IV. B-Sides Lyrics

1. 1975

Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
Yeah, almost every time
Brawling scratches mean a bad hair day
Go on and press your face
All up against the glass
Watch and wonder as the pretty things spin and burn
Swing and missing all
Almost every time
I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Yeah, 1975
I see scratches and the idiot kids
I watched them getting high
Out in the cold blue sky
Watch and wonder as the asphalt babies burned
Dancing in the flame, laughing all of the while
I'm not alive, 1975
I'd spend my time wasted, dull, damaged, and blind
I'm not alive, 1975
Watch and wonder as they fade away...
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Sounds a lot like me
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Yeah, almost all of the time
Dull, damaged, and blind...
Whoa, 1975
I 'm not alive, 1975
I was not alive, 1975
I'd spend all my time wasted dull, damaged, and blind
1975
Watch and wonder as they fade away...

2. Blondes

You are a loser just like I was
You are a loser like the rest of your friends
You're a loser in the worst way
I think you're losing just to make up
Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
I see you dying in the highway
I see you climbing up the hill
I see your sunshine on your blonde hair
I see you worshipping the thrill
Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah I've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah I've seen the light
Light from another place
Now I know its not real
Yes I know it's not real...
Yes I know it's not
Yeah I've seen the light
All around your face
Yeah I've seen the light
Shine in your eyes
Yeah I've seen the light
From another place
Now I know it's not real...

3. Deep In, Empty Out

Yeah I hear the hum in my ear
It keeps me awake sometimes
I can deal with most everything
I'm out of my mind
When you're out of my side
I would give everything
Deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Why can't you talk to me
I hear your voice everywhere else
Oh, why do you have to be
Slumped and drunk
Just to say I am your friend
I'd give you everything
Yeah, I'm deep in and empty out
Oh, I would give everything you want
Everything you need
Everything means nothing to me
I remember now
You, not me
I remember now
You fail
Yeah, I remember now
You, not me
I remember everything, everything
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
I remember everything, everything
I remember everything
I would give everything
Yeah, deep in and empty out
I would give everything you want
Anything to you
Everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing
Yeah, everything means nothing to me
It's true
My everything means nothing to you
It's true

4. Detroit

I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend
All bright-eyed and happy in pain
I am dreaming of a Michigan girl
See her come around
Fall down, break & scatter everywhere...
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting
I am pleading for a Michigan dream girl
I am pleading for a Michigan girl
See her come around
Big lie wrapped inside her little glove...
I close my eyes and I can see her waiting patient for me
I cover my ears
I clear my mind
She starts to fade...
(I am dreaming of a Michigan girlfriend)
She's starting to fade...
(I am dreaming of a Michigan girl)
I close my eyes
I see her waiting oh so patient for me
I cover my ears
I close my mind
She's starting to fade

5. Drunk Again

Kathy please just go away
Don't let Hazel see you when you're high
Just take a walk to your sleazy bar
Come back after I've come down
Cross the street
On your knees
Makes me ashamed
It's hard to sleep
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away
Hey Kathy please give me a break
I told you not to come here when you're drunk again
I'm sober now just 30 days
All alone and working hard to stay that way
Cross the street
On your knees
Makes it hard
It's hard to see
I can't shake your pain
You get high, you'd just throw it away
Kathy please, yeah yeah
I don't want to see you when you're down
Just leave me be and go away
You're not going to pull me down
I won't let you throw it away

6. For Pete's Sake

We had a mutual friend and he said
You've been talking again
I'm not responsible for your life falling apart
I'm not responsible
You and me could have been the best friends
That we'd never had
You've done everything that you could to damage me, damage me
I'm walking away
I'm closing my eyes
I'm letting it go, letting it go
Hey I'm telling you now
I'm drawing the line
Don't say it again
Just keep it inside
It happened to me, in love with the same girl
Nobody's fault, yeah nobody's fault
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Yeah keep it in...
You and me could have been the best friends
But we'd never had the best friends
I'm walking away, letting it go
I'm closing my eyes
I'm telling you now
I'm lonely again, just keep it inside
Hey, it happened to me, in love with the same girl
It happened to me, me over you
Hey maybe for the first time act like a grown man
Keep it in
Yeah keep it in...

