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(?) means doubt about the lyrics

Bailey's Walk

Bailey!

He takes some steps
And bopped his head

He spins
(turns around) (?)

Takes some steps

Yeah!

The method 
Of stop, tap, spin

No talkin'
Bailey's walk

The method 
Of stop, tap, spin

Of no talkin' 
Bailey's walk

Bailey!(2X)

On parking lots and big highways
Daily!

It's crazy
Yeah!

The method 
Of stop, tap, spin

Of no talkin' 
Bailey's walk

The method 
Of stop, tap, spin
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Born in Chicago (?)

I was born in Chicago
1971
I was born in Chicago 1970
What my father told me,
"Son, you'd better get a gun."
My first friend went down
When I was 16 years old
Oh my first friend went down
When I was 16 years old
There's one thing I can say about that boy
He gotta go
My second friend went down
When I was 17 years of age
Oh my second friend went down
When I was 17 years of age
There's one thing I can say about that boy
He gotta pray
Oh life is a lie
If you don't know how to play the game
Oh life is a lie
If you don't know how to play the game
All my friends are going
And everything's gonna stay the same
(Transcribed by Dan Moss)

Dancing the Manta Ray

Woooooo!
-Grunt-

Do the manta ray(4X)

Your head can go real screw 
with saucers chasing you

Dance the manta ray(5X)

Your head can go real screw 
with saucers chasing you

This don't swim-
-this fly
fly
c'mon

Your head can go real screw 
with saucers chasing you
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Evil Hearted You

Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces 
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi.

Corazon de diablo seguiras engañadome,
Con tu falsa sonrisa 
Y tus canciones de sirena,
Sonriendo engañando, coqueteas conmigo hasta que no hay esperanza,
Respondiendo degradando, de rodillas intento agradarte.
Pero te quiero sin embargo y te deseo piedad,
A mi lado y veras lo que significas para mi.

Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces 
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi, sobre mi.

Corazon de diablo siempre me intentas rebajar,
Con las cosas que haces 
Y las palabras que difundes contra mi,sobre mi.

Que harias sin mi,sonriendo,engañando,
Coqueteas conmigo hasta que no hay esperanza.

TRANSLATION

    Evil hearted you, you always try to lower me,
    With the things that you do and the words you spread against me.

    Evil hearted you, you will keep deceiving me,
    With your false smile and your mermaid songs,
    Smiling,deceiving,you flirt with me 'till there is no hope,
    Responding degrading, on my knees I try to befriend you.
    But I love you anyway and I wish you pity,
    Beside me and you'll see what you mean to me.

    Evil hearted you, you always try to lower me,
    With the things that you do 
    And the words you spread against me, over me.

    Evil hearted you, you always try to lower me,
    With the things that you do
    And the words you spread against me,over me.

    What would you do without me,smiling,deceiving.
    You flirt with me 'till there's no hope.
(Transcribed by Carlos Lopez)


Hang on to your Ego (The Beach Boys)

I know so many people who think they can do it alone
They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zone
What can you tell them?
What can you say that will make them defensive?
Hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know that you're gonna lose the fight
They come on like they're peaceful but inside they're so uptight
They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night
Now how can I say it?
How can I come on when I know I'm guilty?
Yeah, hang on to your ego
Hang on but I know you're gonna lose the fight
(Transcribed by Dan Moss)

I Can't Forget (Leonard Cohen)

I stumbled out of bed
I got ready for the struggle
I smoked a cigarette
And I tightened up my gut
I said this can't be me
Must be my double
And I can't forget
And I can't forget
I can't forget but I don't remember what
I'm burning up the road
I'm heading down to Phoenix
I got this old address
Of someone that I knew
It was high and fine and free
Oh you should've seen us
And I can't forget
And I can't forget
Ican't forget but I don't remember who
I'll be there today with a big bouquet of cactus
I've got this rig that runs, runs on memory
And I promise, cross my heart they'll never catch us
But if they do just tell 'em it was me
I've loved you all my life
And that's how I want to end it
The summer's almost gone
And winter's tuning up
The summer's gone but a lot goes on forever
And I can't forget
I can't forget
I can't forget, but I don't remember what
(Transcribed by Dan Moss)

I've Been Waiting for You (Neil Young)

I've been looking
For a woman
To save my life
Not to beg, or to borrow
A woman
With the feeling
Of losing once or twice
Who knows how it could be tomorrow?
I've been waiting for you
And you've been coming for me
For such a long time now
Such a long time now
A woman
With the feeling
Of losing once or twice
Who knows how it could be tomorrow?
I've been waiting for you
And you've been coming for me
For such a long time now
Such a long time now
(Transcribed by Dan Moss)

In Heaven (The Lady In The Radiator Song) (?)

