Just Enough Education To Perform lyrics

So it started with the immigration information bore
You gotta know
Gambling floor, then to the
S T U D I O 54
You gotta go

Now we're leaving L A S Vegas two times
Crazy horse too spent us dry
Vietnam vet taxi ride
L A S Vegas

So parted at the ground floor, front door, car hire room for four
We gotta go
Rambling slow then to the LA marquis all the imitation folk
We gotta go.

Wish I could lie in the sun
The same things as anyone
Wish I could lie down there
With my feet, high in the air

I'd have a drink in my hand
Read words from a newspaper stand
Wish I could lie in the sun
Wish I could fly like everyone

Same things as anyone
Same things as anyone

But you burn me up you paint my skin
In bad designs that ain't even in

My skin's crawling up the wall

You line them up
Look at your shoes
You hang names on your wall
Then you shoot them all

You fly around in planes
That bring you down
To meet me who loves you, like
Me crashing to the ground

Are you so lonely
Don't even know me
But you'd like to stone me

Mr Writer, why don't you tell it like it is
Why don't you tell it like it really is
Before you go on home

I used to treat you right

I'd like to know what it's all about
What's out there
Am I gonna get old and laugh
About something
Will I get me a boy or a girl
Or not either
Will I get what I want from this world
I'm a day dreamer

Then I watch the old couple dance
Step on my old size nines and I'll take you 'round

I'd like to know what you're all about
What's up there
Are you gonna get old and laugh
Without a care

San Francisco Bay
Past pier thirty nine
Early p.m.
Can't remember what time
Got the waiting cab
Stopped at the red light
Address, unsure of
But it turned out just right

It started straight off
"Coming here is hell"
That's his first words
We asked what he meant
He said " where ya' from"
We told him our lot
"When ya' take a holiday
Is this what you want"

So have a nice day
Have a nice day

You asked me so where have you been
Let me think now let me see
I stood once where Hitlers feet
had stood when he made his speech
In Nuremburg in thirty eight
When he tried to build the perfect race
He said black man ain't gonna run
Alongside our perfect sons

There was Dallas too, the library
The place they ended Kennedy
We stood where Oswald took his shot
In my opinion there's a bigger plot

I'd just like to say
I remember the day
I first woke with you

Some days I have to admit
The way we happened to meet
Was strange 'cos it was new

Not drinking no more
Not drinking no less
Not sleeping at all
Never in the same bed
Undressed at the bar
Engraved bench in the park
We'd watch them fly Sundays

Fly birds round my head again
Laughed at the words you said
I pushed the boat back to you

I drive a truck, it carries money
And everyday, I dream up my fantasies
Yesterday, I bought my beach house
A little place just off the coast of France
Everyday, I think of money
Everyday, I think of running
I love my truck, I love my family
Stacked in the back, the good life surrounds me
Could tie my right hand man
And put him some place
Then I'd ditch the truck
And buy a new face

Maybe one thing
Maybe something
Maybe nothing
All I know is friend
It's nothing new

Maybe it's me
What is to be
Maybe lucky
All I ask is where
We're s'posed to be

I give a lot
I take a lot
It's nothing new to me

Maybe you've grown
Am I so wrong
How long's too long
All I want is us to be happy

Maybe moving
Always proving
Am I losing
All that's meant to be
That's meant to be

Ya hear a lot

Seven day holiday in the rain, it's June
At the time we were plain old me and you
It didn't matter that the sky came down
I never really felt like going out
Seven days watching rain inside with you

Saturday watched the game you fried our food
Nothing busy nothing easy but something you
It didn't matter that we couldn't eat out
My ship sank and my shoes were damp

Standing on a rooftop
Trying to clear my mind
I only came up to look
But now there's such a crowd

I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
And they cry out
They say jump and I say how high

I feel my body blowing
From every side to side
My mind can't help but knowing...
What it feels like to fly

I don't feel that bad
Can't help but laugh
But they cry out
They say jump and I say how high

Ever seen a blind man cross the road
trying to make the other side
Ever seen a young girl growing old
trying to make herself a bride

So what becomes of you my love
When they have finally stripped you of
The handbags and the gladrags
That your poor old Grandad had to sweat to buy you

Once I was a young man
and all I thought I had to do was smile
Well you are still a young girl

Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals are trapped
And have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's ok to eat fish
Cause they haven't any feelings

Something in the way ah ahhh
Something in the way yeah ah ahh
Something in the way ah ahh
Something in the way yeah ah ahh
Something in the way mmm

Old sailor walks my way
Sipped his pint and told me about his day
Hey Hey
Said 'son times have changed
Nothing ever seems to stay the same'
Hey Hey
You got your wide screen sets, dead cert bets,
Wine and women, song and dance, alway practice safe sex
Think they call it fast food
High percent booze
Porta bubble phones got your hair like Keith Moon

Summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich and your mother's good lookin'
So hush little baby and don't you cry.

