get
I will but I won't yet
I lose but I don't bet
- I Want That Man
I wanna dance with harry dean.
Drive through texas in a black limousine.
I want a piece of heaven before i die.
I wanna pair of pink high heels that catch the lights up on the
ferris wheel, but what i really want i just can't buy.
Here comes the twenty-first century.
It's gonna be much better for a girl like me, cuz i want everything
i can, but most of all i want that man.
- I Want To Drag You Around
I wanna drag you around
I wanna drag you around
I can't be worried 'bout everything you do
Nobody knows the places you get to
I want to drag you around
I'm gonna find ya
Just look behind you
I wanna drag you around
- I'm Gonna Love You Too
You're gonna say you miss me
And you're gonna say you'll kiss me
And you're gonna say you love me
'Cause I'm gonna love you too
I don't care what you told me
You're gonna say you'll hold me
And you're gonna say you love me
- I'm On E
I'm on E
I'm on E
I'm on E
Got nuts' to say
I used to have a car of my own
I'm on E
I'm on E
I'm on E for easy
- In the Flesh
Darlin' darlin' darlin', I can't wait to see you.
Your picture ain't enough.
I can't wait to touch you, in the flesh.
Darlin' darlin' darlin', I can't wait to hear you.
Remembering your love is nothing without you in the flesh.
When walking one day on the lower east side.
Met you with a girlfriend. You were surprise!
She said, "Hands off, this one's sweet, this boy is mine."
- In the sun
Surf's up
In the sun I'm waiting for the day
Having fun in warm far away
Moonlight nights water seems so clear
Oh city lights while I'm still waiting here
In the sun it's for everyone
In the sun were gonna have some fun
In the sun were gonna shoot the tube
- Island Of Lost Souls
In Babylon
On the boulevard of broken dreams
My will power at the lowest ebb
Oh what can I do?
Oh buccaneer
Can ya help me put my truck in gear?
Can ya take me far away from here?
Save my soul from sin?
- Just Go Away
O Don't ya know
Don't wanna see you any more
Put up or shut up
You spell, you read
D O O R
You got a big mouth and I'm happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be
If you talk much louder you could get an award
- Just Go Away 1978
O Don't ya know
Don't wanna see you any more
Put up or shut up
You spell, you read
D O O R
You got a big mouth and I'm happy to see
Your foot is firmly entrenched where a molar should be
If you talk much louder you could get an award
- Kidnapper
Uh huh, you've got an unnerving face
Twitching eyes like Norman Bates
You got a cigarette eye on a mirror
Farm boy brown gas station sweeper
You took that girl, you put the saddle on her
Just thirteen
She's her daddy's apple
- Kung Fu Girls
One two three
Down in Chinatown the year of the cock
He sold the silver belt, put it in hock
Fistful of money, mouth full of gold
Soon to be free of all armful of holes
She was a kung fu girl, kung fu girl
Uh eow
- Last One In The World
No explanation
No words describe
Serving sentence in your head
You murder time
Some waiting station
One endless night
Take the empty trains to nowhere
In your idle mind
- Little Caesar
My name is Little Caesar
Friends call me LC
My Daddy's named the same
And passed it on to me
I'm the kinda guy who by and by
Who wants to be your friend
I'll make you a happy ending
I loop the loo
- Look Good In Blue
You look good in blue
It matches your skin your eyes dripping with pain
Someone like you, getting off on the lies
'Cause it dulls your surprise again
If it's alright with you, I could give some head
And shoulders to lie on
You look good in blue
I know what you mean when, you say you've seen the end
- Love Doesn't Frighten Me
There's no coming, there's no going. There's no end.
All this nothing is real something. It's time spent.
Crying all night, my tears are oceans. They come and go.
Back in my eyes my love is healing from long ago.
[CHORUS x2:]
Love doesn't frighten me at all
- Man Overboard
Man overboard, sinking in a sea of love.
Man overboard, he jumped, didn't need a shove.
Oh, I've been sailing the sea of love, experiencing romance...
With what I know, he never stood a chance!
He gave it all for love.
He gave it all for love.
Said, lower the boats, he's sinking in a sea of love.
Lower the boats, he's sinking in a sea of love.
- Maria
She moves like she don't care
Smooth as silk, cool as air
Ooh it makes you wanna cry
She doesn't know your name
And your heart beats like a subway train
Ooh it makes you wanna die
Ooh, don't you wanna take her?
