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1.
Love to rock ya girl, that's what I'm sayin' Love to rock ya, won't you let me roll ya Love to rock ya girl and you'll be swayin Love to rock ya let the music cajole ya I'm a nonstop rocker so I'll give it it shot If you just let it happen, I'll be finding your perfect spot That's not just a promise, I guarantee that you will be much happier with me oh how I long to see you coming Love to rock ya girl, that's why I do it Love to rock ya won't you let me take you Love to rock ya right away you knew it Love to rock ya let this guitar shake you I'm a lifelong rocker and I don't have the time to take all my words and figure out how to make em rhyme but I'll make one exception girl in your case if you admit to me that I am not offbase when I say baby I know you love me too Love to rock ya girl, that's what I'm sayin' Love to rock ya, won't you let me roll ya Love to rock ya girl and I'll be stayin Love to rock ya, hey I might get to know ya I'm a fulltime rocker but I've never been free to come out and tell ya baby how much you mean to me This is as good as anytime girl to start From here on out we're nevah gonna be apart oh so many things we'll do together Love to rock ya girl, that's what I'm sayin' Love to rock ya, won't you let me roll ya Love to rock ya girl and you'll be swayin Love to rock ya let the music cajole ya Love to rock ya girl, that's why I do it Love to rock ya won't you let me take you Love to rock ya right away you knew it Love to rock ya let this guitar shake you Love to rock ya girl, that's what I'm sayin' Love to rock ya, won't you let me roll ya Love to rock ya girl and I'll be stayin Love to rock ya, hey I might get to know ya
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She just doesn't care about tomorrow would rather ride what today will bring Cup runneth over with such potential but she isn’t noticing Everything’s gonna be alright as long as the stars come out at night Rebel wind blows thru her hair In the meantime she just doesn’t care She just doesn't care about obligations No one's gonna hold her to the things she says Just wants to go out, and she’ll take her music She’ll follow her impulses Everything’s gonna be alright as long as the stars come out at night Doesn’t know life’s not fair She‘s just livin‘, she just doesn’t care care care care She just doesn’t care about the future She just needs time to charge her phone No heavy conscience to hold her back now Guilt, she has never known Everything’s gonna be alright as long as the stars come out at night Looks out at the world so unaware from her deck perch She just doesn’t care care care care care care care care She just doesn't care
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Everybody's into their own thing They only care about what's it it for me Everybody's into their own thing Not a thought about posterity Seems you find it hard to step back and see the world as a whole (the only one you think exists is your lost soul) I wish that I could make clear that all the things that I do are not about only me but they're for you too Everybody's into their own thing They only care about what's it it for me Everybody's into their own thing Not a thought about posterity You've been telling me you lost hope so now you're out for yourself (but that really means you'll be like everyone else) No you won't give of yourself unless there's some return What happened to the good fight You say you got burned I think it's time that your lameass starts to again give a fuck (like you used to back before your heart got stuck) The world that you're so down on doesn't have a prayer until more people like you start to show up there Everybody's into their own thing They only care about what's it it for me Everybody's into their own thing Not a thought about posterity (We're all into our own thing) I don't know what to do anymore, I try to lead by example (We insist on our own thing) Seems everything I do, it's just not ample (The main thing that matters, our own thing) My good intentions, you're always tryin to trample (We're all into our own thing) I give ya everything I got, I tell ya - here's a sample Everybody's into their own thing They only care about what's it it for me Everybody's into their own thing Not a thought about posterity C'mon now folks, let's sing it! Not together of course, maybe on your own? There used to be a little thing they called unity, but apparantly that bird has long flown Remember when people used to talk about changin the world, and the things that mattered? Now we're all so independent, all our hopes and dreams are scattered My own thing My own thing Everybody's into their own thing They only care about what's it it for me Everybody's into their own thing Not a thought about posterity
4.
