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1995 - Thank You

White Lines
I Wanna Take You Higher
Perfect Day
Watching The Detectives
Lay Lady Lay
911 Is A Joke
Success
Crystal Ship
Ball Of Confusion
Thank You
Drive By
I Wanna Take You Higher Again
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Needle And The Damage Done
Diamond Dogs
P. L. You

White Lines

Freeze! Rock!
(Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! Rock!
(Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang)
Freeze! Rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Freeze! Rock!
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang

Aaaah... AAaah... AAAah... AAAAhh
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!
White! Ooh-white!

(White Lines) Vision dreams of passion
(Going through my mind) And all the while I think of you
(Pipeline) A very strange reaction
(Yours to unwind) The more I see, the more I do
Something of a phenomenon, telling your body to come along
Cause White Lines - blow away...

Blow! Rock! Blow!

Ticket to ride a white-line highway,
Tell all your friends they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul,
Pound for pound it costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay,
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or to your vein -
With nothing to gain except killing your brain.

Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on y'all)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (say freeze, come on!)
Freeze! (say rock, come on)
Rock (put 'em up, put 'em up, put 'em up!)

Aaaaah... Higher baby, AAaaah... get higher baby,
AAAAAhh... get higher baby, AAAAHHH!
And don't ever come down... Free base!

Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang
Rang-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang-diggidy-dang-a-dang

Pipeline (pure as the driven snow) connected to my mind
(and now I'm having fun, baby!)
Highrise (it's getting kind of low) 'cause it makes you feel so nice.
(I need some one on one, baby!)
Tell me it'll blow your mind away, (baby)
Going to your little hideaway
'Cause white lines (what do white lines do?)
Blow away...

Blow! Rock! Blow!

A million magic crystals painted pure and white,
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked baby, it's nobody else's fault -
So don't do it!

(chorus)

(Don't you get too high) Don't you get too high, baby
(It turns you on) You really turn me on and on
(Can't you ever come down) My temperature is rising,
('Til the thrill is gone) No! I don't want you to go.

A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time,
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime.
A businessman is caught with twenty four kilos,
He's out on bail, and out of jail, and that's the way it goes!

(Rock!)
Cane! Sugar! (suger)
Cane! (cane) Sugar! (suger)
Cane!

Athletes reject it, governor's correct it
Gangsters, punks, and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided, the women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke,
It's hard as hell to fight it - don't buy it!

(chorus)

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I Wanna Take You Higher

Beat is getting stronger,
Music getting longer too,
Music is a thought to me,
I want it, I want ta...

I want to take you higher!
I want to take you higher!
Baby, baby, baby light my fire
I want to take ya, take ya higher
I want to take you higher...

It is nitty gritty
Music working in your city too
Music is a thought to me
I want it, I want it...

(chorus)

Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher! Higher!

A little bit softer now
Beat is right there,
Push you into the groove
The song is there to help you move
Music is a thought to me
Take your places

Im gonna take you higher, Higher!
Baby, baby, baby light my fire (go Simon, go Simon...)
Higher, Baby, baby, baby light my fire
(boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka...)
Higher (boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka...)
Higher (boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka...)

I wanna get you high (boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka)
I wanna take you higher (boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka)
Higher, (boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka...)
Baby, baby, baby light my fire
(boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka-laka-laka...)
I wanna take you!

You know, my babe - whats up?
Hey!, What was that you guys were saying?
(boom shaka-laka-laka, boom shaka...)
No, you said you were gonna take me somewhere... (higher!)
Oh yeah -
I'm down with that
Oh yeah, I can feel that groove
Now, what?, I gotta think about that
(Go Charlie, go Charlie...)

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Perfect Day

Just a perfect day...
Drink sangria in the park
And later, when it gets dark
We go home

Just a perfect day...
Feed animals in the zoo
And later, a movie too
And then home

It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on...
You just keep me hanging on...

Just a perfect day...
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
Such fun

Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone new

(chorus)

You're gonna reap, just what you sow...

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Watching The Detectives

Nice girls not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs

She is watching the detectives, oh he's so cute
She is watching the detectives
When they shoot shoot shoot shoot.
They beat him up until the teardrops start.
But he can't be wounded cos he's got no heart

Long shot of that jumping sign
Visible shivers running down my spine
Cut the baby taking off her clothes
Close-up of the sign that says "we never close"
You snatch a tune, you match a cigarrette.
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet
I don't know how much more of this I can take
She filing her finger nails while they're dragging the lake

(chorus)

Now you think you're alone until you realize you're in it
Now fear is here to stay love is here for a visit.
They call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit.
Someone's scratching at the window. I wonder who is it?
The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents
Who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance.
Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay
It only took my little fingers to blow you away

Just like watching the detectives. Don't get cute
It's just like watching the detectives.
I get so angry when the tear-drops start
But he can't be wounded cause he's got no heart.

