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<blockquote data-quote="Floyd" data-source="post: 696" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong>Jailbreak</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>Somewhere in this town</p><p>See me and the boys we don't like it</p><p>So were getting up and going down</p><p></p><p>Hiding low looking right to left</p><p>If you see us coming I think it's best</p><p>To move away do you hear what I say</p><p>From under my breath</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>Somewhere in the town</p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>So don't you be around</p><p></p><p>Don't you be around</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be trouble</p><p>Some of us won't survive</p><p>See the boys and me mean business</p><p>Bustin' out dead or alive</p><p></p><p>I can hear the hound dogs on my trail</p><p>All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail</p><p>Like the game if you lose</p><p>Go to jail</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>Somewhere in the town</p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>So don't you be around</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna trouble</p><p>I'm gonna find myself in</p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>So woman stay with a friend</p><p></p><p>You know it's safer</p><p></p><p>Breakout!</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a breakout</p><p>Into the city zones</p><p>Don't you dare to try and stop us</p><p>No one could for long</p><p></p><p>Searchlight on my trail</p><p>Tonight's the night all systems fail</p><p>Hey you good lookin' female</p><p>Come here!</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>Somewhere in the town</p><p>Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak</p><p>So don't you be around</p><p></p><p>Tonight there's gonna be trouble</p><p>I'm gonna find myself in</p><p>Tonight there's gonna be trouble</p><p>So woman stay with a friend</p><p><strong>Angel From the Coast</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>The sacred heart is bleeding</p><p>Go tell the holy ghost</p><p>That the junkie is still cheating</p><p>To get the thing he needs the most</p><p></p><p>Lady luck has me covered</p><p>Keeping her watchful eyes over me</p><p>The lovers are discovered</p><p>The charge is first degree</p><p></p><p>Angel, she's a killer</p><p>Just flown in from the coast</p><p>Makes the hit, it's a winner</p><p>Leaves you dead as the post</p><p></p><p>Sally took to playing poker</p><p>The joker is her favorite card</p><p>The drunk he can't stay sober</p><p>He says it's much too hard</p><p></p><p>Meantime something seedy</p><p>Was happening across the hall</p><p>Somebody seemed to be groaning</p><p>You could hear it through the wall</p><p></p><p>The cops they came like lightning</p><p>The bullets flew astray</p><p>The noise it was frightening</p><p>The crook he got away</p><p><strong>Running Back</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a fool now that it's over</p><p>Can you guess my name?</p><p>I make my money singing songs about you</p><p>It's my claim to fame</p><p></p><p>When they say it's over</p><p>It's not all over, there's still the pain</p><p></p><p>I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p>Oh I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p></p><p>If I said I was sorry</p><p>Would you still leave me?</p><p>I never thought you'd go 'till you did</p><p>Believe me</p><p></p><p>When they say it's over</p><p>It's not all over completely</p><p></p><p>'cause I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p>Yes I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p></p><p>I miss that girl</p><p></p><p>The show is over</p><p>And we must all go home</p><p>Just leave me by myself</p><p>I'll be alright here on my own</p><p></p><p>If it's all over, it's all over</p><p>And I'm all alone</p><p></p><p>And I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p>Don't you know I'd come running</p><p>I'd come running back to you again</p><p><strong>Romeo and the Lonely Girl</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Romeo and the lonely girl</p><p>They seemed to hit it off</p><p>Till romeo told the lonely girl</p><p>I must take my leave, my love</p><p></p><p>It was these few words I overheard</p><p>And thought, I should move in</p><p>But before I could</p><p>The lonely girl had fallen in love again</p><p></p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p>Sitting out on his own-ee-o</p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p></p><p>Romeo he had it rough</p><p>The guy you'd like to burn</p><p>But everything that romeo had</p><p>You can bet it was well earned</p><p></p><p>For all his good looks there were scars that he took</p><p>And a lesson to be learned</p><p>Never judge lovers by a good looking covers</p><p>The story might be spurned</p><p></p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p>Sitting out on his own-ee-o</p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p></p><p>Romeo he like to put it around</p><p>He was everybody's friend</p><p>But in the end even romeo found</p><p>On no one could he depend</p><p></p><p>For all his charms in someone else's arms</p><p>Lonely girl safely lay</p><p>When the train pulled in it had to leave again</p><p>And romeo pulled away</p><p></p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p>Sitting all on his own-ee-o</p><p>Oh poor romeo</p><p><strong>Warriors</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am the warrior</p><p>I serve the death machine</p><p>Losers or conquerors</p><p>All flash past on my silver screen</p><p></p><p>Death is no easy answer</p><p>For those who wish to know</p><p>Ask those who have been before you</p><p>What fate the future holds</p><p></p><p>It ain't pretty...</p><p></p><p>I am a messenger</p><p>The message here, you must know</p><p>I am the warrior</p><p>I deliver the fatal blow</p><p></p><p>So fate will have to wait</p><p>Till time can heal the scar</p><p>My heart is ruled by venus</p><p>And my head by mars</p><p><strong>The Boys Are Back in Town</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Guess who just got back today?