I Can't Say 02:33
Oh you wanna know what I'm angstin for why I'm always yearnin for somethin more I can't say I can't say but I think about this problem every day Oh I got the cream but it will not rise So then what is wrong, let me emphasize I can't say I can't say but it seems as ifa my monkey won't go away There ain't no way to the fate you sought Why are things that matter an afterthought? I can't say I can't say but I'm burnin up on the inside to my dismay Where ya headed to now ? There ain't no place for you now One thing that is true now You're never breakin thru now but that's nothing new now so Whatchu gonna do now ? huh? huh? huh? So you ask me hey, what's this all about Tell you why the bottom just dropped out I can't say I can't say but it seems as if these issues are here to stay
5.
Argue 03:58
Squawkin' at my face Has it only been an hour since you came and took my time away ? If you were in my place would your ears be cauliflower ? Well at any rate I'm sure you would not want to stay And you wanna know why I argue You should see what you are saying And you wanna know why I argue I disproved that point before in the very first 2 minutes Oh, you seem to have a listening impediment This is not a tug of war but you seem to want to win it Later when I'm gone, you'll wonder where the answers went And you wanna know why I argue Are you hearing what I'm saying ? And you wanna know why I argue Who gave you my number ? Please don't call me here no more It seems the time has come for me to tear that damn phone right off of the wall Oh you spout off anything so I get to watch your brain work Let me tell you, it is not a pretty sight to see You get off on arguing but your words are just a kneejerk Sometimes you don't even know it if we do agree And you wanna know why I argue Do you see your branches swaying ? And you wanna know why I argue And you wanna know why I argue Do you feel your edges fraying ? And you wanna know why I argue
6.
All Along 04:23
All along I knew but I didn't know better There's another side to every story It wasn't yours, and it wasn't my fault but if I didn't care tell me why would I be standing here instead of keeping with my disappearing act I emerged from somewhere in the black abyss Came to tell you that it wasn't all for naught but I can't say I was there in spirit all along I thought we'd get it together but that's not why I came to see you Hey, I know it's been a very long time but nothing's really changed Snap your fingers and those years are gone but am I still the way that you remember me Just a man of unrequited dreams and such ? If you think I took the wrong direction then Hey, I really didn't mean to change so much when you told me you would always rather have my respect instead of just a friend in need Guess you never figured out who needed who I'd been so much better off not listening all along You were wrong with most of your assumptions You were led astray by those you trusted I only had your interests in mind You really jumped the gun cause it turns out I told the truth with a dollar in my hand, the time has come oh, to see if I can put the past behind though it seems that I have gotten nowhere fast if you only knew, you'd say I'm doin' fine but I've lost a lot of blood along the way gave a lot of people just a stitch in time who are never gonna be the same again Gave them all I could but I held onto what was mine Walkin' by the ocean Days are passing slowly lookin' straight ahead not tryin' to remember If i did it all again there'd be no way to change things I don't have the chance cause now it is December All my lousy ties are gone for years and many moons now and I've come to know it's never gonna happen Oh, I have so much to give with nothing for the taking If I stopped to think my wings would soon be flappin' All along I knew but I didn't know better There's another side to every story It wasn't yours, and it wasn't my fault and the man that never saw the looking glass has a burning fire inside the belly still Everybody wondered what the difference was but did anybody ever notice who was gone ? Oh, the one who made the magic happen just moved on but did anybody ever notice who was gone when the one who made the magic happen left at dawn ?
7.
