Sweet Papa Crimbo

We hear you're leaving, that's OK

I thought our little wild time had just begun

I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run

But if you have a change of heart

Rikki don't lose that number

You don't wanna call nobody else

Send it off in a letter to yourself

Rikki don't lose that number

It's the only one you own

You might use it if you feel better

When you get home

I have a friend in town, he's heard your name

We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row

We could stay inside and play games, I don't know

And you could have a change of heart

Rikki don't lose that number

You don't wanna call nobody else

Send it off in a letter to yourself

Rikki don't lose that number

It's the only one you own

You might use it if you feel better

When you get home

You tell yourself you're not my kind

But you don't even know your mind

And you could have a change of heart

Rikki don't lose that number

You don't wanna call nobody else

Send it off in a letter to yourself

Rikki don't lose that number

It's the only one you own

You might use it if you feel better

When you get home

Ladies and Gentlemen (You too RC)... The Call

Well they blew the horns

And the walls came down

They'd all been warned

And the walls came down

They juststood there laughing

They're not laughing anymore

The walls came down

Sanctuary fades

congregation splits

Nightly military raids

The congregation splits

It's a song of assassins

Ringin' in your ears

We got terrorist thinking

Playing on fears

Well they blew the horns

And the walls came down

They'd all been warned

But the walls came down

I do't think there are any Russians

And there ain't no Yanks

Just corporate criminals

playin' with tanks

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Here's to the babies in a brand new world

Here's to the beauty of the stars

Here's to the travellers on the open road

Here's to the dreamers in the bars

Here's to the teachers in the crowded rooms

Here's to the workers in the fields

Here's to the preachers of the sacred words

Here's to the drivers at the wheel

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Now let the day begin, let the day begin

Here's to the winners of the human race

Here's to the losers in the game

Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war

Here's to the wall that bears their names

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Let the day begin, let the day begin, let the day start

Here's to the doctors and their healing work

Here's to the loved ones in their care

Here's to the strangers on the streets tonight

Here's to the lonely everywhere

Here's to the wisdom from the mouths of babes

Here's to the lions in the cage

Here's to the struggles of the silent war

Here's to the closing of the age.

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Now let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Let the day begin

Here's to you my little loves with blessings from above

Now let the day begin, let the day begin, let the day start

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I been in a cave

For forty days

Only a spark

To light my way

I wanna give out

I wanna give in

This is our crime

This is our sin

But I still believe

I still believe

Through the pain

And the grief

Through the lives

Through the storms

Through the cries

And through the wars

Oh, I still believe

Flat on my back

Out at sea

Hopin' these waves

Don't cover me

I'm turned and tossed

Upon the waves

When the darkness comes

I feel the grave

But I still believe

I still believe

Through the cold

And through heat

Through the rain

And through the tears

Through the crowds

And through the cheers

Oh, I still believe

I'll march this road

I'll climb this hill

Upon on my knees if I have to

I'll take my place

Up on this stage

I'll wait 'til the end of time

for you like everybody else

I'm out on my own

Walkin' the streets

Look at the faces

That I meet

I feel like I Like I want to go home

What do I feel

What do I know

But I still believe

I still believe

Through the shame

And through the grief

Through the heartache

Through the tears

Through the waiting

Through the years

For people like us

In places like this

We need all the hope

That we can get

Oh, I still believe

Daisies stand up on their tip-toes

Clouds tumble over themselves in the sky

And all the pretty horses come runnin' to her

And even the dust devils break

But they'll catch your eye

I haunt her house from the outside

I watch her bake cornbread and talk on the phone

And the wireless on the inside plays a sad sweet song

A mute moonlit statue of mine, she waltzes alone

But baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue

And baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so green and dumb

The wind ain't stopped blowin' since morning

It's got me froze up on the inside

And I could get warm in the bunk house

And thaw out on coffee and bread

But baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue

But baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so green and dumb

I need your government warning

like I need a hole in my head

Well, I won't shoot your coyotes

And I won't burn your weeds

Your paycheck won't fill up this hollow

It won't die along the ages

But baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue

But baby, baby, I could call you baby

If I weren't so green & dumb

If I weren't so green & dumb

If I weren't so green & dumb

If I weren't so green & dumb

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Spent some time feelin' inferior

standing in front of my mirror

Combed my hair in a thousand ways

but I came out looking just the same

Daddy said, "Son, you better see the world

I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave

But remember one thing don't lose your head

to a woman that'll spend your bread"

So I got out

Paris was a place you could hide away

if you felt you didn't fit in

French police wouldn't give me no peace

They claimed I was a nasty person

Down along the Left Bank minding my own

Was knocked down by a human stampede

Got arrested for inciting a peacful riot

when all I wanted was a cup of tea

I was accused

I moved on

Down in Rome I wasn't getting enough

of the things that keeps a young man alive

My body stunk but I kept my funk

at a time when I was right out of luck

Getting desperate indeed I was

Looking like a tourist attraction

Oh my dear I better get out of here

'for the Vatican don't give no sanction

I wasn't ready for that, no no

I moved right out east yeah!

