They say the devil's in the details
I know what they mean
I'm walking in the wasteland
With the Ghost in the Machine
There's a simulated sunset
Starlight in my eyes
The skies are filled with miracles
And half of them are lies

Are you real or not?
It's a fine line
Are you ready or not
For the light of day
Are you real or not?
These are strange times

You can try to please me
But it won't be easy
Stone walls surround me
I'm surprised you even found me
And you don't stand an outside chance
And you don't stand an outside chance
And you don't stand an outside chance
But you can try

Whatever you do, girl
You know you can't get through, girl
You bring me down
Hang me up
Or even hang around

And you don't stand an outside chance

I have learned that love can turn
Like the seasons
And I know you had to go
You've got your reasons
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
And I believe that love's light leaves in September
But Fall; and all I do is remember
Still I wish you would stay
Tell me why you are going away
It hurts me not knowing
How I have wronged you

Stars are hidden me
my lids I just can't keep on
going now you're mine

Skies are falling, you
are calling me and I will
fall behind you tell me
Where we're going to
see the rain softly falling
on my window pane

Don't know where
But I don't care
I will follow him
Until the stars grow dim

Until the wind has blown
away hey you tell me where

Well the wrong kind of people don't want you to change
They just want you to stay the same
They want to keep you in between
So hold that pose like a figurine
Figurine
Don't it make you want to scream?
Don't you get it, yet?
They think of you as a statuette
And the wrong kind of people don't want you to change
They just want you to stay the same
They're gonna ask you 'Where you been?

Who's the Tutsi?
Who's the Hutu?
Why'd you shoot Kabushemeye?
Wish you'd never left the rugo
Whatcha doing in Bujumbura?

Life is fragile, we are frail
Here today and gone tomorrow
We don't want to live in jail
Been to hell in Bujumbura
Sans Echecs and Sans Defaite
Killing in the streets
Why don't no one stop it?
Why don't no one speak?
Mr. Bhoutrous-Bhoutrous Ghali,

[Instrumental]

(Warren Zevon)
Jungle telephone
Ding a dong ding ding _____ with a red mud
Ching a chong ching ching
Gorilla go bang bang ____________ling ling
Gorilla go bang bang ____________ling ling
Great white hunter
He shoot gun gun
Country boy baboon
Him go run run
Gorilla go bang bang ____________ling ling
Gorilla go bang bang ____________ling ling
Get Back Gorilla!!!!!!

(Warren Zevon and P. Evans)
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me
Two years, I've been searchin' for her
Two years, she's been free
Well, I found her in a dance hall in Laredo
And she told me that she wanted only me
And I held her in my arms the way I used to
But when morning came she begged me to set her free
Oh, today I shot Ramona, Ma
She ain't gonna cheat on me

(Warren Zevon)
Oh Tule, it's on account of you that I've been weeping
Here behind my hand
It's lonesome in my heart's land, as the sands of the desert
Oh, tell me, why was it always you, who, through the changes
You, who always sang and played while the green vespers rang
In the heart of the hillside
It's a sad song we always seem to be singing to each other

(Warren Zevon)
I was born down in Corpus Christi
With a dram glass in my hand
When I was just 15, I got a job playing rhythm
With a Nashville Shaketown band
I've been playing the blues so long
I've been paying my dues so long
I've been traveling in the lightning
Traveling in the lightning
Traveling in the wind and the rain
I've been tryin' and tryin' to find the right place again . . . yeah

(Warren Zevon)
My baby's sweeter
Lord, she's sweeter than apple butter
My baby's sweeter
You know, she's sweeter than apple butter
She's lonely tonight
I just brought her over from Calcutta

(M. Jones, S. Jones, J. Jones, J. Thomas)
Now, your grandma's, and my grandma's,
sittin' by the fire
My grandma told your grandma,
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire."
Hey, now (hey now) Hey now, (hey now)
Iko-iko an dey (yeah)
Chakko mo fino, ah-nah-ney
Chakko mo fi-nah-ney
Now, your flag boy and my flag boy
Was sittin' by the fire
My flag boy told your flag boy
"I'm gonna set your flag on fire."

(Warren Zevon)
[Featured in the film "Midnight Cowboy"]
It wasn't the queen of diamonds that I drew first
Instead I got the ace of spades reversed
She quit me
She up and quit me, man-yeah
She quit me
She up and she quit me
It wasn't because I didn't treat her right-no
When dawn had drawn the curtains of the night
She quit me
She up and she quit me, man
She quit me
She up and quit me-yeah

(Warren Zevon)
If you's a hitchhikin' woman
You can thumb a ride with me . . yeah
If you's a hitchhikin' woman
You can thumb a ride with me, yes, yes, yeah
I just had my crankcase greased, mama
My natural motor won't give out on me
Hey, come on baby
I'm gonna ride you slow and easy
Any way to make it last . . .
yeah I'm gonna ride you slow and easy
Any way to make it last . . . yeah

(M. Cerf/K. Fowley)
I am wanted dead or alive
I'm wanted everywhere
I've got to survive
They say I am a violent man
Only trying to do the best I can
Dig it?
I am wanted dead or alive
Fifteen states I've got to survive
I am wanted dead or alive
I'm a new kind of man
I've got to survive
Running a long way
I am wanted dead or alive
I'm wanted everywhere
I've got to survive
Now all I'm trying to do