Lyrical Response

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Little girl, it's a great big world
But there's only one of me
You can't touch 'cause I cost too much, but
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight!

You're sweet, but you're just four feet
And you still got your baby teeth
You're too young, and I'm too well hung
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight I'm gonna rock you
Tonight!

[WhoTom]

I remember when rock was young
Me and Suzie had so much fun
Holding hands and skimming stones
Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own

But the biggest kick I ever got
Was doing a thing called the Crocodile Rock
While the other kids were Rocking 'Round the Clock
We were hopping and bopping to the Crocodile Rock

 

[Gray Beard]

If you want someone
To make you feel so fine
Then we'll have some fun
When you're mine, all mine
So come, come on, come on

 

Little child, little child
Little child, won't you dance with me?
I'm so sad and lonely
Baby, take a chance with me

 

When you're by my side
You're the only one
Don't you run and hide
Just come on, come on
Yeah, come on, come on, come on

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide

It's not love
I'm running from
It's the heartaches
That I know will come

'Cause I know
You're no good for me
But you've become
A part of me
Everywhere I go

Your face I see
Every step I take
You take with me, yeah

[Gray Beard]

As I walk along, I wonder
A what went wrong with our love
A love that was so strong

 

And as I still walk on
I think of the thing's we've done
Together, while our hearts were young

 

I'm a walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel a pain
A wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery

 

And I wonder, I wa wa wa wa wonder
Why a why why why why why
She ran away
And I wonder where she will stay
My little runaway
My run run run run runaway

[WhoTom]

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

One hot angel
One cool devil
Your mind on the fantasy
Living on the ecstasy

Give it all, give it
Give it what you got
Come on give it all a lot
Pick it up move it
Give it to the spot
Your mind on fantasy
Living on ecstasy

 

Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Runaway train
(Running right off the track)
Yeah the runaway train
(Running right off the track)

[row_33]

Hellbound Train I'm on it's track
Too late now to turn my back
Conductor coming ticket in his hand
Come to claim my soul
Take me to his land

 

Hellbound Train I been so wrong
Too late now I'm moving on
Conductor standing watch in his hand
Got to get aboard take you to his land

[WhoTom]

Well, if they freed me from this prison
If that railroad train was mine
I bet I'd move it on a little
Farther down the line
Far from Folsom Prison
That's where I want to stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle
Blow my blues away

 

[row_33]

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
Took a snort of cocaine and I shot my woman down
Went right home and I went to bed

I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head
 

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun

took another snort and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow

they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty
Bring me reefer when I want to get high
Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty
Bring me reefer when I want to get high
Well you know when I'm lonely
Bring my woman set her right down here by my side

Well you know there should be no law
On people that want to smoke a little dope
Well you know there should be no law
On people that want to smoke a little dope
Well you know it's good for your head
And it relax your body don't you know

 

Every time I get high
I lay my head down on my baby's breast
Well you know I lay down be quiet
Tryin' to take my rest
Well you know she done hug and kiss me
Says Muddy you're one man that I love the best

 

Well I'm gonna get high
I'm gonna get high just as sure as you know my name
Well you know I'm gonna get so high this mornin'
It's going to be a cryin' shame
Well you know I'm gonna stick with my reefer
I ain't gonna be messing round with no cocaine

[ExiledInIllinois]

We're gonna play you a song, a little bit of rock-n-roll
You gotta let yourself go, the band's gonna take control
We're gettin' off today
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight

Smokin', smokin'
We're cookin' tonight, just keep on tokin'
Smokin', Smokin'
I feel alright, mamma I'm not jokin', yeah

Get your feet to the floor, everybody rock and roll
You've got nothing to lose just the rhythm and blues, that's all, yeah
We're gonna feel ok
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight

Smokin', Smokin'
We're cookin' tonight, just keep on tokin'
Smokin', Smokin'
I feel alright, mamma I'm not jokin', yeah

Everyone's jumpin', dancin' to the boogie tonight
Clap your hands, move your feet
If you don't you know it won't seem right
We're gettin' off today
We'll pick you up and take you away
Get down tonight

We're gettin' off today
We'll pick you up take you away
Get down tonight, well alright

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

How you doin' out there? Ya ever seem to have one of those days
Where it just seems like everybody's gettin' on your case?
From your teacher all the way down to your best girlfriend? 