In Heaven
Everything is fine

In Heaven
Everything is fine

In Heaven 
Everything is fine
You got your good thing
And I've got mine

In Heaven
Everything is fine

In Heaven
Everything is fine

In Heaven 
Everything is fine
You got a your good thing
And you've got mine

In Heaven
Everything is fine

In Heaven

In Heaven
Everything is fine
You've got a your good thing
And you've got mine

In Heaven
Every thing is fine
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Into the White

And there ain't no night
And there ain't no night

Did you hear what I said
Come into the white(?)

Into the White(3X)

And there ain't no day
And there ain't no day

And there ain't no night 
And there ain't no night

Into the White(3X)

Did you hear what I said?
Did you hear what I said?

Deeper than your sleepy haed
Deeper than your sleepy head

Ain't nothin' to see
Ain't nothin' in sight

Into the white(3X)

Go, and you'll go real far
Go, and you'll go real far

Just past the big quasar
Just past the big quasar

Can't hitch a meteorite
Can't hitch a meteorite

Into the white(13X)
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Make Believe

I've been lost
Since she's gone
The piano
She's really on
I don't want you to
Marry me
Make believe
You're Debbie G
Come look down on
Who you are
She is love
With a voice
And a shape that's my guitar
I don't want you
You want me
Make believe
You're Debbie G
Make believe
You're Debbie G
Make believe
You're Debbie G
(Transcribed by Dan Moss)

Manta Ray

All in a day
All for me
Trek across the space
It'll be just like they say

Oo, oo, 
Oo, oo
Yeah

Since I am told
Month number three
He has no memory
Of flyers in the night

Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah

They went away(2X)
My manta ray is all right(4X)

Police they say
My mother too
A fish from Mon Shamoo(?)
Above my head tonight

Oo, oo
Oo, oo
Yeah

There is a way(2X)
My manta ray is all right(7X)
     (While Black Francis screams "All right!")
All right
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Rock a my Soul

I turned you on the roof
to shine your face at me.
Drink wine from your tears, rollin'.
Holly molly, 
Rock a my-
soul.

Hey, rock a my soul (4)
hard.

I'm waiting!
We're waiting!
for electric- 
in a manor.

I'm waiting.
We're waiting,
sister shaking.

Harder I try,
although, (?)
harder I feel,
like a 
Coletrain-
No brain.
Rock a my soul!

Hey, rock a my soul.
Hey, rock a my soul!
Oh, rock a my soul!
Hey, rock a my soul,
hard.

I'm waiting.
We're waiting,
for electric-
in a manor
 
I'm waiting. 
We're waiting!
(Transcribed by Christopher L. Messina)

Santo

By the old seaside

Ain't no place far to go
I don't know

I don't know
Ain't no place far to go

It's a dollar, she say
Te amo le mas
Te amo le mas

Santo(4X)

Hey ya' boy
How ya' doin'
Come here boy(?)

Here she come a slitherin'
-duh, duh, grunt, duh-

Here she come a slitherin'
Che cha chu bah che cha(?)

Te amo le mas
Te amo le mas

Santo(4X)

Buzzard eels(?)
Buzzer bikinis(?)
Eat your rouge(?)
A chini weinies(?)
A warm gardeda(??)
Da' mamacita
-duh-
A poutin' grandma
In a corner
A passin' time

Hey, hey(?)
Praying to far to(?)

Santo(4X)
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Weird at my School

1-2-3-4

My father lives in Arabia
And I live right here at my school

I took his plane to Columbia
So I could sail at my school(?) *

It's weird at my school
Weird at my school(3X)

My mother's glad that I am here
So she can visit my school

I can't believe she's so pretty
I'm a son of a bitch at my school

Weird at my school(4X)

And my best friend, my cousin Eleanor
She lives far away from the doors of my school

And often times, you know I fantasize
That I have sex with the nuns at my school

It's weird at my school
Weird at my school(7X)
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

* : or "So I could sell at my school" (according to Rhys Henry Mason)


Winterlong (Neil Young)

I waited for you winterlong
You seemed to be where I belong
It's all illusion anyway

If things should ever turn out wrong
And all the love we have is gone
It won't be easy
On that day

Waiting to follow 
Through the dream light of your way
Is not so easy for me now

After time has passed your way 
Things we thought of yesterday
Come back now
Comeback now
Whoahohhh

Waiting to follow 
Through the dream light of your way
Is not so easy for me now

After time has passed your way 
Things we thought of yesterday
Come back now
Comeback now
Whoahohhh

I waited for you winterlong
You seemed to be where I belong (repeat both lines 6X in sequence)
(Transcribed by Moses Boole)

Last Updated 11-30-98