Strange Angels

Tracks:

Strange Angels
Monkey's Paw
Coolsville
Ramon
Babydoll
Beautiful Red Dress
Day Of The Devil, The
Dream Before, The
My Eyes
Hiawatha

Strange Angels

They say that heaven is like TV A perfect little world that doesn't really need you And everything there is made of light And the days keep going by Here they come Here they come Here they come. Well it was one of those days larger than life When your friends came to dinner and they stayed the night And then they cleaned out the refrigerator - They ate everything in sight And then they stayed up in the living room And they cried all night Strange angels - singing just for me Old stories - they're haunting me This is nothing like I thought it would be. Well I was out in my four door with the top down. And I looked up and there they were: Millions of tiny teardrops just sort of hanging there And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry And I said to myself: What next big sky? Strange angels - singing just for me Their spare change falls on top of me Rain falling Falling all over me All over me Strange angels - singing just for me Old Stories - they're haunting me Big changes are coming Here they come Here they come.

Monkey's Paw

Well I stopped in at the Body Shop Said to the guy: I want stereo FM installed in my teeth And take this mole off my back and put it on my cheek. And uh...while I'm here, why don't you give me some of those high-heeled feet? And he said: Listen there's no guarantee Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws but listen look out for the monkey's paw And I said: Whaaat? He said: The gift of life it's a twist of fate It's a roll of the die It's a free lunch A free ride But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws And if you cross her look out! It's the monkey's paw It's sayin: Haw haw! It's saying Gimme five! It's sayin: Bye bye! I know a man he lost his head He said: The way I feel I'd be better off dead. He said: I got everything I ever wanted Now I can't give it up It's a trap, just my luck! The gift of life it's a leap of faith It's a roll of the die It's a free lunch A free ride The gift of life it's a shot in the dark It's the call of the wild It's the big wheel The big ride But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws And if you cross her look out! It's the monkey's paw You better Stop! Look around! Listen! You- could- be- an- oca- rina- salesman- going- from- door- to- door. Or- would- you- like- to- swing- on- a- star- and- carry- moon- beams- home? Or- next- time- around- you- could- be- a- small- bug- Or- would- you- like- to- be- a- fish? The gift of life it's a twist of fate It's a roll of the die it's a free lunch A free ride The gift of life it's a shot in the dark It's the call of the wild It's the big wheel The big ride But Nature's got rules and Nature's got laws And if you cross her look out! It's the monkey's paw It's singin': Gimme Five! It's singin': Bye Bye!

Coolsville

Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville So perfect So nice Hey little darlin, I'm comin your way little darlin And I'll be there Just as soon as I'm all straightened out Yeah just as soon as I'm perfect. Some things are just pictures They're scenes before your eyes And don't look now I'm right behind you Coolsville Coolsville So perfect So nice So nice! And down by the ocean under the boardwalk You were so handsome we didn't talk You're my ideal I'm gonna find you I'm goin to Coolsville So perfect So ideal This train This city This train Some things are just pictures They're scenes before your eyes And don't look now I'm right behind you Coolsville She said: Oh Jesus, why are you always in the arms of somebody else? He said: Oh man! I don't need anybody's help I'm gonna get there on my own. This train This city This train This city This train

Ramon

Last night I saw a host of angels And they were all singing different songs And it sounded like a lot of lawnmowers Mowing down my lawn And up above kerjillions of stars spangled all over the sky And they were spirals turning Turning in the deep blue night. And suddenly for no reason The way that angels leave the grund They left in a kind of vortex Travelling at the speed of sound. And just as I started to leave Just as I turned to go I saw a man who'd fallen He was lying on his back in the snow. Some people walk on water Some people walk on broken glass Some just walk round and round in their dreams Some just keep falling down. So when you see a man who's broken Pick him up and carry him And when you see a woman who's broken Put her all into your arms Cause we don't know where we come from We don't know what we are. So when you see a man who's broken Pick him up and carry him And when you see a woman who's broken Put her all into your arms Cause we don't know where we come frm. We don't know what we are. And you? You're no one And you? You're falling And you? You're travelling Travelling at the speed of light. And you? You're no one And you? You're falling And you? You're travelling Travelling at the speed of light.