 

Well, ya know, I used to have 'em just about all the time
But I found a way to get out of 'em
Let me tell you about it!

 

Sitting in the classroom, thinking it's a drag
Listening to the teacher rap, just ain't my bag
The noon bells rings, you know that's my cue
I'm gonna meet the boys on floor number two!

 

Smokin' in the boys' room
Smokin' in the boys' room
Now, teacher, don't you fill me up with your rules
But everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school

[ExiledInIllinois]

Say say say
I remember when we used to rock in a project yard in Jersey
And little Georgie would make the firelight
As stolen cars passed through the night
And then we'd hit the corner store for roots, paper, and brew
My drink's my only remedy
For pain of losing family, but while I'm gone shorty
Everything's gonna be alright, everything's gonna be alright
Fugees come to the dance tonight, everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be alright
The gun man's in the house tonight
But everything's gonna be alright

No woman, no cry, no woman no cry
Hey little sister don't shed no tears
No woman no cry say say say

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line

 

Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow

And we're living here in Allentown

 

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay
Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved

So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coal
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child has a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our place

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be giving up today
And we're living here in Allentown

[SinceThe70s]

I was sittin' in a breakfast room in Allentown, Pennsylvania,
six o'clock in the morning, got up to early, it was a terrible mistake...
sittin' there face-to-face with a 75 cent glass of orange juice about as
big as my finger and a bowl of horribly foreshortened cornflakes,
and I said to myself: "This is the life!"...

[Gray Beard]

I should have known
You'd bid me farewell
There's a lesson to be learned from this
And I learned it very well
Now I know you're not the only starfish in the sea
If I never hear your name again
It's all the same to me
And I think,
It's gonna be alright
Yeah,
The worst is over now
The mornin' sun is shining 
Like a red rubber ball

 

You never care
For secrets I confide
For you I'm just an ornament
Something for your pride
Always running, never caring
That's the life you live
Stolen minutes of your time
Were all you had to give
And I think
It's gonna be alright
Yeah
The worst is over now
The mornin' sun is shining
Like a red rubber ball

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Denkst du vielleicht grad an mich
Dann singe ich ein Lied für dich
Von neunundneunzig Luftballons

Und, dass so was von so was kommt

Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt man für UFOs aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'Ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so wär
Dabei waren dort am Horizont
Nur neunundneunzig Luftballons

[row_33]

Way down, way down
In Alphabet Town
There's a deal going down today
There’s a deal going down in Alphabet Town
And the wolves come out to play

Now, they call him The Captain
He's such a bulletproof guy
He's been shot five times
But he’ll never say die

He wears a stone in his left ear
He wears a skull in his tie
You might think of taking him
But you better not try
 

[WhoTom]

Uptown got its hustlers
The Bowery got its bums
42nd street got big Jim walker
He's a pool shootin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
But he stronger than a country hoss
And when the bad folks all get together at night
You know they all call big Jim boss, just because

And they say

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Uptown girl
She's been living in her uptown world
I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
I bet her mama never told her why

 

I'm gonna try for an uptown girl
She's been living in her white bread world
As long as anyone with hot blood can
And now she's looking for a downtown man

That's what I am

 

And when she knows
What she wants from her time
And when she wakes up
And makes up her mind

[Gray Beard]

Well, I'm hot blooded, check it and see
I got a fever of a hundred and three
Come on baby, do you do more than dance?
I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded

 

You don't have to read my mind, to know what I have in mind
Honey you oughta know
Now you move so fine, let me lay it on the line
I wanna know what you're doin' after the show

 

Now it's up to you, we can make a secret rendezvous
Just me and you, I'll show you lovin' like you never knew

 

[PastaJoe]

Whenever I'm with him
Something inside starts to burning
And I'm filled with desire

 

Could it be the devil in me
Or is this the way love's supposed to be?

