Shinin' On lyrics

Time has come,
To start my search for tomorrow.
On and on,
There's just no end to the sorrow.
But I designed a way,
To see my life through pity.
I don't have too much to say,
And the tears won't let me be.

So,
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Carry me through the hard part.
Help me find a new start.
Carry me through the hard part.

Far too long,
I've thought of all the excuses.
Try to go on,

Lover, let's get it straight.
Somthin's passin' much too late,
To discover on down the line,
It's fallin' apart. I just might be gettin' ...

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O ... over you.
I'm gettin' o ... over you.

Oh, we really ...
Oh, we really ... oh, we really tried,
Oh, we really ...
Had that look in our eye.
Ain't it crazy ...
That I let you go.

Oh, I'm gonna tell you a story 'bout a little boy.
Oh, a sad little boy.
I'm talkin' 'bout Little Johnny Hooker.

Little Johnny Hooker was a sissy on the street all his life --
All his natural born life.
Until his daddy took him aside and said,
"Son, now here's your switchblade knife boy."

He said "get out in the street boy,
Cut yourself some meat boy.

Hey, Mr. Pretty Boy ...,
You sure been lookin' good. Yeah.
Said, Mr. Pretty Boy ...,
You lookin' like you should. Mmmmm ...
Until you took the bottle and turned it up,
You didn't want to quit 'til you drank up all of that stuff.
Now, Mr. Pretty Boy ...,
Now you don't look so good. No, noooo ...

Ahhhhhhh ... oh.
Mr. Pretty Boy ....

Sitting in the parlour,

Five million guys have tried to reduce her,
To another girl out in the street.
All those pretty eyes, have lied to seduce her,
But they come crawlin' back at her feet.

Too many times, I've seen them abuse her,
Just like the times I've been deceived.
The touch of her starlight makes me happy,
I can see her shinin' through in my dreams.

And I wake up cryin' ...
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Please me ...

We are winners and losers, bed fellow choosers,
Put here to pass by the times.
We are space-age sailors, all had our failures,
Now everybody gonna' shine.

Keep it shinin' on.
Keep it shinin' on.

See the fire within them burnin',
Touch the fire make me feel so fine.
Keep the fire within you livin'
Everybody gonna' shine, shine, shine.

Keep it shinin' on.

Everybody’s doin’ a brand new dance now.
Come on baby, do the loco-motion.
I know you’ll get to like it if you give it a chance now.
Come on baby, do the loco-motion.
My little baby sister can do it with ease,
It’s easier than learnin’ your abcs.
So, come on, come on, and do the loco-motion with me.

You’ve got to swing your hips now,
Oooo ...
Come on,

Don't really want to fall out of love,
And baby I need a lovin' shove,
To get back in, Lord, to get back in.
To get back in once again, baby.

Oooo, baby when times are good,
You know they couldn't get no better if they tried to.
But there's a question standing where I stood,
You know you act just like the person that's been lied to.

I'm destitute and loosin', all that I got.

I got too much booze in me, oh, and I've been smokin' a lot.

Sometimes I wish my memory, didn't serve me so good.

Maybe then I wouldn't think of the world, but you know that I would.

'Cause I'm ...

Destitute and loosin', all of my mind.

But I know I got to meet my maker children, at the end of the line.