</p><p>Those wild-eyed boys that had been away</p><p>Haven't changed, haven't much to say</p><p>But man, I still think those cats are great</p><p></p><p>They were asking if you were around</p><p>How you was, where you could be found</p><p>I told them you were living downtown</p><p>Driving all the old men crazy</p><p></p><p>The boys are back in town</p><p></p><p>You know the chick that used to dance a lot</p><p>Every night she'd be on the floor shaking what she'd got</p><p>Man when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot</p><p>I mean she was steaming</p><p></p><p>That night over at johnny's place</p><p>Well this chick got up and she slapped johnny's face</p><p>Man we just fell about the place</p><p>If that chick don't want to know, forget her</p><p></p><p>Friday night they'll be dressed to kill</p><p>Down at dino's bar and grill</p><p>The drink will flow and blood will spill</p><p>If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them</p><p></p><p>That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song</p><p>The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long</p><p>It won't be long till summer comes</p><p>Now that the boys are here again</p><p></p><p>The boys are back in town</p><p><strong>Fight or Fall</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Brothers here I stand</p><p>Spread my wings and take command</p><p>The sky he justly planned</p><p>The boy become a man</p><p></p><p>After all this time</p><p>I tell myself that i'm</p><p>Not just wasting time</p><p>Oh you know I'm not that way inclined</p><p></p><p>Brothers if you hear</p><p>Raise your flags and make it clear</p><p>There is more to fear</p><p>If we wait for another year</p><p></p><p>After all this time</p><p>I tell-a [repeat] myself that i'm</p><p>Just passing through time</p><p></p><p>After all this time</p><p>I tell myself that i'm</p><p>Not just wasting time</p><p>Oh you know I'm not that way inclined</p><p></p><p>Brothers fight or fall</p><p>It's man for man and one for all</p><p>No more can we crawl</p><p>Brothers, brothers hear the call</p><p></p><p>After all this time</p><p>I tell myself that i'm</p><p>Not just wasting time</p><p>Oh you know I'm not that way inclined</p><p></p><p>Brother brother</p><p>Brother brother</p><p></p><p>Brother fight or fall</p><p>It's man for man and one for all</p><p></p><p>Brother brother</p><p>Brother brother</p><p></p><p>What you want?</p><p>We gotta fight for one another!</p><p><strong>Cowboy Song</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail</p><p>A starry night, a campfire light</p><p>The coyote call, the howling winds wail</p><p>So I ride out to the old sundown</p><p></p><p>I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail</p><p>Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female</p><p>The nights we spent together riding on the range</p><p>Looking back it seems so strange</p><p></p><p>Roll me over and turn me around</p><p>Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground</p><p>Roll me over and let me go</p><p>Running free with the buffalo</p><p></p><p>I was took in texas I did not know her name</p><p>Lord, all these southern girls seem the same</p><p>Down below the border in a town in mexico</p><p>I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo</p><p></p><p>Roll me over and turn me around</p><p>Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground</p><p>Roll me over and let me go</p><p>Riding in the rodeo</p><p></p><p>Roll me over and set me free</p><p>The cowboy's life is the life for me</p><p><strong>Emerald</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Down from the glen came the marching men</p><p>With their shields and their swords</p><p>To fight the fight they believed to be right</p><p>Overthrow the overlords</p><p></p><p>To the town where there was plenty</p><p>They brought plunder, swords and flame</p><p>When they left the town was empty</p><p>Children would never play again</p><p></p><p>From their graves I heard the fallen</p><p>Above the battle cry</p><p>By that bridge near the border</p><p>There were many more to die</p><p></p><p>Then onward over the mountain</p><p>And outward towards the sea</p><p>They had come to claim the emerald</p><p>Without it they could not leave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Floyd, post: 696, member: 1"] [B]Jailbreak[/B] Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in this town See me and the boys we don't like it So were getting up and going down Hiding low looking right to left If you see us coming I think it's best To move away do you hear what I say From under my breath Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Don't you be around Tonight there's gonna be trouble Some of us won't survive See the boys and me mean business Bustin' out dead or alive I can hear the hound dogs on my trail All hell breaks loose, alarm and sirens wail Like the game if you lose Go to jail Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Tonight there's gonna trouble I'm gonna find myself in Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So woman stay with a friend You know it's safer Breakout! Tonight there's gonna be a breakout Into the city zones Don't you dare to try and stop us No one could for long Searchlight on my trail Tonight's the night all systems fail Hey you good lookin' female Come here! Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak Somewhere in the town Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak So don't you be around Tonight there's gonna be trouble I'm gonna find myself in Tonight there's gonna be trouble So woman stay with a friend [B]Angel From the Coast[/B] The sacred heart is bleeding Go tell the holy ghost That the junkie is still cheating To get the thing he needs the most Lady luck has me covered Keeping her watchful eyes over me The lovers are discovered The charge is first degree Angel, she's a killer Just flown in from the coast Makes the hit, it's a winner Leaves you dead as the post Sally took to playing poker The joker is her favorite card The drunk he can't stay sober He says it's much too hard Meantime something seedy Was happening across the hall Somebody seemed to be groaning You could hear it through the wall The cops they came like lightning The bullets flew astray The noise it was frightening The crook he got away [B]Running Back[/B] I'm a fool now that it's over Can you guess my name? I make my money singing songs about you It's my claim to fame When they say it's over It's not all over, there's still the pain I'd come running I'd come running back to you again Oh I'd come running I'd come running back to you again If I said I was sorry Would you still leave me? I never thought you'd go 'till you did Believe me When they say it's over It's not all over completely 'cause I'd come running I'd come running back to you again Yes I'd come running I'd come running back to you again I miss that girl The show is over And we must all go home Just leave me by myself I'll be alright here on my own If it's all over, it's all over And I'm all alone And I'd come running I'd come running back to you again Don't you know I'd come running I'd come running back to you again [B]Romeo and the Lonely Girl[/B] Romeo and the lonely girl They seemed to hit it off Till romeo told the lonely girl I must take my leave, my love It was these few words I overheard And thought, I should move in But before I could The lonely girl had fallen in love again Oh poor romeo Sitting out on his own-ee-o Oh poor romeo Romeo he had it rough The guy you'd like to burn But everything that romeo had You can bet it was well earned For all his good looks there were scars that he took And a lesson to be learned Never judge lovers by a good looking covers The story might be spurned Oh poor romeo Sitting out on his own-ee-o Oh poor romeo Romeo he like to put it around He was everybody's friend But in the end even romeo found On no one could he depend For all his charms in someone else's arms Lonely girl safely lay When the train pulled in it had to leave again And romeo pulled away Oh poor romeo Sitting all on his own-ee-o Oh poor romeo [B]Warriors[/B] I am the warrior I serve the death machine Losers or conquerors All flash past on my silver screen Death is no easy answer For those who wish to know Ask those who have been before you What fate the future holds It ain't pretty... I am a messenger The message here, you must know I am the warrior I deliver the fatal blow So fate will have to wait Till time can heal the scar My heart is ruled by venus And my head by mars [B]The Boys Are Back in Town[/B] Guess who just got back today? Those wild-eyed boys that had been away Haven't changed, haven't much to say But man, I still think those cats are great They were asking if you were around How you was, where you could be found I told them you were living downtown Driving all the old men crazy The boys are back in town You know the chick that used to dance a lot Every night she'd be on the floor shaking what she'd got Man when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot I mean she was steaming That night over at johnny's place Well this chick got up and she slapped johnny's face Man we just fell about the place If that chick don't want to know, forget her Friday night they'll be dressed to kill Down at dino's bar and grill The drink will flow and blood will spill If the boys want to fight, you'd better let them That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long It won't be long till summer comes Now that the boys are here again The boys are back in town [B]Fight or Fall[/B] Brothers here I stand Spread my wings and take command The sky he justly planned The boy become a man After all this time I tell myself that i'm Not just wasting time Oh you know I'm not that way inclined Brothers if you hear Raise your flags and make it clear There is more to fear If we wait for another year After all this time I tell-a [repeat] myself that i'm Just passing through time After all this time I tell myself that i'm Not just wasting time Oh you know I'm not that way inclined Brothers fight or fall It's man for man and one for all No more can we crawl Brothers, brothers hear the call After all this time I tell myself that i'm Not just wasting time Oh you know I'm not that way inclined Brother brother Brother brother Brother fight or fall It's man for man and one for all Brother brother Brother brother What you want? We gotta fight for one another! [B]Cowboy Song[/B] I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail A starry night, a campfire light The coyote call, the howling winds wail So I ride out to the old sundown I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female The nights we spent together riding on the range Looking back it seems so strange Roll me over and turn me around Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground Roll me over and let me go Running free with the buffalo I was took in texas I did not know her name Lord, all these southern girls seem the same Down below the border in a town in mexico I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo Roll me over and turn me around Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground Roll me over and let me go Riding in the rodeo Roll me over and set me free The cowboy's life is the life for me [B]Emerald[/B] Down from the glen came the marching men With their shields and their swords To fight the fight they believed to be right Overthrow the overlords To the town where there was plenty They brought plunder, swords and flame When they left the town was empty Children would never play again From their graves I heard the fallen Above the battle cry By that bridge near the border There were many more to die Then onward over the mountain And outward towards the sea They had come to claim the emerald Without it they could not leave [/QUOTE]
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