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Moe Berg: guitar, vocals; Dave Gilby: drums; Kris Abbott: vocals, guitar; Brad Barker: bass; Rachel Oldfield: additional vocals. Producer: Ed Stasium. Guest musicians: Ed Stasium, additional percussion; Paul McCandless, oboe solo on "But I Do"; Todd Rundgren, 1st guitar solo on "Love Theme From TPOH." All songs by Moe Berg except "A Villa In Portugal" lyrics by Jules Shear, music by Jules Shear and Moe Berg; © 1993 EMI April Music (Canada) / The Pursuit of Tunes; "The Downward Road (intro)" performed by the Staple Singers, written by R. Staples, licensed from Charly International Aps.
Female vocal lines in italics
Cigarette Dangles
Cigarette dangles - makes me hard / Kidnap me throw me in the back of your car
/ Take me to your room where the flowers hang like bats / Poison me with liquor
then break out the party hats / Kiss me till you hurt me, then again until I'm
numb / Burn holes in my neck with the venom of your tongue / Remind me again
how lucky I am right now / Laugh at my body but then turn off the light and
put out /
Cigarette dangles I wanna ride the big wave / Open up the bomb bay / I wanna ride that wave I wanna ride the big wave / open up the bomb bay /
Your cigarette dangles, my flesh is weak / Pedal to the metal darlin', 'cause I'm about to peak / Now sit up straight, hook your legs through the rocking chair / I wanna find a new way to show you how I care /
Cigarette dangles I wanna ride the big wave / Open up the bomb bay / I wanna ride that wave I wanna ride the big wave / open up the bomb bay /
Move your hair off your face so I can find your lips / Want to taste pepper on your mouth and on your fingertips / I hear the cats scratching at the door / You say, "I'll feed them later, / Get back on the floor"
Cigarette dangles I wanna ride the big wave / Open up the bomb bay / I wanna ride that wave I wanna ride the big wave / open up the bomb bay /
Nobody But Me
Who's gonna make your tea in the morning like I do / Who's gonna rub your back
when you come home from work / Who's gonna make you up every night like I do
/ Who's gonna let you go and never ask you where you were / All those other
guys / The ones you've been playing with / You never know what they're gonna
give you / You never know what you're gonna get /
Who's gonna clean and perfume your bras like I do / Who's gonna make your macaroni and cheese / Who's gonna kiss you between the legs like I do / Who's gonna bite your ankles and your knees / Who's gonna understand / When you're always getting out of hand / Who's gonna bring it back / When you get so hard to crack /
Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one /
Who's gonna hold your hand in church like I do / Who's gonna hold your head when you come home drunk / Who's gonna risk his life in your bed like I do / Who's gonna risk his freedom buying you your drugs / You may not think I'm a lot / But I'm the only motherfucker you've got / Who's gonna grab you when you're ready / And leave you alone when you're not /
Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one /
You may not think I'm a lot / But I'm the only motherfucker you've got / Who's gonna grab you when you're ready / And leave you alone when you're not /
Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one / Nobody but me nobody, no one /
I’m Ashamed of Myself
There isn't a way that you can kiss me / That I haven't already imagined / There
isn't a way that you can touch me / That you haven't just by looking in my eyes
/ But it stops right there and it goes no further / All I have is the loneliness
of desire / I want to ask you out but I'm just too shy / So I sit alone and
think of what I'd do /
I don't want to be bad but I can't help it / I don't want to be bad but I can't think straight / I don't want to be bad -- you're not making it easy / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself /
I don't mean to blame you because I'm so neurotic / Am I allowed to talk of something so real / An emotional bulimic, I want to purge myself / I'm afraid to feel the way that I feel / The way you're standing right now I'm filled with evil / I can't tell you what's really in my heart / I want to tell you that I love you, but I don't even know you / I can't tell you I lust you so I keep it to myself /
I don't want to be bad but I can't help it / I don't want to be bad but I can't think straight / I don't want to be bad -- you're not making it easy / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself /
There isn't a way that you can kiss me / That I haven't already imagined / There isn't a way that you can touch me / That you haven't just by looking in my eyes /
I don't want to be bad but I can't help it / I don't want to be bad but I can't think straight / I don't want to be bad -- you're not making it easy / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself / I want you so much I'm ashamed of myself /
Pressing Lips
The god who made us made me mortal too / He gave me no special powers I could
use on you / I've done all I can do / I can't give you the moon or the stars
/ But you can have the contents of my melancholy heart / What could mean more
than a kiss right now / If you need a grand gesture close your eyes / And show
me how / Darling...
Pressing lips, honey / Kiss me quick, sugar / Mark my face with tangerine lipstick / Kiss me like you'll never / See me again, my angel / Pressing lips / I could never want you more than this /
Some boys will tell you they can make you complete / I won't presume that I'm the only thing you need / How unfair that would be / I can't move a mountain, swim a river deep / I won't make you supernatural promises I can't keep / What could mean more than a kiss right now / If you need a grand gesture close your eyes / I'll show you how / Darling...
