Y’s Lyrics Emporium IV: Fab Four (Hi, Leigh!!!)

[Steadfast421]

Here’s something that I'd like to bring to you
Wrapped all in cellophane, designed for you.
Tell you what it's all about
It is without a doubt
Swing in the latest style
Service with a smile.

If you want to swing and shout
Get your heels and get about
I'm an errand girl for rhythm, send me.

Just get hip and follow through
I'll deliver straight to you
I'm an errand girl for rhythm, send me.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Johnny Cash - Man In Black

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

 

[Steadfast421]

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If'n you don't know by now
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do somehow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm a-traveling on
But don't think twice, it's all right

And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Kool & The Gang - Celebration
Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate come on now)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)

We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
Let's celebrate, it's all right, baby

We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Celebration)
Let's celebrate, it's all right
We're gonna have a good time tonight
(Celebration)
Let's celebrate, it's all right

Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Celebrate good times, come on!
(Let's celebrate)
Celebrate good times, come on!
(It's a celebration)

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
O.K.
Just a little pin prick
There'll be no more ah!
But you may feel a little sick

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on, it's time to go

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown
The dream is gone
I have become comfortably numb

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Send It - ELO
The sun still shines way up above
But it don't matter now because the dream is gone
The dream is just a memory, oh yeah
If you see my dream, send it back home to me

The stars still glow up in the night
But somehow, they don't seem so bright
The dream is gone, the dream is just a memory, oh yeah
If you see my dream, send it back home to me

'Cause I've been waiting for a long, long time
Thought I'd found a way
Now I just wait for someone to call
I'm waiting for it every day

Send it (Send it, send it) on the wires
Send it (Send it, send it) on a plane
Send it (Send it, send it) on an express
But send it back to me again

 

[Steadfast421]

Another day in the park
I think it was the Fourth of July
Another day in the park
I think it was the Fourth of July
People talking, really smiling
A man playing guitar
and singing for us all.

Will you help him change the world
Can you dig it? (yes, I can)
And I’ve been waiting such a long time
For today.

Slow motion riders fly the colours of the day
A bronze man still can tell stories his own way
Listen children all is not lost
All is not lost, oh no, no.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

OK Go - All Is Not Lost
It's coming down, babe
Could be as bad as they talked about
It's coming down, babe
Could be before we can make it out

But when they say that all is lost
All is not lost, all is not lost
But when they say that all is lost
All is not lost, no, all is not lost at all

 

[Steadfast421]

Well, I started out
Down a dirty road
Started out
All alone.

And the sun went down
As I crossed the hill
And the town lit up
The world got still.

I'm learning to fly
But I ain't got wings
Coming down
Is the hardest thing.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song
I never had a damn thing, but what I had
I had to leave it behind
You're the hardest thing
I ever tried to get off my mind
Always something greener on the other side of that hill
I was born a wrangler and a rambler
And I guess I always will

Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Heard it in a love song
Can't be wrong

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town
Been a whole lot happier without that face around
Nobody upstairs gonna stomp and shout
Nobody out the back door gonna throw my laundry out
She holds the shotgun while you dote-se-doe
She want one man made of Hercules and Cyrano
Been a whole lot easier since the bitch is gone
Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong

Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong
Ain't nobody gonna bow no more when you sound your gong
Little miss, Little miss, Little miss can't be wrong
Whatcha go 'n' do to get into another one of these here rock 'n' roll songs?

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Meatloaf - I Would Do Anything For Love
And some days I pray for Silence
And some days I pray for Soul
Some days I just pray to the God
Of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll

And some nights I lose the feeling
And some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all
When I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

And maybe I'm lonely
That's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only
One and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning
As long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true
You better believe it!

That I would do anything for love!
And you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love!
And there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you
So long
So long

And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won't do that, no
No. No, I won't do that!

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Robbie Williams - Won't Do That To You
In this bag of stuff I brought to you
You didn't mind sorting it through
You would never be the trouble and strife
If I made you my Swiss army wife

I could give this up, I could walk away
It doesn't fill me up, it didn't anyway

I won't do that to you
Won't do that to you
Do that to you, won't do that to you

 

[Steadfast421]

And when I see the sign that
Points one way
The lot we used to pass by
Every day.

Just walk away, Renée
You won't see me follow you back home
The empty sidewalks on my block
Are not the same
You're not to blame.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Boney M - Rasputin
But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger
For power became known to more and more people
The demands to do something about this outrageous
Man became louder and louder

"This man's just got to go!" declared his enemies
But the ladies begged "Don't you try to do it, please"
No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms
Though he was a brute they just fell into his arms
Then one night some men of higher standing
Set a trap, they're not to blame
"Come to visit us" they kept demanding
And he really came

RA RA RASPUTIN
Lover of the Russian queen
They put some poison into his wine
RA RA RASPUTIN
Russia's greatest love machine
He drank it all and said "I feel fine"

 

[ny_m_teacher]

R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It
That's great! It starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
and Lenny Bruce is not afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no strength
The ladder starts to clatter with fear of height, down height
Wire in a fire, representing seven games
In a government for hire and a combat site
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck

Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered crop
Look at that low plane! Fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, Common Food
But it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

 

[beachbaby179]

Toe to toe
Dancing very close
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotized
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture

Back to back
Sacroiliac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack

Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture

 

[Steadfast421]

Ah here's a dance you should know
Ah baby when the lights are down low
I say grab your baby then go.

Do the Hucklebuck, do the Hucklebuck.
If you don't know how to do it man you're out of luck
Push ya baby out, then you hunch her back.
Start a little movement in your sacroiliac
Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck
That's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

 

[NC_Coastal]

Hey Jude, don't let me down
You have found her, now go and get her (let it out and let it in)
Remember (hey, Jude) to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better

So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin
You're waiting for someone to perform with
And don't you know that it's just you?
Hey Jude, you'll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder
Na-na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, yeah

 

[Steadfast421]

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain
And you are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Stevie Wonder - Superstition
When you believe in things
That you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way, yeah

Very superstitious
Nothing more to say
Very superstitious
The devil's on his way
Thirteen month old baby
Broke the looking glass
Seven years of bad luck
Good things in your past

When you believe in things
That you don't understand
Then you suffer
Superstition ain't the way
No, no, no

 

[Steadfast421]

Your mother might wanna visit us,
But you tell you mamma I get home bout the break a day.
And that's too late to visit anybody, baby,
So, tell you mamma to please, please, please stay away.
'Cause I don't want a soul, baby,
Hangin' around my house when I'm not at home.
Yes, I don't want you to open the door for anybody, woman,
Oh, when you're home and you know you're all alone.

You might feel a little sick, baby,
And you know you're home all alone,
I don't want the doctor at my house, baby,
You just suffer, suffer, suffer till I get home.
'Cause I don't want a soul, baby,
Hangin' around my house when I'm not at home.
Yes, I don't want you to open the door for nobody, woman,
Baby, when you're home and all alone.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Eagles - Desperado
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

 

[Steadfast421]

I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood
Baby, I'm in the mood for love.

I said, night time is the right time
To be with the one you love.
You know when night come, baby
God know, you're so far away.

I'm in the mood
I'm in the mood, baby
I'm in the mood for love
I'm in the mood, in the mood
Baby, in the mood for love.

 

[ny_m_teacher]

Billy Joel - Piano Man
Sing us a song. You're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for a while

And the piano. It sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, "Man, what are you doing here?"

Sing us a song. You're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feeling alright