Ian Hunter
_Once Bitten Twice Shy_
_Who Do You Love_
_Lounge Lizard_
_Boy_
_3000 Miles From Here_
_The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth_
_It Ain't Easy When You Fall_
_Shades Off_
_I Get So Excited_
All corrections and suggestions gladly accepted.
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Hello
Well the times gettin' hard for you little girl
I'm a hummin' and a strummin' all over God's world
You don't remember when you got your last meal
And you forgot just how a woman feels
You didn't know what rock n' roll was
Until you met a drummer on a Greyhound bus
I got there in the nick of time
Before he got his hands across your state line
Well in the middle of the night on the open road
And the heater don't work and it's oh so cold
You're gettin' tired, baby lookin' kinda beat
The music off the street, drive you off your feet
You didn't know how rock n' roll looked
Until you caught your sister with a guy from the crew
Halfway home in the parking lot
by the look in her eyes she was givin' what she got
You know I I I I... Once bitten twice shy, babe (repeat)
Woman you're a mess gonna die in your sleep
On that blood on my amp and my Les Paul heap
I can't leave you home cos you're runnin' around
My best friend told me you're the best trick in town
You didn't know that rock n' roll burned
So you bought a candle and you loved and you learned
You got the rhythm, you got the speed
Mamma's little baby likes it short and sweet
You know I I I I... Once bitten twice shy, babe (repeat)
I didn't know ya got a rock n' roll record
Until a saw your picture on another guy's jacket
You told me I was the only one
And look at you now, well it's dark as it's done
You know I I I I... Once bitten twice shy, babe (repeat)
Who Do You Love
Do it
Driving north in the rain and snow
Oh the jets ain't jumping cause the clouds too low
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know
The ice on the window, the highway, the sea
Who do you love is it him or is it me
Hey, hey, I wanna know
I called Detroit city on the telephone
Who do you Love? (x2)
The man on the line tell me you ain't home
Who do you Love?(x2)
I wanna know
Who's that voice
Well tell me babe
There's a deep red glow in the early morning sky
Who do you love? Better make up your mind
Don't wanna buy love
Don't wanna try love
I just want your love babe
Hey alright!
Well its five in the morning and the place is dead
Who do you Love?(x2)
I'm gonna rest my body on a empty bed
Who do you love?
I gotta know
What's his name baby?
What's your game?
Make up your mind are you his are you mine
When you get back I ask you one more time
Hey hey hey hey!
Lounge Lizard
Well I picked her up on a Saturday night
Pool hall poison but she felt alright
Oh dear, what a sight when I saw her in the light of day
She was a sweet, easy, sleeper of the highest degree
Oh! You should hear the stories she was laying on me
We really got it on, as she held my point of view
Oh! She's a lounge lizard
Coming on strong
Who you fooling
Its me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on come on
You got to be joking
It's give, give, give, yeah
Well I don't care if your sisters a doll
I don't mind where your momma can't fall
Just give it to me
Just pull it through me, alright
Golly is a doll, he got makeup on
I don't mind, just keep your raincoat on
No hesitation, no reputations to scare us
Oh! She's a lounge lizard
Coming on strong
Who you fooling
Its me you're with
Lounge lizard
Come on come on
You got to be joking
Give, give, give
Hey hey hey hey hey hey
Chorus(x2)
I said give, give, give, give, give, give... (fade)
Boy
Genocidal tendencies are silly to extreme
After all you're still quite small you don't know where you've been
You was only swearing yesterday
Oh, you want to win the world away
But now you got nothing to say ay ay
Boy you're getting out of hand
You've got to make a stand
So put the coke away
Boy you got the do the show
Got to let the people know
You got the strength to stay
I can see you run
I can see you hide
Oh, your heart is aching
Lost in a dream of what might have been
You're the guide(guy?)
You're the number one
And your knees are shaking
Stand and deliver in an endless dream
Schizophrenic, photogenic, aggravates you so
Oh the yes men, have a guess man
Watch the spirit go
Batman zips the monster as he bleeds
And gets off on the buzz he needs
And a kid on the street just reads and reads and reads and reads and reads and reads and reads
Boy its them hard case city blues
Cagney is the news
Does the giant ring a bell?
Boy its the Hudson East river cruise
Its the empire state of booze
Oh, you know the story well
Do you have to run
Do you have to hide
There's a new tomorrow
Yes, you're a mess
But you're more than less
When this battles won
You can look inside
Oh, you did not borrow
Yes, you're the best
But you still can't rest
You know, you know
The carnival is closed
Your street's alive with ghosts
But a friend says- don't look back, don't look back, don't look great
Your vision is your fate
Through long electric nights
When a woman helps you write(right)
Na na na..
Na na na..
Na..
Na na na..
Na na na..
