Beginin' to think, that I'm wastin' time
And I don't understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
And I'm countin' on you, you can carry me through
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Oh, the hours I’ve spent inside the Coliseum
Dodging lions and WASTIN' TIME
Oh, those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see ’em
Yes, it sure has been a long, hard climb
Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody
When I paint my masterpiece

Well the pistons keep on turning
And the WHEELS go round and round
The steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down

The WHEEL is turning and you can't slow down,
You can't let go and you can't hold on,
You can't go back and you can't stand still,
If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will.

I just talked to my baby on the telephone,
She said, "Stop what you're doing and baby come on home."
I can't HOLD out,
I can't hold out too long.
I get a real good feeling talking to you on the phone.

Well my telephone was ringing
And they told me it was Chairman Mao
Well my telephone was ringing
And they told me it was Chairman Mao
You can tell him anything
'Cause I just don't wanna talk to him now

Telephone down the hall
Dark and dusty on a dirty wall
Funky number scratched up above
Call this number if you need some love
Another number that's hard to read
Fools 'round here call it endlessly
But I know better, just leave it alone
Sugar man sellin' dreams on the phone

Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me somethin' I can hold on to
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and NUMBER on the wall
Jenny, I got your number
I need to make you mine

Heartache number three was when you called me
And said that you were coming back to stay
With hopeful heart I waited for your knock on the door
I waited but you must have lost your way......haha!

Now the promoter don't mind
And the union don't mind
If we take a little time
And we leave it all behind, and sing, one more song
Oh, won't you STAY
Just a little bit longer?
Please, please, please
Say you will, say you will

It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in here
And your long-time curse hurts
But what’s worse
Is this pain in here
I can’t STAY in here
Ain’t it clear that—

She's got the prettiest big brown eyes
When she's satisfied
But I'm on way back to Georgia, boys
Won't you give me a ride
I'm a LONG TIME gone
On my way back home, Lord
Long time gone, gone

And it appears to be a long
Appears to be a long, mmm
Appears to be a LONG TIME
Such a long, LONG TIME before the dawn

Time avoids no one, time is unkind
Time is a cut to the bone
Time to take care of, time to unwind
Time is a gift not a loan
Don't be a fool
Stay around for a LONG TIME
Try and find a dream

Nobody's permanent
Everything's on loan here
Even your wife and kids
Could be gone next year
And with what you have left
You'll be forever under pressure
To support her
And a lover who looks strangely
Like time the avenger

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.

Down here the river meets the sea
And in the sticky heat I feel ya' open up to me
Love comes out of nowhere baby, like a hurricane
And it feels like RAIN

Here by the sea and sand
Nothing ever goes as planned,
I just couldn't face going home
It was just a drag on my own.
They finally threw me out
My mother got drunk on stout,
My dad couldn't stand on two feet,
As he lectured about morality.
Now I guess the families complete,
With me hanging round on the street
Or here on the beach.

They killed my brother in a poker game
Damn this town, I'm leavin'
Daddy stayed DRUNK and he died insane
Damn this town, I'm leavin'
Damn this town, I mean it this time
Damn this town, I've made up my mind
Damn this town
Damn this town

I don't want no reefer right now
I never touch no junk
Just give me some bourbon whisky
I'll get my ass sloppy DRUNK
I don't want no reefer
I never touch no junk
Give me some of that Jack Daniels
and I'll get sloppy drunk

Any social occasion, it's hello, how do you do
All those introductions, I never miss my cue
So before a question, so before a doubt
My hand moves out and, I have the TOUCH

Out on the town
Lookin' for a woman
Gonna gimme good love
Anybody wanna HAND off me
And give me plenty of
She was standin' alone
Over by the juke box
Like she'd some thing to sell
I said baby what's the goin' price
She told me to go to hell
Shot down in flames
Shot down in flames
Ain't it a shame
To be shot down in flames

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'? "

Get up in the morning kick the covers from my bed
The sunlight in my eyes is playing tricks with my head
I work like a dog on the job every day
I'm tryin make some money so I can go and play

In the night time
That's the right time

There was a woman in Georgia didn't feel just right
She had fever all DAY and chills at night.
Now things got worse yes a seious bind.
At times like this it takes a man with such style I cannot often find.
A doctor of the heart and a doctor of the mind

My post was supposed to respond to stormy but heineken snuck in before me. oops. 🙁

They call it STORMY Monday
But Tuesday's just as bad.
They call it Stormy Monday
But Tuesday's just as bad.
Lord, and Wednesday's worse
And Thursday's all so sad.

😉

Monday Monday
Can't trust that day.
Monday Monday sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh Monday morning you gave me no warning of what was to come
Oh Monday MONDAY how could you leave and not take me

SOMETIMES in the mornin'
I catch a fallin' dream
Disappearin' scene
And I think about a someone
That I will never see again
And now it's only me again

SOMETIMES I feel, SOMETIMES I feel,
Like I been tied to the whippin' post.
Tied to the whippin' post, tied to the whippin' post.
Good Lord, I feel like I'm dyin'.