Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:48:17 +0200 "Gunnar Hedlund" "Hans Settler" Thanks to Gunnar! @ARTIST: Warren Zevon @ALBUM: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School 1. Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School 2. A Certain Girl 3. Jungle Work 4. Empty-Handed Heart 5. Play It All Night Long 6. Jeannie Needs A Shooter 7. Bill Lee 8. Gorilla, You're A Desperado 9. Bed Of Coals 10. Wild Age @SONG: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School bad luck streak in dancing school down on my knees in pain bad luck streak in dancing school swear to God I'll change swear to God I'll change swear to God I'll change swear to God I'll change Pauline, don't make me beg bad luck streak in dancing school down on my knees in pain I've been acting like a fool Pauline I swear I'll change down on my knees in pain ... bad luck streak in dancing school down on my knees in pain I've been breaking all the rules swear to God I'll change swear to God I'll change ... down on my knees in pain ... @SONG: A Certain Girl well, there's a certain girl I've been in love with a long, long time what's her name, I can't tell you, aah I can't reveal her name until she's mine what's her name, I can't tell you, aah I've tried to make her time and time again still we're introduced as nothing but friends and there's a certain girl I've been in love with a long, long time what's her name, I can't tell you, aah there's a certain chick I've been sweet on since I met her what's her name, I can't tell you, aah I can't reveal her name until I get her what's her name, I can't tell you, aah someday I'm gonna wake up and say I'll do anything just to be your slave and there's a certain girl I've been in love with a long, long time what's her name, I can't tell you, aah there's a certain girl I've been in love with a long, long time what's her name, I can't tell you, aah I can't reveal her name until she's mine what's her name, I can't tell you, aah I've tried to make her time and time again still we're introduced as nothing but friends and there's a certain girl I've been in love with a long, long time what's her name, I can't tell you, aah what's her name, I can't tell you ... @SONG: Jungle Work lear jet S.W.A.T team on a midnight run with the M16 and the Ingram gun we parachute in, we parachute out death from above, we're screaming now where the pay is good and the risk is high it's understood we'll do or die sten gun in hand where the gun is law from Ovamboland to Nicaragua strength and muscle and jungle work ... three young men in a Russian truck with a little M-10 sent 'em running to the huts these few young men, the few who dare to battle in hell, Le Mercenaire strength and muscle and jungle work ... @SONG: Empty-Handed Heart all these empty places I try so hard to fill will I find another love I pray to God I will girl, we had some good times but time does not stand still it's rolling like a rockslide down a hill I've met someone I care for, I know she cares for me will I fall in love again, it's a possibility girl, we had some good times that time cannot undo no one will ever take the place of you heart jinxed condition, never sure how I feel trying to separate the real thing from the wishful thinking sometimes I wonder if I'll make it without you I'm determined to I'll make my stand and if after all is said and done you only find one special one then I've thrown down diamonds in the sand ... (remember when we used to watch the sun set in the sea you said you'd always be in love with me all through the night, we danced and sang made love in the morning while the church bells rang) leave the fire behind you and start I'll be playing it by ear left here with an empty-handed heart @SONG: Play It All Night Long grandpa pissed his pants again he don't give a damn brother Billy has both guns drawn he ain't been right since Vietnam sweet home Alabama play that dead band's song turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long daddy's doing Sister Sally grandma's dying of cancer now the cattle all have brucellosis we'll get through somehow sweet home Alabama play that dead band's song turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long I'm going down to the Dew Drop Inn see if I can drink enough there ain't much to country living sweat, piss, jizz and blood sweet home Alabama play that dead band's song turn those speakers up full blast play it all night long @SONG: Jeannie Needs A Shooter I was born down by the river where the dirty water flows and the cold wind cut through me, it cut right through my clothes and the anger and the yearning, like fever in my veins set the fire burning she came down from Knightstown with her hands hard from the line from the first time I laid eyes on her I knew that she'd be mine her father was a lawman, he swore he'd shoot me dead 'cause he knew I wanted Jeannie and I'd have her like I said Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter ... we met down by the river on the final day in May and when I leaned down to kiss her, she did not turn away I drew out all my money and together we did vow to leave that very evening and a-get away somehow Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter like me Jeannie needs a shooter Jeannie needs a shooter, shooter on her side Jeannie needs a shooter ... the night was cold and rainy down by the borderline I was riding hard to meet her when a shot rang out behind as I lay there in the darkness with a pistol by my side Jeannie and her father rode off into the night Jeannie needs a shooter @SONG: Bill Lee you're supposed to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things man, that's hard to do and if you don't, they'll screw you and if you do, they'll screw you, too when I'm standing in the middle of the diamond all alone I always play to win when it comes to skin and bone and sometimes I say things I shouldn't like and sometimes I say things I shouldn't like @SONG: Gorilla, You're A Desperado big gorilla at the L.A. Zoo snatched the glasses right off my face took the keys to my BMW left me here to take his place I wish the ape a lot of success I'm sorry my apartment's a mess most of all I'm sorry if I made you blue I'm betting the gorilla will too they say Jesus will find you wherever you go but when he'll come looking for you, they don't know in the mean time, keep your profile low gorilla, you're a desperado he built a house on an acre of land he called it Villa Gorilla now I hear he's getting divorced laying low at L'Ermitage, of course then the ape grew very depressed went through Transactional Analysis he plays racquetball and runs in the rain still he's shackled to a platinum chain big gorilla at the L.A. Zoo snatched the glasses right off my face took the keys to my BMW left me here to take his place @SONG: Bed Of Coals I've been lying in a bed of coals I've been cryng out of control I roll and I tumble every time I come down I'm too old to die young and too young to die now I've been sleeping on a bed of nails I've been bleeding, it never fails I feel every needle that pierced through my heart I'm too old to die young and I can't play the part bed of coals, bed of nails through the smoke behind the veils bed of coals, bed of nails through the smoke behind the veils I've been lying in a bed of stone I've been dying all alone I pray for the power to turn it around I'm too old to die young and too young to die now bed of coals, bed of nails through the smoke behind the veils bed of coals, bed of nails through the smoke behind the veils @SONG: Wild Age you've seen him leaning on the streetlight listening to some song inside you've seen him standing by the highway trying to hitch a ride well, they tried so hard to hold him heaven knows how hard they tried but he's made up his mind he's the restless kind he's the wild age ... wild age , it's the wild age and the law can't stop 'em no one can stop 'em at the wild age mostly when the reckless years end something's left to save some of them keep running 'til they run straight in their graves to stay the wild age stay the wild age ... mostly when the reckless years end something's left to save some of them keep running 'til they run straight in their graves to stay the wild age wild age ...