Yeah
Cheer up mate, put the dramas in the past
See you did not have to fast
Euphemism lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts
Boy if you've got an axe to grind
Be thankful for this time
For it gives you what you need
Boy you've got an eighty eight to play
It'll tell you what to say
It'll tell you when to breathe
Boy take a turn pike heading west
Turn the people on to Beau Geste
Cause that's what you did the best
Boy play the pipes till they're old and worn
Sing the words till they fall forlorn
Like the pieces of a jigsaw jet
Boy don't let the earth get in your face
It's a middle ages place
It's the middle age that's snide
Boy we're a million miles away
And to think it. So are they
Take a chance on a one way ride
Boy, shoot a rocket clean out of your mind
Oh, these people ain't your kind
No, they ain't your kind at all
Boy, shoot a rocket clean out of your brain
No, these people ain't the same
You can hear another call
Boy, the other meant- starts with (know,no?)(any other ideas here?)
They don't show us how to grow
They only show us how to win
And Boy, the secret's in the bicycle shed
Oh you know, secrets of the dead
To seek is a mortal sin
Hey, you know boy, let your madness be the clue
Madness, madness, madness......
3000 Miles From Here
Fare thee well, gentle maid,
I'll see you on your way
And the sun will rise tomorrow
And wash my sins away
For I know that I've abused you
But I only had a day
And I know that's why you left me
In your own sad little way
I am gone, disappeared
But I hear a young dove crying 3000 miles from here
Some would say you were a loser
'Cause you played a loser's game
But then if I am a winner
Why then am I so ashamed?
If you hear a young dove crying
You'll know it's me to blame
For I never got her number
I never knew her name
Now she's gone, disappeared
But I hear a young dove crying 3000 miles from here
The Truth, The Whole Truth, Nuthin' But The Truth
Lonely days, lonely nights
Hoping thing's gonna turn out right
You had me hanging on a string
For you I did most anything
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Its a blind mans eye baby ain't no use
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies I got my proof
Put your face up to my window
Ask me baby what did I see
Well I know, I know you ain't right
I know you ain't right for me
You don't give me no
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
All I want is the truth
All I want is the truth
All I want is
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Blind mans eye baby ain't no use
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Don't need your lies I got nothing to prove
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Gods little baby's got nothing to shoot
The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth
Get your kicks on a different route
The truth don't hurt ya (x4)
Don't hurt ya don't hurt ya
The truth don't hurt ya (fade)
(fade)
It Ain't Easy When You Fall
You used to float, just like a boat, upon the tide
You used to run, when things were done, you used to hide
You talk of ships, you talk of boats, you talk of games
And now you're down, you ain't around, its such a shame
Cause you got something to give
Something to hold onto
Why don't you live
And you just forget about fixing up fate
Maybe you'd stop, pick yourself up, now its too late, Oh
It ain't easy when you fall (x3)
No, it ain't no good at all
You didn't know, this world ain't slow, you gotta move
You made no sound, I watched you drown, I watched you loose
Your loneliness, you knew it best, but it's a drag
'Cause in the end, I lost a friend, I feel so sad
'Cause you had something to give
Something to hold onto
Why did you live
If you just forgot about fixing up fate
You'd be here, you'd be near, now it's too late, Oh
It ain't easy when you fall (x3)
No, it ain't no good at all
Oh, oh hey
It ain't easy when you fall
(repeat and gradual fade)
Shades Off
Where do you go when you've somewhere to run
But the time isn't right and there's things to be done
And you're trapped half way up, you don't want to go back
So you keep going on- compromising the lack
And you see the green fields as you travel on by
And you look at the things you'd forgotten to try
And you wish you were young and you wish you were old
For the songs always sung and the stories been told
And you thought you were different but what did it mean
For you tricked yourself trying- life's still unseen
As it is, as it was, as it always will be
Will you find out at all what it is to be free
See it never was easy to live with a head
So I kept to the back room and I live there instead
What comes from the front room is only for "Friends"
I have a bay window but that's where it ends
And it's here I see pictures and my madness is clear
And there's no longer logic so therefore no fear
And I'm almost dead with uncontrollable light
Sometimes when I've written a song - it's alright...
I Get So Excited
I hear a thousand drums a million miles away
I feel the Wembley rock, I get a buzz off a big parade
I get the music everywhere
Get off on the music
If this is the end, well I don't care
I get so excited, so excited
Call me a fan that's just what I am
I said I I I I I get
So excited, So excited
My nerves are alive
I feel like a knife
I said I get so excited
I hear a choir singing way up above the sea
I feel the sound a-changing as the night rocks a spell on me
I get the music
Everywhere
Get off on the music
If this is the end well I don't care I get
So excited, So excited
I'll throw you a line, come far behind
I said I I I I I get
So excited, so excited
Its happening so fast
And the drummers a blast
I said I get so excited
By your mind oh yeah oh yeah
Excited by your warmth oh yeah oh yeah
Excited by your body oh yeah oh yeah
Excited by your...Ha ha ha ha
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, right! I get
So excited, so excited
Band on the run, just for the fun
I said I I I I I get
So excited, so excited
It lasts and it lasts
Get up off your past
I said I I I I I I I get
So excited, so excited
Call me a fan that's just what I am
I said I I I I I I I get
So excited, so excited
My nerves are alive
I feel like a knife
I said I I I I I I I I....Hey hey!
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