On the Peking ferry I was feeling merry

sailing on my way back here

I fell in love with a slit eyed lady

by the light of an eastern moon

Shangai Lil never used the pill

She claimed that it just ain't natural

She took me up on deck and bit my neck

Oh people I was glad I found her

Oh yeah I was glad I found her

I firmly believe that I didn't need anyone but me

I sincerely thought I was so complete

Look how wrong you can be

The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe

They wouldn't give you the time of day

But the slit eyed lady knocked me off my feet

God I was glad I found her

And if they had the words I could tell to you

to help you on the way down the road

I couldn't quote you no Dickens, Shelley or Keats

'cause it's all been said before

Make the best out of the bad just laugh it off

You didn't have to come here anyway

So remember, every picture tells a story don't it

In the summer that I was baptized

my father held me to his side

As they put me to the water

he said how on that day I cried

We were prisoners of love, a love in chains

He was standin' in the door I was standin' in the rain

With the same hot blood burning in our veins

Adam raised a Cain

All of the old faces

ask you why you're back

They fit you with position

and the keys to your daddy's Cadillac

In the darkness of your room

your mother calls you by your true name

You remember the faces, the places, the names

You know it's never over it's relentless as the rain

Adam raised a Cain

In the Bible Cain slew Abel

and East of Eden he was cast

You're born into this life paying

for the sins of somebody else's past

Daddy worked his whole life for nothing but the pain

Now he walks these empty rooms looking for something to blame

You inherit the sins, you inherit the flames

Adam raised a Cain

Lost but not forgotten, from the dark heart of a dream

Adam raised a Cain

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In the fields of the lord

Stood Abel and Cain

Cain slew Abel 'neath the black rain

At night he couldn't stand the guilt or the blame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

Billy got drunk, angry at his wife

He hit her once, he hit her twice

At night he'd lie in bed, he couldn't stand the shame

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

So he gave it a name

Pa told me "Son, one thing I know is true

Poison snake bites you, you're poison too"*

At night I can feel that poison runnin' 'round my veins

Well It's Saturday night

you're all dressed up in blue

I been watching you awhile

maybe you been watching me too

So somebody ran out

left somebody's heart in a mess

Well if you're looking for love

honey I'm tougher than the rest

Some girls they want a handsome Dan

or some good-lookin' Joe on their arm

Some girls like a sweet-talkin' Romeo

Well 'round here baby

I learned you get what you can get

So if you're rough enough for love

honey I'm tougher than the rest

The road is dark

and it's a thin thin line

But I want you to know I'll walk it for you any time

Maybe your other boyfriends

couldn't pass the test

Well if you're rough and ready for love

honey I'm tougher than the rest

Well it ain't no secret

I've been around a time or two

Well I don't know baby maybe you've been around too

Well there's another dance

all you gotta do is say yes

And if you're rough and ready for love

honey I'm tougher than the rest

If you're rough enough for love

baby I'm tougher than the rest

Princess cards she sends me with her regards

Barroom eyes shine vacancy, to see her you gotta look hard

Wounded deep in battle, I stand stuffed like some soldier undaunted

To her cheshire smile, I

I can see her lyin

So in some society, Janet Reno is hOtT?

Definitely a chub killer.

Back when you actually believed Mick and the boys meant it.

Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields

Sold in a market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he's doing alright

Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good?

Brown sugar just like a young girl should

Drums beating, cold English blood runs hot

Lady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stop

House boy knows that he's doing alright

You shoulda heard him just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?

Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now

Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a tent show queen

And all here boyfriends were sweet sixteen

I'm no schoolboy but I know what I like

You shoulda heard me just around midnight

Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?

Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah

I said yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

How come you...how come you taste so good?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Just like a...just like a black girl should

Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

When it comes right down to the heart of the matter, you can't beat a song about transvestites and english schoolboys

I met her in a club down in old Soho

Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry-cola

See-oh-el-aye cola

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance

I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola

El-oh-el-ay Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well I'm not the world's most physical guy

But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine

Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand

Why she walked like a woman and talked like a man

Oh my Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Well we drank champagne and danced all night

Under electric candlelight

She picked me up and sat me on her knee

And said dear boy won't you come home with me

Well I'm not the world's most passionate guy

But when I looked in her eyes well I almost fell for my Lola

La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

I pushed her away

I walked to the door

I fell to the floor

I got down on my knees

Then I looked at her and she at me

Well that's the way that I want it to stay

And I always want it to be that way for my Lola

La-la-la-la Lola

Girls will be boys and boys will be girls

It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for Lola

La-la-la-la Lola

Well I left home just a week before

And I'd never ever kissed a woman before

But Lola smiled and took me by the hand

And said dear boy I'm gonna make you a man

Well I'm not the world's most masculine man

But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man

And so is Lola

La-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

Lola la-la-la-la Lola la-la-la-la Lola

I am the Astro-Creep

A demolition Style hell American Freak

I am the Crawling dead

A Phantom in a box

Shadow in your Head

say

Acid Suicide

freedom of the blast

read the fucker lies

Scratch off the Broken skin

tear into my heart

make Me do it again yeah

More Human Than Human

I am the jigsaw man

I turn the World around

With a skeleton hand

say

I am electric head

a cannibal core a television said

Yeah

do not victimize

Read the mother fucker

psychoholic lies

Into a psychic war

I tear my soul apart

and I eat it some more

More Human Than Human

I am the ripper man

a locomotion mind

love american style

yeah

I am the nexus one

I want more life

Fucker I ain't done

yeah

More Human Than Human

Good Lord...

 

Bit early in the morning for that kind of thing... but still...

 

 

Jewel Staite...

Serenity now!