The dogs were barking as the cars were parking
The loan sharks were sharking the narcs were narcing
Practically everyone was there
In the parking lot by the forest preserve
The police had found two bodies
Nay, naked bodies
Their faces had been horribly disfigured by some sharp object
Saw it on the news
On the TV news
In a black and white video
You know what blood looks like in a black and white video?
Shadows, Shadows that's exactly what it looks like
All the love we shared between her and me was slammed
Slammed up against the banks of Old Lake Marie, Marie

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Well if you're down in Jacksonville
stay away from rainbow grill
It's a juke joint, it's a dive,
the people there ain't nuthin' but jive
It's a haven for hookers yeah,
It's a redneck PARADISE

Downstairs at Danny's all-star JOINT
They got a juke box that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, they stay in the back all day
But when the nighttime comes, hey-hey
There's this cat down there that makes a bad kinda soup
I come around struttin' my luck in my shoop coupe
Cecil gives me coffee
And he won't never take my coin
I say, " I got thirty dollars in my pocket!
Whatchoo doin'? "

I don't bother chasing mice around, oh, no
I slink down the alley looking for a fight
Howling to the moonlight on a hot summer night
Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry
Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy
I wish I could be as carefree and wild
But I got cat class, and I got cat style

She has the wind as a witness
She has feelings that fly by night
She believes in forgiveness
But it's not love if it holds too tight
She's a child, of the WILD blue yonder
Flying out of here
She's a child of the wild blue yonder
Born in an angel's wing

Well I'm-a just outa school, like I'm real real cool
Gotta shake, gotta jive
Got the message that I gotta be alive, I'm a wild one
Ooh yay I'm a wild one
Oo-oo-ooh baby, gonna break loose, I'm gonna keep her movin' wild
I'm gonna keep her shakin' baby, I'm a real wild child
I meet all the guys, I'm gonna meet all the chicks
Shiver and a shake it till I get-a my kicks
'Cause I'm a wild one, Ooh yay I'm a wild one

[Edited on 7/7/2015 by fanfrom-71]

Well, the moon sank as the wind blew
And the street lights slowly died
Yeah they call you the WILD ONE
Said stay away from her
Said she couldn't love no one if she tried

Baby, Culver me
And I'll Culver you
When the streets are shining with the smoggy dew
When the lights are glowing with the mists of June
And the whole world is lit up by the Culver MOON

Standing on the moon
Where talk is cheap and vision true
Standing on the moon
But I would rather be with you
Somewhere in San Francisco
On a back porch in July
Just looking up to heaven
At this crescent in the sky

Standing on the moon
With nothing left to do
A lovely view of heaven
But I'd rather be with you - be with you

He sees her on that back PORCH swing
And l believe he would do anything
Stand all night in the pourin' rain
To wash her memory from his brain

Stand
In the end you'll still be you
One that's done all the things you set out to do
Stand
There's a cross for you to bear
Things to go through if you're going anywhere
Stand
For the things you know are right
It s the truth that the truth makes them so uptight
Stand
All the things you want are real
You have you to complete and there is no deal
Stand. stand, stand
Stand. stand, stand
Stand

You come home in the evening
Turn the TV on
You ain't GOING nowhere
You just ride along, ride along, ride along

Buy me a flute
and a gun that shoots
tailgates and substitutes
strap yourself
to the tree with roots you aint GOING nowhere

The man has a gun
He knows how to use it
Nine millimeter browning
Let's see what he can do

Happiness is a warn gun (bang bang shoot shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun (bang bang shoot shoot)
When I hold you in my arms
and I feel my finger on your trigger
I know nobody can do my no harm

It's a game of all or nothing,
there is nowhere safe to run,
Someone might just pull the trigger,
cause temptation is a GUN.

[Edited on 7/18/2015 by MundeleinHoward]

There's trouble on the street tonight, I can feel it in my bones
I had a premonition that he should not go alone
I knew the gun was loaded, but I didn't think he'd kill
Everything exploded, and the blood began to spill
So baby, here's your ticket, and the suitcase in your hand
Here's a little money, now do it just the way we planned
You be cool for twenty hours, and I'll pay you twenty grand
I'm sorry it went down like this, but someone had to lose
It's the nature of the business, it's the smuggler's blues
Smuggler's blues

I guess you think it's all a game
SOMEONE gets hurt, SOMEONE gets blamed
You don't seem to realize
There's SOMEONE else
In my eyes

What a wicked GAME you play,
to make me feel this way.
What a wicked thing to do,
to let me dream of you.
What a wicked thing to say,
you never felt this way.
What a wicked thing to do,
to make me dream of you

Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked
Money don't grow on trees
I got bills to pay
I got mouths to feed
And ain't nothing in this world for free
No I can't slow down
I can't hold back
Though you know I wish I could
No there ain't no rest for the wicked
Until we close our eyes for good

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

Don't care how long you're gone
Don't care how long you stay
It's good, kind treatment
Bring you home someday
Somebody baby, you ain't gonna TROUBLE poor me
Anymore

I'd lay my head on the railroad tracks
And wait for the Double "E"
But the railroad don't run no more
Poor, poor pitiful me

I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this RAILROAD
I'm walkin' all around lookin' up and down this train
All I gotta see is a place for me to grab a hold of
And I'll be on this train and I won't be back again

Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Train I ride, sixteen coaches long
Well, that long black train got my baby and gone

Well, I ride on a mail TRAIN, baby
Can’t buy a thrill
Well, I’ve been up all night, baby
Leanin’ on the windowsill
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don’t make it
You know my baby will

I'm gonna take a freight train down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain, Lord
And gonna jump off, ain’t nobody gonna know
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman, Lord
She been doin' to me
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, been doin' to me

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away.

Well, hear us now, we AIN'T wastin' time no more
'Cause time goes by like hurricanes
Runnin' after subway trains
Don't forget the pouring rain.