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Moe Berg: guitars, vocals; Dave Gilby: drums; Johnny Sinclair: bass; Kris Abbott: guitars, vocals; Leslie Stanwyck: vocals. Producer: Todd Rundgren. All songs written by Moe Berg, Copyright © 1988 SBK April Music Canada / Pursuit of Tunes
Female vocal lines in italics
Hard to Laugh
Everyone who sees you thinks you should be smiling / That girl she's
so pretty, that girl she's so beguiling / Everyone who sees you thinks you should
be happy / Thinks you should coo-coo her and start acting all sappy /
But it's hard to laugh when you know that she's been cheating / Had her hands around him and she's been giving it a beating / Hard to laugh when you know that she's been lying / But you've got to laugh to prevent yourself from crying /
Everyone asks you why you're so serious / 'Cause your woman's got a body that would make most men delirious / Yeah, she's got a body, of that you're painfully aware / 'Cause every time you see it you want to pull out your hair /
But y'know that it's hard to laugh when you know that she's been cheating / Had her hands around him and she's been giving it a beating / Hard to laugh when you know that she's been lying / But you've got to laugh to prevent yourself from crying /
(repeat)
Ten Fingers
Every time I see your hair / Falling across your face / I want to get
down on my knees, and / Pray to you / Every time I see your hands / Hanging
loosely at your side / 10 long fingers / I just want to run and hide /
Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me /
Every time I see your lips / Every time I kiss your cheek / I know that soon you'll be gone / And I won't see you for weeks / How do you think that makes me feel / Knowing that you're out there / Wondering where you're going / Wondering who you're seeing, yeah/
Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me /
Sometimes I get like a restless dog / I wander the streets / Looking for someone who can / Block you out of my mind / Sometimes I wish I'd never / I wish I'd never heard your name / I wish I'd never felt your legs / Wrapped around me yeah
Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me / Is that the way it feels for you / Is that the way it feels for you / That's the way it feels for me /
I’m An Adult Now
Well, I don't hate my parents / I don't get drunk just to spite them
/ I've got my own reasons to drink now / Think I'll call my Dad up and invite
him / I can sleep in till noon anytime I want / Though there's not many days
that I do / Gotta get up and take on that world / When you're an adult it's
no cliche, it's the truth /
'Cause I'm an adult now / I'm an adult now / I've got the problems of an adult / On my head and on my shoulders / I'm an adult now /
I can't even look at young girls anymore / People will think I'm some kind of pervert / Adult sex is either boring or dirty / Young people they can get away with murder / I don't write songs about girls anymore / I have to write songs about women / No more boy meets girl, boy loses girl / More like man tries to figure out what the hell went wrong /
I'm an adult now / I'm an adult now / I've got the problems of an adult on my head, my libido / I'm an adult now /
I can't take any more illicit drugs / I can't afford any artificial joy / I'd sure look like a fool dead in a ditch somewhere / With a mind full of chemicals, like some cheese-eating high school boy
'Cause I'm an adult now / I'm an adult now / I've got the problems of an adult / On my head and on my shoulders / I'm an adult now /
Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts / And I guess it won't be long / Till I'm sitting in a room with a bunch of people whose necks and backs are aching / Whose sight and hearing's fading / Who just can't seem to get it up / Speaking of hearing, I can't take too much loud music / I mean I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket / Noise, but I can't hear anything / Just guitars screaming, screaming, screaming / Some guy screaming in a leather jacket /
'Cause I'm an adult now / I'm an adult now / I've got the problems of an adult / On my head and on my shoulders / I'm an adult now /
(repeat)
She's So Young
As much as she'd like to believe / She's leading a brand new wave / That uniform
that she wears / I see it on the street every day / She looks heavenward and
struggles to find the right cliché / You've got to find your own space
/ Have a nice day /
She's so young / She's got the answer / She doesn't need to question herself / Like I do / Like I do / She's so young / She's got the answer / She doesn't need to question the world like I do / Like I do /
Like the wisdom of ages / Will flow from her tongue / This is the delusion of the young / She says she'll lead with her heart / But her heart really doesn't know at all / I'll get no satisfaction out of seeing her fall /
She's so young / She's got the answers / She doesn't need to question herself / Like I do / Like I do / She's so young / She's got the answers / She doesn't need to question the world like I do / Like I do /
She's so young / She's got the answers / She doesn't need to question herself / Like I do / Like I do / She's so young / She's got the answers / She doesn't need to question the world like I do / Like I do / (repeat)