Too Stupid 06:11
I saw today, I saw today on a morning talk show They brought out a bunch of teenage mothers sat em down in a long row Later on, they had some younger yet on Geraldo and I thought .. They were too stupid to use a rubber Oh too stupid to use a rubber He stuck it in, he stuck it in and the feeling took over You'll see one more casual kid crawlin' into this world Oh, the girl with the lollipop wanted to be a mother but the sorry life they're forced to live, that kid will never recover and before she could solve that problem, now she's gonna have another and another fucked up kid's a comin' into this world 2, 4, 6, 8 fucked up kids takin' over this world Hey, who's to say that child'll grow up to lead a life of crime ? But I gotta tell ya buddy, I'll take that bet 3 kids soon runnin' wild are born for every one that's raised and with that kind of ratio, what kinda world you gonna get ? Were you too stupid ? It was thunder and lightning I tell ya it don't take no brains to be doin' the wild thing Oh, and I for one don't wanna see what the stork brings when another demon sets foot upon this world You were too stupid That's why I'm tryin' to school ya So stupid That's why I ridicule ya She was too stupid (stupid) to make him wear a rubber She's so stupid (stupid) she believes that he loves her ("Well, that's what he told me") She's not halfway close to even bein' remotely able to comprehend the gist of what it means to know the slightest thing about tryin' to be a mother Hey, where is the father ("Yeah, where is he ?") He was too stupid to use a rubber Oh, he likes to do it raw, then he won't even call her He's a dawg now, dawg now, only wanted to ball her Whoops, another fatherless child thrown into this world a lot of degenerate kids doin' time in this world I'm not talkin' 'bout the so very few who manage to manage Oh, I'm talkin' 'bout most of you, your lives filled with anguish It don't help you've been here all your life, still can't speak the language ("I'm only tellin' the troof") and I gotta believe when they tell me "Don't go down that street" Yeah, they tell me if I go to a certain neighborhood, I'm dead meat multiply like rabbits . . Got drunk now, drunk now, did the Love Me Tender So drunk now you don't even remember What did you do ? Well, now she is due, she's due in December and a perpetrator is born, brought up in that world and one more woman wishes she'd stayed a little girl She was too stupid, she wanted to hook him (hook him) So stupid but I guess she mistook him (I guess she mistook him) Now that you got yourself knocked up, well who's gonna book ? Him Oh your plan didn't work out too good and you gotta decide but in neither of your 2 choices do you end up a bride They were too stupid to use a rubber They both have a parttime job but they don't get enough hours Pull it out, you couldn't pull it out and she wanted the power over some poor innocent child that shoulda never been born and not far from the tree falls another acorn So stupid
8.
The first time that I saw her rage, it wasn't me that did the crime I erased the blackboard good just like she told me to but a curly-headed kid named Charlie wrote all over it again in time for her to come back into the room and with a look I'd never seen before Soon I was peeking in thru the window and wonderin' 'bout why she made me stand outside the door My heart stopped when I saw her pull it down from its hanging spot That giant wooden paddle Yeah, she gave me her forget-me-not I was the victim of Miss Wills' frustration I was the one who just happened to be there when she snapped I was the scapegoat for her situation It was a bum rap The next time she let out her anger, it was just another schoolyard fight Then 4 of us motley guys lined up to take her wrath That time, she didn't whuup me quite as hard, I guess cause there were witnesses but a funny thing did happen Rusty ran down the hall before Miss Wills could ream his ass out the backdoor to the playground and none of us ever saw him run so fast She went to see where he was goin' but poor Rusty disappeared into the woods When he showed up the next day I was sure that he'd get it good but he was no victim of Miss Wills' frustration She let him off the hook, I guess, cause she liked his fear Yeah, he never did receive his flagellation There was no justice here It was a symptom of Miss Wills' frustration when she made up crazy lies to tell my mom Did she feel she needed justification ? 4th grade was Vietnam The third time she let out her pain, well I almost deserved it then for running backwards in the compulsory May Day race embarrassed her in front of the teachers, me and Ralph made a big mistake She made him stand around the corner so he couldn't see the kind of torment she could bring and she gave it to me 10 times counting right along but it was shouting more than anything For a second she just lost it like she was locked in a spanking loop I was bawling like a baby Looking back I never did regroup I was a victim of Miss Wills' Frustration Ralph told me later she only hit him twice Not me, I learned humiliation My ass a sacrifice
9.