 

It's like a heat wave
Burning in my heart
Can't keep from crying
It's tearing me apart

[Gray Beard]

I'm ridin' in your car
You turn on the radio
You're pullin' me close
I just say no
I say I don't like it
But you know I'm a liar
'Cause when we kiss, ooh
Fire

 

Late at night
You're takin' me home
You say you want to stay 
I say I want to be alone
I say I don't love you
But you know I'm a liar
'Cause when we kiss, ooh
Fire

 

You had a hold on me right from the start
A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart
My nerves all jumpin', actin' like a fool
Well, your kisses they burn, but my heart stays cool

 

[WhoTom]

Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire

 

I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire

 

The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the fire went wild

 

I fell into a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire
The ring of fire

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Alright
Now dig this, baby

 

You don't care for me
I don't care about that
You got a new fool, ha!
I like it like that
I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire

Let me stand next to your fire (Hey! Let me stand next to your fire)
Let me stand next to your fire (Whoa, let me stand baby)
Let me stand next to your fire (Let me stand)
Let me stand next to your fire (Yeah baby)

Listen here, baby
And stop acting so crazy
You say your mamma ain't home
It ain't my concern
Just don’t play with me and you won’t get burned
I have only an itching desire
Let me stand next to your fire

[PastaJoe]

Ooh, you're givin' me the fever tonight
I don't want to give in
I'd be playin' with fire
You forget, I've seen you work before
Take 'em straight to the top
Leave 'em cryin' for more
I've seen you burn 'em before

 

Fire and ice
You come on like a flame
Then you turn a cold shoulder
Fire and ice
I want to give you my love
But you'll just take a little piece of my heart

 

You'll just tear it apart

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Well I don't know where they come from
But they sure do come
I hope they comin' for me
And I don't know how they do it but they sure do it good
I hope they doin' it for free

They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever

 

The first time that I got it 
I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next door
I went and see the Dr. and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more

 

They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever

[WhoTom]

Down with disease
Three weeks in my bed
Trying to stop these demons that keep dancing in my head

 

Down with disease
Up before the dawn
A thousand barefoot children outside dancing on my lawn

 

And I keep

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful but now I'm on my way
But when I think it's time to leave it all behind
I try to find a way but there's nothing I can say to make it stop

 

[Gray Beard]

I looked outside my window and what do you think I saw?
The strangest sight I've ever seen you'll never guess just what I mean,
I can't believe it myself 

I saw 2 Buffalos, 2 Buffalos,
Buffalos on my lawn,
Romping all around and stomping on the ground
And all of my grass was gone.

I watched them for a while and what do you think I saw?
The strangest sight I've ever seen you'll never guess just what I mean
I still can't believe it myself!

I saw 4 Buffalos, 4 Buffalos Buffalos on my lawn,
Romping all around and Stomping on the Ground
And all of my grass was gone.

Then I began to worry, for what was I supposed to do?
The strangest sight I've ever seen, I guess you've guessed just what I mean.
Though I can't believe it myself
I saw 8 Buffalos, 8 Buffalos, 
Buffalos on my lawn
Romping all around and stomping on the ground and
All of my grass was gone.

Pretty soon there were 16 Buffalos, 16 Buffalos
Buffalos coming in the door
Romping all around and stomping on the ground
There were Buffalos by the score

Looked again and there's 32 Buffalos, 32 Buffalos
Buffalos sliding down the stairs
Romping all around and stomping on the ground
There were buffalos jumping on the chairs.

