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композиция "Birdland",ставшая визитной карточкой группы, из этого же альбома,была самой популярной композицией 1980 года и чаще всех остальных звучала в эфире.Jon Hendricks написалстихи к замечательной джазовой инструментовке Joe Zawinul's а Janis Siegelоранжировала вокал. Композиция "Birdland" принесла "МТ" их первую премию ГРЭММИкак за вокал так и за музыкальную аранжировку,а приз за лучшую аранжировку вокалаJanis хранит теперь у себя дома.

Lost in a feelin'
So very deep inside of me
Something's not healing
Ever since you left this place

Oh, but I loved you
And although I didn't know you
Just the idea of you

Here beneath the moon tonight
So pale and fragile
Is that shining in the distance I see
Real or just imagined?
Imagined mirages of agua

Somewhere in these sands that spread before me
There lies a silent spring for me

Wait'll why'dig it on the map - Airegin
Spelled backwards
Really're closin' up the gap - Airegin
Gone fac'wards

Back long time ago they saw a ghost
Ghost made a boast
Soon that ghost was host

3am nowhere else to go it's 3 am and I miss you so
Couples are departing soon they all be gone
Now another day is starting
Still I linger on with

Blue Champagne - purple shadows and Blue Champagne,
With the echoes that still remain I keep a blue rendezvous.
Bubbles rise like a fountain before my eyes

We got a case boys, she's a dish
A real kisser and deadly
Carrying heat, both kinds
Fahrenheit and Smith & Wesson
From a confidential hideaway lies a city dressed in black
Headin' for trouble, dangerous cargo
Miami city, outta Key Largo
Came a wicked skirt dressed to kill, of a deadly kiss she murders

Doom, doom, doom
Doom, doom, doom
Doom, doom, doom

(Oooh-wah, oooh-wah cool, cool Kitty)
(Tell us about the boy from New York City)
(Oooh-wah, oooh-wah c'mon Kitty)
(Tell us about the boy from New York City)

Chanson d'amour, ra da da da da, play encore
Here in my heart, ra da da da da, more and more
Chanson d'amour, ra da da da da, j'adore
Each time I hear, ra da da da da, chanson d'amour

...ra da da da da...
...ra da da da da...

Coo coo u
I think you're coo coo
Coo coo u
Coo coo u
I think you're coo coo
Coo coo u

Coo coo u

IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE
IOA IOAE, IOA IOAE

Cuentame que te paso
Cuentame que te paso

Que estaba alla en la playa
Recorriendo las aguaritas

Take a seat and cool it 'cause unless you overrule it
We are ready to show you some blowin'
A rompin' and a stompin' is a lot of fun
Four brothers who are blowin' our horns

So settle down an' listen 'cause you don't know what you're missin'
And we're ready to give you a showin'
A movin' it 'n groovin' it has just begun

You're my heart's desire, You're my hearts desire--

You are
My heart's desire (hearts desire)
You set my soul on fire (soul on fire)
When your lips are close to mine
You'll find --
That you're my hearts desire (you're my hearts desire, you're my hearts desire)

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup (boy!)

I love java, sweet and hot
Whoops Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot
Shoot me the pot and pour me a shot

Many loves have come to you
With a line that wasn't true
And then you passed them by
(Passed them by)

While you're in the center ring
And their lines don't mean a thing
Why don't you let me try?

If you ever
Plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66

It winds from Chicago to LA
More than two thousand miles all the way
Hey, get your kicks on Route 66

S.O.S.
By Gerry Shury and Phillip Swern

I'm going under
I'm slipping fast

That's swing! Yes, sir!
(Swingin' from the time of birth)
Hip thing - gasser!
(Swingin' fit t'shake the earth)
My man! Benny!
(Swing a man for all he's worth)
That's Moten's thing

Seeing someone we both know
Soft ballads on the radio
Anticipation and afterglow remind me of you

Like driving in my car alone
Or answering the telephone
Or someone wearing your cologne
Unwinds me it's true

My, my
Oh the feelin'
Of the sound
Precious and real and
Ooo that's nice
Whip up some steamin' jazz
The pot is on the stove
It's cookin'

Down on the corner there's a reason to smile
When those evenin' shadows fall
Some kinda feelin' that it's hard to deny
Once the neon lights start to call
People out there searchin' for action
Daytime distraction slippin' right on by

Tonight, let's taste the spice of life

Alan's solo:
Gather roun' 'n hear my story
Oh boy!
'Bout the time when Jelly Roll was in town
(Stompin' it off, stompin' it off...)
He heard a local pianist
What joy!
Stompin' out music on an old upright pi-ano

This here's the story about Killer Joe
He's a real bad cat, 'forget I told you so
Silk on the corners of his fancy threads
Double breasted pin stripe coat top press
Fast talkin' good looking flim flam jive
Why he's the kind o' cat that'll make a dead man cry
So look out for Killer Joe!

There's a place everyone should know
It's a space where you ought to go
When you're not quite sure of where to begin
And you're better goin' out than
When you came in

When you think you know all there is to know
Come on check it out and let the record show

The man who sailed around his soul
From east to west from pole to pole
With ego as his drunken captain
Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold
The man who walked across his heart
Who took no compass, guide, or chart
To rope and tar his blood congealed when
He found himself revealed ugly and cold

Big blues in the city, trailin' the
Main stroll (a kitty)
Cup o' joe, get witty. at deuce's
Cafe, it's the mostest hideaway

Mez muggles flip zooty flim
Plant you now solid,
Dig you later slim

The hour's up it's past eleven
We're breathing and today's the twelfth
Witness for the composition testifying for itself
Lost the early contradictions focusing with all intent
Coming clean to one another we figure out why we're been sent
Working on our disappearance there'll be none for all to see
Operation Final Clearnce take us where we want to be
Time's arrive to turn it overdream believers come to realise

When I hear this melody
This strange illusion takes over me
Through a tunnel of the mind
Perhaps a present or future time oh, oh
Out of nowhere comes this sound
This melody that keeps spinning 'round and 'round
Pyramidal locomotion
From a mystic unknown zone

Oh, my love, my darling
(Yeah)
I hunger for your t-t-touch, ooh
Time goes by so slowly
Yes and time can do so m-m-much
Are you still mine

I need your love

I woke up this morning with a feeling of despair
I looked for my pussy but my pussy wasn't there

Well, well, well
My cat fell in the well
Oh puss puss puss poor kitty kitty kitty
My cat fell in the well