7. Happy Hour

Hey, makes me wonder,
Why I just let them slip away,
I'd trade my family and my friends,
For an endless happy hour
I know, sometimes I talk too much
Hey, have a drink with me,
And I will tell you what I think,
Yeah I know I look like I am just some drunk to you,
But I know who I was,
And I know who I am
Hey, Hey,
Hey makes me wonder,
How I just do it every time
Yeah, pushin', pullin',
Until they just slip and fade away
I still know who I am...
Hey, Hey, Hey,
Hey, have a drink with me,
And I will tell you when I'm done,
Yeah, trade my family and my friends
For an endless happy hour
I still know who I am...

8. Hateful

She is livin' far away from a lonely man in the San Francisco Bay,
He is dreamin' hard of a girl all claid in bad plaid and mad at the
whole world
All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me
She sleeps alone and wet with her phone in her face all tied up in
her old bed,
She walks alone everyday up and down the rainy streets in her own
weird way
All her friends they are blessed impressed intelligent freaks,
All of them are six feet tall all of them are hateful to me,
Hateful, yeah they're hateful to me...
Getting very hateful

9. Lame

Then they came on me
They dragged me from the bar
Still wet from sweat and beer
I bruise so prettily by men blinded by their fear
These men
Broke my back and made me lame
Then she said to me
I'd give you everything to make it like before
To make you love me like you used to
Make you love me more
She said to me
Your life is large but your mind is lame
I can't believe my eyes
When I see the truth and all the things I've done
And every place I'm queer
I never stay I run
I know now why I live in shame
Lame...
It's hard to sleep at night
I hardly ever sleep at night

10. Local God

You do that Romeo
Be what you wanna be
Look like you runnin' in place
Do that stupid dance for me
Do that Romeo
That go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn
You look so stupid, happy, and numb
Be my Romeo
Please be my voice in this world
I can't sing the songs that you sing
I can't find the gorgeous words
Will you be my Romeo?
My go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so stupid
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yeah we do what we want
Be my Romeo
Tell me all about your love
Tell me all about your pain
Baited breath and rubber gloves
Be my Romeo
My go-go Romeo
I see you twist and turn you look so fuckin' stupid
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, yes we do what we want
Summer days can lead to the bad times
The world gets larger everyday
Yeah, yeah, the summer days can lead to the bad blood
That leaves me feelin' stupid, happy, and numb
Stupid, happy, and numb
I feel so stupid, happy and numb
Stupid, happy and numb
I feel so stupid...
I feel just like a local god when I'm with the boys
We do what we want, we do what we want

11. The Swing

Never said I was innocent
I will burn in Hell for the things I've done to you
Never said I was anything good
I should die from the shame from what I put you through
Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
You know I just wanna help you forget
We are still living on broken glass
We are still numb because it just keeps happening
All your friends, they can kiss my ass
They only see the simple things that they wanna see
Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know I just wanna know that you're okay
You don't have to like it but the swing is in my hands now
Sometimes I think
The power is better than a hard drug
Sometimes I think
The power is better than anything
Sometimes I think
Letting go is just like giving up
Sometimes all I think I wanna do is die inside
All I wanna do is die inside
All I ever think about is you and me falling apart
Never said I was innocent
I will burn in Hell for the things I have done to you
Never said I was anything good
Na na na na...
Let me be the one to make the pain go away
Shave my skin and show a brand new face
You know I just wanna know that you're okay
Let me be the one to bring us back from the dead
I will take the blame for everything
I just wanna help you forget
Sometimes I think
Letting go is just like giving up
Sometimes all I think about is falling apart