Watching the detectives.
It's just like watching the detectives.
Watching the detectives.
Watching the detectives.

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Lay Lady Lay

Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed,
Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed...

Whatever colours you have in your mind
I show them to you and you see them shine

Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed,
Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while...
Until the break of day, let me see you make him smile

His clothes are dirty but his, his hands are clean
And you are the best thing that he's ever seen

Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while...

Why wait any longer for the world to begin
You can have your cake and eat it, too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he's standing in front of you, ooh ooh

Lay across my big brass bed...
Stay lady stay

I long to see you in the, morning light
I long to reach for you in the night

Stay lady stay, stay while the night is still ahead

Lay lady lay...
Stay... Stay!

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911 Is A Joke

Now I dialed nine one one a long time ago
Don't you see how late they're reactin'
They only come, and they come when they wanna
So get the morgue truck 'em back the goner
They don't care 'cause they stay paid anyway
They treat you like an ace that can't be betrayed
I know you stumble with no use people
If your life is on the line, then you're dead today

Late comings with the late comin' stretcher -
That's a body bag in disguise - Y'all I'll betcha
I call 'em body snatchers
Quick they come to fetch you -
With an autopsy ambulance just to dissect ya

They are the kings 'cos they swing amputation
Lose your arms your legs the famous compilation
I can prove it to you watch the rotation
It all adds up to a funky situation

Get up, get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up, get get down
Late 911 wears the late crown

(chorus)

911 is a joke , 911 is a joke

Everyday they don't never come correct
You can ask my man right here with the broken neck
He's a witness to the job never bein' done
He would've been in full effect, 911
Is a joke because their always jokin'
They the token to your life when it's croakin'
They need to be in a pawn shop on a 911 -
Is a joke we don't want 'em

I call a cab 'cause a cab will come quicker
The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker
The reason that I say that 'cause they
Flick you off like fleas
They be laughin' at ya while you're crawlin' on our knees
And to the strength, so go the length
Thinkin' you are first when you really are tenth
You better wake up and smell the real flavor
Cause 911 is a fake life saver

(chorus)

911 is a joke
(Get up, get get down)

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Success

Here comes success
Over my hill,
Here comes success
Here comes my car (Here comes my car)
Here comes my Chinese rug (Here comes my Chinese rug)

Here comes success (Here comes success)

In the last ditch (In the last ditch)
I'll think of you (I'll think of you)
In the last ditch (In the last ditch)
I will be true (I will be true)
Sweetheart, I'm telling you (Sweetheart, I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (Here comes the zoo)

Here comes success (Here comes success)
Hoo-ray success (Hoo-ray success)
(Oh oh success)
(Hoo-rah success)
Oh Oh Success (Oh oh success)
I can't help myself (I can't help myself)
I just gotto gotto gotto gotto gotto gotto gotto gotto
I can't stand it!

I need success

Here comes my face (Here comes my face)
It's plain bizzare (It's plain bizzare)
Here comes my face (Here comes my face)
Out of the crowd (Out of the crowd)
Sweetheart I'm telling you (Sweetheart I'm telling you)
Here comes the zoo (Here comes the zoo)

Baby lets blast off (Baby lets blast off)
We blast of for success (We blast of for success)
I'm gonna crash my car (I'm gonna crash my car
I'm gonna wear a dress (I'm gonna wear a dress)
Oh you slave me baby (Oh you slave me baby)
Were gonna do the twist (Were gonna do the twist)
Were gonna hop like a frog (Were gonna hop like a frog)
Cause we love success (Cause we love sucess)

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Crystal Ship

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too, insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

So tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why -
You'd rather cry,
I'd rather fly

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time -
When we get back, I'll drop a line

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Ball Of Confusion

People moving out,
People moving in,
Why?
Because of the color of their skin.
Run, Run, Run but you sure can't hide

An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me, I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on.

Well the only person talking about love thy brother is a preacher
See, No body is interested in learning but the teacher

Segregation! Domination! Demonstration!
Integration! Aggrivation! Humiliation!
Obligation to the nation!

Ball of Confusion, (Ball of Confusion!)
That's what your world is today
Ball of Confusion, (Ball of Confusion!)
That's what your world is today-ay-ay

The singing is like an all time high
City's aflame in the summer time, and Ohh,
The beat goes on...

Evolution! Revolution! Evolution!...
Gun Control, the sound of soul
Politicians, can you fucking believe them?

And the band played on
And the band played on

Round and around and around we go
Where ever we're standing nobody knows

Take a look around -
Can't you hear me talking to you?
Just a...

