Jumpin' The Gun

Heaven blesses those who wait,
patience is a virtue, son
Keep your toe on the line,
keep your foot on the brake
No sense jumpin' the gun

But girl I'm tired of waitin',
you know life's too short
Lemme kiss ya 'til the night is done
Ain't no doubt about it, you're my favourite sport,
God I wanna jump the gun

[Chorus:]
Feel like jumpin' the gun,
tonight I'm gonna jump the gun
No crime in havin' some fun,
how about jumpin' the gun

[Chorus]

Now they say it doesn't matter if ya win or lose
Only matters how ya play the game
Well, but let me tell ya baby, if I had to choose
Gotta win ya now or go insane

[Chorus]

Willya hold me like a trophy,
willya burn up the track
Willya love me when the title's won
Blow away the competition
baby, never look back, honey willya jump the gun

Gonna hold ya like a trophy,
gonna burn up the track
Gonna love ya when the title's won
They'll be eatin' up the dust
baby, never look back
Tonight I'm gonna jump

Better get ready,
better get set girl -
this time we're jumpin' the gun

Ya think we're goin' too fast, ain't seen nothin' yet girl
This time we're jumpin' the gun

Ready take your mark, ooh I just can't wait -
this time we're jumpin' the gun

Ya gotta break a couple rules if ya wanna break the tape
This time we're jumpin' the gun

[Chorus]

Cheatin' In Your Dreams

You see me now as large as life,
but underneath you knew all too well
The hollow shell, no spark of life
Where once upon a time there beat a heart
For you and you knew it from the start,
and you went and blew it all away

And you knew how, oh you knew best
The strings to pull and buttons to press
To wind me up and make me shake,
you controlling every move I made

I couldn't see through it, all the pain,
and you put me through it
Over and over again,
just tell me over and over and over

[Chorus:]
How could you say there was no other,
why is it nothing's what it seems
You told me I'm your greatest lover,
do you even know what that word means
Your lovin' is coolin', baby who ya think you're foolin'
'Cos when I woke up I caught you cheatin' in your dreams
When I woke up I caught you cheatin' in your dreams

Stop it! Stop it! Don't you say a word
I feel my hands around her neck and everything went blurred
Broken, broken, she slipped from out my hands

She lay so still and lifeless, I cried baby, baby, baby

[Chorus]

(Cheatin', cheatin', cheatin' in your dreams)
(Cheatin', cheatin', cheatin' in your dreams)

It was my dumb luck, I just came unstuck
My whole world shook, I'd had about enough
When I woke up, I caught you cheatin' in your dreams

(Cheatin', cheatin', cheatin' in your dreams)
[Repeats out]

Don't Leave Your Mark On Me

Under your protective wing I walked into the night
And a thousand angry demons up and took flight
And I went running through the fields with the fever in my veins
And the rain came crashing down and tried to clear my name
Above my head, all in red, I could see you bearing down on me
You said you're not running out, no you're leaving now
I will find you, there is no way out
I'll keep tracking you down in the still of this night
Forever, mine forever

[Chorus:]
Don't leave your mark on me, I have to reply
I'm not staying, no, and I'm not just killing time
Don't leave your mark on me, I have to reply,
I'm not staying, no
I'm not staying, no

Mistress of the darkness, accomplice of the night
A shadow in the doorway beckons me inside
And something led the way though I could not see its face
And a voice from deep inside me screamed to get out of this place
Above my head, all was said as the jailor turned the key on me
He said you're not running out, no you're not leaving now
There ain't no way, there is no no way

[Chorus]

This nightmare never ends, memories of absent friends
Masked illusions stare at me, point the finger silently
Stand accused as the jury scares, there's a ghost in here somewhere
There's a ghost in here somewhere

[Chorus]
I'm not staying, no

Oh this nightmare really never ends,
this is memories of absent friends

(don't leave your mark on me)

Oh this nightmare really never ends,
there's a ghost in here somewhere

(don't leave your mark on me)

[Repeats out]

