Somewhere out there on that horizon Out beyond the neon lights I know there must be somethin’ better but there’s nowhere else in sight It’s survival in the city When you live from day to day City streets don’t have much pity When you’re down, that’s where you’ll stay In the city, oh, oh. In […]
Stare out the window, You can’t make the time go You don’t even know why you’re here Wait for the weekend to go off the deep end and make everything disappear You’re lost in a teenage jail So you and so vicious and so frail where something is always for sale You’re lost in a […]
Look at us baby, up all night Tearing our love apart Aren’t we the same two people who live through years in the dark? Ahh… Every time I try to walk away Something makes me turn around and stay And I can’t tell you why When we get crazy, it just ain’t to right, (try […]
Lookin’ for the good life dressed to kill She don’t have to worry ’cause there’s always someone else who will Loose and loaded every night Dancin’ underneath the flashin’ light sayin, ‘Look at me, baby, look at me. I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful, I’m somebody.’ Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler He’s been […]
There was beer all over the dance floor and the band was playin’ rhythm and blues You got down and did the gator, and half an hour later, you were barfin’ all over your Girlfriend’s shoes. But the Greeks don’t want no freaks. The Greeks don’t want no freaks Just put a little smile on […]
Tell us what you’re gonna do tonight, mama. There must be someplace you can go In the middle of the tall drinks and the drama, there must be someone you know. God knows, you’re lookin’ good enough, but you’re so smooth and the world’s so rough. You might have somethin’ to loose. Oh, no, pretty […]
Well, he sits up there on his leatherette Looks through pictures of the ones that he hasn’t had yet When he thinks he wants a closer look, he gets out his little black telephone book (He’s calling, calling, calling He’s calling, calling, calling He’s calling ,calling, calling He’s calling) "Come sit down here beside me, […]
I used to hurry a lot, I used to worry a lot I used to stay out till the break of day Oh, that didn’t get it, It was high time I quit it I just couldn’t carry on that way Oh, I did some damage, I know it’s true Didn’t know I was so […]
Out in the shiny night, the rain was softly falling The tracks that ran down the boulevard had all been washed away Out of the silver light, the past came softly calling And I remember the times we spent inside the Sad Cafe Oh, it seemed like a holy place, protected by amazing grace And […]
Somebody’s gonna hurt someone before the night is through Somebody’s gonna come undone. There’s nothin’ we can do. Everybody wants to touch somebody if it takes all night. Everybody wants to take a little chance, Make it come out right. There’s gonna be a heartache tonight, a heartache tonight, I know. There’s gonna be a […]
