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The Rolling Stones lyrics - Album: Some Girls [1978]
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<blockquote data-quote="Floyd" data-source="post: 760" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Miss You</strong></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>I've been holding out so long</p><p>I've been sleeping all alone</p><p>Lord I miss you</p><p>I've been hanging on the phone</p><p>I've been sleeping all alone</p><p>I want to kiss you</p><p></p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh</p><p></p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p></p><p>Well, I've been haunted in my sleep</p><p>You've been starring in my dreams</p><p>Lord I miss you</p><p>I've been waiting in the hall</p><p>Been waiting on your call</p><p>When the phone rings</p><p>It's just some friends of mine that say,</p><p>"Hey, what's the matter man?</p><p>We're gonna come around at twelve</p><p>With some Puerto Rican girls that are just dyin' to meet you.</p><p>We're gonna bring a case of wine</p><p>Hey, let's go mess and fool around</p><p>You know, like we used to"</p><p></p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p></p><p>Oh everybody waits so long</p><p>Oh baby why you wait so long</p><p>Won't you come on! Come on!</p><p></p><p>I've been walking Central Park</p><p>Singing after dark</p><p>People think I'm crazy</p><p>I've been stumbling on my feet</p><p>Shuffling through the street</p><p>Asking people, "What's the matter with you boy?"</p><p></p><p>Sometimes I want to say to myself</p><p>Sometimes I say</p><p></p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh</p><p></p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh</p><p>I won't miss you child</p><p></p><p>I guess I'm lying to myself</p><p>It's just you and no one else</p><p>Lord I won't miss you child</p><p>You've been blotting out my mind</p><p>Fooling on my time</p><p>No, I won't miss you, baby, yeah</p><p></p><p>Lord, I miss you child</p><p></p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p></p><p>Lord, I miss you child</p><p></p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p></p><p>Lord, I miss you child</p><p></p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p>Aaah aaah aaah aaah</p><p><strong>When The Whip Comes Down</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Yeah, mama and papa told me</p><p>I was crazy to stay</p><p>I was gay in New York</p><p>Which is a fag in L.A.</p><p>So I saved my money</p><p>And I took a plane</p><p>Wherever I go they treat me the same</p><p></p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p></p><p>I'm going down fifty-third street</p><p>And they're spitting in my face</p><p>I'm learning the ropes</p><p>Yeah I'm learning a trade</p><p>The east river truckers</p><p>Is churning with trash</p><p>I've got so much money</p><p>That I'm spending so fast</p><p></p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the shit hits the fan</p><p>I'll be sitting on the can</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p></p><p>Yeah, some called me garbage</p><p>While I was sleeping on the street</p><p>I never roll</p><p>And I never cheat</p><p>I'm filling a need</p><p>I'm plugging a hole</p><p>My mama's so glad</p><p>I ain't on the dole</p><p></p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>(Yeah, go ahead check it out)</p><p></p><p>Yeah, baby, when the whip comes down</p><p>When the whip comes down</p><p>(I'll be running this town, I'll tell you)</p><p>When the shit hits the fan</p><p>I'll be sittin on the can</p><p><strong>Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(Whitfield/Strong)</p><p></p><p>I look out my window watch her as she passes by</p><p>I say to myself I'm such a lucky guy</p><p>To have a girl like her is a dream come true</p><p>And of all the girls in New York she loves me true</p><p></p><p>It was just my imagination, once again</p><p>Running away with me</p><p>It was just my imagination</p><p>Running away with me</p><p></p><p>Soon we'll be married and raise a family</p><p>Two boys for you, what about two girls for me</p><p>I tell you I am just a fellow with a one track mind</p><p>Whatever it is I want baby I seek and I shall find</p><p></p><p>I'll tell ya</p><p>It was just my imagination, once again</p><p>Running away with me</p><p>It was just my imagination</p><p>Running away with me</p><p></p><p>Every night I hope and pray</p><p>"Dear lord, hear my plea</p><p>Don't ever let another take her love from me</p><p>Or I will surely die"</p><p></p><p>Her love is ecstasy</p><p>When her arms enfold me</p><p>I hear her tender rhapsody</p><p>But in reality, she doesn't even know... me</p><p><strong>Some Girls</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Some girls give me money</p><p>Some girls buy me clothes</p><p>Some girls give me jewelry</p><p>That I never thought I'd own</p><p></p><p>Some girls give me diamonds</p><p>Some girls, heart attacks</p><p>Some girls I give all my bread to</p><p>I don't ever want it back</p><p></p><p>Some girls give me jewelry</p><p>Others buy me clothes</p><p>Some girls give me children</p><p>I never asked them for</p><p></p><p>So give me all your money</p><p>Give me all your gold</p><p>I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach</p><p>And give you half of what I own</p><p></p><p>Some girls take my money</p><p>Some girls take my clothes</p><p>Some girls get the shirt off my back</p><p>And leave me with a lethal dose</p><p></p><p>French girls they want Cartier</p><p>Italian girls want cars</p><p>American girls want everything in the world</p><p>You can possibly imagine</p><p></p><p>English