Consciousness Raising As a Social
Tool
She went looking for the solution / To a problem that did not exist / She found
an answer, and she found some friends there / Consciousness raising as a social
tool /
She went looking for some direction / And to ease her loneliness somehow / She left her husband and she left her family / 'Cause she prays to a new god now /
Feeding the hunger, feeding the wonder / Feeding the need to believe / Looking for love and looking for someone / Looking for somewhere to be/
She went looking for the solution / To a problem that did not exist / She found an answer, and she found some friends there / Consciousness raising as a social tool /
Walking In the Woods
I think it was her skirt that first attracted my eye / I looked at her shoes
and then her face / She seemed soft and genuine, oh / She smiled when she caught
me so I diverted my look / When I lifted my head she was back inside her book
/ And I wished I could walk over and just say hello / She's the kind of girl
it would be nice to know / But that's not the kind of thing that you're likely
to do / On a subway train at eight a.m. - are you /
We walk the streets like we are walking in the woods / We walk the streets like we are walking in the woods / You never know when you see a pair of eyes / If you're seeing a friend /
Two weeks later I was riding the same train / I saw her face and then I read the name / It said she'd been beaten pretty bad / And there was a picture of her grief-stricken Mom and Dad / And I wondered what happened to her books and her things / If she was wearing the same skirt and same earrings / And I'm sorry lovely one that I didn't get to meet you / But when you walk in the woods sometimes the wolves are gonna eat you /
We walk the streets like we are walking in the woods / We walk the streets like we are walking in the woods / You never know when you see a pair of eyes / If you're seeing a friend /
Beautiful White
She buys stripes and colors / She wears purple and black / Her arms jingle and
jangle / Her lip kiss me go smack / Her boots stomp and clomp to my door / The
boots that cowboys wear / She's got sticky little tangles / In her big yellow
hair /
When she comes to me / In the dim morning light / She strips away the color / Revealing beautiful white / Beautiful white /
She's got a big grey overcoat / She just dumps on a chair / But she paid a lot for those trousers / She'll handle them with more care / Bought her that sweater for Christmas / Now it lies on the floor / One black sock then the other black sock / She's hidden no more /
When she comes to me / In the dim morning light / She strips away the color / Revealing beautiful white / Beautiful white /
When she comes to me / In the dim morning light / She strips away the color / Revealing beautiful white / Beautiful white /
When the Sky Comes Falling Down
One night you might decide / You want to sleep so deep that you rise into the
sky / One moment everything becomes clear / You want the sun to stop shining
so bad / That you just close your eyes /
Oh, no - it's not the worst thing you can do / Oh, no - might be the only thing you can do / When the sky comes falling down / When the sky comes falling down /
One morning you might look at yourself / And see your shadow has left you and you're at the end / You're at the end / You discover you've stopped dreaming at night / And the man that you saw as a child / Is misshapen and bent
Oh, no - it's not the worst thing you can do / Oh, no - might be the only thing you can do / When the sky comes falling down / When the sky comes falling down /
One moment everything becomes clear / You want the sun to stop shining so bad / That you just close your eyes
Oh, no - it's not the worst thing you can do / Oh, no - might be the only thing you can do / When the sky comes falling down / When the sky comes falling down /
Looking For Girls
Looking for someone I can play with / I don't care if she's skinny / I don't
care if she's fat / As long as she goes for boys like me / 'Cause I like them
like that / She might be a Catholic / She might be a nurse / She might give
me a child or gonorrhea or something worse / She might be a painter or a communist
with my luck / But that's the kind of girl you really want to fuck /
Yeah, 'cause I'm looking for girls / looking for girls / Looking high and low and everywhere that I go / Looking for girls /
Might find her in a car / Might find her in a cave / Might pull her from a shopping mall / Might pull her from the grave / I want to kiss her lips / I want to see her dance / I want to see her wriggle and jiggle right out of her pants /
Yeah, 'cause I'm looking for girls / looking for girls / Looking high and low and everywhere that I go / Looking for girls /
I'm looking for someone with a voice that's true / And I'm going to be nice to her, maybe she'll be nice too / Then I'm going to do it / Gonna do it to her / Four hundred and eighty-seven thousand times
Yeah, 'cause I'm looking for girls / looking for girls / Looking high and low and everywhere that I go / Looking for girls /
Man's Best Friend
He's the one, the one that you love / And he's a friend of mine / And the two