Pressing lips, honey / Kiss me quick, sugar / Mark my face with tangerine lipstick / Kiss me like you'll never / See me again, my angel / Pressing lips / I could never want you more than this /
She's on her tip-toes to reach her mic / She smiles at Stewey / God, what a beautiful night /
Pressing lips, honey / Kiss me quick, sugar / Mark my face with tangerine lipstick / Kiss me like you'll never / See me again, my angel / Pressing lips / I could never want you more than this /
In Her Dreams
By day she does not offer / She does not take / By day she does not offer /
She does not take /
By night she dreams she's taken away / By rough boys who laugh as they prey / She's wild, Satan's beautiful child / And she giggles at the thought of being defiled / In her dreams, her toes spike the air / Her fingers running through long greasy hair / Boozy kisses and hard scratchy faces / Bruised and red from leather embraces /
By day she does not offer / She does not take / By day she does not offer / She does not take /
There's a secret hiding in her heart / So black, man it tore us apart / It sends hate and passion coarsing through her veins / But it only finds release in her dreams / She's running through the woods - she's out of her head / She's naked and laughing and bleeding down her leg / She's happy like she's never been / She's happy like I could never make her /
By day she does not offer / She does not take / By day she does not offer / She does not take /
By day she does not offer / She does not take (repeat)
The Downward Road (revisited)
The world out there is like a hornets' nest / It draws the life out of the good
and feeds their blood to the rest / You'll be a memory soon baby, and so will
I / So kiss me open-mouthed, 'cause we're too young to die /
We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / Crawling towards the bitter end /
Things are going fine now, but your luck could change / You could find yourself the victim of someone's unholy rage / So put your pretty lips where they can do some good / You might think that you shouldn't / But I really wish you would /
We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / Crawling towards the bitter end /
Yeah we're so close now, I'm in as deep as I'll get / Your hair is soaked; your skin is slippery wet / The world outside our window is about to explode / Well, so am I sugar, so baby save my soul /
We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / We're on the downward road / Crawling towards the bitter end /
Heavy Metal Tears
Heavy metal tears are what the kids are crying / Their tender hearts heal easily
while ours are slowly dying / For them when romance fails it's something they
can learn from / But when I hear your broken voice I realize how little I know
/
Heavy metal tears only last for one night / But for myself I believe there's no end in sight /
"I want to be your everything" is something only the young can relate to / I used to brag, I used to boast about where my love could take you /
I always wanted to believe in love at first sight / But I grew up and realized it's all in my mind / Heavy metal tears only last for one night / But for myself I believe there's no end in sight /
Heavy metal tears are what the kids are crying / Their broken hearts heal easily while ours are slowly dying
Bored of You
You're a rebel, you're a dude / You tried to be aloof / But she tamed your wild
heart / Now you're just another lovesick goof / You were hard but you broke
down / You let your guard down for a minute / Turned sweet, turned nice / You
gave a shit and now you're in it / You got down on your knees / You said she
was your queen / You treated her like royalty / But it only made her mean /
Now she's bored -- bored of you / You killed her love with kindness / Buddy, now she's bored -- bored of you / Nice guys finish last /
Hey bad boy, too late to cry / You're already out of mind / She's got a new mark in her sights / She left you standing in the dog food line / Your love made you weak / But your hate will make you strong / You're blinded by pain / But you won't be for long / You didn't have the strength to resist her carnal forces / Now she's cut you loose to run with her other broken horses /
'Cause she's bored -- bored of you / You killed her love with kindness / Buddy, now she's bored -- bored of you / Nice guys finish last /
Bored -- bored of you / You killed her love with kindness / Buddy, now she's bored -- bored of you / Nice guys finish last / Nice guys finish last / We must repeat / Nice guys finish last / Any idiot knows that / Nice guys finish last / Good going asshole! / Nice guys finish last (repeat)
Forbidden World
Take my hand; lead me to your forbidden world / I want more than I see in the
temporal / Close your eyes, let me touch, girl your secret place / Let us walk
in the dark, let's be young at heart / Lead me in -- show me more / Lead me
to your forbidden world /
Take my hand; lead me to your forbidden world / I want more than I see in the temporal / Close your eyes, let me touch, girl your secret place / Let us walk in the dark, let's be young at heart / Lead me in -- show me more / I wanna go where no man has gone before / Lead me to your forbidden world /
I've been meek all my life, break me from my shell / Show me things darlin' I promise not to tell / Let's explore your dark past, then we'll crawl through mine / (Color me strange) there's no telling what we'll find /
Lead me in -- show me more / I wanna go where no man has gone before / Lead me to your forbidden world /
Then when you think that it was just a dream / I'll show you the marks you left on me / There is no need for you to be afraid / Believe that the truth will set us both free /
Take my hand, lead me to your forbidden world / I want more than I see in the temporal / Close your eyes, let me touch, girl your secret place / Let us walk in the dark, let's be young at heart /
Lead me in -- show me more / I wanna go where no man has gone before / Lead me to your forbidden world /
But I Do
Your footsteps are Pavlov's bell / Your touch makes me young / I should need