12. American Girl

She was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinking that there was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
And if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on the balcony
She could hear the cars roll by
Out on four forty one like waves crashing on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
She crept back in her memory
God, it's so painful when something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach
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13. Bad Connection

Morning, this morning the curtains are shut
I'd ring you in the morning but the phone's been cut
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
The radio reporter said the line's all dead
He told me that I oughta write a letter instead
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
Yes I'd wish they'd fix the wires cause my baby won't know
That I'm leaving in the morning and I'm ready to go
Can you hear me
Can you hear me at all
Gotta get the operator, make a telephone call
And if I write a letter it won't get there on time
I'll only reach you baby on the telephone line
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
My car's all ready and my bags are all packed
I'm late already and I won't be back
Can you hear me, I've been calling all day
Can you hear me
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Can you hear me at all?

14. The Boys are Back in Town

Guess who just got back today
Those wild eyed boys who'd been away
Haven't changed, hadn't much to say
But man I still think those cats are crazy
They were asking if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
I told them you were living downtown
Driving all the old men crazy
The boys are back in town
You know that chick who used to dance a lot?
Every night she'd be on the floor
Shaking what she'd got
Man when I tell you she was cool
She was red hot
I mean she was steaming
That time over at Johnny's place
Well this chick got up and she slapped Johnny's face
Man we just fell about the place
If that chick don't wanna know forget her
The boys are back in town, spread the word around
Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Dino's bar and grill
Drink will flow and blood will spill
If the boys wanna fight
You better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song
The nights are getting warmer, it won't be long
It won't be long 'till Summer comes
Now that the boys are here again


15. Don't Change

I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Yeah, things have been dark for too long
I don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
Yeah, don't change for you
Don't change a thing for me
I found a love I had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message received loud and clear
I'm standing here on the ground
The sky above won't fall down
See no evil in all directions
Resolution of happiness
Yeah, things have been dark for too long

16. How Soon is Now?

I am the son, I am the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
I am the son, I am the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I'm the son and heir of nothing in particular
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There is a club if you'd like to go
You could meet someone who really loves you
So you go and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home and you cry and you want to die

17. The Joker

Some people call me the space cowboy
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
'Cause I speak of the pompitous of love
People keep talking about me, baby
Said I'm doin' you wrong
Well, don't worry, don't worry
'Cause I'm right here at home
Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner
I'm a lover, and I'm a sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a joker, I'm a smoker
I'm a midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
You're the cutest thing that I ever did see
I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree
Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time
Ooo-eee baby, I'll sure show you a good time
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18. Our Lips are Sealed

Can you hear them
They talk about us
They're telling lies
Well, that's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
When we walk by
Then we must chose
In our defense
Silence
When you look at them
Look right through them
That's when they'll disappear
That's when we'll be feared
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Our lips are sealed
Hush my darling, don't you cry
Quiet, angel, forget their lies
Can you hear them
They talk about us
Telling lies, telling lies
That's no surprise
Can you see them
See right through them
Yeah that happens to you
Nothing gets through for you
Doesn't matter what they say
In the jealous games people play
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pay no mind to what they say
It doesn't matter anyway
Hey hey hey
Yes, our lips are sealed
Pocahontas
Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Our paddles break the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man and the fields of green
And the homeland we've never seen
They killed us in our tepee
They cut our women down
They might have left some babies
Cryin' on the ground
But the big guns and the wagon wheels come
Yes, and the night falls on the setting sun
They massacred the buffalo
Kitty corner from the bank
The taxis run across my feet
And my eyes have turned to blanks
In my little room at the top of the stairs
With an Indian rug and a pipe to share
I wish a was a trapper
I would give thousand pelts
To sleep with Pocahontas
And to find out how she felt
In the morning on the fields of green
In the homeland we've never seen
Yes and maybe Marlon Brando
Will be there by the fire
We'll sit and talk of Hollywood
And the good things there for hire
And the Astrodome and the first tepee
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
Pocahontas

