This Is Shangri-La


I've been around the world, and I wrote a million songs
It's all a bore to me
I've slept in the gutter and I've lied with the dogs
It never bothered me
Said the sherrif he come to, with his little boys in blue
They been looking for me, child
But with my crystal-sheen guitar I'm another ego star
So give it to me


Get me to the stage - it brings me home again
This is Shangri-La.
I'm tripping on it now - it brings me home again
This is Shangri-La


I look bad in shorts, most of us do
Don't let that bother me
I'm the football who is who, and I don't believe in smack
So don't you die on me
Don't you die on me
Cause love is all good people need
And music sets the sick ones free
Without love no one grows, nothing gonna ever sing


Because if this Is Shangri-La, honey
And you have gathered for the feast
My bread is your body, the wine is blood child
The wine is blood babe
The wine is


Give it to me!


Get me to the stage - it brings me home again
This is Shangri-La
I'm tripping on it now - it brings me home again
This is Shangri-La
Take me to the stage - it brings me home again
I'm tripping on it now - it brings me home again
Oh, yeaaa...

Stardog Champion


San Francisco, where the flowers bloom in spring
I said, fade to winter - and see what disease brings
Augustino, with his eyes once a shining sea
I said he's half a shadow - God don't let that be me
I'm a Stardog Champion


West Virginia, that's where my father lies
He was a wartime hero, the kind that money buys
It's a diamond bracelet, for my mommy's memory
That's all she wrote boy - that's all she wrote for me


I'm a Stardog Champion
I'm a Stardog
That's right


And the children
They used to sing of love
With Grace
From the Lord above
I said the children they used to sing out loud
Sing it loud

Holy Roller


Oooh baby gotta put me back together


I need your smooth dog lovin' oh, yeah
And so I'm sending off the little monster
Gonna turn it up inside your head


Do you believe?
Holy Roller
Like a holy roller
Like a holy roller
In my head


I said you loin queen parader
I'm gonna get you down on all fours
And then you gotta show me what you're made of - little darling
I'll meet you child - by the backdoor babe


Like a holy roller
Like a holy roller
To my head


The love-bone breakdown.


That's right. All right you people. See I, see I got somethin' to say to you people out there. You gotta listen to me people, you gotta listen to me. Yeeeeeah, the lord's comin' down people. Yeeeeeah he's gonna take ya whole, he's gonna eat ya whole people. Like a big grizzly bahr comin' out of the closet and eat ya whole. Ya see the lord's gonna come and get ya people and ya gotta beware because the Mother Love Bone camp knows what to do about it. Ya see I been around I seen a lotta long haired freaks in my day, but those boys in Mother Love Bone I'll tell ya they know what's right for ya. Ya know they're like Malt-O-Meal for ya, they're good for ya. They're like soup, they're like nothing bad, let me tell ya that much. I tell ya people, the lord's comin', and if you don't believe, and if you don't believe in what I can convey to ya, I tell ya people: Love rock awaits ya people. Yeeeah lo and behold, lo and behold...


Holy Roller
Like a holy roller
To my head

Bone China


In the morning
She gone crazy


With a painted picture
Her father's story


Bone China - my friends
Bone China - let the summer come again


She be dancing by the moonlit sky
I'm talkin' to you
She be drinking all my early times
She be movin' like a butterfly
I'm just waiting on that dream - because the fast ones always ride for free


Ugly morning - she's a Jezebel's daughter
She's like a Brunnhilda
A child of the water


Bone China - my friends
Bone China - let the summer come again


She be dancing in the moonlit sky
She be moving like a butterfly
She be shaking like a girl from shine
She be moving like 'a, high fallotin(?), like a


I'm just waiting on that dream - cause the fast one
The fast ones - always ride for free

Come Bite The Apple


How did I get here?
What song did I sing?
And just what have I done
To deserve such a thing?