Bully Baby 03:15
He's such a mess He's gomeresque and he's such a cunt when he's makin' threats Gets a thought in his head and then he gets like a big bulldozer just plowin' thru on wrecking day Throws wacked out tantrums, freaks out til he gets his way That bully (bully) babay (babay) wants what he wants and his neck is red That bully (bully) babay (babay) you can't penetrate his butcherblockhead He's a liar too His face turns blue when you got his number and you turn the screws Yeah, even his friends won't tell him what's true cause they've seen all the shit that he does when he gets pissed He's said himself what he is is a terrorist That bully (bully) babay (babay) bozo blood and fascist genes That bully (bully) babay (babay) thinks his rear end justifies the means That bully baby man he's got no soul Bad karma's gonna come and take its toll, troll That bully (bully) babay (babay) Do what he wants or you'll hear his threats such a bully (bully) babay (babay) veins poppin out of his big forehead He's a bully (bully) babay (babay) He's such a dunce and his neck is red That bully (bully) babay (babay) you can't penetrate his butcherblockhead He's a bully He's a baby He's a bully (bully) He's a baby (babay) He's a bully baby bully baby bully (bully) baby (baby) bully (bully) Wwwwwooooooaaw
10.
Well, here we go with the same shit again, and I know it wasn't my fault Oh you led me down a dark road again - and I couldn't come to a halt So how did I end up losin' again ? All my good intentions were just money to spend and I was sure that you were my friend I was just so sure that you were my friend but I, I believe in karma It's a factor It's a force I, I believe in karma I'm a gonna get mine and you're gonna get yours Well, I just keep on believin in people but I'm disbelievin' their ways I just keep on givin, givin myself and I always end up amazed Oh how did I end up kicked in the head by the one who I always put first instead Oh, I guess you forgot all the things that you said I guess you forgot all the things that you said but I, I believe in karma It's a factor It's a force I, I believe in karma I'm a gonna get mine and you're gonna get yours oh I, I believe in karma It's a factor It's a force I, I believe in karma I'm a gonna get mine and you're gonna get yours Well, it's time for me to be movin' along to another moment in time Of course I'm left to start at the bottom, I'm so used to makin' that climb So why am I still here wantin' to try when I know I'll only end up denied ? Yeah, you'll only keep on tellin your lies You'll only keep on tellin your lies but I, I believe in karma It's a factor It's a force I, I believe in karma I'm a gonna get mine and you're gonna get yours I believe in karma I believe in karma I believe in karma
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So Reluctant 07:20
Caught you abusin’ my name and for all to see So I exposed you and snatched up your dignity Guess it's not the same when your karma comes back at you They just didn’t stop, so I did what I had to do (They wanna destroy me but they're makin me stronger) (They wanna destroy me but they're makin me stronger) (They wanna destroy me but they're makin me stronger) (They wanna destroy me but they're makin me stronger) Here they are now still hating my timely ways Some things are long past but for them that feeling stays I becken them from the dark with my shining light (with my shining light) But they’ve been to the rumormill so they want to fight They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant to give the last rock hope his due I know I’m the virtual king, do I want to be ? I really don’t have a choice, they show such envy (oh such envy) Won’t give me the benefit, cause I am FT Oh, I’m not the king of your world, well, just wait and see You’re so reluctant You’re so reluctant You’re so reluctant to give the last rock hope his due You know I'm the king of your world, why do you deny me ? When I feel the depth of your wrath, you're affirming me (oh yeah, you're affirming me) Though you know I'm the king of your world, you won't set me free but I'll make my mark in Time, I'm the bottomless sea You'll never kill my spirit (My lifeblood's gonna flow) You'll never kill my spirit (My lifeblood's gonna flow) You'll never kill my spirit (My lifeblood's gonna flow) You'll never kill my spirit (My lifeblood's gonna flow) They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant to give the last rock hope his due They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant They’re so reluctant to give the last rock hope his due They wanna destroy me but they're makin me stronger ...