19. Santa Baby

Santa baby, just slip a guitar under the tree for me
Been an awful good boy
Santa baby, hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue
Yeah, I'll wait up for you dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the girlies that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'd check off my Christmas list
Santa baby, I want a yacht and really that's not a lot
I've been an angel all year
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, one little thing that I need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me too
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
Yeah, I don't mean on the phone
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, fill my stocking with a duplex, and checks
Sign your X on the line
Santa baby, now hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the girlies that I could've kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'd check off my Christmas list
Santa baby, forgot to mention just one little thing, a ring
I don't mean on the phone
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

20. Search and Destroy

I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
I'm a runaway son of a nuclear A-bomb
I am the world's forgotten boy
The one who searches and destroys
Honey please help me out
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please plea for me
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey gotta strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy
Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology
Ain't got time to make no apology
Soul radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Honey please strike me blind
Somebody gotta save my soul
Baby please take my mind
I'm the world's forgotten boy
The one who's searchin', searchin' to destroy

21. Sin City

Diamonds and dust
Poor man last, rich man first
Lamborghinis, caviar
Dry martinis, Shangri-la
I got a burnin' feelin' deep inside of me
It's been burnin'
But I'm gonna set it free
I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I'm gonna win in sin city
Ladders and snakes
Ladders give, snakes take
Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief
You ain't got a hope in hell, yeah that's my belief
Fingers Freddy, Diamond Jim
They're gettin' ready, cause I'm comin' in
So spin that wheel, cut the crap, and roll those loaded dice
Bring on the dancin' girls and put the champagne on ice
I'm going in to sin city
I'm gonna win in sin city
Where the lights are bright
Do the town tonight
I'm going in to sin city

22. Southern Girls

I been north, I been east, to the California beach
There's only one place I know where to find you
And you Southern girls got a way with your words and you show it
You say hump and I'll jump
You say go and I know, waste no time gettin so close to you
And you remember the way to find out that I wanted to thank you
Ooh baby needs some brand new shoes
You get out on the street, you got nothing to lose
I feel your crazy and everyone says it
Southern girls, you got nothing to lose
I've been up, I've been down
I've been weak, I've been strong
But I've never met someone like you
And you'll never know that if I found you I'd thank you
You say hump and I'll jump
You say go and I know, waste no time gettin so close to you
And all you Southern girls got a way with your words and you show it
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You might think this boy he loves you, Southern girl
You make it hard, oh so hard
I been north, I been east, to the California beach
There's only one place I know where to find you
And you Southern girls got a way with your words and you show it
chorus

23. Speedracer

Here he comes, here comes Speedracer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone
He's gaining on you so you better look alive
He's busy revving up the powerful Mach-5
And when the odds are against him and there's dangerous work
You can bet your life Speedracer will see it through
Go Speedracer
Go Speedracer
Go Speedracer, go
He's off and flying as he guns his car around the track
He's jamming down the pedal like he's never coming back
Adventure's waiting just ahead!

24. What Do I Get

I just want a lover like any other, what do I get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I'm in distress, I need a caress, what do I get
I'm not on the make, I just need a break, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I only get sleepless nights
Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
I just want a lover like any other, what do I get
I only want a friend who will stay to the end, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
What do I get, whoa, what do I get
Well let me tell you now
(What do I get)
No love
(What do I get)
No sleep at night
(What do I get)
Nothing that's nice
(What do I get)
Nothing at all, at all, at all...
'Cause I don't get you

25. Connection

All I want to do is get back to you
Connection, I just can't make no connection
But all I want to do is to get back to you
Everything is going in the wrong direction
The doctor wants to give me more injections
Giving me shots for a thousand rare infections
And I don't know if he'll let me go
Connection, I just can't make no connection
But all I want to do is to get back to you
My bags they get a very close inspection
I wonder why it is that they suspect 'em
They're dying to add me to their collection
I don't know if they'll let me go
Connection, I just can't make no connection
But all I want to do is to get back to you