girls they're so prissy</p><p>I can't stand them on the telephone</p><p>Sometimes I take the receiver off the hook</p><p>I don't want them to ever call at all</p><p></p><p>White girls they're pretty funny</p><p>Sometimes they drive me mad</p><p>Black girls just wanna get fucked all night</p><p>I just don't have that much jam</p><p></p><p>Chinese girls are so gentle</p><p>They're really such a tease</p><p>You never know quite what they're cookin'</p><p>Inside those silky sleeves</p><p></p><p>Give me all you money</p><p>Give me all your gold</p><p>I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach</p><p>And give you half of what I own</p><p></p><p>Some girls they're so pure</p><p>Some girls so corrupt</p><p>Some girls give me children</p><p>I only made love to her once</p><p></p><p>Give me half your money</p><p>Give me half your car</p><p>Give me half of everything</p><p>I'll make you world's biggest star by half</p><p></p><p>So gimme all your money</p><p>Give me all your gold</p><p>Let's go back to Zuma beach</p><p>I'll give you half of everything I own</p><p><strong>Lies</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Lies, dripping off your mouth like dirt</p><p>Lies, lies in every step you walk</p><p>Lies, whispered sweetly in my ear</p><p>Lies, how do I get out of here?</p><p>Why, why you have to be so cruel?</p><p>Lies, lies, lies I ain't such a fool!</p><p></p><p>Lies, lies in my papa's looks</p><p>Lies, lies in my history books</p><p>Lies, lies like they teach in class</p><p>Lies, lies, lies I catch on way too fast</p><p>Fire, fire upon your wicked tongue</p><p>Lies, lies, lies you're trying to spoil my fun</p><p></p><p>Lies, lies you dirty jezebel</p><p>Why, why, why, why don't you go to hell?</p><p>Why, why you think me such a fool?</p><p>Lies, lies, lies honey that's ya rules!</p><p></p><p>Lies, lies, lies, lies, oh my lies, ...</p><p><strong>Far Away Eyes</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield</p><p>Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station</p><p>And the preacher said, "You know you always have the</p><p>Lord by your side"</p><p></p><p>And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran</p><p>Twenty red lights in his honor</p><p>Thank you Jesus, thank you lord</p><p></p><p>I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late</p><p>And I thought by the time I got there she'd be off</p><p>She'd be off with the nearest truck driver she could find</p><p>Much to my surprise, there she was sittin in the corner</p><p>A little bleary, worse for wear and tear</p><p>Was a girl with far away eyes</p><p></p><p>So if you're down on your luck</p><p>And you can't harmonize</p><p>Find a girl with far away</p><p>And if you're downright disgusted</p><p>And life ain't worth a dime</p><p>Get a girl with far away eyes</p><p></p><p>Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send</p><p>Ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of Jesus</p><p>Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California</p><p>And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio</p><p>And all my dreams would come true</p><p>So I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl</p><p>Well, you know what kind of eyes she got</p><p></p><p>So if you're down on your luck</p><p>I know you all sympathize</p><p>Find a girl with far away eyes</p><p>And if you're downright disgusted</p><p>And life ain't worth a dime</p><p>Get a girl with far away eyes</p><p><strong>Respectable</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Well now we're respected in society</p><p>We don't worry about the things that we used to be</p><p>We're talking heroin with the president</p><p>Well it's a problem, sir, but it can't be bent</p><p>Uh yes!</p><p></p><p>Well now you're a pillar of society</p><p>You don't worry about the things that you used to be</p><p>You're a rag-trade girl, you're the queen of porn</p><p>You're the easiest lay on the White House lawn</p><p>Get out of my life, don't come back</p><p>Get out of my life, don't come back</p><p></p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so delectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>Get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back</p><p>Get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back</p><p>What I say!</p><p></p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>Get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back</p><p>Oh get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back</p><p></p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>She's so delectable</p><p>She's so respectable</p><p>Get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back...woo!</p><p>Get out of life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back</p><p>Get out of my life</p><p>Don't take my wife</p><p>Don't come back, come back, hey</p><p><strong>Before They Make Me Run</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone</p><p>Only a crowd can make you feel so alone</p><p>And it really hit home</p><p>Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine</p><p>Well here's another goodbye to another good friend</p><p></p><p>After all is said and done</p><p>Gotta move while it's still fun</p><p>Let me walk before they make me run</p><p>After all is said and done</p><p>I gotta move, it's still fun</p><p>I'm gonna walk before they make me run</p><p></p><p>Watched the taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house</p><p>They're laughing and singing</p><p>Started dancing and drinking as I left town</p><p>Gonna find my way to heaven, `cause I did my time in