to look no further / But I do / You satisfy my ego / But still I'm pathologically
restless / I hopelessly wander away from you /
I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do / I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do /
I hear your words in their idle chatter / I smell you on me over their perfume / I think of you when I'm with them / I'm so ashamed / But my heart is a liar / It betrays and confuses me / When I'm disabled by sorrow / It's to blame /
I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do / I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do /
I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do / I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do /
I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do / I know in my heart I should want no one else / But I do /
Crashing Down
I don't need that drink - I know I've had enough / How much is enough? Deciding
that is kind of tough / Are all those empties mine, Lord have mercy / Hey, I
didn't realize I was so thirsty / I'm so stupid now, I want out of my skin /
People can see me weaving out and weaving in / My personality divides and mutates
/ A shit-eating grin plastered on my rubber face /
I feel like dancing, I really hope I don't / I want to go home so bad, I can't believe I won't / Something's filling me with poisonous ideas / While I'm filling my belly with Strawberry Margueritas / Tequila makes me sick, I hope that I don't get / At least not in public, please not yet / Instead I'll find some poor victim for my disembodied mouth / I start talking real loud about something he don't care about /
One more coffee, three more aspirin, two more vitamin B / Much regret now that the morning's crashing down on me /
A few beers later I felt like mating / I asked the girl how old she was, she told me she was eighteen / I made a judgement error, I wasn't thinking / I never would have done it if I hadn't got so stinking / Good thing I found out before I brought her home / But then forgot to get my change from the cab driver, oh no / The bartender and the convenience store clerk / It's getting expensive being such a fucking jerk /
One more coffee, three more aspirin, two more vitamin B / Much regret now that the morning's crashing down on me /
Honeytime
Your body is my playground / Your legs are like monkey-bars / The minute it
takes to go up and down them / Might take me hours / If I could make it any
better / You know that I would / I'd like to take you to heaven / If only I
could /
Honeytime, Honeytime / I'm like Pooh Bear, I always have my hand in the jar / Honeytime, Honeytime / Won't you take me there; Won't you take me there /
Your aroused body has a peculiar smell / My fingers find an oasis / Slip them inside and it swells / But one of my synapses ain't firing / Am I sick, am I lame / I cannot stand and deliver / I leave the playground in shame /
Honeytime, Honeytime / I'm like Pooh Bear, I always have my hand in the jar / Honeytime, Honeytime / Won't you take me there; Won't you take me there /
Honeytime, Honeytime / I'm like Pooh Bear, I always have my hand in the jar / Honeytime, Honeytime / Won't you take me there; Won't you take me there /
A Villa In Portugal
I never sought perfection; I loved her for her flaws / Someday you've got to
do something nice for someone and not wait for the applause / I started pluralizing
my sentences I guess I skipped a verse / The moment I relied on her everything
got worse /
Oh no I could not say / She could mean to be so cruel / But the proof is on this postcard / From a villa in Portugal / From a villa in Portugal /
She had the face of an angel mixed up with gypsy's hands / Her emotions blow to pieces, man she doesn't care where they land / She was going to a movie, a friend was gonna pick her up / She didn't say she was going all the way to the Iberian Peninsula /
Oh no I couldn't say / She could mean to be so cruel / But the proof is on this postcard / From a villa in Portugal / From a villa in Portugal / kick me hard /
I never sought perfection; I loved her for her flaws / So I'm left here to wonder how the spell I was under / Is effect without the cause / It doesn't take a doctor with tools made to dissect / To smell in the air that hangs around here / Faith dying of neglect /
Oh no I could not say / She could mean to be so cruel / But the proof is on this postcard / From a villa in Portugal / From a villa in Portugal /
Terrified
Well, as it happens, the talks have broken down / I don't know where her head's
at, but her body's still around / It's tiptoe, egg shells, don't step on the
cracks / When she walks out the door is she ever coming back / It gets so quiet,
it gets so still / You wish she'd break something, but you know she never will
/ If it's true that the eyes are the mirror of the soul / Then hers is hard
and cold and completely in control of yours /
Hey, hey, it's so empty inside / Hey, hey, she leaves you terrified / Hey, hey, that's the second time you've cried / Hey, hey, she leaves you terrified /
She looks at your face and sees you're thirsty for a shake / So she slithers over you like a cool smooth snake / It's sound and fury, that ends without a kiss / And you know down deep you can't live without this / There's nothing for her, she gets you off and goes to work / Leaves you panting in bed, feeling like a jerk / You put on your glasses, haul up your ass / And take a walk to the corner saloon, you buffoon /
Hey, hey, it's so empty inside / Hey, hey, she leaves you terrified / Hey, hey, that's the third time you've cried / Hey, hey, she leaves you terrified / Terrified /
You can sleep till noon, you can drink out of her shoe / Run your fingers through her clothes, spray yourself with her perfume / And you'll never know, never know, man I never know / What to do, what I do to make you come unglued - shit! /
Hey, hey, it's so empty inside / Hey, hey, she leaves me terrified / Hey, hey, that's the fourth time I cried / Hey, hey, she leaves me terrified / Hey, hey, it's so empty inside / Hey, hey, she leaves me terrified / Hey, hey, that's the thirteenth time you've cried now / Hey, hey, she leaves you terrified /