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

I've been here for so many years I've been here for so many years And I've been down, down, down And I've been down, down, down I've been down, down, down underneath your town I'm just down, down, down I haven't grown or changed one bit I haven't grown or changed I haven't grown or changed I haven't grown or changed I haven't grown or changed and I've been so strange I haven't grown or changed (You look great) (Oh, no, no, no) (We're getting close) (You look just gorgeous and the atmosphere) (Oh, my goodness) I am gonna meet my God Someday, I'm gonna meet my God I'm gonna meet my God I'm gonna meet my God I'm gonna meet my God on the Day of the Dog I'm gonna meet my God Can't touch me now No, boys, you can't touch me now Please touch me now You can't touch me now You can't touch me now, can't take me down You can't touch me now

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)

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?