hell</p><p>I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well</p><p></p><p>After all is said and done</p><p>I gotta move I had my fun</p><p>Let us walk before they make me run</p><p></p><p>After all is said and done</p><p>I did alright, I had my fun</p><p>I will walk before they make me run</p><p><strong>Beast Of Burden</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>My back is broad but it's a hurting</p><p>All I want is for you to make love to me</p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>I've walked for miles my feet are hurting</p><p>All I want is for you to make love to me</p><p></p><p>Am I hard enough</p><p>Am I rough enough</p><p>Am I rich enough</p><p>I'm not too blind to see</p><p></p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>So let's go home and draw the curtains</p><p>Music on the radio</p><p>Come on baby make sweet love to me</p><p></p><p>Am I hard enough</p><p>Am I rough enough</p><p>Am I rich enough</p><p>I'm not too blind to see</p><p></p><p>Oh little sister</p><p>Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl</p><p>You're a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl</p><p>Pretty, pretty</p><p>Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl</p><p>Come on baby please, please, please</p><p></p><p>I'll tell ya</p><p>You can put me out</p><p>On the street</p><p>Put me out</p><p>With no shoes on my feet</p><p>But, put me out, put me out</p><p>Put me out of misery</p><p></p><p>Yeah, all your sickness</p><p>I can suck it up</p><p>Throw it all at me</p><p>I can shrug it off</p><p>There's one thing baby</p><p>That I don't understand</p><p>You keep on telling me</p><p>I ain't your kind of man</p><p></p><p>Ain't I rough enough, ooh baby</p><p>Ain't I tough enough</p><p>Ain't I rich enough, in love enough</p><p>Ooh! Ooh! Please</p><p></p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be</p><p></p><p>I'll never be your beast of burden</p><p>I've walked for miles and my feet are hurting</p><p>All I want is you to make love to me</p><p></p><p>I don't need beast of burden</p><p>I need no fussing</p><p>I need no nursing</p><p>Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be</p><p><strong>Shattered</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>(M. Jagger/K. Richards)</p><p></p><p>Shattered, shattered</p><p>Love and hope and sex and dreams</p><p>Are still surviving on the street</p><p>Look at me, I'm in tatters!</p><p>I'm a shattered</p><p>Shattered</p><p></p><p>Friends are so alarming</p><p>And my lover's never charming</p><p>Life's just a cocktail party on the street</p><p>Big Apple</p><p>People dressed in plastic bags</p><p>Directing traffic</p><p>Some kind of fashion</p><p>Shattered</p><p></p><p>Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex</p><p>Look at me, I'm in tatters</p><p>I'm a shattered</p><p>Shattered</p><p></p><p>All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout</p><p>Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue</p><p>This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)</p><p>Work and work for love and sex</p><p>Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success</p><p>Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter?</p><p>I'm shattered.</p><p>Shattered</p><p></p><p>Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered</p><p>I'm a shattered</p><p>Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah</p><p></p><p>Pride and joy and greed and sex</p><p>That's what makes our town the best</p><p>Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street</p><p>And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah</p><p>I've been battered, what does it matter</p><p>Does it matter, uh-huh</p><p>Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered</p><p></p><p>Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up</p><p>To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!</p><p>You got rats on the west side</p><p>Bed bugs uptown</p><p>What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered</p><p>My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan</p><p></p><p>Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers</p><p>Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh</p><p>Shadoobie, my brain's been battered</p><p>My friends they come around they</p><p>Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter</p><p>Pile it up, pile it high on the platter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Floyd, post: 760, member: 1"] [B]Miss You[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) I've been holding out so long I've been sleeping all alone Lord I miss you I've been hanging on the phone I've been sleeping all alone I want to kiss you Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh Well, I've been haunted in my sleep You've been starring in my dreams Lord I miss you I've been waiting in the hall Been waiting on your call When the phone rings It's just some friends of mine that say, "Hey, what's the matter man? We're gonna come around at twelve With some Puerto Rican girls that are just dyin' to meet you. We're gonna bring a case of wine Hey, let's go mess and fool around You know, like we used to" Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah Oh everybody waits so long Oh baby why you wait so long Won't you come on! Come on! I've been walking Central Park Singing after dark People think I'm crazy I've been stumbling on my feet Shuffling through the street Asking people, "What's the matter with you boy?" Sometimes I want to say to myself Sometimes I say Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh I won't miss you child I guess I'm lying to myself It's just you and no one else Lord I won't miss