Sailor To A Siren

Long distance callin' in the middle of a rainy night
So much static, hardly knew your voice
An' you've been cryin', want me to love you like I did before
Girl when it comes to you, you know I've got no choice

You put a storm inside me, I wanna head for a safer harbor
They all tell me I should give you up, but no man coulda tried any harder
Feels like an odyssey that's never gonna reach an end
Every time I hear you callin' me, just wanna feel you in my arms again

[Chorus:]
Like a sailor to a siren, like a moth to a flame
I know your love might be the death for me, but I run to you just the same
Like a sailor to a siren, nothing's gonna keep us apart
Crashin' over the wreckage of all the sailor's broken hearts

Musta met you when we were livin' in another time
Had nothin' but the jealous gods to point our way
When men were sailors and a woman was a rocky shore
Wailin' like a siren leadin' him astray

I got another woman and I know you got another man
They all tell me I should give you up, but I don't think that any mortal can
Feels like an odyssey that's never gonna reach an end
Every time I hear you callin' to me, just wanna feel you in my arms again

[Chorus]

Gonna abandon ship, steal you from the cliff
Take you to a place where the gods can't find us no more
Let the sailors listen to the sirens if they dare
Gonna be dancin' on the water, drownin' in your yellow hair

[Chorus]

Execution Day

I stare in the mirror
My eyes refuse to blink
Sympathy for me
Hell I can't even think
Send for the iceman, my temperature is startin' to rise
I've heard it before, I know the truth from the lies

Is it any wonder, heaven's racked with thunder
and all of my dreams go under
like the fallin' rain

Execution Day

Voices like locusts keep smothering me
Twistin' and turnin' my senses like a cyclone at sea
Don't touch me now
Won't let you crucify me
You ain't no damn jury
You can't pass sentence on me

Is it any wonder, heaven's racked with thunder
and all of my dreams go under
like the fallin' rain

Execution Day
Execution Day
Execution Day
Execution Day

Whose blood on whose hand
Where's the promsised they preached for this land
Standin' with their bibles clutched in their hand
Whose blood on whose hand
Whose blood on whose hand

[Instrumental bridge]

Father my hand's are shakin'
I see a light that's breakin'
Show me a way to set my soul free
I hope it rains on me
Let it rain on me

Execution Day
Execution Day
Execution Day

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Blind Before I Stop (1986)



Execution Day
Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries
Getting Away With Murder
One More Kiss (Night Of The Soft Parade)
Blind Before I Stop
Burning Down
Standing On The Outside
Masculine
A Man And A Woman
Special Girl
Rock 'N' Roll Hero

Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries

[Chorus:]
Talking about Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries
Soldiers of fotune by some other name
I'm talking about Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries
Money is power
Power is Fame

Everything you pay to hear
Just listen
Everything to catch your ear
Just listen
Whatever it takes they're ready to sell
Anything and everything they do it themselves

[Chorus]

It starts with a game
See how they play
'Till all of the laughter has faded away
It's not for the song
It's not for the love
It's just for the gold
And there's never enough
Never enough

[Chorus]

It's not for the song
It's not for the love
It's just for the gold
And there's never enough
Never enough

[Chorus]

Getting Away With Murder

She thought she had the only key
She thought you only opened up to her, well you see
I don't know why you call it love

She though she was the brightest light
But someone else was lighting up your life, what I think
I don't know why you call it love

I'm not suspicious, no not me
But I'm not blind and I'd have to not to see

[Chorus:]
Gettin' away with murder
You can love a girl and hurt her
That's gettin' away with, gettin' away with murder
You can tell a girl you love her
While you're working on another
That's gettin' away with, gettin' away with murder

You have had to love and run
Two in the hand has left you holdin' none, and I don't
I don't know how you call it love, no, no
You're not demanding, no not you
You're understanding
You do what you want to

She thought she was the brightest light
But someone else was lighting up your life, what I think
I don't know why you call it love

I'm not suspicious, no not me
But I'm not blind and I'd have to not to see

[Chorus]