- No Exit
There`s no sin in this: getting dressed to kill, laughing down the sun like a jackal will.
With his eyes ablaze and his lips apart he`s gonna fill his cup with the love in your heart and drink it up til the morning starts.
Circulate the red light vistas.
Get the girls and get their sisters.
Pinch em up and give em blisters.
Kiss em fierce with all his might, forever.
Bye bye to another life.
- Nothing Is Real But The Girl
Some days are all Mondays
Sort of time on ice
It seems like jet planes
On snowed in runways
Under clear blue skies
Who needs it?
Nothing is real but the girl
Nothing is real but her
- On Way or Another
One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya
- One day or Another
One way or another I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha
One way or another I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha
One way or another I'm gonna see ya
I'm gonna meetcha meetcha meetcha meetcha
One day, maybe next week
I'm gonna meetcha, I'm gonna meetcha, I'll meetcha
- One Way Or Another
One way or another, I'm gonna find ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya', get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya'
I'm gonna get ya', get ya' ,get ya', get ya'
One way or another, I'm gonna see ya'
I'm gonna meet ya', meet ya', meet ya', meet ya'
One day maybe next week, I'm gonna meet ya'
I'm gonna meet ya', I'll meet ya'
- One Way Or Another 1978
One way or another, I'm gonna find ya
I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha
One way or another, I'm gonna win ya
I'm gonna getcha, getcha, getcha, getcha
One way or another, I'm gonna see ya
I'm gonna meetcha, meetcha, meetcha, meetcha
One day, maybe next week, I'm gonna meetcha
I'm gonna meetcha, I'll meetcha
- Orchid Club
Ah ah ah adventure very near, and then you vanish.
Rescue from invasion narrowly avoided.
Have to live with nature.
Hear a voice from a novel.
Love persuasion very near, and then you vanished.
Some say he's too handsome, some say he's unique.
Steel, the weave, the night trick, aphrodisiac.
- Picture This
All I want is a room with a view
A sight worth seeing, a vision of you
All I want is a room with a view, oh-oh
I will give you my finest hour
The one I spent watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour, oh yeah
All I want is a photo in my wallet
- Poet's Problem
Poets problem, patron saint
Puts me in the place I'm in
Passions letter
Poison pen
On these two things I can depend
Who will write your number on the wall?
I will not be there, when you call
I think I'll do a line and then again
- Pretty Baby
Stars live in the evening but the very young need the sun
Pretty baby you look so heavenly
A neo nebula from under the sun
I was forming some say I had my chance
The boys were falling like an avalanche
ya' ya' baby "La Dolce Vita" is a magic dance
No one was listening
Pretty baby petite ingenue teenage starlet I fell in love with you
- Rapture
Toe to toe
Dancing very slow
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture Back to back
- Rifle Range
I was all alone with the scent of a bone
And my heart was stuck in this emptiness zone
I had not a care, though I wanted to hear
The voice of a maiden who was playing down there
At the rifle range
(I lost my heart)
At the rifle range
- Rip Her to Shreds
(Hey! Psst PSST! Here she comes now.)
Oh, you know her, would you look at that hair
Yeah, you know her, check out those shoes
She looks like she stepped out of the middle of somebody's blues
She looks like the Sunday comics
She thinks she's Brenda Starr
Her nose job is real atomic
- Rush Rush, give me Yayo
He's on the level
If he's inclined
A son of a devil
He want's mine and more
Oh, he's a high, high climber
Not just a clinging vine
He made the grade
He made his marks-a-senior
- Scenery
We took too long to park the car
Ran across the street into the bar
Your face said it was four O'clock
I closed my eyes and heard a shot
The traffic light were much too hot
I walked my eyes around the block
Purple shadows were so thin
I had close my eyes again
- Shakedown
I used to get sick with solitude
I was always better in the multitude
But now I like it up here all alone in my ivory tower
Hi-ho at the end of my rope
I watch it all through a telescope
I think I'd have a better chance to see the pope
I get so bored with his shtick and his mini-minute dick
And all his high and mighty shit, I'm a witch
- Shayla
Shayla worked in a factory
She wasn't history. She's just a number
One day she gets her final pay
And she goes far away
Green trees call to me
I am free but life is so cheap
Scenery is still outside of me
All alone, trapped by its beauty
- Songs Of Love
All of our days we cry out for love
And we cry for the times that we lost in all
When we had it all, all our hopes and our dreams
All of our days we cry out for love,
And we try to create it again, again
To deny the laws and to leave it behind
[Chorus:]
- Sunday Girl
I know a girl from a lonely street,
cold as ice cream, but still as sweet.