you child You've been blotting out my mind Fooling on my time No, I won't miss you, baby, yeah Lord, I miss you child Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah Lord, I miss you child Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah Lord, I miss you child Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah aaah Aaah aaah aaah aaah [B]When The Whip Comes Down[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Yeah, mama and papa told me I was crazy to stay I was gay in New York Which is a fag in L.A. So I saved my money And I took a plane Wherever I go they treat me the same When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down I'm going down fifty-third street And they're spitting in my face I'm learning the ropes Yeah I'm learning a trade The east river truckers Is churning with trash I've got so much money That I'm spending so fast When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the shit hits the fan I'll be sitting on the can When the whip comes down Yeah, some called me garbage While I was sleeping on the street I never roll And I never cheat I'm filling a need I'm plugging a hole My mama's so glad I ain't on the dole When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down When the whip comes down (Yeah, go ahead check it out) Yeah, baby, when the whip comes down When the whip comes down (I'll be running this town, I'll tell you) When the shit hits the fan I'll be sittin on the can [B]Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)[/B] (Whitfield/Strong) I look out my window watch her as she passes by I say to myself I'm such a lucky guy To have a girl like her is a dream come true And of all the girls in New York she loves me true It was just my imagination, once again Running away with me It was just my imagination Running away with me Soon we'll be married and raise a family Two boys for you, what about two girls for me I tell you I am just a fellow with a one track mind Whatever it is I want baby I seek and I shall find I'll tell ya It was just my imagination, once again Running away with me It was just my imagination Running away with me Every night I hope and pray "Dear lord, hear my plea Don't ever let another take her love from me Or I will surely die" Her love is ecstasy When her arms enfold me I hear her tender rhapsody But in reality, she doesn't even know... me [B]Some Girls[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Some girls give me money Some girls buy me clothes Some girls give me jewelry That I never thought I'd own Some girls give me diamonds Some girls, heart attacks Some girls I give all my bread to I don't ever want it back Some girls give me jewelry Others buy me clothes Some girls give me children I never asked them for So give me all your money Give me all your gold I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach And give you half of what I own Some girls take my money Some girls take my clothes Some girls get the shirt off my back And leave me with a lethal dose French girls they want Cartier Italian girls want cars American girls want everything in the world You can possibly imagine English girls they're so prissy I can't stand them on the telephone Sometimes I take the receiver off the hook I don't want them to ever call at all White girls they're pretty funny Sometimes they drive me mad Black girls just wanna get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam Chinese girls are so gentle They're really such a tease You never know quite what they're cookin' Inside those silky sleeves Give me all you money Give me all your gold I'll buy you a house back in Zuma beach And give you half of what I own Some girls they're so pure Some girls so corrupt Some girls give me children I only made love to her once Give me half your money Give me half your car Give me half of everything I'll make you world's biggest star by half So gimme all your money Give me all your gold Let's go back to Zuma beach I'll give you half of everything I own [B]Lies[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Lies, dripping off your mouth like dirt Lies, lies in every step you walk Lies, whispered sweetly in my ear Lies, how do I get out of here? Why, why you have to be so cruel? Lies, lies, lies I ain't such a fool! Lies, lies in my papa's looks Lies, lies in my history books Lies, lies like they teach in class Lies, lies, lies I catch on way too fast Fire, fire upon your wicked tongue Lies, lies, lies you're trying to spoil my fun Lies, lies you dirty jezebel Why, why, why, why don't you go to hell? Why, why you think me such a fool? Lies, lies, lies honey that's ya rules! Lies, lies, lies, lies, oh my lies, ... [B]Far Away Eyes[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station And the preacher said, "You know you always have the Lord by your side" And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran Twenty red lights in his honor Thank you Jesus, thank you lord I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late And I thought by the time I got there she'd be off She'd be off with the nearest truck driver she could find Much to my surprise, there she was sittin in the corner A little bleary, worse for wear and tear Was a girl with far away eyes So if you're down on your luck And you can't harmonize Find a girl with far away And if you're downright disgusted And life ain't worth a dime Get a girl with far away eyes Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send Ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of Jesus Located somewhere in Los Angeles, California And next week they'd say my prayer on the radio And all my dreams would come true So