1) I’ll hang on for my dear life/Hawaii, here I come
2) Mama’s little baby likes fear and torture (ouch!)
3) You didn’t have to make me feel like a fool/As I try to say I feel the way that I do
4) Tell it like it is/You don’t have to die before you live
5) Well, I’m never gonna be the same again/Now I see the way it’s got to end
6) And if I find peace of mind, I’ll be back again
7) But you don’t understand my point of view/I suppose there’s nothing I can do
8) I need to find a new job every week or so/’Cause no one needs a man who’s always fast or slow
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11) Each one captures the various subtleties of black
12) I know you don’t like weak women, you get bored too quick/And you don’t like strong women ‘cause they’re hip to your tricks
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14) He’s the keeper of the keys, he’ll put your mind at ease/He’s guaranteed to please, back by popular demand
15) I work in an ‘otel, all gilt and flash!/Remember the gap where the doors we smashed?
16) All you do is slow me down/When I’m trying to get on the other side of town
17) At the latter I was informal, but at the former I wore my suit
18) I am not the actor, and this can’t be the scene/But I am in the water as far as I can see
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20) We don’t know how to mind our own business ‘cause the whole world’s got to be just like us
21) Don’t understand how the roles reversed, and it’s me that’s freaked out by the chase
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23) You gotta have your way, there’s nothing left to say/There’s nothing left to do
24) Why not spend a week on a star?
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29) But guiltily, I thought you had it coming
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Date: 2005-03-21 10:40 pm (UTC)