She's so strange And she wore a black moustache And she pilfered all the petty cash She went to Birmingham She'll soon be in the can She's so cruel And she knew just what to do And while the cats were all sniffing glue They played their silly games And now they'll take the blame She's so poor Only now while she's looking back She sees her story on the paperback What will become of her? There's not much left for her She's so, ohh Oh, oh, ohh Hey, hey, hey La-la-la-la-la Ohh, huh, huh Hey La-la-la-la-la Hey...

I don't know what I was thinking Leaving my child behind Now I suffer the curse and now I am blind With all this anger, guilt and sadness Coming to haunt me forever I can't wait for the cliff at the end of the river Is this revenge I'm seeking Or seeking someone to avenge me? Stuck in my own paradox I wanna set myself free Or maybe, I should chase and find Before they try to stop it It won't be long before I become their puppet It's been so long Since I last have seen my son Lost to this monster To the man behind the slaughter Since you've been gone I've been singing this stupid song So I could ponder the sanity of your mother I wish I lived in the present With the gift of my past mistakes But the future keeps lurking in like a pack of snakes Your sweet little eyes Your little smile's all I remember Those fuzzy memories mess with my temper Justification is killing me But killing isn't justified What happened to my son? I'm terrified It lingers in my mind And the thought keeps on getting bigger I'm sorry, my sweet baby I wish I'd been there It's been so long Since I last have seen my son Lost to this monster To the man behind the slaughter Since you've been gone I've been singing this stupid song So I could ponder the sanity of your mother

Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh-ooh Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh-ooh I set up a camp in the center of town Ready for freedom when it all comes down Snapping my fingers, walking around I'm the dusty jewel in the thrown-out crown Got a bus pass to make my way From hideout to hideout in the heat of the day I got a talisman tote with the whole array And when you catch my coat-tails, I'll be miles away Restless year It was another restless year It was a restless year For a while, we had no fear Yeah, nobody knows in the all-night diner Rolling with Rose and Miss Mary L. Steiner You can't pin her down, you can't define her Dostoevsky, dime store copy Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh Making the rounds in my five-dollar dress I can't go home, though I'm not homeless I'm just another savage in the wilderness And if you can't calm down you can listen to this Death is my former employer Death is my own Tom Sawyer Death waits for me to destroy her I never wanna die and I'll never grow older, yeah Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh-ooh Ooh-la-ooh Shalaika, ooh-la-ooh-la-ooh-ooh Restless year It was another restless year It was a restless year Don't tell me anything I don't want to hear

Lost my faith in my government, gonna watch TV in my apartment Get up in the morning, get the paper I got a heroin girl, I'm gonna save her Secretly I'm hoping she'll save me or at least give me drugs and call me baby How'm I gonna find a new drummer? Been playing with him since last summer Fed up with the internet bullshit and I've got to make it home before sunset Get home, light the candles and I break bread, bless the wine and drink it, turn my face red I hope I look cool on TV, with my brand new band, you'd want to see me Make it all go away Make it all go away Make it all go away Make it all go away Make it all go away Make it all go away And sometimes in the night, when I'm out of my senses, ah I see a wide open country without any fences, ah I see white crosses burning across a dark landscape, ah And there's no hidden key and there's no secret handshake, ah Adria Adria And if ever my prayer should ascend to some heaven, ah Adria (Adria)

My body was made this particular way There's really nothing any old patrician can say Your social police can just get out of my face And my body was made My body was made this particular way Recurrent desire never totally tamed Oh, honey, I've tried and tried to explain it away But my body was made His body's a ship with an impenetrable hull His bedroom shelves lined up with animal skulls It's making me feel an irresistible pull His body was made (Ooh, ooh) (Ooh, ooh-ooh) (Ah) (Ooh) (Hey, hey, hey) My body was made with this attribute too The need to become something totally new Mysterious process that don't involve you Body was made Body was made, so just fucking relax Don't pile my plate with historical facts I want to go forward, don't want to go back And my body was made (Ah, ah, ah, ah) (Ooh) (Ooh, ooh-ooh) (Break) Your body is yours at the end of the day And don't let the hateful try and take it away We want to be free, yeah, we go our own way Yes, our body was made, oh (Ooh, ooh) (Ooh, ooh-ooh) (Ah)

