BOA CONSTRICTOR


I spend my evenings alone talking to your picture, babe Love is
wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe My mother
should have murdered me What jury would convict her, babe for
love is wrapped around my heart like a boa constrictor, babe

BORN FOR LOVE


Hey, little cutie I was born for love
Can't count the chains I have worn for love
Killed three men and one unicorn for love
But I won't mind if you just take me home

Hey, little darling I was made for love
Got down on my knees and I prayed for love
Crawled from Don to Duke and I begged for love
But I won't mind if you just take me home

I know you feel lonely and misunderstood
But I'm yours for the asking for now or for good
If you want me to leave you just give me a shove
But you won't because I was born for love

Hey, little cutie I was born for love
Can't count the chains I have worn for love
Killed three men and one unicorn for love
But I won't mind if you just take me home

BORN ON A TRAIN

Some roads are only seen at night.
Ghost roads, nothing but neon signs.
But some nights the neon gas gets free-
Turns into walking dead like me.

And I've been makin' promises I know I'll never keep.
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep.
I have to go when the whistle blows-
The whistle knows my name.
Baby, I was born on a train.

I know that you were never young,
And I know you probably won't get old.
But honey, nobody's gonna hurt you anymore.
And nobody's gonna make you wanna die.

But I've been makin' promises I know I'll never keep.
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep.
I have to go when the whistle blows-
The whistle knows my name.
Baby, I was born on a train.

I'll go one cold and gray morning.
And you won't remember anything.
But some people don't believe in time.
And some of us don't believe in life.

But I've been makin' promises I know I'll never keep.
One of these days I'm gonna leave you in your sleep.
I have to go when the whistle blows-
The whistle knows my name.
Baby, I was born on a train...

Baby, I was born on a train...

BUSBY BERKELEY DREAMS

I should have forgotten you long ago
But you're in every song I know
Whining and pining is wrong and so
On and so forth, of course of course,
But no, you can't have a divorce

I haven't seen you in ages
But it's not as bleak as it seems
We still dance on whirling stages
In my Busby Berkeley dreams
The tears have stained all the pages
Of my True Romance magazines
We still dance in my outrageously beautiful
Busby Berkeley dreams

And now you want to leave me for good
I refuse to believe you could
You forget we're not made of wood
Well darling you may do your worst
Because you'll have to kill me first

Do you think it's dangerous
To have Busby Berkeley dreams?

CALIFORNIA GIRLS

See them on their big bright screen
tan and blonde and seventeen
Eating nonfood keeps them mean
but they're young forever
If they must grow up
they marry dukes and earls
I hate California girls

They ain't broke, so they put on airs,
the faux folks sans derrieres
They breathe coke and have affairs
with each passing rock star
They come on like squares
then get off like squirrels
I hate California girls

Looking down their perfect noses
at me and my kind
do they think we won't
well, never mind

Laughing through their perfect teeth
at everyone I know
do they think we wont
Get up an go?

So
I have planned my grand attacks
I will stand behind their backs
with my brand-new battle ax
Then they will they taste my wrath
They will hear me say
as the pavement whirls
"I hate California girls..."

CANDY

Candy, it's been really nice, but I've got to go
'Cause I can't be the part of your life you don't wanna
know

...and I can't keep lying all the time
And I know you'll find a better man
They're all too easy to find
And I'll just go away somewhere and slowly lose my mind

Candy, they called you a baby, they called you a whore
And I can't see the light at the end for you anymore

...and I can't keep lying all the time
And I know you'll find a better man
They're all too easy to find
And I'll just go away somewhere and slowly lose my mind

Candy, I can't be the man they want me to be
Maybe it was only with you that I could be me

...and I can't keep lying all the time
And I know you'll find a better man
They're all too easy to find
And I'll just go away somewhere and slowly lose my mind

COURTESANS

Well courtesans
Shed no tears
When you leave them high and dry
They just go on, they just go on
To the next guy

'Cause courtesans
Only want
Compensation for their time
A few kind words, a few kind words
They need not rhyme

A Aable coat, maybe a hat,
How I wish I could be like that

But courtesans
Are not like me
They won't take love very hard
Their hearts are free, their hearts are free
How avant garde

If no one loves them when they're old
They'll sit and count their chains of gold
You say you'll love them 'til they die
And they don't care if it's a lie

'Cause courtesans
Don't believe
In anybody but themselves
And Santa Claus, and Santa Claus
And his twelve elves

CROWD OF DRIFTERS


Sometimes the road is too long You meet all kinds of
people
Some of them cast no shadow They have no reflections
Take a look in your photobook I'm not there anymore

I was a traveling salesman
I got lost on the backroads
Fell in with a crowd of drifters.

Sometimes the sun is too bright And it burns you like
acid
You get to love driving at night The moon is so close you
can kiss it
I used to remember you smiling and waving
I don't think I can anymore

I was a traveling salesman
I got lost on the backroads
Fell in with a crowd of drifters.

We come, unnoticed, at sundown At the start of a blackout
We set bonfires all over town And it's over by morning
Sometimes we bring the rat and the wolf And sometimes the
worm

I was a traveling salesman
I got lost on the backroads
Fell in with a crowd of drifters.

DANCING IN YOUR EYES


The summer came and passed us by
We didn't care
We just let it die
But when we dance, just you and I
(C): When we walk hand in hand in the rain
When we're young and in love once again
We will dance in the autumn with the leaves in our hair
When I look I'll be dancing in your eyes
When I look I'll be dancing in your eyes
You've gone away over the sea
You will return
It's meant to be
Never regret your time with me. (C)

DEEP SEA DIVING SUIT

You didn't have to say that I'm no good, 'cause I know.
There's no point pointing pistols at me now, I'll just
go.
I never should have asked you to be kind, but I'm slow.

I'm sorry, but how can I get to you
Stuck in my fifty-pound lead boots,
Stuck in my deep sea diving suit?

I never thought you'd turn on me, 'cause you're my best
friend.
You say I never offered you a thing in the end.
And now you wouldn't trust me with a grain of sand.

I'm sorry, but how can I get to you
Stuck in my fifty-pound lead boots,
Stuck in my deep sea diving suit?