12.
Virtual Star 04:30
I'm a virtual star I'm a virtual star Hey, everybody knows my name But I’m not gettin too far I'm a barrel of time goin' over the falls I'm the great big tidal wave when the ice cap thaws and lately It don’t matter too much what’s the truth and what’s a lie Time’s standin’ still, so you make up your own mind I'm so stuck in my head that I'm out of my head My mind is so alive that I'm practically dead I don’t know what I want I don’t know what I need And since I don’t seem to know shit How’s a guy to succeed ? One day you looked up to find Time was knocking on your door Was it too late to still want something more ? I'm a virtual man but I'm not virtually hard Am I just that throbbing fool in your virtual backyard ? I'm so caught up in you Am I that caught up in you That I just care what time it is ? Hey, but that’s what you do That’s what you do I know I’m way too obvious But there’s some things you can’t hide Time opened up and you took me for a ride I know what I need I have no clue what I want but there ain’t no alarm clock set That I’ll tell you upfront I'm the virtual king of this virtual thing and I can’t even tell what’s real and I’m not even looking I'm a virtual star Just me and my guitar Time to go cruising down the road in the virtual car virtual car I’m a virtual . .
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Incorrigible 04:51
I really wish I wasn't such a restless guy I never have been able to let sleeping dogs lie I lay it all right out there and you never know what you'll get That legendary mythological character that you’ve met It seems I'm always fighting the whole Planet But hey, don't look at me, I didn't plan it. Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Seems I mighta been born that way He gets his ass in trouble with all the things he says His life would be much better if he'd only stayed anonymous When he is nice too long he gets those hunger pangs He feels the urge compel him and then he does his thang His words shoot through the sky like Halley’s comet He always has the need he just can’t calm it. Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible (I just can't help it) Incorrigible Incorrigible I think he might've been born that way He’s always in the middle but he’s always out of line You better not let him take your words and put you in a bind Sometimes I flash awareness and I don't like what I see How did that righteous singer turn out to be FT By now you really should know, he just can't help it But your reaction turned it into a hellpit Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible (I just can't help it) Incorrigible Incorrigible I think I mighta been born that way Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible (No, I just can't help it) Incorrigible Incorrigible Seems I’ve always been torn that way Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible Seems I mighta been born that way Incorrigible Incorrigible Incorrigible (I just can't help it) Incorrigible Incorrigible Seems I’ve always been torn that way
14.
Big Fish 02:52
I'm always dissed by anonymous cause they like to grope at the last rock hope I'm so misconstrued bein' the Marquee Dude so I clean your clock like the future of rock It ain't easy bein' FT but it ain't too bad I know that I'm the best lovah that you ever had .. I'm a * big fish in a * small pond The one you always talk about, I'm blue eyed and I'm blonde a * big fish in a * small pond If you haven't noticed I'm a damned phenomenon I got lotsa hits but they don't mean shit I got enemy to the bottomless sea I got a way with words, but my message is blurred by the jealous fools and their lying drool but here I am right now still doin' my thang It's so hard to say my peeps what tomorrow will brang I'm a * big fish in a * small pond You'll probably never admit it but you know you're very fond I'm a * big fish in a * small pond You know I be belongin' in the upper eschelon I'm sanctified by the whispers of truth Adversity can make you a king I'm a * big fish in a * small pond The one you always talk about, I'm blue eyed and I'm blonde a * big fish in a * small pond If you haven't noticed I'm a damned phenomenon I'm a * big fish in a * small pond You'll probably never admit it but you know you're very fond I'm a * big fish in a * small pond Father Time's the one who has the coolest songs Big Fish Small Pond Big Fish Small Pond Big Fish Small Pond
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Not Gonna 00:17

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