I'm gonna feel every feelin' in the book tonight Fuck the hurt Fuck the pain Fuck the panic Fuck the hate I wanna feel every feelin' in the book tonight And only love Only love and happiness will remain (ooh-ooh-ooh) Only love and happiness will remain (ooh-ooh-ooh) I wanna feel every feelin' in the book tonight (ooh-ooh-ooh) Fuck the panic Fuck the hurt Fuck the sadness Fuck the shame (ooh-ooh-ooh) I'm gonna feel every feelin' (ooh-ooh-ooh) And only love Only love will remain (ooh-ooh-ooh) Only love will remain (Ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh-ooh-ooh) (Ooh)

You know I love you so bad I don't believe in love You know I love you so bad, so bad You know I love you so bad Like the kid in the back of the classroom Who can't do the math 'Cause he can't see the blackboard, so bad You know I love you so bad Like the kid skipping class in the bathrooms Sneaking cigarettes underneath the football bleachers, baby, so bad You know I love you so bad (so bad, so, so bad) Like the kids growing up to be criminals (so bad, so, so bad) Tearing pages out the back of the hymnals (so bad) The love notes baby, so bad (so bad, so bad) Still remember so bad The nights Mom got drunker than Dad did She told me, "Never hang out with the bad kids" Well, what can you say to that? I always knew I was bad Always dreaming so they called me the Spaceman You first kissed me in your parent's blue basement Wanted you baby, so bad Sometimes we got out of hand We bought drugs from a parking attendant But sober nights in your car were transcendent Loved you baby, so bad You know I loved you so bad (so bad, so, so bad) Somehow you got yourself accepted to college (so bad, so, so bad) You said there had to be a way out of all this (so bad) Garbage small town rat trap (so bad) You moved away that was that (so bad, so, so bad) You still send me the occasional email (so bad, so, so bad) I got a dumb job working in retail (so bad) Miss you baby so, so bad (so bad, so bad) I drew your name in the sand I came to the beach 'cause we used to go here I watched the blue wave cover it over Do what the ocean does best I know the past is the past Well then again, the present's nothing without it I feel fine, don't even feel sad about it I just love you baby so, so bad So bad, so bad Oh man, oh

Black hole hips she looks like some sort of insect buzzing across the floor toward me I can't think. she's looking at me With those green eyes, shining on me like floodlights way in the back of New York city She said she'd take me down to Cocomo We went to Cocomo, indiana Where she told me her real name was Diana, at the gas station. Something about her reminds me of the united states Sprawling across the west and all the glory And imagination Highway 25 divides the great plains from the rocky mountains And colorado springs, coal-mining town Some lady wrote america the beautiful, Sitting on top of pike's peak up there Looking way, way down. way, way down And I don't know how it happened but here we are on the dance floor together, After all these years and I know her real name now I know who wrote america the beautiful And I hear a voice singing in my ear saying Don't turn your back on love No, don't turn your back on love, You idiot You fool Don't you do it And I mean i want to go over your house whenever you want me to come over to your house. But that's no reason To turn your back on love Heartbreak is my roommate now We live together,and we share the rent We have long conversations before we go to sleep in bed at night Ooh, long conversations And I can't lie, I'm on the street inside the street in new york city, Or in boston, or chicago. whatever city i happen to be in at the time. I'm on the same street. Mhm And heartbreak is my roommate Yes it's hard, of course it's hard. It's supposed to be hard. but i can still hear her voice it's calling, It's calling, calling, but it's whispering, Whispering in my ear saying Don't turn your back on love No, don't turn your back on love, My love. what am i supposed to do? say no? Something about her reminds me of the united states Sprawling across the west in all the glory. And imagination She spans the seas and the deserts and the forests and the mountains, She brings it all back together in one big lovely package Oh, baby, oh never turn my back on love Not while you're around to whisper in my ear After all these years, Diana Is that what is was? Don't forget me No, don't forget me. I can't forget you How could I ever forget you? Oh, don't forget me. Don't turn your back on love I won't turn my back on love. Can't forget you How could I forget you?