Dry your eyes, Sunday girl.
Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl.
Looks like he's in another world.
Run and hide Sunday girl.
Hurry up, hurry up and wait.
- Susie and Jeffrey
Even though Jeff was worried
They weren't in a hurry
They planned a lovely honeymoon
Sue had a brand new Chevy
Conservative, in good taste
Only 30 payments due
They had outstanding tickets
They had no car insurance
- Take Me In The Night
I live all day
To take some inspiration from the things you said
You look good it's true
You are are drenched in booze, so right to dance with you
Take me in the night, night, night, night
Vision so bright, bright, bright, bright
Not asking for love, love
- The End, The End
I see all the lonely souls
Nowhere left to go
I see you're the lonely
You're my one and only chance
Let's walk before we dance
You're my one and only
So take my hand and help me stand
- The Hardest Part
Twenty five tons of hardened steel rolls on no ordinary wheel
Inside the armoured car ride two big armed guards
In a bullet-proof vest, shatterproof glass, overdrive, we're gonna pass
Twenty five tons of hardened steel rolls on no ordinary wheel
The hardest part of the armoured guard
Big man of steel behind the steering wheel
Nitro and acetylene open la machine
- The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
I had to lay such a tender trap
Hoping you might fall into it
Love hit me with a sudden slap
One kiss and then i knew it
Ooooooh, my plans didn't work out like i thought
'Cause i had laid my trap for you but it seems that i got caught
What's this whole world comin to
- The Thin Line
Ah you hate me
Yeah you hate me
You think I don't see murder in your eye when you're looking at me
Eh you love me
Yeah you love me
You don't want to be noticeably enamored of me
So Bon Voyage sweet face keep looking for the hole in one
- The Tide Is High
The tide is high but I'm holding on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind of girl
Who gives up just like that
Oh, no
Every girl wants you to be her man
But I'll wait right here till it's my turn
- Under The Gun
I still can picture him
His hands in his back pockets
He wasn't much for words
But when the wise kids made a racket
He just had to go downtown
Throw his weight around for starting over
"Say did you hear I've got a band?"
Some guys I know from LA
- Underground Girl
She's an underground girl in an underground world
She never comes around, she stays underground
After was a trip, she rides her lip
She's the coolest girl around, she's the girl from underground
She's the girl that's always right, she's the one who gets uptight
Ask her how she's been, she'll give you some skin
Hey everybody now from all over town
Hey everybody's gonna go underground
- Undone
La La La La La
La La La La La La La
La La La La La
La La La La La La La La La La La
Was that an invitation
Can you explain I'm so impatient
Hey rise to the occasion
- Union City Blue
Oh, oh, what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue
Tunnel to the other side
It becomes daylight
I say he's mine
Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, Union Union City man
- War Child
I need city lights
Defence and weaponry
No way of knowing
My life expectancy
I learn resistance
Like I learn to see
A living witness
A lonely refugee
- What I Heard
Same old song and dance
Why do I give you another chance?
Drama every night
I don't wanna fight
Same old story again but if you wanna be my friend it's really gotta end
Same old story
You told me you were done with her and I believed every word and now I wonder what I heard
- wipe off my sweat
Papi, papi, ven y bésame
Papi, papi, wipe off my sweat
Papi, papi, ven y bésame
Papi, papi, you're the best
No te detengas, no no
No pares nunca, no no
No te detengas, no no
- Words in My Mouth
I wrote this song for someone else to sing
To see what a meeting of the minds might bring
But we're not exactly two of a kind
And our meeting has come to a grind
Words in my mouth
Thoughts in my head
- X Offender
I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine.
I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled,
I laid my heart on the line
You read me my rights and then you said "Let's go" and nothing more
I thought of my nights, and how they were
They were filled with
I know you wouldn't go
- Youth Nabbed As Sniper
Don't look in here, yeah.
Sundown finds him out of town on the overpass,
His inner self glued to his .22.
Dirty metal in the speed of night, lights and broken glass.
My heart can destroy all I see.
Moving streets all make me lonely!
Come to me and be mine only.
I can hide us far from sight, but you must wait and I must fight this nothingness.