You said she was the only one
But you were cheating all along
There ought to be a law for what you've done

I've got to save you from yourself
I've got to stop you hurtin' someone else

[Chorus x2]

One More Kiss (Night Of The Soft Parade)

[Part One]

At sunset you hear the soft parade is coming
The cars and the beast behind all start humming
And ooh you got a cool machine
So let's get it runnin'
We'll break the silence of the night
And you know they're gonna hear us comin'

We always see them whisper
We know they're gonna talk
They fantsise the mysteries
'bout the night and the dark

So baby one more kiss
Baby one more kiss
We never have to say goodbye
And baby one more kiss
Babay one more kiss
It brings a little luck to the night

Artists they got their easels
They're ready on the mark
Gonna try and take the pictures of the dust
and the gold in the sparks
And ooh you got a cool machine
Baby let's get it runnin'
You never looked so good before
and your time it's finally comin'

'Cause our home is the wind
We're the gods of the mornin'
Champions of the night
when the engines are runnin'

So just one more kiss
Baby one more kiss
Never wanna see you cry
And baby one more kiss
Baby one more kiss
It brings a little luck to the night
Oh one more kiss
Yes just one more kiss
We never have to say goodbye

[Part Two]

Ready
Ready to Roll
Ready
Ready to Roll
Ready
Ready to Roll
Ready
Ready to Roll
Ready

Under my foot gonna hit it down
Take this stance before the crowd
Sleepin' city urban fall
Summer's sadness time to answer the call

Cool machine
Get it runnin'
Ready to roll

Soft hands around my neck
One more kiss then time to connect
Leave this child leave me all alone
This one's mine and I'm takin' it home

Ready Ready
Ready to Roll
This one's mine and I'm takin' it home

[Part Three]

Now beind closed walls
New histories start to rise
Of the soft parade
and the heroes where they lie
And ooh you've got a cool machine
So baby let's get it runnin'
You never looked so good before
and you know your time it's finally comin'

'Cause our home is the wind
We're the gods of the mornin'
Champions of the night
when the engines are runnin'

One more kiss
One more kiss
One more kiss
One more kiss
One more kiss
One more kiss
It brings a little luck
Brings a little luck to the night

Ooh one more kiss
One more kiss
Baby one more kiss
We never have to say goodbye
And ooh you've got a cool machine
Baby let's get it runnin...

Blind Before I Stop

[Chorus:]
And I'll go blind before I stop
They're gonna have to come along and lock me up
And I'll go blind before I stop
'Cause this boy Mama just- Wanna rock

There's a two ton fireball burnin' through the headphones
Cuttin' up my heart, makin' ashes of my soul
A lighting bolt petition, tonight I'm gonna sign
Trouble out my window and I'm gonna find it

[Bridge:]
Now I'm feelin' the fever
Takin' in the heat
Bouncin' to the boogie
Hittin' with the beat
Wrapped in the rhythm
Dancin' 'till we drop

[Chorus]

Moonlite madness masquerade
Got my invitation baby time to play
Rip of my headphones
Shove my arm into the socket
Sound comes rushing through me
like an intravenous rocket

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

Autobahn:

Doin' it in the market
Doin' it in the mall
Doin' it in the bushes
and the high school hall

Doin' it in the alley
Doin' it for free
Now they're doin' it baby
on MTV

Doin' it in the backseat
Doin' it on the beach
Doin' it in the grandstand
just dancin' on the seats

Doin' it in the movies
Doin' on the train Doin' it mile high
in a big jet plane

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

Burning Down

If it takes them so long
So long to say yes
Why don't they just say no

We don't need anyone
To be put to the test
Why don't they let us be

Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be free

We needed a plan
We needed defences
They couldn't raise a smile

As the world looked down
They raided our senses
There can be no reconcile

Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be free

Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down

There was a time in our life
Was taken for granted
It'll never come again
Our flower is dead
The seed is unplanted
They put it all to the flame

Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down

Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be
Livin' for the right
Livin' for the right to be free

Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down
Burnin' Down