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I sing a song about clouds and rainbows
I hum a tune that sings like a dove.
Rhyme some words about anything
Anything but love.
I paint a picture of my prison
With blue and grey from the skies above
Framed and signed with the title
"anything but love."

Hey there baby
I have gotten some news for you

You think you're something out of sight
To take me out every night
Take me out show me everything
But you won't do the right thing
Baby wants a diamond to have and hold

There's a man going around town
Spreading lies
He's the bad businessman
Does his business while he can
He just does his business bad.
He's a clown
Gonna get bounced around
If he don't keep his business underground

Down in the country where I was born,
We'd go to church ev'ry Sunday mornin',
Then in the evening the lights would fade,
These are the words that my mama said:

"Children I hope you sleep tight,
And don't let the bedbugs bite,
If you should die before you wake,

Your momma never told you
How you were 'sposed to treat a girl.
Your poppa never told you and
Now you're all alone out in the world.

Sirens are streaming
Inside the winding sheets are pale.
Devils are dreaming

What's that up on the roof?

The snow is falling down
Up in some northern town
But a Carolina Christmas
Is still the best around

Before this evening draws to a close
And you go home to homework.
Before the moon goes down on lonely street
I know a place where we can go, baby,
Where you can find out just how low life can be.
Has no one told you, you have a future, girl
So bright and filled with promise
Has no one lead you down to Club Limbo.

Danny Diamond, she was a star
She took the stage every quarter hour
She was the hottest gig in town, in fact
He was the hottest girl around.
She had the strut, she had the lines
To make a man's heart go 'round about...
She put it all into her act until
One night after the show.

Say what
that's what my baby said to me
Say what
that's what my baby said to me
well, i ask her do you love me?
all she ever says it's Say what?
Do what?
that's what my baby said to me

Every dog will have its day
That's what people used to say
Nowadays that's not the case
There's a fat cat tha' runs the place

While the cat's away the rats will surely go down
Listenup 'cuz I'm tellin you the low down
What does it matter if he keeps getting fatter, auhhhh...

A thousand thundering thrills await me
Facing insurmontable odds gratefully
The female of the species is more deadly than the male

Shock shock horror horror
Shock shock horror
I'll shout myself hoarse for your supernatural force
The female of the species is more deadly than the male

Met the Ghost of Stephen Foster at the Hotel Paradise
This is what I told him as I gazed into his eyes:
Rooms were made for carpets,
Towers made for spires,
Ships were made for cannonade fire off from inside them
(Chorus): Gwine to run all night
Gwine to run all day
Camptown ladies never sang all the doo dah day no, no, no (End Chorus)

My heart is sad, my soul is weary
Though Christmas day is fast appearin'
I have no silver, I have no gold
To buy my wife a gift this year.
To see her sad on Christmas morning
Is a thing I cannot bear
I'll pawn the watch my father gave me
To buy a comb for her hair.

When I was a lad, I was a little bit shy.
Something came along and caught my eye.
When I heard the jazz band strike up,
I swear, I had my mind made up.
Now I'm getting older
Everything is in full swing.
Now I'm getting bolder
Man, I've got to do that thing.

In the afterlife
You could be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow therell be hell to pay

People listen attentively
I mean about future calamity
I used to think the idea was obsolete

I raise hell
Every night with all my friends from town
I drive in
To their house, we put on our volley gowns
And I raise hell
Every day
Way out here all alone
No one knows those things I do

I've found a new baby
I've found a new girl
My fashion plate baby
Got me in a whirl, whirl, whirl

New kind of lovin'
Done made me her slave
Sweet turtle dovin'

I've been searchin' all over for someone
I can tell my troubles to
Searchin' all the wide world over
Is it you, is it you

Are you the kind of man that marries
then gets his mind on somethin' new
You gotta let me know I'm all alone

Holding hands, a lover's glance
We could wait or take a chance
A love that's true
It all depends on you

A chance for love, a chance for bliss
Full moon above, two lips to kiss
Or start anew

Theres a flu bug getting passed around

And its spreading like fire through the town

Theres a virus holing up inside us

Everyone that I know is coming down

Broadway really aint quite the same Since you and I found lovers lane. Standing on the corner fourth and main Dreaming of you, way downtown in lovers lane. The sun is down the moon is bright Lovers want to stroll all night. Way downtown in lovers lane. Well, getting high on bourbon and champagne Just cant compare to what we share Down on lovers lane Standing on the corner fourth and main Still it cannot match the thrill of lovers lane When all the world is fast asleep, Shell be jumping off lovers leap With some other fella down in lovers lane.

That low down man of mine
Mistreats me all the time
He says he loves me only
then turns
around and leaves me sad and lonely

If he could see through my eyes
and be the one who

All the time
I'm finding ways to make things
Fall in line
I know
How tricky things can be.
But I really do believe that
You are mine
And all the stars are there

He's got great big feet, he's jumping to the beat
he's been dancing in the street
he's dressed so fine, got lots of loot
we like to call him Mr. Zoot Suit
He drives a great big car, smokes a big cigar
looks like a king, and he acts like a star
when we see him drive by he goes "toot, toot"
we all shout, "Hey, Mr. Zoot Suit!"

My drag
Its a weight on my back
Im lost in a stack without my drag
My blues
Alone and confused
Im spreading the news about my drag
I could go right along singing songs of love
That happiness brings

Summer smiles but passes on
Autumn sings her lonely song
The robin waits for spring
But what will waiting bring
Winter spreads her blanket down
White and flawless on the ground
The flowers cant be seen
But youre my evergreen

She:
Anywhere old Prince Nez goes
That's where I go too
He clears up a stormy sky
Whenever he's by my side.
Everything's nearer everything's clearer
Everything's so divine.
I don't care what momma sez

Put a lid on it
What's that you say?
Put a lid on it
Oh man, no way
Put a lid down on it, and everything will be all right.
Put a lid on it
Don't hand me that
Put a lid on it

In a line at a cafe

I overheard a waitress say

'These cats is broke, I knows 'em

Through 'em out the doors and close 'em'

This is the story of the trou macacq, the pine box derby, the monkey track
This is the story of the trou macacq, the pine box derby, the monkey track
Not what I heard or saw on TV,
But what I witnessed entirely
Each bend in the road was infact another curve on the monkey track
Once upon a time we thought we were free
And had control over destiny
We saw ourselves a competent band

The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more ARE you lookin' for?

I was talking to an oak tree
When the cypress butted in.
Out of car parts, a raven
Made a nest inside my skin.
To understand me better
You all ought to follow me home
I make a wish I clean the fish
I can scream like the cicada

I wished on a star "Send me down a lover
Don't want any other kind of love."
Wished on a star "Save my heart from sadness
Save my mind from madness from afar."
Used to sit and cry all day
Wonder why my love would fade.
Used to while away the hour
Cannot go on, cannot go on

You left me sad and lonely,
Why did you leave me lonely?
I have a heart that's only
For nobody but you.
I'm burning like a flame, dear.
Won't ever be the same, dear.
I always put the blame, dear,
On nobody but you.