One of these mornings your gonna wind up singing
Your gonna spread your wings and reach for the sky
But until that mornin' your gonna wind up singin'
And mommy and daddy are standin' by.

The tax man's taken all my dough
And left me in my stately home
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
I can't even sail my yacht
He's taken everything I've got
All I've got's this sunny afternoon

Oh save me, save me, save me from this squeeze
I gotta big fat mama trying to break me
And I love to live so pleasantly
Live this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In the summertime

You're not in business to be popular
It's become so much about personality
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all arts form
The most immediate way in which a human being
Can share with another the sense of what appears to be unity
First of all I choose the great roles
And if none of these come
I choose the ones that pay the rent
It was like unfinished business in my life

September seventeen
For a girl I know it's Mother's Day
Her son has gone alee
And that's where he will stay
Wind on the weathervane
Tearing blue eyes sailor-mean
As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green
His tiny knotted heart
Well, I guess it never worked too good
The timber tore apart
And the water gorged the wood
You can hear her whispered prayer

It sickens me to see the photograph in front of me
Carnation couloured pink stand aside and take a drink
Night club another scene 31st its halloween
Slave to each new trend up town junkies push again
The lovers and the wannabe's they don't know how
The radio's and the tv they don't know how
The newspaper story reads they don't know how
Cheap girl magazine they don't know how

Russell said take what you need
He could count large amounts on his fingers
Even with false teeth
Tie me up and tie me down
Tie me up and tie me down
Russell's bleeding from his knees
He was shot three times
But he claims he was shot thirteen
Tie me up and shoot me down
Tie me up and shoot me down
Ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba
Ba ba ba ba etc
Russell's live on the BBC

She came from Providence
The one in Rhode Island
Where the old world shadows
Hang heavy in the air
She packed her hopes and dreams like a refugee
Just as her father came across the sea
She heard about a place people were smilling
They spoke about the red mans way
And how they loved the land
And they came from everywhere to the Great Divide
Seeking a place to stay or a place to hide

Long as I remember
The rain been coming down
Clouds of mystery falling
Confusion on the ground
Good men through the ages
Trying to find a sun
And I wonder, still I wonder
Who'll stop the rain
I went down Virginia
Seeking shelter from the storm
Caught up in the fable
I watched the tower grow
About your plans for new year
Wrapped in golden chains
And I wonder still I wonder

She slept on an iron bed lived through the war for what
Butterflies round the fire smiled
Smiled until she's robbed of all she's got

I heard the innocent got shot today
Grandma died on poppy day
I heard the dress downed got turned away
All died, died on poppy day

Fancy dress in a dress down town
Happy halloween
Door breaks open lost and walked in
Killing the happy scene

Going down la la la
Going down la la la la la
I used to buy my sweets and candy treats at
Raymond's shop
I used to pass there everyday
The time I as come to buy a gun and hold up
Raymond's shop
It looks like I will be going away
Going down la la la
Going down la la la la la
It's been two years my minds not clear
I stop at Raymond's shop
It's boarded up he's gone away

I'm gonna buy myself a small plane
I'm gonna crash it on the south line
I'm gonna sleep down by his quarters
I'd like to have sex with his daughters

I'm gonna buy myself a small plane
I'm gonna crash it on the south line
Yeah its big enough for me

I'm just another great truck driver
He's just another white house skiver
Get a gun ready your aircraft
Big man got ready to broadcast

I'm looking good Got my shoulders back
A few more drinks I'm up to dance
I get the eye as I lift my glass
The first time in six months
She looks again I start to shake
My shoulders twitching
I'm on my way
I glance behind me for safety sake
to see a clock the size of a plane
The night is young more fish in the sea
Who's to say she wasn't looking at me
I sink my head back in to my glass

That's my home to me
That's my home to me
Please don't take it from me
Please don't take it from me
From Me
Electric lights blow my stare
I'm crawling for a space to breath
Why should my home concern your needs
Please don't take it from me
A baby chair
A rocking horse
A nervous wreck
A memory loss
And sleeping pills
Ease the pain
I'm coming back
I'm back again again

You gotta lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinnin'
You gotta lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
You just wanna be on the side that's winnin'
You say I let you down, you know it's not like that
If you're so hurt why then don't you show it
You say you lost your faith, but that's not where it's at