Baby Doll

I don't know about your brain- but mine is really bossy I come home from a day on the golf course and I find all these messages scribbled on wrinkled up scraps of paper And they say thing like: Why don't you get a real job? Or: You and what army? Or: Get a horse. And then I hear this voice comin from the back of my head Uh huh (Whoa-ho) Yep! It's my brain again And when my brain talks to me, he says: Take me out to the ballgame Take me out to the park Take me to the movies Cause I love to sit in the dark Take me to Tahiti Cause I love to be hot And take me out on the town tonight Cause I know the new hot spot. He says: Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll Ooo He says: Babydoll! I love it when you come when I call Babydoll! You don't have to talk I know it all Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll Ooo Well I'm sitting around trying to write a letter I'm wracking my brains trying to think of another word for horse I ask my brain for some assistance. And he says: Huh...Let's see...How about cow? That's close. He says: Take me out to the ballgame Take me out to the park Take me to the movies Cause I love to sit in the dark Take me to your leader And I say: Do you mean George? And he says: I just want to meet him And I say: Come on I mean I don't even know George! And he says: Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll Ooo He says: Babydoll! I love it when you come when I call Babydoll! You don't have to talk I know it all Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll Ooo Babydoll! Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll! Babydoll! Ooo oo oo Babydoll! Babydoll! Ooo oo oo

Beautiful Red Dress

Well I was down at the Zig Zag That's the Zig Zag Bar & Grill And everybody was talking at once and it was getting real shrill. And I've been around the block But I don't care I'm on a roll - I'm on a wild ride Cause the moon is full and look out baby - I'm at high tide. I've got a beautiful red dress And you'd look really good standing beside it.. I've got some beautiful new red shoes and they look so fine I've got a hundred and five fever and it's high tide. Well just the other day I won the lottery I mean lots of money I got so excited I ran into my place and i said: HEY! Is anybody home? Nobody answered but I guess that's not too weird Since I live alone. I've got a beautiful red dress And you'd look really good standing beside it.. Girls? We can take it And if we can't we're gonna fake it We're gonna save ourselves We're gonna make it And if we don't we're gonna take it We're gonna save ourselves Save ourselves Well they say women shouldn't be the president Cause we go crazy from time to time Well push my button baby here I come Yeah look out baby I'm at high tide I've got a beatiful red dress and you'd look really good standing beside it.. I've got a little jug of red sangria wine and we could take little sips from time to time I've got some bright red drop dead lips I've got a little red card and mechanical hips I've got a hundred and five fever!!! OK! OK! Hold it! I just want to say something. You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck. But hey, girls? We can take it And if we can't we're gonna fake it We're gonna save ourselves save ourselves (Yeah tell it to the judge) We're gonna make it And if we don't we're gonna take it We're gonna save ourselves save ourselves We've got a fever of a hundred and five and look baby It's high tide. Well I could just go on and on and on... But tonight I've got a headache