(chorus)
See it in the air
Tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast
Killers gangs watch your ass

Gun control, the sound of soul
Segregation! Domination! Demonstration
Integration! Aggrivation! Humiliation!
Obligation to the nation

(chorus)

That's what your world is today
Ball of Confusion,
Ball of Confusion...
That's what your world is today...

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Thank You

If the sun refused to shine,
I would still be lovin' you.
When mountains crumble, to the sea,
There will still be you and me.

Kind woman, I give you my all,
Kind woman, nothing more.
Little drops of rain, whisper of the pain,
Tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong
With you there is no wrong,
Together we shall go until we die.
Inspiration is what you are to me,
Inspiration, look see.

And so today, my world it smiles,
Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done,
For you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad,
Happiness....I'm glad.

(Chorus)

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Drive By

It was the hottest day in July
And all along Santa Monica Blvd
Cars were stood still
And a gleaming metal tube
Would stretch all the way from the highlands
Back to La Brea.
And she met under Los Angeles sunshine

Young man was sitting at the wheel
On his way to make a pickup
Turned off the air-con
Rolled down the window
And began to sweat

Out over the Hollywood hills
He saw the clouds building
Like great dark towers of rain
Ready to come tumbling down
Any day now
Not a day too soon

(Any day now)

And as the music drifted in
From other cars
His eyes started to slip
This is the story of his dream

Silver...

(Sing Blue Silver, Sing Sing Blue Silver)

This is the story of his dream....

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I Wanna Take You Higher Again

Beat is getting stronger, feel it getting stronger
Sound is getting longer, too
Music is a thought to me
I want to, I want to...

I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)

Beat is nitty gritty, feel it nitty gritty
Sound is in your city, too
Music's been a thought to me
Don't you, don't you, don't, don't

Don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
Don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Boom shaka-laka-laka! boom shaka-laka-laka!
Boom shaka-laka-laka!

(Beat is nitty gritty...)

(I 'm gonna take you high...)

Beat is there, I'm with you
Beating there to lose you
Sound is there to help you groove
Music's been a thought to me
Everybody, take your places

I'm gonna take you higher (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)
Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)

Higher, higher, higher, Hhmmm -
I wanna take you (take you higher)
I wanna take you higher (take you higher)

Baby, baby, baby, light my fire (light my fire)
I'm gonna take you higher (take you higher)
Don't you wanna get higher (take you higher)
(Take you higher)

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The Needle And The Damage Done

Two, three, four...
I caught you knocking on my celler door
I love you baby can I have some more
Oh, Oh, the damage done

I hit the city and I lost my pen
I watch the needle take another man
Gone, gone,the damage done

I sing this song because I love the man
I know some of you don't undertand
Miller, to keep from running out
I seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie is like the setting sun

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Diamond Dogs

As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inchy stump
Dressed like a priest you was,
Todd Browning beast you was

Crawling down the alley on your hands and knees,
I'm sure you're not protected
For its plain to see
The Diamond Dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees
Hunt you to the ground they will
Mannequins with kill-appeal

Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone

Come out of the garden, baby
You'll catch a death in the fog
Young girl they call them the Diamond Dogs
Young girl they call them the Diamond Dogs

Now halloween jack is a real cool cat,
And he lives on top of Manhattan Chase
The elevators broke so he slides down a rope
Onto the street below
Oh tarzie go man, go

Meets his little hussy with his ghost-town approach
Her face is sans feature but she wears a Dali brooch
Sweetly reminiscent something mother used to bake
Wrecked up and paralyzed
Diamond Dogs are sable-ized

Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone

(chorus)

In the year of the scavenger the season of the bitch
Sashay on the board-walk scurry to the ditch
Just another future song lonely little kitch
There's gonna be sorrow try and wake up tomorrow

Will they come?
I keep a friend serene
Will they come?
Oh, baby, come unto me
Will they come?
Well, she's come, been, and gone

(chorus)

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P. L. You

Well there's no surprise
One look into those eyes
Having sex every Saturday
In the afternoon, with the TV on
It's all you know
It really makes you wanna throw
It could be time for a holiday
On the S. O. F. or a Spanish isle

Too much comes too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!

Nothing ever really matters
Who cares about you anyway?
Nothing ever really matters
Who cares who lives, who dies?
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Not me
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Or you

Oh you claim distressed
When you are so casually blessed
With a look in the alleyway
Consume a tuna fish in an old tin can

Too much, you come too soon
Money doesn't buy you anything good
No love can be alone
Just lay back and give it to the bastards!

(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Who cares about you anyway?
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Who cares who lives, who dies?

Welcome back my...
Welcome back, oh end of the life
Understand me here and now...
Got to get away

(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU), (P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU)
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU), (P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU)
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Who cares about you anyway?
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Nothing ever really matters
(P, L, YOU, P, L, YOU) Who cares who loves, who stays

In the end, Of this song
Not me
I'm gone...