of you, are happy together / As long as the sun shines / But I'm always here,
to lend you a shoulder / When it rains again / 'Cause I'm not the kind you want
for your boyfriend / But I'll be your man's best friend /
Well I guess it's no secret to any of us / How I feel about you / But to live it out vicariously through him / Is the best that I can do / If it's true that love is only a game / Well then I can play it pretend / 'Cause I'm not the kind you want for your boyfriend / But I'll be your man's best friend /
This is not a lovers' triangle / 'Cause I know what you see in him / Don't you know that a love unrequited / Is still love in the end /
He's the one, the one that you love / And he's a friend of mine / And the two of you, are happy together / As long as the sun shines / But I'm always here, to lend you a shoulder / When it rains again / 'Cause I'm not the kind you want for your boyfriend / But I'll be your man's best friend
Tree of Knowledge
He takes a bite of the apple / And a vision appears / He follows the light until
the image is clear / He sees her porcelain beauty / Against another man's skin
/ He hears her moaning, a way she hadn't for him / With grotesque fascination
/ He watches until they fall still / He burns with the knowledge of good and
evil /
He feels like he's falling, falling / Feels like he's falling, falling / Out of grace and into knowledge /
He watches with dry eyes / Eyes that have changed / One final memory of the vision remains / Her playful body enjoying the sweet taste of sin / The dance of love that's now foreign to him /
He feels like he's falling, falling / Feels like he's falling, falling / Out of grace and into knowledge /
Day turns to night and night turns to day / He puts the illusions of his childhood away / With the new understanding he builds a world of his own / Outside the garden he finds the will to go on
He feels like he's falling, falling / Feels like he's falling, falling / Out of grace and into knowledge /
Killed By Love
Romantic fool - yeah, that's the word, fool / I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I think
I'm starting to drool / The more I drink, the worse I feel / I'm talking to
the floor and I'm soaking in my pee /
I don't wanna dance, I don't wanna sing / I don't think that I can move 'cause I can't feel a thing / Stench in the air, vultures flying up above / Another useless dead thing / I've been killed by love /
I've walked those fields of juniper and mist / And my lips are still burning from the touch of your last kiss / I thought you were an angel and I trusted your embrace / But you turned into a monster and you spit right in my face /
I don't wanna dance, I don't wanna sing / I don't think that I can move 'cause I can't feel a thing / Stench in the air, vultures flying up above / Another useless dead thing / I've been killed by love /
That crafty old jackal ripped my guts out before / The boy with nine lives, I keep coming round for more / My passion was your weapon, it put a blindfold on my eyes / The last sound I heard was laughter as you buried me alive /
I don't wanna dance, I don't wanna sing / I don't think that I can move 'cause I can't feel a thing / Stench in the air, vultures flying up above / Another useless dead thing / I've been killed by love /
Down On Him
Well, you try so hard to keep him / Keep him next to you / With all you have
to go through / It's all that you can do / Those books that you've been reading
/ Tell you how to please your man / So you take it on yourself / Take it all
into your hands /
And go down / You go down on him again / You go down / You go down on him again /
When he's distant and he's moody / You're sure that it's your fault / You want to be the kind of woman / Who will be his one and all / You know it makes him happy / Know how to give a thrill / So you do what you have to / Or some other woman will /
You go down / You go down on him again / You go down / You go down on him again /
Do you hide inside yourself so that you don't bother him / Do you laugh and shrug it off / When resentment begins / You know he doesn't give back / As much as he could / Would you slit your throat to sate him / I don't think that you should /
Go down / Don't go down on him again / Don't go down / Don't go down on him again
(bonus: the b-side of the 12" single for "She's So Young")
Let My People Go
Five million poets and singers of songs / Freed from their shackles
just like King Kong / Be at each other's throats before too long / Let my people
go
Bloody-eyed men fighting for peace / They'll be the new army and new police
/ Breathe our last breath while we're on our knees / Let my people go
Let my people go / Let my people go
How will you free us with your hate / How many heads will smash when
you smash the state / You say march; I think I'll wait /
Let my people go
Let my people go / Let my people go / Let 'em go / Let 'em know...
I wanna stay up late and talk to my friends / Run my hands along my girlfriend's
pants / Eat the food of a hundred different lands / Let my people go
Let my people go / Let my people go / Let 'em go / Let 'em know...
Let my people / Let my people / Let my people / Let my people...