I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl Well, you know what kind of eyes she got So if you're down on your luck I know you all sympathize Find a girl with far away eyes And if you're downright disgusted And life ain't worth a dime Get a girl with far away eyes [B]Respectable[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Well now we're respected in society We don't worry about the things that we used to be We're talking heroin with the president Well it's a problem, sir, but it can't be bent Uh yes! Well now you're a pillar of society You don't worry about the things that you used to be You're a rag-trade girl, you're the queen of porn You're the easiest lay on the White House lawn Get out of my life, don't come back Get out of my life, don't come back She's so respectable She's so respectable She's so delectable She's so respectable Get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back Get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back What I say! She's so respectable She's so respectable She's so respectable She's so respectable Get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back Oh get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back She's so respectable She's so respectable She's so delectable She's so respectable Get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back...woo! Get out of life Don't take my wife Don't come back Get out of my life Don't take my wife Don't come back, come back, hey [B]Before They Make Me Run[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Worked the bars and sideshows along the twilight zone Only a crowd can make you feel so alone And it really hit home Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine Well here's another goodbye to another good friend After all is said and done Gotta move while it's still fun Let me walk before they make me run After all is said and done I gotta move, it's still fun I'm gonna walk before they make me run Watched the taillights fading, there ain't a dry eye in the house They're laughing and singing Started dancing and drinking as I left town Gonna find my way to heaven, `cause I did my time in hell I wasn't looking too good but I was feeling real well After all is said and done I gotta move I had my fun Let us walk before they make me run After all is said and done I did alright, I had my fun I will walk before they make me run [B]Beast Of Burden[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) I'll never be your beast of burden My back is broad but it's a hurting All I want is for you to make love to me I'll never be your beast of burden I've walked for miles my feet are hurting All I want is for you to make love to me Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough I'm not too blind to see I'll never be your beast of burden So let's go home and draw the curtains Music on the radio Come on baby make sweet love to me Am I hard enough Am I rough enough Am I rich enough I'm not too blind to see Oh little sister Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, girl You're a pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty girl Pretty, pretty Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl Come on baby please, please, please I'll tell ya You can put me out On the street Put me out With no shoes on my feet But, put me out, put me out Put me out of misery Yeah, all your sickness I can suck it up Throw it all at me I can shrug it off There's one thing baby That I don't understand You keep on telling me I ain't your kind of man Ain't I rough enough, ooh baby Ain't I tough enough Ain't I rich enough, in love enough Ooh! Ooh! Please I'll never be your beast of burden I'll never be your beast of burden Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be I'll never be your beast of burden I've walked for miles and my feet are hurting All I want is you to make love to me I don't need beast of burden I need no fussing I need no nursing Never, never, never, never, never, never, never be [B]Shattered[/B] (M. Jagger/K. Richards) Shattered, shattered Love and hope and sex and dreams Are still surviving on the street Look at me, I'm in tatters! I'm a shattered Shattered Friends are so alarming And my lover's never charming Life's just a cocktail party on the street Big Apple People dressed in plastic bags Directing traffic Some kind of fashion Shattered Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex Look at me, I'm in tatters I'm a shattered Shattered All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I can't give it away on 7th Avenue This town's been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered) Work and work for love and sex Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success Does it matter? (Shattered) Does it matter? I'm shattered. Shattered Ahhh, look at me, I'm a shattered I'm a shattered Look at me- I'm a shattered, yeah Pride and joy and greed and sex That's what makes our town the best Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah I've been battered, what does it matter Does it matter, uh-huh Does it matter, uh-huh, I'm a shattered Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough! You got rats on the west side Bed bugs uptown What a mess this town's in tatters I've been shattered My brain's been battered, splattered all over Manhattan Uh-huh, this town's full of money grabbers Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots, huh Shadoobie, my brain's been battered My friends they come around they Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter Pile it up, pile it high on the platter [/QUOTE]
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