Pretty soon there were 64 Buffalos, 64 Buffalos
Buffalos running in my room
Romping all around and stomping on the ground
Somebody better get a broom

1 Hundred and 28 Buffalos
Man that's enough of those Buffalos, jumping in my bed
Romping all around and stomping on the ground
So this is what I said;

You better get out of here Buffalos
Get outta here Buffalos
Buffalos get outta my bed
You've been jumping on things and busting all the springs
And I'm gonna shoot you dead

I looked out of my window and what do you think I saw
The nicest sight I've ever seen
I guess you know just what I mean
I still can't believe it myself
I saw No Buffalos, No Buffalos
Buffalos on my lawn
Not romping all around or stomping on the ground
But all of my grass was gone.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Walkin' in the park just the other day, baby
What do you what do you think I saw?
Crowds of people sittin' on the grass with flowers in their hair said
Hey Boy do you want to score?
And you know how it is
I really don't know what time it was oh, oh
So I asked them if I could stay awhile

[WhoTom]

As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care (care about time)
If so I can't imagine why (no, no)
We've all got time enough to cry

 

[Gray Beard]

Time has come today 
Young hearts can go their way 
Can't put it off another day 
I don't care what others say 
They say we don't listen anyway 
Time has come today
(Hey) 

 

Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey) 
I have no place to stay (Hey) 
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey) 
My love has flown away (Hey) 
My tears have come and gone (Hey) 
Oh my Lord, I have to roam (Hey) 
I have no home (Hey) 
I have no home (Hey) 

 

Now the time has come (Time) 
There's no place to run (Time) 
I might get burned up by the sun (Time) 
But I had my fun (Time) 
I've been loved and put aside (Time) 
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time) 
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time) 

 

[SinceThe70s]

Wake up, got another day to get through now 
Got another man to see 
Got to call him on the telephone 
Got to find a piece of paper

 

Sit down, got another letter to write 
Think I'll got to get the letter just right 
There's a ringing on the telephone 
Oh no, got to write a little later 
No such day as tomorrow, only one two three go!

 

Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head 

[WhoTom]

I'm gonna write a little letter
Gonna mail it to my local DJ
It's a rockin' rhythm record
I want my jockey to play
Roll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today

 

You know, my temperature's risin'
And the jukebox blows a fuse
My heart's beatin' rhythm
And my soul keeps on singin' the blues
Roll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

As soon as you are able, woman I am willing
To make the break that we are on the brink of
My cup is on the table, my love is spilling
Waiting here for you to take and drink of

So if you're tired of the same old story, 
Oh, turn some pages
I will be here when you are ready
To roll with the changes, yeah, yeah

[Gray Beard]

In the mornin' you go gunnin' for the man who stole your water
And you fire till he is done in but they catch you at the border
And the mourners are all singin' as they drag you by your feet
But the hangman isn't hangin' and they put you on the street

 

You go back, Jack, do it again, wheels turinin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again

 

When you know she's no high climber then you find your only friend
In a room with your two timer, and you're sure you're near the end
Then you love a little wild one, and she brings you only sorrow
All the time you know she's smilin'; you'll be on your knees tomorrow

 

You go back, Jack, do it again, wheels turinin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again

 

Now you swear and kick and beg us that you're not a gamblin' man;
Then you find you're back in Vegas with a handle in your hand
Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able
In the land of milk and honey you must put them on the table

You go back, Jack, do it again, wheels turinin' 'round and 'round
You go back, Jack, do it again

[WhoTom]

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at the morning driving rain
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's a gas, gas, gas

 

 

[SinceThe70s]

Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye
Sell your soul just to buy buy buy
Beggin' a dollar, stealin' a dime
Come on can't you see that I
I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

[Gray Beard]

Money money money money, money 

 

Some people got to have it
Some people really need it
Listen to me why'all, do things, do things, do bad things with it
You want to do things, do things, do things, good things with it
Talk about cash money, money
Talk about cash money- dollar bills, why'all

 

For the love of money
People will steal from their mother
For the love of money
People will rob their own brother

For the love of money
People can't even walk the street
Because they never know who in the world they're gonna beat
For that lean, mean, mean green
Almighty dollar, money

 

For the love of money
People will lie, Lord, they will cheat
For the love of money
People don't care who they hurt or beat
For the love of money
A woman will sell her precious body
For a small piece of paper it carries a lot of weight
Call it lean, mean, mean green

Almighty dollar