The Day the Devil

The day the devil comes to getcha you know him by the way he smiles The day the devil comes to getcha He's a rusty truck with only twenty miles He's got bad brakes he's got loose teeth He's a long way from home The day the devil comes to getcha he's got a smile like a scar He knows the way to your house He's got the keys to your car And when he sells you his sportcoat You say: Funny! That's my size Attention shoppers! Everybody please rise Give me back my innocence Get me a brand new suit Give me back my innocence Oh Lord! Cut me down to size Well you can hide under the porch And you can hide behind the couch But the day the devil comes to getcha He's right on time Here he comes Well I'm sick of hearin bout your problems Yeah girlie you're breakin my heart I'm the original party animal Hey! Hey! Babaloo So don't come bangin your Bibles Cause you've been laughin all the way to the bank And don't give me those crocodile tears Cause you've been doing it for years I'm everywhere! Sign right here Mr. Jones The day the devil comes to getcha He's a long way from home And you know he's gonna getcha Cause you're stuck in the middle Everybody please rise Give me back my innocence Get me a brand new suit Give me back my innocence Oh Lord! Cut me down to size Give me back my innocence Get me a new Cadillac Cause when I get on up to heave Lord You can have it all back Cause in heaven, you get it all back In heaven it all comes back Cause in heaven, you get it all back In heaven Cause in heaven...... In heaven......

The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin)

Hansel and Gretel are alive and well And they're living in Berlin She is a cocktail waitress He had a part in a Fassbinder film And they sit around at night now drinking schnapps and gin And she says: Hansel, you're really bringing me down And he says: Gretel, yu can really be a bitch He says: I've wated my life on our stupid legend When my one and only love was the wicked witch. She said: What is history? And he said: History is an angel being blown backwards into the future He said: History is a pile of debris And the angel wants to go back and fix things To repair the things that have been broken But there is a storm blowing from Paradise And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future And this storm, this storm is called Progress

My Eyes

Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten that tattoo Sometimes I wish I'd married you One hundred fires One hundred days Sometimes I feel like a stranger Sometimes I tell lies (Whoa ho) Sometimes I act like a monkey Here come the night And then kerjillions of stars start to shine And icy comets go whizzing by And everything's shaking with a strange delight And here it is: the enormous night And oo my eyes They're lookin all around And oo my feet I'm upside down If I were the president If I were Queen for a day I'd give the ugly people all the money I'd re-write the Book of Love I'd make it funny Wheel of fortune Wheel of fame Two hundred forty million voices Two hundred forty million names And down in the ocean where nobody goes Some fish are fast Some are slow Some swim round the world Some hide below This is the ocean So deep So old. And then kerjillions of stars start to shine And icy comets go whizzing by And everything's shaking with a strange delight And here it is: the enormous night And oo my eyes They're lookin all around And oo my feet They've left the ground So cry me a river that leads to a road That turns into a highway that goes and goes And tangles in your memories So long So old.

Hiawatha

By the shores of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big- Sea- Water Downward through the evening twilight In the days that are forgotten >From the land of sky blue waters And I said: Hello Operator Get me Memphis Tennessee And she said: I know who you're tryin to call darlin And he's not home he's been away But you can hear him on the airwaves He's howlin at the moon Yeah this is your country station And honey this next one's for you. And all along the highways and under the big western sky They're singing Ooo oooooo They're singing Wild Blue. And way out on the prairie and up in the high chaparral They hear a voice it says: Good evening This is Captain Midnight speaking And I've got a song for you Goes somethin like this: Starlight Starbright We're gonna hang some new stars in the heavens tonight. They're gonna circle by day They're gonna fly by night We're goin sky high. Yoo Hooooo hooo. Yeah yoo hooo Ooo Hooooooooo So good night ladies And good night gentlemen Keep those cards and letters coming And please don't call again. Geronimo and little Nancy Marilyn and John F. dancing Uncle took the message and it's written on the wall. These are pictures of the houses Shining in the midnight moonlight While the King sings Love Me Tender. And all along the watchtowers aand under the big western sky They're singing Yoo Hooooo They're singing Wild Blue. And wau wau up there, bursting in air Red rockets, bright red glare >From the land of sky blue waters Sent by freedom's sons and daughters. We're singing Ooo Hoooooooo We're singing Wild Blue. We're singing Ooo Hoooooooo Ooo Hooooooooo And dark behind it rose the forest Rose the black and gloomy pine trees Rose the firs with ones upon them And bright before it beat the water Beat the clear and sunny water Beat the shing Big- Sea- Water