You say - I've heard all that before
So won't you give it up babe - stop using me
You say - I've heard all that before
So bring me an apple - I'm cryin'
I been persecuted - like a lying man


The spirit provides me
[?]
The spirit gives but it also can take away


You say - I've heard all that before
So won't you give it up babe - just stop using me boy
You say - I've heard all that before


So come bite the apple
I'm run down
Like Soddom to Gammorah, all dead now
So please stop to laugh, and pity me
My soul means well, but I'm sorry
My skin it is withered and I'm nervous, yes I am
My future was in my hands till I washed it all away
Washed it all away


Said, get along - little sister
Heard you're doin' well
Get along little sister
Doin' well

StarGazer


I'm crazy, crazy - I'm the boy
Who defies all, yeah
Lift me higher, than anyone
And hold me arms


Woman, woman, she outta mind
And simply out of soul
She gets me higher than anyone
And I miss her so
So do it
I miss her so


Stargazer you call the shots
And I'll take all
Star you kick with me - oh please
Stargazer you call the shots
I take all
Stargazer won't you kick with me
Oh please


I dance a dancer - I'm all wrong
She thinks she's young and wise
But oh, no - no
She dance around my - my dirty little cable car
And fix me up with a guy - why?
C'mon
Why'd you do this to me, babe?


[Chorus]
Stargazer you cry in blue
Anything I've ever seen
Ain't as good as you child
I'm not trying to push your feelings
But I know you hold me like butter in your hands
Cry for me and rub it in
Cry for the saviors and the prophet's son
Dream of me and Julie Ann
Oh xana come back again

HeartShine


Waste away my tears - babe I can't cry no more
No more, no less - My love


I said, my brother's drowning
Like a star babe, like a slower suicide
Me I gave mine away


I give you my heartshine
Yes I do
I give to you my heartshine
Only for you


A sad hello to death, I'm a stubborn goat on trial No more, no less
I said time will tell, if love is gonna have the strength to push it
The strength to push my pain away


I give to you, I give to you my heartshine
I give to you my heartshine
I give you my heartshine
I give to you my...


Love flourishes
Love flourishes
You've gotta value love supreme
Love flourishes
Love flourishes

Captain Hi-Top


I am magnificent!


I'm the instigator of the me generation
The official seminator of the female population


Scoff at my rivals cause they ain't cool
And I re-wrote the bible, and I made my own rules


Captain Hi-Top the love commander
[?]
I'm the ego star forever after
Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister


I'm the hip-hop surgeon of the mindless eye
I said - Take me babe, in between your [?] thighs
And these stories of my image ain't up to par
I'll tell you what I'll do
I slid the beast to Farah, saying babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe
Baby, I'm a star


Captain Hi-Top the love commander
[?] I'm the ego star forever after
Captain Hi-Top the love commander
Hide your mom, control your sister

Man of Golden Words


Wanna show you something like
The joy inside my heart
Seems I've been living in the temple of the dog
Where would I live, if I were a man of golden words?
And would I live, at all?
Words and music, my only tools
Communication


And on her arrival, I will set free the birds
It's a pretty time of year, and the mountains sing out loud
Tell me, Mr. Golden Words, how's about the world?
Tell me can you tell at all?
Words and music, my only tools
Communication
Let's fall in love with music
The driving force in our living
The only international language
Divine glory, the expression
The knees bow, the tongue confesses
The lord of lords, the king of kings
The king of kings


Words and music - my only tools
Communication

Capricorn Sister


Stick it to me baby
My loving father I showed him no pain
Taste of Eucalyptus dances and shakes
Mother Love Bone - mama papa talkin' to me
Love breeds like rabbits I'm gonna set you free now
Tell me about your dream
Chartreuse regalia and purple pie petes
You dance Electra and night becomes day


Got my mama in the kitchen
She always bitchy bitchy bitchin
So I made my proclamation
To control my masturbation, babe


Mother Love Bone - mama papa talkin' to me, yeah
Love breeds like rabbits i'm gonna set you free now
Talk about your dream to me
Got my mama in the kitchen
She always bitchy bitchy bitchin
So I made my proclamation
To control my masturbation, babe


Burgundy baby
With your blue eyed soul
You play the hits and I'm on that roll
Capricorn sister
Freddie Mercury
Jupiter Child cry


Mother Love Bone - mama papa talkin to me, yeah
Love breeds like rabbits I'm gonna set you free now